Category: Travel

  • SailGP announce structural changes and new hires ahead of Season 4

    SailGP has announced a major reorganization of the racing league corporation structure.

    Sir Russell Coutts, co-founder of SailGP with Larry Ellison in 2018, will continue to oversee all business units as SailGP CEO.

    While Andy Thompson will take on a wider role as Managing Director of the SailGP League business unit, focussing on the growth and commercialization of SailGP.

    Until now Thompson has been the Chief Commercial Officer of SailGP, having previously worked as CFO of the America’s Cup. Newly recruited Melissa Lawton – who joined in May 2022 from Meta – will lead the SailGP Production unit

    SailGP will be organized into three key business units . . . 

      • SailGP League covering Commercial, Marketing, Events, Technology and Strategy
      • SailGP Productions covering Broadcast and Content
      • SailGP Technologies which is the boat building, design and applied technologies division of the company.

    Source: SailGP announce structural changes and new hires ahead of Season 4

  • Victoria & Albert Museum Dining Rooms

    Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world’s oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

    Source: Victoria & Albert Museum Dining Rooms

  • Mikaela Shiffrin breaks Lindsey Vonn’s women’s alpine skiing World Cup wins record

    Mikaela Shiffrin won her 83rd career World Cup race Tuesday to break Lindsey Vonn’s all-time record for a female skier. Shiffrin, 27, won the giant slalom in Kronplatz, Italy, over Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami by 0.45 seconds to take the mantle atop the record books.

    Shiffrin was almost speechless immediately after breaking Vonn’s record.

    “I don’t know if I can add something,” she said. “It might take me a little bit to figure out what to say.”

    Shiffrin debuted as a professional two days before she turned 16 and became the youngest American skier to win a national alpine title in 2011. She went on to dominate the slalom event — wracking up 51 wins over her 12-season career. Shiffrin also won 18 giant slalom races over that span, including Tuesday’s victory.

    She’s competed in three Olympics as well and won three medals: gold in slalom at the 2014 games in Sochi, gold in giant slalom at the 2018 games in PyeongChang and silver in combined (downhill and slalom) in 2018. Shiffrin didn’t place in any of her three events at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.

    Now that the women’s record is behind her, Shiffrin needs just three more wins to tie and four wins to break the all-time record for any gender set by Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark. He set the mark in 1989 with his 86th win when he was 32 years old.

    When asked about his record possibly being broken, Stenmark stated he believed Shiffrin “will win more than 100” races.

    “And it doesn’t make me sad at all,” he told the Olympics Channel in a recent interview.

    Shriffin’s rise is impressive given she won 83 races in just 238 starts. Vonn, meanwhile, Vonn won her 82 races in 395 starts — though a few of her seasons were shortened by injuries. There are seven more races left on Shiffrin’s schedule this season, including three this week, in which she could build on her record and careen towards Stenmark’s.

    Source: Mikaela Shiffrin breaks Lindsey Vonn’s women’s alpine skiing World Cup wins record

  • How the Riva Aquarama Became the World’s Most Iconic Powerboat – Robb Report

    When Carlo Riva performed a Franken-boat surgery on one of his Tritone models in 1962, he had no idea that the gleaming new mahogany design would become the world’s most beloved powerboat. At the time, he was intent on reinventing the family brand, Riva, started by his great-grandfather Pietro in 1842 on Lake Iseo in Sarnico, Italy. Over the years, the yard had introduced many successful designs but needed a forward-looking model that reflected the glamour that was consuming postwar Italy.

    Source: How the Riva Aquarama Became the World’s Most Iconic Powerboat – Robb Report

  • Safe sailing is no accident >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News

    by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News It is hard to tell if people are more reckless today than in the past. The immense availability of news now

    Source: Safe sailing is no accident >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News

  • Vinyl production platform aims to treat listeners to master-quality records

    Though dedicated music streamers might not have even noticed, sales of vinyl records have been on the rise over the last few years, prompting pressing plants to fire up again and start churning out albums. Currently in stealth mode, the UK’s elasticStage is looking to shake up vinyl record production with a new manufacturing and distribution model.Manufacturing a vinyl record can be quite an energy intensive process where metal templates – kind of like negatives of each side of the master record – stamp the grooves into heated PVC, then the pressed album is allowed to cool before being packaged and sent off to a record store for sale.

