Baja, Mexico – During the shooting of The Kayak Fishing Show with Jim Sammons TV series, Howard McKim of Ketchikan Alaska hooked up with a monstrous blue marlin and got towed 11 miles out to sea over a 5-hour period
Coming off the best finish for the Doran Racing Rolex Series team in five years, drivers Memo Gidley and Dion VonMoltke are eager to take things to another level at this weekend’s Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway.
The No. 77 McDonald’s Doran placed fourth at Barber Motorsports Park earlier this month, and Gidley is hopeful of building on that. “There is nothing like a good finish to pump everybody up … Details & Pictures
‘Monohuls and catamarans alike found the going tough in the 20th Miami Offshore Grand Prix. This P1 boat was make the best of it. What does that name mean? No idea, can’t even pronounce it. – Miami offshore cut short’   Super Boat International
In February I was in Miami for the Miami International Boat Show and along with nearly 100,000 others had to run into the coldest Florida weather for 20-years!Â
The seas were choppy, the winds cold and blustery, the sunshine for which Florida claims fame as America’s Sunshine State, non-existent. Well, perhaps things weather wise have not improved all that much off Miami Beach … Details & PicturesÂ
Nearly 1,000 years after the last of the great Polynesian migration journeys across the Pacific, a group of descendants set sail in a fleet of replica canoes on Sunday to relive the voyages.Â
Four double-hulled canoes with crews of up to 16 people each departed from Auckland to sail 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) to the French Polynesian island of Raiatea.Â
Raiatea is believed to have been the departure point for the last great Polynesian migrations to New Zealand, Hawaii and Easter Island around 700 to 1,000 years ago … Details
