Sail Magazine

by Kimball Livingston

All on assignment, Kimball Livingston has sailed the oceans blue. And he's been to Fink, Texas, too.

IntraCoastal to get money after all?

by Kimball Livingston, Posted August 6, 2004

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association now runs a message board of updated information regarding the waterway. We have a link at the bottom of this story. Meanwhile, we have more good news ...Are you a racer? A cruiser? Doesn't matter. If you transit the Eastern seaboard, you probably use the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, and the food news is that the great letter-writing

Bringing New People Into Sailing

by Kimball Livingston, Posted July 1, 2004

Community sailing programs are going strong all across the U.S. This young man is learning about the quirks of installing rudders at a sailing camp in Sausalito, California. And did you know that there is an annual gathering for people who want to see more of this kind of outreach? The 2004 National Sailing Programs Symposium was impressive for the energy and enthusiasm of the participants and

Rogue waves

by Kimball Livingston, Posted October 6, 2003

When SAIL decided to print something on rogue waves (October, 2003), the first question that came up among the editors was—what IS a rogue wave? Soon it became clear that "rogue wave" means different things to different people. Faced with the job of making sense, or a bit of sense, of the jumble, I eventually decided that a rogue is any wave that is bigger, steeper, moving faster, or coming

Hurricane Prediction Now, and Then

by Kimball Livingston, Posted June 26, 2003

This is now: SAIL contributing editor Ben Ellison, after a pilgrimage to the government's Tropical Prediction Center on the campus of Florida State University, some 12 miles west of downtown Miami, says: "Without doubt the most thorough and timely hurricane information is on the World Wide Web. The Web is also a terrific place to pursue background studies and collect resources for those

Pirate Reborn

by Kimball Livingston, Posted April 14, 2003

In the early 20th century, R-boat racing attracted the brightest and the best. R's were large enough to be yachts and small enough to be toys. One of the most historic of the lot, Pirate, R11, is being restored in Seattle at the lively Center for Wooden Boats. Pirate was the first West Coast boat to campaign on the East Coast—she won the 1929 nationals at

Call 911, or Rocket J?

by Kimball Livingston, Posted April 2, 2003

Call 911, or Rocket J? If you're sailing on Pamlico Sound, North Carolina's racing hotbed, and if you're the least bit accident prone, try to stay close to Randy Boyles' s J30 Rocket J. Over the past 3 years the tight, veteran crew of Rocket J has pulled 5 people out of the drink in 4 separate emergencies."It boggles me that we've been the boat on the scene over and over,"