Team Seacats

Across the Atlantic on a beach cat. This duo is setting out to cross the ocean in style with a new purpose built boat…boy don’t those wings look comfy? (edit: but not THAT comfy) See their website (Google Translated to english) HERE.

photo: Martin Coudriet

Last week in a really startling move of bias and blindness, the ISAF decided to eliminate the fastest sailing boat from the 2012 Olympic competition in lieu of 6 knot wonders. I’ve started to write a post about this on three different occasions but I just didn’t have the time to sum up everything I wanted to say. Multihulls have seen so much growth throughout the world it just seems moronic that they should be excluded from the Olympics where they have enjoyed 30 years of competition. This video, from AdventureOnline.tv says a lot of what I want to say.

If you want catamaran like performance…get a catamaran. Shown here is Glen Ashby (Ashby Sails) sailing a Flyer II. Found this over at Sailing Scuttlebutt.

It’s almost as if some sailors just simply refuse to accept catamarans. Here you see would would happen if a Laser mated with a catamaran.

The first 10 of a 246 step process (the rest located HERE)

1. Specify that your drive-thru order is “to go.”
2. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
3. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will “swipe your grub.”
4. Name your dog “Dog.”
5. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”
6. Reply to everything someone says with “that’s what you think.”
7. Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your “astronaut training.”
8. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.
9. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
10. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you’ll be saying more any moment

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