Posts Tagged ‘Environment’

BoaterMouth
Define Heavy Weather?
Posted on June 21st 2010 - Kimball Livingston
In yet another example of racing when the most recent crop of America’s Cup boats would be huddled ashore, youngsters from up and down the ...

From Planks to Lams
Posted on June 14th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
We don’t have to explain it the way Obi Wan explains The Force to young master Luke, but just the same, everything is tied together. ...

Shaping Boats, and the Industry
Posted on June 9th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
Puzzling the problems of the day. Photo by KL Walking through door of the International Yacht Restoration School will likely affect you considerably. Speaking from experience. ...

First Flags First
Posted on May 31st 2010 - Kimball Livingston
History often leaves loose ends. I have my own copy of this flag, the Serapis flag, that I like to fly from time to time, and ...

BCDC Loves You, Baby
Posted on May 20th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
In San Francisco today, Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office released a resolution passed by the Bay Conservation and Development Commission supporting an America’s Cup match on ...

A Surreal Year (but let’s race)
Posted on May 11th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
A NOAA view of the Gulf of Mexico on a cloudy May 10 When Guy Brierre calls 2010 “a surreal year” that means something. I got to ...

Recyclable Boat Makes Landfall
Posted on April 29th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
Plastiki, 39 days out of San Francisco and halfway to a final destination in Australia, arrived on Wednesday in the Line Islands. I gather it ...

Turning the Tide, Turning the Tide
Posted on April 21st 2010 - Kimball Livingston
“Pacific Gyre? The problem is not in the middle of the ocean; the problem is in your refrigerator.” A Bryant Austin life-sized image on display in ...

Polaris Low on Horizon
Posted on April 7th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
What could be finer than to wake up at Les Voiles de St. Barth (good mawnin’ tradewinds!) and find on top of my inbox a ...

The Cup Stops Here
Posted on March 29th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
“Every year the City of San Francisco hosts Fleet Week, and we manage more than a million spectators on the waterfront. We have a history ...