Racing
Delta Ditch Walk
Hank Easom’s 8 metre Yucca and the Bilafer family’s Henderson 30 Family Hour rolling toward Stockton.
© 2008 John Dukat / Richmond YC
Despite the collective prayers from sailors and organizers that the National Weather Service’s wind forecast for Saturday’s Delta Ditch Run was wrong, it turned out to be right on. More »
Anyone Going To Stockton?
“Hey, buddy, goin’ my way?” Latitude’s Race Editor Rob Grant is looking to hitch a ride for tomorrow’s Delta Ditch Run. Sextant, optional.
latitude/LaDonna
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC In the last week, I happened to mention to a few people that I’d be driving up to Stockton to get the lowdown on the Delta Ditch Run. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC In the last week, I happened to mention to a few people that I’d be driving up to Stockton to get the lowdown on the Delta Ditch Run. More »
Leopard Sets Transatlantic Record
ICAP Leopard en route to breaking the west-east transatlantic record for monohulls with power-assisted winches.
© Rick Tomlinson
Briton Mike Slade’s 100-ft maxi ICAP Leopard passed the Lizard just before 8:30 p.m. More »
Corinthian In-The-Bay Race
A little bit of chaos in the Pt. Blunt washing machine for sailors in the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s Corinthian Race on Saturday.
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©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Ross Stein’s Corsair 24 Mk II Origami made it two in a row for the overall corrected time win in the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s 18-mile Corinthian Race on Saturday. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Ross Stein’s Corsair 24 Mk II Origami made it two in a row for the overall corrected time win in the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s 18-mile Corinthian Race on Saturday. More »
Spinnaker Cup
Mark Langer’s Sydney 38 Absolute ’02 shortly after the start of Last Friday’s Spinnaker Cup.
© 2008 Erik Simonson
After a few days of wind in the 40s out of the northwest, last Friday’s Spinnaker Cup was looking promising for a typical 90-mile downwind blast from San Francisco YC to Monterey. More »
Master Mariners
Gray skies and mellow breezes greeted the starters of Saturday’s Master Mariners race.
latitude/LaDonna
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Gray skies, light winds, and even a little rain greeted 56 boats answering starting guns at the annual Master Mariners Regatta on Saturday, May 24. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Gray skies, light winds, and even a little rain greeted 56 boats answering starting guns at the annual Master Mariners Regatta on Saturday, May 24. More »
Soldini Crushes Class 40s in Transat
Giovanni Soldini bow-riding Telecom Italia to a win in the Class 40 division in The Artemis Transat.
© Matt Dickens onEdition/The Artemis Transat
Italian Giovanni Soldini sealed his win in the Class 40 division in The Artemis Transat when he crossed the finish line off Marblehead just after 7 a.m. More »
Peyron Closing in on a Record Third Win
Loick Peyron’s Gitana 80 is closing in on the Boston finish of the 2008 Artemis Transat.
© 2008 onEdition / The Artemis Transat/OC Events
LoÏck Peyron is closing in on an unprecented third win in The Artemis Transat. More »
And Then There Were Three
Vincent Riou’s PRB is the third race leader forced to abandon in the IMOCA 60 division of The Artemis Transat. Riou said that PRB was reaching at speeds in the high teens when the boat’s keel collided with a large animal, cutting the beast clean in two. More »
Stone Cup
Perennial rivals Donkey Jack (foreground) and Good Timin go mano-a-mano in the J/105 class.
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©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Action was hot, heavy, occasionally harrowing — and at times really foggy — for StFYC’s annual Frank Stone Invitational series held over the weekend. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Action was hot, heavy, occasionally harrowing — and at times really foggy — for StFYC’s annual Frank Stone Invitational series held over the weekend. More »
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