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Σας ενημερώνουμε ότι μετά τις αρχαιρεσίες της 7 Φεβρουαρίου 2010 το νεοεκλεγέν Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο του ομίλου, συγκροτήθηκε σε σώμα την 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2010 σύμφωνα με το καταστατικό του Ομίλου, με την παρακάτω σύνθεση:

• ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΣ: ΑΝΤΩΝΙΑ ΛΙΑΚΟΥ
• ANTIΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΣ: MIΧΑΗΛ ΜΙΤΑΚΗΣ
• ΓΕΝIKΟΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΑΣ: ΕΜΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΣΚΟΡΔΙΛΗΣ
• TAMIΑΣ: ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ ΠΑΠΟΥΤΣΟΓΛΟΥ
• EIΔIKΟΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΑΣ: ΠΑΝΤΕΛΗΣ ΚΑΡΑΤΖΑΣ
• EΦΟΡΟΣ ΛΙΜΕΝΟΣ & ΕΓΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΕΩΝ: ΛΑΜΠΡΟΣ ΝΑΚΗΣ
• EΦΟΡΟΣ ΑΘΛΗΤΙΣΜΟΥ & ΣΧΟΛΗΣ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗΣ: ΚΩΝ/ΝΟΣ ΠΑΠΑΜΑΚΑΡΙΟΣ
• EΦΟΡΟΣ ΕΝΤΕΥΚΤΗΡΙΟΥ & ΔΗΜ.ΣΧΕΣΕΩΝ: ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΧΡΥΣΟΣ & ΚΩΝ/ΝΟΣ ΣΧΙΝΑΣ
• EΦΟΡΟΣ ΥΛΙΚΟΥ: ΕΜΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΛΟΡΕΝΤΖΟΣ
• MΕΛH: ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΚΑΜΠΑΣ, ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΙΔΗΣ

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Grant Dalton has told NZ Media that the team will not compete in the next Volvo Ocean Race.

While race organizers have said that stopovers will not necessarily be tied to competing teams, the news probably means that Auckland will not be a stopover for the next edition of the round the world race.
The Volvo Ocean Race had been seen as a platform to deliver value to the Emirates, the team’s long time sponsor in the absence of a recognizable America’s Cup campaign.
According to the most recent news, the Volvo race has been ditched for two reasons: it was proving too expensive and was superfluous to the team’s needs. Emirates Team NZ are committed to a TP52 campaign in the Audi Med Cup and the new Louis Vuitton Trophy.
Dalton hopes that with the DOG Match now happening in Valencia, the future of Emirates Team NZ in the America’s Cup will be more certain, once a winner is determined.
Notwithstanding more court cases and the lack of wind in Spain, Grant Dalton is hoping to move on.
He said: ‘I don’t for a minute discount the possibility of more delays but there’s now, for the first time in a long time, light at the end of the tunnel. ‘There’s a future for the team beckoning within days really. we are still here’ and ‘ready to race again’ once ‘there’s certainty in the future of the event’.
‘Above all else that is what we want, certainty. The best result for us is for the winner [of the deed-of-gift match] to announce a Challenger of Record and say the defender will enter into dialogue with the challengers.
That’s about the best result we can hope for.’ ‘My focus needs to now turn to raising money and getting the team back together again.
My heart is still in a Volvo but it would have been a massive distraction and the board felt we needed to change course.

The fourth edition of the RC 44 Championship Tour will begin in Dubai on February 22 with the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy.
Terry Hutchinson and Adam Minoprio join the Class for this event.

The RC 44 Class Association announces a new and exciting program, as well as updated rules for the fourth edition of its Championship Tour.
The season will start in two weeks in Dubai with the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy (February 22 - 27). The fleet will then be transported to central Europe for the Austria Cup (29 April - 4 May), the Copenhagen Cup (8 - 3 June) and a fourth venue to be confirmed soon. The Championship Tour will then move back to the Atlantic Ocean for the RC 44 Puerto Calero Islas Canarias Cup, which will also be the RC 44 World Championship (11 - 16 October), before the season showdown (7 - 12 December).
The teams involved in the Championship Tour 2010 include:

• Team No Way Back (Pieter Heerema / Ray Davies),
• Artemis (Torbjorn Tornqvist / Terry Hutchinson),
• CEEREF (Igor Lah / Rod Davis),
• BMW ORACLE Racing (Larry Ellison / Russell Coutts),
• Team Aqua (Chris Bake / Cameron Appleton),
• Organika (Maciej Nawrocki / Karol Jablonski),
• Team Islas Canarias Puerto Calero (José Juan and Daniel Calero / José Maria Ponce),
• Katusha (Paul Cayard),
• Team Sea Dubai (Raimondo Tonelli / Markus Wieser),
• Team Austria (René Mangold / Christian Binder) and
• Team Jelik (Frank Pong).

The RC 44 Championship Tour is one of the world’s top sailing events, and other teams are expected to join the Class throughout the season.
Several rules have been updated in order to increase the appeal of the Class.
For example, the events will now begin with the match race event on day 1 & 2. The third day will be a fleet race practice day as well as a spare day to conclude the match race if necessary.
The fleet regatta will take place on day 4, 5 and 6. The long distance regatta is maintained; however it will only take place if an interesting race course is available.
As for the points, they will not count double as was the case in the previous years.
An official RC 44 World Championship will also take place for the first time in Lanzarote; it will break the possible ties in the annual rankings.
Organised by Dubai International Marine Club (DIMC), the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy will be the season opener on February 22 – 27. The regatta will reassemble nine out of the ten RC 44’s who competed in last year’s Gold Cup. Amongst the favourites, Pieter Heerema and Ray Davies (Team No Way Back) will be keen to confirm the title they conquered during the Gold Cup 2009. As for Terry Hutchinson, who joins the RC 44 Class for the first time on board Artemis, he will be keen to match the brilliant results obtained by Dean Barker last year with this team.
Unable to attend the event due to the America’s Cup, Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts will be replaced by Mike Perris (fleet race helmsman) and Adam Minoprio (match race helmsman). Needless to say that Ceeref, the winner of the SLAM Cup 2009 – the match race season title - will have an interesting challenge against the winner of last year’s World Match Race Tour Adam Minoprio and that the comparison will be interesting.

