Goose attack

Catch Great Whites – Tag & release – Crazy

Express yourself – or SELL your boat

RI Yachting is pleased to have teamed up with MarineMotion.com to let you express yourself here with your own multi-media submissions on our new RIYachting TV!

You can post your race videos, marine subject matter, videos and even your personal boats for sale. If you have boating video, great. You can also upload a still image slideshow for your posting with text information. Each program can be linked straight to your telephone too, with MarineMotion’s TalkNOW technology. Then, you can share your programs from RIYachting on Facebook, Twitter, websites and more.

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J5 Ranger – for sale

jclassyachts.blogspot.com -  A unique opportunity exists to buy or charter ‘Ranger’ and her mothership ‘Vita’. Ranger has a proven racing record, having won the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and Antigua Classics. She is available fully race prepared or ready for luxury cruising. Her mahogany interior is exquisite, with four staterooms for owners and guests and accommodation for up to 8 crew. Her traditional design originates from the 1930s, but she is equipped with modern systems above and below decks. Find out more.

image – A Brush With Sail

Gassed

popsci.com – Sailors know all about backwash but this is extreme. Nothing worse then being in the back row!

Clouds stream in the wake of wind turbines arrayed at the Horns Rev offshore wind farm in this stunning photo. But David MacKay, a physicist at the University of Cambridge in the UK, sees the image as illustrating the common problem of back-row wind turbines losing power relative to the front row. More

RACE WEEK NEWS – Wrap Up

Skipper’s Notebook

Ken Read provides a revealing insight into the team’s partnership with PUMA – a ground-breaking sponsorship for the sport. In explaining the team ethic, he says: ‘A Volvo team cannot afford individuals’ Full post

Image – Rick Deppe/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race

Wanted – Exposure Suits

(Newport, RI) Confident Captain/Ocean Pros is looking for exposure suits in decent condition to use for training courses (they do not have to pass inspection). More

Great white tagged off Cape surfaces in Florida

boston.com – The voracious animal, which was tagged by state marine biologists when it was swimming off Chatham, has surfaced 50 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla., and its tag has begun transmitting data. Read on.

Build Your Own

Chesapeake Light Craft brings Boatbuilding Classes to Newport. They’ll be at IYRSl in Newport, RI for much of the 2010 summer season.

More than 20,000 CLC boats are on the water. The designs are built by amateurs and professionals alike in more than 70 countries around the world. Classes offered in Newport: Find out more. (more…)

Sail Newport – 2010 SAILING CALENDAR

Sail Newport’s calendar is familiar to many and is a great resource for planning your year. It’s continuously updated as regatta organizers submit dates. Check back often.

NBYA 2010 Regatta Registration

The Notice of Race and online registration are now available for the following regattas organized by NBYA:
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Sea sick

In June, 2010, Greg Kolodziejzyk believes he can set an amazing record. Pedal a high-tech, custom-designed, human-powered boat called WiTHiN 4500 kilometers from Vancouver to Hawaii! The world-record attempt is expected to take between 40 to 80 days.

Check it out here but be warned that watching any of their video will make you feel sick.

Done

northeastboating.net - “All voyages have a beginning and an end. It is with heavy heart that I deliver the news that the voyage started by Northeast Boating Magazine (the former Offshore) is now over.”

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BIG swell headed our way