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SOS from Latitude

Thanks to modern technology, we usually have good luck finding people and boats from the past. But here’s one that stumps us. A few years ago — maybe as few as three or as many as six — two middle-aged women completed a circumnavigation. More »

What’s Your Pick?

September 6, 2013
So which team do you think will win the 34th America’s Cup? Write your prediction — including the final score — on a copy of today’s paper (yes, they still exist!) More »

Eight Bells for Dick Newick

As we look ahead to the start of America’s Cup 34 on Saturday, which will, of course, be raced in the most revolutionary multihulls ever seen on a Cup course, we pay tribute to one of the legendary innovators of the modern multihull movement: Dick Newick passed away on August 28. More »

Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!

Emirates Team New Zealand’s Dean Barker and Oracle Team USA’s Jimmy Spithill are ready to go head-to-head on Saturday. © Gilles Martin-Raget / ACEA The much anticipated — and much villified — 34th America’s Cup, matching Larry Ellison’s defending Oracle Team USA against challenger Emirates Team New Zealand in AC72s for the oldest trophy in sports history, starts tomorrow at 1:15 p.m. More »

The Joys of an Extra Pair of Hands

September 4, 2013
In the Wanderer’s story about Profligate‘s Baja Bash, he notes that he and Doña de Mallorca generally bring crew aboard for long passages. Being no average dummy, he knows that many hands not only make light work, but also make for better-rested crew.  More »

The Profligate Baja Bash

When you live the life of the Wanderer and Doña de Mallorca, just about every minute counts. Thus our 1,000-mile Bash from Vallarta to California — actually only to Ensenada so far — with Profligate was all about getting the job done as quickly as possible. More »

Oracle Gets Two-Point AC Penalty

Yesterday, as brilliant young sailors aboard AC45 catamarans were dazzling spectators during the Red Bull America’s Cup, an international sailing jury was concluding its investigation into cheating allegations within the same fleet during the 2012-2013 America’s Cup World Series events. More »