RC44 Championship Tour 2010:

1. 22 - 27 February Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy United Arab Emirates Dubai
2. 29 April - 4 May RC44 Austria Cup Austria, Lake Traunsee Gmunden
3. 8 -13 June RC44 Copenhagen Cup Danemark Copenhagen
4. August Europe
5. 11 - 16 October RC44 World Championship Puerto Calero Islas Canarias Cup Spain, Canary Islands Puerto Calero
6. 7 - 12 December
   

Photo: Copyright Raffaelo Bastiani / RC44 Class Association
1. RC44 Fleet.
2. Team No Way Back, winner of the RC 44 Championship Tour 2009.

Irish Volvo 70 yacht the Green Dragon may sail again following this week's announcement that a west coast bid to secure a return visit of the Volvo Ocean Race has Government backing to the tune of 4 million.

The Government support for the 2011/12 race stopover came on Tuesday but is contingent on Ireland having a race entry. The funding is half what was secured from Government for the 2009 stop-over and is also subject to the balance being raised from the private sector.
New rules that allow additional keel weight may make the Irish boat more competitive for 2011 but for any weight added to the keel 50 per cent must be added to he hull too, so it is not a complete remedy for the Irish design.
The Minister for Sport, Martin Cullen, gave the Irish bid his backing but it came only after a Cabinet decision on the matter had been deferred for a week. It is understood that intensive lobbying included support from local Minister Eamon O Cuiv and that swung the deal for Galway.
In welcoming the announcement the Galway consortium, "Let's do it Global", led by John Killeen, acknowledged the funding shortfall but repeated the view that the success of the last stop-over in May 2009 left the Irish port well positioned.
Galway is vying with Lorient, France and Lisbon, Portugal in its bid to become the Atlantic stop-over in two years' time.
The Let's do it Global chairman, Enda O'Coineen, said that without the necessary central Government funding, the bid would collapse. A decision on the bid is expected to be known next month.
-- David O'Brien in The Irish Times, www.irishtimes.com

Για να αποτοξινωθούμε και λίγο από το AC, τουλάχιστον ως την Τετάρτη, ας δούμε την κατάσταση του Groupama 3 στην προσπάθεια του να σπάσει το ρεκόρ στον ταχύτερο γύρο του κόσμου με multi-hull (είτε είναι Jules Verne Trophy είτε AC φαίνεται ότι τα πολύγαστρα σκάφη είναι πανταχού παρόντα ε;).

Έχουμε και λέμε, ο Cammas και το πλήρωμά του έχουν κάνει σημαντική πρόοδο ως τώρα και βρίσκονται περίπου 450νμ μπροστά από το ρεκόρ.
Κινούνται προς το Ακρωτήριο της Καλής Ελπίδος, αλλά οι ευνοϊκοί άνεμοι τους εγκατέλειψαν και λίγο λίγο μειώνεται το κέρδος τους.
Groupama 3's log (departure on 31st January at 13h 55' 53'' UTC)
Day 1 (1st February 1400 UTC): 500 miles (deficit = 94 miles)
Day 2 (2nd February 1400 UTC): 560 miles (lead = 3.5 miles)
Day 3 (3rd February 1400 UTC): 535 miles (lead = 170 miles)
Day 4 (4th February 1400 UTC): 565 miles (lead = 245 miles)
Day 5 (5th February 1400 UTC): 656 miles (lead = 562 miles)
Day 6 (6th February 1400 UTC): 456 miles (lead = 620 miles)
Day 7 (7th February 1400 UTC): 430 miles (lead = 539 miles)
Day 8 (8th February 1400 UTC): 305 miles (lead = 456 miles)
Best passage time to the equator from Ushant
Groupama 3: 5d 15h 23' (November 2009)
Jules Verne Trophy reference time to the equator
Orange 2: 7d 02h 56' (January 2005)
The crew and organisation aboard Groupama 3
• Watch No.1: Franck Cammas / Loïc Le Mignon / Jacques Caraës
• Watch No.2: Stève Ravussin / Thomas Coville / Bruno Jeanjean
• Watch No.3: Fred Le Peutrec / Lionel Lemonchois / Ronan Le Goff
• Off watch navigator: Stan Honey goes up on deck for manoeuvres
• One watch system on deck, one watch on stand-by ready to help manoeuvre, one watch totally resting

The record to beat Currently held by Bruno Peyron on Orange 2 since 2005 with a time of 50 days 16 hours 20 minutes at an average of 17.89 knots.

Find all the latest news from the Groupama trimarans at: www.cammas-groupama.com

Η Επιτροπή Αγώνα αποφάσισε να εγκαταλείψει τις προσπάθειες να στήσει το στίβο για τον αγώνα σήμερα, λόγω έλλειψης αέρα.
Επόμενο ραντεβού την Τετάρτη 10 Φεβρουαρίου.
Ελπίζουμε να φυσάει λίγο περισσότερο και να δούμε επιτέλους τον πολυαναμενόμενο αγώνα.
Επίσης ελπίζουμε να έχουν λυθεί και τα προβλήματα με τους players για να μπορέσουμε να δούμε live τον αγώνα όποτε γίνει τελικά.