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Latitude Engineering
Sailors are a notoriously innovative bunch. There are few other applications where the use of duct tape and bailing wire seems to work quite as well — or last as long — as on a sailboat. More »
“The Best Thing I Ever Did”
When we showed up at the California YC in Marina del Rey with Profigate a couple of weeks ago to give a presentation, we were assigned the guest dock, which just happened to be about five slips down from the 72-ft Deerfoot II. More »
AC72 Launching This Week
On the heels of the highly successful AC World Series last week, Oracle Team USA’s AC72, the monster cat that will be used for the America’s Cup Finals next year, is slated to be launched this week (some say tomorrow). More »
In Search of a Proper Title
Except for cooks and stewardesses, the overwhelming number of crew on large sailing yachts are male. But there are exceptions. In fact, at any big boat center — St. Martin, Antigua, Newport — there are always a couple of boats with a gal, invariably young and attractive, who is one of the deckhands. More »
Tropical Storm Isaac, Soon to Be a Hurricane?
Devan Mullins of Newport Beach reports that Tropical Storm Isaac — which killed 10 people in Haiti and the D.R. over the weekend — brought 50-knot winds to Key West before passing overhead and heading in the general direction of New Orleans. More »
Musing About AC Finals Speed
During the just completed World Series, the AC 45s with wing mains hit speeds in the low 20s.
While sailing in the same conditions aboard the 60-ft (LOD) foiler l’Hydroptère DCNS on Thursday, we hit 35 knots. More »
Speed Thrills On Foils
© Ellen Hoke
Thirty-three knots is the fastest we’d ever sailed on a boat — until yesterday. The old record was in the Bay aboard Frenchman Bruno Peyron’s then 86-ft catamaran Commodore Explorer shortly after she’d established a Japan-to-San Francisco record. More »
We’ll See You at the AC World Series
“Man down!” Both the Emirates Team New Zealand and China Team boats took tumbles yesterday — and higher winds are predicted today.
© 2012 Gilles Martin-Raget
If you’re ever going to play hookey from work or school in order to follow your passion for sailing, this is the week to do it — assuming, of course, that you’re here in the San Francisco Bay Area. More »
l’Hydroptere Makes the Bay
If you haven’t been out catching the practice sessions for the AC Worlds this week, you may have missed more than just the AC45s flitting — and flipping — around San Francisco Bay. More »
A-Cup World Series Kicks into High Gear
"I am very excited about the America’s Cup because I am a descendant of John Stevens, one of the event’s founders," writes Pamela Glassoff. "I was encouraged to write you to see if you have any ideas for a viewing area for the finals in San Francisco this coming week." More »
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