Racing
January Racing Forecast
They call it a “fiasco” for a reason. It’s about the most fun charlie-foxtrot you can willingly get yourself into.
© Peter Lyons
January brings a little bit more to the midwinter racing schedule in the form of the first installment of the ever-popular Corinthian YC Mids January 16-17. More »
Roy Disney Succumbs to Cancer
Roy Disney, top left, with his ’07 TransPac crew from Pyewacket. Disney passed away earlier today. He was 79.
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One of the world’s preeminent yachtsmen, Roy E. Disney, passed away earlier today in Newport Beach — less than a month from his 80th birthday — after a year-long bout with stomach cancer. More »
Giant ‘Berg Heading for Western Australia
B17B is headed for warmer climes, wandering toward Western Australia, already clear of the Freezing Fifties.
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A 55-sq-mile iceberg measuring some 12 miles long by five miles wide — twice the size of Manhattan — is drifting slowly north from Antarctica towards Western Australia. More »
Vessella Takes Piana Cup
Peninsula-based St. Francis YC member Peter Vessella and his crew of Tracy Usher and John Callahan beat a "who’s-who" field at the Piana Cup on Biscayne Bay last weekend. The first of the four events that constitute the Jaguar Cup midwinter series for Etchells, the regatta brought out 45 boats for what had been scheduled to be a two-day regatta. More »
Meet Solo TransPac’ers at EYC
If you’re on the fence about entering next summer’s Singlehanded TransPac, you’ll have a chance to meet with some race veterans, check out their boats and even have your boat ‘pre-inspected’ this Sunday, December 13, at Encinal YC. More »
Iran Releases British Sailors
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has released five British sailors who were detained on November 25. Oliver Smith, Sam Usher, Luke Porter, Oliver Young and David Bloomer were taken into custody, and their Volvo 60, Sail Bahrain, impounded, while on a delivery to the start of the Dubai-Muscat Race. More »
In the Shadow of Table Mountain
With no French team around, Cork takes out Ireland’s frustration at being robbed of a berth in the 2010 World Cup on Hull & Humber.
Clipper Ventures
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Race 4 of the Clipper ‘Round the World Race got off to a cracking start yesterday — literally. More »
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Race 4 of the Clipper ‘Round the World Race got off to a cracking start yesterday — literally. More »
Watson Tags Equator
Jessica Watson shows her offering to King Neptune.
Ella’s Pink Lady
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Yesterday, sixteen-year-old Aussie solo sailor Jessica Watson crossed the equator — the first milestone in her attempt to set the record for the youngest person to sail around the world alone, non-stop and unassisted. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Yesterday, sixteen-year-old Aussie solo sailor Jessica Watson crossed the equator — the first milestone in her attempt to set the record for the youngest person to sail around the world alone, non-stop and unassisted. More »
Groupama 3 Abandons Record Attempt
Structural failure ended the ’round the world record attempt of Franck Cammas’ Groupama 3 this morning at about 4 a.m. PST. Sailing at 90° true in a north-northeasterly breeze of up to 35 knots, Thomas Coville and Bruno Jeanjean were on deck and averaging 25 knots of boatspeed when "a bulkhead attached to the aft beam simply gave up the ghost," according to a statement released by the team. More »
Can You Say “High-Aspect?”
BMW Oracle Racing’s new hard sail being put through its paces off San Diego yesterday.
© Gilles Martin-Raget
BMW Oracle Racing finally put their new hard wing to the test yesterday, when they sailed BMW Oracle 90 outside San Diego Bay for the first time since stepping the giant wing earlier this week and adding a fabric fairing to the trailing edge of the aft crossbeam. More »
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