Current News
Long Night for a Bay Windsurfer
It would be easy to assume the worst if you’d heard a 62-year-old windsurfer had been missing on the Bay for more than 13 hours, but Cathy Caton’s rescue Tuesday morning after spending a very long night getting sucked in and out of South San Francisco Bay was a surprisingly happy ending to a potentially deadly story. More »
Esmeralda Delayed Until Thursday
If you took our advice and sailed out to greet the Chilean tall ship Esmeralda yesterday as she entered the Golden Gate, you may have thought she somehow slipped by you unnoticed. More »
Crony Capitalism About to Degrade Your GPS?
U.S. taxpayers, via the Department of Defense, paid for the development, installation and maintenance of our GPS system. Now it’s in danger of degradation anywhere within the range of cell phone towers — thanks to what would appear to be crony capitalism of the worst sort at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the White House. More »
Hurricane Dora Threatens Mexican Coast
Dora’s predicted track should keep her from directly hitting land, but hurricanes have a tendency to act unpredictably.
© NOAA
Hurricane Dora is making both sailors and landlubbers nervous today all along the central Pacific coast of Mexico, as she recently built in strength to a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. More »
Help Us Welcome a Chilean Beauty
Like many longtime sailors, we’ve had a fascination with tall ships for decades. And having observed many of them both in port and under sail, we decided long ago that the Chilean Navy’s four-masted, 370-ft Esmeralda was one of the most beautiful — if not the most beautiful — of them all. More »
Bashing Ahead of a Hurricane?
After a series of obstacles that have prevented us from heading north from La Cruz to do the Baja Bash with Profligate, we were all ready to go. Then we looked at Passage Weather. More »
Two Dead in Chicago-Mackinac Race
Two sailors died early this morning during the 103rd Annual Chicago-to-Mackinac Race when a severe thunderstorm sent wind speeds into the 50s. The Kiwi 35 WingNuts was reported capsized around 12:40 a.m. More »
Follow the Freedom Flag
A patriotic apparition? No, it’s the Freedom Flag, which will be flying over San Francisco Bay today in support of vets.
© 2011 Project Freedom Flag
If you look out across San Francisco Bay today and see a huge American flag fluttering on the breeze while seemingly unattached to anything solid, fear not. More »
Mendocino Queen Attacked in the Caribbean
Allen and Kate Barry, liveaboards and worldwide cruisers for 20 years aboard the San Francisco-based DownEast 38 Mendocino Queen, report they were assaulted and robbed around 10:45 p.m. on the night of July 2 while at anchor just off Baradel Island in the Tobago Cays Marine Reserve of St. More »
Polynesian Vakas Heading for San Francisco
We watched in awe last year as this traditional vaka drove to windward across Neiafu Harbor, Tonga, in a light breeze. This hand-built vessel would later join six others en route to Hawaii, then San Francisco. More »
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