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Archive for August 2015

Chinese-Led Team Heads for Arctic

August 17, 2015
Out of the stable and back in action the famous tri formerly named IDEC II blasts across flat water during training sessions in France. Now renamed and rebranded as Qingdao, she is currently heading for Arctic waters.  More »

Resupplying Farallones Researchers

Let’s see, food? "Check." Equipment? "Check." Lagunitas IPA? "Check." A memorable shot from Another Girl’s resupply mission to Southeast Farallon Island. © 2015 Seymour Dodds San Francisco Bay sailor Seymour Dodds and friends ventured offshore this weekend ‘on a mission’: to resupply the researchers working on lonely Southeast Farallon Island with food, and yes, a few beers. More »

Learning By Doing

Since we last reported on 30-year-old Justin Hoye-House in the April issue of Latitude 38, he’s come a long way — literally — having successfully singlehanded from Mexico to French Polynesia during his first year of offshore sailing. More »

Trawling for a Cause

Racing to Hawaii in the Transpac or Pacific Cup is almost always an exhilarating and uplifting experience. But in recent years many racers have been sobered along the way by encounters with large patches of plastic garbage, and in some cases pieces of debris large enough to sink a good-sized sailboat.  More »

Rolex Fastnet Starts Sunday

The start of the Rolex Fastnet Race on the Solent, which separates the Isle of Wight from the mainland of southern England. © Ken Arrigo / Rolex The 46th biennial Rolex Fastnet Race will start this Sunday on the Solent in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. More »

Why Are Cabo Fuel Dock Fees So High?

August 12, 2015
Ever since Darren took over at IGY Marina Cabo San Lucas, his stated goal has been "to see more masts in the marina." So a program that places an unfair fuel dock flat fee burden on sailboats is hardly to his liking. More »

Alone, Yet in the Company of Others

You don’t have to race aboard a foiling catamaran to enjoy sailing. Just ask 87-year-old Don Person, whose passion is ‘Pottering’. © 2015 Goose Gossman Few quotes are more overused by boating writers than Kenneth Graham’s famous line from The Wind in the Willows: "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." More »

Rolex Big Boat Series Preview

The multihull division will be back for the fourth year at September’s Rolex Big Boat Series. Tom Siebel’s Redwood City-based MOD70 trimaran Orion will be the biggest. © Daniel Forster / Rolex If you’re planning on signing up for this year’s Rolex Big Boat Series, to be hosted by St. More »