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Archive for June 2018

The Winners Sail Like a Girl

June 25, 2018
And the winners are… First Federal’s Team Sail Like a Girl! Team Sail Like a Girl finished the Race to Alaska yesterday just after midnight. © Katrina Zoë Norbom The first monohull and the first all-female team to win the Race to Alaska sailed into Ketchikan over the weekend to claim the $10,000 first prize. More »

Puddles to Podiums

June 22, 2018
"Wow, it looks like a spaceship!" So said the tiny voice from the tiny boat as the FX skiff blew past on day three of Olympic Development camp, which also was day two of this week’s Treasure Island Sailing Center summer camp for pee-wees. More »

The End Is Nigh

It’s like a seven-game series in the NBA finals. Dongfeng has the slimmest of leads over MAPFRE with about 24 hours of racing left. Team Brunel is currently in fourth place. More »

The r2ak Is Getting Interesting-er

The 25 teams that remain in the fourth annual Race to Alaska are finally getting some wind. For the first three days after last Saturday’s high-noon start, the fleet sweltered under a blob of high pressure that, if nothing else, gave the human-only powered craft their, ahem, day in the sun — and left everyone else wishing they’d brought more sunblock. More »

Iris Comes Down the Coast

June 20, 2018
"I’ve been intrigued with singlehanded distance races since reading about Chichester winning the first modern-day Transatlantic race in 1960," says John Colby of Portland, Oregon. "Then several years ago my crew and I mutually parted ways on Cocos Keeling Island in the Indian Ocean — no place to recruit new crew. More »

Get Ready for the Trans-Tahoe Regatta

Lake Tahoe’s biggest regatta hits the water this weekend for two days of alpine racing. The Trans-Tahoe regatta will feature several PHRF divisions "starting Friday, June 22 with afternoon buoy races followed by the long-distance race on Saturday, June 23 with a new competitive race course," the Tahoe Yacht Club said. More »

Celebrate Sailing

Tomorrow’s summer solstice (June 21) marks the official start to summer and, for most people around the world, the start of the most active sailing season. Yes, California is a little different. More »

YRA Racing Roundtable

June 18, 2018
The Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay’s series of seminars and socials will continue on Thursday, June 28, when Kame Richards and Seadon Wijsen will facilitate a roundtable discussion on Racing Tactics. More »