There’s a new look to Red Bay Boats all new look 6. 5 metre RIB and by all accounts from this week’s Southampton Boat Show the Irish built performance RIB is a real head turner.  they could’ve easily be dubbed the Show boat,  ‘Silver shadow’ or then again ‘White Lady’ with her stunning tubes, stianless steel work, seating and white hull.

The Stormforce 650 is one of the most innovative RIBs produced by Redbay so far. the design came from a need for a standardised RIB of around 6.5 metres that could be built quicker and lighter in the County Antrim factory.

the 650 has one of the best handling hulls in its class, and we’ve seen her easily out-perform larger rival RIBs in rough weather. although the basic hull is that of the Stormforce 6.5, the 650 features a redesigned bow and sheer line.

Master boat builder Tom McLaughlin was on the Southampton stand talking to Rib enthusiasts from across Ireland and the UK. the Red Bay name is now synonymous with heavy weather Ribbing and the boats have a reputation for their safety and comfort in big seas.

The 650 features a fully moulded internal deck. this gives a  a fresh clean appearance. it also makes it easy to maintain. the 650 features a standard 4 seater side by side console and bow locker. the deck can be either finished in a quality non-slip coating or as in the case of the Show boat above with an in tek-deck.

It is fitted with a 175hp Suzuki 4-stroke outboard, 4-seater console, Garmin 750s touchscreen chartplotter, Garmin 100i DSC VHF, teak-decking, LED navigation lights.

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QUEBEC CITY (VN) — after a 2010 debut that was unanimously lauded as a resounding success, the top riders in professional cycling have returned to Canada to contest a pair of one-day WorldTour races, the 2011 Québec City and Montréal Grand Prix Cyclistes.

Both events are circuit races using historic Canadian courses, with both events lengthened this year to exceed 200 kilometers (16 laps in Québec City, for a total of 201 km; 17 laps in Montréal, for a total of 205 km).

The GP Cycliste de Québec is run on a demanding 12.6km circuit through old Québec City, ideal for riders capable of producing punchy accelerations on the old city’s hills, including the Côte de la Montagne, a 300m pitch that maxes out at 13 percent gradient. The course finishes on Grande Allée Street; a variation of the route has been used for years at the Tour de Beauce.

The GP Cycliste de Montréal is a more difficult 12.1km circuit run on the classic Mount Royal circuit, which was used at the 1974 world championships, won by Eddy Merckx, and again at the 1976 Olympic Games. The crux of the course is the one-mile Camilien-Houde climb, averaging 8 percent, which riders will climb 17 times. The Montréal course was also used in the 1980s, at the Grand Prix des Amériques, and as a women’s World Cup event during the last decade.

The Grands Prix Cyclistes Québec–Montréal organization, which was granted the first two UCI licenses for WorldTour races in North America, produces both events. Headed by enigmatic TV commentator Serge Arsenault, the organization is committed to hosting both races through 2014.

At last year’s inaugural events, Thomas Voeckler won in Québec, and Robert Gesink won in Montréal. both men won alone, soloing away on the hilly circuits ahead of small chase groups. along with Gesink, who finished third at Québec, Garmin-Cervélo’s Ryder Hesjedal was among the strongest men in both events, finishing third at GP Montréal and fourth at GP Québec.

Other marquee riders racing this weekend include UCI number-two ranked rider Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto), recent USA Pro Cycling Challenge overall winner Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) and USAPCC podium finishers Québec (Garmin-Cervélo) and Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Highroad).

Additional starters include Tour de France stars Pierre Rolland (Europcar), Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel), Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil) and Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky).

Canadian crowd favorites include Hesjedal, Michael Barry (Sky), David Veilleux (Europcar) and Dominique Rollin (FDJ), as well as the bulk of the SpiderTech-C10 team headed by Svein Tuft, Zach Bell and François Parisien.

A new addition to the 2011 events is the Challenge Sprint Pro, a street-sprint competition held Thursday on Grande-Allée Street in Québec City. In total 24 riders will race in successive heats over a 1km course with a slight uphill finish. The top two finishers from each elimination round will move on to the next sprint, until the final heat, when the top four riders will sprint for the win.

Riders expected to contest for the Challenge Sprint victory include Rollin, Bell, Hayden Roulston (HTC-Highroad), Robbie Hunter (RadioShack), Gerald Ciolek (Quick Step) and Borut Bozic (Vacansoleil). Americans Ted King (Liquigas-Cannondale) and Peter Stetina (Garmin-Cervelo) are also listed as starters for the street sprint competition.

