CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
A family friend just found an article...



...on a web archive from last year mentioning a number of Cup officials, including your simple scribe, on the website called "Sailing Anarchy," reputed to be the biggest sailing website today (in terms of daily visitors, etc.). He wondered why I had not mentioned the article, let alone linked to it, on the EFB. Okay, so here it is.

That SA piece was mild compared to many, and almost clever. Unfortunately, the site often veers into personal attacks and smutty, adolescent humor or what some think passes for humor. Most everyone in the AC world says they ignore SA, yet am continually amazed at how many "have you seen SA" emails I get the minute they run a Cup piece. I have thought more than once about starting a site called "Sailing Sanity" and giving them a run for their money.

The site is visually appealing, and the only sailing site among all of them out there that is a blog. Don't you think the blog format is much more user-friendly than most typical websites? This seems to be a large part of SA appeal.

I was heartened to read that our friend Laurie Fullerton, a yachting writer in Marblehead, was going to contribute regularly to SA. But apparently she has had second thoughts, which is too bad because when she has written for them in the past it has lifted SA's Cup coverage from "tabloid" to more credible and mainstream.

I have never met the Editor, but he appears to be cleaning up SA's act, perhaps due to pressure from their growing and rather impressive list of advertisers. Regardless, and for the sake of the sport, one hopes that this trend continues, and that SA treats us to more good pictures and breaking news and less kicking of people in the shorts.