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Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Unless you have been living in a cave you will have noticed that this Twitter thing is exploding. There are already well over a 150 twitterers, twits, tweeters or whatever Twitter user is called, who tweet about sailing and boating. I am following 154 sailing-related twitter feeds. [...]
1421 Takes SailTime Cup at Ensenada for 2nd Straight Year
Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog
Showing that last year was no fluke, “1421″, a 2008 Hunter 36, Captained by Owner SK Leong and a crew of five others successfully defended their 2008 win over the SailTime fleet at the fabled Newport to Ensenada race. 1421 finished the race in a corrected time of [...]
Sailing Photo of The Day - Close Race
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Close Race, originally uploaded by paul.mirenda.
Anyone racing this Wednesday night? Wish I was
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Help wanted
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
For most of my sailing life I have depended on the kindness of strangers or paying vast sums of money to sail on or rent other people’s boats. The main advantage of this is never having to fix a thing.
The first thing everyone said to me when [...]
Answers to the mystery photo
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Blur.se posted this photo. I received some interesting suggestions on what it might be. Not sure I am convinced about any of them.
“Looks like someone glued on a camera mount to their bow.”
“fish finder transducer.”
“it’s Joe Rouse’s secret weapon for catching fish.”
“something electromagnetic, stuck on with epoxy putty. [...]
Antigua Day 2,3 and 4
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
Day four of Antigua and it was an early start to the day. Gear breakages (not on Yeoman XXXII) have left our fleet with two boats – Rio and us. The conditions in Antigua have been beautiful with large rolling waves, hot sun and 15-20 knot winds. Today we [...]
Onboard footage on Yeoman XXXII
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
We had a cameraman onboard Yeoman XXXII today. There are are a few good shots of us. The stern wave footage is off the back of the boat while we are roaring downwind.
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Sailing Photo of The Day - Anyone want to caption this?
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IMG_9842sm, originally uploaded by antiguan.
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Sailporn - BMWOracle’s Trimaran on one hull
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Slideshow on YBW. I need a cold shower.
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Can anyone translate this Morse Code?
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Yachting Monthly tweeted it today: …. .- .–. .–. -.– / -… .. .-. - …. -.. .- -.– / … .- — ..- . .-.. / — — .-. … .
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CSCL LE HAVRE
Submitted by Ship of the Day Blog
The CSCL Le Havre (IMO: 9307243, Port of Registry: Limassol, Cyprus) is a 336 metres long, 46 metres wide container ship with a deadweight tonnage of 102,200. She has a teu capacity of 9,580 and 700 reefers. The CSCL Le Havre is propelled by a 93,120 BHP MAN B&W [...]
The H2O Show
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Check out this week’s podacst of the H2O Show. Well worth listening too. Robin Knox-Johsnton tells how he feel about the 40th anniversary and some interesting insights about the voyage and the race.
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Anyone know what this is?
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It was posted on the Swedish site Blur.se
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Antigua Race Week
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
A donkey crossing the normally very busy street to Nelson’s dockyard. Where are all the race boats?
Today was the first day of Antigua Race Week. I delivered the boat here from Tortola on Monday - 36 hours of beating into up to 35 knots (mostly low 20’s) and [...]
Lifelines and jackstays
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
ORC Regs tell you about the length of the spectra lashing shown above in the picture and about how slack you can have the lifelines. However, one more thing that I like to do is to not trust the welds of the rings on the pushpit/pulpits and instead I [...]
Song For Friday: Split Enz - Six Months in a Leaky Boat
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
OK, I have already played this one before but it seems appropriate. In RKJ’s case it was 11 months.
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I got a splinter!
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Velsheda and Ranger collide at the Antigua Classic as tweeted by Sailing Anarchy and read on Classic Boat. Also my favorite photo from Scuttlebutt’s photos of the week. Damn I love the Classics. You can see the rest here. Bloody gorgeous!
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So are these the boats who will be competing for the AC DOG Regatta next May?
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
I am soooooo confused? The top boat is from what I understand is Alinghi’s Cat and the bottom one is BMW Oracles 90ft monster. Are these the two boats who will be racing each other? Is this SNG/Alinghi’s …er practice boat till thye build the real one? Or [...]
Bellport AMS Prop Doc Saves the Day
Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog
A few days before one of the boats in our fleet was scheduled to head on down to Newport Beach to prepare for the Newport-Ensenada race we had a diver go down to clean the bottom. After all, “1421″ is defending a trophy and we wanted to give [...]
America’s Cup 33-Back to the Water Fight
Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog
It was a big day in Valencia, Spain today when the Alinghi Defender Team accepted the Challenger of Record, BMW Oracle’s challenge to race their 90 x 90 multihulls. This much we know. In conflicting reports on the web, I have seen that Oracle is also pushing to drop [...]
SALVAGE GIANT
Submitted by Ship of the Day Blog
The Salvage Giant (IMO: 7506417, Port of Registry: Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines) is 67 meters long, 12.5 meters wide tug , built in 1975 at Matsuura Shipbuilding co., Japan as the “Sumi Maru 7001″. The vessel has a service speed of 12 kts and a cruising range [...]
Ellen MacArthur
Submitted by Team Seacats Blog
This video is a little longer than I usually post - but it’s awesome. Enjoy.
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Just so you know…
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
I hear through the grapevine from someone who was with Sir Robin yesterday that he knows about all the buzz online about RKJ Day and was very touched by it.
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Postscript - On RKJ Day
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Frankly I was blown a way by the participation yesterday. I counted 37 blog posts, tons of tweets and Facebook posts, over 150 members of the FB group, a slew of great comments. There were contributions from the UK, US, Sweden, Belgium, Caribbean. The Facebook members spread [...]
Robin Knox-Johnston Day - Facebook Wall Part Deux
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