First of all, reefing needs a close-hauled. This a gospel written on all sailing guides. But, in practice, it is not always possible to head up and sail close-hauled. So? Let’s break the taboo; reefing downwind is possible. This is
In 1996, Bill Gates said “Content is king” to indicate the web development way: the production of new valiant information content is the right way to be successful on Internet. The team of wikiHow has
A tragic event occurred in the Tuscan Archipelago. The corpse of the sailor Ernesto Longo, 79, was found yesterday morning on the beach of Marina di Grosseto by a pedestrian who has immediately warned authorities.
When mooring is a disaster. Difficult moorings are the main subject in the videos below which show the amazing challenges of some skippers (let us add “poorly skilled”) struggling with challenging moorings. Sailing boats, motor yachts and
When people talk about passengers at sea, they usually refer to people travelling on ships or ferries. The term “crew“, on the contrary, generally refers to all personnel operating aboard a ship or a boat.
Mathis Rühl, a long-experienced French marine architect, who collaborated with Philippe Briand and Southern Wind in South Africa, has presented R77, a completely new sailing boat concept. The 77 metres long boat has two couples
Put together a speed fanatical shipowner who wants to have a cruise holiday with his family; a catamaran which is totally conceived for racing regattas ( it comes from New Zealand, where it has won everything);
A great legislative confusion is obstructing the renewal of several mooring agreements. The rule about the recognition of marina resorts, issued by the Development Act in August 2014 and confirmed by Stability Act in 2015 and 2016
30 days left to the beginning of one of the most charming regattas in the Mediterranean Sea, the Roma X2, XTutti e X1 (Rome for 2, for everyone and for one single person). And while the organisational
The news of the finding of Manfred Fritz Bajorat’s corpse, the alone traveller dead on his adrift boat in the Pacific Ocean, in Southern Philippines had spread across the Web. The story is so unbelievable
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