, Nowadays Chao Phraya River, is important not only as a major food source and transportation mean of the region, but also as a wondrous path along which ones could see impressive scenery of nature and people’s life with Mekhala barge for 2 days and 1 night.
The Norwegian explorer Ragnar Thorset started his career by rowing single handed from Norway to Shetland. Since then, he has followed in the wake of Leif Ericsson by sailing to North America in a small fishing boat, and in 1980 he sailed the Northwest Passage to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Ronald Amundsen’s voyage.
, For months, I had been looking for an island-built day-sailer. I was in the midst of a major rebuild of TUMBLEWEED, my 50-ear-old Alden ketch, anchored in the protected lagoon of Maya Cove on the south coast of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, laminating in new sister frames, refastening, replacing.
, Many of the most famous names in yacht design, construction, and competition appear in the history of early (pre-World War II) 12-meter racing in the United States. Such designers as L. Francis Herreshoff, Clinton Crane, and Olin Stephens, builders such as Abeking & Rasmussen and the Henry B. Nevins Shipyard, and racing sailors of the caliber of Harold Vanderbilt (twice defender of the America’s Cup), Briggs Cunningham, William Strawbridge, and A.L. Loomis were among those involved with one of the most important yacht racing development classes in history.
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Sailing upriver in a Rice Barge from Bangkok to Ayutthaya the World Herritage city of Thailand
A Viking Ship to Sail the World
A Decade of Legendary 12s