On the Water: News & Events

Blowsion SurfSlam PWC Freeride Championship and IJSBA MotoSurf Racing scheduled for Sep. 10-12 in Pacific City, Oregon. …Read More

Not one but two iPhone NOAA raster charting apps debuted last week, and I had had a little Beta time with each.  EarthNC for iPhone costs $25 and incorporates some fresh thinking and a lot of the resources EarthNC has long been developing for it... …Read More

Could an unstadium in Los Angeles consign the America’s Cup match to Italy? Could a Chevron refinery in Richmond, California consign the America’s Cup match to Spain? Is it possible for everybody to pull in one direction, and go nowhere? 18ft skiffs are racing through Thursday in the Alcatraz Channel. Substitute 72-footers and you have something of the [...] …Read More

Sea-Doo releases a teaser video promising a 2011 PWC with braking technology for under $9,000. …Read More

The president of Core Composites discusses advances in boatbuilding with Chris Landry from Soundings. …Read More

I'm generally quite reluctant to fault fellow boaters when things go wrong, because I've made about every mistake possible myself at some point, and probably will again.  But what I hear about this scene, captured in part on YouTube, is a bit di... …Read More

Now I know how they say “yeehaw” in Brazil. It’s YEEEHAAW! Here is Brazil’s reigning Finn Junior World Champion, Jorge Zarif, port-tacking the fleet in Thursday’s practice race for the 2010 championship . . . I could hear him across the water—YEEHAAW—as the shutter clicked. Nobody bothered to finish the practice race, but [...] …Read More

The House of Representatives has a bill, HR 5804, which prohibits trade in billfish and deserves your support! HR5804, which they’ve titled the Billfish Conservation Act of 2010, would shut down all commercial trade of white, blue, striped, and black marlin, as well as spearfish. What about swords? They’re specifically excluded, no doubt because they represent a [...] …Read More

Sweet.  Comar's new little dual band AIS receiver not only outputs NMEA 2000 but is powered off it. Could there be a simpler install?  In fact, the AIS-2-2000 doesn't even have NMEA 0183 plotter or PC ports.  But the way things are going... …Read More

The phone rang at 0511 and what followed was a truncated conversation with a strong-sounding Ronnie Simpson who was “inside the Gate” and—he’s now ashore—safe, after his borrowed 30-footer dropped its keel 800 miles off the coast on the return from the Singlehanded Transpac. Warrior’s Wish was returning from Hawaii to San Francisco Bay, a distance [...] …Read More