Published on 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... Read More →
Published on 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 ... Read More →
Published on 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 ... Read More →
Published on 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 ... Read More →
Published on 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 ... Read More →
Published on 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... Read More →
Published on February 20th, 2013
Regarding women sailing the 18 footers (Scuttlebutt 3778), I can’t speak for the JJ, but in the early 1970s a colorful all-girl crew who sailed under the name Boobs competed regularly in the Sydney Harbour fleet. While their efforts were not always crowned with success, they were a welcome and widely followed addition to the ... Read More →
Published on February 20th, 2013
We are doing something right when we can celebrate accomplishments that aren’t recorded in the race results. Thanks for doing this with the Katie Love interview in Scuttlebutt ... Read More →
Published on February 20th, 2013
Far and away the most fun per dollar I’ve had in 40+ years of sailing was on a 1941 Johnson E-Scow that a friend and I bought in 1973. It was spring of my sophomore year at the University of Washington, and there were already two old wooden E-Scows moored on the UW docks pretending ... Read More →
Published on February 20th, 2013
While it was sad to see the news about PUMA leaving the sport (in Scuttlebutt 3778), I was always puzzled at them diving in as hard as they did. It is one thing to leverage sailing events for brand marketing, but did they really have to develop a full kit of gear? They are a ... Read More →
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