It’s not exactly the battle of the sexes. Think of it as more of the good old girls’ network of sailboat racing.
About 150 women gathered last weekend for the sixth annual Women on the Water (WOW) event on Lake St. Clair, which included a combination of sailing clinics and racing.
Although sailing is changing and it’s a rare boat that doesn’t have at least one woman on the crew, women are still a distinct minority in sailboat racing.
It was a big weekend on the Gothenburg water as the Powerboat P1 roadshow rolled into town for the Scandinavian Grand Prix of the Sea.
The festival of nautical high speed and high glamour arrived in Sweden for the penultimate weekend of the season, and delivered on both counts.
A nation where one in seven people owns a boat represents the kind of venue that this ambitious motorsport series would love to make a regular home, and a sunny August weekend in which Madonna was also in town was the ideal setting for P1 to sell itself…Â Details
Cory Routh was floating and fishing in a world practically devoid of clutter, and he liked it.
There was the reel’s spool buzzing out line, the swishing of the rod cutting an arc in the air and the sloshing of miniature waves against the side of his kayak. Somewhere far off an outboard was running, far enough away to be a faint hum rather than a roar.
Routh looked to the horizon as he fished. In the flat distance, quivering in and out of vision as they rode the heat waves, were the barrier islands of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore…Â DetailsÂ
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