For polo, like pro-am golf and yacht racing, money and commitment can guarantee top-level participation.
The little port on the Isle of Wight is the historical and emotional home of yacht racing, to sailing as St.
While it doesn't garner as much attention as modern events such as the Volvo Ocean Race, classic yacht racing is good for promotional opportunities.
The event is considered the pinnacle of single-handed yacht racing.
The legal wrangling over the Cup has exposed the unseemly side of yacht racing, which is always lurking in the background of a sport that attracts outsize egos with pocketbooks to match.
By the late-1880s, Caillebotte's output had dwindled as he refocused his energies on his extensive gardens at Petit Gennevilliers, on the edge of the Seine near Argenteuil, as well as yacht racing.
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The Antigua Yacht Club split off the classics long before the La Nioulargue tragedy and has laid down rules that discourage the sort of vigorous maneuvers and confrontations that mark modern yacht racing.
This year the third generation Clipper 70 ocean racing yacht will participate in the race.
In the Isles of Scilly rescue, the sailor was on board a single-handed racing yacht.
The experienced sailor is part of a 17-strong crew on the racing yacht Merit.
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The idea for Team Philips started on the back of a beer mat and developed into the largest carbon fibre racing yacht.
So Kahn flew a red protest flag from the stern of his racing yacht and forced his son Samuel (Shark) Kahn to forfeit a first-place position in the Mumm 30 World Championship in Toronto last September.
Artemis Racing represents the Royal Swedish Yacht Club, KSSS, Sweden's largest and oldest sailing club.
It's like carrying your own racing colors or flying a yacht flag for identification.
"She's the ultimate racing machine, " says de Waal of his meticulously restored yacht, which requires a crew of 20 just to handle the sails.
"If I get a holiday or some down time I love still sailing, but not racing -- just going out on maybe a beautiful classic yacht, relaxing with friends and being on the water, " he said.
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If De Waal wants to bring along more friends--or his 30-member racing crew--they have to sleep aboard his 130-foot motor yacht, the aptly named Bystander.
Chessie Racing, which had adopted similar tactics to Silk Cut and had joined the British yacht's surge to the finish, was just 18 miles behind.
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