Sentence examples for preliminary regatta from inspiring English sources

In a Deed of Gift match, there is no preliminary regatta in which teams vie to go against the holder.

The jury found that the team had broken rules in preliminary regattas in smaller boats.

Oracle has won five races, but it was hit with a two-race penalty before the series because an international jury ruled the team had broken rules in preliminary regattas in smaller boats.

Murray is also the chief executive of America's Cup Race Management, the ostensibly independent organization created to stage the Cup and the preliminary regattas scheduled for 2011 and 2012.

Oracle won the series, 9-8, although it had to win 11 races to defend the Cup after absorbing a two-point penalty imposed by an international jury that had found the team guilty of illegally modifying its boats in a series of preliminary regattas in smaller, 45-foot catamarans.

Conspiracy theorists, who tend to thrive in this high-stakes and low-disclosure microcosm, may be tempted to see the delays as a way of prolonging the inevitable and the merchandise sales after this regatta's disappointing preliminary phases, which began in July with an uncompetitive challenger series and has only now picked up the pace.

The sailing regatta will loop around San Francisco Bay in the summer of 2013 (preliminary races begin next year) between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge, with the grimly alluring Alcatraz smack in the middle.

Patience, the only Scot in the GB sailing team, and Bithell, who is from Rochdale, have had a brilliant regatta, with seven top three finishes in the 10-race preliminary series.

After the 10-race preliminary series Ainslie lay two points behind Hogh-Christensen, who was having the regatta of his life.

Nearby regattas include the Project Challenge regatta.

Officials canceled the regatta.