Coconut Grove, Florida March 1, 2015 I am back in south Florida for more Star sailing. This time the legendary Bacardi Cup. This year is the 88th running of this event which started in 1927 in Havana. 57 boats are racing from more than 10 countries. The competition will be tough with the Grael brothers […]
February 5, 2015, San Francisco Yesterday, US Sailing and AmericaOne announced a very exciting initiative, called Project Pipeline. I want to give you a little personal perspective on the initiative and pass along the link to the press release. AmericaOne is a long time supporter of the US Olympic Sailing Team. Bob “Buddah” Billingham was […]
Photo Sharon Green Key West It really wasn’t our week. Two races were held today in very nice conditions and we finished third in both. Bella Mente won both races to win the class. The breeze was in from the south-southeast at about 18-20 knots. There was a fair amount of chop and the downwind […]
Tim Wilkes Photo January 22, 2015, 18:00 EST Key West The short story is we did not have a good day. We finished 3rd in both races today. In the first race, we lost by 15 seconds and in the second race by just one second! Nothing remarkable happened in the races. Just a steady […]
January 22, 2015 0900 Bella Mente’s request for redress hearing was reopened this morning. Shockwave and Numbers were present this time. Reason prevailed and redress was denied. So Bella Mente scored a 4, 3 yesterday and all three competitors are within one point going into todays racing. More later. Paul
Photo: Steve Lapkin Key West January 21, 2015, With a forecast that was too light to race, the wind gave us a pleasant surpass, and we managed to get in two races today. The wind came in at 6-8 knots from the north-northwest around 11:00 and the race committee was quick to jump on it. […]
“Shockwave in Traffic”, credit Tim Wilkes. Key West Two races were held today in fairly steady conditions of 7-12 knots from the south. A first race raw started and abandoned about 3/4’ers of the way through due to lack of wind. In both races, Bella Mente had just slightly the better of us. Nothing dramatic […]
Could not find any pictures of the racing on the site yet so I took this picture which I found pretty interesting. Day one of Quantum Key West Race week was very typical, sunshine and 8-12 knots of wind from the northeast. I am onboard George Sakellaris’ 68′ Shockwave this week and we are racing […]
Coconut Grove Magnus and I came out determined to get back what was ours, and we did. We finished with a 1, 2 which was enough to move us up from 11th to 6th in the mid winters and save the overall Star Winter Series Championship by just one point. After yesterday’s broken mast, and […]
Coconut Grove Three races were sailed today on Biscayne Bay for the Star fleet. The wind was great: 15-18 from the northeast. Augur Diaz had a great day winning two of the races and Lars Grael continued to do well edging us for the win in race 1. We were in the hunt in all […]
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