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AC World Series Semifinals Today

June 29, 2012
An avant-garde conceptural art piece? No, it’s a shot of Emirates Team New Zealand crew members trying to sort things out after their boat took a dive during yesterday’s ACWS action. More »

Singlehanded TransPac Starts Tomorrow

This year’s start probably won’t be as windy as the beginning of the previous SHTP in 2010, but the racers won’t care – they just want to get started! latitude/LaDonna
©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Tomorrow morning noon, 23 intrepid solo sailors will set out on the 18th Singlehanded TransPac, a 2,120-mile biennial slide from San Francisco Bay to idyllic Hanalei Bay on Kauai. More »

The Ultimate Family Racer/Cruiser?

June 20, 2012
There’s a pretty cool story coming out of Bermuda at the end of this year’s just completed 635-mile Newport to Bermuda Race, the really big deal race on the East Coast. More »

Clipper Race Tackles the North Atlantic

June 18, 2012
The stomachs of the crews on the ten 68-ft boats competing in Clipper Round the World ’11-’12 are just starting to settle after a brutal weekend in Race 13 from Nova Scotia to Derry-Londonderry in Northern Ireland. More »

Colorful Volvo Ocean Race Update

June 15, 2012
The crew of Groupama, skippered by Franck Cammas from France, celebrate taking first place in Leg 8, from Lisbon, Portugal, to Lorient, France, during the Volvo Ocean Race. © 2012 Ian Roman / Volvo Ocean Race The battle of the red, green and blue boats in Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race is just finishing up in Lorient, France. More »

Beau Geste Crew Request Rescue

June 4, 2012
Beau Geste at the start of the Sail Noumea race. © Richard Gladwell / Sail Noumea The 18 crewmembers aboard the Hong Kong-based Farr 80 Beau Geste should be in the process of being rescued off their vessel as this is being posted. More »

Volvo Race Pours into Lisbon

June 1, 2012
Fireworks go off as Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, skippered by Brit Ian Walker, finishes first on Leg 7 from Miami to Lisbon, Portugal, during the Volvo Ocean Race. © 2012 Paul Todd / Volvo Ocean Race The Volvo Ocean Race shuffle has officially begun with last night’s Leg 7 win by Abu Dhabi Racing. More »

Master Mariners Regatta

May 30, 2012
Moving like an express train that’s behind schedule, the 82-ft M-class sloop Pursuit roared across the Central Bay toward the Blackaller jibe mark. A true labor of love, she’d spent decades idling in her slip before owner Ron MacAnnan put this 1929 classic back in racing form. More »

Venetians Bid Farewell to AC Action

May 21, 2012
Last weekend’s Festa Della Sensa was a spectacular capper to an amazing week of AC45 racing and cultural pageantry. The annual festival commemorates “the city’s marriage to the sea,” and is said to draw “millions” of visitors. More »

AC45s Bring Modernity to Old Venice

May 14, 2012
Old meets new, as the AC45s take center stage in the ornate canals of Venice. © Ellen Hoke "First seeing the mouth of the Grand Canal adjacent to St. Mark’s Square cleared of boats was amazing," reports the Bay Area’s Ellen Hoke, who is in Venice this week to catch the AC45 World Series competition. More »