May 2006
Hangman 05/31/06 |
| Another
Reason to Hate Power Boats Okay maybe we can't blame all of this on power boats, but at least you'll agree it happened on a power boat. Might this be San Diego's entrant for the Darwin Awards? 5/31/06 |
Kitty
Litter |
Decaffeinated |
| Heaven
Can Wait Anarchist Shaun Lewicki has been through battles with cancer and he, like many others, understands the devastation of the disease and is doing something about it. He is putting together a Heaven Can Wait 24 Hour regatta in Australia, with the intention of raising funds for the New South Wales Cancer Council. It sounds like a good event for a good cause and put together by some good people. Get involved if you can. 05/30/06 |
Wha' appen? There is certainly a story here, and we'll share it with you next week! 05/26/06 |
Insect Do you know what it is? First one to properly identify it, wins some SA swag. Have fun! 05/25/06 |
Shiny
Happy People Victory Challenge reveal their highly polished hull with mirror images they readily produce. Here the Swedes show a referee boat at the stern quarter just before rounding a mark. Next time you prepare for racing, stay up all night to apply that Turtle Wax carefully for the fastest hull possible. Yeah, right. Thanks to Joe Page for the photo fun. 05/24/06 |
| Community Helping Hands For those of you who don't know, we have established a memorial fund for the wife and young children of Hans Horrevoets, who sadly died while racing in the Volvo Ocean race. We have generated over $16,000 so far, but would like to ask our community to do more. Please click on the Sailing Anarchy Hans Horrevoets Memorial Fund. Through Pay Pal, you may make a donation that we will collect and deliver to the family. You may donate as little as $20. Please be sure to click on the "Return to Merchant" link after donating so you can sign the "Condolences Book" which will be made available for public viewing here soon. Also, if you do not have access to Pay Pal, you may contact us about sending a check. Let's
all do what we can to help and thank you very much. |
Warrior! A Frenchie sporting the colors at the 2006 ISAF World Sailing Games. Nice work from photographer Guilain Grenier. 05/23/06 |
Fleet Weak The first Louis Vuitton Act 11 fleet race sailed Saturday in Valencia and was surprisingly won by Victory Challenge. This sort of racing looks a hell of a lot more eventful that the match racing format. The AC (like the VOR) is going to require a substantial overhaul in our view, and perhaps a change to fleet racing would be a good start. Thanks to Gilles Martin-Raget for the nice aerial shot. 05/22/06 . |
The Community Reach
Out The ultimate reality of this tragedy is very sadly now thrust upon his family, particularly his wife and two very young children (one unborn), who now must live the rest of their lives without their husband and father. A look at the photo brings it all home, does it not? We think the very least we can do is to show not only some emotional support, but aslo financial support as well for them, and that is why we have started a Sailing Anarchy Hans Horrevoets Memorial Fund. Through Pay Pal, you may make a donation that we will collect and deliver to the family. Please be sure to click on the "Return to Merchant" link after donating so you can sign the "Condolences Book" which will be made available for public viewing here soon. Let's all do what we can to help. 05/19/06 |
Good/Bad Timing Given the tragic loss of Hans Horrevoets aboard ABN AMRO in the VOR, the viewing of this man overboard video, courtesy of our friends at UK Halsey seems all too appropriate. Share it. 05/22/06 |
Pearl
Jam 05/19/06 |
| She
Did It!
Challenge Business sailing manager, Cal Tomlinson comments, " I can't emphasize enough what a tremendous thing she has just achieved. It is a difficult route and it has been a particularly difficult year weather-wise in the Southern Ocean. The boat had only a 3 month turn around after finishing the 2004/5 Global Challenge and although has been adapted to be sailed short handed, is very much designed to be sailed by 18. There were a number of close calls over the last 6 months but she came through. Magnificent achievement!" She will now sail up the English coast with members of her technical support team onboard to Ocean Village in Southampton, where she docks on Sunday midday. 05/19/06 |
VOR Tragedy Hans Horrevoets, 32, of The Netherlands, a crew member aboard ABN AMRO TWO, competing in the Volvo Ocean Race, died earlier this morning after failing to regain consciousness after being swept overboard from the boat. ABN AMRO TWO was sailing in five metre seas and 30 knot winds about 1,300 miles from Land’s End, England when Horrevoets was washed overboard at 0211GMT. The crew of ABN AMRO TWO immediately turned the boat around, took the sails down and mounted a search and rescue effort. Horrevoets was located and lifted back on board. However, despite the efforts of fellow crew members to resuscitate him, under the direction of medical advisors from Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Horrevoets failed to regain consciousness. Next of kin have been notified and more details will be released as soon as they become available. There is more info in our VOR forum. A true nightmare and our sympathies to all concerned. 05/18/06 |
Windsurfer
World 05/18/06 |
A Whale
of a Time 05/17/06 |
Tybee
500
05/17/06 |
