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The past header photo I decided to give some love to one of the new crop of singlehanders; the RS Aero. The header photo, lifted from th...

In my post about The Playboy Bunny , I mentioned that 2020 is the 50th anniversary of the America's Teacup trials on Lake Geneva, Wiscon...

I think this is the first time in my blogging history that I have put up some random header photo and it turned out that it presaged a ...

I've put the header photo of the Laser being blown over as a sort of tongue-in-cheek; I've always been joshing the Laser class...

As I mentioned in the previous post, the Millennials (ages 19 - 35 in 2016) are slowly turning the U.S. on their head. Specifically, they do...

I was vacuuming one of the side bedrooms in our house and came across two small pieces of paper on the floor. In picking them up, I discover...

Ian Bruce's memorial was early May at Royal St. Lawrence Y.C. I knew Ian, mostly through a work connection, but we also bonded over a lo...

We American's are just finishing up our Thanksgiving feast weekend, Roast, baked, or fried turkey is the centerpiece and carving the tur...

Martin Rutgersson, Laser Sailor from Stenungsund, Sweden (just above Gothenberg on the west coast), sent along a video of him doing some bom...

I don't know how I missed this but several years ago, sailing coach Dan Brandt at Richmond Yacht Club introduced a Laser with an Opti ri...

Well sort of... I thought this video put out by Vaavud, a company the sells anemometers for smart phones , is worthy of a repost, particular...

Many years ago; my one and only Laser - sail no. 549. Photo: Ellie Martin

The previous header photo is of Aussie Matt Kiely sailing the Australian singlehander Sabre class dinghy. The photo was lifted from t...

I have been keeping up with  Tillerman's excellent posts about his new love, the RS Aero singlehander . RS intends to build the Aero hul...

Given the current uncertainty in who has the right to produce the Laser, combined with the feeling that it's time to modernize the mass-...

I admit when I clicked on this video I had no idea where this fellow was going with this Frankenboat/Laser hull project. I won't spoil t...

I finally got on the water the weekend of June 8,9, not sailing mind you, but as Vice Chair of Severn Sailing Association's Spring Serie...

The previous post about Ian Bruce reminds me that the Laser dinghy is now 40 years old (the actual anniversary is somewhat muddled - do we ...

I was walking down the pier at the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft festival this year and passed one of those varnished Classic look-alike repro C...

Brad Funk - who didn't make it to the final U.S Olympic Team, playing on the waves on a sail in from training for the Perth regatta this...