Voyaging News
Sixty miles off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, the sailing vessel Holo Kiki issued a distress call after the vessel began taking on water. A rapid air and sea response by the Coast Guard kept the vessel afloat; a 47-foot motor lifeboat escorted the distressed vessel back to shore. Rea...
The Coast Guard Foundation is asking mariners to contribute to a fund to assist the families of fallen guardsmen who died on July 7 in a helicopter crash. When mariners need help help offshore Coast Guard search and rescue personn...
Running Fix Blog
Ralph Mothes and Paloma Werner were enjoying a pleasant sail off Cape Town in South Africa when a Souhern Right Whale launched itself out of the water right next to their boat. This was an exciting sight, for a few seconds anyway. Until the whale, estmated to have been 33 feet long,
Any voyagers who've read Steve Thomas' 1987 book The Last Navigator will remember its main figure, the traditional Polynesian navigator or palu named Mau Piailug. Thomas lived with Piailug and the islanders on Sa...
In the upcoming September issue, Charlie Doane has a neat piece on the return of Reid Stowe, the visionary and certainly unusual sailor who spent a staggering 1,152 days at sea (846 of those days were solo). Doane points that not only did Stowe spend all that time sailing, he did s...
Sailor, marine author and media director for the Speed Dream monohull speed record effort, Brian Hancock is currently delivering a sailing catamaran from Britain to Finland. To cut down on sailing time and get into Baltic ...
John Rousmaniere, noted marine author and media contact for the 2010 Newport Bermuda Race, reports that the Coast Guard has corrected a report of a dismasted boat during the recent running of the race. Rousmaniere notes that none of the race boats were dismasted. From the press release: U....
New Products
Beta Marine offers hybrid drive system
In the space normally occupied by the boats propulsion engine we can offer the following; A propulsion engine and transmission A 5 Kw battery charging ...
A new, improved lat/long?
How do you describe a location on the Earth’s surface? For centuries people have done that using the Earth coordinate system of latitude and longitude. Centuries of explorers and seafarers from Columbus to Cook to Peary have used the system. But now a former Honeywell real time statistical ...
Chartroom Chatter
TransPac racer donated to Naval Academy
Thanks to the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. John Kilroy, Jr. of California, the U.S. Naval Academy’s Varsity Offshore Sailing Team has a new high-performance offshore racing machine. ...
Training ship to offer experience at sea
Rhode Island educators met in March at a symposium to discuss what they termed “the endless possibilities” of Oliver Hazard Perry as an at-sea experiential learning platform. The 207-foot, three-masted, square-rigger tall ship...
Missing chronometer sold at auction
Alfred University in western New York state is hoping to recover a 19th century marine chronometer that once served its campus observatory to time the meridian transits of stars. The chronometer was built in 1840 by instrument maker Bliss & Creighton of New York and mysteriously vanished from...
Nav Problems
July/Aug 2010 Issue 187: Bounty carries on
Marlon Brando once walked these decks. So, too, did Trevor Howard, Charlton Heston, Johnny Depp and countless other swashbuckler wannabes whose faces we know, if not their names. The decks in question belong to the replica ship Bounty built for the 1962 film Mutin...
May/June 2010 Issue 186: At sea again
A gentle voice calls my name. I am in a dream and opening my eyes I see that I am laying on rumpled sheets, still dressed. There is gurgling noise, like water overflowing a tub. I take a few seconds to remember that I am aboard a sailing ship, somewhere between Bermuda and St. Thomas...
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