Planning a passage: Bonaire to Colombia
There is a good chance our upcoming passage will suck. Yay…
How do we know it’s not a simple downwind run in the trades? Enough friends, cruisers with miles, have told us how uncomfortable the...
There is a good chance our upcoming passage will suck. Yay…
How do we know it’s not a simple downwind run in the trades? Enough friends, cruisers with miles, have told us how uncomfortable the...
Written by Ben Ellison on Dec 22, 2017 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub
Dear Member
Once again, we have had a busy and enjoyable year with numerous events held at the National Yacht Club. These events have been extremely well supported by all of you and the staff have thoroughly enjoyed meeting and looking after you.
DEAR MEMBERS
All the staff at the National Yacht Club, would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Clubs hours over the festive season are:
Business as usual...
I am delighted to be able to tell you that the RYA have a coach available to run an RYA Dinghy Instructor Course at BSSC in Spring 2018. The dates for the 5 day course are April 21/22 followed by May 5/6/7.
Hi Figure 8 Voyage Followers!
This is Team Figure 8 speaking. Well the list of broken things got to a point today where a different approach was needed – specifically poor Monte broke this time.
Competing in the Laser Radial class, Gibbs finished fourth, level on points with third-placed Guido Gallinaro from Italy.
Though Chloe Kohanski’s journey on season 13 of The Voice wasn’t always smooth sailing, she learned a lot about herself along the way as she was ultimately crowned the winner.
On to the Senate. Then to Trump’s desk.
House Republicans voted on Tuesday to approve their final tax package, handing it off to the Senate, which could pass it in a matter of hours and send the bill on President Donald Trump’s desk as soon as Wednesday.
CAPE TOWN – Cape Town teenager Calvin Gibbs claimed the best result yet for a South African at the recent Youth World Sailing Championships since 1998 in Sanya, China.
John Martino is the former owner of ‘Isbjorn’, then ‘Patriot’, and he’s also the founder of the Annapolis School of Seamanship. I spoke to John in Eastport at the school’s headquarters about his history as a sailor...
Dec 17
9pm
Waves have broken fully onto the boat many times over the last two days–I stopped counting at five at Mo’s insistence. An hour ago I heard that now familiar deep whooshing and braced...
No need to caption this – just awesome |
I don’t think that I have enough superlatives in my already superlative soaked vocabulary to describe how amazing the new solo...
French sailor François Gabart smashed six days and 10 hours off sailing's around the world record on Sunday producing what many pundits felt was a previously unthinkable time of 42 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 35 seconds.
Day 48
Noon Position: 50 59S 98 03W
Course/Speed: ESE 7
Wind: WSW 25
Sail: Working jib, two reefs; main three reefs; wind abeam
Bar: 1011
Sea: W 10
Sky...