Racing
Beer Cans Fade to Black
Richmond Yacht Club’s super-casual and very popular beer can series faded out on Wednesday night, wrapping up for the season. With the Bay Area in the grip of a heat wave, T-shirts and shorts were in ample supply but wind was not. More »
Etchells Worlds Update
All you have to do to win in this fleet is get out in front of the other boats and stay there. But it’s not as easy as it looks.
That’s Craig Healy skippering I Love My Wife showing you how it would look. More »
October Racing Preview
Before we even get to October, the Etchells Worlds will wrap up September for us. The 51-boat fleet, packed with international sailors of the highest caliber, is being hosted by San Francisco Yacht Club on the Berkeley Circle, with racing through Saturday. More »
Friday Night Sundown Series
The sun sets on summer, and on these Sundown sailors in Marina del Rey.
© Andy Kopetzky
For the past 30-odd years Del Rey Yacht Club has put on their Friday night Sundown Series. More »
Rolex Big Boat Series Wraps Up
There’s no point in mourning the "good old days" of the St. Francis Yacht Club Big Boat Series — you know, when the boats were really big, with lots of 70-footers and such. More »
Breeze on at Rolex Big Boat Series
Yesterday’s second race at Rolex Big Boat Series was a wet and windy one, as the J/105 Moonshine demonstrates. The top four boats in the 24-boat J/105 class are divided by only one point! More »
A Guide to Rolex Big Boat Series
Here it is again — Rolex Big Boat Series — a four-day sweep of either lots of wind or no wind, starting tomorrow at St. Francis Yacht Club. Of ridiculous tank-top heat days and suntanning at the docks, or cold and wet conditions. More »
Dorade Down Under
Dorade is Down Under, adding to her collection of prizes in events like Audi Hamilton Island Race Week.
© Andrea Francolini
The Dorade Down Under campaign is going swimmingly for the 86-year-old 52-ft Sparkman & Stephens yawl. More »
Smoke on the Water
While natural disasters elsewhere have garnered the headlines, the western United States has not slid into September unscathed. Wildfires too numerous to list, some massive and catastrophic in scope, dot the West Coast from border to border. More »
Women Skippers Regattas
During the month of August, we checked in with a couple of women skippers’ regattas that took place on San Francisco Bay. The first was Encinal Yacht Club’s Gracie and George on August 20. According More »
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