A l’heure où le Team France cherche des partenaires pour s’engager dans la Coupe de l’America, Bruno Bich, le fils de Marcel Bich, est venu évoquer, lors d’une conférence au musée de la Marine, l’engagement de son père dans la Coupe. Evénement exceptionnel, d’autant que dans la famille, on s’est toujours montré réticent à livrer ses états d’âme… Est–il besoin de souligner qu’à Newport, Marcel Bich avait une sainte horreur des journalistes et refusait toute interview ? C’est dire qu’écouter Bruno Bich relevait de l’exceptionnel.

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Ron Ingraham, a 67-year-old fisherman who had been living aboard his Bayfield 25 Malia on Molokai in Hawaii, was rescued Tuesday by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, 12 days after first trying to call for help on a jury-rigged VHF radio and a week after a search for him had been called off. News reports have it that Ron’s ordeal started when he was unable to enter Kaumalapau Harbor on the west coast of the island of Lanai, south of Molokai, due to a strong northwest swell. If you watch the TV interview with him here, however, it seems clear to me what actually happened was he was anchored at Kaumalapau and had to bail out because of the swell (note he refers to having to “cut his ropes” to avoid going up on the rocks just before dark).

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Yacht Description
49.9m (164´) sailing yacht Better Place is a wonderful Wally 164 vessel, launched in 2012 by the renowned Italian builder, Wally Yachts. With naval architecture by the Wally´s in-house team and sophisticated exterior by renowned Tripp Design Naval Architects, the Better Place superyacht boasts an impressive 67.5m carbon mast by Hall Spars. Her lovely interior design is by Wetzels Brown Partners.

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La voile légère n’a pas fini de nous faire voler. Et ce nouveau cata anglais, qui sera présenté la semaine prochaine au Salon de Paris, vient gonfler l’offre d’engins à foils dans le sillage du Flying Phantom mais avec quelques différences…

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