7-Up Team Gotta Love It Seven gets some air during the seventh and final race of the first 18-foot Skiff Interdominions (NZ vs. AUS) in Auckland for over a decade. The Aussies unsurprisingly won the event, with the very polished nippers on Gotta Love It 7 edging out Clubmarine on a tiebreaker. Alex Valings' CT Sail Battens was the top Kiwi boat, taking third place. (Mer's Photographs) - Mr. Clean. 05/03/07 |
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What Is It? 05/03/07 |
Fait Accomplit Franck Cammas and his crew have taken their first record. Having left Cadiz on April 24, at 1747 UTC, Groupama 3 crossed the finishing line, at San Salvador, on Tuesday, May 1 at 1846 UTC, having covered the 3901 mile course in 7 days 10 hours 58 minutes 53 seconds. Subject to ratification, they have taken the Discovery Route record by 2 days 2 hours 31 minutes. Groupama 3's average speed for the course was 21.79 knots, compared to Playstation's 16.92 knots. Marian Martin/BYM News Groupama images 05/02/07 |
VO 70 vs IACC Earlier in the week our Ask the Designer series had question regarding the relative speeds between a VO 70 and an America's Cup class boat (see Matched Up, below). Here are the comparisons graphed. 05/02/07 |
Glassed Off One of the best shots we've seen in a long time, this is the Newport to Ensenada first to finish Magnitude coasting along in the light. Thanks to Rich Roberts/UnderTheSunPhotos for the great work. 05/01/07 |
Winner. Again. Bernard Stamm, looking good almost no matter what. Here is mops up his overall win in the Velux 5 Oceans. He dominated all three legs and here he arrives, again victorious, in Bilbao, Basque Region, Spain. Homeboy's good. Photo courtesy onEdition and click here for more. 05/01/07 |
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Plane Down A small plane
crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Carlsbad, CA on Sunday, with all
aboard dead or presumed dead. The story is grim, and the skipper of a boat being delivered home from the Ensenada
race saw the whole thing: |
California
Dreamin' The annual Newport to Ensenada race gets billed as the world's largest international yacht race, but outside of a group of hardy racers, it is mostly an excuse to drink for a bunch of people. This year's race was a stupidly light air affair, with a huge number of DNF's out of the 448 starters. Hell, it took the first to finish Andrews 80 Magnitude 21 hours to go the 125 miles! This beauty pictured here was out for the start, and was a fine example of what the land of fruits and nuts offers up! Thanks to anarchist Lewie for the shot. 04/30/07 |
Ugly? Why Yes
It Is! A winning submission to our Butt Ugly sail feature. This one, an unlucky E-Scow is courtesy of anarchist John, who gets himself a Sailing Anarchy T-shirt. Want one? Send one! 04/27/07 |
| Double
Up Cammas doubles lead over Fossett  Franck
Cammas and crew, on Groupama 3, have had another good nights sailing,
at high average speeds. This morning, the maxi-trimaran had doubled its
theoretical advantage over Steve Fossett's PlayStation, from yesterday's
200 miles to around 400 miles. Franck Cammas said this morning "It was a good night, on one tack, although as envisaged the wind weakened slightly. We have 18 knots of breeze and Groupama 3 has been making around 25 knots, but now we have tacked to get further south, where we should find a little more wind." Marian Martin BYM News 04/27/07 |
Here They Come Yesterday we showed you the new Goetz built TP 52 Cam, now here is the new McConaghy (China) built Patches making her way to Valencia. Looks like it's TP 52 season, and this year's crop looks good! 04/27/07 |
Take Off A Rocket 22 hustling along in Frisco. Looks like fun! 04/26/07 |
Quiet Time Franck
Cammas, his crew and the maxi-trimaran Groupama
3 are after Steve Fossett's Discovery Route record, but they aren't
