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.
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!
Ride'm cowpokes!
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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.
Really?
Egads. more Lasers!
Surfing and singing at the same time, now that's good.
I love it that he bodysurfs too. Where are my fins?
One of my all time time favorite songs. Thanks Leon.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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
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.
Team Origin Wins 1851 Trophy YachtingWorld.com
..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..
Dinghy - Nick Craig and James Stewart continue to lead Enterprise Nationals . . . Sailweb.co.uk
Five iPhone apps for sailors CNN International - World Sport
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.
Copa del Rey día 5 Jaunpa Cadario
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!
