Archive for August 2012
Oracle Team USA Shines at ACWS Final
Super Sunday of the America’s Cup World Series earned its name with sunny skies, good breeze, fierce competition and tons of action.
© 2012 ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget
The first America’s Cup World Series event of the 2012-1013 schedule concluded yesterday along the San Francisco Cityfront, with the home team, Oracle Team USA, taking top honors in both match racing and fleet racing. More »
Musing About AC Finals Speed
During the just completed World Series, the AC 45s with wing mains hit speeds in the low 20s.
While sailing in the same conditions aboard the 60-ft (LOD) foiler l’Hydroptère DCNS on Thursday, we hit 35 knots. More »
America’s Cup World Series Viewer’s Guide
“This racing is awesome. It’s the best I’ve ever done in any boat." That’s how Olympic medalitst Santiago Lange of Artemis Racing summed up yesterday’s America’s Cup World Series action off the San Francisco Cityfront. More »
Speed Thrills On Foils
© Ellen Hoke
Thirty-three knots is the fastest we’d ever sailed on a boat — until yesterday. The old record was in the Bay aboard Frenchman Bruno Peyron’s then 86-ft catamaran Commodore Explorer shortly after she’d established a Japan-to-San Francisco record. More »
Liz Clark at SF Patagonia Store Tonight
If you missed Liz Clark at the California Academy of Sciences last night, the young woman with the Santa Barbara Cal 40 Swell who has been singlehanding around Central America and French Polynesia for the last bunch of years, and who has been a frequent contributor Latitude, will be presenting her Voyage to the Source show at the San Francisco Patagonia Store at 770 North Point at 7:30 p.m. More »
We’ll See You at the AC World Series
“Man down!” Both the Emirates Team New Zealand and China Team boats took tumbles yesterday — and higher winds are predicted today.
© 2012 Gilles Martin-Raget
If you’re ever going to play hookey from work or school in order to follow your passion for sailing, this is the week to do it — assuming, of course, that you’re here in the San Francisco Bay Area. More »
Halcyon Damaged on Reef
Shannon and Mike left Halcyon on a mooring in Zihua while they returned to the States to work.
Halcyon
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Mike and Shannon Scott of Florida report that their Formosa 51 ketch Halcyon, which had been left on a mooring in Zihua Bay for hurricane season, went up on a reef last week and has been badly damaged. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Mike and Shannon Scott of Florida report that their Formosa 51 ketch Halcyon, which had been left on a mooring in Zihua Bay for hurricane season, went up on a reef last week and has been badly damaged. More »
l’Hydroptere Makes the Bay
If you haven’t been out catching the practice sessions for the AC Worlds this week, you may have missed more than just the AC45s flitting — and flipping — around San Francisco Bay. More »
Strange Goings-On in Vanuatu
Phocea held the title of ‘World’s Largest Sailing Yacht’ for 28 years. She was launched in ’76 as Club Mediterranee for Alain Colas’s OSTAR attempt.
Phocea
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC One of the great things about having published Latitude 38 magazine for over 35 years, is that we have developed a vast network of contacts all over the world. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC One of the great things about having published Latitude 38 magazine for over 35 years, is that we have developed a vast network of contacts all over the world. More »
A-Cup World Series Kicks into High Gear
"I am very excited about the America’s Cup because I am a descendant of John Stevens, one of the event’s founders," writes Pamela Glassoff. "I was encouraged to write you to see if you have any ideas for a viewing area for the finals in San Francisco this coming week." More »
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