Sail with New Freebooters

I first heard of  Greg from Rick Willoughby, who has been a major technical contributor to Greg’s attempts on human-powered boat records. In those days, Greg was planning to pedal across the Atlantic alone - but gave up because of bureaucratic hassle over permission to land in Europe. I can’t remember hearing of early sailors [...]

Some while back, I met Rick Willoughby on a forum at http://www.boatdesign.net . I was a little skeptical of a thread dedicated to travelling downwind faster than the wind, powered only by the wind - until Rick guided me through the associated physics.
Later, I discovered that for Rick this was only something that fell out [...]

Mike K-H is a doddering old fool who should shut down his blog, sell his PC and buy a rocking chair.
Nobody actually said that - at least, not in public. But after last week’s performance, I couldn’t really blame anyone if they did, could I? A long time ago my favourite form master told us [...]

Although it has had the highest attrition rate of any Vendée Globe to date, this has been a very successful race for the organisers and for the IMOCA 60 Class.
Let’s compare the strategy of SAEM Vendée, the organisers of this professional sailing race, with that of the groups controlling the professional sports which have always [...]

I need a few pennies to cover the costs of running this blog, but I’m not happy about the way I’ve tried to earn them so far.
I started off with a standard theme that incorporates Google Adsense context-sensitive ads, but I can’t see the justification for some of the ads that have been showing. What [...]