Racing
Luna Rossa Jumps Back Into the Cup
Confirming a rumor that had been floating around for a week or so, the Luna Rossa sailing team has been announced as a challenger for the 34th America’s Cup. Challenging under the burgee of the Circolo della Vela Sicilia of Palermo, Luna Rossa Challenge 2013 has been accepted by the Golden Gate YC. More »
Help the Moore 24 Family Help Theirs
Earlier this year, we told you of an effort by the Moore 24 community to assist the surviving family members of one the class’s most ardent supporters and multiple-time former class president Joel Verutti, who died of brain cancer last year. More »
Great Pumpkin Regatta Goes Vintage
Team Premier slides downwind during Saturday’s champagne conditions at the Richmond YC’s Great Pumpkin Regatta.
© Erik Simonson
If you missed the Richmond YC’s Great Pumpkin Regatta, you missed out on one of the most awesome weekends of racing this year. More »
Great Pumpkin Regatta Gets Going Tonight
What’s the most telling thing about the popularity of the Richmond YC’s Great Pumpkin Regatta? The fact that there’s nothing else on the schedule this weekend. With three buoy races tomorrow, followed by one of the best regatta parties of the year later that evening, and a relaxed choose-your-own-adventure pursuit race around Alcatraz and Angel Islands on Sunday, the Pumpkin is the perfect coda to the summer racing schedule. More »
First Singlehanded TransPac Seminar
We’re embarrassed at having forgotten to post a reminder in Wednesday’s ‘Lectronic that the first seminar for the 2012 Singlehanded TransPac was held last night at Oakland YC. The discussion focused on a brief recap of the race rules, followed by five vets sharing their experiences sailing in the 2,120-mile race from San Francisco Bay to Hanalei Bay, Kauai. More »
U.S. Team Earns Six Medals in PV
With the Pan American Games being hosted by Guadalajara — Mexico’s “second city” — the sailing events were based out of Nuevo Vallarta last week. Team USA’s sailors wrapped up the regatta at the Vallarta Yacht Club on Sunday, grabbing six medals in nine classes on their way home: silvers in the J/24, Lightning, Snipe and Sunfish, and bronzes in the Laser Radial and women’s Windsurfing classes. More »
Emma Aids Stricken Competitor
Aussie Scott Cavanough waves a thanks to the Bay’s Emma Creighton as she sails away.
Pen Ar Clos
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Following the tracker for the Charente-Maritime/Bahia Transat 6.50 left us a little puzzled when it seemed that the Bay’s Emma Creighton inexplicably got smothered by the ITCZ while the boats near her seemed to still be making progress. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Following the tracker for the Charente-Maritime/Bahia Transat 6.50 left us a little puzzled when it seemed that the Bay’s Emma Creighton inexplicably got smothered by the ITCZ while the boats near her seemed to still be making progress. More »
Sailing Hall of Fame Gets First Class
The first class of the National Sailing Hall of Fame.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC If you’ve been racing for any length of time, and the above photo didn’t make you think "wow!", More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC If you’ve been racing for any length of time, and the above photo didn’t make you think "wow!", More »
Emma Hanging Tough
David Raison’s TeamWork Evolution may look anomalous, but it’s currently proving to be plenty quick. The only scow-shaped mini ever built, the boat benefits from the added form stability of the scow shape. More »
“Best Seat in the House”
"Returning back to Sausalito on our 36-ft Cherubini Hunter Wildaire from a sail out to Pt. Bonita on the evening of August 25, three friends and I found ourselves caught in the cross hairs of the frenetic start of the Ronstan Bridge to Bridge Race," writes Richard Jardine. More »
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