Quickly and well: how to sell your boat optimally
“Two are the happiest moments in a ship-owner: the day he buys his boat and the day he sells it”. Eventually, for many ship-owners will come the time to change their yacht for a different model or dimension. It does not matter how much love…
(Reg)tiquette: regatta etiquette before, during, after.
Last weekend, after months of inactivity, I started racing again at the Genoa Sailing Week. It did not go well, and, to be honest, I want to archive the experience without too many comments. The only positive side is that I saw again old friends…
Flight and sailing: Vendée Globe, America’s cup and surroundings
August 22nd 1851 the Royal Yacht Squadron organized what nowadays we would call “a club race” on a route that winds around the Isle of Wight. Fourteen local boats and a New York Yacht Club boat participated. At stake was a silver pitcher (quite ugly…
