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Major Eye Candy Alert
A visual treat from Day 2 of racing in Les Voiles de St. Barth.
© Christophe Jouany
The ninth Les Voiles de St. Barth has enjoyed two days of spectacular racing, with photo galleries and videos posted on the event’s website, www.lesvoilesdesaintbarth.com. More »
Happy 406 Day
It’s not 4/20 yet, but it is 4/06.
The United States Coast Guard will not be celebrating the former, but they are celebrating the latter. April 6 is known to the Coasties as 406 MHz Day, calling attention to the importance of emergency position indicating radio beacons (known to sailors far and wide as EPIRBs). More »
News Flash: US Sailing to Open Olympic Sailing Center on Treasure Island
What if there was one place where sailors and all of the specialists who support the sport could gather in one place to prepare for the Olympics, kind of like the US Ski Team has in Park City, Utah? More »
Summer Camp
What if you went to camp on the water and not on the land? Most summer camps involve hiking in the woods, bows and arrows, arts and crafts, and other shoreside activities. More »
Have You Seen This Boat?
Jim Cotton sent us this postcard, a little the worse for wear after passing through the hands of the Postal Service. You’ll want to add a .net to the email address shown to make it work. More »
Photo Quiz
Today’s mystery ship. Click on the photo to enlarge it. Thanks to Jeff Berman for sharing it.
© Jeffrey Berman
This tall ship was spotted in the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday. More »
Hard to Find (What Is This Thing?)
Bob Adams of the Ericson 35 Escape wrote, "Have you seen one of these before?"
Know where to find one of these? Know what this whatchamacallit even is? Bob Adams would sure like to know. More »
Last Call at the Bar
Last call in this case is March 30, and the ‘bars’ in question are the harbor entrance bars to Crescent City Harbor, Humboldt Bay, Noyo River and Morro Bay.
Coast Guard assets in Humboldt Bay during heavy surf in January 2016. More »
Keeping Sailing a ‘SafeSport’
Unlike in some other sports, we haven’t heard of any reports of sexual harassment or assault at sanctioned sailboat races. But better safe than sorry. On March 7, Matthew Hill, the race administration director of US Sailing, sent the following email to the race officials the national organization certifies:
"This is to bring you up to speed on SafeSport training, which you may have already heard about. More »
Spring Is Coming
How do we know? Besides all of the allergy sneezing, a quick look at the Northern California Racing Calendar shows nine separate events scheduled for Saturday and five more on Sunday.
When we looked at the weather earlier in the week, it looked like the gods were reserving the weekend for sailors. More »
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