Posts by Christine Weaver
Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
If you’re a sailor in the Pacific Northwest, then be sure to check out the Wooden Boat Festival starting today and running through Sunday at the Northwest Maritime Center.
A serious facility for a serious wooden boat show in Port Townsend. More »
Wrestling Wayward Buoys
The Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay maintains a number of racing marks on the Bay. "Every once in a while a mark becomes unmoored from the bottom of the Bay and washes up somewhere in the Bay Area or just simply disappears," reports Don Ahrens, chairman of the YRA. More »
Safe Sailing on Labor Day Weekend
The Safe Boating Campaign sent us the following important safety tips to share with our readers for a successful Labor Day Weekend on the water:
Take a boating safety course. Gain valuable knowledge and on-water experience in a boating safety course with many options for novice to experienced boaters. More »
Labor Day Weekend Regattas
The big-name, big-boat regattas this weekend will be the 76th Windjammers (Friday, San Francisco to Santa Cruz Yacht Club) and the 26-mile Jazz Cup (Saturday, Treasure Island to Benicia). The Windjammers has eight boats signed up so far, with registration open through 8 p.m. More »
The Most Photographed Boat
The most photographed boat at the recently completed International 14 Worlds was not the winning skiff, nor one of the many that capsized. The most photographed boat was not even in the water. More »
World Sailing Awards Nominations Open
World Sailing will award three new honors for 2018. Nominations are now open for Rolex World Sailor of the Year, but also for the following:
The Racing Sailboat of the Year Award for "outstanding boat design, innovative concepts and ground-breaking technological advancements that are changing the face of sailing, pioneering change across the world," will be presented to a boat that has been scored in an international race for the first time between January 1, 2017, and September 1, 2018. More »
Richmond Has Got It Going On
No jib, and they’re downwind, so no need for extreme hiking on this Wylie 33 in the RYC Wednesday night race. The trapeze artist is telling the J/120 to weather (from which the photo was taken) that they’re going to need room at the harbor entrance. More »
Tales of the Delta, Part 3
Tom Lueck’s Stockton-based Sir Leansalot is a heavily raced Hunter 40.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Latitude 38 readers are no doubt familiar with the Delta Ditch Run, a usually/mostly downwind race from Richmond to Stockton. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Latitude 38 readers are no doubt familiar with the Delta Ditch Run, a usually/mostly downwind race from Richmond to Stockton. More »
A Leisurely Drake’s Bay Race
Chris Lewis’s Catalina 42 Carmelita disappears in a trough on the Potato Patch while racing up to Drake’s Bay on Saturday. The sea state was generally flat this weekend, but the shallow waters just northwest of the Golden Gate did generate a long, lazy swell. More »
Tales of the Delta, Part 2
Welcome to Bradford Island!
© Rob Sesar
The Delta Doo Dah X cruising rally’s last official event of the season was held on August 11 at Bradford Island. The friendly folks at Bay View Boat Club invited a small contingent of Delta Doo Dah sailors to join them for their annual big blowout BBQ bash on their rustic property along the San Joaquin River. More »
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