The Girls of Summer. Canadian 470 Olympic Sailors



Jen Provan and Nikola Girke are going for the Gold in Athens. They fly high in the 470 dinghy.

Windsurfing Championships in San Francisco!



Come on down to Crissy Field on Saturday and watch the finals of the US National Windsurfing Championships.

Fun in the Sun! Sailing Pic

Anti-Shark Surfboard



That's what the boys down under are working on.



The board sends out an electronic pulse that plays with the shark's snout. Read here.

Photo: (AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)

Drink recipe of the week. The sounds of samba...Brazilian Bombshell

Setting: The music of Monica Salmaso melts across the air of the lanai. The sun sinks into the azure waters of the Pacific. You reach for this drink. Saúde!

Ice Cubes

3/4 fl oz (20 ml) of cachaça (Brazilian firewater!)

1 1/2 fl oz (45 ml) of silver tequila

1 1/2 teaspoons of fresh lemon juice

3/4 fl oz (20 ml) of Rose's Lime juice

1/4 cup (2 fl oz/60 ml) of pineapple juice

Chill a steamed cocktail glass in the freezer. Half fill a cocktail shaker with ice and all of the ingredients. Cover and shake the beejeezers out of it. Strain into the chilled glass and drink at once. Warning!!! This drink is addictive.

I think you have to much wind in your sails!



Photo By: Gilles-Martin Raget of Eric Drouglazet.

Man Over Board





Sometimes you get wet when you go sailing. Just ask Peter Holberg who was knocked into the water by Russell Coutts at the Swedish Match Cup.



Chris Law decided that he couldn't resist taking a dip also.

Photos from:
Swedish Match Tour (Anders Averdal)(Dan Ljungsvik)

Boater's Cocktail

I'm a sailor who spends a fair amount of time in Hawaii. The thing about sailors is we love to drink. There is nothing better after a day of being gently blown across the Pakipika than to land ashore and have a cool refreshing tropical drink on the lanai.

Mai Tai

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Pineapple juice
6 tblsp Sweet and sour
3 tblsp Light rum (I use Hana Bay Rum which is good and inexpensive, plus I like to support the local economy.)
3 tblsp Gold rum (Hana Bay)
3 tblsp Orange Curacao
2 tblsp Dark rum (Hana Bay)
Crushed Ice

Mixing instructions:
Mix first 6 ingredients in pitcher. Fill glasses with ice. Pour rum mixture over. Garnish with pineapple wedges, if desired.

Mahalo

International 14 racing dinghy



The International 14 is a development racing dinghy that has a history as an International class going back 75 years. These days the boat weighs 75 kg, has up to 55sq m of sail area and has two crew on trapezes.


Photo from Hayling Hull Open comes from il14.org.

Photo of the Day



The 49er! What an awesome boat.

SF Bay Laser Symposium Clinic



Jul 6-9
San Francisco, Ca, USA
St. Francis Yacht Club

Laser Pico



Read Boats.com article here. Buy one from Vanguard Sailboats.

A Day on the Bay.

Greetings from the Bay Area!

Steve Fossett and PlayStation set Trans-Atlantic record.


SAN SALVADOR, Bahamas -- American adventurer (can you say "Rich Guy") Steve Fossett has cut more than 24 hours off the East to West Transatlantic sailing record.

Fossett and his 12 crew sailed from Cadiz, Spain to the island of San Salvador, Bahamas in nine days and 12 hours, finishing on Monday.

His yacht, the maxi catamaran PlayStation, followed the same route as Christopher Columbus (I bet you that Chris would have loved this boat) in 1492. More from CNN's Inside Sailing.

Next up for Steve is the World Speed Record for Airships. Where is Richard Branson?