MOPEDS NO, ZODIACS YES:
A Conversation with Ernesto Bertarelli
Ernesto Bertarelli will have his own chapter in future histories of the America's Cup. He reinvented how to win and how to defend. He put the venue out to bid, created pre-event racing - and is starring in a celebrated controversy. Now he tells SAIL how a young, Italian-born Swiss billionaire came to this. MORE... |
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SAILING/CRUISING NEWS
FLORIDA OPENS THE GATE
More than 100 miles of navigable waterways may be opened up to Florida sailors if the 45-foot-high Shands Bridge on Green Cove Springs's St. Johns River is replaced with a MORE...
HUNTER'S PETERSON WINS SAIL AWARD
Hunter Marine sales and marketing director John Peterson has been presented with the SAIL Magazine Industry Award for Leadership. MORE...
DEPTH OF FIELD: U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS UPDATE
No racing sailor ever wants to see a regatta determined in the protest room. But when the regatta in question is the final race in MORE...
IBEX 2007
The International BoatBuilders' Exhibition and Conference, held last week in Miami, featured over 800 companies showcasing the latest in boatbuilding. SAIL was there to give you an inside look MORE... |
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 NEW BOATS
SB3
The SB3 (stands for sportboat for 3 people), hugely popular in Europe, made its American debut at the Annapolis sailboat show earlier this month. It seems to have hit the elusive target that sportboat designers shoot for—a fun, fast, durable, and reasonably affordable raceboat. To that end, there's some carbon used in the bowsprit and foils, but the rest of the boat uses tried-and-true materials—durable fiberglass for the hull and aluminum for the rig. But don't be fooled by its conservative MORE...
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EDITOR'S BLOG
The America's Cup may be over, but Kimball Livingston's still blogging at sailmagazine.blogspot.com…
Sailing with the Masters
Not to take anything away from the importance of youth regattas, but masters events are thriving. Finn and Laser dinghies have active fleets, to start a short list. Right now, however, I'm thinking MORE...
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 GEAR REVIEW
COMPOSITE TOUCH
Last year, Lewmar introduced the alloy OneTouch winch handle. Now Don Steiner (inventor of the OneTouch) and Dax Labs (Steiner's manufacturing company) have introduced a composite version, the OneTouch, which uses the same release mechanism and has an ergonomically-shaped underside to make the already easy removal operation smoother. $104. www.onetouchhandle.com MORE GEAR... |
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INDUSTRY NEWS
• HANSE EXPLORES U.S. PLANT European boatbuilders who export to the U.S. have certainly found the going tough, with the dollar's poor showing against the Euro MORE...
• BENETEAU GOES FRACTIONAL Beneteau has started its own fractional sailing scheme, aimed at attracting newcomers into boat ownership. MORE...
• LEWMAR BECOMES...LEWMAR Lewmar Marine's parent company, Clyde Marine, has changed its name—to Lewmar Marine. It's the latest in a series of developments MORE... | |
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