Image-conscious China chides its 'unruly' tourists

Sailing

3 Aug 2012

The boating world is starting to realise its environmental impact. Richard Lord talks to three builders making advances in yacht design that are both green and glam.

1:06AM

America's Cup under cloud after sailor's death

13 May 2013

America's Cup officials are pressing on with an investigation of the capsize of a catamaran that killed Briton Andrew Simpson, seeking answers to keep the event afloat.

3:52AM

Olympic hopeful Calum Gregor, 14, joins Ian Williams for HK regatta

11 May 2013

KGV schoolboy Calum Gregor hopes to learn plenty of tricks from the master when he joins four-time world match racing champion Ian Williams in a regatta on Victoria Harbour this weekend.

4:51AM

Talking points

10 May 2013

Financial secretary meets filibuster lawmakers

4:43AM

Great Briton rules the waves

28 Apr 2013

Ian Williams tweeted the other day that he wished he had taken up tennis: "Wimbledon prize money to increase by 40 per cent - seems I'm in the wrong sport."

6:29AM

Red Kite II bid to be first to win third San Fernando race in row

27 Mar 2013

Anthony Root and Red Kite II will set sail today hoping to make history as they bid to become the first boat to win the San Fernando Race three times in a row, with the only other boat that could...

4:49AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

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12:54AM

Howard Winn

Way to go

2:01AM

Hong Kong schoolboy Gillard relishing offshore challenge

A promise made four years ago will come to fruition for 16-year-old Aymeric Gillard when he joins the crew aboard Shahtoosh for the San Fernando Race on Wednesday.

5:20AM

Facing down his fears

Leon Chan Nim-leung has a new concubine and is looking forward to a "pleasurable trip" aboard her when the biennial San Fernando Race gets under way on Wednesday.

5:20AM

73-year-old to sail single-handed for 600 days

Sven Yrvind always swum against the tide. When the 73-year-old Swedish sailor and adventurer was asked to give a talk in front of the Swedish king and queen, he refused because he wouldn't get...

4:41AM

Briefs, February 5, 2013

An exhausted British-Australian expedition recreating Ernest Shackleton's 1916 crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat made landfall yesterday after a perilous 12-day journey.

4:38AM

SAILING

Wild Oats XI wins Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race in record time

Supermaxi Wild Oats XI smashed its own record time by nearly 17 minutes in Australia's Sydney to Hobart ocean yacht race yesterday, taking line honours ahead of Ragamuffin-Loyal.

3:35AM

SHORT SPORT

Short Sport, December 29, 2012

French pair Armel Le Cleac'h and Francois Gabart continued to dominate the Vendee Globe around-the-world sailing marathon yesterday, with Le Cleac'h easing ahead once again in mid-Pacific Ocean....

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