Going Robotic
College students gear up for a regatta in Gloucester, Mass., but rather than practicing roll tacks and starts, they’re perfecting boat design and coding.
College students gear up for a regatta in Gloucester, Mass., but rather than practicing roll tacks and starts, they’re perfecting boat design and coding.
Wild and windy photos from the 44 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mapfre (ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma) in Palma, Spain, which ran from March 30 to April 6, 2013. Click here to read an interview with event photographer Jesús Renedo. Click here to view results.
Chinese skipper Guo Chuan completed a solo non-stop circumnavigation in a Class 40 and set a new world record of 137 days, 20 hours, 1 minute and 57 seconds on April 5. Here’s what he said after finishing: _It is difficult to describe my feeling at the moment. It is still like a dream, I feel like being in a dream. Sometimes during the journey, I do not know if I could go home. In Cape Horn, when I could not see anything in the wave, I felt it might be too far to go back. Several days ago in Ta
The French solo multihull master Francis Joyon is aiming to own the four biggest speed sailing records, which he calls, appropriately, the Grand Slam.
The MOD70 has attracted interest and spectators, and delivered on being a relatively safe yet fun multihull class. But the problem is that the sponsors are not able to turn the spending spigot tap on again, or at least not just yet.
Yale claims the top of both coed and women’s rankings in the fourth poll of the spring. Stanford and Georgetown round out the coed top three while Boston College and Navy nab the second and third rankings in the women’s poll.
Eight championship events, including the IRC and HPR North Americans, will be held at the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week this June. Over 150 boats have signed up for the 25th anniversary of the biennial event. New fleets include classic boats, doublehanded boats, and Gunboats. As usual, the regatta will include an 18-mile around-the-island race. Click here to visit BIRW’s website [Click here to watch footage from the 24th edition.](http://www
The first MOD70 campaign sets up shop in the United States. Orion Racing, with Cam Lewis, plans to train in San Francisco this summer.
For one family, a perfect regatta included swimming, a trip to Lego Land, a little bit of sailing, and a last-place finish.
Winner’s Debrief: For Helmut and Evan Jahn’s Flash Gordon team, a decade of hard work resulted in a win at the 2012 Rolex Farr 40 World Championships.
In the third poll of the spring season, Yale takes command of the coed rankings followed by Georgetown and Stanford. Boston College tops the women’s rankings, while Cornell leaps into the top 10. Twenty-eight coaches voted in this poll.
Septuagenarian Jeanne Socrates is 150 days in to a non-stop, solo circumnavigation of the globe aboard a Najad 380.
College students gear up for a regatta in Gloucester, Mass., but rather than practicing roll tacks and starts, they’re perfecting boat design and coding.
Wild and windy photos from the 44 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mapfre (ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma) in Palma, Spain, which ran from March 30 to April 6, 2013. Click here to read an interview with event photographer Jesús Renedo. Click here to view results.
Chinese skipper Guo Chuan completed a solo non-stop circumnavigation in a Class 40 and set a new world record of 137 days, 20 hours, 1 minute and 57 seconds on April 5. Here’s what he said after finishing: _It is difficult to describe my feeling at the moment. It is still like a dream, I feel like being in a dream. Sometimes during the journey, I do not know if I could go home. In Cape Horn, when I could not see anything in the wave, I felt it might be too far to go back. Several days ago in Ta
The French solo multihull master Francis Joyon is aiming to own the four biggest speed sailing records, which he calls, appropriately, the Grand Slam.
The MOD70 has attracted interest and spectators, and delivered on being a relatively safe yet fun multihull class. But the problem is that the sponsors are not able to turn the spending spigot tap on again, or at least not just yet.
Yale claims the top of both coed and women’s rankings in the fourth poll of the spring. Stanford and Georgetown round out the coed top three while Boston College and Navy nab the second and third rankings in the women’s poll.
Eight championship events, including the IRC and HPR North Americans, will be held at the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week this June. Over 150 boats have signed up for the 25th anniversary of the biennial event. New fleets include classic boats, doublehanded boats, and Gunboats. As usual, the regatta will include an 18-mile around-the-island race. Click here to visit BIRW’s website [Click here to watch footage from the 24th edition.](http://www
The first MOD70 campaign sets up shop in the United States. Orion Racing, with Cam Lewis, plans to train in San Francisco this summer.
For one family, a perfect regatta included swimming, a trip to Lego Land, a little bit of sailing, and a last-place finish.
Winner’s Debrief: For Helmut and Evan Jahn’s Flash Gordon team, a decade of hard work resulted in a win at the 2012 Rolex Farr 40 World Championships.
In the third poll of the spring season, Yale takes command of the coed rankings followed by Georgetown and Stanford. Boston College tops the women’s rankings, while Cornell leaps into the top 10. Twenty-eight coaches voted in this poll.
Septuagenarian Jeanne Socrates is 150 days in to a non-stop, solo circumnavigation of the globe aboard a Najad 380.
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