Wayne.B wrote:
Speaking of sport boats, the Melges 24 world championships are being
held in Hyeres, France this week, in windy mistral conditions. Some
good pictures he

http://www.melges24.com/photogalleri...Championsh ip


Dang that looks like fun!
I've considered getting one of these.


http://tinyurl.com/rmagw

My oldest son is crewing on the boat in picture # 3 and they are doing
fairly well.

The 505 sailor? He sure gets around.

I used to race Dave Ullman in 470s back in the old days.
Very good sailor and a nice guy.



Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
Good luck to your son - hope he does well.


Ditto

Kind of reminds me of the old days with Town class sailboats in heavy
weather. Lots of memories of racing around Marblehead in those boats.

Hmmm - I need to start my life over again I think. :)


Never too late, they say.


Not to go completely off the subject of sport boats, I was catching up
on my reading the other day and the particular article was about the
Volvo Round the World race and the hi-tech sailboats they are using.

Frankly, I was stunned at the technology being used in those boats.

They really go, too. Somewhere there is a promo video, never
widely published although I can't imagine why, of a then-new
Whitbread 60 pulling two water skiers. These vew VOR-70s are
a lot more powerful and faster in a wider range of
conditions. They need to get the bugs ot of that canting
keel though.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:15:20 -0400, DSK wrote:

My oldest son is crewing on the boat in picture # 3 and they are doing
fairly well.

The 505 sailor? He sure gets around.

He certainly does, and the old man is slightly envious at times, but
he got a *much* earlier start than I did. We took him on his first
sailing cruise when he was 6 weeks old and it apparently made an
impression on him. When he was about 5 y/o he got smacked in the head
by the boom on a friends J24 and that definitely made an impression,
but nothing that couldn't be fixed with a few stitches in the
emergency room. His mother was not amused.

He was writing magazine articles for Sailing World while still in
college and has made a lot of contacts over the years.