Wet Wednesday Videos, Volvo and World Sailing

We don’t have any PNW videos to share this week, apparently everyone’s shutter fingers were frozen. Mine certainly were. But there was lots of sailing elsewhere to shoot. I’m hoping that as spring and summer racing pick up we get some great local footage. Let me know if you get some!

Volvo Ocean Race

There is, of course, a never-ending supply of video from the Volvo Race. And in case you hadn’t heard, the first five boats into the recently concluded leg finished within 30 minutes of each other in Auckland, New Zealand. First and second only a couple of minutes apart. In a 20+ day race! The fact that it was the dead of night didn’t bother the Kiwi fans, they were on hand for the big hello. Here’s the Volvo Ocean Race show on the finish, in its entirety.

 

World Sailing

And then there’s the World Sailing Show. It’s glossy, it’s a fast-paced 20-some minutes, it covers a broad range of sailing. It may even be your cup of tea. The most interesting parts to me were the inflatable sail on a telescoping rig and watching one of those blunt-nosed mini transat racers move through the water and over the waves.

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