The blog of George Pearce
Posted in Sailing on Aug 12th, 2008
I’ve just been watching the Ladies Olympic Radial sailing, and the second race (I didn’t see the first) of today, was pretty special.
We all watched the big countries fighting at the front, but at the first mark, suddenly another boat that nobody thought of or commented on appeared and passed first. The Paraguay sailor took [...]
Today I sailed in the Dovey Chart, a special ‘fun race’ held once a year where I sail. Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos (I’m hoping to get some from the safety boat guy), but it was really good fun.
Basically, the race deviates from pretty much every sailing rule there is, the objective is to [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Jun 29th, 2008
I took these at sailing yesterday, because I was bored and broke the boat I was sailing. Their not very good, but I thought I’d post them anyway.
Posted in Sailing on Jun 28th, 2008
A biodiesel-powered trimaran has just completed the fastest round the world trip in a speedboat, breaking the previous record by an amazing 14 days.
Braving pirates, storms and floating logs, the team made it all the way around the world on recycled cooking fat, arriving back at a Spanish port yesterday. I guess this isn’t really [...]