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Room with a view – the surrounding panoramas of the Bay are one of the pluses of Loch Lomond’s quiet North Bay location.©
You think the commodore of your yacht club is hot? Well check out Heather Corsaro, the new commodore of the Punta Mita Yacht and Surf Club.
California will be sponsoring a boat in the 2009-10 Clipper ‘Round the World Race.
The 1,100-mile passage from Tonga or Fiji to New Zealand is known throughout the cruising world as being potentially difficult, if not dangerous.
Manjula, lower left, with Steve, Debbie and Greg, aboard Escapade just prior to her fateful trip to India.
Now that you’ve recovered from an overdose of tryptophan, family togetherness and migraine-inducing traffic, it’s time to settle down to a little vicarious sailing fun.
There’s no telling who might show up for this week’s Banderas Bay Blast for Charity, three days of tropical sailing fun and games that will see the fleet visit Nayarit Riviera Marina, Punta Mita and Paradise Marina.
Having had great experiences at the San Diego YC and the El Cid Marina in Mazatlan, Lewis Guiss and Mary Lee, members of the Cal Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, have been loving their time at the Nayarit Riviera Marina with their Beneteau 473 Merry Lee.
It may be raining today, but this weekend’s forecast is for sun, sun, sun!
Per request, we received several nice remembrances of George Olson, who passed away on November 12.
Did you take advantage of this weekend’s lovely weather to go for a daysail?
At 211 boats, this year’s ARC cruising class fell short of record numbers.
Two of the three legs in this year’s Banderas Bay Blast will almost certainly be downwind.
Heather ‘I’ll try really, really hard to be good’ Corsaro, the new Commodore of the Punta Mita Yacht & Surf Club.
Stanford held on to The Big Sail trophy with wins in the first and last of the annual best-of-three match racing event against Cal.
Seth and Elizabeth earlier in their honeymoon at Martha’s Vineyard on the Fourth of July.
The San Francisco Maritime Museum may be closed until next year, but the Park Service still has many free and low-cost activities for the public to enjoy.
Sailing beneath the towering peaks of the Cascade Range, charter trips in the Northwest are a visual feast.
We’ve heard it said that the average sailboat leaves its slip just 15 times a year.
We’re sorry to report that George Olson lost a long battle with cancer last weekend.
Pablo’s stamina for craziness is phenomenal – and he doesn’t even wear ear plugs.
Loick Peyron is first to the doldrums in the 2008 Vendee Globe.
© Jean-Marie Liot DPPI/Vendee Globe
Ten days into the singlehanded 2008 Vendée Globe Race, the leaders are running into the doldrums with Loïck Peyron and his Farr-designed Gitana 80 leading the charge.
All sorts of folks do the Pacific Puddle Jump. Meet the Liberty crew from the Class of ’08.
The biggest drug bust in Irish history occurred on the high seas on November 6, when armed teams boarded the MacGregor 65 Dances With Waves about 150 miles southwest of County Cork.
The Vallejo YC reports that the BCDC has finally approved permits to dredge the VYC harbor and replace the deteriorating wooden breakwater.
Tom and Diane Might, and their Hallberg-Rassy 62 Between The Sheets, have done their landlocked hometown of Phoenix proud by being the first of 47 entries to cross the finish line in the 19th annual Caribbean 1500 from Hampton, Virginia, to Tortola in the British Virgins.
Having crossed from Cabo, Bob Smith’s self-built 44-ft cat Pantera takes a breather at the Punta Mita anchorage.
We were shocked to receive the news last evening that Joanne McFee of Island YC had passed away on Wednesday.
After this writer’s husband returned safely from this summer’s Singlehanded TransPac Race, we had a surplus of safety gear we no longer needed.
Although they ultimately were not seriously injured, we’ve received yet another disturbing report of cruisers being attacked while at anchor, this time in Ecuador, where we don’t remember there being any problems in the past.
The Cirque crew got service with a smile – and good prices, too – at the new La Cruz fuel dock.
Tragedy struck in Venezuela Saturday night when three men boarded Ken and Cathy Peters’ sailboat Chill in an apparent robbery attempt.
Francis Joyon was snubbed in the voting for the ISAF’s male World Sailor of the Year for 2008.
After nearly 40 years of service, the Queen Elizabeth II began her final voyage last Saturday — by being blown onto a sandbar near Southampton.
Yesterday, Peter Tong’s SC 70, OEX, finished first in the 2008 Long Beach to Cabo San Lucas Race in record-breaking time of 2d, 22h, and 50m, eclipsing the elapsed time race record set back in 1987 by just under five hours.
Mix kids with gentle surf and you’ve got an ideal recipe for fun in the sun.
Tranquila, a Leopard 45, was stolen last Wednesday from Marina Palmira in La Paz.
The same jury that found Skylar Deleon guilty of three murders — including those of cruisers Tom and Jackie Hawks — spent 10 hours last week deciding his fate: life in prison or death by lethal injection.
The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s inaugural RORC Caribbean 600 looks likely to get off to a good start.
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