U.S. Multihull Championship 2011 was hosted by the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and raced in Viper F16s on San Pedro Bay.
Skipper Matt Struble (San Diego, Calif.) won his fourth Hobie Alter Trophy Saturday afternoon on an exciting final day of racing. Struble and crew Damon Lacasella (San Diego, Calif.) withstood a late push from Taylor Reiss (Panama City, Fla.) and Matthew Whitehead (Panama City, Fla.) to claim the title.
Struble and Lacasella finished  … Details
Whether the role has been racer, vice president or technical inspector, there is very little (if anything) that Napa resident Joe Shelfo has not seen when it comes to drag boat racing.
“It’s kind of like a video game,†Shelfo said. “You really don’t know how fast you are going until you actually start slowing down. Then you realize it was a wild ride. From up to  … More
Thor Heyerdahl clung to Kon-Tiki, his balsa wood raft, for 4,300 miles to show that Polynesia could have been colonised from South America rather than Asia as commonly thought.
But despite achieving his goal – sustaining his 101 day voyage with sharks caught with his bare hands – the Norwegian failed to sway the scientific community.
Now – 64 years later- new research has finally proved  … More
A fleet of seven Polynesian-built double-hulled voyaging canoes with an environmental mission sailed into Hilo on Thursday.
Crews representing 14 island nations voyaged from New Zealand.
A welcoming ceremony is scheduled at Hilo Bay from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday for crews on the voyage called “Te Mana o te Moana” — “The Spirit of the Sea  … Details