On the Water: News & Events

The gaff-rigged Kate returns from the racecourse. Photo by Kimball Livingston Little-known factoid: Puma’s store in Boston, the U.S. stopover for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race, is now the sports apparel maker’s hottest store. I got that small but meaningful tidbit out of a sit-down with Puma Ocean Racing skipper Ken Read on the final [...] …Read More

Last year’s “Baja Ha Ha,” the fleet cruise from San Diego to Mexico, provides yet another impetus for all ocean cruisers to reconsider their liferaft situation. You DO have one, right?  And it HAS been maintained, inspected and re-certified, right? And you actually know what’s stored in it and how to use it, right? And [...] …Read More

Soyana clears a piece of hard. Photo by Christophe Jouany Usually when a tourist island launches a new event, the goal is to build tourist volume. At closely-held St. Barth, the thinking is different. This island of 8,000 residents, small hotels and a total of only 450 hotel rooms is running pretty much at capacity—but [...] …Read More

Boaters are in a never-ending search for a high quality chartplotter with good ease of use, and my experience with a Northstar M121 multifunction display/chartplotter last week is something you should know about. Here’s the scoop: a few years back one of my project boats had a Northstar M84 on it, a unit identical to [...] …Read More

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Keeping on with the ethanol theme, I got an email from BoatUS today discussing the problems with the EPA’s possible approval of E15 gasoline. Here is the link featuring the BoatUs position on E15. You already know mine. (If not, I think it’s a sham.) The email brought my attention to an organization both BoatUs and [...] …Read More

Dave Robinson has a date with some trash under the Golden Gate this week. When? On the outgoing tide. …Read More

What could be finer than to wake up at Les Voiles de St. Barth (good mawnin’ tradewinds!) and find on top of my inbox a note from the Mayor’s office a few thousand miles away in San Francisco, advising that Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi has introduced a resolution to the Board of Supervisors, which goes on [...] …Read More

Kadey-Krogen’s recently announced 52′ is a classic example of a builder filling out a product line in specific response to customer demand. In this case, the company already had on offer its well-established 48′ and the new 55′ Expedition. The 55′ Expedition, however, is not really the “other” boat in this comparison — it’s the [...] …Read More

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