Posts by Christine Weaver
Delta Doo Dah Doin’s
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
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 »
Women ‘Capture the Power’
Women teach women how to sail at Island Yacht Club’s annual Northern California Women’s Sailing Seminar, the slogan of which is ‘Capture the Power’. "Top-notch women sailors from all along the Pacific Coast volunteer their expertise to provide instruction in workshops in the classroom and on the water," says organizer Nancy Hird. More »
Delta Doo Dah This Weekend
Potato Slough is an anchorage popular with cruisers of the California Delta, and puttering around in a sailing dinghy is a popular way to pass a hot, sunny afternoon.
latitude/Chris
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Next weekend’s Delta Doo Dah events will wrap up the official itinerary of the inland cruising rally’s eighth year. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Next weekend’s Delta Doo Dah events will wrap up the official itinerary of the inland cruising rally’s eighth year. More »
Olympic Sailing on TV
470 racing on the Copacabana course during the 2014 Test Event.
© ISAF
If you’re looking forward to watching Olympic sailing on TV, we now have a little more info for you. More »
Clipper Race Closes the Circle
Led by victor LMAX Exchange, skippered by Frenchman Olivier Cardin, the Clipper Race fleet parades under the Tower Bridge to arrive home in London after completing its circuitous loop of the planet. More »
Olympics Sailing Preview
Sugarloaf Mountain towers majestically above Guanabara Bay, site of this month’s Olympic sailing.
© Pedro Martinez / Sailing Energy
The 2016 Rio Olympic Games will begin on Wednesday, August 3, and run through August 21. More »
A Dolphin Frolics with a Tuna
San Francisco Bay Area sailors have been thrilled by more than our fair share of humpback whale sightings this year, but Julia Smith, Marianne Armand and Debbie Fehr had a close cetacean encounter of another kind on July 23. More »
Britannia Rules the Waves
Rule, Britannia! Team Land Rover BAR celebrates their win in the latest Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event.
© 2016 Ricardo Pinto / ACEA
The sun may have set on the glorious heyday of the British Empire, but the Brits still rule their own waters. It More »
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