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Tahiti Race Start Socked In

June 23, 2008
Medicine Man ducks behind Magnitude 80 in the fog off Pt. Fermin during Sunday’s start of the 13th Tahiti Race. © Rich Roberts Instead of a sunny, glorious day befitting the momentousness of the occasion, the four starters in the 13th Tahiti Race were treated to fog and lots of it off Pt. More »

Pac Cup Announces Tracking and Class Breaks

June 20, 2008
Tom Akin’s SC 52 Lightning at the start of the 2006 Pacific Cup on the way to a clean sweep: 1st in class, 1st overall, 1st to finish. latitude/LaDonna
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC They’re here . More »

Solo TransPac – Raiders of the Last Mark

June 11, 2008
Having been around for both ‘debuts’, we’re struck by the parallels of the 30th Annual Singlehanded TransPac Race to the return of Indiana Jones. Both feature great adventures spanning three decades, great characters, great settings, occasionally unbelievable plotlines, fresh new faces — and a number of returning stars, all of whom have, of course, aged most gracefully. More »

Delta Ditch Walk

June 9, 2008
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?

June 6, 2008
“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 »

Leopard Sets Transatlantic Record

June 4, 2008
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

June 2, 2008
A little bit of chaos in the Pt. Blunt washing machine for sailors in the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s Corinthian Race on Saturday. latitude/Rob
©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

May 30, 2008
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

May 28, 2008
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 »

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 »