The Waitangi Gaff Cutter, originally uploaded by Mike NZ.Adam Turinas

Fifty years ago this month in August 1958, Hurricane Cleo blasted across the North Atlantic. Cleo was the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the 1958 Atlantic hurricane season and remains one of only three Category 5 hurricanes to avoid land in the historical database. Over the next few days, guest blogger Hal Weidner will be telling the true story of his encounter with Cleo ... I first met So Long in July when she anchored near a yacht club on Long Island Sound. She was unique among the other yachts---a bulldog among greyhounds. So Long at 32ft was beamy and carried huge baggy wrinkles on 5/8 inch stays supporting tree runks. Her huge rudder looked like it had come from a river barge. She was a heavy-weight. Her owner, a Norwegian named Ruddy, had been trying to sell her, but had no luck.  read more »

Shannon Hart who is normally drenched in speed sailing spray when he skippers his super fast Thompson 8 Sports Boat Mustard Cutter in local club events on Pioneer Bay, has accepted an important crew role with the Graham Jones skippered Port Douglas ...

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MIAMI - Coast Guard search and rescue coordinators at Sector Miami suspended search efforts for Peer Steenburg, the master of the 36-foot sailing vessel Holo Ki Ki, Sunday night.Crews from the Coast Guard Cutter Bluefin, two HH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrews from Air Station Miami, a HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Clearwater deployed in support of Operations Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT), a C-130 Hercules fixed wing aircraft crew from Air Station Clearwater, an HH-65 helicopter crew from the Royal English Airship Lars Bay and crews from the Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Association exhausted a 628 square mile search area since Steenburg was reported unaccounted for at  read more »