PUMA Volvo Ocean Race skipper Ken Read is fresh off a Transatlantic Race win, where his boat Mar Mostro hit 30 knots and made 551 nautical miles in a single day. The race wasnt all white-knuckle sailing, however, as a steadily waning breeze made the last several hundred miles extremely slow going.The high-intensity skipper gave us 10 minutes of his time to talk about the
The Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race is underway! Hundreds of spectators turned out to watch the start on Sunday, July 11th, celebrating the 103rd running of the 360-mile race.Although the first boats are set to finish today, there is always action to follow. Be sure to check out the
Following a six day, 22 hour, eight minute and two second journey, Rambler 100 took line honors Sunday in the Transatlantic Race 2011. However, skipper George David and his crew have been denied an overall victory by PUMAs Mar Mostro, skippered by Ken Read, which crossed the finish line at The Lizard, Cornwall, U.K. earlier today. Race officials have already determined that
Just five days before he and the crew of Mar Mostro set sail in the 2011 TransAtlantic Race, skipper Ken Read sat down with legendary designer Juan Kouyoumdjian to discuss the latest generation of Volvo Open 70s, monohulls versus multihulls, and the importance of pushing the
The Extreme Sailing Series attracted over 55,000 spectators to Fan Pier in Boston, Massachusetts, over the holiday weekend. The 40-foot cats put on a first-class show in the harbor, and we jumped on board Team Artemis Racing for an up-close look at what makes these cats purrand sometimes
For just the second time in its 115-year-old history, the upcoming Canadas Cup, set for September 1-4, will take place on Lake Michigan. Organizers are hoping that moving the event earlier in the season and hosting it in a new venue will help increase public interest. In 2007, servers for the regattas host media company crashed due to high traffic during the eventa sign of how
The joke was on me. I dosed myself with ibuprofen both the night before and the morning of, but my ride on AC45 #4 was the smoothest fast sail I have ever had. Upwind at 16 knots, downwind at 29downwind meaning that we would arrive downwind of our starting point, but because the apparent wind was so far forward, I couldn’t exactly feel the breeze on the back of my neckIn
In Boston Harbor, all eyes were on American skipper Terry Hutchinson this past holiday weekend as his Team Artemis Racing entered the final day of Extreme Racing with an 8-point lead. From July 30 through July 4, Artemis competed in a top-notch fleet of 11 Extreme 40 catamarans racing in Boston for Act 4 of the 2011 Extreme Sailing Series.Over the course of the weekend,
On July 3, the last in a rolling series of starts for the Transatlantic Race 2011 took place off Newport, Rhode Island. The start featured the six yachts fastest boats in the 30-boat fleet: Rambler 100, Beau Geste, PUMA racings mar mostro, Vanquish, Sojana and ICAP Leopard.
With just three days of sailing already behind them, the first six yachts of this years Transatlantic Race are already in the thick of itracing toward Lizard Point before the second fleet, which left Newport earlier today, has the chance to catch their sterns.This years Transatlantic Race, organized by four of the worlds leading yacht clubs (Royal Yacht Squadron, New York Yacht Club,
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From “cockloons” to “SmartRooms” and innovative nav stations, today’s multihull builders are fine-tuning the layouts of their mid-sized cruisers in increasingly interesting ways. Not only
The National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHOF) announced its 12th class of inductees. Among them are many remarkable people who’ve made contributions to the world
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The Coast Guard says that the best life jacket is one you will wear, so comfort and function are important considerations when picking out a
After the long and tiring 2020 pandemic year, and after many talks about hypothetically sailing away, my partner, Vanessa, and I decided it was time
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Did you miss Part 1? It can be read here. Anchored off Liberty State Park, I awoke late in the day to a Manhattan skyline
Every boat show now includes a selection of multihulls, as this once niche part of the market is now not only firmly mainstream but continues
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