Posts by John Riise
Sailing and the Happiness Quotient
The late George Carlin did a great bit about ‘stuff’. The reason people need homes, he said, was “to store all your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” More »
Vendee Globe – Third Place is a Charm
No one’s quite sure just how much of Safran’s keel is missing but, at the very least, the bulb is gone.
© Jean Marie Liot/ DPPI/ Vendee Globe
Michel Desjoyeaux sailed Foncia into Les Sables D’Olonne last week to win his second Vendée Globe Race. More »
HMS Victory Found – No, Not That One
HMS Victory ‘5’ was the ‘Titanic of warships’ in her day.
© John Batchelor / Odyssey Marine Exploration
When we saw on the evening news that HMS Victory had been found, our first thought was “How could you lose a 185-ft LOD, square-rigged warship, especially one that’s in drydock?” More »
Save DBW – Second Notice
If you’re a boater in California, there should be two acronyms on your mind these days: DBW and RBOC. The first is the state’s Department of Boating and Waterways, which faces the most serious threat in its history. More »
Two Sailors Lost in Indian Ocean Capsize
Leo Sherman, an educator from Illinois, appears to be the only survivor after a homebuilt 43-ft catamaran capsized 200 miles east of Madagascar early last week. The boat was apparently bound from Durban to Mauritius with three aboard. More »
Carpe Diem Update
We’ve received a bit more information about a rescue at sea off Cabo a week ago. According to several ‘earwitness’ accounts (heard on VHF and/or SSB), Carpe Diem was a Lancer 44 motorsailor heading south off Cabo when there was some kind of trouble. More »
A Call to Arms
If you think belt-tightening in the national economy is going to be painful, wait until you see what the state of California is going to have to do to balance their deficit. More »
Sailboat Abandoned Off Mexico
Just this morning we heard from a reliable source that a sailboat named Carpe Diem had been abandoned off Mexico within the last couple of days. According to reports on the Amigo Net, the cruise ship Norwegian Star picked up the crew of Carpe Diem at 22° 37’N, 108° 46’W, about 65 miles southeast of Cabo. More »
121.5 EPIRBs Go the Way of the Dinosaur
You can still play those old LPs if you want, and by all means restore that old Herreshoff schooner. But as of February 1, that ancient 121.5 EPIRB of yours will not only be useless, it will be illegal. More »
The Thief of 39
Even after the thief was caught redhanded with items stolen off parked boats at Pier 39, Harbormaster Sheila Chandor was unsure how to proceed. It didn’t make much sense to call the police, since the fenders in question were stolen by . More »
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