’Mascalzone Latino’ of Italy has won the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship for the second time. Vincente Onarato and his crew on ‘Mascalzone Latino’ finished 35 points ahead of nearest rivals ‘Alinghi’ after nine races off the icy waters of Copenhagen, Denmark. Mascalzone becomes the 2nd team to win the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds twice (Jim Richardson’s Barking Mad is the other), and the first team to win back to back.

This is the first of a series of Video Podcasts I am hosting on Yachtbuddy from ‘The Boaters TV’ www.theboaters.tv, a US based site. The video podcast covers all sorts of stories from a boating enthusiasts perspective. The series is presented by the lovely Julie Perry. This edition focuses on houseboats. Those of you who know me, yachtbud aka Anthony, know that I live on a houseboat in Antigua called ‘The Coconut Palace’. So, I am biased, I admit. The video also covers the Hydroslider, a self propelled hydrofoil on water. Look out for the Hawaiin girl.

This video podcast from www.theboaters.tv is presented by Julie Perry and features a jarring high speed boating accident (a cautionary tale), an amusing Evinrude commercial and some cool guitar tunes from a guy called Sonny Ledfurd.

Greetings. I have been posting articles from ‘The News Room’, a really great news site. Unfortunately some of our members can’t see the stories on their Internet Explorer browsers. I can’t resolve the issue and I am going to have to stop using their content, which is a shame. If you are one of those who have suffered from this problem you have my apologies. The easy solution to view the content you have been missing is to switch to another browser. I highly recommend Opera, which is better than IE anyway. www.opera.com

This is the official promo video for the iShares Cup Extreme 40 Sailing Series taking place in Amsterdam from 14-16 September, 2007. The Extreme 40 fleet will descend on Amsterdam for the final edition of the iShares Cup Extreme 40 Sailing Series. Awesome! www.iSharesCup.com. Brought to you by Club Racer Team of Antwerp. www.clubracer.be.