Though he was slated to compete, Leopard-Trek’s Andy Schleck announced last weekend that he would not be able to contest the GPs due to complications from a wisdom tooth. Schleck’s older brother Fränk was not scheduled to race in Canada, instead racing the September 14 Grand Prix de Wallonie before the late-September world road championships in Copenhagen.

Voeckler and Lampre’s Damiano Cunego were also once listed as provisional starters but did not make the trip across the Atlantic.

With the parcours’ hilly profiles and uphill finishes, all eyes are on Gilbert, who swept the hilly one-day Ardennes Classics week in April, and then took the maillot jaune on the opening stage of the Tour de France with an uphill finish at Mont des Alouettes.

After the Tour Gilbert kept up his winning ways at Clasica San Sébastian, also winning a stage of Eneco Tour of Benelux and a national time trial championship. but the Belgian road champion insisted Wednesday that his current fitness is not on the level that has seen him win, seemingly at will, all year long.

“I’m not in the same condition I’ve been in other times of the year,” Gilbert said at a Québec City press conference, held at the historic Fairmont Le Château Frontenac hotel, which serves as the race’s headquarters. “My main goal is to snatch points for the UCI world rankings. but if along the way I’m in a position to win, obviously I’d love to.”

Gilbert is six points behind Cadel Evans on the world rankings. he would have to finish ninth in one of the two Canadian races to tie Evans and eighth to surpass him. Evans is not racing again this season.

Gilbert, who did not race in Canada last year, pointed to Team Sky as the biggest favorite. In 2010 Boasson Hagen won the bunch sprint for second in Québec, and was in the front group on the final lap in Montréal before he crashed on the course’s 180-degree right-hand turn. and Gilbert said Sky’s Simon Gerrans might be best suited for the course’s punchy climbs.

“We checked out the (Côte de la Montagne) climb for the first time this morning,” Gilbert said Wednesday. “I saw it was pretty hard, and since it’s only a 12km circuit, we’ll go back on to the climb regularly. It’s going to hurt on the final laps. how the final plays out will depend on the weather, if it is windy. I heard last year there was a headwind in the final. That is a final that suits me, but I think Gerrans might be better prepared.”

Gerrans, who recently finished second at the GP Ouest France-Plouay after winning the Tour of Denmark, said Gilbert’s pick was “a huge compliment.”

“I have been able to carry some good condition on from the Tour de France and had some solid results in my last two races in Denmark and Plouay,” Gerrans told VeloNews. “I expect the circuit of the GP Québec to be really selective. Sky has a great team here, and with their support I hope to be up there in the final racing for the win.”

In addition to Boasson Hagen, Gerrans and Barry, Sky brings Juan Antonio Flecha, Jeremy Hunt, Roberto Uran and Christian Knees.

Gilbert pointed to the riders who competed in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge as likely podium contenders, citing both their time spent training and racing at altitude as well as a lack of the jetlag so many European-based riders will face. Pre-race favorites Gesink, Leipheimer, van Garderen, Hesjedal and Vande Velde all raced in Colorado in late August.

Gesink said his performances in Canada last September were among “the best period” he’s had in his young career. “I’m motivated to do well again,” the Dutch rider said. “The Colorado racing was a good warm-up for this race. I think I’m in good shape.”

Asked if he expected the races to finish as they did in 2010 — with both races won by solo moves, chased by small groups — Gesink said the harder the pace, the more it suited him.

“Last year Garmin made the race really hard for Ryder Hesjedal, they did a hard tempo and that’s good for me, if it’s a difficult race and everyone has to go to their maximum,” Gesink said. “On a small, steep climb (like the Côte de la Montagne), it’s more or less the same for everyone. but when someone like Voeckler is attacking in the final, it’s a good opportunity to win like that. Montreal is a different race, it’s a really tough parcours. The climb is longer. I expect small differences at the finish line, but if you can get the right moment, I think you can do it in the same way (winning solo).”

One rider who performed well in Canada last year is Euskaltel-Euskadi’s Samuel Sánchez. The Tour de France King of the Mountains finished sixth at Montréal last year, but the Spaniard and five of his teammates went down in a training ride pile-up Wednesday caused by rough road surface. and though Sánchez said Miguel Minguez was the only Euskaltel rider to have significant injuries, the Olympic champion winced as he stepped down from the press conference stage, visibly in pain.

Fresh off a stage win at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, George Hincapie leads the BMC Racing Team in Canada.

