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Sailing
What It’s Like to Sail One of the World’s Fastest Yachts: Aboard Super Maxi Lending Club 2
Recently the Super Maxi Trimaran Lending Club 2, one of the biggest, fastest and renowned sailing yachts on the water, took a break in between…
What It’s Like to Race the Transpac
San Francisco sailor Jenn Virskus shares her experience of racing the 2015 Transpac aboard the Santa Cruz 50 Adrenalin. I flew into Long Beach the…
VOR’s Team Alvimedica: Young and Hungry
The youngest skipper in this year’s Volvo Ocean Race, Rhode island native Charlie Enright, 30, recalls his first ‘infectious’ sailing win in an Optimist aged…
Volvo Ocean Race: The Last Great Adventure
The Volvo Ocean Race has been called the ‘last great adventure’ and with the world getting smaller every day in many ways it is. Even…
Volvo Ocean Race: Passion On and Off the Water
Newport, R.I. – It’s impossible not to be moved by the sight of Dongfeng Race Team, winner of the Volvo Ocean Race’s Leg 6 Itajai…
Volvo Ocean Race: Meet Sophie Ciszek of the All Female Team SCA
In Alicante, Spain – home of the Volvo Ocean Race – there is a feeling of anticipation with crews doing final preparations ahead of the…
Race Around the World Turns Sailors into Legends
One month into the 2016 edition of the Vendée Globe solo round-the-world race, 22 of 29 competitors remain in what has so far been the…
Team SCA: Meeting the Challenge Stylishly
Of the seven teams competing in the grueling nine month Volvo Ocean Race, it’s all female Team SCA that consistently draws the largest and most…
A Taste of Clipper Round the World Yacht Racing
What’s life like aboard a Clipper 70 racing yacht? A recent media sail around San Francisco give me a little taste. My initial impression of…
Sydney Hobart Wrap Up
Sydney Hobart. Two words that represent the pinnacle in endurance yachting. This “everest of sailing” is life-long ambition for many a serious sailor; in the…
Stepping Back in Time at Filoli
Strolling Filoli’s beautiful gardens, early jazz tunes playing in the background and dressed in art deco-era attire you’re easily transported back in time. It’s…
Sailing ‘Socially’ with Kroocial
One of the best things about having a passion is sharing it. And for me, there is nothing like sharing the experience of gliding across…