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Category Archives: Sailing
World Yacht Racing Forum
A milestone in the world yacht racing industry The first time in the history of sailing many of the key stakeholders of our industry found the way to Monaco to jointly discuss the future our industry. It never appeared to me clear that we are all part of big family and that we are all [...]
Also posted in Olympic Games, Yachting Photography
Tagged 33rd, America's Cup, ishares cup, Olympic Games, Sailing
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On the waterline
Last weekend I have been in Valencia for the Desafio Annual Regatta. For some a really important event such as Alinghi and Desafio, some others like BMWOracle guess not so interested in it. For me it was a great opportunity to try out a new camera system and this with nothing less as the Americas [...]
Also posted in Yachting Photography
Tagged Alinghi, America's Cup, innovation, photo, Sailing, secret, underwater, underwater photography, valencia
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my first swiss sailing calendar
Click on the image to find out more of the calendar When I came back from the Olympic games I found that it was quite a hard and intensive job to take images at the games but even harder is to choose 13 of the 9000 for a calendar. I don’t know how many times [...]
Also posted in Olympic Games, Yachting Photography
Tagged Imaging, Olympic Games, photo, Sailing
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Xie Xie China
Xie Xie in mandarino significa grazie e si pronuncia “cie cie”, hanno dato tutto quello che potevano per trasformare queste Olimpiadi in una bella festa. Non per parlarne della cerimonia di chiusura che no ho vissuto in prima persona. Sono sul viaggio di ritorno e mi sono fermato 2 giorni a Shanghai per vedere un [...]
Also posted in Olympic Games, Travel, Yachting Photography
Tagged Imaging, Olympic Games, Sailing, Travelling
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Ben Ainslie di qua Ben Ainslie di la….
Questo nome tra un pò no lo posso piu sentire, tutti ne parlano e tutto gira attorno questo personaggio, sembra che sia il nuovo Paul Elvström. Per il momento però è Torben e Paul che hanno 5 medaglie e non Ben. Oggi era in programma la medalrace degli Yngling e prima quella dei Finn, visto [...]
Also posted in Olympic Games, Yachting Photography
Tagged Ben Ainslie, Olympic Games, Sailing
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Una giornata importante si annuncia qui a Qingdao
Sono le 5.30 di mattina. Il sole doverebbe apparire fra non molto, ma con tutto questo grigio dubito che si veda. Ogni tanto mi domando con tutti i bei posti al mondo siamo finiti qua a fare le Olimpiadi dove non si capisce se il grigio é smog oppure semplice nebbia. Va beh, il nostro [...]
Also posted in Olympic Games, Yachting Photography
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New banner
During the games some of the world most popular sailing webpages/blogs will feature my images, for that we developped a new banner. The picture from the Swiss RSX surfer Richard Stauffacher has been taken this spring in Palma at the Princess Sofia where he won the medal race.
Palma is over next step is China
The days here in Palma where special, Coppa el Rey is a amazing event with a high level competitors. Every time I’m sailing in this event I’m learning a lot this year was about Farr 40 sailing specially the mainsail trim on this boat. On our race course we also had the two VOR 70 [...]
Also posted in Olympic Games, Travel, Yachting Photography
Tagged coppa del rey, Imaging, Olympic Games, olympics, Palma, Sailing, volvo ocean race
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Count down for the games
Since a week I’m here in Palma sailing the coppa del rey on a Farr 40 . That all good but I’m the mainsail trimmer on this boat and this mainsail is so huge and hard to trim that my arms really start to hurt. The entire year I went almost once per week to [...]
how much can you improve teamwork
Teambuilding for match race teams Maybe you wonder why I’m writing about teambuilding for match racing teams. Probably the correct title would be: how much more can you improve teamwork. Since we all saw the Alinghi team working as one perfect team during the America’s Cup, at least in the 2003 Cup, everybody knows that [...]
Tagged Coaching, communication, how to, improve teamwork, improvement, motivation, performance, performance improvement, Sailing, team, teamwork, teamwork improvement
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40 feet catamaranes sailing in Lugano
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQcGPe0aTRg&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1&hl=en] I know today is the 1st of April and it’s my birthday. Allmost 40 years of jokes I have been told in this day every year. Now there is a story to tell, End of May from Friday 30.5 until Sunday 1st of June the world best extreme 40 sailing teams will sail against [...]
Tagged AC, Alinghi, America's Cup, ishares cup, Lugano, multihull, OC events, Oracle, racemanagement, regatta, Sailing, spectacular, switzerland, Tessin, Ticino, volvo ocean race
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Final rush for the Lugano Nautica
Years ago in the IT business we did some expositions, every times it was an incredible amount of tasks and things to organize. Next week I will display 30 pictures at the Lugano Nautica and you know what noting changed, sometimes i’m asking mysleve this is simply the challenge when you do an exposition. Today [...]
Tagged boats, Lugano, Lugano nautica, nautic, photo, switzerland
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On the way to the olympic games
Sometimes there are days you get up and you think it will be another boring day in the office doing the paperwork as usual if I’m not out sailing and taking pictures. Today seemed to be such a day until I got the phone call from Swiss Olympic asking me if I still can go [...]
What happend in January
I think I was a bit lazy in the last month at least I did not post any news, the phone call from a good friend this morning saying…where in the world are you and what are you doing? Is probably the sign to do a bit more. In January I was travelling a photo-shooting [...]
Tagged Travel
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The first cover page
There is a first time for everything, today with a great pleasure I bought the sailing magazine SwissBoat Yachting and guess what? It’s my first cover page with Temenos a few hours after the start of the Barceloan world race taken out of the helicopter. Thank’s to Daniel, the pilot in Barcelona and the Temenos [...]
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Coaching Sailing Rules
Today I will join the Swiss Sailing Team in Magglingen and we will spend a 2 days and talk about rules. After several discussions with sailors involved in the Olympic selection, Swiss and some of other Nationalities we realized the knowledge of the medal race details (Addendum Q) is quite poor even among some the [...]
Tagged coacing rules, games, hearing, improvement, medal race, olympic, olympics, performance, rules advisor, Sailing
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Should I stay or should I go ?
Photo (c) Jürg Kaufmann / Dominique Wavre getting ready to go Do you rember the song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” from The Clash. Right now I’m in Barcelona and tomorrow is the start of the Barcelona World Race, 2 persons non stop racing around the world in 60 ft racing yachts. Probably [...]
Tagged Travel
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America's Cup: There is no winner
Photo courtesy of (c) Martin Gilles-Raget 33rd America’s Cup just entered in the startbox What a situation, we just had the most interesting cup since ever with great races and since months two big guys of our sailing world are demonstrating their power. Saturday GGYC came up with a new press release telling that Alinghi [...]
I'm in love
She is tall, has class, a speechless beauty born almost a century ago, here name is Mariquita. Last weekend I had a special sailing experience, no it’s not about match racing no particular move just normal sailing but on a very special boat. Was in the jury for the Monaco Classic Week and as on-board [...]
Do you like a sandwich?
Since the tour de France a la voile a lot of things happened and I think it’s time to update a bit. Why is the title about sandwich? Keep reading and you will see. Right after the tour having alomst every day baguette sandwiches I went to Marseille the beautiful harbor in south of France [...]
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