“I came out of the Utah and Colorado block of races in really good shape,” Hincapie said. “hopefully, I can take advantage of that this weekend. Last year, I was coming off an injury, so I was only 70 percent. but I thought if I were good, both races would suit my capabilities. I think Montréal is harder, there’s more overall climbing. but they’re both tough.”

BMC’s Alessandro Ballan placed in the top-10 of both events one year ago, but he hasn’t raced since the Tour de Pologne, where he crashed out on stage 2.

With a weather forecast of warm and sunny all weekend, the expected large crowds lining the circuits will once again cheer loudest for a Canadian winner. Hesjedal and Tuft are the two men likeliest to fulfill that wish. In 2010 Tuft rode for Garmin, putting in massive work for Hesjedal at both events.

Tuft, the Canadian national road champion, was a late addition to SpiderTech’s squad — in part due to his recently announced transfer to the new GreenEdge squad for 2012, where Gerrans will also ride. but Tuft said the thrill of riding at the biggest races in Canada in the maple leaf jersey was all the motivation he needed to give his best, whether it was for his own chances or for another SpiderTech rider.

“The team wanted to make sure it was doing what is the best thing for team, and that’s a fair call,” Tuft said. “But from my end, I’m here 100 percent for the team, and I’ll do whatever they ask of me. I’m still super motivated. From what I saw last year, this is one of the greatest events I’ve ever seen in Canadian cycling, and I think I’ve done them all. I couldn’t believe the crowds for both races, and how psyched people were. It is pretty refreshing, what it does for Canadian cycling is huge. It brings people to that level, to see what it can be, and people start to believe in it — and not just the fans, but the sponsors, too. they see that it’s worth something, to be part of something this big, and that this needs to keep happening.”

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Accident

Sandi K. Galla, 28, Fort Morgan, taken to Colorado Plains Medical Center in Fort Morgan for treatment of minor injuries after the left tires of his car went off Interstate 76 eastbound two miles east of Wiggins, then the vehicle spun across the road and off the right side, rolling 4 ½ times; the car was demolished and Galla was cited on a charge of driving while license denied, Monday, 2:30 p.m., Trooper Lester La Combe reported.

Sheriff’s Office

Arrests

(Held on bond at Morgan County Jail unless otherwise noted.)

Ramiro Flores, 37, Brush, failed to register as a sex offender, drove vehicle without a valid driver’s license and warrant arrest for failure to register as a sex offender charge, 26000 Highway 34, Sept. 2, 8:03 p.m. Held without bond.

Pedro E. Felix, 25, Fort Morgan, driving while under the influence, DUI per se and child abuse, 17500 block of Highway 34, Sept. 2, 10:45 p.m. Held on $1,000 bond.

Martha Knight, 54, Snyder, DUI and DUI per se, 22000 Highway 71, Sept. 3, 7:09 p.m. Held on $1,000 bond.

Edgar Borunda-Ochoa, 22, Fort Morgan, domestic violence, child abuse and harassment, 14530 Highway 34 #4, Sept. 6, 1:50 p.m. Held without bond.

Maria Mendoza, 22, Greeley, protection order violation, 500 block of Highway 34, Sept. 7, 8:37 a.m. Held without bond.

Santos Mendoza-Medrano, 24, Greeley, owner operated uninsured vehicle, drove vehicle without a valid driver’s license and speeding, 500 block of Highway 34, Sept. 7, 8:37 a.m. Held on $1,500 bond.

Daniel Dane, 26, Fort Morgan, warrant arrest for failure to appear on criminal mischief under $500 charge, 801 E. Beaver Ave., Sept. 8, 8:55 a.m. Held on $3,000 bond.

Charges

Jo Gill, 19, Fort Morgan, unlawful possession/consumption of ethyl alcohol by an underage person, 17505 Highway 34 #19, August 21, 8:20 a.m. Released on summons.

Juvenile female, 16, Fort Morgan, unlawful possession/consumption of ethyl alcohol by an underage person, 17505 Highway 34 #19, August 21, 8:20 a.m. Released on summons.

Christopher Gonzales, 28, Wiggins, third degree trespass, 3000 block of Highway 6, Sept. 7, 10:52 a.m. Released on summons.

Joe Kitzman, 35, Wiggins, theft and first degree criminal tampering, 701 Central Ave., Sept. 7, 6:38 a.m. Released on summons.

Victims

Ty Doty, 40, Fort Morgan, reported unlawful ownership of a dangerous dog, 305 S. West St., Sept. 5, 6:42 p.m. Case open.

