Fireball Worlds - 1 Horey/Thompson GBR - 2 Estaugh/Gardner GBR - 3 Macfarlane/ Payne AUS
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Kiwi Match, a young match racing team from New Zealand helmed by Laurie Jury, with a crew
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Manly Sailing Club of Whangaparoa, Auckland started its sailing activities to mark ISAF 100 Year
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At the end of a week of pre-litigation sparring and points scoring, Golden Gate Yacht Club released two documents
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America’s Cup Management has set out a very factual summation of the various issues
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The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, Australia’s oldest yacht club, begins its 146th spring/summer sailing season.
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We look forward to welcoming you to the Southport Yacht Club’s 61st Boating Season.
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APEC tall ships open three days at Australian National Maritime Museum, 5, 6, 7 September 2007
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Riviera Aftermarket and Service offers a one-stop factory-backed service centre to provide a full customisation service
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Alastair Douglas has been elected Commodore of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania.
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Saturday 1 September marks an important day in history for the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron (RQYS).
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The Trask brothers came out and immediately made their intention clear.
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For the second day of the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds, weather conditions continued to affect the leaderboard.
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The following question arrived by email today with the subject Dumb Question..
If you have a large sailboat that has battery powered equipment, and you keep it on a mooring out in the water, how does your battery stayed charged? Is the only way to re-charge the battery is to keep the boat on a dock with power? Thanks.
First of all there are no dumb questions. There is so much to know about sailing that all of us have gaps in our knowledge. In fact there are so many different types of sailboat and ways of going sailing that most of us have huge gaps in our knowledge. For example I know quite a lot about small single-handed racing dinghies and racing strategy, tactics and rules… but next to nothing about ocean cruising or navigation or how to maintain the equipment on a large yacht.
Which makes me wonder why this question was addressed to me. But I think I know the answer: large sailboats keep their batteries charged when on the moorings with wind generators or solar panels. I’ve often seen the generators spinning away when I’ve been ducking and weaving in my Laser through mooring fields.
And on the subject of dumb questions I just came across this quote in the signature of a regular contributor to Sailing Anarchy, the incomparable Gouvernail…
Sailors who are fascinated by the volume of what they don’t understand and who are eager to announce their ignorance tend to have a realistic assessment of their knowledge, a solid grasp of what they claim to understand, and are the very best sources of information.
Sailors who act like they know everything are idiots and should be avoided.
Do any of my readers who actually have some experience with charging yacht batteries want to add anything for my friend with the not-so-dumb question?
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Four high profile events will form the Swan 45 International Class circuit for 2008
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Napier Sailing Club, in Napier, New Zealand is celebrating the ISAF 100th birthday
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Manly Sailing Club of Whangaparoa, will be one of the first clubs in the world to celebrate the ISAF 100 year Birthday
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Free seminars are being held to boost services to visitors and protect the Jervis Bay Marine Park as a gem
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A $10 million dollar Queensland’s State Government boating infrastructure boost to support love affair with water
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Chris Van Tol, Mike Hoey, John Van Tol and Mike Rehe have won the 2007 Knickerbocker Cup, beating Andrew Arbuzov (RUS)
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Australia continue their reign as the nation with the most sailors at a #1 position on the ISAF World Sailing Rankings
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Port Phillip Bay is set to come alive with the annual Lipton Cup Regatta.
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Anders Lewander, skipper on one of the two Volvo Ocean Race-boats in the Ericsson Racing Team
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It was a tough day for tacticians on the Oresund Strait on day one of the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship.
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Jorgen and Jacob Bojsen-Moller take lead at 505 European Championships after day 2
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Richard Estaugh and Rob Gardner top Fireball World Championship after day 3
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APEC Leaders’ Week 2007 will take place in Sydney from 2-9 September 2007. There are major restrictions on Harbour use.
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Hyeres is the first French town to host the Breitling MedCup Circuit
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What you see is not only what you get.
What you see depends on where you sit too.
Your point of view depends on our point of view.
Our new house looks out over Mount Hope Bay, the northeastern arm of Narragansett Bay in Rhode island. Mount Hope Bay is about 7 miles long and 2–3 miles wide and we live on the eastern shore looking west.
