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Sailing
Pop Quiz15.05.2008 16:00Q: Quick. It's blowing about forty knots-plus. You're by yourself in a high-tech sailboat surfing at speeds touching 20-knots. What do you do? A: Run up to the bow, hook up... |
Wake Karma?15.05.2008 16:00There are not many sailors who have not cursed "stinkpot" wakes. But is there such a thing as wake karma, the culmination of an overload of powerboat bad manners which... |
Do Great by Doing Good07.05.2008 13:00Sometimes doing good is its own reward. And sometimes doing good can bring rewards with rewards -- like sailing on a 72-foot race boat in Great Britain and the Mediterranean... |
Now Comes Good Sailing07.05.2008 13:00On this day in 1862, Henry David Thoreau died of tuberculosis. His last clear words were: "Now comes good sailing," and then "moose" and "Indian." His conclusion to Walden also uses... |
Quote of the Week04.05.2008 06:00"If it turns out we see bombs exploding on our waterways, it is not going to be really good for boaters..." Spoken by Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland... |
Traffic Jam at the Canal02.05.2008 16:00After Saturday's "Beating of the Retreat" at Nelson's Dockyard -- and the inevitable closing parties signalling the end of Antigua Race Week -- the Caribbean racing (and cruising) season winds... |
Campaign Advice: Go Sailing25.04.2008 06:00Some advice for a deadlocked Democrat -- go sailing. According to a recent poll, 15 percent of boat owners say they are more likely to vote for a political candidate if... |
The Dirty Truth23.04.2008 05:00It's hard to gauge the health of an ocean out in the ocean. But where the water meets the shore, the dirty truth is revealed. That is what volunteers... |
A Little Thing Gets Big, Scary, Fast16.04.2008 01:00Mention sailing in polite company and talk will shift to quiet coves, "cocktail cruises" and other peaceful images. Mention sailing to sailors and talk often turns to things that went... |
Failure to Communicate16.04.2008 01:00On boats, bad things happen when words get mixed up. Take the Cosco Busan, the 900-foot cargo ship which slammed into San Francisco's Bay Bridge in dense fog last November. According... |
Sailing Quote of the Week09.04.2008 01:00"I will never set sail again. Never." Spoken by seventy-year-old Spanish fisherman Cristo Herrera who was rescued last week after spending 23 days adrift in the Atlantic. Herrera and his partner,... |
Oldies and Goodies03.04.2008 22:00Top honors in the 800 mile Corona del Mar to Cabo San Lucas race are going to a 50-year-old "oldie" sailed by a bunch of "goodies." Sabrina, a 50-foot wooden "double-ender,"... |
Boating Handbook27.03.2008 12:00Wouldn't it be nice to have a small, well thought-out resource aboard for a quick refresher or an instant get-smart tutorial for your inexperienced guests? Rob Beattie, author of boating,... |
Mad Dogs and (Light) Englishmen20.03.2008 02:00Responding to British Olympic competitor Ben Ainslie's description of this summer's Olympic venue as "a sailor's nightmare," coaches have a plan: think light. Britain's newspaper The Times reports that members of... |
The Future of Cruising?18.03.2008 07:00In the name of better security, the government of Thailand has announced plans to require visiting yachts to carry a device which tracks their position and delivers it to Thai... |
Inquiring Mind Dissents16.03.2008 09:00A recent post raised the troubling implication that problems aboard the 105-foot racing trimaran Groupama 3 may have been foreseen by the crew, hence their sudden way-off-course left turn towards... |
Riddle du Jour: What's Green and Red (or White) Inside?11.03.2008 20:00French vineyard owners have started shipping their wine across the English Channel by sail. Last August, 60,000 bottles of wine were shipped from Languedoc in France to Ireland aboard the... |
Ergs Plus Pleasure29.02.2008 21:00Writer and fellow sailor William F. Buckley died today at age 82. In a classic interview with Rush Limbaugh, Buckley was asked: "Why did you sail the sailboat." His answer: "I sailed... |
Quote of the Week27.02.2008 16:00"I feel two more years of this would not be good for me and so I have decided to leave the boat." Soanya Ahmad, sailing companion of marathon ocean sailor Reid... |
Inquiring Minds...20.02.2008 10:00Images of wrongside-up Groupama 3, the huge trimaran seeking to break the Jules Verne around the world sailing record, are pretty much everywhere in the sailing and mainstream press now.... |
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