Racing
Oman to Host AC World Series
The falling price of oil has apparently not dampened the Omani passion for sailing, nor their ability to host a grand (and pricey) regatta. The Sultanate of Oman will earn a page in sporting history when it becomes the first country in the Middle East to host America’s Cup racing on February 27-28, 2016. More »
Across the Atlantic at 500 Miles/Day
Less than six days out of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, the great MOD70 Phaedo3 rushes to the finish line off Grenada in the West Indies.
© 2015 Rachel Jaspersen / Phaedo3
Lloyd Thornburg’s St. More »
Injury Sidelines Cammas
French skipper Franck Cammas won the Little America’s Cup, with Louis Viat, in September.
© 2015 Yvan Zedda / Groupama
If most any of us weekend warriors fell off a boat while sailing and got hit by the rudder, we’d likely come away with a serious injury only if we took the blow with our head. More »
Double Trouble Preps for KWRW and Cuba
The crew works on perfecting roll jibes during last Saturday’s light conditions.
© 2015 Martha Blanchfield
San Francisco’s J/125 Double Trouble crew wrapped up a final practice last weekend before they travel east to Quantum Key West Race Week and the Conch Republic Regatta to Cuba. More »
November Classics
Steve Carroll’s Tule Fog was one of 16 Express 27s racing in the BYC Midwinters on Saturday, a civilized day for sailing on the Berkeley Circle.
© Erik Simonson
Each fall, Latitude 38 trots out that old saw about how the wind is usually lighter and the winter season is a good time for newbies to try racing. More »
Merlin Memories
Merlin finishing the 1977 Transpac, captured by an unknown photographer.
© Wizard Yachts, Ltd.
We got a number of responses to Monday’s call-out for Memories of Merlin. This is one of the best. More »
Triumph in the Transat Jacques Vabre
The first week of the 12th Transat Jacques Vabre was full of doom and gloom; two autumn gales led the way to a flipped maxi-tri, several broken boats, a half-sunk Hugo Boss, and several sailors enduring dramatic helicopter rescues at sea. More »
Midwinters Notebook
Peter Boland and Erik Pavelka’s J/80 Acqua Veloce raced in SYC’s chilly, foggy, drizzly first Midwinter race on the first day of November.
© 2015 Roxanne Fairbairn
Sausalito Yacht Club’s first Chili Midwinter Race kicked off the Bay Area Midwinter season on Sunday, November 1, in a mild southwest wind and building flood. More »
Breeze On in Mini Transat
Davy Beaudart’s Flexirub leads a group of Minis departing Lanzarote on October 31.
© 2015 Jacques Vapillon / Mini Transat Îles de Guadeloupe
After one of the longer scheduled stopovers in recent memory, the 20th edition of the Mini Transat — one of the most extreme ocean races on the planet — is back under way, having started on Saturday. More »
Turmoil in Transat Jacques Vabre
Hugo Boss, not looking so boss after rolling and dismasting in the Transat Jacques Vabre.
© 2015 Salvamento Maritimo
Taking place in the fall and sailing through the often-treacherous Bay of Biscay and across the Atlantic Ocean, the doublehanded Transat Jacques Vabre has long been known as one of ocean racing’s most challenging — and sometimes destructive — races. More »
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