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| Building the Ebihen 15 Sailboat, a boat building blog |
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posted by DanaBerube
on Monday October 12, @10:35AM
from the Build-a-sailboat dept.
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| Two dead and sixteen rescued after yacht crashes into rocks |
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posted by DanaBerube
on Monday October 12, @07:54AM
from the Yacht-race-disaster dept.
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Two dead and sixteen rescued after yacht crashes into rocks
October 10, 2009
Well-known Sydney yachting identity Andrew 'Shorty' Short has died after his boat ran aground during a race off the NSW south coast.
Short, 48, of The Spit, and crew member Sally Gordon, 47, of Darling Point, were pulled from the water unconscious early this morning but could not be revived.
The 16 surviving crew members were rescued and taken to Wollongong hospital suffering minor injuries and hypothermia.
Short was the owner and skipper of the 24.4m maxi yacht Shockwave, sponsored by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, which crashed into rocks off Flinders Islet off Port Kembla and ran aground at about 3am during a race from Sydney to the island and back.
A police and emergency services rescue began shortly after 3am after authorities received a number of distress calls about the 18-metre maxi yacht.
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| W.I.B. Crealock dies at 89; yacht designer and author |
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posted by DanaBerube
on Monday October 12, @07:47AM
from the Passing-of-a-legend dept.
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W.I.B. Crealock dies at 89; yacht designer and author
One of his designs, the Pacific Seacraft 36, was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame as a 'classic American sailboat.'
By Tony Perry
October 10, 2009
W.I.B. Crealock, a yacht designer, sailor and sailing author, died Sept. 26 at his home in Carlsbad after breaking his hip in a fall. He was 89.
Crealock was part of the "golden age" of fiberglass design in the 1960s, when the use of fiberglass made boats quicker and less expensive to build and easier to handle.
He worked for several boat makers, and some of his designs became bestsellers.
"He was a good designer, a good sailor and a very good shipmate," said Richard Valdez, retired founder of Orange County-based Columbia Yachts.
Crealock was known for his meticulous concern for details and his rigorous work ethic. He rode his bicycle to work and could be seen late into the night working at his office in Newport Beach.
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| Rebuilding a champion: Bay City native restores gold-medal sailboat to honor those who battle cancer |
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posted by DanaBerube
on Monday October 12, @07:31AM
from the Restoring-a-classic dept.
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Rebuilding a champion: Bay City native restores gold-medal sailboat to honor those who battle cancer
By Michael Wayland | The Bay City Times
October 09, 2009, 12:00PM
In 1952, the American-crewed sailboat Complex II won the gold medal in the 5.5-meter class regatta at the summer Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland.
For the four-man crew it was an unbelievable moment. But the vessel was forgotten, left to deteriorate in Newport, R.I., for 50 years.
Bay City native Rex E. Howland, 56, for years walked by the faded multi-colored Olympic rings on the side of the 32-foot-long wooden boat wondering how the crowning achievement of American sailing in the mid-20th century ended up being stationed in a parking lot.
Howland said he and his best friend always dreamed about buying the boat and having it restored, but that's all it was - a dream - until Howland's friend was diagnosed with brain cancer.
"As a tribute to him, to keep his spirits up while he was fighting this disease, I decided to buy the boat," said Howland, who left Bay City in the late 1970s and now lives in Stamford, Conn. "I bought it with the intention of creating a foundation."
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