Archive for July 2018
SF Boys Enjoy Belgian Conditions
"Two Northern California Optimist families headed to Belgium for Nieuwpoort Race Week," writes Cindy Wondolleck.
Connor Bennett (left) and Dylan Wondolleck earned berths on Team USA for Nieuwpoort Race Week.
© Cindy Wondolleck
"At the US Optimist Team Trials in Key Biscayne, Florida, Dylan Wondolleck and Connor Bennett qualified for the USA Optimist team going to Belgium. More »
Bay Area Beatdown
We want to put another call out to any and everyone with a good sea story (or picture). Is anyone cruising the Channel Islands? Who’s doing unexpectedly well in their local beer cans? More »
Pacific Cup Finishers Roll In
It’s been a busy weekend in the Pacific Cup with much of the fleet in the barn at Kaneohe Yacht Club, including most division winners. First to finish was Charles Devanneaux’s all-new hydrofoil-equipped Beneteau Figaro 3 A Fond le Girafon on Friday. Sailing More »
The Dutch Shoe Marathon
As adults, it’s easy to forget how awesome summer is for kids. For three months, there’s no school, and kids live at the beach or the docks in a near-constant state of play. More »
Laser Run to Benicia
Seven brave sailors and three support volunteers showed up at Richmond Yacht Club Sunday morning, July 1, to tackle the Second Annual RYC to Benicia Run. We had four Radials (Chris, Dan, Peter and Hideki) and three full rigs (Marcel, Julian and myself) plus Josh, Chris and Jocelyn in our support boat. More »
Latitude Movie Club: The Disaster Film
Latitude Nation — We were looking forward to reviewing a sailing movie in ‘real time’, but alas, Adrift came and went before we managed to get ourselves to the theater. (Did anyone out there happen to catch it? More »
News Flash: First Finisher in Pac Cup
The first of the Pacific Cup finishers has arrived, as Charles Devanneaux and crew Matthieu Damerval aboard the foiling Beneteau Figaro 3 A Fond le Girafon sailed across the finish line at 15:59 PDT. More »
Lunatic Power
If yours was one of the 356 entries that did not finish this year’s Three Bridge Fiasco, besides scanning the horizon for breeze and tweaking sails, you had some time to contemplate the challenges and opportunities of clean energy. More »
Unpredictable Pacific Cup
Matthew Landry of the Mills 68 Prospector took this great drone shot of the big mini-maxi blasting to Hawaii with the A2 spinnaker up in moderate trade winds. Despite starting on what was forecast to be the ‘bad start day’, the fleet’s scratch boat may end up being first to finish and also claim the overall Pacific Cup victory. More »
Baja Ha-Ha Provisioning
If you’re heading south with the Baja Ha-Ha this fall, you may have questions about provisioning for a longer stay in Mexico. All medium to large cities in Mexico have US-style big box stores: Costco, Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Soriano, Mega, and others. More »
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