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Angry Beavers Take R2AK

June 12, 2019
It was the best kind of win for what’s fast becoming the best kind of race. Due to glitches on boats and ashore, nobody knew who was ahead or who would win the 700+ mile Race to Alaska until they hove into view off the Ketchikan Yacht Club yesterday.

Oceanic Yacht Sales

June 10, 2019
2013 Cookson 80 designed by Botin, Cabron is a high powered racing yacht.
Cuban building with dock

It Was Fun While It Lasted

June 7, 2019
On Tuesday, Trump and his Treasury Department published new regulations halting group travel to Cuba.
Team Pear Shaped Racing

North to Alaska

The docks at Victoria’s Inner Harbor were a carnage-fest of broken gear, torn sails, drowned radios, lost hatches, hulls or amas filled with water, and things lost overboard.
Antrim 27

Carbon Is the New Black

June 5, 2019
On the windward shore of the Big Island [meaning California], a stone's throw from the cool Monterey Bay trades, unfolds the all-new Antrim 27 ‘C’. Number 28 (27 were built by USI) is now under construction by builder Joe Kitchell.

The Legend of Lowell North

Lowell Orton North, the founder of North Sails, Olympic gold medalist, and sailing icon of his time, passed away on Sunday. There will not likely be another sailor like Lowell North. He was 89 years old.
5O5s beneath cliffs

Americans Win Euro Cup

On June 1, the American team of Mike Holt and Carl Smit won the 51-boat 5O5 Euro Cup Riva del Garda, the second leg of the Euro Cup series. Sailed at Fraglia della Vela Riva on Italy's Lake Garda, the regatta came down to the last leg of the last race.
Flying Circus

Divine Delta Ditch Run

Excellent conditions made for a quick Delta Ditch Run on Saturday, June 1. A flood current and consistent breeze in the teens carried most of the sailors to Stockton with plenty of time left to party. The 29th edition of the 65-mile race from Richmond to Stockton garnered 109 starters.