No one goes looking for a fight with a shark. Some of the most ancient predators on earth, sharks are cunning, powerful, and lethal when they intend to be, arousing in humans what at worst manifests as crippling fear – galeophobia – and at best, a healthy aversion.
Unprovoked shark attack incident numbers are steadily climbing each decade, and we’re left to wonder what’s going on, and what we surfers can do about it.
It’s no secret that our sustained human activity has dramatically … More
After having spent more than a decade of my life covering the sport of sailing, I thought that I’d experienced it all: Volvo Open 70s, super maxis, mini maxis, IMOCA 60s, and high-performance dinghies, not to mention plenty of well-sailed Corinthian-level monohulls. But then I received an email from Nicola Breymaier, inviting me to join her husband, Ryan Breymaier, one of America’s most accomplished single-handed skippers, in San Francisco aboard the 105-foot trimaran, Lending Club 2 (ex Banque Populaire VII). The email had barely arrived by the time I was booking my plane tickets to SFO.
I knew the day was going to be special when … More
Home. A place to clean up, rejuvenate, rest. Above all, rest. We all need one, and the new voyaging canoe Mo‘okiha O Pi‘ilani is no different. The canoe needs a home, their crew says. And it needs it now.
“Mostly, I’m looking for a safe berthing place for this canoe where kids can get out of the bus and walk over and step onto it,” Tim Gilliom, the canoe’s captain, told me recently. “They have to be able to step onto it. Kupuna too. The governor can’t even … More
