Current News
Temporal Dysphoria in the Jules Verne
On Friday, we told the story of Francis Joyon’s IDEC Sport maxi trimaran setting a record for the Indian Ocean crossing from from Cape Agulhas in South Africa to Cape Leeuwin in southwest Australia. More »
Homeward Bound
We hesitate to call it a trend — that poor word has been beaten to death by social media — but it is interesting to see how many sailing vessels have made their way back to where they started from in the last few decades. More »
IDEC Sport’s Indian Ocean Record
IDEC Sport is speeding toward the southern Pacific Ocean, having passed Australia’s Cape Leeuwin last night.
© 2015 Paul Bessereau / IDEC Sport
IDEC Sport smashed the Indian Ocean record by crossing the longitude of Cape Leeuwin late Thursday evening. More »
Sailors’ Splash / Banderas Bay Blast
Profligate as seen sailing from Punta Mita to Paradise Marina during a recent Pirates for Pupils Spinnaker Run for Charity event. What could be better than raising money for a great cause while having a great time sailing in the tropics? More »
Blogging While Sailing at 30 Knots
The MOD70 Phaedo 3 with her afterburners on, as seen during a record-setting run around St. Maarten.
© 2015 Tim Wright
Brian Thompson, known to a number of Bay Area sailors for his time around here with Steve Fossett’s trimaran Lakota, sent the following report on the excitement of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s 3,000-mile race from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean. More »
Racing in a Cesspool?
The ‘aires‘ might be bueno in the capital of Argentina, but the agua apparently isn’t. Racing off the San Isidro area of Buenos Aires late last month, just outside the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, roughly a third of the competitors in the 49er and 49er FX Worlds reportedly fell ill due to serious gastrointestinal issues. More »
Jules Verne ‘Race’ Is On
On Sunday at 4:01:58 GMT, the trimaran Spindrift 2 crossed the start line that runs from Créac’h lighthouse (Ushant Island, France) to Lizard Point (Cornwall) for the start of her crewed nonstop circumnavigation. More »
Yet Another Tropical Storm?
Passage Weather projects an as-yet-unnamed tropical storm to be near Cabo by Friday night. But the projections change almost hourly. Windyty shows a slightly different path. Both forecasting services show the storm suddenly disappearing a very short time later. More »
Tropical Storm Season Not Quite Over
"We saw 87° water in a number of places on the way from La Paz to here on Banderas Bay," Arjan Bok, the San Francisco owner of the Schionning 43 cat Rot Kat told Latitude about a week ago. More »
Sailors Recoil at Development Plans
Jeff Lee’s San Juan 33 Zwei Flying Fish checks out the breeze off Alameda Marina before an Island Nights Friday night beer can race, hosted by Island YC, whose clubhouse is on the Alameda Marina property. More »
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