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Posts by Christine Weaver

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 »

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 »

Hall of Fame Accepting Nominations

January 10, 2018
The National Sailing Hall of Fame accepts nominations any time, but only those received by midnight (Pacific Time) on March 30 will be considered for this year’s class of Inductees. (Nominations received after March 30 will be included for consideration for the Class of 2019.) More »

Captains Courageous on the Big Screen

As a movie buff who spent endless hours of adolescence watching movies from the ’30s and ’40s on TV channels with high numbers (like 36, 40 and 44), usually worn-out prints badly chopped up by do-it-yourself used-car-dealer ads, this editor can only wonder how she managed to miss seeing Captains Courageous. More »