doing much shouting about it.The only information coming out is in French, but there isn't too much of that even and the position map on the website isn't working.All very low key for a € multi-million boat!! On the telephone, this morning, Franck Cammas said: "It's going well, we again spent a rather fast night on board Groupama 3 and slipped south. We are on the same route as that of Steve Fossett and Playstation, in 2003, but, according to our calculations, we are five hours ahead, which is super. Yesterday, we broke a piece that of carbon that regulates the height of the foil, but other than that it's going well. Groupama 3 is a demanding boat though, I'm a bit tired, so I'll rest whilst Steve Ravussin's watch is on." Stay tuned. BYM News 04/26/07 |
| Osaka The End is Near We've given you just about zero (make that actually zero) coverage of the Melbourne to Osaka double handed race. Most of you know this is a 5,500 nautical mile race that is quite a test. The lead boat, Cocorin, an Elliott designed Schooner is within 100 miles of the finish. Be sure to check it all out. 04/26/07 |
What Is It? This one's a bit different but let's see what you've got. The first correct answer of what it is wins SA swag. This What Is It is brought to you by Forte Carbon Products. Have fun. 04/26/07 |
Cats Over Cows "What the hell," you ask? This M2 cat is airborne as the guys have races on Lac Leman and on the Lac de Neuchatel what do they do? They fly the boats by chopper, because taking the boats apart, trailer them and put them back together would take days even though only 50km from one lake to another...Photo by Loris Von Siebenthal. 04/25/07 |
| New Princely  The new CAM, a Goetz built Botin Carkeek designed TP 52 for the Prince of Spain. Damn these things are sweet! 04/25/07 |
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Question
of the Week 04/25/07 |
Bleu Noir A nice shot of the 49ers at the 2007 French Sailing Week from Guilain Grenier. 04/24/07 |
| Thanks
A Million By now most know that we have become the sailing site in terms of traffic, and yet still it amazes to see that we just reached 1,000,000 posts in our forums! Sure, a lot of those posts are bullshit, but that is certainly a lot of bullshit! Seriously, you should congratulate yourselves - those million posts are the largest collection of sailing information on the planet, and they cover almost every aspect of racing, cruising, crewing, and owning boats of every possible explanation. If you're not already registered, get on it - registered members are able to procrastinate at work much more efficiently than nonmembers. Nice job, Anarchists! 04/24/07 |
| No
Wonder Yesterday, we wondered who and why anyone would pay 5 grand to go for a day ride on the VO 70 Ericsson. We wonder no more. Bidders are making a tax-deductible donation and they will benefit the StFYC Foundation and the bidders are making a tax-deductible donation. 100% of proceeds will be used to: * Benefit USA Olympic hopefuls. Heaven knows that we need private donations to compete with government sponsored Olympic sailing teams (like the fully funded UK Olympic programs that are developing great sailors) * Aspiring junior sailors that need money to compete in regattas, particularly out of town national and international regattas * Adaptive sailboats and programs for sailors with physical disabilities. Sailing is one of the few sports where physically challenged people, particularly kids, can compete with able bodies sailors. It may be worth $5k to see the smile on the face of a quadriplegic being winched out of his wheelchair into an access dinghy which he sails with a "sipper/puffer" straw. * Sailing outreach programs to teach underprivileged kids to sail that are not growing up in a "Yacht Club Environment" We may not
think it is worth $5k to have perhaps a once in a lifetime experience
to go on one of today's most exciting boats, but we can understand supporting
needy causes in the sport that we all love. |
Bad Kitty The new Farr designed maxi Leopard ready to pounce. Think the VOR has influenced the design? Thanks to Marine Action Photography for the killer shots. 04/23/07 |
| VOR "Want To Go For A Ride? $5,000, Please" Get out on the VO 70' Ericsson for a day of "tuning", and it will cost you at least 5 grand, as that is the opening bid on e-Bay for such a thing. Are there people with more money than sense that will pay that to go out for a day? Check it out and see for yourself. 04/23/07 |
