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Posts by Christine Weaver

Four Out of 360

January 29, 2018
The scene at the Three Bridge Fiasco starting line about 40 minutes after the beginning of the starts. latitude/Chris
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Four out of 360 — that’s how many boats finished Saturday’s Three Bridge Fiasco pursuit race. More »

Miller Made Sailing Films Too

January 26, 2018
By now skiers have heard that ski filmmaker extraordinaire Warren Miller passed away at home on Orcas Island on Wednesday at the age of 93. What skiers — and sailors — may not know is that Miller made sailing films too. More »
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SAWW Needs Your Help

Save Alameda’s Working Waterfront, the group mobilizing to preserve maritime businesses and boating facilities at Alameda Marina, is looking for science and engineering specialists to help respond to the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) submitted to the City of Alameda by the developer. More »

The Boys of Sausalito Built El Toros

January 24, 2018
A member of the Facebook group Sausalito Children has been posting scans of the Richardson Bay School 1967 yearbook. We were particularly intrigued by page 34. As you can clearly see, the school, which would later be renamed Martin Luther King Jr., More »

Tragedy Strikes in VOR

January 22, 2018
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span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag team won Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race in Hong Kong on Friday. More »

Watch the VOR Finishes Today

January 19, 2018
The Volvo Ocean Race has armchair sailors on the edge of their, well, armchairs today. More than half of the fleet was in stealth mode yesterday, but all should be arriving in Hong Kong today, completing Leg 4 from Melbourne, Australia. More »

SSS Three Bridge Fiasco Preview

A snapshot in time of the starting area of the 2017 Three Bridge Fiasco. Last year, 360 boats were entered to race. latitude/Chris
©2018Latitude 38 Media, LLC As of this morning, 237 boats were signed up to race in the Three Bridge Fiasco on January 27. More »

Winter Is Seminar Season, Part 2

January 15, 2018
Picking up where we left off on Friday’s ‘Lectronic Latitude post… Corinthian Yacht Club invites racers to sail or drive in to the CYC on the Friday night before the Corinthian Midwinters on January 20-21. More »

Winter Is Seminar Season, Part 1

January 12, 2018
The winter months of January and February are so replete with seminars on virtually all aspects of sailing that we won’t have room to list them all in one post. But we’ll get a start with events this weekend. More »