Racing
Lipton Cup: Brisk and Refreshing
Friday’s Lipton Cup race finished at the RYC breakwater. An extra bit of south in the stiff breeze made the spinnaker drop particularly challenging.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC This year’s revived and reformatted PICYA Lipton Cup turned out just like Lipton’s tagline, Brisk & Refreshing. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC This year’s revived and reformatted PICYA Lipton Cup turned out just like Lipton’s tagline, Brisk & Refreshing. More »
Three Teams Tied Going into VOR Finish
Another stunning performance by Bouwe Bekking’s Team Brunel has seen the Dutch entry now pull dead even with perennial race leaders MAPFRE and Dongfeng atop the leaderboard of the Volvo Ocean Race, with just one more leg to be sailed. More »
New Crew Learn to Race
This spring, an innovative experiment proved successful in opening up sailing on the South Bay to more people. The experiment was a three-week class for potential race crewmembers. My own first experience as race crew was rather daunting. More »
Race to Alaska Starts This Week
Thirty-seven teams are poised in Port Townsend for the start of the fourth annual Race to Alaska (R2AK), which kicks off on Thursday. ‘Eclectic’ doesn’t even come close to describing the fleet. More »
Wind Abandons Delta Ditch Run
Delta Ditch Run fleet members were looking good sailing past the Brothers Islands north of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Saturday, June 2.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC This year’s Delta Ditch Run attracted 132 entries, but only five of them finished the 67-mile race from Richmond to Stockton. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC This year’s Delta Ditch Run attracted 132 entries, but only five of them finished the 67-mile race from Richmond to Stockton. More »
Sailors Medevaced from SoCal 300
A CG rescue swimmer retrieved an injured woman from a SoCal 300 race boat on Friday.
© 2018 Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Simpson / USCG
The second event in the third California Offshore Race Week, the Coastal Cup from Monterey to Santa Barbara on May 28-29, suffered from light air, but the third passage, the SoCal 300 from Santa Barbara to San Diego by way of the Channel Islands on May 31-June 2, had breeze to spare. More »
RBOC Urges Action on Delta Tunnels
The following call to action came to us by way of the Richmond Yacht Club Sailing Advisory Committee and Board of Directors:
"PICYA [Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association] and RBOC [Recreational Boaters of California] have called on their member clubs to contact their congressional representatives to oppose proposed elimination of judicial review of the California WaterFix (‘Twin Tunnels’) project. More »
A Great Weekend to Watch Sailing
It’s been a gray, cool week but things are looking to get brighter, warmer and more colorful for a much better Memorial Day sailing weekend.
Kudos to whoever designed this groovy retro I-14 poster! More »
The Ditch Run and the Doo Dah
Surrounded by race boats like Moore 24s and Santa Cruz and Express 27s, Larry Samson’s Catalina 30 Summerwind cruises back to her homeport of Stockton Sailing Club in the ‘Doo Dah Ditch Run’. More »
Volvo Fleet Splits from Newport
Leg 9 of the Volvo Ocean Race got underway on Sunday from Newport, Rhode Island, bound for Cardiff, Wales. Late into this edition of the VOR and with a very tight battle at the top of the leaderboard, the transatlantic leg carries added significance as it’s the final double-points leg of the race. More »
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