The Silent Partner: Zan Drejes Interview

When not actually making the boats go really fast on the open ocean, or delivering a boat across a large body of water, Zan specializes in getting the most performance possible out of a given vessel! There are many names associated with great offshore sailing events, and most of those reflect the owner, the skipper, the navigator or the designer of the boat, but few times are the names of the hardworking guys or gals behind the scene. Case in point, you would be hard pressed to find anoth...

A quick look at some of the video from today's delightful interview with
Zan Drejes...stay tuned for more!...

Jacob Wenegrat has put together this great interview with the amazing short handed world sailor, Webb Chiles. Having recently purchased a new boat, and one dear to Jacob's heart, Wenegrat interviewed Chiles for the Pacific Northwest Moore 24 newsletter about his choice of his new world sailor, Moore 24 #40 - his interview follows....

by Jacob Wenegrat

Moore 24s are special boats, and they tend to attract an interesting group of people. Webb Chiles, the n...

With Paul Cayard's Team Artemis becoming the 1st syndicate to get the wing of their AC 72' out and to begin testing in Valencia, a very big milestone, it seems like a proper time to conclude this 3 part series on Paul's sailing career, the links to the other 2 parts are located below! Enjoy! Paul at the America 1 Christening in Long Beach, CA America 1: Paul continued in 2000 with America 1. He was finally home fighting to bring the Cup to San Francisco for his home town YC, t...

Start with a dream, add a dash of reality and a good dose of nightmare follow by hard work and perseverance, and finally the continuation of the dream and you get the story of the crew of Netzah, Brazillian Tassio Jacques and Canadian Claudia Couture as they finally embark on their long term independant film project capturing the essence of the circumnavigation journey. Here are just a few passages from their website as they finally get rolling on the dream part! ...

There has never been a bigger star in the world of windsurfing than Robby Naish, the undisputed king of windsurfing who stole the lime light and ripped away world titles from windsurfers 2 and 3 times his age. The kid from La Jolla California won his 1st world title at the tender age of 13 in 1976. The fan of all things pirates since his early childhood has never looked back and continues to set the standard in the sport with a style and ease often imitated, but never duplicated. Now nearing h...

INTRO: Paul Cayard began sailing at on Lake Merritt In Oakland California at age 8 when a friend introduced him to sport. With the aide of a borrowed an El Toro complete with Cox cotton sails the youngster, with no previous sailing was instantly addicted. Father Pierre, a master woodworker with the S.F. Opera and Ballet Company, believing it was just a phase, labored after work in his garage to build Paul his own El Toro. Hull no 6168, lovingly built in 1968, was became Paul’s road to ...

The waves are rolling nonstop over deck now that Gup and the Trade Wind have found each other… And so between the closed hatches and the wind blowing outside I am left with two choices: either I stay inside in the stuffy heat or I go have a salt water bath outside and freeze in the wind ...I am doing both. Guppy is enjoying herself in the wind as she is charging through the waves at a good 6,5 knots eating down the miles to Sintt Maarten with 1450 nautical miles left to...

BERKELEY (CBS 5) – A small group of children lined up side by side along the port side of the sailboat Benjamin Walters. “If you’re holding on to a line and someone pulls on it, your finger could get trapped and you could get hurt,” Captain Richard Gillette warned them as they watched with rapt attention. This was no ordinary boat ride. Gillette was leading the group on a San Francisco Bay adventure. He and his all-volunteer crew take children on free trips ...

39 Year old Morgan Larson of Santa Cruz is sitting high on the sailing plateau these days, having just won two major events, the RC 44 Worlds with Torbjorn Tornqvist’s Artemis as Tactician and Match Racing helmsman. Shortly thereafter Morgan hopped across the Atlantic and joined forces with Steve Howe aboard his Melges 32 where they completely dominated the 18 boat Gold Fleet in Fort Lauderdale at the Gold Cup


Torbjorn and Morgan celebrate the RC 44 World Championship Victory ...