By kimball | Published:
December 31, 2009
Happy New Year ! Próspero Año Nuevo ! See you there
By kimball | Published:
December 31, 2009
Where I live, the game of name freaks was pursued avidly by our most famous newspaper columnist (RIP) in the heyday of newspapers (RIP) and I recall the time fondly, but that meant nothing to my intention to not cover the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race from my more or less antipodean outpost. Until I [...]
By kimball | Published:
December 28, 2009
Underneath the stir about Alinghi’s sails (country of origin?) there’s another drama percolating as Alinghi makes a move to require the challenger to moor inside Valencia’s Dársena between races. Why? I don’t have a statement from Alinghi, but I confidently infer it’s to assure public access to the excitement of America’s Cup 33—and because it [...]
By kimball | Published:
December 27, 2009
Bora Gulari is sending this link around. If you have an extra nine minutes for watching foiler-Moths crash at the Columbia River Gorge, this will make your day. Crashes at the Gorge
By kimball | Published:
December 20, 2009
PartThree of a series of conversations with people who are driving profound changes in the way that we are able to sail. Once the opportunities are clear, how will people choose to sail? “You start on these projects,” says Dirk Kramers, “and you never know where you’ll end up.” Meaning the Alinghi catamaran. The man [...]
By kimball | Published:
December 17, 2009
Part Two of a series of conversations with people who are driving profound changes in the way that we are able to sail. Once the opportunities are clear, how will people choose to sail? “My vision,” says Bob Johnson, “is a sailboat you turn on. “Every once in a while I like to sit down [...]
By kimball | Published:
December 16, 2009
Roy Edward Disney 1930-2009 I think Roy Disney liked sailing in part because, on a boat, he was just one of the boys, not the gazillionaire who ousted Michael Eisner and revived animation at the Disney studios. Those who have heard only of his high-profile racing yachts would not know that he started with modest [...]
By kimball | Published:
December 15, 2009
Part One of a series of conversations with people who are driving profound changes in the way that we are able to sail. Once the opportunities are clear, how will people choose to sail? I know a guy in Hawaii who says he’s years ahead of BMW Oracle in wing technology. He has a point. [...]
By kimball | Published:
December 9, 2009
I guess we all have our favorite forums. One of mine belongs to BAMA, the Bay Area Multihull Association, the folks who bring us the annual—and I think it’s reasonable to call it a classic—Doublehanded Farallones Race. With the Coast Guard applying new pressure regarding safety procedures and safety equipment for local ocean racing, there’s [...]
By kimball | Published:
December 2, 2009
Where do old racing sailors go? They don’t just fade away. It’s been 39 years since Garry Hoyt won the Sunfish Worlds—a title he shares with John Kostecki, for one—and a lot of the time since was spent cooking up boat designs and systems to make sailing more accessible, more affordable, more popular. The first [...]