Morgan County Rural Electric Association, Fort Morgan, reported criminal mischief, 12000 block of Rd. V, Sept. 1, 7:48 a.m. Property damaged, meters and meter readers. value, $1,600. Case open.

Ted Curtis, 76, Fort Morgan, reported trespass and theft, 16640 Highway 144, Sept. 2, 2:25 p.m. Property stolen, Garmin GPS and gasoline. value, $246. Case open.

Manuel Abreo, 65, Fort Morgan, reported theft, 18138 Rd. 17.5, Sept. 6, 8:09 p.m. Property stolen, Bronco memorabilia, VHS’s, CD’s, mirror and clothing. value, $10,000. Case open.

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LinkedIn went public today in what many expect could lead to another wave of tech IPOs. just now the stock (NYSE: LNKD) for the social networking site for professionals is trading at about $104, representing a 100% pop (buy-in was $45) and a valuation of $11 billion. Are we partying like it’s 1999 yet? Probably not. but this is obviously the biggest liquidity event we’ve seen here in Silicon Valley in quite some time.

The busts are painfully memorable – most notably in 2001 when the sky and all the sock puppets along with it fell into a heaping pile of crap 2.0. back then Red Herring magazine used to publish their ratings on various IPOs. A thermometer would gauge the “hotness” factor. I remember reading the massive magazine (tech ad spending was through the roof) on flights to customer meetings and seeing: red, red, red, dark orange, red, red, red. There was no blue. it was 1999 and everything here in the valley was damn hot.

“Social Gold Rush”

Will our penchant for socializing on the web now pave the way for companies who apply Facebook-like models for the enterprise?

With the early success of the LinkedIn IPO, the easy answer is yes. however, remember that Facebook and Twitter sit pretty much alone atop the pyramid of riches for social networking. There are also-rans, but likely investor’s appetites for more than a few winners (at least on the public exchanges) is questionable.

Costco-size Line for IPOs

I think the more interesting trend we can perhaps glean from today’s news is that the tech IPO is back, but with a few caveats. In 1999 you just needed a hot idea. An idea with potential. Bru-ha-ha helped, as did moxie. Things like business models (what do you mean shipping hundreds of pounds of dog food across the country or couriering a .75 chocolate bar 3 miles to a single buyer aren’t sustainable?!), paying customers and experienced management teams were all either non or secondary considerations. Today, that’s changed. When the markets blew up in 2001, and then the banks blew up later that same decade we realized all gold does not shine the same.

Nearly 2 billion people searched LinkedIn last year. Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are subscribers, and its hiring solutions are used by 73 of the Fortune 100 companies. this is what an IPO looks like in 2011, not 2001. These are solid, verifiable, quantifiable operating metrics. does it eliminiate risk or remove doubts over a valuation that is very rich? no on both counts. LinkedIn’s only been around for 9 years, and revenues were about $243 million (with 70% coming from subscription) in 2010.

No doubt companies such as Zynga, Groupon, Facebook, and Twitter are watching the LinkedIn story very closely.

My guess: all four of them (and others) will be spotted ringing out at the IPO register within the next 24 months.

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Phil Southerland looks as young as a cherub and is as softspoken as a minister. the 29-year-old CEO of Team Type 1 in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge could still be riding if he wasn’t using his cycling team for such good. no, Southerland doesn’t seem the type who would start his team the way he did.

Southerland’s angelic looks are appropriate. To Joe Eldridge, Southerland is an angel.

The revelation came in 2003, shortly after Southerland smoked the field in the Southeastern Conference cycling championships. Eldridge, racing slowly for Auburn’s C team, noticed something about Southerland. After his win, Southerland pulled up his Georgia jersey and looked at a little plastic device attached to his skin.

Funny, Eldridge had the same device. All diabetics do. Eldridge just never saw a diabetic race as fast as Southerland. Eldridge told Southerland he noticed him test his blood-sugar level.

“Yeah,” Southerland said. “It’s a bad habit I picked up in college.”

They immediately hit it off, but when Southerland checked Eldridge’s A1C, his diabetes report card, it read 11. Southerland gave him a glimpse at his future, a future with a disease that contributes to nearly a quarter million deaths a year, more than breast cancer or AIDS.

Southerland told him, “Eleven means you’re going to go blind and die an early, miserable death.”

