Mermaid fever sweeps Israel beach town of Krivat Yam as many report sightings of fabled creature BY Issie Lapowsky DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Wednesday, August 12th 2009, 11:29 AM Kolbe/Getty Are mermaids real? Dozens of people in Israel have reported sightings of the mythical half-woman, half-fish. Take our Poll Mermaid sightings? What do you [...]
Greetings yachties, Seems you have found my Fastnet ’09 story. If you have any random imges of the race you would like to share in this story-send ‘em in. Happy Sailing. Photo from NZL_Spindrift SOL RAN 2 CONFIRMED OVERALL WINNER OF THE 2009 ROLEX FASTNET RACE Photo credit: Rolex / Carlo Borlenghi 2009 Rolex Fastnet [...]
Sun sets on another Cowes Week Another fine and sunny day was predicted for the final day of Cowes Week, but the light gradient northwesterly wind was predicted to fade to zero during the morning, before being replaced by a gentle sea breeze, writes Rupert Holmes. Class 1 IRC, Fortix Excel winner of today’s race [...]
more Banque Populaire here Countdown to the Opti Worlds The NZL Yachting Trust Opti Worlds Team have all assembled in Rio de Janeiro now for the start of the Optimist World Championship 2009. They are settled in to their accomodation, had 4 days of training in a mixture of conditions, have tomorrow off for rest [...]
The yachts The story of 2 Lows Greetings yachties, The first low. The race up. The forecast was for a windward beat to Noumea. A developing low pressure system would send gale force winds for a dead maggot adventure through a couple of washing machines. Knot the down hill slide that many had wished for [...]
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more here order your copy here Thursday afternoon on the Auckland harbour. Men At Work 3 Stewart 34 Pim is one of the first. Princess the woody they took the mold off for the Glass Stewarts K Class Katrina, chasing hard Promise with the Godfather telling the poms how to trim Pavo Rum time George [...]
Part 2 Part 1 here Types of ice yachts here European Championship in Monotype-XV 1937. Monotype-XV ice yacht by Mats Åkerblad Background The Monotype-XV ice yacht was designed in 1932 by the legendary Erik von Holst of Estonia. It became popular in a very short time, and more than 200 yachts were built in but [...]
Over a bottle of Inner Circle rum, they looked at the drawings of the wooden boat soon to be built by Greg Elliot and hatched a plan to make a mould from it, good enough for about five boats, which Roger thought he could sell reasonably easily, one of course to themselves. They persuaded the [...]
Handy Links Charter Guide New Zealand with over 150 NZ Charter Boats! To Off Shore Islands Chatham Islands Campbell Island New Zealand Sub-Antarctic The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands consist of five island groups (the Snares, Bounty Islands, Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island) in the Southern Ocean south-east of New Zealand. The islands, lying [...]
