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,
A mere five days before he and the crew of Mar Mostro set sail in the 2011 TransAtlantic Race, Ken Read sat down between surfing giant Laird Hamilton and legendary designer Juan K. to talk about a very different hobby: paddleboarding.Specifically, paddleboarding the PUMA way.PUMA has always gone against the grain, Antonio Bentone, PUMAs Chief Marketing
The 34th Americas Cup teams appeared together for the first time in San Francisco this week during a press conference to announce the line-up of competitors. Already down from the 15 teams that filed to compete by the April 1 deadline, eight arrived in the 2013 host city, with a ninth to be announced in Europe next week.New to the Americas Cup is the Republic of Korea, and
I have to tell it to you backwards. It looked like this . . .But it went like this . . . 5) Im hanging onto a strap on AC45 #4, the Oracle Racing cat skippered by Jimmy (Everyones wearing helmets for a reason) Spithill, and were making tracks toward a destination on San Francisco Bay that will soon be downwind
Originally published March 2009The last time Ragtime tied up at my local marina, I wandered down to the dock, admired the varnish, and grinned at the dinky cabin. But most of all I admired the audacity of those long, skinny, hard-chined lines drawn by New Zealander John Spencer a few years before the boat, as Infidel, was denied entry to the 1967
On perhaps one of the most dramatic nights in recent Vendée Globe history, Kevin Escoffier sat in a life raft with little to do but
It was early March and freezing cold in Michigan. Snow lay in patches on the barren fields, and dark clouds hung just above the treetops.
When nearly 20 Friendship sloops set out for the starting line off Rockland, Maine, this past summer, they didn’t just start milling about in preparation
For sailors of a certain age, the entire concept of a mulithull is cutting edge. However, even a cursory glance at a harbor full of
The 24th running of the Corinthian Classic Regatta, held August 13 and 14, is a testament to the beauty of traditional and modern classic racing
This summer has been a great one for sailors everywhere, but in particular for the 87 sailors participating in the Tiwal Cup on France’s Gulf
“I’ll admit, it’s still hard to watch the boat leave the dock sometimes,” says former Volvo Ocean Race sailor Mark Towill. Since meeting during a
Dufour, long one of France’s most well-respected builders, has been producing sailboats in La Rochelle since the dawn of fiberglass boatbuilding. Having recently merged with
The 2023 Ocean Race intends to be one of the world’s first climate positive sporting events, offsetting more greenhouse gasses than are produced. The two-fold
Almost anywhere a sailor drops the hook someone else has been there before. We are hardly ever the first. That remote Maine harbor without a
