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Posted by John Burnham on Sep 24, 2009 | 1 comment

Video: Mob Dance at Newport Boat Show

Last weekend, the annual Newport International Boat Show came to town, in Newport, Rhode Island, and the weather was brilliant. That alone was a pretty good change of...

Posted by John Burnham on Jun 27, 2009 | 3 comments

Urban Ristorp wins IOD World Championship 2009

Four skippers in the fleet of 13 at Stenungsund, Sweden, last week, had won the IOD Class Championship before, each more than once, and collectively they’d won it 20...

Posted by John Burnham on Jun 25, 2009 | 0 comments

Swedish Racing Heads Into Final Day

Local sailor, Urban Ristorp, and defending class champion, Charlie van Voorhis finished second and third in a single race on Thursday, setting up a match for the...

Posted by John Burnham on Jun 25, 2009 | 0 comments

Featured on a RegattaTV Interview

Three more races and two more days of racing before the prizegiving for the IOD World Championship. The weather continues to cooperate here on the West Coast of Sweden;...

Posted by John Burnham on Jun 23, 2009 | 0 comments

More Championship Racing in Sweden

As reported in my previous blog, the International One-Design World Championships began this week in Stenungsund, Sweden. Our team had a fantastic opening day, but...

Posted by John Burnham on May 15, 2009 | 1 comment

Bottom Paint Puzzler…The More You Paint, the More You Can Sand

Early this morning, my partner, Peter, and I met underneath our International One-Design sailboat in New London and proceeded to sand off a fair amount of the 2+...

Posted by John Burnham on Mar 5, 2009 | 0 comments

A Beautiful Woodie Shows Well in Vermont

Instead of fiberglass, you could have found African mahogany and rosewood gleaming at you this winter in a northern New England boatshow such as the recent Vermont Boat...