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LifeSail on Occasion - This night, time zone, New Zealand, has joined the team Mila Macky Dunn, with the important role of mascot. The child was born a few hours and is very well, as mother Sarah. All the scoundrels have complimented dad Cameron, who after spending the afternoon in the cockpit for the race with Team New Zealand has gone directly to the delivery room.
A new member reaches so the Italian team, always happy to accommodate the elements of every nationality.

LifeSail on Fashion - Genoa - E 'online from yesterday, the new Spring-Summer Slam. The Genoese company, a manufacturer of specialized garments and casual official supplier of BMW Oracle Racing, Pesenti its own line of clothing through its website, accessible by clicking here.

LIFESAIL ON FASHION SLAM PRESENTS SPRING-SUMMER COLLECTION
LifeSail on Fashion - Genoa - Yesterday afternoon, through its website, Slam presented the new spring-summer collection. To give a new look to the clothing made by the official supplier of BMW Oracle Racing, click here.

LifeSail on Fashion - Rome - opens its doors tomorrow, Big Blue, great nautical fair organized at the Fair of Rome.

Murphy & Nye will be present at this great festival with a booth selling the collection Crew men and women.

The company, international leader in sailing clothing and sportswear, will not disappoint the thousands of sailors and fans who will travel to Rome for this event, offering a complete range of clothing for high technical content and unique design.

To Murphy & Nye is very important to be on the side of this event, which reinforces its identity in the nautical sector.

The hours of Big Blue:
Saturday 20 and 27, from 10.00 to 21.00
Sunday 21 and 28, from 10.00 to 20.00
From Monday 22 to Friday 26, from 14.00 to 20.00

LifeSail on America's Cup - Valencia - For BMW Oracle Racing, Slam, has created a tarpaulin which reverses the old concept of the leader to protect you from the water for the first time the athlete can perform any kind of evolution because it is the same tarpaulin to suit every body movement. No more stiff and uncomfortable fabrics: the revolutionary structure of nylon stretch fabric makes modular, ergonomic and extendable to 360 °, without losing the essential features of the head as waterproofness, breathability and lightness. Thanks to the membrane tissue 3layer with heat sealing and the assembly, ensures complete waterproofing and at the same time allows the moisture to dissipate quickly outside.

Filippo Bovio, importer for the United States by Slam, illustrates some heads designed by Italian brand for the U.S. team.

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LifeSail on America's Cup - Valencia - Technogym is the official supplier of Team Alinghi, the holder of the America's Cup sailing. The company has set up a gym in operational base in Valencia, Spain. The Center is equipped with machines for strength training, strength, coordination and flexibility.

America's Cup challenge in 2010, the technology plays an even more marked than in the past, including the use of multi-hull boats, real Formula 1 of the sea.
Pending the race to win the America's Cup crew has been training with Kinesis One that helps improve coordination and balance, so important during a sailing competition. In addition to training the force, Kinesis allows then to perform exercises "three dimensional" and offers the possibility of hundreds of movements that allow you to improve flexibility and to optimize the preparation of the team defending the America's Cup.

In most varied and Cycle Group, new and sophisticated machines for cardiovascular exercise, helps the crew of the Swiss team to simulate the movements that are made throughout the course of the competition.
Technogym, this America's Cup since 1992, has always developed new and specific technologies, in collaboration with the athletic trainers of the sailing team, to improve the performance of the sailors, taking care of every detail in detail.
Moreover, the Excite Top, specially designed for the crew of Alinghi, permit to carry a cyclical movement of the muscles of the shoulders, arms and chest and are particularly suitable for improving the performance of athletes.
The crew trains in the morning for a couple of times a week for 5-6 hours before going to sea, but if the weather does not allow for the water, the sessions in the gym becomes more important and intense.
The holders of the prestigious sailing trophy will defend the title of Oracle and the crew were prepared with the utmost professionalism to better address the challenging race full of tension and competitive spirit.

LifeSail on America's Cup - Valencia - waiting to see at the box contentendenti start for the 33rd America's Cup, Valencia is relaxed with a moment of pure fashion.

