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Archive for June 2018

r2ak: The Race Is On!

June 18, 2018
Two days into the wild and crazy Race to Alaska, Russell Brown’s Gougeon 32 PT Watercraft is already looking like the boat to beat. Last year, Brown set the solo record for the 710-mile race from Victoria, BC to Ketchikan, Alaska — 9 days, 6 hours. More »

Lipton Cup: Brisk and Refreshing

Friday’s Lipton Cup race finished at the RYC breakwater. An extra bit of south in the stiff breeze made the spinnaker drop particularly challenging. latitude/Chris
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC This year’s revived and reformatted PICYA Lipton Cup turned out just like Lipton’s tagline, Brisk & Refreshing. More »
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Two Sailors Rescued in Washington

On Saturday, a couple was plucked from their floundering boat off the coast of Washington state. After being struck by a rouge wave and flooded, the couple — who were en route from Hawaii to Bellingham Washington aboard a 46-ft sailboat — activated their EPIRB. More »

Three Teams Tied Going into VOR Finish

June 15, 2018
Another stunning performance by Bouwe Bekking’s Team Brunel has seen the Dutch entry now pull dead even with perennial race leaders MAPFRE and Dongfeng atop the leaderboard of the Volvo Ocean Race, with just one more leg to be sailed. More »

Folsom Lake ‘Lectronic

Reader Mark Werder sent us the first in a series (or dare we say essay) of photos back in April: The April issue of Latitude, on the left — and used here as a type of water-level gauge — shows a full-ish Folsom Lake, with the January issue, on the right, for comparison. More »

This Bud’s for You

Having a ‘Bud’ on Friday is a common American ritual, but this Bud was poised to pack a different punch. As hurricane season ‘officially’ opens on June 1, we start keeping a weather eye out for indications of what’s ahead. More »

A Feeling About the Weather, Part 1

June 13, 2018
In this month’s Sightings, we posed the following question: Have the winds been getting lighter in California? This is not an uncommon query we’ve heard from some of our readers, and a seemingly relevant question to ask given the planet’s changing climate. More »

New Crew Learn to Race

This spring, an innovative experiment proved successful in opening up sailing on the South Bay to more people. The experiment was a three-week class for potential race crewmembers. My own first experience as race crew was rather daunting. More »

The Atlantic Cup: East Meets West

The Atlantic Cup, an event designed for the box-rule Class 40s, wrapped up in Portland, Maine, over the weekend, with Bay Area sailmaker Sylvain Barrielle sailing aboard Oakcliff Racing. The event has two doublehanded offshore legs — Charleston to New York and New York to Portland — and then two days of inshore, crewed racing among the islands of Casco Bay. More »