February 20th, 2013
Photographer Sharon Green has launched a youth fundraising program, offering her famous 2013 Ultimate Sailing Calendar at a significantly reduced price to allow junior sailing programs to resell for profit. Contact crew@ultimatesailing.com or (800) 827-3186 for details. Supplies are limited
February 20th, 2013
The 27th Calema Midwinters Windsurfing Festival, including the 2013 Techno 293 North Americans Championship, will take place Merritt Island, Florida, USA February 28-March 3. The Calema Midwinters Festival brings together World Cup pros, Olympic class competitors, beginner sailors and all other levels in between. Classes are available for all skill levels and type of equipment
February 20th, 2013
(February 19, 2013; Day 2) – The first finishers in the RORC Caribbean 600 race are expected in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with every possibility that at least one record will be broken. Peter Aschenbrenner’s 63-foot trimaran, Paradox, with multihull legend Cam Lewis on board, is on record pace and will need to cross
February 20th, 2013
Winning Group 2013 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, Race 3. Today’s race sponsored by Fisher & Paykel Tuesday, 19 February 2013 Sydney Harbour The defending champion Gotta Love It 7 team gave a faultless display in the 10knot North-East wind to take out Race 3 of the Winning Group 2013 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship
February 20th, 2013
(February 19, 2013; Day 102) – Eighty miles off Cape Finsterre, remaining quietly patient but on a state of high alert due to the high level of shipping traffic, Italian skipper Alessandro Di Benedetto is content to wait until the winds pick up on Wednesday to propel him the final 400+ miles to the finish
February 20th, 2013
There were two mistakes in Scuttlebutt 3778: 1) The intro to Dave Perry’s report on the definition change of Mark-Room mistakenly included a reference to “the new Trash rule”; and 2) The Curmudgeon’s Observation stated that Napoleon died in battle. He actually died of stomach cancer while a prisoner on St. Helena
October 12th, 2012
I just had to peel the name off a boat. The letters were made of vinyl. The transom had been baking in tropical sunlight for years. It was a long name—not quite as bad as Gotterdammerung or Supercalifragilistic—but just about, and the letters were big and ornate. It took me about 12 hours over three
October 10th, 2012
Long Beach, CA (October 7, 2012) – Dustin Durant won the 2012 ISAF Grade 3 Butler Cup-Long Beach Stop match race regatta, hosted by Long Beach Yacht Club and part of the three event 2012-2013 California Dreamin’ Series. Durant is no stranger to the Catalina 37s, having won the 2012 Grade 2 Ficker Cup and competed in the 2012
October 10th, 2012
Last year Australia’s Steve Brewin won his second A-Class Catamaran world title, besting a field of 96 competitors to secure the top spot at the 2011 A-Class Catamaran World Championship in Aarhus, Denmark. This October he looks to defend his title when the A-Cat fleet arrives in Islamorada, Florida for the 2012 Ronstan A-Class Catamaran World Championship. Well over 100
October 10th, 2012
The Canadian Yachting Association High Performance review is under way this week with a stacked agenda in Toronto, ON. Discussions will continue from the strategic work already developed earlier this year at the HP summit in Toronto. The spring summit was the starting point for developing a High Performance Plan for the next Olympic quadrennial and beyond. Input has been