Photos and videos May 08, 2019 NIGHT SAILING: SMALL RITES AND ANCIENT EMOTIONS Sunset is probably the moment when night sailing really starts. On the emotional level, first of all. I think it doesn’t matter how many nights you have spent at sea throughout your life. With experience, of course, small fears ...
Photos and videos Apr 26, 2019 A boat crashes into waves at full throttle, what a hit! The video. Even small waves can be a source of trouble, especially when crossed at high speed. The protagonist of the last video we found on the net has experienced it on his skin. At the helm of his bass boat, a small boat with a flat hull that ...
Photos and videos Apr 27, 2018 Ice sailing. Sliding at 35 knots on Lake Geneva Winter is not the most suitable season to sail the sea and many yachtsmen prefer waiting for fine weather to set sail. However, some of them don’t give up sailing emotions even in cold weather. So, a dash of creativity, a little ...
Photos and videos Mar 23, 2018 The world’s strangest ship? It’s called RP Flip and is a unique research ship, created by the US Navy, which can sink under water and stand vertically. RP Flip: the ship which sinks under water to study waves A ship standing vertically in the middle of the ocean? Don’t panic, it’s not one of the most dramatic sea accidents in boating history, but a lab ship created and ...
Photos and videos Dec 06, 2017 It’s foiling mania and the flying Optimist becomes reality. You can’t escape it: it’s foiling mania and, now, even the Optimist – the world’s most popular sailing dinghy – can fly. The secret lies in the use of graphene, a nanotechnology material consisting of a ...
Photos and videos Dec 04, 2017 How to prepare for heavy weather sailing Weather reports indicated a 18-knot south-east wind, rain and some storms would be approaching us along the Tuscany Coast in the next hours. Our destination was the Gulf of La Spezia; in short, a safe port on one side and an unexpected ...
Photos and videos Nov 28, 2017 Guidi brings Art to the METS Trade in Amsterdam Countdown for Guidi Srl, an undisputed brand in the sector of marine equipment, which is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary (1968-2018). The preparations for the upcoming accomplishment already started at the Marine Equipment Trade ...
Photos and videos Nov 17, 2017 How “wet” the Volvo Ocean 65 yachts are Spectacular aerial shots of the Volvo Ocean 65 sailing yachts captured during 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race Leg 2, running from Lisbon to Cape Town, South Africa. This is a 7,000 nm north-to-south Atlantic run, passing through the various ...
Photos and videos Nov 10, 2017 A sea tornado hits a beach: here’s what happens Striking images captured by several people on their smartphones show a sea tornado hitting a beach full of bathers, maybe too busy looking at it to get away in time. It happened on a Brazilian beach but similar phenomena are ...
Photos and videos Oct 30, 2017 Rescued after 5 months adrift at sea Last October 25th, the U.S. Navy rescued two sailors, both from Honolulu, after five months adrift at sea. Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiaba had set sail this spring from Hawaii to Tahiti, where they were expected to arrive after a ...
Photos and videos Oct 23, 2017 Video: spectacular salvage of the Modern Express On 26th January 2016, the Modern Express, a 164-meter-long ferry sailing in the Atlantic, lost stability during a storm and would have caused a terrible environmental disaster along the north-western French coast if a team of dedicate ...
Photos and videos Sep 05, 2017 DRUNK PIRATE ON BOARD. “RUDE” AWAKENING FOR LIFEGUARDS ON FORMENTERA ISLAND Once it was necessary that people should have a numerous cold-blooded crew and a lot of experience to climb on board others’ boats. Today, times have changed and it can happen that a drunk man occupies your dinghy and even attacks ...
Photos and videos Sep 03, 2017 ITALIAN BOAT ATTACKED IN CROATIA. THE INCREDIBLE VIDEO POSTED BY HIS OWNER. It’s not a recent piece of news but we want to tell you about it so that attitudes and events like these don’t happen again. It’s late July when Enrico and his family – his wife and daughter – land with ...
Photos and videos Aug 22, 2017 SAILBOAT STOPS BIKE RACE IN NORWAY Right at the 5km to go marker, four riders have established a good gap when, rounding a corner, they see something unthinkable. The road leading to the bridge is closed. Slowly, the drawbridge raises and a placid sailing boat passes by ...
Photos and videos Aug 14, 2017 OUT-OF-CONTROL TENDER CRASHES INTO TWO YACHTS AND A JETTY It should have happened last August 11th in Safak, Turkey. An out-of-control tender crashed into a jetty spreading panic among bathers. The pilot had fallen overboard during a manoeuver, probably because he didn’t wear the safety ...
Photos and videos Jul 19, 2017 GENOA BOAT SHOW: RECORD NUMBERS AND NEW EXHIBITION AREAS There are things that no one can change. Because they resist everything, including the misguided attempts of some delirious politicians who, neglectful of their birth of place and the existence of 8,309 km of coastline in their country ...
