Posts by Rob Grant
Are You Going to Vallejo?
Saturday could look a lot like this, albeit with more breeze.
© Peter Lyons
The party hats and hangover kits are being packed, and the division splits are up, because its time for The Great Vallejo Race. More »
Clipper Racers Head For Panama
California gnashes out the Gate just after the start of the Clipper ‘Round the World Race’s Race 8.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The 160 sailors on the nine boats in the Clipper ‘Round The World Race fleet got a parting gift of largely sunny skies and a 20- to 25-knot clearing breeze yesterday for the start of their 3,329-mile leg to Panama. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The 160 sailors on the nine boats in the Clipper ‘Round The World Race fleet got a parting gift of largely sunny skies and a 20- to 25-knot clearing breeze yesterday for the start of their 3,329-mile leg to Panama. More »
Clipper Race Restarts Tomorrow
Spirit of Australia gets in a shakedown cruise this weekend. She and eight other Clippers will start the next leg of the Race tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. Head on down! More »
Exhibitors Rev Up for Strictly Sail Pacific
As we post this, the exhibit floor of the Strictly Sail Pacific boat show at Oakland’s Jack London Square is bustling with frenetic activity in anticipation of tomorrow’s opening. National, international and local boat and gear manufacturers, as well as a broad range of service providers, will be on hand to share their expertise and sell their wares throughout the four-day event (tomorrow through Sunday, beginning at 10 a.m. More »
Race Talks Galore
If you weren’t one of the 70 or so people who showed up last night to see ’08-’09 Vendée Globe veteran Rich Wilson kick off the Corinthian YC‘s speaker series, you really, really missed out. More »
Next Two Clippers Reach the Bay
A relieved Qingdao crew makes it to SF Marina.
Clipper Ventures
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Eighteen hours after Qingdao finished Leg 7 of the Clipper Round the World Race, Jamaica Lightning Bolt carried its 32 hours of redress with it across the finish line off North Farallon late last night. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Eighteen hours after Qingdao finished Leg 7 of the Clipper Round the World Race, Jamaica Lightning Bolt carried its 32 hours of redress with it across the finish line off North Farallon late last night. More »
Cape Breton Island Makes the Bay
Cape Breton Island gets a fireboat welcome as they sail into the Bay yesterday morning.
© Erik Simonson
Cape Breton Island, the first of nine boats in the ’09-’10 Clipper ‘Round The World Race, sailed through the Gate yesterday morning after 28.5 days of sailing across a storm-lashed North Pacific. More »
DH Farallones? Plan on Having an EPIRB . . .
You’d better have your EPIRB certificate ready for the DH Farallones skippers’ meeting or you won’t get to play.
© 2010 Peter Lyons
All skippers planning to do the Bay Area Multihull Association‘s Doublehanded Farallones are required to have a registered 406 MHz EPIRB aboard for the race on April 3. More »
California Dismasted, Crew Safe
California’s rig goes the way of Cal’s ’10 NCAA Tournament trip.
Clipper Ventures
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC In what has to be one of the most saddening developments to date for supporters of the first Golden State entry in the ’09-’10 Clipper ‘Round the World Race, our namesake boat California was dismasted Sunday evening some 1,800 miles from the Bay. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC In what has to be one of the most saddening developments to date for supporters of the first Golden State entry in the ’09-’10 Clipper ‘Round the World Race, our namesake boat California was dismasted Sunday evening some 1,800 miles from the Bay. More »
Groupama 3 Smashes Jules Verne Record
Groupama 3 glides into Brest after a setting a new ’round the world record of 48d, 7h, 44m.
Groupama
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Just before 10 p.m. Saturday, Franck Cammas and his nine-man dream team passed the Ushant lighthouse after 48d, 7h, 44m, 52s, becoming the first crew to sail around the world in under 50 days, and take the Jules Verne Trophy in the process. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Just before 10 p.m. Saturday, Franck Cammas and his nine-man dream team passed the Ushant lighthouse after 48d, 7h, 44m, 52s, becoming the first crew to sail around the world in under 50 days, and take the Jules Verne Trophy in the process. More »
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