The UIM-ABP Aquabike Class-Pro World Championship will kick-off in spectacular fashion with the World’s top Freestylers opening the 2013 season in the stunning city port of Sanya, China on 27-30 March.
Six of the sport’s top stars will showcase their skills and will no doubt be looking to upstage their slightly bigger sporting powerboat cousins in Class 1 who are competing in Sanya at the same time.
Leading out the magnificent six will be   … More
SANTA CRUZ — Sean Morley carved his way to the top at the 27th annual Santa Cruz PaddleFest on Sunday at Steamer Lane.
Morley, of Fairfax, took home a gold in the high performance men’s division and silver in the masters open.
With more than 30 years of kayaking under his paddle and having competed around the world, Morley was just out to   … More
America’s Cup 2013. Playing catch up after missing the boat in recent months, Artemis Racing now reports – A big step forward as we launched our foiling AC45 onto San Francisco Bay. This is the first step in our foiling training for our second AC72. The modifications from our one design AC45 to our now foiling AC45 took about a month to complete.
Adam May, our foiling expert at Artemis Racing was the project manager for this conversion. ‘We set up a little commando group of guys to get the 45 foiling. Things were kept simple to get foiling as quickly as possible, taking input from the ongoing work on boat two, what we’ve seen in use by other teams, and a healthy dose of ‘just do it’ attitude   … Pictures and more
The most harrowing scene in Kon-Tiki, the new Oscar-nominated Norwegian film about the greatest sea voyage of modern times, turns out to be a fish story. In the 2012 reconstruction of this 1947 adventure, six amateur Scandinavian sailors—five of whom are tall, slim and valiant—build a replica of an ancient pre-Incan raft, christen it Kon-Tiki and sail westward from Peru along the Humboldt Current for French Polynesia, more than 3,700 nautical miles away. In mid-passage, their pet macaw is blown overboard and gobbled up by a big bad shark. During the scene in ques- tion, one of the tall and slim and valiant is so enraged by the bird’s death that he thrusts his bare hands into the Pacific, hauls in the shark and guts it with a savagery that would  … More