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Posts by Christine Weaver

Call-Out for Lighted Boat Parades

November 6, 2017
It seems like Halloween was just last week and yet retail stores are already playing Christmas music. As our culture gears up for the holiday season, we’re collecting a list of holiday boat parades for our December issue Calendar. More »

Grounding in Clipper Race

November 3, 2017
Unfortunately for the crew of CV24 Greenings, that entry is out for the remainder of the Clipper 2017-18 Race. On Wednesday, the Clipper Race office confirmed that the vessel was partially underwater on the western side of Cape Peninsula, South Africa, roughly halfway between Cape Town and Cape Point. More »

Great Pumpkin Trivia Contest Solved

In Monday’s ‘Lectronic Latitude, we posted the trivia quiz questions posed to the racers in Sunday’s Great Pumpkin Regatta, hosted by Richmond Yacht Club. Here are the answers, shared with us by quizmaster Gordie Nash: All of the above Nicaragua Suisun Ghost Ship/Mothball fleet Polynesian sailors traded their chickens Australia Vendée Globe, France Named after Hawaiian sheep farmer, Joseph Poalie Friday Betsy DeVos with John Fauth Missed an island and had to go back Afraid of cannibalism Celestial navigation with sextant Imagine trying to read the questions (complete with history lessons) out loud, fielding opinions from the crew, and penciling in answers on a sheet of paper, all while racing more than 100 other boats going in two directions in somewhat sporty breeze. More »

Hard Aground Near and Far

Reader Craig Dahl spotted this 30-ft ketch on the rocks in Drake’s Bay between Chimney Rock and the Lifeboat Station over the weekend. © Craig Dahl Craig Dahl, a Marin County-based reader of Latitude 38, and crew sailed his Catalina 36 Journey to Drake’s Bay for the weekend. More »

November Racing Preview

October 30, 2017
November has California in its sights like a low-pressure system barreling down from the Aleutian Islands. A sample of major midwinter series (in alphabetical order) that start in November in the San Francisco Bay Area includes: BERKELEY YC — Midwinters: 11/11-12 (Chowder Races all other Sundays) ENCINAL YC — Jack Frost Series: 11/4 GOLDEN GATE YC — Manuel Fagundes Seaweed Soup Series: 11/4 ISLAND YC — Island Days on the Estuary: 11/12 REGATTAPRO/SYC — Winter One Design: 11/11 SAUSALITO YC — Sunday Chili Midwinters: 11/5 SEQUOIA YC — Winter Series: 11/4, Redwood Cup pursuit race series: 11/18 SOUTH BEACH YC — Island Fever Midwinters: 11/18 For the ongoing schedules for these and more, see our Calendar in the November issue of Latitude 38, coming out on November 1. More »

Can You Solve the Great Pumpkin Quiz?

In a longstanding tradition, the Sunday pursuit race at Richmond Yacht Club’s Great Pumpkin Regatta is peppered with distractions. Not only must skippers choose which direction to round Alcatraz and Angel Island, but they are also tasked with hunting pumpkins dropped from RIBs and solving a trivia quiz laden with historical teaching moments and recent news factoids — all sailing-related of course.  More »

Linda Elias Memorial Regatta

October 27, 2017
Co-skippers Wendy Corzine and Lisa Meier of Long Beach Yacht Club won the 26th annual Linda Elias Memorial Women’s One-Design Challenge on October 14-15, breaking a 14-year dry spell — the hosting LBYC team last won this regatta in 2003. More »

San Diego Delivers Extreme Sailing

October 23, 2017
Team Extreme San Diego, skippered by Santa Cruz native Morgan Larson, sails close to shore during racing in San Diego. © 2017 Lloyd Images Act 8 of the Extreme Sailing Series is now in the books, and San Diego delivered the goods in wholesale fashion. More »

Big Boats in Seattle

October 20, 2017
The J/145 Jedi raced on the North Course in the PSSC Big Boats Regatta. © Jan Anderson The Puget Sound Sailing Championship for Small Boats was followed up, of course, by the PSSC Big Boats, held on Seattle’s Shilshole Bay. More »