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The End Is Near!
The brutally active sailboat racing season in the Northeast Caribbean — which we take to be between the British Virgins and Antigua — is not over, but the end is nigh. More »
Free Dashew Weather Books
Weather forecasts are one of the most talked-about topics in any cruiser gathering, often because they’re so often wrong or misunderstood, and so much depends on accurate forecasting when you’re in a small boat in a large ocean. More »
The 27th Antigua Classic Regatta
The 83-ft Fife schooner Adventuress, now 90 years young, shows her stuff in this year’s windy Antigua Classic Regatta.
© 2014 Tim Wright
If there is a better classic regatta in the world than the four-race Panerai Antigua Classic, sailed off historic English Harbor, we’re not aware of it. More »
Boarded, Attacked and Beaten
When you are forced to use your hands to defend against a machete attack, you can come away with some nasty souvenirs.
© Kirk McGeorge
"Our voyage from Cape Town to Trinidad covered 5,503 nautical miles in 33 days of sailing, during which time we crossed both the prime meridian and equator. More »
Matt Rutherford’s New Challenge
Matt and Nicole broke away from their last-minute preparations this morning to strike a pose aboard their custom Harbor 29 Sakura. She was just launched April 1.
© 2014 Mike Sheck / Scanmar
Two years ago Annapolis-based sailor Matt Rutherford, then 31, made headlines when he successfully completed the first-ever singlehanded circumnavigation of the Americas. Tomorrow, More »
La Racing Vie En Rose
“Look ma, surfing at 22 knots without a spinnaker!”
latitude/Richard
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The photo above, of a Santa Cruz 70 surfing a wave in 25 knots of wind, looks like a typical finish of a Transpac — except for a couple of things. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The photo above, of a Santa Cruz 70 surfing a wave in 25 knots of wind, looks like a typical finish of a Transpac — except for a couple of things. More »
Deadly Accident During Sequoia YC Race
The well-kept Catalina 42 Bella sits mastless after the tragic accident, cordoned off by police tape.
© John Tuma
Two sailors were injured, one fatally, when the Catalina 42 Bella became entangled with a day mark during the first race of the Sequoia Yacht Club’s popular Wednesday night race series. More »
Wear the Kill Switch or Risk Being Killed
If a ‘picture is worth a thousand words,’ what’s a video worth? No matter how many times mariners are warned about the dangers of not wearing an outboard kill-switch cord around their wrists when operating their outboard-powered inflatables, the message doesn’t seem to get through. More »
Rescued Sailors Return to Homeport
Carrying their only remaining possessions, the Kaufman family disembarks the USS Vandegrift at Coronado Island. Close behind them are the four Air National Guard pararescuemen who came to their aid 900 miles offshore. More »
Ex-Lakota Tri for Sale in Caribbean
The legendary 1990 ORMA 60 trimaran that set countless records as both Florence Arthaud’s Pierre 1er and Steve Fossett’s Lakota is now for sale in Grenada for $375,000. She was the first really fast multihull that we ever sailed on. More »
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