General Sailing
Oh No, There Went the Oracle Mo!
After Spithill helmed a brilliant start, OTUSA had a clear lead at the first mark rounding Tuesday.
© 2013 ACEA / Bakazs Gardi
Oracle Team USA’s hopes were as bright as San Francisco Bay was foggy yesterday afternoon for the first leg of the fifth race of the 34th America’s Cup. More »
Suspected Arson Attempt at City Yachts
Sarah Kaplan of City Yachts reports that a man apparently jumped the fence at their Gashouse Cove docks this morning and tried to start a fire next to their office. "We don’t know what his motives were," Kaplan says, "but I want to get the word out to marinas and businesses around the Cityfront that he wasn’t afraid to do this in broad daylight." More »
The Best America’s Cup Final Ever?
Emirates Team New Zealand took both races on the first day of the America’s Cup finals.
© Abner Kingman / ACEA
"I’d hazard a guess that today’s opening race (Saturday) was the best racing ever seen in the 162 years of the America’s Cup," wrote Dana Johannsen of the New Zealand Herald. More »
What’s the Meaning of This Photo?
The meaning is simple. The irreverent Andrew Vik of San Francisco did another summer cruise aboard his Islander 36 Geja in Croatia, and we’ll have a complete photo report in the October 1 Latitude. More »
Superyacht Regatta Begins Today
If you watched the weekend’s America’s Cup action from the AC Park or from a boat on the water, you undoubtedly noticed a bevy of spectacular yachts that don’t normally grace the Bay. More »
SOS from Latitude
Thanks to modern technology, we usually have good luck finding people and boats from the past. But here’s one that stumps us. A few years ago — maybe as few as three or as many as six — two middle-aged women completed a circumnavigation. More »
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!
Emirates Team New Zealand’s Dean Barker and Oracle Team USA’s Jimmy Spithill are ready to go head-to-head on Saturday.
© Gilles Martin-Raget / ACEA
The much anticipated — and much villified — 34th America’s Cup, matching Larry Ellison’s defending Oracle Team USA against challenger Emirates Team New Zealand in AC72s for the oldest trophy in sports history, starts tomorrow at 1:15 p.m. More »
Eight Bells for Dick Newick
As we look ahead to the start of America’s Cup 34 on Saturday, which will, of course, be raced in the most revolutionary multihulls ever seen on a Cup course, we pay tribute to one of the legendary innovators of the modern multihull movement: Dick Newick passed away on August 28. More »
What’s Your Pick?
So which team do you think will win the 34th America’s Cup? Write your prediction — including the final score — on a copy of today’s paper (yes, they still exist!) More »
Oracle Gets Two-Point AC Penalty
Yesterday, as brilliant young sailors aboard AC45 catamarans were dazzling spectators during the Red Bull America’s Cup, an international sailing jury was concluding its investigation into cheating allegations within the same fleet during the 2012-2013 America’s Cup World Series events. More »
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