LifeSail on America's Cup - Valencia - While the boundaries of technology have been overcome by this 33 rd America's Cup, it becomes appropriate for the chef Journal is one of the innovators of the Spanish kitchen, which she cooked in the Valencia region since the two very beginning, the age of 17 years.
With two Michelin stars, Quique Dacosta is known internationally for his "conceptual dishes" as well as for his mastery in modern dishes with rice.

Dacosta, who won his fame at the restaurant where he has always worked, was presented today as the official chef of the 33rd America's Cup

The third floor of the Sail and Ventes, iconic building of the Port America's Cup, was a restricted area in the past, but now will be open to becoming a public restaurant in the "doporegata" where you can enjoy the modern and refined cuisine Dacosta.

During the day this area will host VIPs, sponsors, partners and guests, which will be served what the chef describes as a retrospective selection of his best dishes. During the days of racing guests can have breakfast from 8.00, the aperitif from 11:00, lunch with 12 different tapas, followed by afternoon tea and drinks from 17.00.

Ingrendienti premises will be used, accompanied by local wines. In the evening from 20.00 to 23.00, this evening will reopen to the public, which will be served 6-course dinner with a choice of 6 or 7 desserts.

There will also be an area Gastro Bar that will serve eight different tapas high quality. "Gastronomy is now a fundamental part of our culture" - said Dacosta - "Eating can be a biological necessity, but I would like to experience this magical and creative for everyone."

Typical of the kitchen that has created, which was described as a journey into the diner that inspired the dish, Dacosta is inventing a dish symbol of the 33rd America's Cup Bruma, inspired by the morning fog will be created using algae and herbs.

Sunday Dacosta, author of a cookbook about modern dishes with rice, will oversee the preparation of a giant paella. The proceeds will be donated to Haiti.

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One of the dishes Dacosta. Maybe "La Bruma" will look like this masterpiece? Video copyright AurelianoPat

Photo courtesy Andrea Carloni.

LifeSail on Sports - Cortina d'Ampezzo - The 2010 edition of the Ski Yachting, an event organized by the Yacht Club Cortina d'Ampezzo in collaboration with the Sci Club Cortina, told through the shots of Andrea Carloni.

LIFESAIL ON SPORT, SKI YACHTING: SOME SHOT BY ANDREA CARLONI
LifeSail on Sports - Cortina d'Ampezzo - The 2010 edition of Ski Yachting, Event organized by Yacht Club Cortina d'Ampezzo in cooperation with Ski Club Cortina, told by photographer Andrea Carloni.

LifeSail on Sports - Cortina d'Ampezzo - A fantastic day of sunshine was the backdrop for the performance of the "mountain stage" of the Ski Yachting, the now famous sailing combined ski organized by the Yacht Club Cortina di Ampezzo.

The weather has stimulative benefit of a large number of sailors to gather on Mount Faloria, where, thanks to the decisive collaboration of the Ski Club Cortina, it was possible to challenge themselves with a regularity race between challenging the doors of a giant slalom in full standing.

After the awards ceremony held at the Hotel Cristallo, the association has awarded the Ampezzo Awards to members who, during the 2009 season have excelled in sports deserve. To receive the works by the artist Renato Missaglia were the pilot's all-in, Peter Sibello, the owner of Uka Uka Racing, Lorenzo Santini, and tactical Riviera, Tommaso Chieffi.

Invited to the event, Zerogradinord.it sought the views of some of the protagonists and interviewed the president of the Ski Club Cortina, Igor Ghedina.

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Voices from the parterre. Video copyright Zerogradinord.it.

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Interview with Igor Ghedina. Video copyright Zerogradinord.it.

LifeSail on Sports - On September 18, 2005 Alex Bellini, leaving the Italian coastline in Brazil to reach the boat. Rosa di Atacama II, this is the name of the vessel on board which will live for 227 days an incredible adventure that he will enter the history of navigation. First and only Italian to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean rowing, and the only the world to have even crossed the Mediterranean Sea that, with the Gulf of Lions, arouses fear even the best navigators.

