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RICH WILSON: Looking Ahead to the 2016 Vendee Globe

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RICH WILSON: Looking Ahead to the 2016 Vendee Globe. Category: News and Views. Created: Thursday, 29 August 2013 15:32. Written by Charles Doane. I stopped by Maine Yacht Center. In Portland earlier this week for a quick visit with Rich Wilson. Aboard his new Open 60. Rich, you may recall, became only the second American ever to finish the Vendee Globe. Around the voyage and share it with school kids around the world via his non-profit Sites Alive Foundation. In her last iteration as Dominique Wavre's.

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The Lunacy Report

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CAPE COD CIRCUMNAVIGATION: We Go To Come Back Again. Category: The Lunacy Report. Created: Thursday, 01 September 2016 17:38. Written by Charles Doane. Is normally moored. This year, however, we decided at last to give it a try, emboldened by the fact that we’d been offered a mooring in Wood’s Hole, where we could leave the boat for a while if necessary. With the help of our prospective boat-buyers. Nico and Amy, I sailed. Write comment (1 Comment). Category: The Lunacy Report. Written by Charles Doane.

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Lit Bits

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RACING SCHOONERS: Sterling Hayden Versus Bluenose. Created: Tuesday, 14 June 2016 18:03. Written by Charles Doane. On the right in the image up top) and the American schooner. Gertrude L. Thebaud. Write comment (2 Comments). THE INVASION OF ANGUILLA: A Comedy of Errors, Caribbean Style. Created: Wednesday, 25 May 2016 20:21. Written by Charles Doane. I first learned of the British invasion of Anguilla, which took place in March 1969, while studying Don Street’s. The Mouse That Roared. Is now a classic of...

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CRUISING SAILBOAT RIGS: Sloops, Cutters, and Solent Rigs

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CRUISING SAILBOAT RIGS: Sloops, Cutters, and Solent Rigs. Category: Boats and Gear. Created: Wednesday, 17 June 2015 19:06. Written by Charles Doane. In our previous episode in this series. The almighty slot in action. Its effects are salubrious, but no one can really explain why. Modern cutter-rigged cruiser sailing under a staysail and a reefed mainsail. A cutter-rigged cruiser with a club-footed staysail. Sometimes you see true cutters that have been converted to slutters. Here the foretriangle is...

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NEWPORT 12-METER JUNKET: With A Little Help From My Friends

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NEWPORT 12-METER JUNKET: With A Little Help From My Friends. Category: Techniques and Tactics. Created: Monday, 20 July 2015 16:52. Written by Charles Doane. In this case, aboard. Ted Turner steering American Eagle. The next man forward of him, crouched on the edge of the coachroof, is tending the mainsheet in the position I was forbidden to use. By the end of the day my back and shoulders were tied up in a chiropractic pretzel and were screaming in pain. The man in charge. Other issues were more mysteri...

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CRUISING SAILBOAT RIGS: Converting a Sloop to a Slutter

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CRUISING SAILBOAT RIGS: Converting a Sloop to a Slutter. Category: Boats and Gear. Created: Friday, 10 July 2015 14:25. Written by Charles Doane. I mentioned the concept of a "slutter," a sloop that is converted to a cutter by adding a removable inner forestay, in my last post on this subject. Post conversion, during her very first test sail, flying both a large genoa and her staysail, which in fact was something I rarely did, as it was difficult to tack the genoa around the staysail. If no bulkhead is a...

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Estocada on the Rio Odiel: Death of an Alden Schooner

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Estocada on the Rio Odiel: Death of an Alden Schooner. Created: Wednesday, 24 March 2010 00:00. Written by Charles Doane. During much of that long night. As our fine Alden schooner,. Lay crippled on her side in the river, I found myself thinking of the bulls. From the matador. Only on the fourth. As the matador at last found his mark, slipping the blade deep between the animal’s shoulder blades, did the bull fall to the ground. But even then, after receiving a dagger to the head as a. She was a classic J...

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2014 ROUND ISLAND REGATTA: An Embarrassing and Provocative Outcome

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2014 ROUND ISLAND REGATTA: An Embarrassing and Provocative Outcome. Category: News and Views. Created: Friday, 05 September 2014 18:07. Written by Charles Doane. I have been tardy in reporting on what happened at the fourth annual Round Island Regatta. Held Saturday, August 23, right here in Portsmouth, NH, both because the regatta's media department has been very slow getting photos to me and because I am a bit embarrassed by the results. After missing last year's event, I managed again to get. Who serv...

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MIMI ON THE BLOCK: 15-foot 1977 Drascombe Dabber For Sale

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MIMI ON THE BLOCK: 15-foot 1977 Drascombe Dabber For Sale. Category: News and Views. Created: Sunday, 14 June 2015 12:03. Written by Charles Doane. I should have mentioned this earlier. I'm looking to find a good home for. My 15-foot Drascombe Dabber, as the sad truth is she hasn't been used much in the past few years. This is a seaworthy open boat with positive flotation (Webb Chiles, you may recall, took a larger 18-foot sister vessel much of the way around the world. But a sistership, so you can see t...

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News & Views

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RAINMAKER FOR SALE: Used Gunboat 55 On the Block For Just $15K. Category: News and Views. Created: Saturday, 20 August 2016 13:09. Written by Charles Doane. Though she is in rough condition. This is Gunboat 55 hull number one, which was dismasted and abandoned by its owner and crew. 200 miles off Cape Hatteras in January 2015. She was spotted and recovered off Bermuda this past March. Write comment (3 Comments). 2016 ROUND ISLAND REGATTA: Racing In No Wind At All. Category: News and Views. As I’ve ...