The Adventures of Icon

This last weekend we participated in the Charleston Race Week -- this is one of the largest race events on the East Coast and consists of th...

This last weekend we competed in the 2014 Patos Island Classic -- this annual event consists of three courses - a day, short & long cour...

The US Melges 24 class recently sent us the following pictures from Miami Race Week -- we are bow number 83 -- we hope you enjoy them! ...

March 5-8 we competed in the Baccardi Miami Race Week in the Melges 24.  We had a couple of days of practice with our coach (Ed Adams) follo...

We entered Mikey in the 2014 St. Petersburg NOOD regatta.  This is an annual event hosted by the St. Petersburg Yacht Club that draws ~120 ...

This is a place holder and will be updated as soon as we pull together our pictures, race track, etc.  Stay tuned for some great stuff...

The 2013 running of the Van Isle 360 was another iteration of this classic northwest adventure race.  We had raced in this event two times b...

Here is the video from Leg 10 of the 2013 Van Isle 360 from Victoria to Nanaimo...

Leg 9 of the VI360 is perhaps my favorite leg -- it starts off Amphitrite Point in Ucluelet and heads sounds down the Vancouver Island coast...

Here is the video from Leg 8 of the 2013 Van Isle 360 from Winter Harbour to Ucluelet

Leg 7: Port Hardy to Winter Harbor

Leg 6: Telegraph Cove to Port Hardy

Leg 4: Campbell River to Hardwicke Island:

Just a quick note to let everyone know that Blogger is having technical difficulties and it is making it difficult for us to post our daily ...

Leg 3: Comox to Campbell River Video

Leg 2: French Creek to Comox Video

Here is the view from the top of Icon's mast where we are tied up in French Creek -- we had a good day sailing and ended up with ...

The Van Isle 360 in case you haven't heard  is a bi-annual event where about 45 invited participants race around Vancover Island in 10 l...

In our second race of the season we participated in the 70th running of the Swiftsure International Yacht Race put on by the Royal Victoria ...

The news is just in -- the 2013 running of the VI 360 will have an IRC division for the big boats.  In the next few weeks we will be announc...

It light of the on-going PHRF-NW ratings controversy we as a race team have reluctantly decided that it is time to move to a different ratin...

Each year the Swiftsure International Yacht Race produces a poster to promote this wonderful event.  Under the capable leadership of  Vern B...

At long last we have completed our editing of the footage taken from our on-board cameras during the 2012 Round the County yacht race -- enj...

At Grand Prix we were missing one of our regular crew members - Ben Colwell.  If the truth is to be told Ben had jumped ship in order to co...

Round the County is always one of our favorite events, yet it is kind of a gamble with the weather.  The race consists of a circumnavigation...

We had never buoy raced Icon before and thought we would give it a try in the 2012 Seattle Yacht Club Grand Prix.  We also wanted to see how...

In response to our recent letter the PHRF-NW board was kind enough to give us an audience to hear our grievences.  They were in a tough spot...

If you hadn't heard many of the owners of the big boat fleet are really upset with the recent unilateral rating changes imposed by a sub...

We had the opportunity this weekend to participate in the annual Anacortes Yacht Club cruise to Blakely Island for a little end-of-season pa...

At long last we have pulled together some of our video & still shots from the 2012 Pacific Cup. Enjoy..  

A new magazine is about to hit the shelves and we thought we would pass it on -- it goes without saying that not everyone on the bus agrees ...

Our premier M24 event of the year was the 2012 North American Championships in San Francisco hosted by the San Francisco Yacht Club.  This ...

As a tuneup for the Melges 24 North American Championships in San Francisco we participated in the Melges Race Week hosted by the San Franci...

Icon arrived safely back in Anacortes Sunday night, August 12 after an 11 day voyage from Kaneohe, Hawaii.   The crew is tired and looking f...

Icon has been averaging 272nm/day the last few days of the return trip and is presently 50nm due west of Cape Flattery with landfall expecte...

Icon is now about 400nm due west of Cape Flattery making about 14 knots under sail in 16-20knots of wind from the south.  They covered 163nm...

Based on the latest position report from Icon, the crew is 579nm WSW of Cape Flattery with an estimated arrival in Anacortes late Sunday eve...

Jan and four others of our crew have been sailing Icon back to Anacortes from Kaneohe since August 1.  Their trip has been relatively uneven...

This last weekend we took Mikey 835 down to the Columbia Gorge for three days of sailing in the Pacific Sailing Championships.  Our primary ...

Now that we have crossed a good part of the Pacific Ocean so quickly the thought is that we just keep going and head to Australia -- we coul...

After with what seemed like a very long last few miles with some intense squall activity we had the bow down for Kaneohe with our A4 max run...