Racing
Artemis Leaders Reach Ice Gate
LoÏck Peyron’s Gitana 80 has been steadily chewing into race leader PRB‘s margin, halving a 24-mile lead in the past twelve hours in lighter wind. The weekend’s 36-hour blackout saw previous race leader Sébastien Josse aboard BT squirt ahead into a dominant position, then have to retire with a damaged mainsail track and batten cars. More »
Three Miles Separate Top Five in Transat
Eleven IMOCA 60s slip out of Plymouth on their way to Boston.
© 2008 Vincent Curutchet / DPPI / The Artemis Transat
After sailing nearly 900 miles, the first five IMOCA 60s in the singlehanded Artemis Transat are separated by only 3.6 miles down the course, with the sixth place boat less than 20 miles behind. More »
Cahn Releases Order
New York Supreme Court Justice Herman Cahn released his order regarding the BMW Oracle Racing’s Deed of Gift Challenge for America’s Cup 33. Judging by the typically verbose team’s terse press release, it’s not what they were looking for. More »
Pyewacket Sold
Pyewacket, in her ultra turbo’d mode, as seen approaching Honolulu in the last TransPac.
© 2008 Sharon Green
Pyewacket, the R/P MaxZ 86 built for Roy Disney, then turbo’d relentlessly, has just been sold to Frank Pong of Hong Kong, reports Brad Avery of the School of Sailing and Seamanship at Orange Coast College in Newport Beach. More »
Northern Star – An Ocean of Fun
Whee-Ha! John Liebenberg and company light the afterburners on Always Friday for the stretch run.
© 2008 Peter Lyons
OYRA’s Northern Star race saw fifty-some boats head out the Gate for a great day of ocean sailing on Saturday. More »
BMW Oracle Racing Announces Design Team
BMW Oracle Racing’s design team of Vincent Lauriot Prevost, Marc van Peteghem, Mike Drummond and Mick Kermerac sit for a photo with boss Russell Coutts.
© 2008 Gilles Martin-Raget / BMW Oracle Racing
Over the weekend, BMW Oracle Racing announced its design team for the AC33. More »
Singlehanded Transat Starts Sunday
One of the world’s preeminent singlehanded offshore races gets underway Sunday when a fleet of 13 IMOCA 60s and 11 Class 40s will leave Plymouth on their way to a finish in Boston in the Artemis Transat. More »
Rippin’ ‘Round the Bay on an SB3
If you’re curious, like we were, about Laser Performance’s new-to-the-States 20-ft sportboat, the Laser SB3, you’ve got a chance this week to put one through its paces. Yesterday afternoon we did just that and were pleasantly surprised. More »
The Great Vallejo Race
Sailing down San Pablo Bay in So Cal summer conditions for this year’s Great Vallejo Race.
© Peter Lyons www.lyonsimaging.com
The Great Vallejo Race and YRA Season Opener was treated to some perfect Southern California-like weather Saturday, as the fleet of 250 starters headed north on this annual 21-mile Nor Cal classic. More »
Congressional Cup Semis Decided Today
Counting 12 wins on his scorecard, Kiwi Gavin Brady leads Long Beach YC’s Congressional Cup with four races remaining in the second round robin. The top four finishers from the round robins will advance to this weekend’s semifinals and Brady only has to win one race in today’s final four to ensure a spot for his crew which includes San Francisco’s Jim Swartz, the East Bay’s Rodney Daniel, and Santa Barbara’s John Ziskind. More »
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