The international sailing world was stunned on tuesday April 6 2010 by the news of the sudden death of Peter Spike Doriean, 38, one of Australias best known professional sailors and one of the nicest guys any of us have had the privilege of knowing.Trimmer on Movistar in the 2005-2006 Volvo Ocean Race and member of the News Corp team in 2001-2002, he was also a regular in the TP 52
The crews of the two matched IMOCA Open 60 Estrella Damm and W-Hotels set out today from Ambrose light, at the mouth of New York Harbor, on their way to set a new record between New York City and Barcelona, Spain. Both yachts are carrying a mixed Spanish-American three-man crew. The passage is expected to take about three weeks.In a weather briefing on Wednesday,
This years Southern Straits race, held April 2 by the West Vancouver Yacht Club, was hammered by big winds and even bigger seas, which forced most of the fleet to retire and sent one boat to the bottom: the 30-foot custom racer Incisor.The race, which was marking its 42nd year, features a three separate course across the Strait of Georgia measuring between 58 and 127 nautical
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is sitting in the lobby of New Yorks Algonquin Hotel. He’s in town to receive an award from the Cruising Club of America, and he’s telling me a story about his encounter with the American astronaut Buzz Aldrin.Hes a marvelous man, brilliant, Sir Robin says. You meet him and you realize that this man was born to be an astronaut. Everything about him, from the
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is sitting in the lobby of New Yorks Algonquin Hotel. He’s in town to receive an award from the Cruising Club of America, and he’s telling me a story about his encounter with the American astronaut Buzz Aldrin.Hes a marvelous man, brilliant, Sir Robin says. You meet him and you realize that this man was born to be an astronaut. Everything about him, from the
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is sitting in the lobby of New Yorks Algonquin Hotel. He’s in town to receive an award from the Cruising Club of America, and he’s telling me a story about his encounter with the American astronaut Buzz Aldrin.Hes a marvelous man, brilliant, Sir Robin says. You meet him and you realize that this man was born to be an astronaut. Everything about him, from the
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is sitting in the lobby of New Yorks Algonquin Hotel. He’s in town to receive an award from the Cruising Club of America, and he’s telling me a story about his encounter with the American astronaut Buzz Aldrin.Hes a marvelous man, brilliant, Sir Robin says. You meet him and you realize that this man was born to be an astronaut. Everything about him, from the
Its one of the great ironies of sailing. Going dead downwind, arguably the easiest angle of sail, is also the slowest. Thanks to the phenomenon of apparent wind, modern boats regularly sail faster than the true wind speed on a reach. But on a run, theres no getting around the fact that the faster you go, the less pressure there is on your sailsuntil now.
If we move the leads forward, we get a deeper foot and the sail takes on a bigger shape, explained North U director Bill Gladstone as he shifted the virtual leads on a graphic of a sail, which was projected on a screen for a classroom of 80 racers. But if we adjust the jib sheet, that
On Thursday March 17, with blisters on her hands and sores on her bottom, sailor Lia Ditton rowed into Antigua, a proud finisher of the Atlantic Rowing Race. For 73 days, she and a partner rowed in 12-hour shifts from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean. They crossed 2,500 miles nonstop with no assistance. Rowing in close quarters
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, local racing had resumed with household crews only. My wife, though, while always up for a pleasure sail, was not
In case you hadn’t heard, the fall 2021 boat show season was one for the record books. If there was ever any doubt the sailing
After a year without boat shows, 2021 proved to be a blockbuster summer and fall for events around the globe, and the International Mulithull Show
Have you ever wondered how sailors navigated before GPS? Do you want an analogue backup if your electronics fail? Are you just curious about navigating
Imagine a sailboat under 60ft with private en suite accommodations for five couples plus professional crew. Add to that enough space to allow those same
. The Rolex Sydney to Hobart is one of the toughest ways to ring in the New Year, covering about 725 miles from Sydney, Australia,
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This spring, two double-hulled canoes, Hōkūle‘a and Hikianalia, will set off for what organizers are calling the Moananuiākea Voyage—a 41,000-mile, 42-month circumnavigation of the Pacific.
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