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October 2026

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13Calendar

18Letters

34Sightings

442026 Rolex Big Boat Series

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.

50Cruisers Disconnect

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.

54A Fleet Becomes Family

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.

58Liveaboard Misconceptions

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.

64Max Ebb — Dragging the Ass

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

68The Racing Sheet

76World of Chartering

80Changes in Latitudes

89Classy Classifieds