OCEANTEC 50: WHAT A LOOKER!

There is a small but growing market for really fast long range cruising boats based on solo racers, boats able to go fast with a duo crew, o...

TWO WOMEN DOMINATED AN IMOCA RACE, THAT’S A FIRST!

For the more distracted, the IMOCA class are the boats that race the Vendee Globe, the top solo professional class in monohulls and briefly ...

THE FIRST REALLY FLYING IMOCA (OPEN 60)

What a beauty!!! And I am really happy that the lucky skipper is Jérémie Beyou, a great sailor that in the last years never had a boat that...

SILVERRUDDER 2018 - A VERY HARD SOLO RACE

This edition was very difficult and the majority of the over 100 boats racing did not complete the race. Lot of head winds and 40kn gusts, w...

BAVARIA IS BACK

Almost too good to be true: no layout, all jobs and all factories will be maintained. After a bankruptcy and difficult negotiations with sev...

Log Rafts on Ecuador’s Rio Napo

While investigating  logboats  in the Rio Napo drainage in Ecuador in June, I observed six log rafts within a few kilometers of each other –...

A Logboat Under Construction in Amazonian Ecuador

In June, I went searching for logboats along a portion of the drainage of the Rio Napo in el Oriente -- that part of Ecuador that lies to th...