This summer, teens in New England will have a unique opportunity to take their sailing offshore. The Ida Lewis Distance Race, now in its sixth year, is introducing a new component to the event in which teams of 14- to 19-year-olds can compete in a youth challenge. The race will begin on August 20, and race organizers are
After a slow start, skipper Franck Cammas and his maxi trimaran Groupama 3 are now locked in a tight virtual match race with Bruno Peyrons 38-meter catamaran Orange 2.Cammas is about midway through an attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy, which is awarded to the boat with the fastest circumnavigation. Orange 2 currently holds the recordcompleting the 27,000-mile
South Florida will once again be the site of some of the worlds most competitive racing when the 2010 Miami Grand Prix kicks into gear later this week.The regatta, which takes place March 4-7, will feature a strong field of Farr 40s and Melges 32s, as well as a single IRC class. As was the case at Key West
It’s Monday, and some of us at SAIL had less than stellar performances over the weekend on the water. So in order to console each other, we’ve pulled this video out of the archives. While rubbing is racing, it’s important to remember just how much worse it could always be.
The weather in New York City may have been frightfulclosing airports and stalling trainsbut it did nothing to dampen the celebratory atmosphere during last weeks US Sailing’s Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year awards ceremony in the New York Yacht Clubs famed Model Room.Attendees, including former award winners Magnus Liljedahl, Hannah Swett and Dawn Riley, had the rare treat
The sailors lucky enough to be present for the 2010 Key West Race Week witnessed a pretty quiet rum tent, with numbers down for the second year in a row in the IRC and PHRF fleets. When I mentioned how shocked I was to find there was no wait for the free Heinekens, a Savasana crewmember explained, Its because all the racers are pros. They dont want to drink; they want to go home and sleep.
Like a Tornado on steroids, the all-carbon-fiber Extreme 40 catamaran weighs virtually nothing and goes in a matter of seconds from merely scarily fast to oh-my-god-were-going-over.Americans got a taste of them a couple of years ago when the Extreme fleet put on a barnstorming sailing exhibition during the Baltimore stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race.Imagine the same kind of
The Americas Cup is back in the United States. The oldest trophy in international sports arrived in San Francisco late last week, following BMW Oracles win over Alinghi in two straight races in Valencia, Spain.The trophy flew first class from Valencia, accompanied by members of the BMW Oracle racing team, for a victory tour in the United States.After touching down last Friday in
The course for the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race, due to start from Alicante in Spain in the autumn of 2011, is now set and the first port of call will be Cape Town, South Africa, making its eighth appearance as host to this premier ocean race.This marks the beginning of the port announcement process for the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12. Organizers will reveal the rest of the course around the
Like many others who had been closely involved with a team that competed in the 32nd Americas Cup in Valencia in 2007, I returned to the Spanish city to watch the 33rd Cup match, this time as an outside observer. At SAILs request I had run some Velocity Prediction Programs (VPPs) on both boats and the
The much-anticipated opening of Lovango Resort and Beach Club, on December 20th will mark the first time in nearly 30 years that a new resort
To read part 1, click here. When I began repairs on my Santana 27, Shirley Rose, I focused on the major systems rather than cosmetics.
Alec Wilkinson and Hannah White host the World Sailing Awards and announce the Rolex World Sailor of the Year and 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award.
I was preparing some tea just before heading topside for my watch. Even though it was summertime, the tea was not iced—it was hot. That’s
For all the consolidation in the boatbuilding world in recent years, there remains plenty of variety out there, as can be seen in these two
I suppose it isn’t merely a coincidence that I’ve made significant changes to the sailplans of the last three cruising boats I’ve owned. The first
Chartering and the notion of going “off the beaten path” may sound self-contradictory. Charter companies tend to put bases where demand is high and they
Watching charterers make a run for the last mooring in a cove is fun—and weird. I always wonder why so many would rather try to
11th Hour Racing’s Mālama kicked off the second week of the Transat Jaques Vabre with keel problems, forcing co-skippers Charlie Enright and Pascal Bidégorry to
