Current News
Ua Noa Missing Since July
The Coast Guard and family of Bob Arvin are asking for help finding the 49-year-old sailor who left Honolulu on July 14 bound for San Diego aboard his Cape Dory 30 Ua Noa. More »
Southern Star Arrives Sunday
Southern Star will have traveled 18,000 miles in 12 months during this expedition.
© 2008 Delphine Maratier
A multinational team of sailors, scientists, and journalists studying the effects of global climate change on the Northwest Passage will be sailing under the Golden Gate this Sunday at 2 p.m. More »
Missing a Rudder?
There’s hardly a weekend — heck, hardly a day — when sailing shutterbug Peter Lyons isn’t out shooting on the Bay. You can spot him zipping around in his Zodiac snapping shots of races and daysailors alike. More »
Darla Jean Update
In Monday’s ‘Lectronic, we posted a request for info on Darla Jean III, Jerry and Darla Merrow’s newest boat. A quick search of the USCG’s documentation records shows the boat is a 36-ft steel Scheepswerf built in 1959. More »
Sailing Fills Glass Past Half-Full
The last week or so reminded us once again how stepping off land and onto a sailboat can immediately put miles of psychic distance between oneself and the all the economic and political craziness of the day. More »
Darla Jean Missing Again?
Just when you thought it was over, the saga of Darla Jean continues.
Jerry and Darla Merrow left the Bay last fall aboard a Rudy Cheoy catamaran dubbed Darla Jean. Just outside the Gate, the deck around the mast step "tore off," Jerry Merrow reported later. More »
90 Day Wondering
As you know, Governor Schwarznegger signed a new state budget at the end of September. As most boaters will probably also know, in addition he signed a bill that once again killed the so-called 90-Day Yacht Club. More »
Hal Roth Succumbs to Cancer
Venerated sailor and author Hal Roth lost his 2 1/2-year battle with lung cancer on Saturday. He was 81.
In 1967, Roth and his wife Margaret quit their jobs to set off on their famous North Pacific Loop about which he wrote in Two on a Big Ocean. More »
FCC Approves AIS Class B Transponders
After years of hemming and hawing, the FCC has finally approved Class B AIS transponders for recreational vessels. Just so everyone is up to speed, AIS stands for Automatic Identification System, which is a way for ships and smaller vessels to electronically exchange data such as who and where they are, how fast they are going on what course, and much more. More »
Deleon Found Guilty
On Monday, the seven-woman, five-man jury in Skylar Deleon’s triple-murder trial took two hours to find Deleon guilty of the 2004 murders of cruisers Tom and Jackie Hawks, as well as another man in an unrelated 2003 incident. More »
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