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SAILAGRAM: Real Photos from Real Sailors 

Sailagram: A Snapshot of September Sailing

By Monica Grant | October 14, 2026 |

This month’s gallery features everything from blown-out spinnakers to people enjoying the sunshine to Cuauhtémoc passing beneath the Golden Gate Bridge.

'Lectronic Latitude: Wednesday, Oct 28
Oh Mon Dieu!
The Riotous Route du Rhum Starts Sunday
On Sunday the 115 skippers signed up for the Route du Rhum, in six classes with some of the fastest ocean racers in the world, will dash across the Atlantic.
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Magazine Features: October 2026

2026 Rolex Big Boat Series

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Perhaps the annual highlight of sailboat racing on San Francisco Bay is the St. Francis Yacht Club's Rolex Big Boat Series in September every year.

Cruisers Disconnect

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For some time now, cell coverage has kept coastal navigators connected with phone and internet, right up until the signal runs out a few miles offshore. But, until relatively recently, offshore sailing remained a disconnected affair.

A Fleet Becomes Family

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Today, we aren't sailing. The crew from J/24 Flight is moving a giant wooden sculpture, 8 feet across and weighing as much as a piano, through the threshold of Rasicot's new house. It's one of three times this summer that the J/24 fleet has helped each other move.

Liveaboard Misconceptions

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If you're scrolling any type of social media these days, I'm sure you've seen a bunch of reels/TikToks/etc. of some cute young couple or individual selling everything to move aboard a boat.

Max Ebb — Dragging the Ass

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"Leave the fenders where they are, please," the instructor ordered. I had already started to untie one of them, so the command was surprising.
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