The head of a yacht firm has been found guilty of failing to ensure the safety of a yacht which capsized in the Atlantic with the loss of four lives. Douglas Innes had been responsible for the Cheeki Rafiki, which lost its keel 700 miles off Nova Scotia in May
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one is better than none
Rio 100‘ backed their way into first to finish for non-powered monohulls! (They broke their port rudder and this is their emergency rudder bolted on to the back). Yet another fabulous picture from our pretend girlfriend, Lauren Easley/Leialohacreative.com.
pulled it off
Okay, this was going to be incredibly lame: The National Anthem at a skipper’s meeting?? Well, it is Fresno Yacht Club after all. Have they heard of HD up there? But then, like always, rock guitars came to the rescue! A bit more feedback and distortion would have nailed it.
no surprise
The America’s Cup may be over but since the last race on the Great Sound there has been some thrilling sailing in other parts of the world as two long standing ocean race records tumble. On Monday evening the Shelter Island based yacht Prospector knocked more than two hours off the existing
trash talk
Well… It’s still out here.
Rio 100 reported striking a UFO with their port rudder. Somehow they managed through crew work heroics to swap the destroyed foil with the starboard blade. Imagine two one foot diameter holes in the bottom of your boat when you’re 1,000 miles from the nearest landfall.
giant killer
The modified Melges 32 Aris dusting the big Latino at the ORC Worlds! Not really, but you know they hung close on a leg like this. Max Ranchi photo.
longview
A ton of boats – 115 from 19 countries to be exact, are at the ORC Worlds in Trieste, Italy. We’ll have a report from the fleet very soon…
new cool
Jochem Visser is a sailor who likes the edge, and as far as we know it has primarily been in monohulls. Not any more! This is his new 26′ foiling cat, built as a new one design called ETF 26. Cool indeed!
11 o’clock tick tock…
The Transpac multihull start is a mere hours away and US Sailing (ORR) still hasn’t issued ratings! Our understanding is that Mighty Merloe is the only one of the ‘big three’ to have submitted all data, but Phaedo and Maserati did not. That doesn’t seem right at all.
From ORR: “The