Eight years later, Team Type 1 has 60 riders with Type 1 diabetes (Type 1 being diagnosed in children and teens), is on the Continental Pro Tour and is getting hyped as a potential entry in a future Tour de France. Team Type 1 is as perfect a fit for Colorado’s inaugural pro race as Boulder’s Team Garmin-Cervelo. why?

Dillon Hunter, the 12-year-old son of race co-chairman Shawn Hunter, is a Type 1 diabetic.

“It never goes away”

Eldridge’s story is like many youngsters with diabetes. Diagnosed at 10, he did all the right things until he hit college, when he did all the wrong things. his treatment, which includes four to five injections a day and constant checking of his blood-sugar level, started to slip. sometimes college kids just get tired of injecting themselves.

“It never goes away,” Eldridge said. “You’re dealing with it all the time. you can’t hang it up when you go home.”

At about then, he developed a passion for cycling. Bad timing. High blood-sugar levels are as difficult to overcome for a cyclist as a flat tire and last much longer.

So, when Southerland met Eldridge, Southerland made a bet. the one who had the highest blood-sugar level would buy dinner. Southerland ate free for most of 2004.

“I’m a very competitive person,” Eldridge said. “The first thing I wanted was to beat Phil in a bike race. It probably took me three months to change my habits and get diabetes on track.”

When Eldridge’s blood sugar finally dipped below Southerland’s, he told him: “I just want to say thanks. you changed my life.”

Then they went about changing others.

The two decided they’d start a cycling team made up of diabetics. not only would they give diabetic cyclists a support group, they would spread the word that daily injections don’t mean you’ll be a couch potato.

“I had the idea that people with diabetes needed heroes,” Southerland said.

In Southerland’s management class, 25 percent of his grade was a project. he proposed starting a company with a cycling team as a message and went around Athens, Ga., asking businessmen if it would be something they’d support.

Next was getting out the message. What better way than organizing a Race Across America? Quickly, six diabetic cyclists called to join. their relay team finished second in 5 days, 16 hours and 14 minutes, but they won the bigger race.

Word got out: A bunch of diabetics are racing bikes really fast across the United States. Abbott Laboratories agreed to fund the project in 2006. then, in 2007, Sanofi-aventis, the new Jersey-based global health care company, became the sponsor. Athletic diabetics noticed as well.

Message: Stay active

In Tallahassee, Fla., Morgan Patton was a stubborn, undisciplined 17-year-old who had a lot more interest in boys and shopping than injections and blood-sugar checks. She paid attention to her diabetes for only one reason.

“I used it to get out of class,” she said.

Her mom knew Southerland’s mom, and when Southerland met Morgan, her diabetes report card was 17.

“She’d been lucky to make it five years without some form of complication,” he said.

Something about Southerland, however, made her listen. Patton joined the team and in two years got her blood-sugar level down to 6.1. She was getting close to winning races.

“I guess it was somebody different and new other than somebody I had to listen to like my parents or my doctor,” she said.

Meanwhile, back in Colorado, Shawn Hunter was surfing the Internet for every cycling tidbit he could find. A race is only as good as its racers — especially an inaugural race like the Pro Cycling Challenge — and Hunter not only needed a competitive team but also a good story for television.

When he saw the words “pro cyclists” and “diabetics” in the same sentence, one team spot was immediately filled.

NBC can’t wait. John Miller, president of NBC sports, has a son who’s a Type 1 diabetic.

“I’m a fan from two perspectives,” Hunter said. “As a race promoter, I love what they’re doing for the sport. They’re great athletes. I love what they’re doing to promote the sport worldwide.

“I’m pretty pleased that they’re inspiring people like my son to get on a bike and stay healthy and fight the disease.”

If you watch the race, don’t expect Type 1’s Javier Leal and Fabio Calabria of Golden, the team’s diabetics in the race, to pull up their shirt while climbing Cottonwood Pass and stick a needle in their side. they inject before and after races, but they do check their blood-sugar levels all day.

Southerland, meanwhile, is just getting started. his team, which won this year’s Tour of Turkey, does 50 diabetes camps every summer, and he has cycled around the world — from Dubai to Beijing — urging people to take care of themselves.

If he ever gets tired and frustrated, he thinks back to a woman in the Tour of California. She recognized him in Sacramento and said she had an infant diagnosed at 2 months.

She told him: “We follow everything you do. We read everything you do. you and your team are such heroes to our family. You’re such an inspiration. You’re proof that he’s going to be OK.”

Said Southerland: “It makes me very excited to go work the next day. I love my job.”

John Henderson: 303-954-1299 or jhenderson@denverpost.com

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