Maritime News: Rolex, Hublot and Corum

Rolex Farr 40 World Championship in Porto Cervo, Sardinia

Even though more than thirty racing sailboats participated in this year’s Rolex Farr 40 World Championship in Porto Cervo, Sardinia. Barking Mad, owned by north American Jim Richardson, was the one that took the trophy home. The yachts were identical according to their design, they featured a four professional crew with five to six amateur sailors mans each.

Corum and Hawaii

Aboard the Alpha Romeo II (Neville Crichton’s Reich Pugh 100) with a crew of sixteen, Ainslie (known as Godensailor), sailed 2.255 nautical miles during five days, fourteen hours, thirty minutes and 20 seconds braking the Transpacific Yacht Race record by a day.. Ainsle sported Corum’s Admiral’s Cup Tides watch to cross the finish line so as to become Corum ambassador and America’s Cup helmsman.

Hublot and the Mediterranean circuit

Hublot sponsored the Real Club Nautico regattas in the Mediterranean that, for the first time, featured a variety of boat classes. Palma Vela saw, this year, two houndred sailboats in all participated in the events named after Hublot timepieces (King Power, Big Bang or Classic Fusion). The winners in each category received a Hublot wristwatch engraved “Hublot Palma Vela 2009”

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What is the RK3DE (Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event) ?

THE ONLY FOUR STAR THREE-DAY EVENT IN THE AMERICAS
Because horse and rider combinations compete in World Championships and Olympic Games at the Four Star level, the ability to train and test themselves at this level on an annual basis is critical to developing strong individuals and teams for those contests.
While not every combination that competes at the Four Star level will be chosen to represent the U.S. or, in the case of foreign riders, their own country, the Rolex Four Star Championship, $200,000 in prize money and a Rolex Watch make the competition important in its own right. Additionally for U.S. riders, the USET Foundation CCI**** Championship for the Pinnacle Cup marks the high point of any U.S. rider's career.
To win Rolex Kentucky sets a horse and rider apart and they become members of that upper echelon who are winners of a CCI****. Simply to finish also puts them in select company.


ONE OF THREE EVENTS IN THE ROLEX GRAND SLAM OF EVENTING

The Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing awards $250,000 to the Rider who can win the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials in England the first weekend in May and the Burghley Land Rover Horse Trials in England the first of September in succession. In its 5th year in 2003, Pippa Funnell of Great Britain became the first Grand Slam winner with wins at Kentucky on Primmore's Pride, Badminton on Supreme Rock, and Burghley on Primmore's Pride, taking the $250,000 prize that most had thought impossible to win. When the next Grand Slam winner will burst onto the Eventing scene is anyone's guess.


In 2010, the RK3DE (Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event) will be set on April 22-25, at the Kentucky Horse Park.












[Source: ROLEX RK3DE website.]
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