Following this adventure, Bellini receives the "Knights of the Waters 2006" The traditional recognition that the Italian Rowing Federation awards each year to the 5 players who have distinguished themselves during the season. L 'Explorerweb entered the crossings from Genoa (Italy) in Fortaleza (Brazil) among the eight best adventures of 2006.

Not satisfied, even while it is in the stormy waters of the Atlantic, Bellini also decides to cross the Pacific Ocean. So February 21, 2008 leaving Lima en route to Australia after 294 days of paddling, loneliness, fatigue and immense joy.

The Ocean Rowing Society, a body which certifies the results of the international ocean rowing crossings, the recognize the new record of crossing, with positive results, the longest in history. The FISSS (Italian Federation of Sports and Experimental Survival) has appointed Alex Bellini in 2009 Instructor "Honoris Causa" for distinguishing himself in an enterprise worthy of note in the field of survival and October 31, 2009 receives the prize that the detachable (Association Medals Gold Valor Atletico), assigned to samples that have made the history of world sport.

Several times last year, those who have followed his adventures asked what the next one, when you can follow to sea again and this time for that trip, perhaps the Indian Ocean, suggested by many.
"At sea we do not return for twenty years, at least at the oars, and if I do wish I could do an affair with my daughter - said Bellini - I decided to put it on sale Rosa Atacama II. It 'been a difficult decision, but I think the right thing. Since we came to miss no opportunity to display it permanently in an Italian museum, where I already figured to take my children to see and where it might have been admired by everyone, I decided, reluctantly, to sell it because he did not deserve to spend the rest of his years in a warehouse, all dusty, just for my taste to own it. The boat on which I spent some of the most beautiful and most difficult adventure of my life I hope will soon change hands, perhaps serve a future ocean rower who brings her back where it deserves to be, in the open sea. "

LifeSail on Fashion - Milan - More and more sailors choose the convenience and comfort of dungarees for the Match. Murphy & Nye has created an innovative material with Pacific Pro HD Tech 3 Layers.

The material used is a nylon "satin" trilaminate latest generation, highly technical, abrasion resistant, very breathable, lightweight and completely waterproof, thanks to internal heat sealing all seams. This dungaree is also perfect for demanding off-shore regattas: 3D preforms cut on his knee with Cordura reinforcements in the most stressed: the knees, in fact, and the session. Pacific Pro has a handy pocket on the knee water-proof and adjustable velcro closures at the ankles, to ensure better protection from water and ensure better
adhesion of the trousers at the ankle. Also the waist belt, elastic, is adjustable.

Heads Pro Collection Murphy & Nye Crew are made with innovative 3 Layer System by Murphy & Nye, a system characterized by three different layers. The deepest level is designed to isolate the skin from moisture, the middle is used to retain heat and prevent from dispersing, while the outer layer is
highly resistant, anti-wind and waterproof.

Even for those who appreciate a touch more "fashion", the original polished appearance will make this series of animals a must for sailors not only professionals but also for all the sailors. The head is available in silver and charcoal gray.

Ski Yachting - Cortina - E 'was released this morning the official program of the Sky Yachting 2010, the combined ski-sail organized by the Yacht Club Cortina d'Ampezzo. The first stage 2010 edition will take place between 29 and 31 January on the snows of Cortina and should gather some forty teams of three.

Friday, January 29, 2010
10:00 to 12:30: Meeting at Refuge Faloria arrival of the same cable. Ski free.
12:30 to 14:00: Lunch on the terrace of the hut Capanna Tondi.

Club House Cristallo Palace Hotel & Spa
15:00 Compulsory registration of participating teams.
19:00 Welcome drink.

Saturday, January 30, 2010
Ski Race (Monte Faloria)
09.30: Meeting at Refuge Monte pectoral Faloria for delivery to participants.
10.00: Opening ceremony and briefing to the participants.
10.15: Check-out round.

