Posts by Christine Weaver
Dad Arrested, Kids Home, Boat Returned
It’s almost always better to think long-term rather than short-term. Someone should have told Christopher Maffei that. But it appears that Maffei allowed emotions to run ramshackle over reason when he allegedly snatched his two toddlers — Brooklynn, 3, and Devin, 2 — from their mother’s home, stole a Hunter 41 from Ballena Isle Marina, and tried to make his escape down the coast last week. More »
Olympic Sailing News
It’s a good thing the U.S. has Michael Phelps and many other gold medal winners in swimming and gymnastics – because our sailing team is coming up empty-handed.
Anna Tunnicliffe, Debbie Capozzi and Molly O’Bryan Vandemoer competing on Saturday in the Women’s Match Racing (Elliott 6M) event in the London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition. More »
Plastic Classic Initiation
Latitude 38 ‘ad guy’ Mike Zwiebach relates the tale of how he got involved with the first Plastic Classic race:
"I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the spring of 1985 and went to work in a friend’s family’s Zodiac store in Oakland. More »
Gold Coast Australia Wins Clipper Race
After 51 weeks of ocean racing Gold Coast Australia took first place on Sunday in the Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race. Visit Finland finished in second, while a battle towards the end saw Singapore beat Dutch entry De Lage Landen to the finish by a mere 20 seconds for the third and final podium position. More »
Business Classies Rock!
"Just FYI, my little bitty Business Ad got me work from ORACLE RACING. That’s right! The guys from OR saw my ad in Latitude 38 when they were here in the Bay Area a few months ago, and they asked for some help with boat lettering for their AC45s. More »
A Racing Hodgepodge
The Vic-Maui race had a scenic start.
© Andrew Madding / Bow Shot Productions
As the Vic-Maui Race fleet are passing San Francisco Bay’s latitude (at 128 to 132 degrees longitude), they’re beginning to swoop south-southwest. More »
Fourth of July Sailing Preview
The Newport 30 No Agenda and Black Watch 37 Brigadoon just after the start of 2010’s windy Brothers and Sisters race.
© 2012
Planning to get the boat out to celebrate Independence Day? More »
Clipper Race Tackles the North Atlantic
The stomachs of the crews on the ten 68-ft boats competing in Clipper Round the World ’11-’12 are just starting to settle after a brutal weekend in Race 13 from Nova Scotia to Derry-Londonderry in Northern Ireland. More »
SPECIAL EDITION: Tragedy at the Farallones
The OYRA Crewed Farallones Race ended in tragedy today when James Bradford’s Sydney 38 Low Speed Chase somehow ended up on the rocks at the Southeast Farallon. USCG Petty Officer Levi Read confirmed the well-known offshore race boat went aground around 3 p.m. More »
Weekend Sailing Preview
An action-packed weekend is in store for racers on San Francisco Bay, Folsom Lake, and Lake Tahoe. Sign-ups are still open for Sausalito YC’s Women Skippers Regatta on Saturday. The day starts with continental breakfast and a 9 a.m. More »
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