    Source: Vinyl production platform aims to treat listeners to master-quality records

  • What It’s Like to Race In the World’s Most Treacherous Ski Race – Robb Report

    High overhead, snow-capped mountains gleamed in the moonlight while a thousand people, their breath steaming in the frigid night, bayed for the blood of a giant effigy of the devil, about to go up in flames on a burning pyre. The soundtrack was base-thudding AC/DC, blaring through loudspeakers—and accompanied by a cacophony of large cow bells rung by Swiss men in lederhosen. It was the most peculiar opening ceremony for a sporting event I’d ever encountered. But then, this was the Inferno, the world’s most bonkers ski race. Over the years, I had heard tales of gruesome injuries sustained on the infamous course above the chocolate-box-perfect Alpine village of Mürren, in the heart of Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland mountains. I had signed a waiver to confirm that the risk of serious injury or death “cannot be excluded” while taking part in the descent down Mount Schilthorn. Joining some 1,500 amateur competitors, including the occasional Olympian, I knew that my first Inferno would prove to be a more than averagely challenging day on the slopes, to put it mildly. By the time everyone would make it to the finish—or be carried off the mountain—the casualty tally would be considered a pretty good one, with only four shoulder fractures, two broken knees, some cracked ribs and a head injury that required an air ambulance to the nearest hospital.

    Source: What It’s Like to Race In the World’s Most Treacherous Ski Race – Robb Report

  • RG Richardson Interactive City Guide

    RG Richardson Interactive City Guide

    Since 2015 over 305 Interactive Worldwide City Guides for restaurants (barbecue, buffet, bistro, cafeteria, fast food, fine dining, restaurants, take out) have been published.

    Good for tourists, travellers, vacationers and business persons who have just moved to town, and even long-term residents who want to stay on top of what’s new and current in their area or city.

    Stop typing, click the icon that’s it! Faster than you can type with everything you need to know about the city.

    13,900 preset searches that give you the best search results and all you have to do is pick and click, no typing.

    Don’t see your city please let me know….24hrs emailed to you for $0.99!

    Beverage Guide – Restaurant Guide – Career Guide – Real Estate Guide

  • 6 Incredible Drives You Need To Add To Your Road Trip Bucket List – Brogan Abroad

    Who doesn’t enjoy a good road trip? Setting off with a route in mind and stopping here and there to enjoy the nature and sights along the way, sometimes even taking a detour for a cool experience. I haven’t done a road trip for almost a year now, and I think it’s time I start planning my next one.

    Source: 6 Incredible Drives You Need To Add To Your Road Trip Bucket List – Brogan Abroad

  • Robert G Richardson-portal 

    The 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has concluded with a line honours win for Andoo Comanche and a win on handicap for Celestial in wild and gruelling conditions for much of the fleetThe 77th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race started on 26 December, its traditional Boxing Day slot and once again hundreds of thousands of people crowded the shores of Sydney Harbour, or watched from the water as well as live on television and over the internet.The departure from the familiar setting did not disappoint. 109 yachts, comprising professionals and Corinthians, and some 20 double handed crews, set off under blue skies and bright sunshine. A 10 – 15 knot north north-easterly meant a beat out to the heads, before spinnakers were hoisted and close to 48 hours of uninterrupted downwind sailing began.Shortly after the congested start, where the four competing 100ft (30.5m) maxis traded tacks in their concerted effort to be first into open water, John Winning Jr’s Andoo Comanche struck a mark of the course. Recognising their error, the crew performed two 360 degree turns in quick succession to purge the infringement. Failure to do so could have led to a fatal penalty at the end of the race. The pre-race favourite needed to reset and re-focus.

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