June 2006
There's
Big, And There's Bigger The MaxZ86 Morning Glory, dwarfed by 154ft. Scheherazade in Newport, RI. Guess that MaxZ86 class concept didn't work out too well, eh? Thanks to anarchist Mstrsail. 06/30/06 |
| Zano? A story ran in the Dominion Post newspaper on Stewart Thwaites (owner of Zana) being prosecuted for $1.6m in tax charges. Simon Meikle, sailing manager for Konica Minolta and a business associate of Thwaites also face charges. Bad times. Does anyone know any more? 06/30/06 |
Double
Ugly There was a time when seemingly every designer had some wacky variation of a wing/bulb/dual keel configuration like this one. Do you know what boat this one is from? The first one to get it gets a nice New Orleans Yacht Club polo shirt (we are sponsoring one of their August series). Have fun! 06/29/06 |
2006
Shetland Round Britain & Ireland Race |
| Community A Little Moore We like to help where we can, and the little but active Northwest Moore 24 Fleet has a newsletter that we have placed an ad in to help them cover their costs. It is good for us and good for them and that is what it's about. 06/29/06 |
Community With
the help from SA we were able to raise $ 37,000 for Nick
tonight. All the boys thank you very much. My take is that
everyone from the age of 13 to 50 reads SA daily and more
than 20 people last night told me they read about the event
on SA. |
Island
Hopping The Archipelago Raid showing a slice of what the thing is all about. Very unique. Thanks very much to Thierry Martinez. 06/28/06 |
Lost
in Translation We
we're looking at the Archipelago
Raid site and came across this sponsor logo. Sure,
there is a language thing when looking at foreign companies,
but that doesn't make this any less funny to our 16
year old mentality.06/28/06 |
| Bad
Booze News No doubt meant for a-hole powerboaters, the Canucks are cracking down on all boaters caught swilling and yachting. Bad times. 06/28/06 |
BeeCool The
bitchin R/P 72 Beecom on their way from San Francisco to attempt
a new monohull SF
- Yokohama record. Here are some more
shots courtesy of Ocean
Film Boat.06/27/06 |
| Media Local Yokel Sure, the national sailing media does their best to ignore SA and what we've become, but the local paper here in Dago found out about us. Sure, the picture sucks, but as they say, any press is good press! 06/27/06 |
Ride 'Em! The bows of the VPLP (Van Peteghem Lauriot Prévost Yacht Design) launched new 104' Groupama 3. Now that is impressive. Photos credit for Yvan Zedda 06/26/06 |
Solo A few
kooks are on their way to Hawaii, all by themselves. A
pretty impressive journey, and one that most of you just don't
have the stones for. Slow going so far, and there is a pretty
good log going
from a few of the boats. Pictured is the open 60 Dogbark that
should bark its way to Hawaii well ahead of the fleet. 06/26/06 |
Negative Vibrations Seemingly,
every few years some guy comes along with some wacky idea to
sail or swim or row or float or wahtever around the world.
Here is the
latest to undertake this stupid idea. He claims he has been met with nothing but "negative energy" from people about this. Gee, wonder why that is? It wouldn't be because it's insane, would it? What a dope. 06/26/06 |
| "Pull
Over!" "Sir, do you have any idea how fast you were going? I'm afraid I'm going to have to write you up."How would you like to hear those words as you are carving your way through the Atlantic Ocean on your big ol' multihull, looking to break some speed record? Think we're trippin'? Think again. 06/26/06 |
From
Unda Christophe Launay from Marine Action Photography trips us out with this unique shot. 06/23/06 |
Oops, Indeed  The 60 feet trimaran Nokia Academy at amazingly, the Nokia Oops Cup. They later broke a daggerboard in the event being billed as the toughest regatta in Northern Europe. 06/22/06 |
| Real
Deal Sure, the sexy story of the Bermuda race was Bella Mente stealing first to finish honors, but check out the Cal 40 Sein Fein owned by Peter Rebovich, Sr. out of Raritan, NJ. He and his sons have won their class and division in both the Newport and Marion versions of the Bermuda race an inordinate amount of times, and looks to correct out over the fleet again this year as the results stand right now. It could be argued that the real news is how many times this guy has won overall! 06/22/06 |
Rauchen! Have you ever seen a Tripp 40 look so good? This is Amuse Bouche ripping it up at the "Nordseewoche" Race Week in the North Sea last week. So this got us thinking, do any of you have good stories about when you got an older (IOR, whatever) boat hauling ass like this? Thanks to Anarchist Tim Schiederig for the great work! 06/21/06 |
Bermuda
|
Low Rider The brand new YSA-!0. We don't know much about it, but we like it. 06/20/06 |
One If
By Air, Two If By Sea... Last
Friday, 266 boats departed New England heading out
across the Atlantic. In Newport, 265 boats ranging
in length from 32' to 80' feet, with crews of 2 to
more than 10 departed on a 700 mile journey to Bermuda.