Club House Cristallo Palace Hotel & Spa
18.00: Cortina d'Ampezzo Yacht Club Awards 2009 (delivery of trophies to members who have distinguished themselves during the year) and awards ceremony Ski Yachting.
20.30: Team Yacht Club Stardom Party by the Club House

Sunday, January 31, 2010
10.00: Meeting at Refuge Drusciè With the arrival of the first section in the Sky Arrow. Ski free.
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch on the terrace of the hut Col Drusciè.

For more information visit the Yacht Club Cortina d'Ampezzo by clicking here.

To download the registration form click here.

LifeSail on Nature - Sea of Japan - On the one hand, the animal wants to sell dearly in order to defend the whales, the other a group of Japanese fishermen without scruples. A confrontation ended with a collision at sea between MOTOPESCA Ady Gil and the futuristic trimaran Association, the former Earth Race, which in the incident, on which the Parties will bounce crimes, reported extensive damage.

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The clubs - Cortina d'Ampezzo - Festival in proportion to the Yacht Club Cortina d'Ampezzo, which, as tradition, celebrated at the Capanna Tondi, historic retreat of the peaks Cortina, the fourth anniversary of its founding. Appointment Italian and foreign guests joined Gianmarco Rinaldi, "deus ex machina" of the brotherhood Cortina.

Invited to the celebration, Zerogradinord.it collected the feelings of some of those present and found interesting news on the fourth edition of the Ski Yachting (29-31 January 2010), well-established event that combines sailing, skiing and worldliness.

To visit the Yacht Club Cortina d'Ampezzo, click here.

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Gianmarco Rinaldi, president Yacht Club Cortina. Video copyright Zerogradinord.it.

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Etienne Majoni, Vice-Chairman Yacht Club Cortina. Video copyright Zerogradinord.it.

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Sergio Verzi, owner Capanna Tondi. Video copyright Zerogradinord.it.

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Charlotte Rinaldi, Partner Yacht Club Cortina (ENGLISH LANGUAGE). Video copyright Zerogradinord.it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YACHT CLUB CORTINA
From the clubs - Cortina d'Ampezzo - Today Yacht Club Cortina d'Ampezzo Celebrated at the Capanna Tondi, historic mountain retreat over Cortina, the fourth anniversary of its founding. Italian and foreign guests joined Gianmarco Rinaldi, "deus ex machina" of the club.

Invited to the celebration, Zerogradinord.it collected the feelings of the participants and found interesting news on the fourth edition of the Ski Yachting (29-31 January 2010), well-established event that combines sailing, skiing and worldliness.

To know something more about Look To The Sky Yachting Charlotte Rinaldi interview (english language).

To visit Cortina d'Ampezzo Yacht Club web site click here.

LifeSail on Occasion - Milan - Milan undershirt, in collaboration with Navigli Lombardi, presents Christmas is rowing, rowing the first Christmas event ever made. Saturday, December 19th at 17:00, in fact the Milanese will see Christmas arrive on the waters of the Naviglio Grande in the stretch that runs from the Street of Lavandai entering dock.

In one of the most beautiful locations in Milan, including music, lights and Christmas decor, there will be a boat parade where the athletes of the historic rowing club in Milan will interpret the various figures that tell the magic of Christmas and will do the rowing Their long, fast boats and sophisticated race.

Leading the event will be Santa Claus on his own "individual" and, after him, the "double" of the Elves, the Snow Man, the Christmas tree at Remi, the Pipers Rowers. Among the different boats, one of the most anticipated will be an incredible "4 with" where rowing will be guided by a Reindeer Santa helmsman.

And the show will not end here: in the second part of the parade along the catwalk of Christmas Naviglio Grande, will be presented first, extraordinary Christmas is rowed.

Christmas comes with the sport of Rowing Rowing wants to celebrate Christmas together in Milan to the canal, more than a century ago, it was born in Milan. In 2010, in fact, the Rowing Milan celebrate 120 years since its foundation. Since then many great champions, Olympic champions, winning world titles and also many simple fans of this wonderful sport have trained and train today, paddling along the canal.

Rowing is also a way Christmas is Christmas on the Navigli of initiatives, which propose to Milan's Navigli Lombardi during the holiday, from Saturday, December 5, 2009 until Sunday, January 10, 2010.