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Legend has it that in a certain stretch of Puget Sound, there lays a paranormal phenomenon
which rises from the depths and takes it unwitting ...

Big Tuesday delivers bang to Hamilton Island Race Week crews

With two days of light airs kicking off Hamilton Island Race Week, the hype building for some serious heavy air racing on day three delivered. Big Tuesday opened with a bang, the southeast winds whistling across Dent Passage and winding up to 37 knots as the morning progressed.

Unbowed by the ...

On the Dutch province of Friesland there lies Lake Tjeukemeer, where they race barges.
Now the dutch barges were not made to be raced, they were made to deliver cargo through
the shallow waters of the Netherlands.

But most of these dutch barges are outdated for deliveries and have been converted ...

Makani flew its energy kite from a floating platform in the North Sea.

Once commercialized, Makani’s kites have the potential to bring power to hundreds of millions of people living along the world’s coastlines where the wind is strong and steady, ...

Wednesday 14 Aug 2019 Rupert Holmes/CWL

Very shifty southerly winds provided testing conditions for navigators and tacticians at Cowes Week today as a number of weather fronts passed over the race area. With very strong gusts recorded to the west of the Solent during the morning, relatively short courses were set with the aim of getting fleets home before winds increased further over the race areas in the afternoon.

During the start sequences winds varied between 10 and 18 knots, with the forecast rain fortuitously holding off. The wind had eased to 10 knots for the start of IRC ...

Greta Thunberg and her father Svante Thunberg accompanied by their host and skipper Boris Herrmann. | TEAM MALIZIA

Voiles et Voiliers REPORTS


Greta Thunberg left Plymouth (England) on Wednesday at 16 hours aboard IMOCA Boris Herrmann. The young Swedish environmental activist has chosen to travel aboard the 60-foot Malizia to New ...

Report by Tom Burden

An Aloha Family Tradition
Kui Lim and his brother Yal campaigned 470-class dinghies at the Olympic level and trained with Dave Ullman. JV Gilmour races 18' skiffs at insane speeds. His mom Vickie, a respected US Sailing judge, lives on the water with a Grand Banks cruiser tied to the dock outside her house. Buzz Blackett is the owner of California Condor, a bleeding-edge Class 40, and he's got a carbon Antrim 27 under construction. I'm the owner ...

'Tornado' hits Auckland waterfront and leaves destruction in its wake.
Article via NZ Herald



A tornado-like waterspout has ripped through central Auckland's waterfront, toppling at least one shipping container and wreaking havoc on yachts, ships and cars.

Vehicles were swept into the ocean and a yacht was struck by lightning as the ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (August 12, 2019) – Sunday’s finale on San Francisco Bay capped the third and final day of racing at the 2019 Chubb U.S. Junior Sailing Championships, hosted by the Peninsula Youth Sailing Foundation (PYSF) and the Club at Westpoint. The nearly 100 sailors representing their respective US Sailing Areas and home sailing organizations enjoyed spectacular and challenging conditions throughout this US Sailing National Championship. ...