How to Pick the Ultimate Sharon Green Photo?

Actually, it’s impossible. There are just too many. When contributing editor Ross Tibbits spoke to Santa Barbara resident, world-renowned sailing photographer and Ultimate Sailing Calendar creator Sharon Green for his story in our January issue, he asked her to send along a few shots for the story. Of course, Sharon has millions of photos to choose from, and even a small subset of that leaves a dizzying quantity of unbelievable photos. Since we’re looking forward to many things in the new year, including Transpac 2021, we chose one of the almost infinite possibilities from Transpacs past for the January cover.

Beyond the cover shot of Windquest roaring into the Molokai Channel, we thought we’d share a few images she sent along that we couldn’t include in her story.

It’s hard to imagine sifting through all the thousands of shots collected from the sailing world’s most spectacular events to come up with just 25+ (two per month plus a cover) for the always inspiring and captivating Ultimate Sailing Calendar to adorn your wall. Somehow she makes it work every year. We were happy to sort through just a handful of the moments from years past. Ross’s January story tells us how she got started, how the idea for the Ultimate Sailing Calendar came to her, and how her career took off from those early days.