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March 2019

66The Perfect Sailing Life

We first met Eric Loss and Shanley McEntee last year in Sausalito. The husband and wife are, respectively, the chief skipper and first mate of Sea Dragon, a 72-ft, steel vessel run by Pangaea Exploration.

70RegattaPro Winter One Design

The RegattaPRO Winter One Series started in 2002 as a one one-design series for the Bay Area Farr 40 fleet. They wanted to keep their chops up during the 'off' season.

74David Liebenberg Profile

Olympic hopeful David Liebengerg, now 27, starting racing aboard his parents' Express 27 Friday at the tender age of 2. By age 3 had became a regular on the crew, but he had to wait until he was 7 to join the Richmond YC Junior Program.

78Sea Plasma

The navigator lived intimately with the esoteric at one of Earth's outposts. His father was a paluelap, a grandmaster navigator who, holding him in tide pools and gentle surf, let the pulse of the Pacific first frighten then awe then osmose his baby son who would become a palu at age 20.

84Max Ebb: Cavitation 101

Southern California waters are a welcome change from the rainy season in San Francisco Bay: The seabreeze is warm and the palm trees seem to belong.

96World of Chartering

Based on the number of trips he's taken in the past 20 years, it's obvious that Bay Area sailor Art Hartinger is completely addicted to yacht charter vacationing.