It took Quantum Racing 8 races to finally get a bullet in the 52 SuperSeries, but they did in race 8 today. They sure don’t look like they won! They are 4th overall, and in striking distance with 2 to go. Funny photo thanks to Max Ranchi obviously not taken
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this is why we do it
You get up early and have a quick breakfast. Next you jump into your layers of clothing – thermals, shorts, polar, thermal socks, sailing boots, foul weather trousers, foul weather jacket, sunscreen, sunglasses, gloves.
You slip the lines; 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Start, and off you are.
The wind is howling
A OK!
Looks like our latest SCOTW is sailing in the OK Dinghy Europeans. She is girl is Maja Hansson-Mild, daughter of 2009 world champ Thomas Hansson-Mild who is also sailing.
We are appreciative of her fine form… Photo by Robert Deaves. And look! – there is already a thread condemning us for
license to il
Peter Thornton’s Volvo 70 Il Mostro broke its own race course record today in the 93rd Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Race. The newly established elapsed time record for the 254-nautical mile Cove Island Course is 21:45:12. Il Mostro’s previous record, set in 2015, was 23:39:54. Il Mostro missed breaking the course’s multihull record (held by Rick Warner’s Arete) by a
mayday
MAYDAY alert via satellite from 11’19.876S 112’23.973W @21.07.2017 0030UTC came in 1 hr ago via friends of Jørgen Emmerik Andersen and Anna Viera on S/V Restless.
If anyone is sailing in the vicinity please help them them out.
MAYDAY MAYDAY, SY Restless OSLO with Anna Viera and Jorgen Emmerik Andersen on board
high n’ low
July 19 at 3:27pm · Chicago, IL ·
7/18/2017 High Priority 2 Update
A long day on the water, 13 hours later she is floating upside down at a commercial ship yard in Milwaukee. 2 boats and 4 able body seamen ; David (boat owner/skipper) myself, Pete and Gary from Tow
sweetness
Just a little bit of summer vibe from the beautiful Bay of Arcachon…. in South West of France. – Christophe Launay. See all the beautiful shots here.
inflate-a-date
On Saturday 3rd June, 53 inflatable dinghies lined up for the 4th edition of the TIWAL Cup in the Gulf of Morbihan (France) – an annual event for fans. Participants came from the United States, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malta, Sweden and all over Europe to take part in this
high priority indeed
High Priority 2 update from the Chicago-Mac race: The crew is currently on the road (with the boat trailer) to Grandhaven Marina where a recovery vessel is waiting. We were removed from the Coast Guard Cutter Biscayne Bay Sunday afternoon via a small boat out of the Frankford CG base.
hey grumpy
Hopefully, the puss on this guy is just bad timing but how funny is the look on that mug? Photo by Jean Marie Liot from the Tour de France.