General Sailing
Reeves Hopes to Resume Figure 8 Soon
"’Option one,’ I said to my wife, Joanna, ‘is to sell the boat, return home and grow cabbages.’"
In his last blog post, Randall Reeves contemplated — if only for a moment (and in jest) — canceling the Figure 8 Voyage. More »
The Latitude Movie Club: ‘White Squall’
White Squall is both excellent "sailing movie" as well as a teenfest coming-of-age film showing the arc of boys becoming men.
Reader Submission: Sunsets
Reader Lee Panza snapped two amazing photos off Oyster Point on New Year’s Day.
© 2018 Lee Panza
"The first sunset of 2018," he wrote us. We are clearly off to a good start. More »
Strange Boat Rescued Off Maui
Yesterday in Hawaiian waters, the Coast Guard rescued a strange-looking boat. The Kehaar Darwin — apparently a junk-rigged, homemade vessel that we’re guessing is between 26 and 30 feet — flagged down another boat to ask for assistance. More »
VOR: Leg 3 Survived; Leg 4 Starts Today
With the fourth leg starting today, we recap the brutal third leg of the Volvo Ocean Race which drew to a close with all seven teams sailing into Melbourne, Australia over the Christmas holiday. More »
Randall Reeves Makes a Pit Stop
After suffering a knockdown in the high southern latitudes, enduring days of gale force winds, and losing not one but two of his autopilots, Randall Reeves has been forced to head for port so that he can make repairs, and continue the Figure 8 Voyage. More »
Reader Submission: The Deep South
Jim Quanci — known to many local sailors as the owner of Green Buffalo (which was featured on our June cover) — sent us this picture from a trip he did about a year ago aboard the Pelagic Australis. More »
How Was Your Windy Weekend?
Well, since you asked for readers’ observations about this windy weekend, here’s one sailor’s perspective:
Saturday approached its boisterous expectations, although the wind wasn’t particularly noteworthy for SF Bay; its strength was less than on a typical summer afternoon. More »
Get Ready for a Windy Weekend
After weeks and weeks of placid 5- to 10-knot conditions, the Bay is about to do its best impression of summer, only colder. So if you want to avoid midweek traffic, go sailing. More »
Reader Submission: Where’s Whaledo?
We thought we’d end the week with another photo from Jan Passion, taken this summer at the height of humpback rush-hour traffic. Have a wonderful weekend, everyone.
Where’s Whaledo? It’s not that hard to find, but not all that easy. More »
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