Stackhouse The cabin house of the new Synergy 350RL, as seen at the Stretchy Sail Pacific boat show. Love it or hate it, they get points for doing things differently. We'll have a full report on the show later this week. 04/23/07 |
"Hey
Man, Got Any Spare Change?" And
you all thought the America's Cup was just a filthy, stinking rich man's
game, awash in nothing but money and the sailing "elite"? Think
again, friends. This picture shows that even the so-called greats in the
sport sometimes have to dig a little deeper to find that extra dough when
that fat contract just isn't enough. Perhaps one too many Grateful Dead
concerts?04/23/07 |
Guaranteed
Failure Sometimes
the combination of people and boats is a
lethal one. Here's a perfect example: Dude says he will sail around
the world not once, not twice, but three times, nonstop with just him
and his young girlfriend, who just happens to be a total novice. Oh yeah,
its on a 70' Schooner. They have exactly one chance of completing this
ridiculous attempt - none. You may follow their blog,
but in the meantime, how long do you give them before they
throw in the towel?04/23/07 |
| Palma
Has It If anyone could say "You should have held the Americas Cup here", it is the Palma, Mallorca crowd. Wind and weather conditions were perfect for the Hublot PalmaVela, which was a real spectacular, with a 200 boat entry, ranging from super maxis to classic yawls and traditional llauts.  New
Zealand maxi Alfa Romeo took line honours in yesterday's coastal race
and stayed ahead on corrected time, but it wasn't enough to beat the Dutch
boat Favonius for overall honours.Winners: Favonius in Maxi Racer, Aegir in Maxi Cruiser, Mean Machine-Valle Romano in Transpac 52, Giraldilla in Classic yachts, Agneta in Traditional Marconi, Marigan in Traditional spencer, Nova Inmobiliaria in Platú 25, Cinq a Sept in Flying Fifteen, Martilla Ultrajas Lateen rigger Regatta 1, Tinita in Lateen rigged Regatta 2-3, Savanna in Lateen rigged classic Llaüts, A. Zaragoza and A. Aparici in disabled sailing, Viking VI in RN 1, Vell Marí in RN 2, Petrouchka II in RN 3, Silvina in RN 4, Icaro in IMS 1-2, January Sails in IMS 3-4 and International Paint in Empresa (Business) class. Run down on the regatta here. 04/23/07 |
Punch! One of the best shots we've seen - from the Star South American Championship. Thanks to Capizzano.com for the photograph. 04/20/07 |
Bullimore
Off? The
lastest from our friends at BYM
News. be sure to check out their wealth of info!Tony Bullimore's long awaited departure from Hobart, in his quest to beat Ellen MacArthur's round-the-world solo record, looks as though it could happen this weekend. In anticipation of Tony imminent departure, on what is now called the Blue Ocean Wireless Solo Round the World Challenge, the Team Bullimore Media Centre has moved to Hobart and is set up at the Bellerive Yacht Club, where Tony's Bullimore's 102ft catamaran Doha 2006, better known as the famous Enza, has been based for several months. Members of Tony's media team have been out with him, on final sea trials, a representative of the World Sailing Record Council is on hand, so now it looks to be all systems go, so long as the weather systems don't play any tricks. Marian Martin 04/20/07 |
| Bizarre An unmanned yacht found drifting off the north Queensland coast had computers running and even food on a table ready to eat - but no crew, puzzled emergency services say. Rescuers who boarded the yacht this morning noted that three life jackets and the emergency beacon were still on board, but there was no sign of the yacht's life boat. A massive search and rescue operation is now underway for three men missing from the 12-metre catamaran called Kaz II, which left Airlie Beach in northern Queensland on Sunday. It was spotted adrift on Wednesday. Emergency Management Queensland (EMQ) spokesman Jon Hall said crews were puzzled by what they found because "everything appeared normal". "It looked like the boat had been recently abandoned. The engine was still running in neutral (but) one of the sails had been damaged," Mr Hall said."There was a laptop computer on board and running with power, the computers on board were running, all of their clothing was still there. "The
table was actually set for a meal with food and cutlery in place. Read
the story. |
