Many of the best paddle surfers in the world, whether sitting down or standing up, will gather in Santa Cruz on March 20-22 to compete at the world famous Steamer Lane point break during the 23rd annual Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival.
In addition to expert kayak surfers from around the world, the 2009 Festival will offer competition for stand-up paddle surfers, and a special College Team Challenge, featuring UC Santa Cruz, Cal State Monterey Bay and other school teams. …Â Details
Hanuman, the replica new build of Endeavour II, was launched over the weekend at the Royal Huisman yard in The Netherlands.
Designed by Dykstra and Partners, and with an interior by Pieter Beeldsnijder; she made a dramatic appearance as she was lowered into the water yesterday. …Â Details
Imagine collecting thousands of empty plastic bottles, lashing them together to make a boat and sailing the thing from California to Australia, a journey of 11,000 miles through treacherous seas.
You’d have to be crazy, or trying to make a point. David de Rothschild is trying to make a point.
De Rothschild hopes his one-of-a-kind vessel, now being built on a San Francisco pier, will boost recycling of plastic bottles, which he says are a symbol of global waste. Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic.
“It’s all sail power,” he said. “The idea is to put no kind of pollution back into the atmosphere…Â
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For the young and restless, what better outlet for their energy than thrashing around in little boats?
Most of their elders took backseats in the Southern California Yachting Association’s annual E.E. Manning Regatta organized and hosted by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club Saturday and Sunday. The event dates to 1935, a time to which none of the major winners could possibly relate.
Freckle-faced Riley Gibbs of ABYC, all of 12, won the …Â Details