Rhumb Lines: Seamanship, Not Size, Is What Counts

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Darrell Nicholson
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Challenges aboard the Dashews’ first world voyager, the Columbia 50 Intermezzo, inspired dreams of bigger, faster sailing machines—dreams that persist today.
Years ago, one of my first assignments as a sailing editor was to join the famous sailor and yacht designer Steve Dashew and his wife Linda aboard Beowulf, a 78-foot cruising boat that marked the culmination of their revolutionary quest for the perfect passagemaker. The boat was on a mooring in Newport, RI one of […]
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Darrell Nicholson
Darrell Nicholson is Director of Belvoir Media Group's marine division and the editor of Practical Sailor. A lifelong thalassophile, he grew up sailing everything from El Toro dinghies to classic Morgans on Miami's Biscayne Bay. In the early 90s, he left a newspaper job to sail an old gaff-rigged ketch across the Pacific and has been writing about boats and the sea ever since. His weekly blog Inside Practical Sailor offers an inside look at current research and gear tests at Practical Sailor, while his award-winning column,"Rhumb Lines," tracks boating trends and reflects upon the sailing life. He sails a Sparkman & Stephens-designed Yankee 30 out of St. Petersburg, Florida.

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