It’s the need for speed combined with the danger of living on the edge that is making hydrofoilers – sailboats with wing-like foils mounted under the hull – so popular in yacht design. The America’s Cup will be contended again on foiling catamarans and now this year the Extreme Sailing Series has announced it will…
Experience and an upbeat spirit earned TortolaExpress the champion title at the 2014 Quantum Sails IC24 International Regatta. Ten boats, nearly double the number from last year, raced in this 10th annual event held out of Soper’s Hole, Tortola, BVI, in late October. Team skipper Colin Rathbun is certainly a familiar figure in the winner’s circle….
The Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week has become the largest U.S. multi-class regatta, and it’s still growing. Watch for a new set of competitors as Charleston Race Week adds a new class for multihulls and a new sponsor, Quantum Sail Design Group. And while the city of Charleston receives many accolades as one of the…
Even before the last holiday decoration is put away, sailors from around the world are tuning their boats, gathering their support team and making their travel plans for the first major regatta of 2014. Top competitors from over 10 countries and more than 20 states will compete at Quantum Key West 2014, January 19-24, 2014….
New sails are on nearly everyone’s list at the start of each Caribbean regatta season. So, what do you do with your old sails? Donate them to Nutmeg Designs, a sustainable home-furnishings and eco-accessories business based in Road Town, Tortola, where owner Annie MacPhail makes them into fashionable travel and tote bags. Grenada: Where Everyone…
With months of preparation and many postponed departures the young St. Maarteners who are attempting to sail around the world have set sail. In February 2013 Kippy Gilders, Alex Nebe, Maria Merckens, Laura Bijnsdorp and I came up with the idea to take the 52ft Beneteau, Corina IV, around the world and visit over sixty…