June 16th, 2013
The question was asked in Scuttlebutt 3857 what other sports – besides sailing – that find amateurs and professionals competing together. The reader responses offered a short list, with most of the examples noting the practice of top amateurs competing in professional sports. For sailing, the balance is opposite. Most regattas are for amateurs, with
June 13th, 2013
Lou Sandoval is a passionate sailor and co-founder/co-owner of Karma Yacht Sales, a successful Beneteau dealership on Lake Michigan in Chicago. He is also very active in the marine industry, in which the drumbeat to grow boating has never been louder. From an interview in the June issue of Soundings Trade Only, Sandoval discusses the
June 13th, 2013
By Tim Zimmermann, Sailing World Sailing the Mini Transat is arguably one of the most difficult, testing challenges a solo racing sailor can inflict upon him or herself. It gets even harder when your Mini starts to break up underneath you just five months from the start, and you are forced to abandon to a
June 13th, 2013
Sailors are often misunderstood. Some people just don’t get moving through the water (or anywhere) without fossil fuels doing all
June 13th, 2013
By David Fuller, Pilote Media American sport has a strange relationship with sponsorship. On the one hand, large stadiums are
June 13th, 2013
Baseball has its World Series Football has its Super Bowl Hockey has its Stanley Cup Basketball has its Finals But
June 12th, 2013
The Red Bull Youth America’s Cup is a new event under the umbrella of the America’s Cup Event Authority, to
June 12th, 2013
When the forecast on the final day of the 2012 Paralympic Sailing Regatta in Weymouth, UK on September 6th offered
June 12th, 2013
Emirates Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton has vowed to invoke a nationality clause and slash the costs of competing
June 11th, 2013
Aboard the honorable William Wall, northeast of Ellis Island – Can anyone entirely explain the unquestionable pleasure of drinking by
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