Mick Dawson and Chris Martin are two happy campers this week, relearning how to walk and working to gain back some of the 20 percent of body weight they gave up to their ration of freeze-drieds in the 189 days they spent rowing nonstop from Japan to California, from Chochi to the Golden Gate. They [...]
So how many cheerleaders came to your sailing club today? Or, to ask the same question differently, can you spell opportunity?
Wherever you live, however you sail, there are opportunities to spark something special. If there’s already excitement on the street, why not tap into that? I offer, by way of example, the [...]
On the West Coast we have more Bigfoot sightings than team races, but that’s changing. No less than three California clubs sent delegations of nine sailors apiece to New Orleans for the Southern Soiland Cup on Lake Pontchartrain last weekend.
Weather coming: Southern Yacht Club, background © Kimball Livingston
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He was one of the great racing sailors of his generation, and we’re coming to a big weekend at what was once Myron Spaulding’s boatyard in Sausalito. Today it’s the people’s boatyard, if we can keep it.
Steaming the garboard © Scott Wall
Given the value of waterfront property, especially in California, there are [...]