Racing
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Midwinters (and More) Preview
Who wants to race on Halloween? Tiburon YC, that’s who. Usually TYC’s Red Rock Regatta conflicts with RYC’s Great Pumpkin, but not this year. On Sunday, Island YC will kick off November and wrap up Latitude 38’s unofficial Women’s Circuit with the triplehanded Jack & Jill + 1. More »
Merlin’s Homecoming
The 68-ft Merlin hangs a left on Lake Ave. to enter Santa Cruz Harbor.
© 2015 Skip Allan
At 9:30 on Wednesday morning, with police escort lights flashing, Driver Mike with Merlin in tow made the last turn, gently bottomed out on the boatyard hill, and Merlin was back home in Santa Cruz. More »
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