Racing
Delta Ditch Beat
Tim and Karin Knowles Wyliecat 39 Lilith and Sam McFadden’s Olson 30 Dragonsong get split up by a tanker during Saturday’s Delta Ditch Run. No Olson 30s were harmed while making this image. More »
What’s Up for the Weekend
No other race on the West Coast, maybe even the world, gives you looks like this. The Delta Ditch Run turns 20 this year, we can’t wait to help it celebrate. More »
Freda Gets Her Whiskey Plank
Freda drew quite a crowd for the fastening of her “shutter plank” on Saturday at the Spaulding Wooden Boat Center.
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©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC One-hundred and twenty-five years after she was first launched on the shores of Belvedere Cove, the 32-ft gaff sloop Freda marked a momentous occasion on Saturday afternoon when she received her shutter plank. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC One-hundred and twenty-five years after she was first launched on the shores of Belvedere Cove, the 32-ft gaff sloop Freda marked a momentous occasion on Saturday afternoon when she received her shutter plank. More »
Coast Guard Responds to Reader Concerns
We hope we never have to experience a scene like this first-hand. But if a float plan submitted to the Coast Guard means that we get to actually live to tell about it, then we’re all for it. More »
MOB Successfully Recovered
Santa Cruz sailor Malcolm Brown and the rest of the crew of Scott Hipsley’s Santa Cruz YC-based Melges 24 Wild Thing had a close call that thankfully ended well. During the second run of a double windward-leeward SCORE race off Santa Cruz on Sunday in a heavy sea state and breeze building into the 30s, Brown was on the leeward side of the boat when it wiped out. More »
Ocean Racing Entry Deadlines
Thanks to everyone who took the time to send us their feedback on ocean racing entry deadlines. It was too late to get them in the June issue and we simply didn’t have room for all the responses here. More »
Singlehanded Farallones & Entry Deadlines
Our Wednesday posting regarding this weekend’s Singlehanded Farallones Race got some feedback, specifically with regard to the the quote from Coast Guard LCDR DesaRae Janszen that "singlehanded races to the Farallones are one of the most dangerous races on the West Coast." More »
Last, but Still Loved
It was a wild time down at the docks in old St. Barth in the French West Indies this morning, as MemoireStBarth.com and Groupe Bel, the last two of the 25 doublehanded entries in the TransAt AG2R La Mondiale, crossed the finish line at the entrance of the port of Gustavia just seconds apart. More »
Crewed Farallones Gets Weird
Peter Stoneberg’s Formula 40 Shadow blasts under the Gate on the way to posting an elapsed time of just under six hours in the Full Crew Farallones Race.
© Erik Simonson
With the Spinnaker Cup just a few short weeks away, the OYRA’s Full Crew Farallones Race brought out a high-quality fleet of boats for what many people expected would be a breeze-on, pound-out, surf-back, 58-mile trip around the Rockpile. More »
Will AC 34 Be Sailed on the Bay?
Russell Coutts and Vincenzo Onorato have a plan for the 34th America’s Cup. We hope it involves the Bay.
© Gilles Martin-Raget
“Every candidate city knows that a very strong case has already been put forward by San Francisco.” More »
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