Epic Adventure- Editor H2ONotes [ 8/13/2010 - 16:42 ] # Wow – Chuck Hayden just finished quite a Pure Michigan adventure! Check out his story about just one leg of his epic journey.
It was 5:30 am and I had just roused myself from a fitful sleep to the birth of a new sunrise. The previous day, Lake Superior had heaved me on to the rocky shore of Salt Point between Tahquamenon Bay and the Bay Mills area. more...
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A long-ago Lake Ontario tragedy The 1894 sinking of schooner Hartford ...- Editor H2ONotes [ 11/24/2009 - 06:40 ] # A woman living off Mexico Bay, south of the Jefferson County line, looked out to Lake Ontario as fierce winds stirred mountainous waves under an ominously dark sky, and noticed a schooner struggling to survive. more...
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THE OLD MAN AND THE INLAND SEA- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/20/2009 - 09:25 ] # Lake Superior’s chill waters were an ominous slate gray and the lake was steaming with fog banks 40-feet high as Carl Hammer slipped into his 17-foot wooden fishing skiff and started his outboard engine. It was 7 a.m., November 26, 1958 — the day before Thanksgiving.
The 26-year-old North Shore fisherman figured he’d get to his offshore fishing nets before a storm came up, pick his catch, and get back quickly — just as he’d done hundreds of times before. He’d have to hurry.
At 8:30 a.m., his fishing partner, Helmer Aakvik — also known as the “Old Man” — peered out the window of his cabin on the bluffs overlooking Superior and made his decision: he would not go out to the nets this morning. more...
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Black Magic centrepiece of Blake tribute- Editor H2ONotes [ 5/3/2008 - 22:40 ] # 
At a function attended by Prime Minister Helen Clark and Auckland
Mayor John Banks, the New Zealand National Maritime Museum announced
grants, scholarships and donations to the tune of nearly $9 million
would be used for the building and exhibition project Blue Water Black
Magic: A Tribute To Sir Peter Blake.
Black Magic, or NZL32, led by Sir Peter defeated Stars and Stripes to win the America's Cup in San Diego in 1995.
The boat will be suspended in the Hall of Yachting and the
accompanying exhibition will surround the yacht on three levels,
chairman of the Maritime Museum Alastair Aitken said. more...
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Cornish sailor and his gaffer- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/24/2008 - 11:26 ] #  By Stephen Ivall
Condor Ferries Commodore Captain Ian Perry is preparing to take time
off from the helm of his giant wave-piercing fast ferry catamaran to
skipper a 100-year-old Cornish gaffer in a classic yacht festival in
Brittany.
But Ian, whose wooden gaffer Whim is moored at Pill Creek in Feock,
has come up with a novel way of combining his job and his hobby.
The captain has booked a space on the state-of-the-art Condor
Express to transport himself and Whim across to France later this month. more...
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Uniquely Qualified- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/19/2008 - 23:31 ] #  By Stuart Streuli
When Austin Sperry's future father-in-law started spinning tales of his
past accomplishments as a sailor, he did what just about any smart
young man in his position would do. He kept his opinions to himself.
"He said, 'Hey, I won this and that,'" says Sperry of his initial sailing conversation with John Dane III.
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Sometimes It Takes a Miracle- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/15/2008 - 11:11 ] # 
By Sy Jarvis
I'd sailed Hobie 16s as a teenager,
and I'd longed for a Miracle 20 for what seemed like forever, when I
finally found one I could afford in December 2005. For $600, I got a
1993 model with about 10 holes in each hull—which were full of sand—the
transom ripped out, and no rudders. Needless to say, it was a
fixer-upper.
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LAST WAVE: Adventure of a Lifetime- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/7/2008 - 18:26 ] #  by Brad Melekian
The most adventurous thing I ever did in my life didn’t happen on
the reefs of Indonesia or on the rivet-ruined roads of Baja or
deep in the Fijian jungles hiking toward a rumored surfing Mecca.
No, unfortunately for me, my most adventurous moment happened
at Topanga Canyon State Beach in Malibu, California in 1992, during
the summer between sixth and seventh grade with a guy named
Peter Finn.
If surfing has taught me anything, it’s that you deal with what
you’ve got in front of you, but I’m still inclined to exercise creative
license here in making up a better start to my surfing career—something
a little bit more glamorous, perhaps.
