August 2005
| "I'm
18 and I like It" -Alice Cooper  Photos don't get much better than this one from NY Yankee worshiper Erik Simonson of h2oShots. This, yet another (yawn?) Pegasus Racing effort is Howie Hamlin, who continues his form from the 505's - he is just off the Kahn G5 jet from Germany. Kahn has 3 of the 10 18's racing in Frisco. Does anyone besides Kahn own boats these days? 08/31/05 |
Kilroy
Was There Yes, Jim Kilroy was there - 31 years ago in fact! That is how old this famous 80' Kialoa III is. Donated to Orange Coast College, here Kialoa still cuts an impressive form while sailing at Long Point Race Week. This nice shot is from GTSphotos. 08/31/05 |
Damn
It This
very
sad footage is of the Southern Yacht Club after hurricane
Katrina devastated the New Orleans area. I have tried several
friends and business associates from the area and at the moment
all cell and land line service is unavailable in the Mississippi
/ Louisiana area. Best guess is that the Bay Waveland Club is
also seeing hard times due to the storm surge they encountered.
I know you have a large circulation amongst the sailing community
and if ever there was a time for us to come together and help
some of our own this is it. Not sure if you or one of your readers
has the ability to set up a fund to help out but I do know that
the local authorities have asked for donations to be made to the
Red Cross. Heck the very least we all ought to do is donate blood
to help these poor folks get back on their feet. . Regards, Jeff Bodkin Vice Commodore Corinthian Sailing Club Dallas, TX 08/31/05 |
| SA
Disaster Relief Fund! Harry Pattison from E/P Sails had a good idea - how about we, as a community, get together a Sailing Anarchy Disaster Relief Fund? I think it should very likely go to the sailing clubs that need the help, but I am open to suggestions. Any help on getting this started or ideas? We are happy to be the vehicle to make this happen. Let's step up and do some good for those in need. 08/31/05 |
| Rock-ing From the 470 Worlds held at St. Francis YC in Frisco. This stunning shot and lots more from Erik Simonson of h2oShots. Erik says he will also shoot the 18's on the Bay next. I'm sure we'll see a few shots from him.....if he's lucky. 30-Aug-2005 |
Navigate This
Posted last week under Got Lane, here is more on the Tjörn Runt. Unfortunately this year, the wind was elsewhere. The 2004 Tjörn Runt had an execess of it though. Tjörn Runt is one of the most popular races in Scandinavia, the winner gets an enormous prestige. To win, most crews need to practice many times to get to know all the shortcuts among the rocks, and the mysteries about the tide and the sea-breeze. I am the chairman of Stenungsunds Segelsällskap, arranging Tjörn Runt. We'd love to get more European and international sailors to participate in the race over the years. Regards 26-Aug-2005 |
| New
Build Rack It!
Now here is something we don't see every day - a big sport boat with racks! We'll give you real sailing pics of this one next week. 26-Aug-2005 |
Love It! This comes from Anarchist BJ Porter and gives a glimpse into the wonder of having the kids start to get involved in the game - Good stuff. My boy is eight, and just started Junior sailing this year - learning in JY14's and Optis. He's heard me talking about racing, and had seen some from a long way off and seen pictures and videos, but I didn't think he was ready to come out for a race until recently. I was concerned he would get bored and fidgety, or get hurt by getting where he shouldn't. We've taken him and his sister sailing a lot, but cruising is of course, very, very different from racing - mom and dad are BUSY. I told him he had three jobs - keep himself safe, stay clear of busy sailors, and keep the non racing chatter down during the race do dad could keep staring at the little strings. He earned a fourth job very quickly though. He had such a blast, it was great to have him. He became the "backstay monkey" - he got a job pumping up the backstay with us as we approached the leeward marks, or needed tune upwind. Having a 55 lb kid in the back of the bus with me didn't hurt us a bit, and I don't think he realizes what a help it was for me not to have to screw with it when I was approaching marks. I'm kind of bummed he'll be visiting his his grandparents next week and miss the last series race...although I think he is a lot more bummed than me. Having done it once, I'd bring him out every week. We got the gun and the bullet for him too, and it was a gorgeous night with a full moon rising and a beautiful sunset. It doesn't get much better than that. 26-Aug-2005 |
Match It!
