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Last night, we received the following letter from Greg Clark, who keeps his Cal 25 Lucky Duck at Brandy Creek Marina on Whiskeytown Lake, near Redding, California. "The
Traffic is bad all over, so what sort of parent would spend an hour and a half (each way) driving a kid to a sailing school?
Jillian Cripps and her mom, Gig Kerr, paddled an inflatable Sea Eagle kayak in Owl Harbor’s Dinghy Poker Run.
Registration for the 26th Annual Women’s Sailing Seminar — which will be held on the weekend of September 22 and 23 — is now open.
Since its inception, San Francisco has been a destination for people in search of gold.
Yesterday, we were amazed, delighted and encouraged to see people lining up for Cal Sailing Club’s open house.
On Friday, we posted a letter asking what sailors should do with their old flares.
If you’ve followed the Ronstan Bridge to Bridge over the last 20 years, you know you can make it from Vista Point in Sausalito to Yerba Buena Island faster than the fastest Uber driver.
After years of complaints about overzealous excessive, confusing and unfair and enforcement, on Wednesday, the state of California approved a request from a bipartisan coalition of state legislators to audit the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC).
We received the following letter from Bob Adams:
"You can recycle paint, car batteries and prescription drugs at the point of sale, so why can’t we do the same with expired flares?
On Sunday, August 12, Cal Sailing Club will be hosting an open house — and we’ll be there!
There was a big splash in the Pacific Northwest at the end of July, as the new 65-ft O’Neill Sea Odyssey catamaran was launched at Schooner Creek Boat Works.
It’s always a bit strange when you cross tacks with an ocean sunfish.
In July, the California Department of Water Resources sent out the following press release:
"The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released a Draft
Supplemental Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for California WaterFix.
Supplemental Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for California WaterFix.
On Saturday the 11th, the Ocean Cruising Club will be hosting a potluck picnic at Angel Island between 11 a.m.
Twenty-six women on seven Cal 20 keelboats with sails of varying colors like yellow, red, turquoise and orange raced with determination, warrior-like skill, and competitive spirit on July 28 in the first-ever Take the Tiller Women Sailing Regatta sponsored by the Half Moon Bay Yacht Club.
Don’t get us wrong, we love the Bay Area. When we moved here years ago, we knew that we were going to get some serious heavy-weather sailing experience.
On Friday, the Kauai Channel Race saw 14 boats sail some 100 miles downwind from the Kaneohe Yacht Club on the east shore of Oahu to the Nawiliwili Yacht Club on Kauai. Taking
The following dispatches come from J/World’s Paul Martson, who was reminded why the Atlantic is not the Pacific, and why the Pacific is so darn appealing.
Latitude Nation, another weekend is upon us. For those of you who didn’t play hooky during the week, we hope you get to stretch your legs on the water over the next few days — and don’t forget to send us your stories and photos.
At least two boats found themselves aground in the Bay Area this past week.
Yacht racing is everywhere in California, both inshore and offshore. You never know when you might run into (we hope not literally) a regatta underway.
The Pacific Northwest sailing rag 48° North, based in Seattle, has been for sale for a while, as owners Richard Hazelton and Michael Collins want to retire.
A team of four race to repack a twisted spinnaker.
© Fred Fago
Saturday’s YRA race out to Point Bonita finished down the Estuary and ended at a party hosted by Encinal Yacht Club.
Do you have the midsummer reading blues? Have you devoured all the novels you’d been saving since winter for those lazy summer days when you were on the hook and able to kick back with some serious reading material?
While summers in San Francisco are known for cool, brisk and foggy breezes, the coast of Maine is just about the opposite — except for the fog part.
In Monday’s ‘Lectronic Latitude, we ran a preview of some upcoming races. Our list was not meant to be all-inclusive, but after that post we did hear from readers about a couple of events that missed getting into our Calendar entirely.
This morning, we received the following news from Larry Laney, who shared some information about the Carr Fire in Redding, CA. The
On Friday, the Coast Guard, with the help of good Samaritans, rescued two sailors after their dinghy capsized off Indian Island, which lies in Arcata Bay off Eureka, CA.
Happy Friday, West Coast. We hope everyone has a good night of racing.
It’s here! It’s the moment that, well, very few of you have been waiting for.
It’s delivery time for boats that competed in the Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race.
© Peter Nelson
Sometimes an event occurs where everyone realizes something special or magical occurred.
A couple who were forced to abandon their boat just 150 miles from the completion of a nearly three decade circumnavigation have been reunited with their vessel.
On July 1, four singlehanded sailors departed Marina del Rey bound for Honolulu in the Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association’s inaugural Shaka Challenge.
While we seek results we applaud progress. Even with our best intentions and awareness of things like the Texas-sized Pacific garbage patch it remains hard to eliminate our single-use plastic water bottle habit.
Women Sailing of Half Moon Bay Yacht Club offers their first-ever Take the Tiller Women Sailing Regatta this Saturday, July 28.
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