On the Water

Bora in the air. Photo by Amory Ross So Bora Gulari answers his mobile and he doesn’t mind that I called, but he says, “Can I call you back in five? I’ve got this bondo that’s ready to kick.” The man is the ace in the hottest development class going. What do you expect? On Friday [...] …Read More

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More than 500 boats at Birmingham Boat and Caravan Show are featured in Boats.com's innovative new display. …Read More

Jeffrey Siegel said this week that the ActiveCaptain “X” beta website, under development for the past year, is now fully launched and live, providing everything from a new user interface to NOAA charts and Microsoft Virtual Earth cartography.  The website benefits greatly from having been available in beta form for the last several months and [...] …Read More

Sea-Doo has high hopes its new RXT-X 260 (read my review here) will begin to challenge Kawasaki for endurance-race supremacy, and as such the company is offering a little more incentive for racers to compete aboard the company's products. Yesterday BRP announced that the company has once again expanded its grassroots "Sea-Doo X-Team Bounty" racer contingency program for 2010, which will now offer support for top finishers in offshore and endurance events. BRP also announced the addition of Novice class championship payouts to the existing Expert and Pro closed-course program. …Read More

Yesterday’s “United We Fish” rally was quite interesting, generating a crowd estimated at three to four thousand fishermen, brought together from the commercial, charter, and recreational segments of the fishing industry. Wait a sec – commercials and recs working together? Has the world come to an end? Nope–but thanks to the current status of the Magnuson-Stevens act, [...] …Read More

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A very special Christmas dinner with other cruising sailors on the remote island of St Helena. …Read More

I was relieved to come away from visiting Plastiki with the sense that, yeah, this can come out OK. It might even be important. Photo by Kimball Livingston Most people have heard something of Plastiki by now. Being heir to a name like Rothschild confers an automatic celebrity and resources, and it’s not just any old [...] …Read More

Editor’s Note — Victoria Allman is the chef aboard a 143-foot megayacht and the author of the recently released “Sea Fare:  A Chef’s Journey Across the Ocean.”  This is the second in a series of periodic columns here on OceanLines featuring her irresistible recipes. Best of all for OceanLines readers, who are travelers of the [...] …Read More