Posts by John Riise
A Busy Holiday Weekend
Sam Davies celebrated her arrival back in Les Sables D’Olonne early Saturday. Even the flares are pink.
© Mark Lloyd / DPPI / Vendée Globe
Not only were Friday the 13th, Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day all shoehorned into the same long weekend just past, the last several days have also been momentous ones in a number of sailing events around the world. More »
Cruisers Robbed in Mexico
"We are still enjoying the wonderful fruits of the Baja Ha-Ha, as we progress down the Mexican coast, visiting with other Ha-Ha folks along the way. It had been a great experience until a few days ago, February 12, in Chamela, which is about 15 miles north of Tenacatita Bay. More »
Nuclear Subs Collide
In the stuff of which Tom Clancy novels are made, two nuclear subs collided with each other in mid-Atlantic earlier this month. Although the collision between the British HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant took place back on February 6, the news was apparently withheld until this morning. More »
Deadly Boat Fire in Pittsburg
One person was killed, one boat destroyed and at least one other damaged after an "old wooden" motorboat caught fire in Pittsburg Marina last night. Details were hard to come by this morning as it appeared that every official from the Police, Fire Department and Coast Guard was still on site for the cleanup and investigation. More »
Sailing and the Happiness Quotient
The late George Carlin did a great bit about ‘stuff’. The reason people need homes, he said, was “to store all your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” More »
Vendee Globe – Third Place is a Charm
No one’s quite sure just how much of Safran’s keel is missing but, at the very least, the bulb is gone.
© Jean Marie Liot/ DPPI/ Vendee Globe
Michel Desjoyeaux sailed Foncia into Les Sables D’Olonne last week to win his second Vendée Globe Race. More »
HMS Victory Found – No, Not That One
HMS Victory ‘5’ was the ‘Titanic of warships’ in her day.
© John Batchelor / Odyssey Marine Exploration
When we saw on the evening news that HMS Victory had been found, our first thought was “How could you lose a 185-ft LOD, square-rigged warship, especially one that’s in drydock?” More »
Save DBW – Second Notice
If you’re a boater in California, there should be two acronyms on your mind these days: DBW and RBOC. The first is the state’s Department of Boating and Waterways, which faces the most serious threat in its history. More »
Two Sailors Lost in Indian Ocean Capsize
Leo Sherman, an educator from Illinois, appears to be the only survivor after a homebuilt 43-ft catamaran capsized 200 miles east of Madagascar early last week. The boat was apparently bound from Durban to Mauritius with three aboard. More »
Carpe Diem Update
We’ve received a bit more information about a rescue at sea off Cabo a week ago. According to several ‘earwitness’ accounts (heard on VHF and/or SSB), Carpe Diem was a Lancer 44 motorsailor heading south off Cabo when there was some kind of trouble. More »
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