Go ADOR!
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing is currently enjoying a 30NM mile lead over Team Puma. Check out the light show when the VOR fleet and Tropical Storm Alberto meet head to head…..
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For the first time ever the America’s Cup offers sailing youth a chance at the spotlight. Select kids will be given the opportunity to train on various boats before taking a shot at a cup of their own on the same wing-sailed AC45 catamarans that are used in the America’s Cup World Series right now. The Red…
The Americas Cup World Series will make its final stop Newport, Rhode Island. The venue will feature both fleet and match racing. Make sure you are there. The event will take place June 23 – July 1, 2012 with AC World Series Championship racing taking place June 28 – July 1. Racing inside the Narragansett…
USA-17, the fixed wing revolution icon, meets its final resting place just in front of Oracle’s Headquarters in Redwood City, California. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vladvQR5C18&w=560&h=315] Apparently it is quite the process to make this happen, but relative to the world of Americas Cup costs, this is just a drop in the bucket.
Just another day at the office. Here I had to go aloft to take a perfectly good internal halyard that went to a brand new rope clutch and make it external. Don’t ask me why, it is just what the customer wanted. As we always say “as long as it is safe and functional”, it is…
When sailing down wind we eventually may find ourselves having to perform the dreaded gybe. Depending on conditions and wind strengths, this can be relatively painless or really scary. A violent gybe, which causes the boom to crash from one side of the boat to the other, can cause major damage. In some instances the boom…
You can say what you want about how the classic feel of the Americas Cup has been lost. Most of us feel the same way about these mutli-hulls taking over for the gorgeous mono-hulls of the past. However, let’s not forget one of the primary functions of Americas Cup. It is one of the testing…
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