Members of Britain's Royal Yachting Association also said they were devastated by the news.
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has always wanted to sail in the America's Cup, the yachting world's highest honor.
The BRABUS fully leather interior creates an exclusive ambiance further augmented by the new BRABUS Yachting wood trim package.
But he warned that yachting's long-term development may be limited by steep taxes, onerous regulation and a lack of marinas.
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Margaret Needham Robbie , lately personal secretary, Scottish Executive (Edinburgh) Staveley Roberts (Kilcreggan, Argyll and Bute) - For services to Yachting.
If you can afford the fees imbedded in that product, then IMHO, you should be yachting, not working for a school district.
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Two weeks after a sailor died during training, a top America's Cup official released 37 recommendations to make yachting's most prestigious race safer.
As someone who has taken the plunge below deck, I can tell you, yachting is an industry of extreme highs and extremes lows.
"The authorities were telling us that a gas explosion was too dangerous, that we were crazy, " former Yachting Monthly editor Paul Gelder said.
Yachting enthusiast Elizabeth Meyer kicked off the revival in 1984 when she rescued Endeavor, a 1934 cup challenger built for British aviation magnate T.
Two hours by car southwest of the Athens airport, Porto Heli is a pretty yachting town that increasingly resembles a Greek version of Saint-Tropez.
He wore cream-colored linen jackets, drove a Jaguar and took his family yachting off the coast of Dalian, according to two of his friends.
His other passion, yachting, is making its mark on San Francisco as warm-up events for the 2013 America's Cup yacht race kick into gear.
ATHENS, Greece -- British sailor Ben Ainslie won his second successive yachting gold medal with victory in the Finn class at the Athens Olympics regatta.
On shore, tourists will be drawn to a yachting center styled after an Olympic Village, with sponsors and the host government paying most of the bills.
Finally, Robert Reid's Ten great Caribbean secrets includes non-yachting ideas like hiking in Dominica, biking in Cuba, and attending "Voudou rock" concerts in Haiti's Port-au-Prince.
Over drinks in the Trophy Room of the New York Yacht Club, Ellison's consigliere in yachting matters, Tom Ehman, maintains that DoGZilla is a bargaining chip.
Fitting the kill cord has been standard practice by manufacturers for many years, said Richard Falk, training manager and chief examiner at the Royal Yachting Association (RYA).
The MPs have also been hearing from Cornwall Council, Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service, Falmouth Harbour commissioner Mark Sanson, National Coastwatch Institution and the Royal Yachting association.
Brown bought the 5-ton monument, paying for it with cash and two peculiar collectors' items: a Stradivarius violin and a silver Newport yachting trophy from the 1920s.
Little did they realize the young woman was well up to the challenge, having been raised in a sailing family and yachting since the age of three.
The trend towards bigger yachts is due in part to new technological advances in the yachting industry as well as the changing lifestyles of gigayacht owners, says Becket.
The Kingdom of Bahrain is owned by the Sail Bahrain project, which aims to promote the island as a yachting destination and was recently launched by Team Pindar.
But for Karl Richardson, editor at Motorboat and Yachting magazine, it's precisely this mysteriousness and lack of infrastructure that could prove a big turnoff for many potential visitors.
Just as car freaks make pilgrimages to the city in northern Italy where the Ferrari was born, the yachting world's speed freaks go to Carroll and Goetz in Bristol.
Until then, the Jetlev has been adopted as a new-age water toy for the wealthy (especially the yachting crowd) granting those who can afford it a truly unique flying experience.
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Fidel Castro allegedly received a hefty bribe for sheltering him in Cuba after 1982, where he travelled in a convoy of Mercedes from his yachting berth to the golf club.
Other sporting honours include a CBE for Rodney Carr , lately chief executive of the Royal Yachting Association and one of the main driving forces for Britain's Olympic sailing successes.
Heinz Schleusser, another old pal, resigned last week as the state's finance minister after confessing that he had twice taken his mistress on the bank's plane to go yachting in the Adriatic.
They now plan on marrying in April, sailing around the world for their honeymoon before joining the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), the world's largest transatlantic yachting event later in the year.
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