Regattas are important social events in many family island settlements.
Club de Regatas Lima (CRL) (translation= Lima Regatta Club) is a sports club in Lima, Peru.
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Judging that the yacht Young America was the fastest of the regatta, however, the Team Dennis Conner syndicate petitioned and was granted the right to sail Young America in place of Stars & Stripes in an unsuccessful attempt to defend the succeeding 1995 America's Cup against New Zealand's Black Magic.
The agreement has helped to keep the famous college rowing regatta in Philadelphia, the Group's North American headquarters.
Trower then transferred to London Rowing Club and in August 1876 Trower, together with Gulston, R H Labat, and J Rowell went to Philadelphia on the steam ship Wyoming to take part in the town's centennial regatta.
The teams racing regatta was held at Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, Newport (just north of Sydney), included 11 teams from 7 universities.
During the Easter weekend every year, Bartica hosts the Bartica Regatta, with a growing variety of entertaining holiday activities including water sports (featuring mostly speed boats), cricket, boxing, soccer, talent shows, a street parade, and a Miss Bartica Regatta Pageant.
After the cyclone a temporary thatched roof boat house was built in 1861, on the banks of the Hooghly near Chand pal Ghat, the Regatta course was 1 mile from Fort Point to Shalimar or from Shalimar to Botanical Gardens.
In addition to the Mackinac race, the Club will host the National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta June 11–13, 2010, the 505 North American Championship June 23–26, 2010, and many other competitive sailboat races.
The 1995 Citizen Cup regatta was won by Stars & Stripes, however, the defending San Diego Yacht Club opted to race the second-place boat Young America, sailed by the winning Stars & Stripes crew, in the succeeding America's Cup races as it was thought that this would give them the best chance of beating Black Magic of New Zealand.
This is contrary to popular belief that the regatta started in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy.
On 26 January 1877, Trickett won over Laycock at an annual regatta in Sydney which commemorates the anniversary of the colonisation of Australia.
2009 US National Selection Regatta (NSR 2) Men's Double Sculls with Warren Anderson - 2nd place.
In August 1876 Guslon, together with R H Labat, A Trower and J Rowell went to Philadelphia on the steam ship Wyoming to take part in the town's centennial regatta.
The principal reason for the construction was to provide an alternative route for commercial shipping between Berlin (via the Dämeritzsee) and the Oder-Spree Canal (via the Seddinsee) during the 1936 Summer Olympics, when the more normal route via the Langer See was closed in order to use the regatta course at Grünau for the Olympic canoeing and rowing events.
Blakeney in North Norfolk also has a horizontal pole over water that is erected each year for the Blakeney regatta.
The Henley-on-Todd Regatta (also called the Todd River Race) is a "boat" race held annually in the typically dry sandy bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs, Australia.
By 1978 the class was popular enough to hold a one-design regatta in Key West with twenty boats on the line.
An anarchist at heart, he rejected organized regatta and racing - Not unlike Bernard Moitessier, the famous ocean vagabond - and wrote a biting satire of yachtsmen, sponsors and yacht clubs, in his erotic-nautical novel Le navigateur published at the peak of Eric Tabarly's success.
In 1948, Le Jeune exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the same year he exhibited Fishermans Regatta at the Society of Marine Artists.
She placed 3rd in the Cinco De Mayo Sailboat Regatta in Mexico as well as being chosen one of four women for the "Women of Strength" featured in Muscle & Fitness Hers magazine September/October 2007 issue.
In 1914, the German Emperor got the fateful news of the assassination of Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, while he was competing on a regatta organized by the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club.
The Regatta moved from Raven’s Ait in 1937 to Canbury Gardens after the Club moved to Turk’s Boat House in Lower Ham Road.
La regata veneziana (The Venetian Regatta) is the title of two different compositions by Gioachino Rossini.
At the 2013 Princeton Chase Regatta, the lightweight team from Yale University rowed the fastest time of the day, posting a score faster than any heavyweight crew at the regatta, including those from Princeton University, Northeastern University, and University of California-Berkeley.
In June 2009 she won a bronze medal at the World Cup regatta held in Szeged, Hungary, competing alongside Teneale Hatton in the women's K-2 1000 metres event.
Maidenhead Regatta is a rowing regatta in England which takes place in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
The events, which were planned by Captain John André and John Montresor, included a regatta along the Delaware River, accompanied by three musical bands and a 17-gun salute by British warships, a procession, a tournament of jousting knights, and a ball and banquet with fireworks display.
Competing in their distinctive lime green strip, crews from the 2000m rowing course at Holme Pierrepont enjoyed wins at Henley Royal Regatta and many other elite regattas.
A well-known method, and specifically oriented on the implementation field, is the Regatta method by Sogeti.
Then Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos, impressed by the success of Ray Ordoveza's "Vida" in the China Sea Race and Easter Regatta, encouraged the Manila Yacht Club to organize an International regatta at Subic in 1997.
The Cup was accepted by the Regatta in the presence of H.M. The Queen at Buckingham Palace in June 2006.
Royal Hobart Regatta, an annual three-day regatta in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The club also offers courses in more conventional recreational canoes, kayaks and stand up paddle boards, and is the venue for the Head of the Rideau rowing regatta, held annually in late September by the Ottawa Rowing Club.
Her painting "Maine Regatta" has been chosen to be the poster for 2007 Wooden Boat Show in Mystic, Connecticut.
Sonning Regatta is the regatta of the village of Sonning in Berkshire and the hamlet of Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England, on the north and south banks of the River Thames.
The seventeen years of the American Civil War and Reconstruction greatly curtailed boating activities until 1878 when the club was reorganized and its first postwar regatta held.
The 2006 Sugar Bowl football classic was moved to Atlanta, Georgia and the regatta committee held the intercollegiate races on Lake Lanier in the Atlanta-area thanks to the Lake Lanier Sailing Club and the Georgia Tech sailing team.
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The Sugar Bowl Regatta has featured multiple Olympians, including Gilbert Gray, who captured Olympic Gold in the STAR class in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
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The Sugar Bowl Regatta was established in 1934 by the Midwinter Sports Association to be part of a winter carnival of sports offerings in conjunction with the Sugar Bowl football game.
In 1973 the regatta moved to its current home at Holme Pierrepont, due to the frequency of unfair weather conditions at the Child Beale Estate, and the ability to hold six lane racing at Holme Pierrepont.
The racing normally takes place during a Sunsail regatta weekend, but entering other races, such alternating between the Fastnet and Cork or Cowes Week has been mooted for the future if funding can be found.
In this capacity, he was most notable for inviting members of the New York Yacht Club to race in the Royal Yacht Squadron regatta open to all nations around the Isle of Wight on 22 August 1851.
In 1965 a protest took place in the public bar of the Regatta Hotel when Merle Thornton (mother of Australian actress Sigrid Thornton) and another woman chained themselves to the bar in protest of public bars in Queensland being restricted to men only.
The most famous waterfalls are those at Martin Brod, where the popular "International Una Regatta" kayaking competition begins, and Štrbački Buk further downstream.
In 1972 England's Whitbread company and the British Royal Naval Sailing Association agreed to sponsor a globe-circling regatta, which would be called the 'Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race'.
It offers youth and adult sailing programs, and sponsors races, regattas and a Sea Scout ship.
Wentworth Falls hosts several festivals and events, including the Wentworth Falls Autumn Festival in April, the Wentworth Falls Public School Art and Craft Show in October and the Task Force 72 Annual Regatta in either November or December.