Here's
the Swedish
Match Tour boys at St. Moritz, stage 3 of the 2005 -’06
Swedish Match Tour. Ed Baird won this round, sailed in Streamline
7.15's (23-feet) designed by Judel/Vrolijk. decent prize money,
good venues and different boats would seem to make this a pretty
good series for all. 26-Aug-2005 |
Sodebo and Friends
To give you an idea on the size of this monster, look at the mast base and see the guy sitting there. 25-Aug-2005 |
Lotta Green
24-Aug-2005 |
Race Report Etchells Irish Nationals It was held in six races over Sat Sun. Ante Razmilovic won it. His brother Neils was second. (Neils even tried to protest Ante for hitting a mark on the last race but the protest was dumped). DC was fourth and seemed to enjoy the conditions, the race area and the mount gay. Have a look at hyc.ie for pics and results. We are hosting the European championships next weekend. Cheers! Cags 24-Aug-2005 |
Got
Lane? Calling this one right looks a bit brutal, eh? This shot from Rick Tomlinson, is from the Tjorn Runt, (around Tjorn Island) on the West Coast of Sweden. A very popular race with everything from Volvo 60's to Folkboats, as you can see by the photo.. Isn't it Interesting how deep most seem to be running given how light it is...Granted a lot of these boats look a bit dated, but still wouldn't one to heat up mightily, build speed and look for a place to go? 08/22/05 |
| Race
Report Cool School  A
Moth looking about as modern and fun as possible at the Brass
Monkey regatta (open to dinghies, skiffs and multi hulls)
on Sydney Harbour last Saturday. This shot and a bunch of other
good ones that we'll try to get to courtesy of Anarchist Point.8/22/05 |
We
Love this Sport!
We love it for a lot of reasons, but based on this photo we clearly love it for its beauty. Damn.....This fine, uh, shot is from Erik Simonson and it is the Brazil 470 girls, Isabel Ficker Barzaghi & Laura Zanni at Crissy Field in Frisco. 08/22/05 |
Boy,
George Still
young George Szabo (and crew Eric Monroe) overcame a first race
OCS to win the 2005
Star Class North American Championship, held in Marina Del
Rey in Southern California. Unheralded, but known for how good
he is, Rick Merriman (and crew Rick Peters) only beat Szabo on
the water once, but sailed a very consistent regatta to finish
a very very close second. Dago in the hizzy!Thanks to Regatta Active Images for this shot of Szabo/Monroe with their groove on. 8/22/05 |
Too
Cool This
kid looks pretty good in his new limited edition SA watch cap.
Want one? Stay tuned.... 8/22/05 |
Photo
Friday
19-Aug-2005 |
| The Ed Goes
to Crawford Your faithful Ed is down in the land of steers n' queers Friday, broadcasting his radio show outside the phony cowboy president's Crawford ranch, tapping into the Cindy Sheehan Experience. Of course, your tough talkin' Texas chickenhawk president doesn't quite have the stones to come out and meet big bad Ms. Sheehan, but that is no surprise coming from a man, who, in the Texas vernacular, is "all hat and no cattle." See y'all on Monday. 19-Aug-2005 |
Six Pack A shot from the 6mR World Cup in Sandhamn/Sweden. We'll have more on this event soon and thanks to Allan Forberg for the shot. Btw, get a look at how eased the port tack boat is. Building up speed out of a tack, or getting ready for the duck? 08/18/05 |
| Young
Bucks There is little wonder about where the USA's next great sailors are coming from - It is very likely from kids like this - Ed Team USA 1734 Update Anderson-Mitterling & Hughes A second update from Northern California. It's taken us a few days to settle into an internet connection, so thank you for your patience. First, Dave is feeling better. Last week, as you may recall, he strained his abdomen and had to visit the hospital the day before starting the 470 Nationals in Santa Cruz. Thanks to the doctors and US Sailing Team staff, Dave has been rehabilitating the area with good success. He's not 100% yet, but is healing faster than expected. The challenge is now regaining strength in the stomach area. Nonetheless, the 470 Nationals went well considering the injury. We rallied rallied on Day #2 with a 2-1-3, winning the day and putting us in 3rd within 2 points of the leaders -- 2004 Bronze Medalists from Japan. However, Day #3's results didn't prove enough to climb the rankings so we finished with the Bronze at Nationals behind two Japanese teams, but took the spot as the top Americans. After a lay-day, we relocated to San Francisco for the 2005 470 North Americans hosted by Bay View Yacht Club near SBC Park (where the Giants play). The series offered some great opportunities to work on speed and sail against more foreign teams (as well as rest of the US Sailing Team). Many mistakes and decisions were compounded by a shifty, puffy venue. We opened the first two days with bullets, but averaged out with some poorer results. In the end, we felt we had wheels but found ourselves not on our A-game strategically. That said, we entered the final of four days leading a three-way tie for first (and a virtual five-way tie all within one point). The last day we rolled an 11-3 (the 11 became our drop). Good, but not enough for the win. We took the Silver behind the Argentinians and ahead of the Austrians. We were the top North American team, the next US team finishing 5th. Today, we towed the boat to St. Francis YC near the Golden Gate (the location of the World Championships) and spent some time reviewing our new sails for the Worlds, which begins on the 22nd. We are resting up for what will surely be a long, windy, challenging -- and fun -- championship! Thanks again for all your support! More soon, Mikee & Dave 08/18/05 |
Ripped The
new Riptide 50 (Designed by Paul Bieker) currently under construction
at Ian Franklin's yard in Christchurch. At 50' and only 13,500
lbs. with 2,800 lbs. of water ballast, a retractable keel (draft:
12' down and 7'9" up). this one promises to be quite interesting.
