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July 17, 2012
Once upon a time I was visiting the Orange Coast College School of Sailing and Seamanship, and somebody asked if I wanted a tour of Alaska Eagle. No big deal, but why not? And then there I was, walking the deck, prowling below, and this feeling crept over me. Gosh. Alaska Eagle. Ex-Flyer. Round the [...]
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April 20, 2012
Here is an updated timetable for Saturday’s memorial to the crew lost aboard Low Speed Chase: The event has shifted into BELVEDERE COVE AND RACCOON STRAITS A detailed link is HERE All participating boats are asked to turn on running lights All participants shall wear Personal Floatation Devices Schedule: 1845 Gather to the southeast of [...]
By admin | Published:
May 2, 2011
Completing phase one, the winners were selected last Sunday in the 42nd annual high school design competition of the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco. Friendly reminder: The challenge was to imagine a student pavilion for the 2013 America’s Cup Village. Let’s tip our hat to the two schools who each had two winners, Lowell and [...]
By admin | Published:
March 19, 2011
They’re mad as hell and they’re going to take it. Flag of the Maldives Sitting in the harbor at Malé, capital of the Maldives, once home to kings, the skipper of the Kelly Peterson 46 , Esprit, reports, “The country offers a $350 cruising package to visit the other islands, but we are going to [...]
By kimball | Published:
February 17, 2011
Where do old raceboats go? Great places, some of them. Alaska Eagle won a Whitbread Round the World Race under the name of Flyer, then sailed another as Alaska Eagle before being donated in 1982 to the Orange Coast College School of Sailing and Seamanship. The boat hasn’t been around the world since, but with [...]
By kimball | Published:
January 28, 2011
The Norwegian-flagged Star Islefjord departed Valencia, Spain in the darkness of a Spanish Friday night, a few minutes before 2 pm Friday, California time, carrying the America’s Cup winning trimaran, USA 17. The ship is on its way to San Francisco via the Panama Canal on a schedule to arrive on March 1. The Oracle [...]
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By kimball | Published:
July 1, 2010
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 [...]
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By kimball | Published:
June 14, 2010
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 the [...]
By kimball | Published:
June 9, 2010
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 [...]
By kimball | Published:
June 3, 2010
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 [...]