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ROCKING AND ROLLING: Annapolis Cadet Confronts Ocean Sailing
Great video here! A midshipman at the naval academy in Annapolis gets sent out on a sailboat offshore for the first time and has a little trouble with the motion. The camera is perfectly stabilized,...
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FOURTH OF JULY: Cruising Across Casco and Back
Unlike last year, when we were beset with fog entering the Kennebec River on our annual Independence Day cruise to Popham Beach, this year we had good visibility and even some wind to carry us across...
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2013 ROUND ISLAND REGATTA: Pig Roast and Informal Family Racing
GET OUT YOUR CALENDARS, sports fans, and mark down this date: Saturday, August 10, 2013. The third annual Round Island Regatta, held in the historic South End in Portsmouth, NH, promises (per usual)...
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ABANDONED BOATS: Swan 48 Spotted Again, Plus Another Hits the Beach
CHECK IT OUT, PEOPLE. WaveTrain rider Michael Geagan dropped a comment on my original post about the abandoned Swan 48 Wolfhound, ex-Bella Luna, to the effect that he located the boat about 600 miles...
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FREIGHTER ON A RAMPAGE: Crushes Boats In a Marina
Here’s a nice demolition-derby video: a cement-carrying freighter named Cyprus Cement (creative name that) lost control of itself and wiped out 10 to 15 recreational vessels (none of them sailboats,...
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SALVAGE LAW: Do You Get to Keep an Abandoned Boat?
I’ve been posting a bit lately about abandoned boats, and my SAILfeed colleague Clark Beek has rightly pointed out that it is high time I bloviated on the subject of salvage rights. Many people...
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CASCO BAY CRUISE: The Goslings
I went out on Lunacy on my own on Monday afternoon and sailed up to Lower Goose Island, just across Middle Bay from Harpswell Neck. There’s a cozy-looking anchorage here, just north of two ancillary...
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TRANSPAC VIDEO: S&S Classic Dorade Doing Well
This is a swell bit of videography if you’re into classic racing yachts. The famous Olin Stephens-designed yawl Dorade actually won the TransPac way back in 1936 and set a course record that stood for...
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DRAWBRIDGE DISMASTING: Ouch!
I don’t have any info on when and where this happened, but I’m guessing somewhere in Europe. The boat is a Hallberg-Rassy, I can see that. Whoever is driving is… optimistic, to put it nicely....
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SWAN 48 SALVAGE ATTEMPT: Matt Rutherford Almost Got Ripped Off! (IMHO)
I have to say, I really dig Matt Rutherford’s new ride (pictured above). It looks to be a Colvin Gazelle, a boat I’ve always admired, but with an unstayed cat ketch rig. Very interesting. But that’s...
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DORADE VICTORIOUS: First Overall in the 2013 Transpac
Sorry, folks, but I have to lay another Dorade Transpac video on you. Though not as funky as the last one, this one was shot from onboard as she was blasting toward the finish line off Diamond Head on...
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TALL SHIP WRECKED: Sail Training Vessel Sinks on Irish Coast
In what has been described as one of the biggest, most complex rescue efforts ever undertaken on the Irish coast, two Irish Coastguard helicopters, three RNLI lifeboats, and a flotilla of various...
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AMERICAS CUP ACTION: The Kiwis Are Cruising
This may be the only reason I would ever want to be Tom Cruise. Even Grant Dalton seems to be impressed by him, and when Tom gets to ride on an AC72, he actually gets to help sail the boat. Meanwhile,...
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COCKPIT CONTROL LINES: Fight the Spaghetti Madness
Just as all roads once led to Rome, many cruising sailors now believe that all working lines should lead to the cockpit. The result, unfortunately, is often a pile of multi-colored spaghetti that is...
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CASCO BAY CRUISE: Eagle Island
Last Wednesday, after sailing out on my own from Portland, I spent the night aboard Lunacy on a mooring at Cliff Island. I awoke the next morning to fog, thin tendrils that first filtered in from the...
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CORSAIR F-27: A Fast Folding Trimaran
First introduced in 1985, this trailerable trimaran quickly became a seminal boat in the world of multihull sailing. Designed by Ian Farrier, a Kiwi who emigrated to California (by way of Australia)...
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HITTING THE ROCKS: Hylas 70 Dismasted in Maine
Even in this age of push-button electronic navigation, it’s not too hard to hit the bricks when cruising the Maine coast. The photo up top is of Archangel, a Hylas 70 on charter that hit some rocks in...
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WATER EVERYWHERE: Or Not
Here’s a mind-bending illustration crafted by the U.S. Geological Survey designed to show how little water there really is on and in planet Earth relative to the orb in its entirety. I know it seems...
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ANDERSEN WINCHES: Secrets of the Disc Spring Revealed
I spent Monday out on Lunacy again and revisited Wills Gut, or McMansion Cove, as I’ve come to think of it, for the first time in three years. Before the sun went down I installed the new “disc...
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FASTNET VICTORS: Father-Son Crew Take Overall Honors
This isn’t quite as cool as Dorade winning the Transpac, but it’s close. A French Corinthian father-son crew, Pascal and Alexis Loison, sailing Night and Day, a 33-foot JPK 1010, beat out an enormous...
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