What is cool is that the owners first saw Jonathan Mckee's Bieker-designed
"Dark Star" featured here at SA and became quite interested
in getting a Bieker boat of their own. More to follow.
08/18/05 |
 Its the Water. And the Ice. And the Land  Windjet
is a project with the goal of setting three world speed records
on land, ice and water. The records to beat are: land, 116.7 mph
(USA) set in 1999; ice, 143 mph (USA) set in 1938; and water,
Finian Maynard's 2005 record of 48.70. The
craft is built using advanced technology, and is supposedly
capable of going five times the wind speed on land, and nine
times on ice! Wow - check out the
video! |
| Get
R' Done Our Classifieds work. Here is yet another example we received today: The B-25 listed for sale on your site on July 20, 2005 is now sold. FYI, the Sailing Anarchy classified ad I placed on your site is the only advertising I did for the boat and I received numerous inquiries over the past month. 08/18/05 |
D-licious The awesome looking D35 multihulls have a pretty nice lineup. Alinghi, has a D35 (with Ernesto Bertarelli skippering with Pierre Yves Jorand) and a few really good sailors competing such as Russell Coutts, Loic Peyron, Alan Gautier and Philip Cardis to name a few - even Ellen McArthur did the big Bol d’ Or race this summer on ZEN (largest lake race in Europe). This past Saturday the Coutts' D35 placed 3rd over 7 boats and the Alinghi D35 came in 6th... not that anyone was keeping track! Thanks to Move your image for the beautiful photo. 08/17/05 |
The
Boss Hog Look A zoom in shows this talented lad drinking and driving and looking good doing it! What a sport.... Thanks to Andrea Francolini for this very cool waterline view. 08/16/05 |
| Local
Motion AeroPlane A twist on our Local Knowledge feature is to spotlight a boat, crew, or skipper that may be of note. Got one for us to feature? Send it in!  The
Aerodyne 38 Thin Ice owned by Stuart Hebb which won Abaco Race
Week in the Bahamas in early July and was also the overall winner
in this year's Mobay-Pineapple Cup Race. 08/16/05 |
Bulls
on Parade Here is the picture which goes to the What is It story below. A pretty interesting exhibition , until one realizes that it is part of Bill Koch's "Things I Love" display at the Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston. "Mr. Koch? Your ego called, it want's to know if it can have the next decade off - its pretty tired." Thanks to Ryan Wilson for the cool shot. 08/16/05 |
| Local
Knowledge Mini Me
Regards, |
Coming..... ...and Going  New and old school style: Top is the new R/P 60 Loki looking very formidable, and below is the classic Koomooloo, a 1968 Kaufman-designed former Hobart winner, apparently not much interested in matching height with the newer plastic boats ahead. Great shots from Andrea Francolini at Hog's Breath Race Week. 08/15/05 |
| Local
Knowledge Anarchy Rules  Anarchists
Steve Washburn (with Bruce Golison) and Chris Winnard ripped it
up at the Santana
20 Nationals, finishing one-two at Cascade Locks, OR. They
actually ended up tied in point, with Team Mini Me getting the
tiebreaker. Steve reports the Gorge was a beautiful venue and
a fantastic place to spend a week, and gives kudos to Kerry Poe
for a nice job running the show up there. Well done boys (and
girls).08/15/05 |
| Vidiot This Rocks!  If
there was ever any doubt how wild the boats are and how nuts the
guys are that sail them, there isn't after watching
this. Thanks very much to The Grand Prix Series.08/15/05 |
| New The Box  We
have no idea about the validity of this in any way shape or form,but
thought it looked pretty interesting. a 30' Box-Yacht
(?) designed by Adam Cowley. it appears not too far off from what
the Flying Tiger 10 Meter is. If there is more development on
the Box-Yacht, we'll let you know.08/15/05 |
What
is It?
