Tom Akin had a lot to say about sailing Flash, a TP 52, to Hawaii. His initial comments were, ‘I found out what is its like to be in a TP52 for seven days.
‘You sit in water, you eat in water, and you sleep in water. It’s wet. The beast is not as luxurious as my Santa Cruz 52. I was looking for a creature comfort and couldn’t find one.’
Akin, his crew and Jeff Thorpe, Criminal Mischief’s navigator, worked non-stop over a very short period of time to get Flash into racing condition. From the time the boat arrived in Long Beach, two weeks before the start, until the evening before they took off, the deck was strewn with rigging materials, sealants and tools. The work that they did paid off. With more than half of the Transpac fleet safely docked in Honolulu, Flash sits second in class and second in fleet.
Akin had nothing but praise for each and every individual who sailed Transpac 09 on Flash…Â Details
The Winter Dew Tour, the world’s premier season-long winter action sports tour, today announced the host resorts and dates for the three stops of the 2009-10 season. The Winter Dew Tour showcases the top winter athletes from around the world competing in freeskiing (slopestyle and superpipe) and snowboarding (slopestyle and superpipe) for both men and women. The Tour begins at Breckenridge Ski Resort in Breckenridge, CO, December 18-20, 2009, continues to a new host resort, Snowbasin, in Huntsville, UT, January 15-17, 2010 and concludes at Mount Snow Resort in West Dover, VT, February 5-7, 2010.
All three stops of the Winter Dew Tour will be televised Live on NBC and simulcast around the world on Eurosport 2, Extreme Channel and Fox Sports Australia, with additional coverage on USA Network and MTV2…Â Details
The skates take a bit longer to tie than in years past. The bruises come easier, and the fatigue is a bit harder to shake from their bones.
But for the hundreds of hockey players in the Snoopy’s Senior World Hockey Tournament, quitting hockey would be tantamount to quitting a way of life.
“I played ever since I was 6,†said Terry White, 66, who travelled from his home near Calgary to skate in the annual competition… Details
Video Snowboard – Getting Psychedelic at Whistler – Snowboarder Magazine Coverboy Guillaume “Giom” Morrisett is a pretty psychedelic dude. It’s befitting that he sent in this pretty psychedelic video edit for us.