Archive for April 2010
Clipper Race Restarts Tomorrow
Spirit of Australia gets in a shakedown cruise this weekend. She and eight other Clippers will start the next leg of the Race tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. Head on down! More »
Puddle Jumpers Reach Marquesas
During much of the year every anchorage in the Marquesas is pretty sleepy. But this month the clearance ports at Hiva Oa and Nuku Hiva are abuzz with activity, as Pacific Puddle Jumpers from many nations complete their passages from Mexico, Panama, Ecuador and the U.S. More »
Plans to Thwart Outboard Theft Ring
Dinghies and their motors are probably the most common target of thieves in the cruising community, and Harry Hazzard of the San Diego-based Beneteau Idylle 51 Distant Drum reports on a rash of such thefts in Barra de Navidad, just south of Puerto Vallarta. More »
Ha-Ha and Puddle Jump Reunion Tonight
Strictly Sail Pacific is the place to be this weekend — especially tonight, for the Baja Ha-Ha, Pacific Puddle Jump and Delta Doo Dah Reunion Party at 6 p.m. at Booth #329! More »
‘A’ as in ‘Ahhhhhhh’
Back in March, we wrote about the mysterious A, the 394-ft motoryacht that is as staggeringly different from all previous motoryachts as Tom Perkins 289-ft Maltese Falcon was to all previous sailing yachts. More »
Honking Onboard Internet Access
This ‘Lectronic item is being brought to you, in a large part, by the little black thing sticking out of the port side of the Mac computer sitting in the main salon of Profligate. More »
Exhibitors Rev Up for Strictly Sail Pacific
As we post this, the exhibit floor of the Strictly Sail Pacific boat show at Oakland’s Jack London Square is bustling with frenetic activity in anticipation of tomorrow’s opening. National, international and local boat and gear manufacturers, as well as a broad range of service providers, will be on hand to share their expertise and sell their wares throughout the four-day event (tomorrow through Sunday, beginning at 10 a.m. More »
Every Sailor’s Nightmare
Five containers fell from a ship off Bolinas on April 2. The Doublehanded Farallones Race started the next morning.
© 2010 Tim Sell
Sailing into a half-submerged container is every sailor’s nightmare. More »
Kattywampus Lost on South Pacific Reef
We’re sorry to report that the Port Townsend, WA-based Golden Wave 42 Kattywompus was lost earlier this week when she struck a reef on the North Island of New Zealand.
According to an emailed alert from South Pacific cruiser Bob Bechler of the Seattle-based Gulfstar 44 Sisiutl, "Brad Nelson and Linda Attaway were coming into Doubtless Bay across from the town of Mangonui when they hit a reef and lost Kattywompus. More »
Long Overdue Yacht Columbia Arrives
Much to the relief of her crew’s family members, the 45-ft cutter Columbia arrived safely at Coquimbo, Chile, on Sunday — 35 days after her anticipated arrival — thus ending a search that involved hundreds of vessels over thousands of miles of open ocean. More »
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