We have a fabulous 180 degree panorama looking across the bay to Portsmouth, Bristol and Warren. To our left is the tip of Common Fence Point, the northern peninsula of Aquidneck, the “island” in Rhode island.
Beyond the point and stretching north is the largely undeveloped eastern shore of Bristol, low wooded hills sloping down to the bay. To the south is the waterfront campus of Roger Williams University, then a little further north is Mount Hope Farm, and then opposite us is the rock formation known as King Philip’s Seat, a reminder of the violent resistance mounted by the natives of this area when we Europeans first settled here. The trees stretch on to the north towards the mouth of the Kickemuit River and from our house we have a view straight up the river. The view goes on to the right to the beach community and salt marshes of Touisset in Warren.
Frankly you couldn’t ask for a better view of a peaceful, mainly natural, mostly undeveloped, beautiful shoreline, especially when you consider that we are in the nation’s second most densely populated state. The bay itself is relatively quiet with little boat traffic except for a few fishermen, the occasional day sailor, a small amount of commercial traffic going to and from Fall River, and assorted racing yachts on Wednesday evenings when Tiverton Yacht Club hold their sailing races on the bay. Tillerwoman and I spend many happy hours on our deck taking in the view, watching the boats and the patterns of the waves on the water, listening to the bells on the navigation buoys making their random music in time to the waves… and did I mention, the sunsets are to die for?
I kept telling myself. I must sail Mount Hope Bay one day. On Monday I did.
I haven’t worked out yet a practical way to launch directly into the bay so I launched my Laser at the boat ramp in Independence Park in Bristol Harbor and sailed out to the mouth of the harbor, past Hog Island, under Mount Hope Bridge, past the sailing dinghies going in circles off the dock at Roger Williams, around Common Fence Point and across to the beach at the bottom of the hill in front of our house.
I waved to Tillerwoman. She wasn’t there. She had taken the opportunity of my sailing excursion to go shopping.
It struck me that, from the water, Mount Hope Bay is nowhere near as picturesque as you would imagine if you had only seen the view from the selective vantage point of our home. The North Tiverton shore (on which we live) is somewhat ugly when seen from the water. To the south the landscape is scarred with a massive condominium development for “active adults”… whatever they are… and next to it massive piles of crushed stones which according to my local gas station attendant are part of some environmental clean-up of the site. Thank god we don’t live there. Do those active adults know what was in the ground on which they are activating their adult activities?
Then a mile or two to the north of our house, near the Fall River/ Tiverton border there is an ugly conglomeration of oil or gas tanks. And just to finish off the impression of a semi-industrial landscape, dominating the north end of the bay (and completely invisible from our house) is the New England Power Company’s Brayton Point Power Plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, apparently “the largest single source of air pollution in New England”.
I sail back to Bristol and return home. Our house sits on land that until five years ago was a farm. I suspect that the only ground pollution on this site is several decades, maybe centuries even, of cow manure. Tillerwoman and I sit on the deck after dinner admiring the view of the bay from our blinkered perch on the hillside. It is still perfect.
As I said. It all depends on your point of view.
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International 505 Europeans Championships, Sopot, Poland - Day 1 - Preliminary report
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Doyle Sailmakers proudly announces the opening of a full manufacturing loftin Qingdao, China
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The record fleet included five magnificent X-Yachts who all performed with great distinction over the week.
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Respected marine identity opens show Graeme Avers, president of the International Council of Marine Industry Association
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Australia’s fastest boats set to roar in newly-formed Offshore Superboat Championships.
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NOR Sydney International Regatta (SIR), to be held from 15-18 December is now available online - www.nsw.yachting.org.au
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Emarine are the new Australian agents for the American built Back Cove Yachts.
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It’s so silent here. So quiet, with just the soft wind noise whirring through the halyards.
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WA Planning and Infrastructure Minister announces latest round of Recreational Boating Facilities Scheme grants.
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I often wonder if it is just an ironic coincidence that the lifelines on a yacht are like a boxing ring
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Livingston Trophy will be a fixed 22 hour night-day event for yachts which meet category 4+ Safety requirements
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