Incommunicado in the Satellite Age
Simultaneous to these emails, Frank was cheerfully updating breadcrumb tracks uploaded from his Briatech Cerberus, anothersatellite-based messenger/tracker designed to antagonize the office-bound. By...
Volvo Race Village Flops in Miami
The venue might have been half-pleasant had the hosts or organizers gone to the trouble of trucking in some shade, a few more...
San Fran ‘Stand-down’ = Government Meddling?
The Coast Guards call to stand-down and suspend any offshore racing outside San Francisco Bay in the wake of last months tragedy...
Around the Americas in a 27-foot Sailboat
I recently read an essay that compared sailing to tennis, two sports that I enjoy, but are as different as they come. The...
Chapter 11 Filing “A Good Thing” for Hunter
And all the while, Hunter has been trying to recover ground lost to market leader Beneteau, whose dominance in the charterboat market...
FCC Approves New AIS Distress Device
A little over a week after one of this countrys most tragic man-overboard incidents in recent U.S. sailboat-racing history, we got news that...
Tragedy Strikes Farallones Race
Summer has yet to begin, and yet our hopes and prayers for a safe 2012 sailing season in North America have been shattered. Five...
Beware of Fake Gear “Reviews”
Who can you trust? Youd think that the Internet explosion and the current boom in blogging and social media would make life easier for...
Buttons, Dials, and Touchscreens
At first glance, Raymarines redesigned UniControl appears to be a step backward. It looks like an ordinary dial, and only Simrad seems married...
Sailboats, Pirates, and the Police State
About a year ago, we published an opinion piece by Technical Editor Ralph Naranjo that raised concerns that Automated Identification System (AIS) technology or...
Leopard Catamaran Delamination – Leopard 42 Boat Review
Are you interested in a cruising catamaran sailboat? Today we discuss the Leopard 42 and the Lagoon 42. One company is owned by Beneteau,...
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Hans Christian 34/36
The story of the Hans Christian 34 and 36, and their successors, is a microcosm of the history of the Taiwan/U.S. boatbuilding industry. That...