Writer called the Dovekie sailing cruiser an imaginative boat--a 22-footer with leeboards--that can float in 4 inches of water.
Writer called the Dovekie sailing cruiser an imaginative boat--a 22-footer… Talk story about the 74th National Boat Show, recently at the Coliseum.
He once bought eight sets of antique wooden doors in Egypt, where he has a house and a dahabiya, a traditional, two-masted sailing cruiser that he christened Dahabibi ("my love boat").
Although the financial crisis reduced purchases of sailing cruisers in the 24-meter-plus category more than 20 percent, to 34 in both 2009 and last year from 44 in 2007, "this segment remains strong," he said.
It did not matter: they had seen the Queen, the culmination of the two-hour, seven-mile trip down the river – and for the crew, mainly from Doncaster, the high point of their 15-year quest to buy, renovate and sail their cruiser.
A native of Flores, Captain Syamsudin Riantobi has been sailing Phinisi cruisers and 100-ton cargo ships since he was 15 and the treacherous currents of Komodo hold few mysteries for him.
He still had time to indulge two passions nurtured since boyhood: as a watercolour artist, turning out countless paintings, and as a highly competent yachtsman, sailing his 26ft cruiser from Kippford on the Solway Estuary.
When two American warships — the Higgins, a destroyer, and the Antietam, a cruiser — sailed within a few miles of disputed islands in the Paracels in May, Chinese vessels rushed to challenge what Beijing later denounced as "a provocative act". China did the same to three Australian ships passing through the South China Sea in April.
And we went sailing on a cruiser across to France and had an engine failure in the middle of the most busy shipping route, in which all these transport container ships could not have seen my little deflector and my mast-head.
On patrol, he recently issued a warning to a new boat owner blithely sailing a cabin cruiser in from Surrey to the busy section round Tower Bridge to show the city after dark to a girlfriend – despite having no lights on his vessel.
