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Block Island Race Week XXV Photo Feature 6 Aug 2013 | 11:34 pm
Block Island Race Week XXV was memorable and successful for a number of reasons. The race management of the Storm Trysail Club was second to none, the competition was fierce, and the shoreside camarad...
Chartering on the Chesapeake Bay 6 Aug 2013 | 10:46 pm
Yacht chartering is the ideal way to see Maryland’s western and eastern shores. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the US, with rivers, wetlands and forest edges forming a gorgeous backdrop ...
Small Trimarans are Taking Off! 6 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
The daysailing trimaran market has grown tremendously in the last few years. This is largely because the three-hull platform certainly makes more sense for the way many people want to sail.
Sea Scout Ship 6 Tackles Block Island Race Week 6 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
Editor’s note: The crew of Sea Scout Ship 6 from Norwalk, CT had a strong visual presence at the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week XXV. Most of the eight teenage sailors showed their Ship 6 ...
LISOT Sailors On the Podium Here, There and Everywhere 6 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
It started in March, as it does every year. Team LISOT (Long Island South Youth Sailing Team) began spring training with frost on the docks, starting another season of regattas around the US and abroa...
Halcyon Sailing off the Manhattan Coast 6 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
What happens when a kid from Brooklyn and a Denmark native get together and decide they can bring Royal Danish Yacht Club caliber sail racing and team building to Manhattan? So far, two and a half yea...
Three Hulls at 59.8 Knots 9 Jul 2013 | 11:51 pm
The Overland Route to a Bras d’or Cruise I co-own the F-31 trimaran, Sorn, with Peter McPheeters and Andy Lindsay. We joined up because we like to sail together and have done so for years, and becaus...
Modern Yachts on Canvas 9 Jul 2013 | 11:02 pm
The first image that often comes into most people’s minds when you mention “Marine Art” is of the archetypal clipper ship under full sail pounding through the high seas — an image made particularly po...
Van Duyne Junior Racing Clinic Jump-starts Summer 9 Jul 2013 | 10:24 pm
“They learned a lot about themselves as athletes and people on how far they could push themselves,” said Olympic gold medalist Anna Tunnicliffe, talking about the junior sailors she coached in big air...
Bodacious Dream Wins The Atlantic Cup 9 Jul 2013 | 10:10 pm
On a blustery Narragansett Bay on Memorial Day weekend, #118 Bodacious Dream, a Class40 co-skippered by Dave Rearick (Chesterton, IN) and Matt Scharl (Clarkston, MI), sailed to victory in the 2013 Atl...
