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Ocean Racing News
The Oakcliff American Offshore Team on the STP 65 Vanquish is in some good company, finishing the 2950-mile Transatlantic Race next to Karl Kwok’s Farr 80 Beau Geste.© Amory Ross While much of our offshore focus has been on the Pacific of late, there’s a strong Bay Area connection to the Transatlantic Race. Richmond YC products…
Mendocino Queen Attacked in the Caribbean
Allen and Kate Barry, liveaboards and worldwide cruisers for 20 years aboard the San Francisco-based DownEast 38 Mendocino Queen, report they were assaulted and robbed around 10:45 p.m. on the night of July 2 while at anchor just off Baradel Island in the Tobago Cays Marine Reserve of St. Vincent & The Grenadines. Having spent…
Pacific Vision Lost in Australia
As long-distance sailors like to point out to nervous landlubbers, it’s not the ocean that’s so dangerous, it’s the hard stuff around the edges. That axiom was proven true on July 3 by an unidentified couple sailing their sailboat, Pacific Vision, from San Diego to Bundaberg, Australia. The pair had made a successful passage but…
Polynesian Vakas Heading for San Francisco
We watched in awe last year as this traditional vaka drove to windward across Neiafu Harbor, Tonga, in a light breeze. This hand-built vessel would later join six others en route to Hawaii, then San Francisco. latitude/Andy©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Every day of the year a wide variety of vessels enter San Francisco’s Golden…