44'x Skinny If you didn't know this boat was 44', you'd think it is about 30', based on how skinny it is. But then again, what 30' has a grinder? This is the leading R/C44 after day one of The Croatia Boat Show Cup. 04/19/07 |
TriComparo Here is a quick numbers comparison of the small trimarans available (and hopefully to be available) in the US, and some benchmark boats on the side. What do you think? 04/19/07 |
Closed
Out This doesn't look like much, but it is not every day you see waves break across Newport Harbor entrance! There were actually 15 ft. waves breaking inside the mouth of the harbor preventing any boats from coming and going last week. Here's another shot. Thanks to Greg Reed for the shots. 4/19/07 |
Strictly Sail Pacific I'll be heading up to Oakland, CA this Friday to check out the boat show, say hi to a few folks, and wander around like everybody else. I'll be there all day and if any of you want to hook up, just give me a shout. 04/19/07 |
Sydney or San
Diego? It's Dago! And look, there's breeze! This shot is Brad Ruetenik and Trick Murray showing their winning form at San Diego Skiff Super Cup. Lovely photography from Renee Speak. 04/18/07 |
Now
That's An Ad! Perhaps this is a bit more of what this port needs! 04/18/07 |
Screaming Yellow The updated, old school IOR R/P sled Taxi Dancer smoking right along during a very breezy Wednesday night race in Santa Barbara, Ca. See, it does blow here - sometimes. Thanks to anarchist Nick for the shot. 04/17/07 |
"Think We
Should Postpone?" Uh, make that cancel. This is what Mother Nature had in mind for the final day at Charleston Race Week: 60 knots and the end of the regatta. Thanks to Mrs. Clean for the great shot! 04/16/07 |
| Question
of the Week Pro/No Pro The debate over whether or not pro sailors should steer in various OD classes, has been beat to death and already been decided for most classes. However, the new and very un-together Flying Tiger 10M class is now facing this issue (among others), and as an owner, feel it needs to be decided in favor of no pros allowed to steer. Agree or disagree, either way, join in the discussion on the Flying Tiger forum. 04/16/07 |
| Train
Kept A Rollin' Not earth shattering, but cool for Team Anarchy, we won our fourth straight regatta in our new Flying Tiger 10M. This was the April One Design Weekend race out of SDYC, with six boats in the FT class (Etchells, I-14's, Ben 40.7's and J/105's made up the other classes). Just two races were completed, but we won them both. It is interesting that after a long layoff from the sport, to slowly feel a bit of my game coming back. Getting a touch more aware of the elements that make up a race - starting, the course, tactics, etc. Still not the sharpest tool in the shed, but perhaps not so dull...It doesn't hurt to have good people along either - they can make you look good! 04/16/07 |
First Dibs Okay, so we showed you a Kevin Dibley designed cruising boat earlier in the week (see What Is It, below), and just as a reminder, here's what his race boats look like. This is newest design, a 33' Sport boat to be built in China. Sound familiar? 04/13/07 |
| New Feature On The Water Anarchy We (we means us and the community) were one of the first on line sites to utilize some interesting virtual real-time race reporting in our forums (Key West Race Week, to be specific) and we now have a dedicated place for that, called On the Water Anarchy. The idea is that those who are at an event and are on the water can check in and post up with some reports or photos or whatever. It should give some of you coverage on an event that you are interested in, in a specific place to find it. We are starting out with Charleston Race Week, which begins Friday. So check it out and let us know how it goes. Oh and if any of you race promoters or event organizers would like to have your event to be featured there, just let us know. Mr. Clean takes you a little deeper into Chaleston Race Week in Home Cookin' below. 04/13/07 |
