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King Harbor Race

August 2, 2010
Thanks to unusually light winds, the top three spots in last weekend’s 81-mile Santa Barbara to King Harbor (Redondo Beach) Race — our favorite in Southern California — were Class A Ultra Lights. More »

Shadow’s Lessons Learned

July 28, 2010
Peter Stoneberg, Shadow‘s owner, got back to us on Monday evening with a wrap-up and some lessons learned from his and his crew’s capsizing on Sunday afternoon following the YRA’s second-half opener. More »

Shadow Flips in Second-Half Opener

July 26, 2010
Peter Stoneberg is all smiles as his Formula 40 Shadow is back upright and ready to be towed after yesterday’s YRA Second-Half Opener. Tiburon
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC While this has to have been the coldest July ever, the flipside is that it’s been breeze-on for most of the month, and this weekend’s YRA Second-Half Opener was no exception. More »

Bulk of Pacific Cup Fleet Arrives

July 19, 2010
The all-conquering Horizon crew, clockwise from top left: Jason Adamson, Tom O’Keefe, Peter Kornhaber, John Berry, Robert Plant, navigator Jon Shampain, skipper Jack Taylor, Erik Shampain. latitude/Rob
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC With the bulk of the ’10 Pacific Cup fleet safely moored in Kaneohe Bay, all seven divisions have been decided. More »

Pacific Cup Update

July 14, 2010
The spread of the Pac Cup Fleet. © 2010 Pacific Cup With much of fleet either past or approaching the half-way point, the fickle breeze that all but Thursday’s starters experienced in their first few days at sea must be forgotten. More »
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Ever Wanted to Sail on an RC 44?

In the Race Notes located in the Racing Sheet in the July issue of Latitude 38, we brought you the news that the RC 44s will be having their first ever American event in Miami in December. More »

Pacific Cup Big Boats Away

July 12, 2010
Chip Megeath’s R/P 45 Criminal Mischief powers away from the line and into the lead in Division E. latitude/Andy
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The seventh and final division in the ’10 Pacific Cup got underway on Saturday afternoon. More »

Solo TransPac Comes to a Close

Al Germain sailed into Hanalei aboard his WylieCat 30 Bandicoot 19 days after the race’s start – but only 15 days after he restarted the race. latitude/LaDonna
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Singlehanded TransPac came to an end in the wee hours of Sunday morning when Adam Correa on the International Folkboat Blue Moon sailed into Hanalei, 21 very long days after the start of the race on June 19. More »

‘Monkey’ Regulates on Pac Cup Fleet

July 9, 2010
The Satellite Tracker for the ’10 Pacific Cup shows that Trunk Monkey has taken advantage of a freshening breeze to become the closest boat to Hawaii. (Click on the photo to go to the tracker) © 2010 Jody and Skip McCormack’s Farr 30 Trunk Monkey is currently in the process of putting one of its namesake’s signature beat-downs on the doublehanded and crewed divisions that started the ’10 Pacific Cup on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. More »

SPECIAL: Bay Only U.S. Venue for AC 34

July 8, 2010
BMW Oracle Racing and the Golden Gate YC announced today that San Francisco Bay is the only American venue under consideration to host the 34th match for the America’s Cup. The announcement followed on the heels of comments by team CEO Russell Coutts who has been quoted as saying that San Diego had removed itself from consideration with hope of getting one of the preliminary regattas as outlined in the draft protocol released last month. More »