Yachting blogger plagued by wind, power issues
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But at least the kit is cool Blog One of the things that makes it very easy to spot Americans who are cruising around the Med on sailing boats is the Iridium phones they seem to imagine they need. You only get two or three days to detect them, because they quickly discover that they can buy a Greek SIM card for less than the price of their next ten minutes, and then pretend the Iridium was a toy phone they brought for their children to play with.â¦
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Hundreds of onshore wind turbines could ruin some of Wales' most beautiful landscapes, a charity claims.
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Winds and water wreak havoc on the Kennedy Space Center. The damage could delay space flights scheduled for next spring.
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More than 5,000 bloggers have signed on to Blog Action Day -- Oct. 15 -- during which participants will all post on environmental issues. It's a good cause, no doubt, but the motivation isn't entirely altruistic.
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Six hours after British yachtsman Mike Golding turned back 80 miles in the Five Oceans solo round the world race and rescued rival Alex Thomson, his race was in tatters on Friday after his yacht's mast broke in two places.
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nyone who books a cruise to the Caribbean during hurricane season is taking a chance that the ship may have to be rerouted because of high seas and strong winds.
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Although Userland have been kind enough to let me stay on, I have decided it might be wiser to self-host this site. So I intend to move to http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/ I have managed to preserve the content, but the article comments were not ported over. Kindly update your links. This will be the last post on the site. The RSS feed will be http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/?q=node/feed/1 Thanks for all the fish. PS: I am using drupal.
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Sailor Ellen MacArthur's bid to break Francis Joyon's 72-day round-the-world record has been thrown into doubt with news her mainsail rigging has been badly damaged.
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Canada&#39;s fledgling wind power industry,  late off the global starting blocks, has stumbled on growing  local resistance to the idea of massive turbines dotting the  country&#39;s relatively unmarked landscape.
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Bad weather has been very good for business at Weather.com and other popular forecasting sites. They are posting record traffic in the wake of Hurricane Ivan's arrival on the mainland. By Joanna Glasner.
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Sailors are bracing for the arrival in Norfolk this weekend of one of the bravest and most accomplished offshore skippers on earth. When Bernard Stamm rolls in, probably sometime Saturday, it will mark the end of 14,250 hard miles at sea, alone in a scary-fast sailboat.
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Phil Wolff on things for bloggers to do before they die.
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ome hurricanes just won&#39;t quit, and American shores yesterday were in the crosshairs of two such long-lived, meandering tempests.
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Business & money: Concerns that a fresh wave of hurricanes could hit American oil installations.
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Winds that caused some minor damage across the mid-Atlantic and New England moved off the coast early Saturday.
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High winds add to problems from the initial impact, which cut power to thousands across the South Bay. By Doug Irving. Punishing bands of rain and wind raked across Southern California early Tuesday, swamping
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WITH gale-force winds buffeting the fleet, Sydney to Hobart crews slipped from racing to survival mode last night with the frontrunners head-butting their way south to a possible finish today.