Have you ever taken on water? Have you ever woken up at 2 a.m., onboard your sailing boat underway, and put your feet on the floor only to feel it wet? It’s a feeling you don’t easily forget, probably one of the worst you can experience at sea, especially if […]
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I went to the 60th Genoa International Motor Show Some friends came to see me and we had decided to go to the boat show on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, we already knew from Friday that the show would be sold out. On the website it was no longer possible to […]
What is that? Simple … it’s a textile ladder, with aluminum pegs, which is used to be hoisted, with the mainsail halyard to go up into the masthead. Very interesting the system that as shown in the video is sold by Osculati. Presented in Paris and Berlin successfully. How does […]
“Giornale Luce” of January 1935 From Stockholm … For the lovers of life on the sea: here is a model of yacht built with a new system that aims to reduce the veiling to eliminate the risk and the difficulty of managing numerous sails, when the wind is raging. In […]
Wow … how strange …! But who invented it …? Well let’s start with those who invented it … a start-up in Riccione, where I was born, invented it, a town south of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, south of Venice and Ravenna. Daniele Mingucci made the 47-foot […]
It looks like a nice system for faster, safer and more stable surfing. The only flaw is having these two wings, which look a bit like hanging wings, but in reality when they are closed on the bridge they don’t seem to be so hostile to the use of the […]
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Arriving to the island of Ustica from Terrasini in Sicily, where we left in the morning with a beautiful sailboat, around eleven o’clock morning, we came across a beautiful pack of dolphins . It was a decidedly large pack. These dolphins behaved differently from those I normally saw, perhaps more […]
We came from Ustica, the Ustica auctioneer. We left the Ustica marina early in the morning and set the sails in such a way that we could make a nice, light and fluid navigation. There was a beautiful sea breeze that allowed us to sail with a Yankee, sling and […]
Ah the seas of the north … sailing during the extreme winter conditions of the North Sea … – chilly eh, but at the end with a ski mask it solves everything … ah that air brisk .. and waves … – Watch it all if you have time, or […]
It’s a simple Bluetooth receiver! Yes…! A very simple bluetooth receiver …! Nothing more, but will turn your life into a boat, especially if you have people who want to send music and keep tampering with the stereo settings, shooting the music at full throttle, completely canceling the VHF sound, […]
This image comes directly from Croatia. It shows the whirlwind that crashed behind Split about eight nautical miles from the marina. More precisely in the bay of Podstrana, behind, Split, in Italian Split. As you can see from the downloaded Europe card downloaded from the free and live service of […]
VIDEO Lightning hits the mast of the boat in the buoys field on the Island of San Pietro in Sardinia, Italy. A cameraman by chance was recovering the rain that was coming down copiously, when at one point, suddenly, lightning strikes the tree of the boat in full ….! A […]
