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Never a Dull Moment

April 13, 2012
Never let it be said that this year’s edition of the Volvo Ocean Race has been dull. It began with boats breaking, and the current leg is ending with boats limping into Itajai, Brazil. More »

Weekend Sailing Preview

An action-packed weekend is in store for racers on San Francisco Bay, Folsom Lake, and Lake Tahoe. Sign-ups are still open for Sausalito YC’s Women Skippers Regatta on Saturday. The day starts with continental breakfast and a 9 a.m. More »

Vive Les Voiles

April 11, 2012
She’s indeed a paradox, meaning she defies reason, for she’s a cruising boat built on a chassis, as it were, of an ORMA 60 racing trimaran, one of the fastest, wildest and most fragile racing classes ever. More »

Weekend (and Weekday) Racing

April 6, 2012
A light air rounding of the Southampton Shoals platform in last year’s SSS Corinthian Race. latitude/Rob
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The big regatta this Saturday will be the Singlehanded Sailing Society‘s Corinthian Race, a San Francisco Bay tour beginning and ending at Corinthian YC in Tiburon. More »

Exciting Developments in Global Races

March 30, 2012
Groupama Sailing Team, skippered by Franck Cammas from France, rounded Cape Horn at 12:55 UTC today, in first place, during leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, from Auckland, New Zealand to Itajai, Brazil. More »

The Greatest Spectacle in Sailing

March 26, 2012
Charter a boat out of St. Martin for the next Bucket and you can see action like this, with the 141-ft Frer’s ketch Rebecca, on the left, battling it out with the 115-ft Hoek Firefly, center, and the the 140-ft Dubois Ganesha on the right, as seen in a gybing duel near the end of the third race. More »

California Racing Round-Up

March 23, 2012
Last weekend’s Butler Cup, the third regatta in the California Dreamin’ match race series, got blown out. With a severe storm watch in effect and high winds, host Long Beach YC was not able to run any races. More »

Insane Racing in the Tropics

Ethan, one of the notorious Bunzini Brothers of St. Barth and Martha’s Vineyard, and son of Scotty, captain of the 65-ft wood schooner Juno, gives a facial expression that typifies the intensity of sailing and partying that goes on during the St. More »

Round the World Racing Round-Up

Midway for Clipper Fleet This week, the 10-boat Clipper Round the World Race fleet sailed backward in time one day and from winter into spring. As the sun passed north of the equator, the boats passed the International Dateline and into the Western Hemisphere. More »

MEXORC Report

March 21, 2012
Today’s Scuttlebutt has a terrific report on the equally terrific MEXORC: "Skipper-owner Wayne Zittel from J/World Hula Girl said it perfectly. ‘Seriously. I don’t get it. For the life of me, I can’t fathom why this isn’t the most popular regatta in the world. More »