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 →
Published on February 20th, 2013
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Published on February 20th, 2013
Professional sailor and sailmaker Dave Ullman shook the earth over 25 years ago when he said how the sport needed to legislate the pros out of sailboat racing. Dave’s motivation wasn’t to spend more time on ... Read More →
Published on February 14th, 2013
Long Beach, CA (Feb 14, 2013) – The first thing followers and fellow competitors want to know about the Long Beach Yacht Club’s 49th Congressional Cup: Is the Brit coming back? Indeed, Ian Williams of Great ... Read More →
Published on February 4th, 2013
There must be a cadre of sailors who were sailing Hobie 16s or P Cats in the 70s that are now saying “I told you so”. The early converters to multihull sailing have long known about ... Read More →
Published on January 31st, 2013
For most of the North Ameican sailors with Olympic aspirations, the ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami (Jan 28-Feb 2) is the first event of their new quadrennium. Prior to the event, Scuttlebutt publisher Craig Leweck met ... Read More →
Published on January 25th, 2013
Steve Benjamin, a founding member of the High Performance Rule (HPR) and co-owner with wife Heidi of the Carkeek 40 SPOOKIE, invited Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck to experience HPR racing during Quantum Key West. SPOOKIE proved ... Read More →
Published on January 23rd, 2013
Charlie Buckingham came up short in his quest to represent the U.S. at the 2012 Olympic Games, but he may now be one of the team’s strongest sailors going forward. Since graduating from Georgetown University in ... Read More →
Published on January 21st, 2013
The pendulum has swung back. Interest in multihull sailing is on the rise. Heck, even ISAF decided a new catamaran design – the Nacra 17 – was Olympic worthy. So for the next four years, the ... Read More →
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