First one to tell us what and where this is wins a limited edition black SA hat. We'll credit the image and source later. 08/15/05 |
Never
Fails Here's the so-far-so-good R/P designed TP 52 Patches smoking right along, but note the staysail trim. How many boats have you seen or been on boats where the top1/3 is always luffing? Of course the slot is critical, but surely here they should have the lead forward and trimmed properly! Any thoughts? Photo Copyright onEdition. 08/12/05 |
| 175/505 Is this the largest fleet for a World Championship? 175 505's are registered for the CSC 2005 505 World Championship in Warnemunde, Germany! And yes, they will all be racing on the same course, at the same time.Team USA is 10 boats strong, and I think it's noteworthy that Howie Hamlin and Cam Lewis are sailing together again, with a combined age of about 100! On the other side of the spectrum, California high school sailing phenom, Parker Shim, has bought a boat and will also be competing. 08/12/05 |
Essence Is this not what it is all about? A nice performing dinghy, brisk conditions, and the concentration of simply doing it, that makes this sport so spectacular? I believe the answer is yes. Oh and by the way, this is Libby and Jonathan McKee Tasar-ing it, Cascade Locks, Oregon. Another great shot from Sean Trew. 08/11/05 |
| Report Not so Wild Thing Hi guys, Well, the race for Line Honours finished some time ago, with Maximus crossing the line in poll position. Skandia Wild Thing finished at about 21.15 UK time some 12 hours after their Kiwi rival. The guys had quite a time. During the previous night (when out of contact!) they parked up and were passed by the Volvo 70 Telefonica. They eventually got some breeze and once again overtook. When I spoke to Grant, Telefonica was in turn parked, and some of the Open 60's had passed them! So, all in all a very frustrating and strange light race, where anything could happen. The yacht will now sail to Sardinia, where she will compete in the Rolex Maxi Worlds. Thanks! Bindy
Lockhart |
4th
Mode..... Cascade Locks, Oregon - "the Gorge." I-14 North Americans, Santa Cruz 27 Nationals, Laser, Taser, Melges 24, A-Cats. Breeze-on, sunny, air temp high 80's, water temp in the high 60's, wind out of the west at 15 to 28 kts with a few larger puffs. A few damaged sails, one A-Cat mast and one Melges 24 mast broken and one missing centerboard and broken one on the I14's. Report and photo from SA comrade Sean Trew. 08/10/05 |
A Sign? Be afraid, be very afraid.... Thanks to Mark Capern for word from above! 08/10/05 |
Blow and Go You will not find bigger supporters of disabled sailing - as you may know our own Dawg is himself a disabled sailor - than your pals here at SA. Here is a girl that takes the phrase "can do" to a higher level than most of us can imagine. We all wish her luck in this endeavor! 08/10/05 |
| In
Build Flying Along  Designer
Bob Perry is at the yard in China where the amazing Flying Tiger
10 Meter project is making good progress. He sends us this shot
of the hull and deck getting closer! Be sure to check out our
Fying
Tiger Forum for the latest.08/10/05 |
| Youth
of Today We like these kids and thought you may want to see what they are up to. -Ed. Team USA 1734 Anderson-Mitterling & Hughes Olympic 470 Campaign Hello all, Just an update... It's been a busy summer for the team. We took receipt of our new boat built in NZ. Thank you to Jack Franco and The Pro Design Group for helping us coordinate the arrival through Customs. We've also purchased new masts; however, the shipment arrived damaged so it's been a long few weeks trying to arrange for replacements. Finally, our replacements arrived last week in LA at the last possible moment. To recap, June found us in Europe. Dave sailed the 470 Europeans with Fellow US Sailing Team member Amanda Clark before teaming back up with Mikee (who was racing in college nationals) to win Kiel Week -- our first ISAF victory in the 470!! Mikee, it should be noted, also took College Sailor of the Year honors. We're now in Santa Cruz for the US 470 Nationals. After Day #1 and three races we stand in 4th place, two points out of a two-way tie for second. We're certainly not on our "A" game since Dave is injured with a strain or tear to his abdomen. At first, the injury didn't seem to be much; however, by the time we arrived in Santa Cruz Dave had to check into the ER. US Sailing Team doctors have been working with him over the last few days, but it's clear that he's operating at 65% on the water -- making maneuvers quick difficult. Our plan is to take it easy and skip races if we have to. Next is the North American and World Champs, both in the Bay Area. Stay tuned! Mikee & Dave 08/10/05 |
A vs.
