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Fun racing in the Standard Masters Worlds on Day 4 (yesterday). © John Pounder "Laser sailing/racing in Banderas Bay is heaven: warm water, warmer air temps, 6- to 10-knot breeze in the early afternoon building to 12-15 by mid-afternoon meaning lighter weight sailors have a shot in the first race and heavier sailors can come on in the second race."
The sad news has just reached us that Edward Staples’ and Annette Alexander’s SoCal-based Island Packet sailboat Sandpiper caught fire and sank May 14, while crossing the Sea of Cortez en route to Mazatlan.
While the West Coast sailing scene celebrates Memorial Day with the running of a revamped Spinnaker Cup race from San Francisco to Monterey and an all-new multi-stage California Offshore Race Week, East Coast sailors are focused on the New York-Vendée solo transatlantic race beginning on Sunday and the Atlantic Cup doublehanded coastal race beginning on Saturday.
Lemme guess: Rip Van Winkle? Leon Russell? No, that’s actually solo circumnavigator Jeff Hartjoy looking rather wooly after spending 204 days alone at sea.
For reasons we’ll never understand, many people choose to take long road trips over the Memorial Day Weekend, and invariably end up spending long hours in ugly, mind-numbing traffic.
The West Coast is well represented on US Sailing Team Sperry. Californian Paris Henken and Washingtonian Helena Scutt, a Stanford grad, sail the 49erFX, the women’s version of the 49er skiff.
Baseball is popular with cruisers and locals alike in Turtle Bay, the small fishing village on the coast of Baja that warmly welcomes the Baja Ha-Ha fleet every year.
He did it! On the 204th day after setting sail from Ecuador’s Bahia Caraquez, Washington-based singlehander Jeff Hartjoy completed his nonstop lap around the planet Sunday aboard his Baba 40 ketch, Sailors Run.
If you are ever unlucky enough to fall into chilly Northern California waters, you’ll be damned glad you elected to wear your PFD. 
We’re thrilled to report that after more than 200 days at sea alone, Washington-based sailor Jeff Hartjoy — who’s a longtime friend of Latitude 38 — is about to make landfall at Ecuador’s Bahia Caraquez, thus completing the nonstop circumnavigation that began there last Halloween. 
Island Yacht Club in Alameda will host the Singlehanded Farallones awards meeting on Wednesday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m.
Can you identify the sailing club in today’s mystery photo? Here are a couple of hints: If you get the impression the club is on a river and is primarily for small boats, you’d be correct.
Sailing from Bethel Island to King Harbor on Old River. latitude/Chris
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Delta Doo Dah Kickoff Party will return to Berkeley Yacht Club this year, on Sunday, May 22, from 4 to 7 p.m.
The highly competitive Cat Fight spinnaker fleet had 19 boats on the start line for six races over two days.
It’s easy to tell that this photo was taken in the beautiful Sea of Cortez, but where in the Sea of Cortez? 
Navigating, particularly through inshore waters, can be a tricky business — especially when lights and other navigational aids can’t be found at the locations where your charts say they should be.
The injury to Robin Stout’s left eye shows why maritime agencies don’t allow weights to be put in monkey’s fists.
Lewis and Alyssa have not only gone over to the dark side buying a catamaran, they’ve gone over to the really dark side where they bought one damaged by a tropical cyclone.
If the name Manouch Moshayedi sounds familiar to our readers, it should. The Newport Beach-based sailor owns and skippers the Bakewell-White 100 Rio100.
Co-skippers Brian Thompson and Lloyd Thornburg celebrate their record-smashing arrival in England. © Team Phaedo Lloyd Thornburg and his crew on the MOD70 trimaran Phaedo3 have smashed another world sailing record.
SoftBank Team Japan and Oracle Team USA sailing in front of the Manhattan skyline yesterday.