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Thankfully, weather predictions were wrong and the RBBS had brilliant conditions for yesterday’s races.
Unleashed, seen here in a file photo, is a white Hunter 41 with dark blue canvas.
"Please enjoy the attached video of our Franchman Alain Thébault‘s 60-ft foiler l’Hydroptère, the latest flying speed freak on the San Francisco Bay," writes Fredrik Hakanson.
The inaugural SoCal Ta-Ta’s theme of ‘Reggae Pon da Ocean’ is sure to inspire some crazy costumes!
Yesterday we reported that Unleashed, a Hunter 41 in Club Nautique’s charter program, was stolen from Ballena Isle Marina Tuesday evening.
l’Hydroptere set the San Francisco Bay speed sailing record on Friday.
© Erik Simonson / l’Hydroptere
The long Labor Day weekend was filled with exciting sailing news, but arguably the most thrilling of all was Alain Thébault’s 60-ft foiling trimaran l’Hydroptère DCNS‘s setting the nautical mile speed sailing record in San Francisco Bay.
Club Nautique’s Hunter 41 Unleashed was apparently stolen from Ballena Isle Marina last night.
Ready to rumble. Starting tomorrow, 66 boats will compete in the 48th Rolex Big Boat Series.
If you’re planning to sail to Mexico this fall — whether in the Baja Ha-Ha rally or on your own — an extra pair of hands to take on a few of those interminable middle-of-the-night watches will make your trip down the coast much more relaxing and pleasurable.
Saturday’s dawn was spectacular in San Diego.
latitude/Richard
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last Saturday we awoke at 6 a.m.
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last Saturday we awoke at 6 a.m.
Corinthian YC’s Friday Night Races come to a close tonight with a non-counter race and series awards.
Reknowned artist Jim DeWitt will be showcasing his nautical artwork at the Sausalito Art Festival this weekend.
We bet Jackie Evans had no trouble finding a berth at last year’s Mexico-Only Crew List Party.
Bikes can be a great addition to a cruising boat — if you have room.
Today is the day that the September edition of Latitude 38 hits the streets all around the Bay Area, just in time for your Labor Day weekend reading pleasure!
On the heels of the highly successful AC World Series last week, Oracle Team USA’s AC72, the monster cat that will be used for the America’s Cup Finals next year, is slated to be launched this week (some say tomorrow).
When we showed up at the California YC in Marina del Rey with Profigate a couple of weeks ago to give a presentation, we were assigned the guest dock, which just happened to be about five slips down from the 72-ft Deerfoot II.
Sailors are a notoriously innovative bunch. There are few other applications where the use of duct tape and bailing wire seems to work quite as well — or last as long — as on a sailboat.
Super Sunday of the America’s Cup World Series earned its name with sunny skies, good breeze, fierce competition and tons of action.
During the just completed World Series, the AC 45s with wing mains hit speeds in the low 20s.
Devan Mullins of Newport Beach reports that Tropical Storm Isaac — which killed 10 people in Haiti and the D.R.
Except for cooks and stewardesses, the overwhelming number of crew on large sailing yachts are male.
© Ellen Hoke
Thirty-three knots is the fastest we’d ever sailed on a boat — until yesterday.
“This racing is awesome. It’s the best I’ve ever done in any boat."
If you missed Liz Clark at the California Academy of Sciences last night, the young woman with the Santa Barbara Cal 40 Swell who has been singlehanding around Central America and French Polynesia for the last bunch of years, and who has been a frequent contributor Latitude, will be presenting her Voyage to the Source show at the San Francisco Patagonia Store at 770 North Point at 7:30 p.m.
“Man down!” Both the Emirates Team New Zealand and China Team boats took tumbles yesterday — and higher winds are predicted today.
Shannon and Mike left Halcyon on a mooring in Zihua while they returned to the States to work.
If you haven’t been out catching the practice sessions for the AC Worlds this week, you may have missed more than just the AC45s flitting — and flipping — around San Francisco Bay.
"Finally," reports Rod Williams, "somebody has come up with an affordable bow thruster."
"I am very excited about the America’s Cup because I am a descendant of John Stevens, one of the event’s founders," writes Pamela Glassoff.
Phocea held the title of ‘World’s Largest Sailing Yacht’ for 28 years. She was launched in ’76 as Club Mediterranee for Alain Colas’s OSTAR attempt.
If San Francisco’s normal summer winds pipe up, AC45 fleet racing should be quite a show.
Normally, post-ocean-race repositioning trips are a lot less dramatic than the race itself.
Laura Dekker, the Dutch 16-year-old who became the world’s youngest solo circumnavigator (with stops) in January, has spent the last several months enjoying the the lush life in the South Pacific aboard her Jeanneau Gin Fizz Guppy, and is now bound for her birth country of New Zealand.
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