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Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!

September 6, 2013
Emirates Team New Zealand’s Dean Barker and Oracle Team USA’s Jimmy Spithill are ready to go head-to-head on Saturday. © Gilles Martin-Raget / ACEA The much anticipated — and much villified — 34th America’s Cup, matching Larry Ellison’s defending Oracle Team USA against challenger Emirates Team New Zealand in AC72s for the oldest trophy in sports history, starts tomorrow at 1:15 p.m. More »

The Profligate Baja Bash

September 4, 2013
When you live the life of the Wanderer and Doña de Mallorca, just about every minute counts. Thus our 1,000-mile Bash from Vallarta to California — actually only to Ensenada so far — with Profligate was all about getting the job done as quickly as possible. More »

Huge Crowd Turns Out for Cat Racing

One would have assumed that the final race of the Louis Vuitton Cup on San Francisco Bay, between Luna Rossa and Emirates Team New Zealand, would have been the most popular high-speed catamaran racing show in the world during the last week. More »

Is the AC’s Poop About to HIt the Fan?

August 26, 2013
Oracle Team USA’s were almost indomitable at last August’s AC World Series. © 2013 Oracle Team USA / Guilain Grenier "It is still possible that they (Oracle Team USA) will survive the jury hearings and the evidence gathered against them, but most observers are predicting that team members (will be) banned from the regatta and at least two points docked from Oracle’s defense of the Cup.” More »

Catamaran Racing for the 99%

August 23, 2013
Ferrari thrills with Volkswagen pricing: F18s are fast, fun, and accessible. © 2013 Courtesy Cherie Sogsti This Sunday over a dozen Formula 18 catamarans will be racing a short course right in front on the Marina Green in San Francisco starting at 11:15 a.m., More »

Cruising the Med Not that Expensive?

August 19, 2013
You know how nobody wants to go cruising in the Med anymore because it’s so incredibly expensive? According to Chay, Katie and Jamie McWilliam of the Henderson, Nevada-based Kelly-Peterson 46 Esprit, it doesn’t cost that much more to cruise the Med than anywhere else. More »

America’s Cup Surprises

Just when you think you’ve heard everything, the America’s Cup serves up another surprise. © Gilles Martin-Raget / ACEA Don’t let anybody say the 34th America’s Cup isn’t full of surprises, because they just keep coming. More »

O’pen Bics Wow Crowds

While yesterday’s Louis Vuitton racing might not have been all that thrilling, there was some racing in front of the AC grandstands on Marina Green that was fast and furious when about 30 sailors aged 9-15 took to the water to race O’pen Bics on the ‘treacherous’ America’s Cup course. More »