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Finishing in the rain, Jirí Šenkyrík circles his Olson 30 Kato around to meet the shore boat after finishing the Singlehanded TransPac.
"We’re all wondering when the sun is going to come out. It’s been cloudy and overcast for days and nights now," wrote the crew of the Allied Mistress 40 ketch — ironically named Shadowside — in their Pacific Cup blog this morning.
The Aussie family plans on doing ‘six and six’. What do they do to earn money?
The solo TransPac’s youngest skipper, 27-year-old Jirí Šenkyrík, is currently in a drag race to the finish aboard his vintage Olson 30 Kato.
With today’s final starting sequence, the 2016 Pacific Cup shifts into high gear, as it features the fastest racing machines in the fleet: the maxis.
How secure is your outboard? This one was snatched in broad daylight at the Alameda Marina.
Buzz Blackett’s Antrim-designed Class 40 California Condor (foreground) is currently smoking toward the finish line at around 10 knots.
As you can see via the magic of transponder tracking, the solo TransPac fleet will be converging on Hanalei during the next few days.
Yesterday, the South Pacific cruising community was stunned to learn that one of its own, singlehander Louis Schooler, 64, had been found dead aboard the San Diego-based Hylas 42 Entertainer, which had grounded on Takapoto Atoll in French Polynesia’s Tuamotu archipelago.
As you can see, Pac Cup fleet members were in high spirits during the Bon Voyage party at Richmond YC.
Fans of the El Toro, sailing enthusiasts, and Richmond Bay Trail users are invited to a special event at 10 a.m.
Even if you put Biobor or any other fuel stabilization product into a sailboat’s diesel tank, after a year or so the fuel loses its "caloric oomph."
Photo quiz: If you’ve cruised the South Pacific you can probably recognize the mountain profile in the background of this shot.
As perhaps only a couple of readers know, the 35th America’s Cup is to be held next June in Bermuda.
According to the latest tracker data, the bulk of the 23-boat Singlehanded TransPac fleet is more than a third of the way across the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hanalei bays.
Following Saturday’s start off Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon, singlehander Tom Burden exits Belvedere Cove on his Cal 40 Shaman.
Phaedo3 competing in the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race.
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Powered by winds that gusted up to 40 knots, Phaedo3, the MOD70 trimaran owned by Lloyd Thornburg and co-skippered by Brian Thompson, crushed yet another iconic sailing record on July 2.
The hits just keep on coming for François Gabart and his new maxi-trimaran Macif.
Charts, radar, GPS and depthsounders are all great for navigating, but sometimes there is nothing so helpful as a shot from a drone.
A huge congratulations to Randy Miller, Colin Dunphy and Ian Andrewes, who set a high bar for the Race to Alaska course record.
Who says water and fire do not mix? Water and pyrotechnics sure do, so if you’ve got a boat and want an unobstructed view of the celebrations, take a look at our list.
Making its way today into marine outlets and down gangplanks around the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, and many other places where sailors congregate is the July issue of Latitude 38.
Gannet’s bow slices through the water.
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"I’m about to sail from Darwin for South Africa," writes solo adventurer Webb Chiles.
Rogues’ Scholarship, as seen in ‘Lectronic Latitude on June 10.
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One of the reasons we report on offshore emergencies is that there are usually lessons we and our readers can learn from both tragedies and near-tragedies.
Winds were light and skies were cloudy for the crossing from Papeete to Moorea, but arrival at Cook’s Bay was dramatic nonetheless.
Developer Bay West hasn’t submitted final plans to the City of Alameda for its vision for Alameda Marina, but has been discussing updated designs with community groups through community advisory meetings.
John Jourdane will address Bay Area racers at the Yacht Racing Association’s first YRA Social of the year, to be hosted by Encinal Yacht Club in Alameda this Wednesday, June 29 at 7 p.m.
A greeting from the Sea Scouts on their open whaleboat, Viking.
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©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Lovers of classic yachts will want to set aside some time on Sunday to visit Corinthian Yacht Club, on Tiburon’s Main Street, for the Master Mariners Wooden Boat Show. From
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Lovers of classic yachts will want to set aside some time on Sunday to visit Corinthian Yacht Club, on Tiburon’s Main Street, for the Master Mariners Wooden Boat Show. From
This morning’s breaking news from the Clipper Round the World Race concerns the successful medevac of a crew member from IchorCoal. The
Quite likely the craziest race in the sport of sailing — with hands down the most hilarious press releases — has officially started.
Sailboats will probably never be allowed to transit the Panama Canal’s so-called Third Set of Locks, which open for business Sunday, but we’re sure many sailors will find this massive maritime engineering feat to be a fascinating accomplishment.
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