S Interesting trim and angle differences between (l to r) Chernikeeff 2 (Farr 52), Aera (IRC 55') and Island Fling (Swan 601) at Skandia Cowes Week. In particular, note the differences between Chernikeeff with an asymmetrical kite vs. Aera with a symmetrical spinn. It would appear Chern is heating up in a lull, but still the differences are quite noticeable. Comments. Photo from Copyright onEdition. 08/09/05 |
| New
Build Wild Cali Southern California continues to produce a fair share of cool big boats (Peligroso, Pegasus, Genuine Risk) and now Jim Madden, owner of the J/45 'Stark Raving Mad', is having a 66' R/P 'Wild Oats' variation built by Westerly Marine. As if that isn't enough, he also has hull # 2 of the new J/65 under build. Nice! .08/09/05 |
Drop in,
Brah! Pegasus en route to a rout in Hawaii. See Hawaii 8-0, below. 08/08/05 |
| New
Feature Ask the Sailmaker This should hopefully be fun and informative. Simple too. If you have a question for a sailmaker (loft, employee, president, owner), send it in to us, we'll get it to the right person, and we'll print it and the answer on the front page. Send them to The Ed and let's get it started! 08/08/05 |
| Report Nice Ride  Lexus,
that is. Apparently add R/P and Quantum to that mixture as they
just won the Kings Cup - Copa Del Rey for the TP 52's. Look for
a report from Quantum's Larry Leonard on these pages soon.08/08/05 |
| Gotta Serve
Somebody Y'all are so frigging chatty that SA has caused a number of server issues over time and now we have officially crashed one! From an engineer at NetHere, our ISP: "As a proud parent you can brag about the site killing another server." And here is a precursor from a previous server-related e-mail that we knew was bad news, "...they have already pushed 513GBs of traffic this month alone...." So we ponied up and bought our own bigger server which will hopefully help such problems. Moving forward...... 08/08/05
|
| StressTest |
Hike,
Bitches! I suppose we could have used this caption for the Hooters girls, but that wouldn't have been very PC of us, now would it? It is The TP 52 Caixa Galicia, med Style. 8/05/05 |
Hawaian
Style,2 Pegasus ripping it up in the at the Waikiki Offshore Series. They changed the Molokai Race to a 40 mile day race that starts with a 20 mile downwind leg from Waikiki to a mark about 8 miles south of Barbers Point and a beat back to the start/finish in the somewhat protected waters of Maunalua Bay. Pegasus finished first, covering the 40-mile course in 3 hours and 37 minutes. 8/05/05 |
Have
a Hobie, uh..... Click here to see how even guys like Paul Hess 2 time North American Champion can have something less than a Hobie Day! 8/05/05 |
Patch
Work The TP 52 Patches on her way to winning her 3rd major piece of Silverware this week, the New York YC Challenge Cup, at Skandia Cowes Week today. Copyright onEdition. 8/05/05 |
The
BOSS The Open 60 Hugo Boss at Skandia with what has to be the best sponsor color scheme yet. That's F-1 Driver David Coulthard sitting next to his girlfriend in the back of the bus. Copyright onEdition. 8/05/05 |
X-Factor The X Boat fleet, the largest one design fleet at Skandia Cowes Week with nearly 80 boats racing! As we say, find your fun.... Photo courtesy of World-Wide-Images. 8/4/05 |
| Big
Rigs Turnover, Inc.  One
of the biggest big boat disappointments has to be the 90' maxi
Genuine Risk. Conceived as a step beyond the maxZ 86's, and executed
as a top dollar, highly paid professional program, it has to be
considered a failure at nearly every turn. Almost all sub-par
results; an unhappy on- board harmony with numerous crew firings
(and some simply quitting - a total of three original crew left
on board for Transpac); a broken rig in the Great Lakes; and a
beating going to Hawaii add up to not much bang for a whole lot
of buck. Now with the Robbie Haines-led crew transformation from
Pyewacket to GR, Haines is already letting GR people go, some
he has never even sailed with. Given that Haines will have a lot
to prove and will likely be expected to get results early, it
would seem he would want to sail with all the crew to see who
is best. But the Pye crew is a bit of a closed good 'ol boys club
that may or may not have what it takes to get an apparent cranky
boat and owner to the promised land, and it is unlikely that said
owner will be quite as patient or as good a sport as Roy Disney
was. Fun to watch though, eh? What
