Posts by John Arndt
Fast Boats, Big Talent at Nacra Clinic
On May 13-14, the St. Francis Sailing Foundation hosted a High Performance Nacra 15 Clinic at St. Francis Yacht Club on San Francisco Bay. An impressive cadre of volunteer coaches came together to train 26 kids aboard a fleet of six Nacra catamarans. More »
From the May Issue
Don’t Panic looks relaxed enough heading to weather in the 80° air and water of the BVI.
© 2017 Dean Barnes / STIR 2017
In the May issue, Michelle Slade highlighted Julian Mann’s very active race program with the Don’t Panic team’s recent participation in the BVI Spring Regatta. More »
A Rookie at the (NALSA) America’s Cup
Several yachts of different classes preparing to head out onto the course.
© 2017 John Nosach
As we waited to board our flight at T.F. Green airport, near our home on Narragansett Bay, RI, I felt excited about the adventure that lay before us. More »
Marc Benioff Supports Ocean Cleanup
In the 2013 Transpac John Sangmeister’s Long Beach-based ORMA 73 trimaran Tritium Lending Club came up just 2.5 hours short of besting the record after at least six collisions with debris in the ocean. More »
Diamond in the Rough?
Looking at any collection of aging sailboats tarnished by years of sailing, sun and salt, it would be easy to be dismayed by their loss from active sailing fleets. Yet many sailors know some boats simply are beyond repair. More »
Pacific Crossing Question
Malcolm Leth of the Jeanneau 39 Dancia from Brisbane, Australia, is getting ready to join the Pacific Puddle Jump currently underway from the West Coast. He wrote in to ask, "Do you have longitude degrees that most sailors prefer to transit across the equator to the south in the PPJ? I More »
San Francisco Bay Whale Sighting
Mel Ellison sent this shot with a note, "I managed to snap a photo of a humpback whale coming under the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday and thought your readers might be interested. More »
Pac52s Ready to Rumble
All four of the new Pac 52 box-rule class boats are now in San Diego in preparation for the start of their first season, which will kick off with San Diego Yacht Club’s Yachting Cup on May 5-7. More »
Lookin’ Good in a Knarr
The San Francisco Knarr fleet is one of the most active, most competitive, most beautiful and longest-lived fleets on the Bay. They’ve been sailing on the Bay for more than 50 years and regularly field fleets of 15-20+ boats. More »
Message in a Bottle
Sailors have long followed the tradition of putting a message in a bottle and hurling it into the sea, sometimes as a call for help after being stranded on a deserted island, sometimes just to see where it goes. More »
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