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Submitted by Ship of the Day
Today’s SotD is the CMA CGM Parsifal (Flag: Liberia, IMO: 9318060). The ship is capable of transporting about 8,200 teu and has a capacity for 700 reefers. She is 335 meters long, 43 meters wide and has a deadweight tonnage of 100,800. The vessel was built in 2006 by [...]
MSC DANIT
Submitted by Ship of the Day
Today’s ship of the day is the recently delivered MSC Danit (IMO: 9404649, Port of Registry: Panama). This container vessel is 365 meters long and 51 meters wide. Due to her design with the superstructure midships, she is capable of transporting about 14,000 TEU, more than Maersk PS-class (amongst which [...]
Sailing Photo Of The Day - Hiking hard
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Hiking hard ……., originally uploaded by Bruce Kerridge.
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Open House at Raritan Yacht Club March 20th 1-4
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Raritan Yacht Club in Perth Amboy NJ is having an open house:
The RYC Open House is coming on March 20 from 1 to 4. If you ever wanted to learn more about RYC, now is your chance. We will be hosting club tours, there will be live [...]
Oil Spills
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
When the Gould came in for calibration of our CDT and Gould night we also did an oil spills excercise. The ship had according to the scenario got a hole in the port side tank and was leaking fuel out. So the people on base that had been [...]
Reptile Ridge walk
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
A month ago or so we walked Reptile Ridge past Repeater Buttress but then it was late in the day so we came off about half way to Vals. On Saturday we made it one little bump before Vals and then abseiled down off the ridge. It turned out [...]
ELEONORA MAERSK
Submitted by Ship of the Day
The Eleonora Maersk (IMO: 9321500, Port of Registry: Svendborg, Denmark) is, together with her sisters (amongst others) ‘Emma Maersk‘, ‘Estelle Maersk‘, ‘Evelyn Maersk‘ and ‘Ebba Maersk‘, the largest containership ever with a total teu capacity 11,000 teu (of which 1,000 forty foot reefer containers) according to the A.P. Moller - [...]
An evening with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Yesterday evening I was lucky enough to attend “Sir Robin Knox-Johnston - a Life in Sailing” at NYYC. Sir Robin is in New York to receive an award from the Cruising Club of America and was able to be a guest speaker at NYYC while he was [...]
Tsunami !!
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
Waiting for the wave on the ramp in my boatsuit as I had come straight from SAR.
Evacuated to the traverse waiting…
At 6am on Saturday morning the fire alarm went off so we dragged ourselves out of bed (only half hour early in my case) to the tagging board all [...]
Sailing Photo Of The Day - Schooner Wendameen in Portland Harbor, Maine
Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog
Schooner Wendameen in Portland Harbor, Maine, originally uploaded by nelights.
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Learn to Sail for Less Money in 2010
Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog
Learn to sail in Ventura County at Oxnard’s Channel Islands Harbor this Spring. There has never been a better time. We are celebrating five years of operation here by offering the lowest sailing lesson prices ever! That’s right…you can get private sailing lessons at our award winning sailing [...]
CMA CGM NORMA
Submitted by Ship of the Day
The CMA CGM Norma (IMO: 9299812, Port of Registry: Marseille) is an in 2006, by Hyundai Heavy Industries built, Post-Panamax container vessel, capable of transporting 9415 teu. She is 350 metres long, almost 43 metres wide, has a maximum draught of about 14.5 metres and a deadweight tonnage of 107,200. [...]
Half Marathon on skis!
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
The runway is slightly uphill so took some effort as the slight downhill was upwind so that didn’t give me any relief. At 1.45km it was many many times around. I ended up carrying some pebbles and leaving them at the end so that I knew how many times [...]
Tsunami Sighting at Channel Islands Harbor
Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog
It was a rainy morning which is strange in its own right around here when news reports began to make the rounds that a tsunami of some sort might find its way to Southern California. NOAA even set a time of about 12:30 here. So, I set about [...]
Playing the Stormy Weather Game
Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog
When I first got to the coast, I had fled from a lifetime of what I referred to as “snow farming”, aka working in the snow skiing industry. I wasn’t going to have to worry much about weather anymore I thought wistfully…after all if there was going to [...]
59 minutes and 30 seconds!
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
The day winter decided to come to Rothera with large amounts of snowfall.Terri and I managed to beat the season record with a dive time of 30 seconds shy of an hour. We had air left to complete the hour but had collected the Latties we needed to so [...]
Ada II
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
Last week when I was on my way back from Fossil Bluff Tris (comms guy) came up on the HF to ask me about my sailing experience as Skip Novak was sailing by base on Pelagic. Due to swine flu we are not allowing any private vessels or cruise [...]
Puddings….
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
Justin the chef does not like making puddings. Last week he asked me to come in an make them if I had the time. So as well as making the smoko treats I did the puddings – this week I did crunchy chocolate cornflake balls, cheese straws, chocolate cupcakes, [...]
Folk Night
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
On Saturday we had Folk Night which is when people can get up an do an act everything from showing a slide show to reciting a poem and of course singing, dancing and playing an instrument. People put a lot of effort into their acts and many of them [...]
Skiff o’ The Day
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
Start, originally uploaded by iansand.
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Sailing Photo Of The Day - Daring
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Daring, originally uploaded by doublejeopardy.
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Spy hopping
Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog
A few weekends ago the air unit had a party over on Lagoon which required 7 boatloads to get them there and 3 to get them back. A few stayed on the island for the night. Unfortunately it was a beautiful morning but progressively the weather got worse until [...]
A liveaboard’s blog worth Checking out - Harts at Sea
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
I don’t often read cruiser or liveaboard blogs as they ten to get a bit dull. I was introduced to one that has been going for over a year that’s worth a gander, the Harts at Sea, blog.
I especially liked this article about people’s reaction when they know [...]
Sailing Photo Of The Day - RORC Caribbean 600
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
c/o Signor Borlenghi. Belissima
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Song for Friday: Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue
Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog
I selected this one as it has nothing to do with snow.
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