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March 2025

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10Calendar

18Letters

36Loose Lips

38Sightings

48It's A Left, Then A Left At The Bridge

After reading Andy Schwenk's description of his Seattle-to-San Francisco passage ("Turkey Trot," January 2025), I thought I would share our somewhat different experience along that same route two months prior.

52Three Bridge Fiasco

The Singlehanded Sailing Society's Three Bridge Fiasco could have as easily been titled "Crap Shoot."

58Farallones — A Voyage of Purpose

Early on the morning of January 18, 2025, the sailing vessel Francesca, a 1999 Beneteau Oceanis 461, slipped away from Marina Village in Alameda, headed for the remote Farallon Islands.

62Max Ebb — Seeing Red

College students — especially "starving" college students — make the best crew. They are smart, agile, enthusiastic, and best of all, hungry. The problem is, they graduate and move on.

66Racing Sheet

This month we visit the RegattaPRO Winter One Design Series, the J/111 North Americans, Team Racing in Half Moon Bay, the Bill Bennett Cup and Pier Pressure in SoCal, the Berkeley Midwinters and OYC's Sunday Brunch Series.

74World of Chartering

78Changes in Latitudes

87Classy Classifieds

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