The problem:
The wind will carry you Dead Down Wind, but DDW is slow.
DDW is especially “slow” in a fast race boat sailing against similar boats that are using narrower wind angles to generate more apparent wind and additional speed. But would it be possible to create a contraption that captures the wind and uses [...]
We don’t have to explain it the way Obi Wan explains The Force to young master Luke, but just the same, everything is tied together. Including traditional boatbuilding and carbon fiber lamination. For today’s take we drop into Thames Street, Newport, Rhode Island where . . .
Photo by Tom Daniels/IYRS
Clark Poston is [...]
Puzzling the problems of the day. Photo by KL
Walking through door of the International Yacht Restoration School will likely affect you considerably.
Speaking from experience.
But I’ll let Jens Lange tell it his way. Jens is a grownup who had a successful but less-than fulfilling 18-year, Europe-based career in the auto industry that had him [...]
Giant, wing-masted trimarans in the America’s Cup, hydrofoilers busting 50 knots in the Med, these innovations open a window onto a gee-whiz future that turns me on. But they don’t answer one question: Will we, or will we not in that future, still have with us the racing classics of yore?
For every Dorade that inspires [...]
History often leaves loose ends.
I have my own copy of this flag, the Serapis flag, that I like to fly from time to time, and the thought comes to mind on Memorial Day of the years when the Republic, and its emblems, were still being invented, and this could pass for the American flag.
The Serapis [...]
Barcarolle on the beach. Photo by Kimball Livingston
At the risk of writing about an incident I did not witness—
I fear I know all too much, minus the details, about what happened to the Ranger 33 that sailed itself onto China Beach late Sunday afternoon, without the two sailors who had earlier departed Pillar Point Harbor [...]
In San Francisco today, Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office released a resolution passed by the Bay Conservation and Development Commission supporting an America’s Cup match on San Francisco Bay.
Wow.
This is huge. The Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) is on the list of government agencies where I imagined that AC-N-SF could founder.
We owe a [...]
I’m grateful to have America’s Cup out of the courts and moving toward, I hope, a dynamic, historic 34th match, but a new email exchange confirms that for one man, it’s not over.
That would be Jaume Soler, the Spanish Olympic sailor and journalist who broke the truth about the faked-up Club Náutico Español de [...]
A NOAA view of the Gulf of Mexico on a cloudy May 10
When Guy Brierre calls 2010 “a surreal year” that means something.
I got to know this Finn (among other things) sailor in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a time which surely qualified as surreal along the Gulf Coast—and for hundreds of miles inland—and the [...]
And for someone, it is the perfect yacht.
Hats off to someone at Coyote Point for a classy Cal 20.