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Keeping Kids Engaged During the Off-Season
Our passion is sailing with our two children, Gigi (8) and Jason (5). We’ve enjoyed extended cruises aboard our Catalina 36 Precipice every summer since even before they were born. As a matter of fact, Gigi experienced her first overnight at only t...
Summer Soon Come
It’s a Wednesday night, and sailors are gathered round chatting about the good, the bad,...
Manhassett Bay Frostbiting — Thriving on Tradition
On New Year’s Day, 2010, a 77-year-old tradition will be celebrated at Manhasset Bay Yac...
Location, Location, Location and Wind, Wind, Wind
High Performance Dinghy Sailors had it all on Columbus Day Weekend at American Yacht Club ...
The United States Disabled Sailing Championships
Fantastic sailing conditions capped off a special weekend of racing on Captain’s Harbor ...Need A Last Minute Getaway?
LateSail offers you a chance to get away at the last minute and not empty your wallet. Latesail offers heavily discounted last minute and late bookings on hundreds of yac...
Catalina 445
Catalina 445 Wins Sail Magazine Best Boat Award
for Best Cruising Monohull Under 50 ft.
The "WOW" factor is back at Catalina! The Catalina 445 starts a new path in design, ...
Estero
Cruising World’s Boat of the Year Award for Best Midsize Cruiser
Whether one's needs are for weekending and family vacations or for extended cruising, the new Estero is ...
Keeping Kids Engaged During the Off-Season
Our passion is sailing with our two children, Gigi (8) and Jason (5). We’ve enjoyed extended cruises aboard our Catalina 36 Precipice every summer since even before the...
Summer Soon Come
It’s a Wednesday night, and sailors are gathered round chatting about the good, the bad, and the ugly that occurred out in the racecourse. It’s no surprise that rum d...
A Day on Edgartown’s Katama Bay
It’s one of those perfect summer days; clear blue skies, a gentle breeze and just warm enough to appreciate a dip in Edgartown’s chilly harbor. Hubby Jack and I scurr...
Old-Timers and Newcomers: The Newport Bermuda Race Today
Ask Newport Bermuda Race Chairman Bjorn Johnson how many times he’s raced across the Gulf Stream to Bermuda and he starts counting his fingers, muttering, “1990, ’9...
Newport Bermuda 2010 Notice of Race Now Online
The Notice of Race for the 2010 Newport Bermuda Race, which starts on June 18, has been posted at BermudaRace.com alongside a report of a recent survey of race veterans r...ISAF Sailor Classification Code Updated With Group 2 To Be Eliminated
Following on from decisions taken at the ISAF Annual Conference, the ISAF Sailor Classification Code is changing and starting from 1 April 2010, the category of Group 2 s...Meet 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist US Sailing Team
Meet 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist, Anna Tunnicliffe Dean Brenner, Anna Tunnicliffe and other members of the US Olympic Sailing Team to give talk at Marion Music Hall on F...
What's New! For 2010
Will the Volvo Ocean Race Have a Newport Stopover?
Newport, RI is among the finalists for the North American stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011 - 2012 (VOR), and a camp...
New Ski and Sail Regatta
Wax your boards and McLube your blocks – the Cedar Point Yacht Club Frostbite Fleet’s inaugural Invitational Ski and Sail Laser Frostbite Regatta is March 6 & 7.The s...
The Student Yachting World Cup
By winning the 2008 Kennedy Cup Regatta, hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy last fall, the University of Rhode Island Rams earned the right to represent the United States i...
Responsibility, Self-Sufficiency & Winning Ways: The USMMA Waterfront
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy was very fortunate to receive their STP 65 Vanquish (ex Moneypenny) as a donation, but it takes a lot more than being given a fast boat t...
The Way to Weymouth
This summer I traveled to three continents and across the country to compete in five windsurfing events. I started with the most important event, the Volvo Youth Sailing ...
MORE Ghosts of Block Island
By Fran Migliaccio
Photography by Marea Mott, Art and Photography by Gillian Stevens
Published by Francis Huggard Miglaccio
192 pages paperback $14.95
This reviewer was part ...
Lobster Lady
By Vivian Volovar
Illustrated by James A. Mitchell, Published by Flat Hammock Press, 32 pages, paperback $14.95
This book is about a lady named Vivian who catches lobsters ...
Under Full Sail
Under Full Sail: Silent Cinema on the High Seas , a DVD collection from Flicker Alley, chronicles the early film history of the large wind ships.
The era of silent film coin...
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On the cover: Bill Baxter takes a break from the warm latitudes of Florida to enjoy watching the frostbite action aboard Larchmont Yacht Club’s “Little Scorpion Club” race committee barge. Father of top IC sailor John Baxter and father-in-law of ultimate crew and WindCheck contributor Molly Baxter, Bill was himself a longtime dinghy sailor. Photo © Howie McMichael
