Racing
Taking the Bulls by the Horns
The start of the 2009 Bullship was in very light breeze. A butterfly actually passed us.
latitude/LaDonna
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC It was about midmorning on Saturday when the theme from Rawhide started playing in our heads: “Movin, movin, movin; Though they’re disapprovin’; Keep them dogies movin’; Rawhide!" More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC It was about midmorning on Saturday when the theme from Rawhide started playing in our heads: “Movin, movin, movin; Though they’re disapprovin’; Keep them dogies movin’; Rawhide!" More »
In the Bay, Outta This World
The Singlehanded Sailing Society’s Season keeps ramping up, with the Corinthian Race drawing a record turnout just months after the Three Bridge Fiasco did the same.
© 2009 Erik Simonson
If Saturday’s Corinthian Race (formerly known as the In the Bay Race) was any indication, the Singlehanded Sailing Society is really on a roll this year. More »
BVI Spring Regatta
Whether you were sailing in the regatta’s only one-design division, the IC 24s, or even Bareboat B, the B.V.I. Spring Regatta was warm, breezy and just downright pleasant.
© 2009 Todd VanSickle
It’s tough work, if you can get it, but sometimes a Racing Editor is forced to take one for the team and travel to far-flung destinations in order to track down Northern California sailors who venture beyond our region. More »
Weekend Racing Wrap Up – Best of the ‘Fest
The Bay was busy this weekend, and not only with the nearly 50 J/boats participating in St. Francis YC’s J/Fest.
© 2009 Erik Simonson
The ‘main event’ in local racing this past weekend was the 2009 J/Fest Regatta, hosted by the St. More »
Weekend Racing Wrap Up
With Monday’s ‘Lectronic Latitude dedicated to the dramatic rescue during the Doublehanded Farallones Race, we didn’t have room for our usual weekend racing review. So we bring it to you now. More »
Doublehanded Farallones Race
Heat Wave, along with 10 other racers, waited out the lull near Pt. Bonita and wound up rounding the rocks. Unfortunately, they didn’t finish the race.
© Peter Lyons
For most competitors, the 30th Annual Doublehanded Farallones Race was a bust windwise. More »
Keep These on Your Racing Calendar
• The Bay Area Multihull Association‘s (BAMA) 30th running of the Doublehanded Farallones Race is Saturday. If you haven’t signed up and can’t make the skippers’ meeting at Oakland YC tonight at 7:30 p.m., More »
Ericsson 3 Leads Volvo Pack Toward Rio
Ericsson 3 (orange), Ericsson 4 (white), Puma (red), and
© 2009 Volvo Ocean Race
What was only a 50-mile lead yesterday has doubled as Ericsson 3 leads the pack toward Rio in the Volvo Ocean Race. More »
Not-So-Strictly Sail Pacific News
With just under a month until the start of Strictly Sail Pacific, exhibitors received a letter yesterday explaining that the show will no longer be the only all-sailing boat show on the West Coast. More »
Wilson Finishes Vendée Globe
Rich Wilson sailed into the record books once again as the second American to finish the Vendee Globe Race when he sailed into Les Sables d’Olonne yesterday afternoon.
© Olivier Blacnhet DPPI/Vendee Globe
Rich Wilson became only the second American to finish the Vendée Globe when he sailed Great American III into Les Sables d’Olonne at 12:43 p.m. More »
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