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2016 VENDEE GLOBE: Southern Ocean Match Race
What a nail-biter! Alex Thomson on Hugo Boss and Armel Le Cleac’h on Banque Populaire have been swapping places at the front of the Vendée Globe fleet for some time now and are deep in the Southern...
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2016 VENDEE GLOBE: And Away They Go!
I’m back in the States now, having endured the indignity of the presidential election results while in France, and finally have a moment to drop a word or two about the actual start of the Vendée...
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ASIAN MISFORTUNES: Cruisers Killed, Kidnapped & Gone Missing in Malaysia and...
This is actually about two different incidents that recently occurred, and I shall defy expectations and tell the story with the happy ending first. This concerning a veteran Australian cruiser, David...
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FOLDING RIB DINGHY: The Best of Both Worlds in an Inflatable Tender?
We have discussed dinghies before, in a global sense, and I’ve also made it known that I personally prefer roll-up inflatables, primarily because they are easy to stow. But I’m always on the look-out...
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2016 VENDEE GLOBE: Battle of the Foils Denouement
Last we discussed this the race leaders, Alex Thomson on Hugo Boss and Armel Le Cleac’h on Banque Populaire (seen above, celebrating the New Year), had just been in sight of each other as Armel passed...
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TRUE CONFESSIONS: The New Lunacy
I have been shy about mentioning this to people, for various reasons, but now it’s time to come clean. You’ll have noticed I am trying to sell Lunacy, my faithful Tanton 39 cutter of the last 10...
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BE GOOD TOO RETURNS: My Favorite Abandoned Catamaran Appears On a Beach in...
How the worm turns! I posted my account of how I and three others abandoned the Alpha 42 catamaran Be Good Too 300 miles off North Carolina exactly three years ago today. And now here I am come to...
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BE GOOD TOO RETURNS: My Favorite Abandoned Catamaran Appears On a Beach in...
How the worm turns! I posted my account of how I and three others abandoned the Alpha 42 catamaran Be Good Too 300 miles off North Carolina exactly three years ago today. And now here I am come to...
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2016 VENDEE GLOBE: Le Cleac’h Is Victorious!
It’s done. Try as he might, Alex Thomson could not overhaul Armel Le Cléac’h in the last mad dash back to France. Le Cléac’h sailed his IMOCA 60 Banque Populaire across the finish line off Les Sables...
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Eight Bells: Cartoonist Mike Peyton
I never met Mike Peyton, but I always wished I had. In my younger days I drew a lot of cartoons, and I also enjoyed sailing of course, and when I got older and somehow fashioned a career of sorts out...
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BE GOOD TOO REVISITED: The EPIRB Question, Why She Didn’t Sink, What Happened...
There has been much less furor online about the rediscovery of the Alpha 42 catamaran Be Good Too (hull no. 1) on a beach in Scotland than there was when we abandoned her three years ago. Which is a...
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USED BOREAL 44 FOR SALE: RC Louise Is Up For Grabs!
The primary reason I ordered a new Boreal rather than just buying a used one is that used ones very rarely come on the market. In fact, I’ve never seen one listed, until now. I met Steve and Tracy,...
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FOILING MONOHULLS: Flying Minis and the New Figaro 3
Here’s a photo that raised a few eyebrows a couple of weeks ago: David Raison’s famous 747 Mini 6.50 Prototype, the first scow-bowed Mini, pulling another first as it goes airborne flying on a foil....
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VINEYARD VIXEN 29: A Special Friend For Sale on Narragansett Bay
I’ve recently received word from Tim Murphy–my ex-shipmate, ex-roommate, and ex-co-worker (from my brief tenure at Cruising World magazine), that he is selling his 1974 Vineyard Vixen 29. I am quite...
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LUCKY 13: Rich Wilson Completes His Second Vendee Globe, Fastest American Ever
After running much of the Vendee Globe in 14th place (out of an original fleet of 29), the race’s only wholly American competitor, Rich Wilson, got lucky as he started closing on the finish line in...
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OUT OF AFRICA: Harmattan Days in the Cape Verde Islands
[Editor’s Note: After spending most of the winter of 1997 in Senegal and Gambia on Crazy Horse–see earlier posts on this here–I sailed out to explore the Cape Verdes before sailing to the West Indies....
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OUT OF AFRICA: Harmattan Days in the Cape Verde Islands
[Editor’s Note: After spending most of the winter of 1997 in Senegal and Gambia on Crazy Horse–see earlier posts on this here–I sailed out to explore the Cape Verdes before sailing to the West Indies....
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BE GOOD TOO RETURNS: My Favorite Abandoned Catamaran Appears On a Beach in...
How the worm turns! I posted my account of how I and three others abandoned the Alpha 42 catamaran Be Good Too 300 miles off North Carolina exactly three years ago today. And now here I am come to...
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JURGEN KANTNER: German Cruiser Beheaded in Philippines, Body Recovered
We have some very grim news here. That Jurgen Kanter, taken hostage by the Filipino terrorist group, Abu Sayyaf, late last year, was beheaded last week after a ransom demand of $600K was not met. Just...
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JURGEN KANTNER: German Cruiser Beheaded in Philippines, Body Recovered
We have some very grim news here. That Jurgen Kanter, taken hostage by the Filipino terrorist group, Abu Sayyaf, late last year, was beheaded last week after a ransom demand of $600K was not met. Just...
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