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Americas Cup Venue Announcement
As quoted in Sailing Scuttlebutt, Russell Coutts, of BMW Oracle Racing, said that a venue should be announced by the end of the month. San Francisco is being heavily scrutinized as an option, as the BOR team’s yacht club, Golden Gate Yacht Club, is located in San Francisco. We’ll keep our eye out for an … Continue reading »
Abby’s Dream Continues …
The people of Chile are digging themselves from an Earthquake, and Hawaii and Japan are bracing for a possible tsunami – but we may neglect to think about Abby Sunderland, the 16-year old girl trying to make history. At last check, Abby was off the west coast of Chile, making her way down the coast … Continue reading »
Ports We’d Like to See
While we’re still waiting for this announcement (9:00 AM EST), here’s a list of ports that Racing Winds would like to see put on the map this year: Sydney, Australia (or anywhere on the Sunshine Coast for that matter) San Francisco, CA (or San Diego; the VOR has never visited a US West Coast port) … Continue reading »
Ropes Attached: Solo Circumnavigations [pt. 2]
In the wake of the Laura Dekker issue, people have neglected to realize that there are still teenagers vying for approval to sail round the world alone. Watson is a 16-year old Australian girl who plans to sail -nonstop- around the world .. alone. That’s right, folks, nonstop. Not like Laura Dekker’s route, with a … Continue reading »
Censorship is Alive and Well [BannedBookWeek]
Today in school, our librarian showed us a movie. It was an older movie called “The Day they came to Arrest the Book.” And in the movie, towards the end of the storyline, one of the teachers tells of a book. After the censorship-happy principal orders Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” removed from the shelf (citing … Continue reading »
Looking for Help Writing Whitecaps
Whitecaps has been especially challenging to write, especially because I have no sailing round the world alone – type of experiences. Do you? Help me write Whitecaps! More information here: http://bit.ly/Looking4Help
Looking for a Blogger
See earlier post with same name.
Looking for Something New!
An writer has a calling, and it’s saying “Come to the Racing Winds Blog!” Click on the post to see more. Continue reading »
Racing Winds.com has New Pages!
This is clipped article from the Racing Winds News Blog. To see the full article, follow the link below. Racing Winds News Blog: Post 030 can be found at www.xrl.us/rwb30
