With the Maxi fleet on its way home after their week-long regatta, the Piazza Azzurra and the Marina of Porto Cervo are now jam-packed with crews from the record breaking fleet of 116 Swans all completing registration and inspection procedures. Representing 17 nations and ranging in length from 36 to 112 feet the Costa Smeralda […]

Skiff sailing is sailing on the edge–sailing fast from the trapeze, on a plane upwind and down. Every mistake is quickly rewarded by a capsize. ts “Senior Division” is for boats with a combined skipper and crew age >50–not an old person’s game. But at the 29er Nationals, hosted by the Cabrillo Beach YC, Bay […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Anytime Paul Cayard gets homesick for sailing a Volvo 70 on the edge in the Southern Ocean he can step out for a similar rush on an 18-foot skiff on his hometown San Francisco Bay. “I actually did sail one of these here back in ’79 or ’80,” Cayard said as he chatted with […]

MONDAY, MAY 8, 2006 BALTIMORE The awkward moments for the leaders of the Volvo Ocean Race have been reserved for port. There was the broken arm that the watch captain, Mark Christensen, suffered when he took a tumble as the crew docked the yacht in Cape Town. There were those two straggling performances during the […]

Published: June 18, 2006 GOTEBORG, Sweden The U.S. yacht Pirates of the Caribbean won the ninth and final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race on Saturday, while the Dutch entry ABN AMRO One took overall honors for the grueling around-the-world regatta. The No. 1 Dutch yacht, skippered by Mike Sanderson, was last in the six- […]

Seahorse August 2006 It is over. As I said in my last article, “a lot can and will happen” between NY and the finish in Gothenberg. I think what happened was beyond all of our expectations. The very unfortunate loss of Hans Horrevoets and the sinking of movistar were almost too much to take in […]

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