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
I agree with the premise of the article about the biology of sea sickness (in Scuttlebutt 3687). However, I believe the numbers quoted in the seasickness article don’t apply for sailing. Our experience with new sailors at our sailing school are almost reversed…10 percent are prone to seasickness. I’d say that the vast majority of
October 3rd, 2012
Zach Berkowitz is on to something with “No More Street Ball” (in Scuttlebutt 3687). The shortcoming of American youth sailing is as much spiritual as they are mechanical. Let kids go wild in fast boats without coaching or adult “hyper” supervision and they will develop the instinctual love of speed rather than the more robotic
October 3rd, 2012
In Scuttlebutt 3687, Scott Ostler is right on when he says sailing has “devolved” from an adventure to another sport run by helicopter parents and coaches; how the crash-and-burn, push-over-the-edge by kids left to their own devices is a thing of the past in this country. But it’s not such a new phenomenon. The late
September 16th, 2012
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August 18th, 2012
Ben Barger, who was the U.S. windsurfing representative at the 2008 Olympics, is now focused on supporting all Olympic sailors.
August 18th, 2012
By Nicholas Hayes, author Look it up. According to my dictionary, a sport is “an activity involving physical exertion and
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