‘If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he’ll go out on a boat and drink beer all day.’ Perhaps not the original famous quote but it hits home.
For many, fishing is an important part of boating and folks on a yacht charter can enjoy casting, trolling or bottom fishing. Charlie’s friend Joe went bottom fishing every day for a week but didn’t manage to catch one. Charlie gave him a few hints – but bottoms can be elusive.
Graphics by ...(16/ago/21) Pleno del First 44.7 ‘Aceites Abril’ de Luis y Jorge Pérez Canal en la regata Mar de Maeloc Rías Baixas organizada por el RCN de Vigo. La tripulación ganadora, en su sexta victoria en la decana de las regatas españolas por etapas, estaba formada por Chapu Torné, Eduardo Reguera, Pablo Iglesias, Pablo Espinosa, Sebastián Martínez-Risco, Luis da Rocha, Luis Sampedro, Carlos Sanmartín,...
While the AC75s of the 36th America’s Cup remain shrink-wrapped and idle while the Challenger of Record and Defender draft their protocol, the engineers and designers at Italy’s Persico Marine have been advancing their own Cup afterparty in the form of a 40-foot version of the flying beasts of Auckland, and in late July announced plans to push ahead with a production run of what will be called the Persico Fly40 One Design.
“Persico Marine has thus opened a new...
“Anyone got the time?” says Jim Rosaschi as we maneuver his Capri 30, Blue By You, toward the northern side of the Hoover Damn on Lake Mead. It’s only 9:56 a.m., but Jim’s boat partner, Glenn Frank, doesn’t hesitate with a reply.
“It’s five o’clock somewhere,” he says.
Out on the main lake, a grand total of three boats bob around waiting for wind on day two of Nevada YC’s season championship. The previous day saw no races completed due to lack of wind, and...
(12/ago/21) HanseYachts AG presentará en los salones náuticos de otoño el primer modelo de su nueva marca RYCK, que se convierte en la tercera marca de...
El ClubSwan 125 Skorpios de Dmitry Rybolovlev cruzó en primer lugar la línea de meta de la Rolex Fastnet Race esta pasada noche, en Cherburgo a las 20:15 BST (horario...
The post El Skorpios patroneado por Fernando Echávarri gana la Rolex Fastnet Race first appeared on VELAS & VIENTOS, magazine.At MIT, in a single season, two members of the sailing team suffered head injuries so severe, they each had to abandon their studies and leave school for more than a year. As the joke that is not a joke has it, we’re talking about very expensive brains.
Those college sailing injuries happened five years ago, prompting a round of soul searching and—hey, it’s MIT—a look at the data. Coach Fran Charles relates...
The extraordinary 98-foot Ultime Maxi Edmond de Rothschild showed a clean pair of heels to the rest of the fleet in the 49th Rolex Fastnet Race arriving on Monday 9 August at 20:24:54 BST, setting a new record for the race’s new longer 695-mile course to Cherbourg of 1 days 9 hours 15 minutes and 54 seconds.
As the huge blue and white trimaran arrived in Cherbourg’s Port Chantereyne, the marina...
After 24 months of research, development, and construction, 11th Hour Racing Team has unveiled its new IMOCA 60, the first of a new era of boats designed to compete in fully crewed, short-handed and solo offshore sailboat races.
A product of Guillaume Verdier’s design studio and built at CDK Technologies in the home of offshore yacht racing in Brittany, France, the new IMOCA 60 blends sporting performance with sustainable construction practices, and state-of-the-art boat building...
(10/ago/21) La Nuva M9 Open conserva las líneas maestras de diseño exterior y el programa de la navegación de las M6 y M8 de Nuva Yachts, ampliando el espacio en cubierta con su timonería central en un casco homologado por debajo de los 8 metros, lo que la mantiene exenta del Impuesto de Matriculación (12%). El nuevo modelo se presentará en octubre en Barcelona.
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