October 4th, 2012
I must take the dissenting view on Glenn McCarthy’s (Scuttlebutt 3688) opinion. I have just come to the end of my daughter’s involvement with youth sailing. She just graduated college this spring after sailing on her own since 6-7 years in the Opti. She is currently figuring out the next step, grad school, work, etc.
October 4th, 2012
Another element of sailing silos (Scuttlebutt 3688) is the approach to the Racing Rules. And I’m not complaining about the various changes over the past 15 years, here, though the attempt to make rules uniform for fleet racing and match racing and team racing don’t reflect the different nature of those three events. Much more
October 4th, 2012
In St. Croix we encourage boats to take kids onboard during regattas. This past March, Stan Joines bought my J/36 and we raced with six teenagers and won both the Rolex in St. Thomas and the BVI International regatta. The look in their faces on the podium was out of this world. The crowd was
October 3rd, 2012
Two items jumped at me in Scuttlebutt 3688 that needed comment: #1: In the letter’s section Roger Vaughan said, “This is not just about sailing. It reflects a national malaise. The concept of ‘risk,’ upon which this country was founded, has become a bad word in some ever-expanding circles.” No truer words were ever spoken!
October 3rd, 2012
Zach Berkowitz’s interview with Scott Oslter hit the nail on the head (Scuttlebutt 3687). You can say the same phenomenon exists in the Volvo Ocean Race. Not many Americans compete, in spite of the American stopovers as a feature since Volvo took over the event in the early 90’s. In the Whitbread era there was
October 3rd, 2012
Congrats to Michael Holden (‘Not Just a Snacktician’, SBUTT 3688)! Obviously, he’s a great Dad and a note-worthy sailor. He’s helping to fill in the ranks of future sailors by showing them both the fun of sailing as well as the responsibility-side of the sport. Getting young Jack involved makes him a legitimate part of
October 3rd, 2012
I loved Glenn McCarthy’s piece. So true and, by the way, I would have given anything to sail on Inferno but growing up in Toronto had to make do with Bonaventure – those great days of C&
October 3rd, 2012
I read Glenn McCarthy’s piece in Scuttlebutt 3688 with interest. He is right as far as he goes. This last weekend I was working a Snipe regatta as a judge (it was a qualifier for the 2013 Worlds) and we were doing Appendix P on water. For Sunday, we were short one judge and it
October 3rd, 2012
For the 34 teams at the 2012 Long Island Sound Sonar Championship (Sept. 29-30), host Noroton Yacht Club in Darien, CT could only offer a weekend of traditional July weather with light and remarkably shifty northerly zephyrs during the event. But the cream rises to the top even when the milk is a bit sour, and Colin Gordon demonstrated remarkable consistency in such squirrely conditions. Gordon was guided through the bumps and potholes by tactician Bill Lynn, Bill's son Peter and sail maker Tom "TK" Kinney
October 3rd, 2012
The 2012 RC44 season has its grand finale this week in Rovinj on Croatia’s Istrian peninsula. In addition to this being the showdown for the five event match racing and fleet racing series, it also stands alone as the class’ World Championship. Valentin Zavadnikov and Leonid Lebedev’s Synergy Russian Sailing Team with American helm Ed
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