Posts by Tim Henry
Cupdate: BAR Brexits, Artemis In the Finals
The Swedes are in and the Brits are out. Artemis came back to defeat SoftBank Team Japan 5 races to 3, while Land Rover Ben Ainslie Racing was no match for the lightning-fast Kiwis. More »
Cupdate: Racecourse Carnage
Team Emirates New Zealand suffered a dramatic wipeout yesterday just before the start of a Semi-Final race against Land Rover BAR — all crew were accounted for and reported safe. Racing has been canceled for today, giving all the teams a chance to lick their wounds. More »
Jack O’Neill’s Sailing Odysseys
If you’ve ever worn a wetsuit, then you know Jack O’Neill. Any surfer (or dinghy sailor) staying warm in frigid water owes their comfort to the pioneering O’Neill. But the pirate-looking, swashbuckling Santa Cruz icon — who passed away on Friday at the age of 94 — was a sailor, too. More »
Webb Chiles Makes It to the US
In other, (and decidedly happier) Moore 24 news . . .
When we last reported on Webb Chiles — the 75-year-old solo circumnavigator going for his sixth lap around the planet, this time in a Moore 24 — he’d left Durban, South Africa, made a pit stop on St. More »
Moore 24 Dismasted in Coastal Cup
Snafu after the start of the Spinnaker Cup on Saturday. Steve McCarthy sailed with owner Karl Robrock in that section of the California Offshore Race Week.
© Erik Simonson
We’ve written about Karl Robrock and Gilles Combrisson numerous times over the past several years. More »
Artemis and the Gate
With the Louis Vuitton Cup scheduled to kick off today — but postponed due to high winds — we thought we’d feature a Flashback Friday to 2013, as brought to us by Christine Smith. More »
Marin Kiteboarder Dies in Alameda
On May 12, a Marin County kiteboarder was killed at Robert Crown State Beach in Alameda after a gust of wind picked him up and hurled him onto land, according to the East Bay Times. More »
Matthew Turner Shipyard Sale
This Saturday, Call of the Sea is hosting a shipyard sale to benefit the continued construction of the 100-ft brigantine Matthew Turner. The event will take place in "the Big White Tent" where the Turner was built. Nautical More »
Phaedo3 Nips Transpac Record
Less than two years after the maxi-trimaran Lending Club 2 shocked the world with a 3-day,18-hour record run to Hawaii, that record has fallen. Lloyd Thornburg’s ultra-quick MOD70 trimaran Phaedo3 has been going after big race victories and world sailing records for years now, and this week’s L.A.-to-Honolulu More »
Stranded Paddleboarder Found Safely
On Sunday the Coast Guard found a paddleboarder who had been stranded overnight on the Marin Islands off San Rafael. Jane Butler was reported missing by her son after she failed to return from an evening paddle. More »
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