Posts by Christine Weaver
America’s Cup Racing Resumes
The Cup arrives in Muscat’s Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque for a photo shoot. Left to right: Glenn Ashby, skipper of ETNZ; Adam Minoprio, who is taking the place of the injured Franck Cammas in Oman only for Groupama Team France; Dean Barker, SoftBank Team Japan skipper and CEO; Jimmy Spithill, Oracle Team USA skipper; Sir Ben Ainslie, Land Rover BAR skipper; Iain Percy, Artemis Racing team manager. More »
Racing into PV
Mighty Merloe crossed the PV Race finish line Tuesday morning at 8:30.
© 2016 John Rogers
HL Enloe’s ORMA 60 trimaran Mighty Merloe crossed the finish line of San Diego Yacht Club’s Puerto Vallarta Race at 8:30 Tuesday morning, for an elapsed time of 2 days, 19 hours, and 49 minutes. Their More »
Corinthian Midwinters/Robgatta
Although the weather was perfect for a raft-up on Saturday, it wasn’t so keen for a Bay tour yacht race. The shifty northerly softened as the ebb built, and the later-starting boats didn’t see more than 6 knots. More »
Vallejo Race Change-Up
Subscribers to the YRA of S.F. Bay newsletter learned of changes to the organization’s biggest race of the year, the Great Vallejo Race, earlier this week. The only change that affects the race itself is the intention to use downwind ratings for PHRF divisions in Saturday’s race to Vallejo Yacht Club on April 30. More »
When Cruisers Become Racers
A light-air spinnaker start to a casual race in the La Paz Channel.
Astraea
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC When do cruisers become racers? Whenever two or more of them want to! More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC When do cruisers become racers? Whenever two or more of them want to! More »
Classy Deadline Monday, 5 p.m.
El Niño Ate the Boat Show
Anyone who’s spent a real winter on the water there can tell you that San Francisco’s South Bay can fetch up some nasty wave action in stormy weather. We hadn’t had a ‘real’ winter in a few years, until this season’s El Niño broke the trend of fine weather in January. More »
Artemis Racing’s New Turbo
Although they’ve since moved their sailing operations to Bermuda, in January Artemis Racing launched a second turbo development boat out of their base in Alameda’s former naval air station.
They may not be ‘our’ team, but Artemis Racing maintained a sailing presence on San Francisco Bay for much longer than Oracle Team USA. More »
Seminar Season Selections
If it’s February it must be seminar season. Some events of interest to Bay Area sailors include the following.
February 4: Not exactly a seminar, more of a talk — USCG Captain Gregory Stump, Commander of Sector San Francisco, joined by Joseph Phair of the Coast Guard Foundation, will address the crowd at Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon at 7 p.m. More »
When a Fiasco Is a Success
Welcome to the big party in San Francisco.
latitude/Chris
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC San Francisco was a busy place this weekend. While thousands waited in line at the Embarcadero to celebrate one sport, hundreds more lined up along the Marina to compete in another: the biggest — and oddest — yacht race of the year, and they didn’t even have to go through security. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC San Francisco was a busy place this weekend. While thousands waited in line at the Embarcadero to celebrate one sport, hundreds more lined up along the Marina to compete in another: the biggest — and oddest — yacht race of the year, and they didn’t even have to go through security. More »
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