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Paralympics Preview

September 2, 2016
The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games will be held on September 7-18, with sailing on September 11-17 on Guanabara Bay. The Paralympic Games began in Rome in 1960. Sailing first appeared as a demonstration sport in Atlanta in ’96 and was first included as a full medal sport at Sydney 2000, where the the singlehanded 2.4mR keelboat made its debut. More »

Drake’s Bay Weekend

August 31, 2016
John Kearney’s Express 27 Salty Hotel sails past Point Bonita on the way to Drake’s Bay. latitude/Chris
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Over the weekend, a combined 46-boat fleet of OYRA and Singlehanded Sailing Society racers participated in a mostly-light-air Drake’s Bay Race. More »

September Issue Out Thursday

In living color — Latitude 38’s September 2016 issue premieres tomorrow. latitude/Annie
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC The September issue of Latitude 38 will come out on Thursday, September 1. With the long weekend ahead, you’ll have plenty of time to peruse its pages. More »

Brutal Last Miles to Africa

August 26, 2016
"Gannet looks as though she just came in from a daysail," says Webb Chiles of his trusty steed, a flush-deck Moore 24, pictured here docked in Durban Harbor. © Webb Chiles "Sleep, fresh water showers, and a taste or two of gin have worked wonders, though I’m not quite ready to do the passage again," solo circumnavigator Webb Chiles, a resident of Illinois, wrote to us this morning. More »

Alessio and Kleinman Regatta

August 24, 2016
St. Francis YC’s annual three-day Aldo Alessio Regatta was established in 1992 through an endowment by Aldo Alessio, who was the club’s commodore in 1970. The Alessio trophy was awarded for Friday’s ocean race, a jaunt out the Gate and back. More »

Fresh from Rio

August 22, 2016
Gary Jobson, who served as commentator for NBC at the Olympics, is coming to St. Francis Yacht Club, and all Bay Area sailors are invited. "This Wednesday, fresh from Rio, Gary will come speak at our Wednesday Yachting Luncheon to talk about how our team performed and what’s next for US Sailing," advises StFYC’s Meredith Laitos. More »

Anatomy of a Round-Down

August 19, 2016
Wild times on the Olympic Circle in SFYC’s Summer Keelboat Invitational. © Erik Simonson Sailing photographer Erik Simonson was on the spot to capture images of this round-down (followed by an accidental jibe turning the mishap into a round-up) complete with man overboard (who fortunately hung onto the boat). More »

Delta Doo Dah Doin’s

August 17, 2016
It’s that season — you know, the one between midsummer and fall, ‘backtoschool’ — and the Delta Doo Dah’s summer vacation of sailing and playing in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is coasting toward the finish. More »

Olympic Sailing Medal Drought Ends

An ecstatic Caleb Paine won the Finn medal race to collect bronze for the US team. © 2016 Sailing Energy / World Sailing Thanks to Caleb Paine of San Diego, the American sailing team will not go home sans hardware from the 2016 Olympics as they did in 2012. More »

Beer Can Challenge Supersized

August 15, 2016
Last week, the Contessa 33 Warwhoop was at it again, taking on the Beer Can Challenge. She’s pictured above in Sausalito YC’s Tuesday night race on August 9. © 2016 Roxanne Fairbairn Back in 2012, Roger Ruud and Chuck Hooper conquered Latitude 38’s Beer Can Challenge on Hooper’s Contessa 33 Warwhoop. More »