Why do people hate cats? No, not the furry felines, but the multihulls. Sure, there’s the issue about them being more stable upside-down than right side up, but the same could be said of any boat without a weighted keel. Is it that they still haven’t shaken off the hippie image they earned in the 1960’s and 70’s, when grotesque backyard catamarans and trimarans made of plywood and even ferrocement were the eyesores of many a suburban neighborhood? Is it the ubiquitous beach cats that many of us watched rot away in front of our neighbor’s houses? You hear them poopooed by the old guard regularly, but why? Why do people dog on cats? Â
As we’ve reported before … Details
The first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean completed her journey Thursday, finishing the final leg in Madang, Papua New Guinea.Â
On the other side of the ocean from her Golden Gate starting point, Roz Savage rowed 700 strokes to cover the last mile. “Exhausted, sore, stiff, but will be elated once I’ve got the energy,” she wrote on her Twitter page … Details
The 14th World Va’a/Outrigger Canoe Sprint Championships ended May 29 in Noumea, New Caledonia, with Tahiti’s victory. New Zealand finished second and Australia third.Â
Tahiti’s outrigger canoe paddlers won … Details
This footage, taken while kayak fishing at Woody Head Australia Winter ’09, has been taken from one of my fishing reports, edited down with only the footage involving the shark.