Messing About In Sailboats

Commuting the Tillerman Way

c/o Scuttlebutt

Shimp 'o the day. This shrimp rocks!

Yes they really are sandcastles

Check out these amazing sand scupltures. Beats the crap out of the pathetic castles I used to make on the beach at Bognor.

Incredible Video of guy ski-gliding down the eiger

Holy crap this is scary

Sea Giant c/o Fogonazos

Fogonazos: He likes Big things! Check out these semi-submersible ships.  These boats are big ,very  BIG

The amazing street art of Julian Beever

Julian Beever is an English street artist who creates these incredible 3D illusions. Check out the gallery on the right to see his collection. With a couple of them you can see how he creates them. It's mind-blowing

Teenager sails into record books - Yahoo! News UK

Zephyr called this out the other day. He just sailed into Antigua

Link: Teenager sails into record books - Yahoo! News UK.

I hope he has his lifeline on?

Ravussin training on ‘Orange Project' for Route du Rhum 2006 (c/o Scuttlebutt)

More on those Mexican Fishermen

Saturday's NY TImes had a good article about these guys. Some are doubting their story back home

Is it a boat is a plane? No it's an insect

I had never heard of Moth Internationals but apparently they have been sailing or ...er flying since the 1920s. It seems to an Australian thing. (One more great reason to go to Australia). I found this video on Youtube of the ABN Amro crew on a stopover in Oz trying one out.The quality is bad but its' still spectacular. These things must be going 30-40 knots or more. They look incredibly tricky to sail and the design is very clever. The outriggers are really wings and there are all sorts of interesting little tricks like a hydrofoil on the rudder.

Here is site with a lot of tech stuff on Moths