Vidiot MainStream Sailing usually resides in its own weird orbit, convinced that it is all that, and wondering why the rest of the universe isn't paying attention. Sometimes it actually does, and here is a very commercial example of it, featuring a good young sailor named Ian Andrewes. Good for the kid and good for the sport, we reckon. 05/17/06 |
Tybee 500 Game On! One of the top distance catamaran races is under way in Florida, The Tybee 500. The event consists of six days (May 14-19th) and 500 miles of open ocean catamaran sailing on 20 foot boats. “A Long Way to Go, A Short Time To Get There” is the motto of the race, one that rings true to the participants that may sail 6-8 hours per day, fully exposed to the elements. We have the video content right here at SA - enjoy! 05/16/06 |
Big Pimpin' Batten Down Make that Batten up as RBS battens have enjoyed being an advertiser here at SA and have signed up with us for another six months. RBS makes a very nice line of battens for all types of boats (Including the VOR boats!), and these guys have been doing it and doing it very well for a long time. Everybody needs good battens, and it seems like many boats never seem to have it together when it comes to battens. If that's you, get in touch with RBS! 05/16/06 |
"Committee
Boat to Starboard?" 05/15/06 |
"Uh....Early? 05/12/06 |
"Uh....Starboard?" 05/12/06 |
"Uh...Strange?" 05/12/06 |
"Uh,
Aground?"  We were motoring out to the race start in Chesapeake beside POC and all of the sudden they came to a dead stop from about 7 kts under power. My depth gauge read about 17’. Paul Cayard appeared to be in good spirits and the crew responded quickly and with the help of their support boat, canting keel way over to starboard and the boom kicked over they managed to drag her off. Word got out to Movistar and as she approached the area her keel was also canted to reduce draft. It really looked odd a boat healed over to 20+ degrees with no sails up.After all this the race start was fantastic with a huge turn out from the great sailing waters of the Chesapeake.. Cheers, Photo credit long term SA fan Billy Bennett. 05/12/06 |
Anarchy
18 05/11/06 |
Their
Kinda Town 05/10/06 |
Whack
It! 05/09/06 |
Vidiot VOR Rock! We get a fair amount of videos (and will have a lot more with our upcoming podcast page), and this one is pretty entertaining. Thanks to Harry Manko for putting it together. 05/09/06 |
Old
Yeller 05/08/06 |
On Board Cat
Walk 05/08/06 |
Half
a Mil??
Uh, we don't think so. But, very likely there is a buyer somewhere, maybe Dubai? 05/08/05 |
Non Sailing Sailing Multi Wired We love Wired magazine (although we're actually not smart enough to understand most of it), and received our new copy with a pretty interesting story about the big ORMA trimarans. It is pretty good reading. 05/06/06 |
30x2 05/05/06 |
Outside! 05/04/06 |
Tech Geek Speak Most of those who use and play Virtual Skipper apparently think that it is a cool game, which of course it is. Here is a review from IGN.com, a gaming site that gives a non sailing perspective on the game. Pretty Interesting. 05/04/06 |
Follow Up Onyx 05/04/06 |
Last
week we ran a
Shamu,
Is That You? 05/04/06 |
Big
Splash 05/03/06 |
Linebacker
U 05/02/06 |
Less Is More? 05/02/06 |
2006 Sailing Anarchy J/24 Nationals With Pleasure This is representative of about 15 e-mails we received after the regatta. It was a big deal for us and we're glad to see people were psyched. And hey, no one tried to hit me! I attended the J/24 Nationals at Houston Yacht Club this past weekend, and all I can say is THANK YOU SAILING ANARCHY for sponsoring such a fantastic event! The tee shirts were great - you know the J/24 sailors pretty well (we DO drink more)! Also, thank you for the up-to-date event postings and the fun sailing forums. 05/02/06 |
Follow the Leader 05/01/06 |
SA SA and the J's First, we are stoked to have been the title sponsor of the J/24 Nationals, as you have been reading here of late. The SA brand now truly does carry some weight, and clearly the 24 people were jazzed to have us be a part of their scene. We dug it too - we met a lot of new people, had a good time, and were proud to see all those SA logos - especially on the start line. 55 boats with big Anarchy logos on their bows - how cool was that?? It still kind of amazes us.... It is easy to see why this class remains successful - it is the people. You guys are enthusiastic, fun and committed to the game. Speaking of which, a lot of people need to be thanked, most notably 24 sailor Marc Holdaway and his girlfiend Bridgett. This was his idea and he is the one who really made the entire thing happen. And it was a great event. A quick shout out to homeboy Chris Snow (North Sails Dago) and crew who dominated the event. An impressive win ( his sails looked really good, at least from off the boat, btw) and a super nice bunch of guys who were gracious with the ass kicking they administered. Well done to them. We were proud to have been a part of it and this is something we'll not forget! 05/01/06 |
The Latest Awfully Good This year's Newport to Ensenada race was a hideously light affair, but that didn't stop Anarchist Mad Max from winning the thing overall with his Hobie 33. Nice job, Max! Be sure to check out the story, and a bunch of other news stories in our new The Latest feature. There is also a button for this at our masthead here on the front page - use it! 05/01/06 |