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YRA Year-End Trophy Party Tomorrow

November 12, 2007
Just a quick reminder that the YRA’s Year-End Trophy party is tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at Berkeley YC. If you won a trophy in a YRA race this year, or if you’re a YRA season champion, you don’t want to miss this annual fiesta! More »

Bertarelli – He’s Everywhere!

Among the many huge yachts taking up dockspace in Cabo San Lucas was Ernesto Bertarelli’s 155-ft Feadship motoryacht Vava. For those of you who don’t know, Bertarelli is the Swiss billionaire whose Alinghi syndicate won its second America’s Cup in a row last summer. More »

Boat Fire at Palmira Marina

November 2, 2007
Robin Aitken Hardy of the San Pedro-based trawler The Cat’s Meow sent us this report of a boat fire in Marina Palmira on October 20: "The 80+-ft Mexico-flagged yacht Mi Barú was tied up to the end tie of Dock Two when a fire broke out around 9 a.m. More »

Photos of the Day: Ha-Ha Start

It was pre-Ha-Ha when Capricorn Cat passed down the California Coast, under a fiery cloud caused by the many fires burning ashore. latitude/JR
©2007 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Slow news was good news for the 150 boats in 14th Baja Ha-Ha, the cruisers rally that started off San Diego on October 29. More »

Class Acts at the Jessica Cup

October 22, 2007
You don’t get much more classic – or classy – than Terry Klaus’s Brigadoon. latitude/JR
©2007 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Twenty seven boats in five divisions enjoyed spectacular fall racing in the Jessica Cup over the weekend. More »

Jessica Cup this Weekend

October 19, 2007
One of the great annual sailing spectacles on San Francisco Bay is the Master Mariners Regatta, held every Memorial Day weekend. But it’s certainly not the only event on MMBA’s calendar, and it’s not the only chance to see classic yachts in action. More »

Master of the Masters

October 15, 2007
John Jennings and crew sailed Natural Blonde (173) on Sunday. The boats were donated by the local J/105 fleet and sailed with either an owner or owner’s rep aboard. latitude/JR
©2007 Latitude 38 Media, LLC John Jennings of St. More »

Ken-Ichi Horie – The Wind-Up and the Pitch

October 10, 2007
Japanese sailing icon Ken-Ichi Horie is back in the news — or will be soon — with yet another weird new boat he intends to sail across the Pacific. Longtime readers will recall Horie as the first Japanese sailor to sail solo from his homeland to San Francisco in 1962 aboard a 19-ft plywood sloop named Mermaid. More »

Folding Boat – and We Do Mean Folding

September 26, 2007
Boelter’s boat ‘underway’ on the Elbe. The origami creation is part of an ongoing exhibit by the artist. © 2007 Latitude 38 Publishing Co., Inc. German artist Frank Boelter was fooling around with a milk carton at breakfast one morning when all of a sudden (so the report goes) it occurred to him that you could build a boat out of this stuff. More »