70 miles to the north in Boston, a 21 foot Mini, with
a crew of one, departed on a 3,500 mile journey to
Europe.
At
11:38 AM local time Friday ((Jun 16), Alex MeVay,
on board his 2000 Pogo Genasum, left Cottage Park
Yacht Club in Winthrop, MA, for a solo delivery
to Europe, with his final port of call being Port
Camarague on the Mediterranean coast of France.
Alex hopes to make it in time for the Mini Med
race in late July. |
Another Race
Around The World? 06/20/06 |
Speed Freak The 40' cat Tuki looking fast at the San Francisco Speed Sailing Event. They had a speed of 33.8 mph. This great shot by Erik Simonson. 06/19/06 |
Upset in the
Making While last week we were making fun of this boat, Bella Mente, a Judel/Vrolijk 66, "sinking", it looks like the joke is the Bermuda Race fleet. With a couple of what will have to be called brilliant tactical moves, these guys find themselves leading the Bermuda fleet (including Maximus, who has royally tanked!) with a real shot at pulling off a major upset by being first to finish.The former west coast based Andrews 77 Alchemy and the R/P 66 Zaraffa are closing in however. Follow along... 06/19/06 |
VOR 06/19/06 |
Beginning
Of The End 06/16/06 |
Kid Stuff A cool little boat. For cool little kids, of course. 06/16/06 |
18 Rock 18 footers last week at Lake Garda, which was won by Howie Hamlin and featured a fine performance by our friends on SELS. Thanks to Alec Mckinlay from the UK 18Foot Skiff Class Association. 06/16/06 |
Maximus
or Minimus? It all depends on one's perspective, does it not? Thanks to Anarchist Ed for the shot. 06/16/06 |
Masters Move it, sonny. The Finn Masters are at work! Thanks to Anarchist Peter Beliczay for the neat shot! 06/16/06 |
Match Flight Lugano Match Race, with a little breeze, courtesy of Brian Angel. 06/16/06 |
A
Beer On The Upwind Leg 06/16/06 |
Winged
Attack 06/15/06 |
Waaa! We can't stand protests. Sure there are legitimate ones, but so many of them are just so much bullshit. Petty, questionable, political and most of it a big detraction from the game. Nothing better than spending two hours Sunday night waiting for some bogus protest to be heard, eh boys? Might the following from the Volvo Extreme 40 class be a good example? An incredible day of sailing and protest hearings saw the overall VX40 series title swing back and forth between the all-British boat Basilica and the American entry Tommy Hilfiger several times, with the Americans finally emerging as the series winners. Three protest hearings and three races eventually saw Motorola-CHR win the Rotterdam regatta by a solitary point from Hilfiger in second and Basilica a further point behind in third. The conclusion of this final VX40 regatta means that Hilfiger wins the overall series by four points from Basilica in second. Despite having finished eight points behind Hilfiger after yesterday's races, Basilica in fact began this afternoon's racing in Rotterdam four points ahead of the Americans, following a protest hearing in the morning between Motorola-CHR and Hilfiger which saw the Americans disqualified from Tuesday's final race. With Basilica two points behind Hilfiger on the overall series leader board, the Brits knew that they would take the series title if they won the Grand Prix in Rotterdam. In gusty conditions, Basilica seemed to have exactly that, registering a first, a third and a second place to finish on 118 points overall, four ahead of their American rivals, to clinch the Grand Prix victory and the overall title. More drama, however, was to follow as first Hilfiger protested a move by Basilica in the penultimate race, and then Basilica in turn protested Hilfiger in the same race for touching a mark. The results of the two hearings were to decide the fate of both the Grand Prix and overall series titles. After over two hours of deliberating, by 9pm both protest hearings had been heard by the panel of three, who ruled in favour of Hilfiger's protest, disqualifying Basilica from the second race, while rejecting the British team's counter protest. Consequently Basilica lost its six points from race two, handing the Grand Prix victory to Motorola with Hilfiger in second, and giving the Americans the series title by four points. Team Basilica skipper James Grant was understandably disappointed having come so close but was full of praise for the efforts of his crew: "We are obviously bitterly disappointed with today's outcome. We out-sailed Hilfiger today and feel that we won this regatta on the water with some great racing. To have it subsequently taken away from us in two very marginal protest hearings is unbelievably hard to take, and is a clear indication that there is a clear need for on-water judging in this kind of close-quarter racing." 06/15/06 |
