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Holly Martin is a solo sailor and sailing vlogger best known for sailing her 27-foot sloop Gecko as part of her YouTube channel Wind Hippie Sailing. [2] [3] [4]Martin sails a Grinde 27 foot double ender sloop [2] that she purchased in Connecticut and returned to Maine where she spent over a year preparing to make her seaworthy.
Sam Holmes is a vlogger and solo sailor best known for his YouTube channel Sam Holmes Sailing. [2] [3] Holmes records journeys on his YouTube channel including sailing from California to Hawaii in a Ranger 23 sailboat, [4] [5] [6] crossing the Atlantic to Europe in his Cape Dory 28. [7] Holmes created some controversy while sailing in Svalbard.
James Frederick is a solo sailor and sailing vlogger best known for sailing his 1965 Alberg 30 Triteia as part of his YouTube channel Sailing Triteia. [2] [3] [4] Frederick was raised in New Mexico and dropped out of school at the age of 16. [2]
Sailing into the wind is a sailing expression that refers to a sail boat's ability to move forward despite being headed into (or very nearly into) the wind. A sailboat cannot make headway by sailing directly into the wind ( see "Discussion," below); the point of sail into the wind is called " close hauled ".
A sailing craft is said to be sailing close-hauled when its sails are trimmed in tightly and are acting substantially like a wing, relying on lift to propel the craft forward on a course as close to the wind as the sail can provide lift. This point of sail lets the sailing craft travel upwind, diagonally to the wind direction. [4]
The Windsurfing World Championships is an international sailing competition organized by World Sailing held since 1980, now annually. Men. Edition Class Gold
The Supreme Court on July 1, 2024, kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content in a ruling that strongly ...
Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing craft (sailing vessel, ice boat, or land yacht), whose next destination is into the wind, turns its bow toward and through the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side of the boat to the other, allowing progress in the desired direction. [1]