Phaedo3 competing in the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. © onEdition Powered by winds that gusted up to 40 knots, Phaedo3, the MOD70 trimaran owned by Lloyd Thornburg and co-skippered by Brian Thompson, crushed yet another iconic sailing record on July 2. More »

A huge congratulations to Randy Miller, Colin Dunphy and Ian Andrewes, who set a high bar for the Race to Alaska course record. © Race to Alaska While much of the fleet is still on the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and mainland Canada, Randy Miller and his small crew aboard the Bay Area-based Marstrom 32 catamaran MAD Dog Racing (aka Miller Racing) have been in Ketchikan for more than a day, having thoroughly crushed the fleet in the second Race to Alaska. More »

Charts, radar, GPS and depthsounders are all great for navigating, but sometimes there is nothing so helpful as a shot from a drone. © 2016 Ryan De Seixas An excellent fleet of 23 singlehanded sailors will race to Hawaii starting tomorrow, Saturday, July 2, from Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon. More »

Quite likely the craziest race in the sport of sailing — with hands down the most hilarious press releases — has officially started. Back for its second year, and with nearly double the entries at 65, is Northwest Maritime Center’s Race to Alaska. More »

Sailors, how is your backstroke? Only one of 11 skippers didn’t spend some time swimming on June 18 during the 2016 Sir Francis Chichester Race, the Laser fleet’s periodic circumnavigation of the island nation of Alameda. More »

Comanche stormed across the St David’s Lighthouse finish line of the Newport Bermuda Race early on Sunday morning, smashing the race record. © Barry Pickthall / PPL At the Royal Bermuda YC docks last Sunday, the champagne flowed as freely as dark n’ stormies aboard Jim Clark’s Comanche. More »

The big races to Hawaii — the Singlehanded TransPac, Vic-Maui Race, and Pacific Cup — don’t start until July, but this very Thursday a different kind of Pacific passage race will depart Port Townsend, WA. More »

Columbia 5.5 Meters racing on the Estuary, left to right: Wings, Sonic Death Monkey, Slooperman and Italia. © Martha Blanchfield One-design action is happening Wednesday nights on the Alameda Estuary. Hosted by Oakland Yacht Club, the Columbia 5.5 Meter fleet counts eight on the start line — plus two more classic vessels currently being restored by a local team. More »

A pair of spectacular capsizes kicked off the AC World Series event in Chicago. © Ricardo Pinto / ACEA The Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series had its second American stop over the weekend, with racing on Saturday and Sunday on the fresh water of Lake Michigan. More »

The Ma’s Rover crew tried out their new oars during the postponement of the South Bay InterClub Race on May 14. latitude/Chris
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC When Bay Area trimaran sailor Mark Eastham read about the 750-mile Race to Alaska last year he said, "Wow that’s an unbelievably cool or crazy idea." More »