Skip to content
Archive for July 2016

Pac Cup Record Set as Storm Approaches

July 22, 2016
Doublehanders Melinda and Bill Erkelens blast toward Oahu aboard their MORC30 Wolfpack, securing first place in North Sails DH2. © 2016 Leslie Richter As the Pacific Cup’s early finishers celebrate their success and swap tales from this year’s abnormally fast passage from San Francisco to Oahu, a reenergized Tropical Storm Darby — now packing sustained winds of 60 mph — is undoubtedly making crews at the back of the pack a bit nervous. More »

Record Falls in Vic-Maui

The TP52 Valkyrie finished the Vic-Maui Race in record time yesterday in the late afternoon. © Vic-Maui Race It wasn’t a record year for the Singlehanded TransPac, which started a week or more earlier than the Pac Cup and the Vic-Maui, but it sure was for the latter two Hawaii races. More »

More Solo TransPac’ers Blow In

July 20, 2016
Mike Jefferson sails the biggest boat in the fleet, the Garcia Passoa 47 Mouton Noir, into the Hanalei Bay anchorage after completing the Singlehanded TransPac race from San Francisco Bay. © Kristen Soetebier Seven more solo sailors are enjoying the sun and surf in Hanalei Bay, Kauai. More »

Pac Cup’ers on Record-Setting Pace

Woohoo! We’re havin’ some fun now. Charles Devanneaux of the Beneteau First 30 Sailing For ALS (currently second in DH2) somehow found the time to upload a few photos to give his followers a hint of the wild ride he’s having: barefoot and blasting downwind with a rooster tail behind. More »

Join Us for Some Prime SoCal Cruising

If you’d love to use your boat for something more ambitious than a Central Bay daysail but aren’t ready to enter the cruising lifestyle full-time, we’ve got the perfect solution: Join us on the fourth annual SoCal Ta-Ta rally, a weeklong, one-directional cruising rally from Santa Barbara to Catalina Island. More »

Solo Racers Sail into Hanalei Bay

July 18, 2016
 Finishing in the rain, Jirí Šenkyrík circles his Olson 30 Kato around to meet the shore boat after finishing the Singlehanded TransPac. Born in the Czech Republic, Jirí flew the Czech flag at the start and finish. More »

Big Winds Push Pac Cup Fleet

"We’re all wondering when the sun is going to come out. It’s been cloudy and overcast for days and nights now," wrote the crew of the Allied Mistress 40 ketch — ironically named Shadowside — in their Pacific Cup blog this morning. More »

It’s a Small Sailing World

The Aussie family plans on doing ‘six and six’. What do they do to earn money? They sell popsicles at events around Adelaide, Australia. Really. latitude/Richard
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Wanderer stopped to chat with an Aussie guy in the Arsenal Marina with a Fisher 28 catamaran that he and his wife had just bought — sight unseen — in Strasbourg, France. More »