The Star World Championship this year attracted 103 competitors from 25 nations including 11 former world champions and seven different nations in the top eight places. To say that the fleet was deep is and understatement. The class is stronger than ever and the promise of beautiful California weather guaranteed a large turn out in […]
Recently much has been written and said about Kinetics in Sailing. I have read many points of view including an unfortunate comment by one very prominent leader in sailing calling many of our sailors “cheaters”. Here is my point of view. First of all, this is competition. In any competition, one of the main goals […]
I have done some cross training in sailing before; like in 1978 when I went from crewing to a fourth in the Star worlds right to crewing for a second in the 505 worlds. But I have to say that going from 30 foot waves, icebergs, snow storms, 45 knots of winds and 32 knots […]
I have not gybed a spinnaker pole since 1978. Oracle Racing coach Dave Ullman reminded me of this on our one and only practice day before the Bermuda Gold Cup in October. In 1978 I crewed for Dave Ullman in a 505 a few times and previous to that spent a lot of time on […]
Well it is finally here, the 2001-2002 Volvo Ocean Race. I have been thinking about the teams for this year
I want to tell you how much fun sailing can be. First, I had to remember. Sailing has become a career for me. Almost everyone looks at what the professional sailors do for a living with envy, and rightly so. We work hard but certainly we have a great job; doing what we enjoy, outdoors […]
Well I guess I got a bit overly excited about the Race in my last column. That is the difficult part of writing for a magazine. Three days after I wrote my piece saying how great the Race looked, King Louie smash his boat into a wave, took out two of his wingmen and the […]
Two weeks into it, I find myself following the progress of The Race with great interest. The story of the these large Cats, from pre-birth to the fast progress they are currently making as they rip across the Equator on their southbound track, is quite compelling…to me at least. At the time of this writing, […]
“You are back, already?” That is a familiar phrase for those of us on Oracle Racing
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