Tripin' 06/14/06 |
Goin'
Down Not really, but it made you think! Thanks to Amory Ross for the shot of Bella Mente, a Judel/Vrolijk 66. the old Sotte Voce.from the NYYC Annual Regatta/Onion Patch series in Newport, RI. 06/13/06 |
The Day
Wrong! That is Max Rosenberg's 33, Mad Max winning this year's Ensenada race overall with new low tech North Sails. Seems to have worked just fine! Picture from Geri Conser. 06/13/06 |
Blow
It Up This shot from the well oiled Alfa Romeo PR machine at Giraglia Rolex Cup. 06/12/06 |
Albatross? Photo copyright Boat International/ Roger Lean Vercoe. 06/08/06 |
Throw
Back 06/08/06 |
Now
That's A Lead! 06/07/06 |
Little
Red Sled Length.
16ft Looks good and look at that fat head main! 06/07/06 |
Good
Form 06/07/06 |
Quarter
Pounder! Thanks to Fiona Brown for the shot and the info. 06/06/06 |
Gotta
admit it- our eyes lit up when we saw that a bunch
of quarter tonners (20!) racing in the
Caption
Contest! 06/06/06 |
Cluster 06/05/05 |
Match Game Ban Gilly? How many times will Peter Gilmour win the World Match Racing Tour before they don't let him back? He just won his third straight tour, along with a new BMW X3 and a nifty 30 grand in prize money. Not a bad way to make a living, but ya gotta win, don't ya? 06/05/06 |
Into The
Known We were going to call this Into The Unknown, but we all know that this picture captures some of the known beauty of this sport. And it is one reason why we are so attracted to it. Another piece of art from Sean Trew. 06/02/06 |
NASCAR
Goes Sailing! Well looky here! NASCAR stars Elliott Sadler, Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards hanging out at Lake Lugano, Switzerland. Who knew?* 06/02/06 |
| Vidiot Updraft, Indeed If we were young and hip and talented and cool and with it, we'd be for sure be into kiteboarding. Well, maybe not. 06/02/06 |
| Photo
Spotlight Rockin'  The kids at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Nationals in Charleston brought to you by GTS Photos. Be sure to click on their site to see a bundle more. 06/02/06 |
| *Not Really NASCAR! That NASCAR picture is not the NASCAR boys, but actually Brian Angel and crew from Match Race Lugano Switzerland. Got ya! We'll have Brian's race reports next week - He currently sits at 5-4 - not bad.. 06/02/06 |
Oh
Yes.jpg) One of the better big name/big graphics combos we've seen in a while. This the Botin & Carkeek TP 52 Ono in the Med from photographer Max Ranchi. 06/01/06 |
Out
to Pasture If
this is the end, then what a sorry end it is. This
is the almost mighty and very big 90' Genuine Risk,
one of the biggest maxi flops of all time. Not that
the boat didn't have great potential, it was simply
never realized by a very poorly run program. Now here
it sits at Bridgeview Marina in Sarnia, Ontario, with
rumors swirling about its ultimate fate. We'd bet for
about $1 million this white elephant can be all yours!
Good times.06/01/06 |
| Community Feel The Love As most of you know, our community has been donating to the Hans Horrevoets Memorial Fund, the sailor who tragically lost his life in the Volvo Ocean Race. We are only going to keep the fund open for a couple more weeks, so please donate if you can. We also have a condolence page that many of you have signed, so please take a few moments to read what many of have posted. Thanks to so many of you for giving. 06/01/06 |
Contest A reminder
that there are only a couple weeks left for your chance to
win a free Powerlite PBO rig for your boat, courtesy of West
Marine! |
A
Thousand Words Monday
we ran this shot of Cat Sass in the just completed
Swiftsure, held in the Pacific Northwest. Sure, photographer Sean
Trew told the story about how the thing flipped,
but the story is truly told much better with his complete
sequence of shots. Bad Times!06/01/06 |