do you think The Senator will be able to do that Keith Lorence
and Dave Ullman could not?8/4/05 |
Unhappy
Together Cow
Bay is the fun, three- race windy regatta of the summer in the
Pacific Northwest. Three years ago it was really windy and the
Martin 243's cleaned up. None have been back since. Apparently
some of the big boat owners and PHRF decided to a rating change
would be in order for this year. A Martin 243 rates 69 Northwest,
60 SoCal, 45 SoCal offset and 15 downwind...So when the 243 showed
up after the rating had been discussed, the local rater put it
at -45 PHRF! So the boat went from 69 to -45, and after complaining
about it all night they got bumped back to -12, Then in the morning,
after another rater called bullshit they ended up sailing at +15
Some say the old rating was generous for the venue as it is a
one gybe reach for 8 miles, and only tack four or five times up
the beat, in flat water and 20 knots of breeze - legs and conditions
which the 243 hauls ass. But an arbitrary 114 sec hit, then pushed
60 secs the other way. That is the biggest swing ever and the
fastest 24 footer ever!.......PHRF apparently threw some numbers
up in the air and just grabbed at something on the way down. Anyway,
the Martin finished last, and nobody seemed to care. Here are
e-mails between
the Martin 243 and the organizers. Good times.8/4/05 |
"Any
idea why we're slow?"  Now this boat may in fact not be slow, but fella, take a look at your mainsail - it can't be helping! Photo courtesy of World-Wide-Images and taken from Skandia Cowes Week which is taking place now. I would guess this boat should build a new main, right? 8/3/05 |
| Typhoon Diaz There is no question who the dominant Snipe sailor in the world is right now, is there? Certainly not after Augie Diaz just won his second consecutive Snipe World Championship this past week in Gamagori, Japan. Along with crew Pamela Kelly, they won the regatta which was shortened a bit due to Typhoon Banyun with a nine-point edge. Well done! 8/3/05 |
| VOR Paul Disney Now that the world is finally getting to what we reported months ago, that Paul Cayard will be skippering the Disney-sponsored VO Black Pearl in the upcoming VOR, the only question, other than how he'll do, is how many Disney Dollars did it take to Cayard to sign. Any ideas? 8/3/05 |
| Auger
In, 2!  A young 'un dropping in at the first day of the Leiter Cup, the Junior Women's Single Handed Championship. This nicely timed shot from our friends at GTS Photos. 8/2/05 |
Bad
PR The
Royal Ocean Racing Club [RORC], have denied an entry of the75-foot trimaran B&Q skippered by Ellen MacArthur for the 2005 Fastnet Race starting this Sunday. The RORC has decided to enforce a 60-foot maximum length for multihull entries, despite the fact that monohulls up to 100 feet are competing. This seems a perplexing decision given that the boat may in fact be slower than the other multis. Wouldn't it make sense to have Ellen, the biggest names in the sport over there, compete in their biggest event? 8/2/05 |
| Independence Cup
SA
Shows
Well The top three guys all sail the boat year round and in fact own their own boats. As stated in a previous report, this is Dave's second regatta in the boat. Betsy Alison, the coach for the US Disabled Sailing Team, is hot to get Dave sailing full time in the class, can you say "Paralympics". Well done Dave! 8/2/05 |
Our
Web Dawg ended up fourth overall at the
Auger
In! Crazy Aussies sailing their god damn toy boats in too much wind - wish I was there! From our friends at Oziomz. 8/1/05 |
| Independence Cup Team
SA |
Sobstad
Uber Alles! Not really, but here in the Hunter 707 Class at Skandia Cowes Week it looks like the fleet made a group purchase of Sobstad Sails. We may have some fairly interesting Sobstad info you shortly. Photo courtesy of oneEdition. 8/1/05 |
Extreme
Video Aren't
we clever with our title? Seriously, this
video of the maxi Maximus (scroll down and click on Indepth
Transatlantic Coverage)from the Rolex Transatlantic Challenge is pretty thorough with some good interviews and footage. A bit self-promotional, but what the hell, they do have a 100' maxi after all. Enjoy. 8/1/05 |
Total Optimists A whole bunch of kids doing something that they'll remember and very likely have as a part of them for their entire lives. This from the 2005 Optimist Nationals. How cool is this sport? Thanks to Jon Deutsch for the shot! 8/1/05 |