Posts by John Riise
Daisy Commemoration
As you read in Monday’s ‘Lectronic Latitude, last weekend two local sailors perished during the Doublehanded Lightship Race on March 15. Matthew Kirby Gale and Anthony Harrow aboard the Cheoy Lee 31 Daisy were last seen about halfway back from the Lightbucket, about six miles from the Golden Gate. More »
Doublehanded Lightship
Jonathan Livingston’s Punk Dolphin glides under the Golden Gate. Note the twin pole arrangement.
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©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Thirty-eight of 40 boats that started Island YC’s 37th annual Doublehanded Lightship Race on Saturday finished the 25-mile course around the Lightship buoy and back. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Thirty-eight of 40 boats that started Island YC’s 37th annual Doublehanded Lightship Race on Saturday finished the 25-mile course around the Lightship buoy and back. More »
Two Sailors Lost During DHL Race
The local sailing community is in a state of shock over the news that two sailors were lost during Saturday’s Doublehanded Lightship Race. Kirby Gale, 67, and Anthony Harrow, 72, were on the way home from the Lightbucket aboard Gale’s Cheoy Lee Offshore 31 Daisy when they simply disappeared. More »
Fast Company
The ProSail 40 Tuki currently owns the Jazz Cup record. In 2005, she sailed the 26-mile course in 2 hours and 1 minute.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Records are made to be broken. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Records are made to be broken. More »
Gitana 13 Comes Full Circle
Gitana 13’s early morning arrival meant only a few boats came out to welcome her crew to the Bay.
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©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC While most folks at Corinthian YC yesterday came to catch a glimpse of the 110-ft catamaran Gitana 13 and her 10-man crew, CYC member Jim Gibbs was there on ‘family business’. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC While most folks at Corinthian YC yesterday came to catch a glimpse of the 110-ft catamaran Gitana 13 and her 10-man crew, CYC member Jim Gibbs was there on ‘family business’. More »
Gitana 13 Breaks New York to San Francisco Record
Gitana 13 slides into San Francisco at the end of her 43-day run from New York.
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©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The 110-ft catamaran Gitana 13 slipped quietly under the Golden Gate this morning, the end of her record-setting 14,000-mile record sail from New York attended by only a handful of local boats. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The 110-ft catamaran Gitana 13 slipped quietly under the Golden Gate this morning, the end of her record-setting 14,000-mile record sail from New York attended by only a handful of local boats. More »
Gitana 13 on Track to Arrive Thursday
Gitana 13, the 110-ft French catamaran that left New York on January 16, will pass under the Golden Gate tomorrow, Thursday, February 28. Exactly when depends on how well the 10-man crew negotiates the often fickle breeze of the Pacific in winter — and how much fickle breeze there is. More »
Gitana 13 to Arrive on Thursday
To Bay Area residents, 40 days and 40 nights might invoke the biblical weather we’ve been having the last few months. But to the 10 sailors aboard the 110-ft catamaran Gitana 13, it is a measure of pride and progress. More »
Youth Sailing: Speak Now, Or. . .
Just writing the word ‘comprehensive’ makes us a bit nervous. You see, every time we attempt to do a comprehensive overview in Latitude 38 on one subject or another, we invariably leave someone out. More »
Maltese Falcon on Fishery Patrol
Tom Perkins swims with the fishes.
© 2008 Tom Perkins
"We have finished four of the most incredible days of diving ever," reports Tom Perkins of the Belvedere-based 289-ft Dyna-Rig Maltese Falcon from Cocos Island, Costa Rica. More »
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