If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again. Oops! [Sailing Video]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/template/utils/ooyala/telegraph_player.swf

A hapless sailor named 'Captain Calamity' has destroyed his catamaran after flipping it for the 13th time while attempting to ride Britain's biggest wave. Read all about the hapless sailor at the Telegraph. Via Tim "Wetass" Zimmermann.

What's It Like To Climb A Freaking Tall Communications Tower With No Safety Lines? Watch The Video.

If I have to go up the mast that's one thing, but there's no way in hell that you would catch me climbing as high as this tower with out safety gear. Mommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy!

Horseboarding? [Video]

Ride'm cowpokes!

The Sea Is Not For Sissies. [Videos]

Four for Friday.

Sailing big waves via Conjuminando.

From The Archives: What's Faster, A Windsurfer or a Trimaran? [Video]

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The Tide. [Video]

When The Lights Go Down In The City And The Skiffs Sail On The Bay.

http://blip.tv/play/hYk%2Bgfe%2BJAI

I bet you want to be in my city, Ooh. ooh.

Yeah, the skiffs were here and then the Finns.

Yikes!

http://embed.break.com/NDYwMTMw

Dual Waterspouts Chase Boat - Watch more Funny Videos

Cold And Drizzly?

Really?

Wednesday Wipeout.

Egads. more Lasers!

Surf And Song For Saturday. [Video]

Surfing and singing at the same time, now that's good.
I love it that he bodysurfs too. Where are my fins?

Let's Get Back To The Island.

One of my all time time favorite songs. Thanks Leon.

Fish On Fridays. Stand Up Paddler Says Hello To A Shark. [Video]

http://embed.break.com/MTg5OTM1OQ==

Great White Shark Swims Up To Surfer - Watch more Funny Videos

Hello Mr. Shark, Don't You Have A Nice Pair of Dentures. Bay Area Kayaker Survives Great White Attack.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/syndication?id=100890209&path=%2Fnews%2Flocal-beat

A Bay Area kayaker lived a real life shark tale and survived to talk about it.

Adam Coca, 45, came face-to-face with a great white shark over the weekend while kayaking near Pigeon Point off the San Mateo Coast. The Pinole resident was fishing in his kayak near Bean Hollow State Beach, in an area known as the "Red Triangle," where great white shark sightings are not uncommon when the shark chomped down onto the bottom of his 13-foot boat with its sharp teeth. [more]

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video.

Update: For some unknown reason this video does not load in Chrome or Opera. If you want to watch it, you must use Firefox, Safari or IE.

Hello Mr. Shark, Don't You Have A Nice Pair of Dentures. Bay Area Kayaker Survives Great White Attack.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/syndication?id=100890209&path=%2Fnews%2Flocal-beat

A Bay Area kayaker lived a real life shark tale and survived to talk about it.

Adam Coca, 45, came face-to-face with a great white shark over the weekend while kayaking near Pigeon Point off the San Mateo Coast. The Pinole resident was fishing in his kayak near Bean Hollow State Beach, in an area known as the "Red Triangle," where great white shark sightings are not uncommon when the shark chomped down onto the bottom of his 13-foot boat with its sharp teeth. [more]

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video.

Update: For some unknown reason this video does not load in Chrome or Opera. If you want to watch it, you must use Firefox, Safari or IE.

Rescued From The Middle Of The Sea. [Video]

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Anna, an Atlantic 57 catamaran, capsized while sailiing from Tonga to Niue. Her crew was recued by the MV Forum Pacific with the assistance of New Zealand Search and Rescue and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Rescued From The Middle Of The Sea. [Video]

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Anna, an Atlantic 57 catamaran, capsized while sailiing from Tonga to Niue. Her crew was recued by the MV Forum Pacific with the assistance of New Zealand Search and Rescue and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

You've Heard Of Log Cabins, How About Log Canoes? [Sailing Video]

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13044424&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0

Island Blossom Log Canoe from B. A. on Vimeo.

In a world full of mass produced "international sailing classes," it's great to see boats that were designed for local conditions are still being sailed.

Photo: Jenkins Sails

Friday Fishwrap. Part 1: Sailing

The highlights of the week from my fellow waterlogged bloggers and others.

W minus UH or is it a dash? From Ole's blog:

The Maltese Falcon...  279' long, wow.  Click to view slide show.  You might be impressed by the yacht, but I'm impressed by the amount of time it must have taken to design this yacht; all the myriad details of this huge beautiful complicated thing.  And I ask myself, how did the owner (Tom Perkins) make time for this?  The whole idea of leisure time - whether spent doing nothing, or spent doing something like designing one's yacht - is strange, alien.

“All boat design is a compromise” – Rubbish storerboatplans.com

Team Origin Wins 1851 Trophy YachtingWorld.com 

..nO wAY!! .sNIPEOUT

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..ebbene sì..
..nonostante tutto ancora preferisco le regate sulle derive alla crociera..
..ed i toast alla piastra anzichè "fritti"..
..e adesso, per ri-bilanciare il karma di questa colonna..
..qui sotto una video-markettona vetero-nazionalista-buonista-finto-ecologista tanto ben confezionata quanto straziante..

Windsurfers Racing Extreme 40 Catamarans At Cowes waterhound.com

Dinghy - Nick Craig and James Stewart continue to lead Enterprise Nationals . . . Sailweb.co.uk

Five iPhone apps for sailors CNN International - World Sport

Wishing for the Darkness evk4

I'm not going to name names because what happens on the boat stays on the boat. Or something like that. I even have photographic evidence but am holding that in my special blackmail folder I keep on all people that I know (or know about). But I do have to tell the story.

The Scandinavian Cruiser-20: A Laser for the 21st Century! Doc Häagen-Dazs

Fish on Fridays Messing About In Sailboats.

Copa del Rey día 5 Jaunpa Cadario

Cat Crash H2uh0

Be Safe Because It's Getting Strange Out There Desert Sea

port mogeur in plouha Bowsprite

Äntligen windsurfingfredag… Blur

Laser - terza giornata di prove per il Campionato di Distretto 2010 Vela Blog

O Tahiti Nui Freedom Outrigger Sailing Canoes

Expedition to Papua New Guinea Canoe Sailing Magazine

CRUNCH! OUPS ! [Sailing Video]

Groupama is left with no steerage after a collision, and heads straight for the sea wall on day two of the Extreme Sailing Series at Cowes Week.

Via Pressure Drop. If I've said it once, I'll say it twice, read Pressure Drop!