Fun day tug wake surfing on Shilshole Bay in Seattle. Check out my freighter wave session video from later in the day.
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Hawai’i’s state treasure, the voyaging canoe Hokule’a is on a 47,000-mile journey around the world to bring people together to protect our earth and oceans.
Over the past 40 years, Hokule’a has sailed 150,000 miles throughout the Pacific Ocean, reconnecting the nearly-lost voyaging traditions of islands throughout the Polynesian Triangle. The design of our voyaging canoe, Hokule’a, mimics the ancient wa’a kaulua, or double-hulled sailing canoes, used by Polynesian seafarers a thousand years ago to find and settle every inhabitable island within 10 million square miles of the Pacific. Hokule’a’s deck, stretched between double hulls, is open to the elements. She is lashed together without steel rigging, or metal fasteners … More
I sailed from California to Hawaii twice when I was a teenager, once with my Dad on a 25′ sailboat and once as the navigator for an elderly couple that was planning on retiring to a sailboat and sailing all over the world.
The first time you make a major ocean crossing is definitely a unique experience. You head out to sea and within hours, you watch the coastline disappear and all of a sudden you’re completely alone … More
Freya Hoffmeister, a former Miss Germany beauty pageant contestant known as the Goddess of Love to the Seas, has proven her paddling skills yet again by becoming the first person to circumnavigate the entire South American continent by sea kayak, solo and unsupported.
On Friday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hoffmeister, 50, completed the final two kilometers of the 26,908-kilometer (16,720 miles) circumnavigation accompanied by a fleet of local paddlers and well wishers, including European Union ambassador Alfonso Díez Torres and her partner, Peter Unold … More