>Last December the maxi yacht "Wild Oats XI" won the 2008 Sydney Hobart Yacht
>Race, sailing 630 nautical miles (1,170 km) in one day, 20 hours and 34
>minutes. The Volvo Ocean Race, a 10-leg round-the-world race started in
>October and will continue until June. The Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge 2009
>will start in April, and training sessions are now underway. Sailing as a
>modern and historic undertaking is alive and well around the world, here are a
>few photos of sailing events from the past year.
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>A crew member of the Puma racing team pulls in a sail during the Volvo Ocean
>in-port race in Alicante, Spain, Saturday Oct. 4, 2008. The 2008-09 Volvo
>Ocean Race, Covering 10 legs and 36,995 nautical miles, started Oct. 11 in
>Alicante and is scheduled to end in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 27, 2009.
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>The 100-strong fleet sail past the historic three-masted clipper "James Craig"
>after the start of the annual 628 nautical mile Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on
>December 26, 2008.
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>Richard Branson's boat "Virgin Money" sails in the ocean after departing New
>York, in an attempt to break the transatlantic mono-hull sailing record,
>October 22, 2008. About 30 hours into the voyage, the crew started having
>problems and ripped the boat's main sail. Not long after that, the voyage was
>aborted.
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>The tall ships Lady Washington, right, and Hawaiian Chieftain, left, sail on
>San Francisco Bay, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. The tall ships arrived from Grays
>Harbor, Wash., and were on an educational visit to the Bay area.
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>The Ericsson Racing Team - Ericsson 4 sails during the start of the first leg
>of the Volvo Ocean Race from Alicante to Cape Town on October 11, 2008 in
>Alicante, Spain. The fleet of eight teams participating in the Volvo Ocean
>Race will race arround the world over ten legs to finish in St Petersburg in
>late June, 2009.
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>Australian supermaxi "Wild Oats XI", skippered by Mark Richards, is seen
>sailing past Tasman Island at sunrise as it approached the finish line of the
>64th annual 628-nautical mile Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on December 28, 2008.
>"Wild Oats XI" won Australia's premier blue water classic for a record fourth
>consecutive year in an elapsed time of one day, 20 hours, 34 minutes and 14
>seconds.
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>A red-sailed ship is seen sailing toward Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts on
>July 9th, 2008
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>Ben Ainslie with the JP Morgan Extreme 40 sailing team sail the Extreme 40
>catamaran on the River Thames to celebrate Ben Ainslie's triple Olympic gold
>medal success on September 5, 2008 in London, England.
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>Tall ships take part in the so-called Windjammerparade tall ship parade at the
>Kieler Woche sailing event on June 28, 2008 at the port of Kiel, northern
>Germany. Organisers of the Kieler Woche (Kiel Week), one of the biggest
>sailing events in the world, expected more than three million visitors from 70
>countries.
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>Classic yachts sail in the bay of Cannes, southeastern France, during the 30th
>Régates Royales of Cannes, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. The Régates Royales was
>the focal point of the season with more than 150 crews sailing on 10 to 50
>meter long classic yachts.
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>The Maltese Falcon, a clipper sailing luxury yacht owned by U.S. venture
>capitalist Tom Perkins, sails into San Francisco Bay September 27, 2008. At
>289.1 feet (88 metres), the vessel is one of the largest privately owned
>sailing yachts in the world.
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>Yachts bustle for a good line at the start of the Big Boat Challenge in
>Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. The Big Boat Challenge was a warm
>up race and a chance for the Maxi Yachts to test their boats ahead of the
>Sydney To Hobart Yacht Race.
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>A Tall Ship comes into Merseyside, sailing past the Burbo Bank windfarm on the
>approach to the Port of Liverpool on July 18, 2008, Liverpool, England.
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>A ship sailes under the Flaubert bridge on the Seine river upon its arrival at
>Rouen's harbour, western France, during the Sail 2008 armada event, on July
>3rd, 2008.
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>A replica of "Argo", the mythical ship that bore Jason and the Argonauts on
>their heroic quest for the Golden Fleece, sails in the Corinth canal in
>Korinthos, some 80 kms west of Athens on July 2, 2008.
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>United States Coast Guard cadets stand at parade rest atop the mast of the
>U.S. Coast Guard training vessel "Barque Eagle", on July 1, 2008 as the boat
>rounds West Point off Magnolia and nears Seattle. The boat was taken as a war
>prize from Germany after World War II and is the only sailing vessel in the
>U.S. maritime services.
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>People walk along the embankment of the Neva River with the Russian tall ship
>Mir illuminated in the background, in St. Petersburg, Russia, early Saturday,
>June 21, 2008.
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>Supermaxi "Skandia" all but disappears in a trough as she heads for open water
>after the start of the annual 628 nautical mile Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in
>Australia on December 26, 2008.
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>The Romanian tall-ship Mircea sails into Brest harbour in Brittany, western
>France, July 10, 2008 to take part in the Brest 2008 international maritime
>festival.
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>Billy Gernertt, gunner's mate for the tall ship Lynx, yells, "Live Free or
>Die!" before firing a dummy charge from its cannon toward the Hawaiian
>Chieftain during a mock battle on Commencement Bay in Washington State on
>Friday July 4, 2008.
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>Tall ships take part in the so-called Windjammerparade tall ship parade at the
>Kieler Woche sailing event on June 28, 2008 at the port of Kiel, northern
>Germany.
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>The fleet sails out of Sydney Harbor after the start of the 2008 Rolex Sydney
>to Hobart Yacht race in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.
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>Volvo Ocean Race yacht Puma arrives off Cape Town, South Africa in second
>place during the first stage of the 2008-2009 Volvo Ocean Race November 2,
>2008.
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>The viking longship Sea Stallion of Glendalough sails through the Limfjorden
>in Northern Jutland on August 3, 2008 after its journey across the North Sea.
>The ship, a reconstruction of a 30 metre long warship built in Dublin in the
>viking age, was on its way back to the Viking Museum in the town of Roskilde
>where it built as a reconstruction of the Skuldelev 2, which was excavated in
>Roskilde Fjord fifty years ago. Research has established that the ship was
>originally built in Dublin by vikings in 1042.
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>The Puma Team sails alongside the Ericsson Racing Team - Ericsson 4 during the
>start of the first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race from Alicante to Cape Town on
>October 11, 2008 in Alicante, Spain.
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>Spectators up the mast on the Tasmanian tall ship James Craig watch the fleet
>sail out of Sydney Harbour after the start of the 2008 Rolex Sydney to Hobart
>Yacht race in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.
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>Limit sails past Tasman Island towards the finish line in Hobart during the
>Sydney to Hobart yacht race in Australia Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008.
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>The ARM Cuauhtemoc, a training vessel of the Mexican Navy, named after the
>last Aztec emperor, sails on the River Mersey as part of the Tall Ships race
>in Liverpool, England, Monday July 21, 2008.
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>A figure from Antony Gormley's "Another Place" welcomes one of the Tall Ships
>to Merseyside as it sails past the Burbo Bank windfarm on the approach to the
>Port of Liverpool on July 18, 2008, Liverpool, England.
>
>
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