Posts by Rob Grant
Three Bridge Deadline Approaching
Last year’s Three Bridge Fiasco had sun and some breeze to finish off the day. What will conditions be like this Saturday? We don’t know, but we know someone who does . More »
Awards Season
Awards season isn’t just for movies, and while the ISAF and the Rolex US Sailing awards usually garner the lion’s share of the press, they aren’t the only ones out there. More »
Not So Fast
BMW Oracle Racing’s mega-tri, now dubbed USA and bearing the sail number 17, Larry Ellison’s vanity number, tears it up off Valencia.
© Gilles Martin-Raget
The Société Nautique de Genève released a revised Notice of Race for AC 33 yesterday, with some changes that have rankled BMW Oracle Racing. More »
First Corinthians Draws a Crowd
Charles Brochard’s Olson 34 Baleineau soaks down the North Bay during Saturday’s racing at the ’10 Corinthian Mids.
© 2010 Peter Lyons
The most common question after Saturday’s opening race of the ’10 Corinthian YC Midwinters was, "Did you finish?" More »
First Corinthians This Weekend
Last year’s Corinthians didn’t get the breeze, but this weekend is looking good!
© 2010 Peter Lyons
It’s not too late to join the more than 140 boats that have already signed up for the ’10 Corinthian Midwinters; you have until Friday to sign up here. More »
Rolex Yachtsman and Woman Named
Bora Gulari smoked the Gorge, and the competition, at last year’s CST Moth World Championships. He also scored a landslide victory from the panelists for the 2009 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year. More »
January Racing Forecast
They call it a “fiasco” for a reason. It’s about the most fun charlie-foxtrot you can willingly get yourself into.
© Peter Lyons
January brings a little bit more to the midwinter racing schedule in the form of the first installment of the ever-popular Corinthian YC Mids January 16-17. More »
Sydney Hobart Goes to the Little Guys
Neville Crichton’s R/P 100 Alfa Romeo pounds toward Hobart.
© 2010 Rolex / Daniel Forester
The largest-ever collection of custom, 100-ft maxis were no match for three Australia-based, 40-ft production boats in the ’09 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. More »
Farewell 2009 – Our Photo Favorites
In January we were taunted by these kids, apparently because they were sailing and we were ripping around in a stinkpot photoboat.
© 2009 Peter Lyons
As we say goodbye to 2009, we thought it would be fun to take a look back through the news and nonsense that we’ve shared with you this year in ‘Lectronic. More »
Coast Guard Involved in Fatal Collision
A collision between a 33-ft Coast Guard patrol boat and a 26-ft power boat killed eight-year-old Anthony DeWeese and seriously injured five others last night on San Diego Bay. According to reports published by the Asociated Press, the operator of the pleasure boat — which was carrying 13 people — tried unsuccessfully to get out of the way of the patrol boat as the latter hit the pleasure boat from behind. More »
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