Racing
The Best of 2008
Team Natural Blues skipper Dan Brandt gets a 9.8 for style on this dismount at the 2008 St. Francis YC 18-ft skiff regatta.
© Erik Simonson
Bay Area-based photographer Erik Simonson should be no stranger to ‘Lectronic Latitude and Latitude 38 readers. More »
Rules Seminar Packs Corinthian YC
Saturday had to be one of the nicest days of this young year, yet about 90 of the Bay’s most ardent racers chose to spend it in the Corinthian YC ballroom — with every window shade drawn, and not a beer in sight. More »
Weekend Racing Review
Hoot leads the Olson 30 charge at BYC’s Saturday race.
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©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC ‘Indian Summer’ finally arrived on the scene this past weekend. Sunny skies and near-record high temperatures made San Francisco Bay seem more like San Diego — especially with those light, shifty breezes. More »
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC ‘Indian Summer’ finally arrived on the scene this past weekend. Sunny skies and near-record high temperatures made San Francisco Bay seem more like San Diego — especially with those light, shifty breezes. More »
Le Cam Rescued
VM Materiaux upside down, sans bulb, while skipper Jean Le Cam waits for the arrival of friend and competitor Vincent Riou.
© 2009 Marine Chilienne / Vendee Globe
If you grew up sailing dinghies, you probably had sailing instructors who implored you to "stay with the boat" whenever you capsized. More »
‘Rags’ Takes Divison Win in Sydney Hobart
Bob Oatley’s Wild Oats XI blasts her way toward Hobart and a record fourth-consecutive line-honors win.
© Rolex Daniel Forster
As the current steward of the Spencer 65 Ragtime, Newport Beach’s Chris Welsh added another remarkable passage to the chapter he’s helping to write in the iconic yacht’s history. More »
The Longest Six and Half Feet
Mark Guillemot’s Safran approaches the stricken Yann Elies aboard Generali.
© Mark Guillemot
It’s only six and a half feet, but the distance separating Yann Eliès from his medical kit might as well be intercontinental. More »
Vendee Globe Update
Ice has been a constant threat to the sailors in the Vendee Globe Race.
© 2008 Sam Davies / Roxy
Attrition is a constant in the Vendée Globe Race. Now that most of the 19 boats remaining — out of the 30 that started — are about halfway around the world, it looks like the amount of attrition is well on its way to the 50% mark many people have come to expect. More »
Finally, A Breeze-On Midwinters!
The surface forecast for tomorrow shows 35- to 50-knot winds are predicted offshore.
© NOAA
This weekend marks the second installment of Berkeley YC’s Midwinters, and the first of any of the Bay’s various midwinter series where the breeze will make a significant showing! More »
BMW Oracle Racing Says “No Thanks!”
BMW Oracle Racing has put a lot of time and effort into the preparing this monster trimaran to race Alinghi in a Deed of Gift AC challenge. If they lose their appeal in the New York Court of Appeals, they may not get to race anything in AC 33. More »
Big Bang on Gitana Eighty
Peyron’s ‘big bang’ has taken him out of the running.
© Yvan Zedda / Gitana SA
In one of the real heartbreakers of the singlehanded, nonstop round-the-world Vendée Globe Race, Loïck Peyron reported that his IMOCA 60 Gitana Eighty had dismasted early this morning in the Southern Ocean. More »
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