WindCheck Magazine

15/02/2024

A national version of Cooper's Sailing As Interated Learning (SAIL) for kids, Mini Program. And Rich Wilsons sites alive.
Maybe we could do this in just RI to start?

Tom Laperche inspires young school pupils in Brest, start and finish port of the ARKÉA ULTIM CHALLENGE-Brest . Their eager hands shot into the air in response to every question, there were some very studious looks and periods of deep concentration. A classroom of Brest CE2 (8-9 years old) school ch...

13/02/2024

13/02/2024

Ladies, take a look at this...

26/01/2024

Charleston Race Week is on our minds!

22/12/2023

BE careful of sailing in the BDA 1-2. Your life may never be the same again.
Coop.

American skipper and Global Solo Challenge (GSC) entrant, Peter Bourke, had originally planned to use his old yacht ‘Rubicon' to enter the challenge but all changed a few months after entering the event.

21/12/2023

Reliability is in fact just important when going to Block Island or Nantucket as it is in the depths of the Southern Ocean. Make it a point of pride in your seamanship to not have to call Seatow.
Coop.

Following many days marked by small and bigger issues Alessandro Tosetti on Aspra informed today the organisation that he intends to head for Cape Town for a technical pit stop to deal with a main halyard replacement, sail repairs, a diesel generator broken injector pump and, which ultimately left t...

13/12/2023

Most definitely NOT a hair and make-up day.
IF you are NOT following Cole, You SHOULD be.
Especially if you know young girls, say 10-18, 20 but any woman really.

The American “match racing” duo of Ronnie Simpson and Cole Brauer have sailed right through the Ice Limit buffer zone taking a shortcut on the total mileage of the course. Yesterday they had to deal with the calm before the storm, quite literally. It was a rather slow day for them but the Roarin...

12/12/2023

Always a difficult debate to be held mentally.

Dafydd Hughes has announced today his retirement from the Global Solo Challenge following his emergency stop in Hobart. Dafydd’s campaign and voyage today have been an inspiration to many, sailing his S&S34 Bendigedig halfway to the other side of the world. His quest to sail solo non-stop around t...