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No Sun, No Fun
Yes, even though you haven’t had seen the sun in months, it still exists. This is what it looks like when the sun shines on a boat in Mexico. In fact, so much sun shines on boats in Mexico, you don’t want to skimp on the bimini. More »
In Hot Pursuit
Just about everywhere you look around San Francisco Bay, there are treasures of our rich maritime heritage. Some, though, are less obvious to the untrained eye than others.
We last saw the M-Class sloop Pursuit on the Bay in 2005, during the Sail San Francisco parade. More »
Sailboat Beaches on Oregon Coast
Around 8 a.m. Friday morning, the Oregon State Police received a report of a beached sailboat in Newport. According to the OSP, a 77-year-old retired physician from Bellevue, WA was singlehanding his 38-ft liveaboard sailboat down the coast and, after going below to sleep, his boat ran up on the beach. More »
It’s a Dog-Eat-Dog World
“Trim that sheet, you scurvy dog!” Peaches ‘mans’ her post.
© 2010 Randi Harry
When we posted the story about Bryan and Jennifer Saulsbury’s Portuguese water dog Barley, we had no idea emotions on the topic would run so high. More »
Ten-Year-Old to Singlehand Around the World?
Sure, why not?
The age bar for singlehanding around the world keeps slipping lower. For a long time it was the 20s, then Zac Sunderland of Thousand Oaks did it at 17 years, 229 days. More »
Kerry Reconsiders
After a hurricane of public outrage, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has decided that he will pay $450,000 in sales tax to the state of Massachusetts following the purchase of his $7 million Ted Fontaine-designed 76-ft sailing yacht Isabel. More »
New Girl in Town
Seemed like everyone in Sausalito wanted to meet the new girl in town.
© John Skoriak
If someone had asked Sausalito yacht skipper Paul Dines to find a well-built traditional sailing schooner, survey her, purchase her, haul and ship her from Miami to Ensenada, offload her, sail her to Sausalito, and insure that she would pass a Coast Guard inspection — all within 60 days — he would have said it was impossible. More »
Whale Breaching Under Investigation
A Southern Right Whale administers a smack down on the steel-hulled, 32-ft Barens Seatrader Intrepid off Cape Town.
© 2010 James K. Dagmore
Photos of the 32-ft Barens Seatrader Intrepid being on the receiving end of a Southern Right Whale’s best impression of a pile driver have gone viral over the last couple days; but curious sailors and a massive non-sailing audience aren’t the only people paying attention. More »
Testosterone Returns to World Record Sailing
With the flurry of attention over teenage girl circumnavigators having at least temporarily subsided, we’re thrilled to note the successful completion of a very ‘manly’ round-about. Yesterday, 39-year-old French/Italian geologist Alessandro di Benedetto sailed Findomestic back into Les Sables D’Olonne Harbor after a nonstop circumnavigation that took 268 days, 19 hours and 36 minutes. More »
Viral Videos
Debunking all the Photoshop theories floating around about the whale-sailboat collision in the above story, CBS has acquired actual video of the incident.
That amazing video reminded us that we’ve watched a number of very cool videos recently, so we thought we’d show you a handful. More »
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