Charles Doane

2010 DOWNEAST CHALLENGE Results: Meet the Jeanneau One Design 35
Posted on August 6th 2010 - Charles Doane
You may have noticed I haven't been in a huge rush to blog about the offshore race in which Team SEMOSA competed the week before ...

LAURA DEKKER: Not Just Another Teen Record-Breaker?
Posted on August 5th 2010 - Charles Doane
Here we go again. It's getting so you can write these "youngest solo circumnavigator" stories just by filling in some blanks on a form. Except ...

GAMAGE DAMAGE CONTROL: A Temporary Repair
Posted on August 3rd 2010 - Charles Doane
  Having massaged the Insurance Gods to ensure the financing of more permanent solutions, I set out during my recent Solo Mini Cruise of Casco Bay ...

FIBERGLASS BOATBUILDING: Creating a Laminate
Posted on July 28th 2010 - Charles Doane
In my last missive on this subject I introduced the concept of building fiberglass boats in female molds, just like the one pictured here. Now ...

RADICAL BAY 8000: Biplane Rig Catamaran
Posted on July 26th 2010 - Charles Doane
Ian Morse of Radical Catamarans has just launched his very first boat and, man, it sure is… radical. I've always been intrigued by this sort ...

VIDEO UPDATE: Whale Falls on Sailboat (Some More)
Posted on July 26th 2010 - Charles Doane
  I have just spent more than 24 hours during this weekend's Downeast Challenge (Marblehead to Rockland race) listening to fellow crew and SEMOSA member Charles ...

Alessandro di Benedetto ARRIVED: Non-Stop RTW Voyage in Smallest Boat Ever is Now Complete
Posted on July 22nd 2010 - Charles Doane
Just a few hours ago that crazy Italian guy, Alessandro di Benedetto, arrived safely in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, thus completing his solo non-stop circumnavigation ...

WHALE FALLS ON SAILBOAT: Ouch!
Posted on July 21st 2010 - Charles Doane
  Cynics at various online forums are insisting this must be a Photoshopped image, but I don't think so. News outlets in South Africa are reporting ...

SPARKMAN & STEPHENS: Classic 48-Foot Sloop
Posted on July 20th 2010 - Charles Doane
  Just had a conversation last week with Bruce Johnson, chief designer at S&S, about this new "modern traditional" concept design they're floating. Bruce describes it ...

PLASTIKI RESCUED: Or Not
Posted on July 19th 2010 - Charles Doane
Some Australian news outlets reported yesterday that Plastiki, the unique 60-foot plastic catamaran constructed of 12,500 plastic bottles, had "come to grief" some 200 miles ...