Any team built on the dirty money of an anti-environmental business like this, deserves not even an iota of support, and certainly not from us. And don't be fooled by Ainslie's bullshit, he sold out to the devil, and for what? To line his pockets while not winning another AC? If you are looking for a villain in this AC, look no further than these frackers... ...
From the WTF files... In 1973, Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés set out to test a hypothesis. He had been researching the connection between violence and sexuality in monkeys. “Most conflicts,” he noted, “are about sexual access to ovulating females.” But would this apply to humans, too? To find out, Genovés asked a British boat builder to make a 12x7 metre raft called the Acali on which he planned to sail with 10 sexually attractive young people across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands to Mexico. It was like a prototype for the glut of reality TV shows since, a Floating Love Island or Big Brother at Sea, but with a twist – the participants were so isolated from the rest of the world that it would have been futile to cry: “Get me out of here!” The only ways out were drowning or getting eaten by sharks. Genovés was a veteran of extreme rafting. A few years earlier he had been one of the seven-strong multinational crew on Thor Heyerdahl’s two Ra expeditions to sail reed rafts, like those used in ancient Egypt, across the Atlantic. The Norwegian adventurer wanted to show how people of different races could cooperate effectively. Genovés had even grander motives in planning his voyage: he sought to diagnose and cure world violence. To that end, he placed ads in international newspapers and made his selection from respondents, choosing a crew of strangers from different races and religions so that he could create a microcosm of the world. Among the five women and five men were a Japanese photographer, an Angolan priest, a French scuba diver, a Swedish ship’s captain, an Israeli doctor and an Alaskan waitress who was fleeing an abusive husband. Genovés called his boat the Peace Project, but it rapidly became known in...
Just as maxi-trimaran Spindrift 2 goes code orange for her crack at the Trophy Jules Verne, the Peterson 34 s/v QUIVER is also beginning her own sailing circumnavigation, though at a much more leisurely pace and with far more stops. Years past my earliest sailing exploits, many of which were written about extensively on SA, i'm back with a new boat and an entirely new adventure. After three years of living in Honolulu, i've just finished a multimedia degree from Hawaii Pacific University and am now shoving off on a planned 3-year westabout surf-focused circumnavigation via Cape Horn. She's not yet the prettiest girl in the bar cosmetically, but QUIVER is a weapon offshore. With a big rig and keel, deep new rudder, tiller-steering, extensive re-fit and thorough sail and gear inventory, the late-70's Doug Peterson-designed racer/cruiser has proven herself to be a good, stout, somewhat affordable platform for me. With a couple thousand miles around Hawaii in the last two years and over 370 since university graduation last month, QUIVER has been well travelled and now stands ready to begin the first major leg of this circumnavigation; sailing 1,915 miles to the Marshall Islands. I've been hearing some rumors or really good surf there, and i'm keen to go check it out. Plus, it's right on the VMG route to begin circumnavigating from Hawaii. Weather looks light and lumpy getting out of the islands and then a long trade wind downwinder to the Marshalls. Aloha, Ronnie Simpson Blog: sailquiver.com Instagram: svquiver Patreon: patreon.com/svquiver Tracker: https://share.garmin.com/svquiver ...
The power-to-weight ratios of the Australian 18-foot skiffs are astonishing. Here is Asko Appliances, roaring to the finish on Sydney Harbour yesterday in just 15 knots to secure their win in the 2018-19 NSW State Championships. Photo: Frank Quealey. ...
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Here is "American Magic" - still one of the most arrogant, wrongly prideful names ever (Did the Dotard come up with that name?) sailing in Pensacola, Florida, perhaps the dumbest state in the US of A. Maybe they should actually call it American Magic That Would Suck Without Foreigners. Thanks to Anarchist Gummy. ...
Is this a legit beef or some sour grapes? So here is picture from the Australian Youth Championships at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania which I took on Friday morning. This a premier event of Australian Sailing. All up about 75 coach boats were moored on this and the other wharf. At say an average of AUD $60 000 each that makes about AUD $4.5 million. I could not see that too many were privately owned. People wearing national body issued clothing were busy running around. Presumably, these people are being paid handsomely for what they do as well. Again I these people are not privately funded. Later on Friday I went to usual Friday afternoon drinks at the little sailing club up the road from my house. Just 35 miles south of Hobart by sea is the Port Esperance Sailing Club. Port Esperance has a very proud maritime heritage having been a whaling port then a timber port and presently a major crayfish and abalone centre. It is also the home of both Tassal and Huon Aquaculture which are Australia’s two largest salmon growers. The Sailing Club dutifully pays affiliation fees which make there way up the tree to Sailing Australia or at least to Sailing Tasmania. The club house is a converted apple packing shed that was built in the late 1800s. One major event is held each year which is the Easter Regatta and this year was 160th Regatta. All types of boats are catered for from classics to rowing skiffs to Mumm 36s and usually about 100 boats turn up. So next weekend, the Sailing Club is holding a learn to sail weekend. Two days for $50.00, boats and lunch provided. There will be a good turnout for the weekend and it will be a...
Caption Contest What a perfectly timed shot! I believe a lot of fun is to be had with this one. Enjoy! ...
This is one of the lamest protest's ever. If this is the direction our sport is headed, then it is doomed. I know all about lame protests - the biggest whiner i have ever seen, tried to protest me for not being in "OD trim". Only one problem, it wasn't an OD or even PHRF race. Oh yeah,and said genius forgot to inform me, or even bother flying a flag. And what is the piss pour protest? "A crew (of a rival boat - ed) exposed his private parts to urinate when they were abeam of each other." In this PC culture, nothing surprises anymore. Jump in the thread....
Not convinced solely on this exterior shot? Well then click here and examine the interior shots. You'll be convinced. ...
