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A Feeling About the Weather, Part 1

In this month’s Sightings, we posed the following question: Have the winds been getting lighter in California? This is not an uncommon query we’ve heard from some of our readers, and a seemingly relevant question to ask given the planet’s changing climate. Curious, we reached out to a few experts, who offered us an informal analysis,…

New Crew Learn to Race

This spring, an innovative experiment proved successful in opening up sailing on the South Bay to more people. The experiment was a three-week class for potential race crewmembers. My own first experience as race crew was rather daunting. I signed up for a race from San Francisco to Monterey on a high-performance 50-footer. Despite having…

The Atlantic Cup: East Meets West

The Atlantic Cup, an event designed for the box-rule Class 40s, wrapped up in Portland, Maine, over the weekend, with Bay Area sailmaker Sylvain Barrielle sailing aboard Oakcliff Racing. The event has two doublehanded offshore legs — Charleston to New York and New York to Portland — and then two days of inshore, crewed racing…

That One Time

Remember that one time we went sailing with Giovanni Soldini aboard Maserati? It’s been almost exactly a year, but for a while, it was all we could talk about (it’s amazing what a ride on a next-level boat will do to your perception of sailing). In the last year, Soldini and Maserati had an unlucky  performance…

For Obvious Reasons

Bay Area sailor Terry Betts picked up a copy of the May issue of Latitude 38 at the Marina Bay harbormaster building in Richmond, only to find a loose card falling out with a photo of Crissy Fields stating, ‘Your Lucky Day.’ That’s right, by picking up a fortuitous copy of Latitude, Terry’s got a…