Posts by Christine Weaver
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 »
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 »
I-14 Worlds Makes a Splash
The practice race fleet at the I-14 Worlds approaches the weather mark.
© 2018 Richmond Yacht Club
The motto of the International 14 Worlds is "When you were little, did you run with scissors? 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 »
Tales of the Delta, Part 1
Jillian Cripps and her mom, Gig Kerr, paddled an inflatable Sea Eagle kayak in Owl Harbor’s Dinghy Poker Run. Gig’s drive to Sea-Tac from the far reaches of the Olympic Peninsula was slowed by wildfire, then her flight was delayed by the tragic actions of a Horizon Air employee who stole a plane and crashed it. More »
Harming or Helping the Delta?
In July, the California Department of Water Resources sent out the following press release:
"The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released a Draft
Supplemental Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for California WaterFix. More »
Supplemental Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for California WaterFix. More »
Take the Tiller Rocks Pillar Point
Twenty-six women on seven Cal 20 keelboats with sails of varying colors like yellow, red, turquoise and orange raced with determination, warrior-like skill, and competitive spirit on July 28 in the first-ever Take the Tiller Women Sailing Regatta sponsored by the Half Moon Bay Yacht Club. More »
Why We Love the Pacific
The following dispatches come from J/World’s Paul Martson, who was reminded why the Atlantic is not the Pacific, and why the Pacific is so darn appealing. Martson and a few J/World clients sailed in this year’s Newport to Bermuda Race in June aboard Westerly, a Santa Cruz 52. More »
48 North Donated to NW Maritime Center
The Pacific Northwest sailing rag 48° North, based in Seattle, has been for sale for a while, as owners Richard Hazelton and Michael Collins want to retire. Yesterday, the editor, Joe Cline, announced that the magazine is being donated to the nonprofit Northwest Maritime Center, located in Port Townsend, WA. More »
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