“And we sail and we sail and we never see land, just the rum in the bottle and a pipe in my hand…”
Some Russian rich guys exercise in luxury, some in ingenuity of their luxury. Like this shark-boat in St. Petersburg. It stayed for a few days parked near one of the city river banks then floated away driven by some another New Russian Rich Man.
So classy. From English Russia.
NSL got to go racing again last Saturday aboard Flying Tiger 10m Centomiglia in the YRA 2nd-Half Opener. Starting from just N. of Treasure Island, we beat out under the Golden Gate bridge to the Pt. Bonita buoy, and then ran back under spinnaker across the City Front to the Alameda channel to finish in front of the Encinal Yacht Club. Maybe later I will figure out how to get the speed info out of the GPS so readers can see us hitting 14.3 kts, and also some pretty fun broaches, too. Results are here. Since we only had 4 crew, I got to do a lot more, mostly on jib. Thanks guys for a great day!
Peggy showed me this a few months ago, it is still funny.
Another Frenchie having fun in the big stuff.
Craig Horsfield’s Skyweb Express, USA655 at the St. Francis YC dock after winning the first West Coast Mini 650 Offshore Race. Congrats to Craig and his crew Tom on their achievement!
TP52 boat CAM sinks off Valencia’s coast while racing in the Trofeo Reina.
More pics and info here. Via S/A.
Adrian Blunt and Andy Abel in Mini CAN726 Antidote, at the start of the West Coast Mini race, Victoria BC.
Go the Minis!
Official site, Tracker, North American Mini Transat (dealer)
David Prono’s Clase Zero Mini USA728 Cali’Breizh enjoying the breeze in San Diego. The inagural West Coast MiniTransat race should be underway now, with #728 as an entry, but has run into weather problems.
Photo by DA-WOODY stolen from Sailing Anarchy.
Get yours at http://www.northamericanminitransat.com/Zero.html
On-board video of the proto-winners in this year’s Mini Fastnet under 2 reefs and gennaker.
This weekend I saw USA305 on her trailer at Brickyard Cove, Richmond. So sweet, and so complicated!
Today was something of a landmark for me — my first-ever real sailboat race, and what a ride it was! Thanks to schoonerman and owner CazzaRanda, I was able to crew on the Flying Tiger 10m Centomiglia in today’s Sarcoma Cup, a pursuit race around the Bay from Berkeley, round Alcatraz and Angel Islands, and finishing in Richmond. The photo above show us as we left Racoon Straight headed for the finish. (I’ll certainly be buying a print to hang at home.)
I had a great time and learned more in a day than I would in 10 day-charters to nowhere. Pretty cool to see double digits on the speedo, too. A warm thank you to all the crew for their help and patience with a racing newbie.
Film 35 nd Transgascogne mini 650 Delesne B
Uploaded by bertranzat650
Recorded: 25 July 2007
Location: santander, Spain
nav en direction de santander erwann a la barre trouve le temps de filmer dans une molle sous tourmentin 3 ris a bord du 569 Le Gall Menguy
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