Moldy Oldy At first glance this might not seem too ugly, but for those of you that watched your furling "performance" genoa turn moldy you know how ugly it can be. For those sailmakers back in the day who started getting the reports from customers that their laminate furler genoas were getting moldy, it was awful. When your Ed worked at Sobstad, we started selling Genesis RF genoas, that seemed to be pretty good. Good until we realized that not only were they getting moldy, but the mold was developing inside the film! Other cruising laminates were having the same problem, but for Genesis, a product that had a number of problems, this was one thing that we didn't need. We have to think the problem eventually got solved... Thanks to Bob Bird and this genoa from his 10 year old J/32. 04/13/07 |
The Man In The
Boat We love this one, the new Beau Geste as she slowly sinks while going upwind...not really... just another great shot from Christophe Launay and Marine Action Photography. 04/12/07 |
That's History We mostly like only the new stuff (boats, cars and girls) but are taking on a new appreciation for the old school stuff (this, and 57' Chevys and the wife!). We came across a really cool sideshow featuring Historical 18's racing on the Swan River in Oz. Thanks much to Westernsail.com.for the great shots 04/11/07 |
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Other
Media Anarchy Is The
Name |
What Is It? We got you this time, you bastards! Why the anger, you ask? Because every time we do one of these contests, you smart asses get it right within minutes. Let's see how smart you are this time. Again, first guess with the correct who, what and where gets the prize, this time brought to you by our friends at The Sailing Pro Shop. As we like to say, have fun. 04/11/07 |
| The Forum What's Your Best Move? As a follow up to our Lucky or Good article (see lower, this page) there is a good thread started in response to the piece. So see what others have done, and add your best (or even maybe your worst) or lucky move on the race course. 04/11/07 |
No Day at The Beach... The sad ending to the Farr 40 Piranha, which was beached on the delivery trip back from the Newport to Cabo Race last month. The owner did not wait long for a new boat, he just got another 40! 04/10/07 |
Angle
of Attack Gotta love this one of the AC fleet going at it at the LV Act 13, which ended last weekend with Alinghi emerging as the winner. Nice work from photographer Thierry Martinez. 04/10/07 |
| Community SA the Matchmaker? We know with SA we've created a vehicle that has enabled a lot of you to meet other people and sail with people in places that you might not have otherwise. But who knew that we'd be a matchmaker. I suppose it was inevitable, but here's a pretty cool story. Hell it almost makes us seem...good. Funny story really...I put a post up asking for someone to take my friend out to learn to sail on Port Phillip Bay here in Melbourne, and got a reply asking what boat I sail on etc., etc. We got chatting by PM's and then on MSN (at work!) and then decided to meet up. In a park. At night. Can you imagine if I told my mother that! He could have been a serial killer! Thankfully he's not, he's an angel! And we moved in together after six months and got engaged about 2.5 hours ago! That's about it really! Thanks again Scot! X |
Yeah, That's Ugly We liked this submission to our Ugly Sail contest so much we thought we'd put it on top today. Look how badly shredded the main is under the boom. From our anarchist reader: Please find attached photo of what was left of our main in the '04 Melbourne to Hobart, it was blowing pretty hard. Photo taken after we blew pretty much everything out below the 3rd reef on Sea Eagle. Cameron 04/09/07 |
| Question
of the Week Challenged Now that the America's Cup is heating up, let's cut right to the chase - which team do you think will emerge as the challenger, and why? Have fun. 04/09/06 |
Get On Up Stars smokin' at the Princess Sofia trophy. Fantastic work by Rick Tomlinson. What's most remarkable about the regatta is that Robert Scheidt and crew have five straight bullets! Any roll like that in a fleet like this is truly amazing. Be sure to catch Brad Nichol's report from crewing with Hamish Pepper lower on this page. 04/06/07 |
