the horse's mouth

Maui Big Wave Riding Video.

Awesome!

Tags: surfing, maui, big waves, surfing video, video

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What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor?....Don't Let Him Steer The Ship! Video.

UPDATE: I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot the deputy. According to Team Seacats, it was the bridge keeper who did the ugly deed by lowering the bridge before the ship passed. I apologize to all the fury animals in the audience for jumping to conclusions. Thank you and good night. Make that a triple barkeep!


Hat tip Mr. Boat Blog.

Tags: ship mishap, ship versus bridge, oops, drunk again

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The Spaghetti Monster In Action!

OG, I'm getting a lot of content from you. I hope I don't have to pay you a retainer.

Via Live Sail Die.
Tags: dinghy sailing, spaghetti monster, sailing, 505 dinghy, video

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I Love Spaghetti!

Mama mia, where are the meatballs?
They jumped overboard when they saw all the lines.

I like to eat spaghetti, but hate to see it on a boat. Give me a simple rig.

Via Live Sail Die and .sNIPEOUT. Can some one find me a cupholder?

Tags: sailing

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Waves.

Horse's Art.

Have A Great Weekend!

See ya, I'm outta here.
Got to work off all that food.

Tags: surfing, beach, horse

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Fish On Fridays.

Sometimes going into a swimming pool is not a good idea.
Especially after stuffing yourself with turkey.

US federal judge declares boating illegal in all US navigable waters

By IBI Magazine

          In a rather bizarre ruling that has marine industry officials worried, Judge Robert G. James of the United States District Court, Western Division of Louisiana, has said that it is criminal trespass for the American boating public to boat, fish, or hunt on the Mississippi River and other navigable waters in the US.

In the case of Normal Parm v. Sheriff Mark Shumate, James ruled that federal law grants exclusive and private control over the waters of the river, outside the main shipping channel, to riparian landowners. The shallows of the navigable waters are no longer open to the public. That, in effect, makes boating illegal across most of the country.

"Even though this action seems like a horrible pre-April fools joke, it is very serious," said Phil Keeter, MRAA president, in a statement. "Because essentially all the waters and waterways of our country are considered navigable in the US law, this ruling declares recreational boating, water skiing, fishing, waterfowl hunting, and fishing tournaments to be illegal and the public subject to jail sentences for recreating with their families."

Last month, James rejected the findings of the Magistrate judge who found earlier that the American public had the right under federal law and Louisiana law to navigate, boat, fish, and hunt on the waters of the Mississippi river up to the normal high water line of the river. Judge James Kirk relied on the long established federal principles of navigation that recognized the public navigational rights "…entitles the public to the reasonable use of navigable waters for all legitimate purposes of travel or transportation, for boating, sailing for pleasure, as well as for carrying persons or property for hire, and in any kind of watercraft the use of which is consistent with others also enjoying the right possessed in common."

"MRAA is working with the Coast Guard, state boating law administrators, and NMMA to fight this onerous ruling," said Glen Mazzella, MRAA chairman, in the statement.

Let's hope this gets overturned.

What Do You Think?

Should we go surfing?

Have A Better Weekend Than This Guy.

Who put that rock there?

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Fish On Fridays.

Thank God for Global Warming!

Tags: humor, silly, fun, fish, fishing

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Time To Get Wired. Video

Shot 13 November 2006 in New Zealand. The crew of Wired put the new Bakewell 50 through her paces.
Via Sailcam.tv

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Personal Submarine.

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A Nice Hobie 16 Video For A Wet and Windy Autumn Day.

Hobie Cat Wham Bam Thank you Mam.
Video sent by h2ojoe

Must read: Live Sail Die has an excellent story on getting back to basics.

Tags: hobie cat, catamaran sailing, multihull sailing, h16, sailing, sailing video, video, wipe out

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Do You Know Why Sailors Love The Wind?

It powers the sails.

Tags: oops

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Weekend Wahine. Can You Guess Why I Love The Beach?

I love surfing.
The bad news is that you will never see a wahine surfer in a bikini at a San Francisco beach. Damn that current from BC!

Tags: wahine, surfing, beach

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Holy Tomato Bat Mite, That's A Lot Of Surfers!

73 intrepid surfistas broke the Guinness World record for the  most surfers to catch and ride the same wave. They caught and then rode a single wave for longer than five seconds at Muizenberg, South Africa in September of this year.
Of course I'm way behind the curve on this story. I found it by accident on 20 Minutos.
(a day late, a dollar short......got to cut back on the tequila, it clouds the brain.)

Foto Uno via 20Minutos.com by Mike Hutchings / REUTERS

Tags: surfing

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UFO Crashes In Forest!

How the hell did a million dollar yacht end up in a forest? Mr. Boat forgot to tell me.
Click to enlarge.

Via Mr. Boat.

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Bethany Hamilton, The Girl Can Surf!

   

The Girl Can Surf!
Video sent by h2ojoe

Bethany Hamilton is amazing, she doesn't surf, she rips!

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Weekend Wahine. Squid Girl.

Nice hair.