If youre into dinghy sailing or high-performance sailing, youve likely heard of foiler Moths, the latest iteration in the constantly evolving International Moth Class. These latest Moths use an ingenious senor wand (click here to read about how the mechanics of a foiler Moth work) and a twistable tiller to lift the
If youre into Celtic punk, youre familiar with the Dropkick Murphys song, Im Shipping up to Boston, a tune that twangs many sailors heart strings for a bygone era of wooden ships, men of steel, and onboard accommodations that defined the term lacking. In this song, written by Woodie Guthrie, a fictitious sailor loses his leg climbing the topsails while sailing up to
The Mackinac Island Yacht Club will have its 6th annual MacMan Challenge July 23-25 this summer. The 125-mile distance race runs from Mackinac Island to Manitoulin Island, with a stopover in Gore Bay, before heading on to the finishing line in Little Current, and includes nighttime
With the Obama administration relaxing travel restrictions to Cuba, a group of hopeful sailors from Sarasota, Florida are trying to organize a regatta on the island nation this coming June. Jay Meyer, a member of the Sarasota Yacht Club (SYC), is applying for permission with the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Meyer hopes to take as many as 100 U.S.-flagged boats to
I see that various pundits are ruminating upon a course of sagacity, wisdom and compromise for our America’s Cup antagonists, Misters Bertarelli and Ellison, urging them to come to terms and launch what both profess to be the goal, a match to match 2007.Well and good. I’ll believe it when I see it.All Bertarelli had to do, at the end of the 32nd match for the America’s
I dont know about you, but although I much prefer to go to sea with tried and tested buddies, there are times when I end up shipping out with total strangers. Youve met the type. They might be those credible people you run into in a waterfront bar with a tale to tell. There I was, and the waves were 40 feet high And so on. Then theres the friend of a friend, which often turns out to be the
I dont know about you, but although I much prefer to go to sea with tried and tested buddies, there are times when I end up shipping out with total strangers. Youve met the type. They might be those credible people you run into in a waterfront bar with a tale to tell. There I was, and the waves were 40 feet high And so on. Then theres the friend of a friend, which often turns out to be the
Not surprising that only 154 boats turned out for the 22nd edition of Key West Race Week, down from 261 boats in 2008. Still, the competition was high, especially amongst the Melges 24 (33 boats) and the Melges 32 (20 boats) fleets. While the grand-prix action was in IRC 1, it was IRC 2 that proved to be the most interesting handicap fleet to watch as it featured the U.S. racing premiere of the
Sherpas call Mount Everest Sagarmatha, the mountain so high that no bird can fly over it. Western sailors know the Vende Globea non-stop, solo, around-the-world race sailed on wildly powerful, lightweight 60-footersas sailings Mount Everest. Study the attrition rate in this years race19 of the original 30 boats dropped out, many in the stormy waters of the Southern Oceanand you realize
On the 26th of March, two separate teams broke both the world water and land sailing speed records independently of each other.An Australian team sailing the Macquarie Innovation broke their own water speed record set last December at Sandy Point, Victoria, Australia and became the first vessel to complete the official 500m run with an average of over 50 knots. At Ivanpah Lake in
In this age of the smartphone, everyone has a timepiece in their pocket at all times. As a result, like so much else in the
In recent history, the United States has struggled to make a mark on the Olympic sailing stage. Since 2008 when Anna Tunnicliffe took gold in
For once the forecast had been correct: 20 knots southwest, with waves 4 to 6 ft. Around 0300, I rolled over in my bunk unable
Teaming up with the Bristol Yacht Club & East Bay Sailing Foundation and Melges Performance Sailboats, SailGP is introducing foiling to the next generation. Its
Though the results are in for most of the Olympic sailing fleets, there’s still time to cheer on team USA in the NACRA 17, both
This past spring my family and I were at anchor aboard our 50ft steel-hulled cutter, Atea, off Bequia, a small island five miles south of
Witnessing the proliferation of Tesla automobiles you would have no doubt that the revolution in electromobility is well underway. Turn your gaze to the cruising
November, 2009: Mia and I were sailing our 1966 Allied Seabreeze yawl, Arcturus, on our first-ever offshore passage together, a short hop from Wilmington, North
Today marks the start of 470 and NACRA 17 racing on Enoshima Bay, and racing in the other seven fleets is already underway. A few of the
I’m not sure what I expected from my daysail on the Happy Cat Hurricane. One thing I do know is that the day didn’t go
