The central agencies have been switched over and now the Perseus 3, the 60-meter sailing yacht has been listed for sale jointly Fraser along with Perini Navi of the United States.
The sailing port in Los Angeles located on the west coast of the United States for the very first time in history witnessed the sailing of the Royal Princess. The ship is known to be as one of the newest and most advanced of its category to be found on the port.
It was a fair amount of time, about three months after hurricane Irma had shown its worst moves on a display, rooting put poles, houses, building, anything to everything, nothing really was spared.
The sailing yacht Cyrano De Bergerac 38.89 meter has had a central agency change and now the yacht is jointly listed for sale by Northrop & Johnson and Fraser.
Since 2008 Indian Navy was looking for indigenous sailboat manufacturer and cannot find anyone for that description so they floated tender and precisely two boat builders across the country.
So, Ratnakar Dandekar was one of the best boat builders from the Goa Divar Island.
The Aquarius Shipyard Dandekar’s company never built the ocean-faring sailboat in fact Indian company also has never built the Ocean-faring sailboat so on the basis of cost and track record when Dandekar selected it is a very steep learning curve.
Dehumidifiers and go down is fitted with large go down and then the wood is dried it takes around one month to become material suitability and the project was about six months/ The outer skeleton of the boat is named as INSV Mhadei.
Next he built is keel which is the backbone of sailboat and its again a hurdle for him, which involved pouring nine tons of lead into keel so Dandekar travelled Vasai manufacturing company to get the knowledge of how to pour the lead in batteries so that he can get help to create the keel.
Indian Navy called Dutch boat builder Johan Vels to supervise and instruct the INSV Mhadei. Vels said to build a sailboat first you have to be a good sailboat, then only you can build and with this Dandekar’s perspective change and they built the boat in 14 months.
Naval Officer Dilip Donde went for a voyage in 2009 then he comments “that this boat will not last for three months in the ocean”.
Dandekar started making sailboats with other instructions and work with other companies also. And now Dandekar Company is ready to take any boat building challenge.
Despite, in Cape Town the Finish Line remains the eventual goal for the fleet of Clipper 2017-18 Round the World Yacht Race in the Stormhoek Race to the Cape of Storms, at present minimum three teams is seeing the Scoring Gate.
“In the western side of this depression, cold has really kicked in and with the condensation, the boat is raining inside. We are striving to stay in the southerly winds as much as possible before it runs out.” Continue reading
The sailors had a really tough time sailing on the second day of the Hobie 16 and Hobie 20 North American Championships.
The winds during the day were oscillating from 5 to 10 knots and this changed the position of the sailors quite frequently. There was a slow persistent right shift as well that did not go well with the sailors. The race officers also had a very tough time conducting the races. The breeze was steady in the early morning and then it picked up speed and became unstable. This puts a lot of hardship on the competitors. Continue reading
The lease of the National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHF) has been extended by the The Maryland Board of Public Works for another three-year.
With the extended lease, MBPW has granted the Sailing Hall of Fame three years more to raise the fund of $9.5 million that will be used for the property’s redevelopment. The state has a lease with the museum pledging to construct the building of 12,000-square-foot. With the extension, the NSHF has lost the lease with the state and this has scaled back the project to about 7,000 sq. ft. Continue reading
Ben Ainslie and his team faced cold salt waters on the first day of competition of the America’s Cup World Series that is taking place this weekend in Japan.
