Earwigoagin

Occasionally I've come across photos of exquisitely built and varnished small sailboats that I have been featured on Earwigoagin under ...

Found this in the International Soling Association Guide 1992-1995. A beautiful, subtle ink and watercolor  (or ink wash) drawing by Michel...

The Olympic Training Regatta at Parma, Day 6 featured big breeze, big seas. The 49'ers and Nacra's didn't race Day 6 setting ...

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...

I just wrote that the 12 Foot Skiff was the hardest dinghy to sail in the World... but the Finn, ahh! the Finn. Watching the Olympians race ...

There has been a lot of digital ink from the sailing punditry community on how foiling is going to change sailing. No longer are we to bash...

The previous header photo was of the Australian 49'er I plucked from the Internet, hence the location is unknown, but, if I had to g...

Paul Elvstrom's most mentioned accomplishment is his four Olympic Gold Medals. However, to my mind, Elvstrom's greater accomplishme...

Paul Elvstrom passed away a couple of weeks after I posted about one of his projects, an obscure 11 foot dinghy, the Elvstrom Jr . Paul E...

I've featured plenty of Olympic 49'er videos on this blog, mostly of the watery, down-the-mine, disaster variety. This one is differ...

My previous post on 1970's International 14's provoked a small discussion on vintage sailing fashion by us greybeards. Which prompt...

I've been featuring lots of videos about how to do it wrong - time to get back to the Olympic sailors doing it right - in this case Fin...

An excellent compilation of some of the more memorable screw-ups of 2015, capturing a wide range of eff-ups. I especially like the ones whe...

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

It's always fun to listen in when someone outside the sport of dinghy racing puts their two cents in. An English photographer, a landlub...

I noticed that Finn videos were popular in the bloggosphere a couple of months ago. Being somewhat late in following trends, I offer up one ...

We just got another dollop of snow this morning in the Mid-Atlantic (nothing close to what they are dealing with in the Northeast). To buck ...

The 49'er, the two-man Olympic skiff, is not an easy dinghy to master; which is as it should be for an Olympic class. Hence, great 49...

Picture lifted from the 1896 issue of Outing magazine. My discussions on the origin of the Star keelboat can be found here and here .

The earlier post about woman Mothist, Pat Duane, who was also one of the U.S.A's earliest Flying Dutchman sailors, reminded me of the on...