Menorca Maxi gets underway on Wednesday, May 21st, at 12:30pm CET with the practice races. The nine Wallys and three J-Class yachts taking part in the inaugural edition of what aspires to be a highlight in the Med's maxi yacht racing season will face a brand new, for nearly all of them, and exciting venue...
"Use it or lose it!" That's what they say. Whoever they are. It's certainly true about Laser sailing as I discovered last week. I went sailing on Monday in Bristol and again on Saturday from Seapowet Beach on the Sakonnet River. Both days the wind was in the south and strong enough to stir up some nice juicy waves and chop. Both days were a bit of a challenge to me. It's not just that ...
Mostly light winds and strong current on Puget Sound provided the backdrop for the Sperry Top-Sider Seattle NOOD Regatta, held May 16-18. One hundred ten boats competed in 17 classes, with the winning team in the 16-boat J/24 division – Chris Snow (helm), Pat Dore (tactician), Melanie Edwards (bow), Ken Monaghan (mast), and Dale Turley [&hellip...
This year the Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Race is celebrating 90 consecutive editions of one of the most challenging freshwater boat races in the world. It is woven into the very fabric of the lives of the approximately 2500 sailors who will compete on 230 or more sailboats this year as well as the many communities it touches along its route from Port Huron, where it starts Saturday, July 12, to...
It’s not always about the racing, the technology or the plaudits. Sometimes it’s about the feeling of being driven by the wind, the sting of the spray, the hull carving through the water – the simple act of sailing. The teams training for the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race are enjoying it all as they look [&hellip...
Excellent photo gallery by Gilles Martin-Raget of the Turkish and the Emirati VO65's sailing together in Lisbon...
Petitions and pleas melted social media channels as news carried concerning the halted search for four Britons missing in the Atlantic after their yacht began taking in water. The crew was delivering the Beneteau First 40.7 Cheeki Rafiki to the UK after it had competed in 2014 Antigua Sailing Week on April 26-May 2. The [&hellip...
When measuring the success of an Olympic sailing program, it is often the British Sailing Team to which the comparison is made. So it is notable that when a top sailor on the British team decides to hang up his hiking boots, it becomes the type of news that is shared with calculated and comprehensive [&hellip...
The organizing committees of Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium (CSYS), High Performance Yacht Design (HPYD) and Innovsail have agreed to implement a rolling 3-year cycle with one key conference each year. The High Performance Yacht Design Committee has planned for HPYD5 to take place in Auckland, NZ as part of the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in early March 2015. Papers are now invited on all topics...
The Polynesian Voyaging Society began on May 17 the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage, a 47,000-mile open-ocean journey of two wa‘a (Hawaiian voyaging canoes) around the world. Several hundred people gathered to witness as the voyaging canoes left Oahu for their ambitious three-year journey. Mālama Honua, which means “to care for our Earth,” is the Hawaiian [&hellip...
When the issue surfaced about extreme pollution at the sailing venue for the 2016 Olympic Games, it was clear this was not quick fix. Changing an infrastructure that directs nearly 70 percent of Rio’s sewage into the Bay, and a culture that allows it, are not quick fixes. Some issues, like a beating drum, must [&hellip...
One of the world’s best light wind freestyler and an amazing high wind trickster, Caesar Finies.  ...
What does it take to design sails for the Volvo Open 65? There is no better person to answer that question than Gautier Sergent, VO65 Designer of Record. Hailing from North Sails in France, Gautier has traveled the world as an aero engineer, designing for a range of sailboats including everything from small skiffs and [&hellip...
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Proper Course Monday, May 19, 2014 Monday Caption Contest #2 Posted by Tillerman at 9:32 AM Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest 4 comments: Jeff said... The Membership Committee of the Redneck Yacht Club quizzes prospective new member Duane Scraggs on the reasons he has applied for membership. 3:11 PM, May 19, 2014 Judy Blue Eyes said... "No Rodney. I think it's...
One of the best things about the Laser Class is that it includes some wonderful, dedicated, talented people who, when they see something that needs doing, they just pitch in and get it done themselves. It's actually Rule 35 in Laser Sailing: The Rules #35 Volunteer. If you see something that needs to be done... and it isn't being done or isn't being done as well as you think it should be done ...
The U.S. Coast Guard released its 2013 Recreational Boating Statistics, revealing that boating fatalities that year totaled 560 – the lowest number of boating fatalities on record. From 2012 to 2013, deaths in boating-related accidents decreased 14 percent, from 651 to 560, and injuries decreased from 3,000 to 2,620, a 12.7 percent reduction. The total [&hellip...
(May 18, 2014) – In one of the closest, most nail biting finishes of the Clipper 2013-14 Race so far, the 590 mile Race 12 Spirit of Jamaica Chase came down to just 31 seconds, with Henri Lloyd holding off long term rivals GREAT Britain to claim line honours. Having transited the Panama Canal, the 12 teams began Race 12, the 590 mile sprint to Jamaica – the Spirit of Jamaica Chase –...
(May 18, 2014) – The 240-mile Atlantic Cup leg from New York City to Newport, RI soon turned into two boat race, with Dragon and JeffreyMacFarlane.com in sight of each other throughout the second leg of the 2014 edition. In a dying breeze with three miles to go, JeffreyMacFarlane.com claimed the lead and held on to take the Leg 2 win. The victory for Jeffrey Macfarlane (Franklin Lakes, NJ) and...
Oyster Bay NY (May 18, 2014) – The four day Oakcliff Spring Invitational Clinegatta (May 15-18) was won by Chris Poole and his Riptide Racing team, with David Niemann’s Team Honey Badgers in second. The event was a qualifier for the Oakcliff International, the final event in the top ranked Grand Slam series. As Poole had previously qualified, Niemann earned the berth. Click on headline for full...