The Future?

Here are a few photos that seem to have evaded me over the last few months.

This is from the AC45's that hit Newport in June, it was a pretty epic thing to watch and I can only imagine how the 72's will be next year!

I guess to the general public, sailing is a bit like race car driving, in the fact that everyone loves a good crash. I think the start of these fleet races is the most sure-fire way to encourage a crash; that is have 8 or so of these boats starting on a reach at 20-plus knots and have them turn downwind and hoist the kite at a mark less than a minute off the start.

It pulled about 10-15,000 people each day of the regatta and their were hundreds of boats on the Narragansett as well as TV crews and a full festival thing going on at Fort Adams.

It was definitely a cool thing to see, and for the interest it created, something I hope stays around.

Ears: Deckchair Orange

Wrong century bro.