On the Water: News & Events

Everybody’s asking, will it happen? It has to happen. Photo by Gilles Martin-Raget/BMW Oracle Racing America’s Cup 33. Race One. Monday, February 8. First Warning 1000 local time Valencia. Photo by George Johns/Alinghi Even if mutual consent should erupt, and we see no signs of that, don’t figure it would extend to delaying a match that now [...] …Read More

Night vision cameras are extremely cool – no two ways about it. And in my experience, the coolest are thermal imaging cameras. Instead of gathering and magnifying existing light, they use infra-red. Everything has a heat signature, and the resulting on-screen images are far more detailed then those old fuzzy green things provided by less [...] …Read More

What’s up at the Golden Gate Yacht Club with barely a week to go before their trimaran hits the race one starting line at America’s Cup 33? A fiasco, but in this case a fiasco of the finest sort. The GGYC start/finish line over the weekend was used for the biggest sailing event of the [...] …Read More

Water Ski magazine is reporting that legendary skier Jaret Llewellyn has joined Team MasterCraft. The veteran has over 100 professional wins to his credit, and is the holder of 11 world records. …Read More

Justice Kornreich of the New York Supreme Court informed the America’s Cup defending yacht club, Société Nautique de Genève, and the challenging Golden Gate Yacht Club today via telephone conference that she will not hear the American challenger’s complaint regarding the ‘constructed in country’ requirement of the Deed of Gift before the 33rd America’s Cup [...] …Read More

Jupiter Marine's President has earned a reputation for building some of the world’s best and most-respected sportfishing yachts. …Read More

Kadey-Krogen Yachts recently announced that it has begun delivering an updated version of the venerable Krogen 48′ North Sea trawler. The boat was introduced in 1996, and like all boats, it has evolved and changed as a result of owner feedback and advancements in technology. Key changes to the Krogen 48′ are an enlarged galley [...] …Read More

Oh boy, some fireworks are about to happen! By now everyone’s heard about Humminbird’s side imaging units, which use an incredibly tight sonar beam shot out to either side of the transducer to paint an extraordinary picture of what lies off to either side of your boat. Shortly after they rolled it out Lowrance introduced [...] …Read More

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MEXORC has always been a moving target, and for 2010 it’s being redesigned yet again. This is your looking-ahead checkup, because there’s been a concern and maybe we can clear that up. But first— The essential West-Coast-of-Mexico-biennial is now a featured component of the inaugural Regata Copa México, intended to celebrate the country’s bicentennial and then [...] …Read More