Global Ocean Race

Global Ocean Race 2011-12 : Home

Only 6 teams competing but what a great adventure!
Right now teams are heading to Cape Town.

And my favorite team is...Financial Crisis...how appropriate. Also their mascot seems to be having great fun racing in the oceans!
According to Sailing Anarchy, "Clubby the seal", the mascot on board "Financial Crisis", last night went off on a violent rampage after reading a media report calling him a "soft toy".

Longitude

Do you remember when the world didn't know how to measure longitude?
LONGITUDE is one of the most interesting books I've been reading lately.

Some of the boats I've been sailing

Van de Stadt 34

Westerly

Grand Soleil

Golfino 7.25

Dufour 385

Dufour 34e

Bavaria 32

Vision or Extravagance?

Wired.com has published an article about this $40 Million Luxury Solar Sailboat

Check the full story here:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/09/a-40-million-luxury-solar-sailboat-for-low-emissions-indulgence/

Free Nautical Books

Thousands of downloadable nautical books at this site:

http://www.manybooks.net/categories/NAU

Knots

A very good site for boating knots:
http://www.animatedknots.com/indexboating.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&Website=www.animatedknots.com

Vikings

Last year I found this sign in Norway. So true...

Welcome

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A place where I will be posting all of my sailing related thoughts, photos, links, curiosities...anything and everything about this passion of mine.