My Adidas No, these are Pumas. As in the new Puma VOR team, headed by Ken Read. This here is the old AMRO sporting the new Puma colors...Uh, are those painted on port holes or shoe eyelets? Is this what happens when marketing picks out the paint scheme? For a closer peek, take a look here and thanks to Club Racer for the pics. Comments on the paint job? Photo © Ronald den Dekker, WACON-images. 04/06/07 |
| Butt
Ugly Dirty Pirate  Oh yeah, these dirty pirate sails are ugly! "I saw this "pirate" tourist ship off the coast of Puerto Vallarta last week and immediately thought of your ugly sails request. The shamelessly luffing canvas almost drowned out the sound of the diesels." Thanks to anarchist Conrad who wins himself some SA swag. You can too, just send in your ugly sails photo. 04/06/07 |
Speed Freak The hydrofoil Hydroptere set two world speed records off Lorient, France yesterday, one going 41.5 knots in one nautical mile, and one going 44.5 knots in 500 meters (we think). Both are subject to official homologation by ISAF/World Sailing Speed Council Record but it is pretty damn impressive no matter how you slice it! Thanks to Arnaud Pilpre / Sea & Co for the outstanding photographic work. Comments? 04/05/07 |
Wha'appen? Well it's pretty obvious what happened - the rig fell down on poor +39 during fleet racing for the AC. Click here for the the sequence from Gilles Martin-Raget to see how it went down, no pun intended. 04/05/07 |
| New Psst...Hey Mister... Hey, you over there - wanna see a picture of a new 35' racer? Naw, I won't charge you anything for a peek, but I think you're gonna like this babe. If you stick around for awhile, some day soon I might even tell you how much it'll cost ya...Oh yeah, she's got a sister and I can show you her too. If yer interested, that is... 04/05/07 |
| Deal of
the Week Baby's on Fire  Nothing
funny about a boat that catches on fire, but this
Beneteau 47 is being presented for sale in a unique way. Parts, or
use it for a mold? Be sure to check out the detailed drawings of the keel
and rudder...04/05/07 |
| Looking.... ...for a J/133? Perhaps a Mumm 30? A Cheetah 30? Have you seen a Corby 41.5? Then we'd suggest you take a look at our classified section, brought to you by Farr Yacht Sales. It has a great assortment of boats, gear and jobs for you to check out. Hell, we have one anarchist who not only found and bought a Shock 35 from our classifieds, he also found his entire crew on our Crew Pool Anarchy forum. Check this out: On 3/21 my Dad mentioned over a drink at the YC that he really didn't want to miss the 60th Ensenada anniversary, (31 Ensenada's for him and then he sold his boat, he's 75 years old and the fourth quarter's winding down!). We spotted Whiplash in the SA classifieds on 3/21 (the day the ad ran). Boat showing/offer on 3/23. Closed/paid on 3/26. Entered race 3/26. Placed crew wanted ad in SA 3/26. Crew completely filled from SA ad on 3/31. That's less than ten days from cocktail napkin to reality. Now that's a story! 04/05/07 |
Fear
of a Black Planet Probably don't have to worry about that with the RC 44's. Nifty looking and no doubt quick, they are very spendy (try well over $500,000) and look rather uncomortable to sail on. Nontheless, seven of these gangstas showed up for the first of their 2007 circuit which will consist of eight events held in Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates. Yo, money! 04/04/07 |
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Fear of a Flat
Planet |
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Butt Ugly
 Can you believe that one of our adoring fans would dare nominate this as a contestant for our Butt Ugly Sail contest? We're shocked and of course think it is a winner! Thanks to Bee Bednar for the shot, we think. 04/02/07 |
| SA Feature Gear Anarchy Over the years we've had a number of requests to create a separate forum for a place for people to post comments about gear, boats and the like. So we did. We are very fortunate to have Mauri Pro Sailing sign on as our title sponsor, and we also have made additional banner ads available for advertisers at a very economical rate. As always, we love the free exchange of thoughts, comments, and critiques, but we don't want any bullshit bashing. So come on in to Gear Anarchy and make it happen! 04/03/07 |
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