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Posts by Rob Grant

Coville Within 200 Miles of Record

July 14, 2008
Thomas Coville wrestles the gennaker aboard his 105-ft trimaran Sodeb’O. With less than 200 miles to go, a building high-pressure system is throwing a wrench in Coville’s attempt to break Francis Joyon’s singlehanded West-East Transatlantic record. More »
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The Seven Day Racing Outlook

July 11, 2008
After a relatively racing-light Fourth of July weekend, this week is ramping up to be a doozy. Racing concludes tomorrow in the US Sailing Junior Women’s Doublehanded Championship for the Ida Lewis Trophy hosted by Sausalito YC. More »

Rest of Vic-Maui Fleet Closing on Hawaii

July 9, 2008
Warren Hale’s C&C 44 Turicum arrives in Maui after more than 16 days at sea in a slow Vic-Maui Race. Vic-Maui Race
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Paul Bieker-designed Riptide 50 Strum took elapsed time honors in the 2,308-mile Vic-Maui race on Saturday. More »

Mag 80, Medicine Man Beat Tahiti Record

July 7, 2008
Doug Baker’s Andrews 80 Magnitude 80 demolished the Tahiti Race record by 3.5 days, finishing Thursday with an elapsed time of 11 days, 10 hours, 13 minutes and 18 seconds. While there’s really no such thing as foregone conclusions in a 3,571-mile race, there was little doubt that Mag 80 and her closest competition, Bob Lane’s Andrews 63 Medicine Man, would both best the existing record. More »

Final Day Jumbles Finish at Youth Champs

July 2, 2008
Jake La Dow and Brooks Clark go down the mine at the US Sailing Youth Champs. The event was hosted by San Francisco YC and sailed on the Circle. © 2008 Peter Lyons The US Sailing Youth Championships, hosted by San Francisco YC June 29- July 2, concluded yesterday and it didn’t even need a medal race like the Olympics to create some down-to-the-wire drama — two of the fleets were decided in the final race. More »

Ten Grand Richer

June 30, 2008
Patrick Whitmarsh, Kevin Richards and Joe Penrod won the inaugural American Sailing League Championship off Pier 39, and with it a check for $10,000. The trio sailed Team Harken to a convincing win that saw them take the last five qualifying races leading up to the one championship race sailed for all the marbles Sunday afternoon in strengthening breeze into the low 20s. More »

Tahiti Race Start Socked In

June 23, 2008
Medicine Man ducks behind Magnitude 80 in the fog off Pt. Fermin during Sunday’s start of the 13th Tahiti Race. © Rich Roberts Instead of a sunny, glorious day befitting the momentousness of the occasion, the four starters in the 13th Tahiti Race were treated to fog and lots of it off Pt. More »

Delta Ditch Walk

June 9, 2008
Hank Easom’s 8 metre Yucca and the Bilafer family’s Henderson 30 Family Hour rolling toward Stockton. © 2008 John Dukat / Richmond YC Despite the collective prayers from sailors and organizers that the National Weather Service’s wind forecast for Saturday’s Delta Ditch Run was wrong, it turned out to be right on. More »