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Shipwrecks a time capsule of the Great Lakes- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/7/2008 - 18:00 ] #  by Eric Gaertner
Not
far from the Hackley and Hume historic sites and the Muskegon County
Museum downtown are structures waiting to provide visitors a look at a
different time in our history.
Yet few people realize the existence of these structures, some more
than 100 years old and hundreds of feet long, unseen by the naked eye.
They are shipwrecks that reside at the bottom of Lake Michigan off
the West Michigan coastline -- underwater historical exhibits telling
tales of tragedy, history and, in some cases, survival.\ more...
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Tether or Apart- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/4/2008 - 22:41 ] # ![[erik2milerock.jpg]](http://bp0.blogger.com/_tAgfDCGvSAo/R_VPI3iifzI/AAAAAAAABbc/3o_4xds4R1g/s1600/erik2milerock.jpg) By Kimball Livingston
There's always a lesson in an overboard recovery. Cliff Shaw looks back
at pulling two live bodies out of the water in the recent Doublehanded
Farallones Race and says, "You see people in the water and you think,
This is not a drill; I have to get this right."
The breeze was 25, up to 30 at times on the Unpacific Ocean, outside
the Golden Gate. Shaw figures the seas at, "Six to eight feet, with an
occasional twelve. I did the wrong thing on my first approach. I tried to luff up to them and misjudged and fell short."
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Cruisers Net Growing by Leaps and Bounds- Editor H2ONotes [ 4/3/2008 - 00:23 ] #  By Fred Bagley
A good product will sell itself. That's what has happened to the Little
Current Cruisers Net based in Little Current, Ontario. (See "North Channel Retrospective," Cruising World,
May 2006.) Serving Lake Huron's North Channel during July and August,
this VHF-based cruisers net has experienced remarkable growth.
Roy Eaton founded the LCCN in 2004 with the help of local restaurant owner Bruce O'Hare.
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America's Cup sailor's cocaine case reopened- Editor H2ONotes [ 3/24/2008 - 10:44 ] #  The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has reopened the case of New
Zealand sailor Simon Daubney, cleared after testing positive for
cocaine during the last America's Cup in Valencia. WADA's
director general New Zealander David Howman last week lodged papers
appealing Daubney's case with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in
Switzerland. more...
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Stories of strange sightings on Great Lakes nothing new; Date back over 200 years- Editor H2ONotes [ 3/24/2008 - 10:27 ] # Posted By Brian KellyAndrea Gutsche doesn't have to rent a movie if she wants to get spooked about scary-looking monsters on the Great Lakes.
The Toronto-based author regularly came across accounts of sea
serpents when researching titles such as The North Channel and St.
Mary's River: A Guide to the History and Superior: Under the Shadow of
the Gods. "There's definitely sightings and mythology around this," she said in a telephone interview.
"It's very intriguing, isn't it, when you get that many
sightings? Who knows where the truth lies in it all? Something
definitely has been seen." more...
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"Leave no Stone Unturned" - An Interview with Coach Rodney Hagebols- Editor H2ONotes [ 3/20/2008 - 22:26 ] #  Q – How did you get involved with Austin and John Dane?
A – I bought my first Star boat from Austin in San Francisco. It
was his father’s Star 7310. We had a lot of fun racing up and down the
city front. At that time, Austin was working with Banc of America
Securities. During this period, I had some good results in the Star
with a 14th at the Bacardi Cup in 2002 sailing with Paul Erickson and
Austin had heard about my coaching background. In 2007, I saw Austin
down in Miami during the OCR while I was
crewing for Colin Beashel. Austin mentioned coming into the program but
definite plans were not made. Later in 2007, Austin contacted me about
coming to Portugal with them for the ISAF
worlds. After the worlds in Portugal, we made plans for the US trials,
it was convenient for me because at that time I was living in Newport
Beach only an hour South of Marina Del Rey. Our objective was to win
the trials and then plan the following year.
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It Helps to Know Someone- Editor H2ONotes [ 3/18/2008 - 11:13 ] #
By Alvah Simon
Diana was in great demand. The Lamotrek women decorated her with
lava-lavas, floral wreaths, and turmeric rouge. I was disappointed but
not surprised when she refused to adopt the authentic dress, or more
accurately, lack thereof.
I couldn't pronounce the names of the five boathouses, so from the
island's northern tip down I dubbed them North Pole, Cancer, Equator,
Capricorn, and Antarctica. With Francis as my host, I naturally fell in
with his House Of Cancer. Fitting, because downing those copious cups
of tuba began to feel like swallowing chemo cocktails.
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