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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.

Pegasus
Philippe Kahn and Pegasus scream into Hawaii at the finish of another Transpac.
© 2021 Sharon Green / Ultimate Sailing
Comanche
Comanche screams into the finish of the 2019 Transpac.
© 2021 Sharon Green / Ultimate Sailing
Another angle on Comanche finishing the 2019 Transpac. Which shot would you use? There are likely dozens or hundreds more with similar action, color, lighting and power. Almost all stunning.
© 2021 Sharon Green / Ultimate Sailing
Big Boat Series
Sharon has captured many of the most colorful and classic moments of the ‘annual’ Big Boat Series.
© 2021 Sharon Green / Ultimate Sailing
Big Boat Series
Another blast from a St. Francis Big Boat Series past. The Rolex Big Boat Series is another event we’re looking forward to seeing return in 2021. Can anyone name those four boats?
© 2021 Sharon Green / Ultimate Sailing
Merlin 2017 Transpac Finish
We thought about using the awesome shot of Bill Lee’s Merlin on the left for our January cover but remembered we’d already used one from the same sequence for our August 2017 cover. Merlin, now owned by Chip Merlin, is one of 48 entries already signed up for the 2021 Transpac.
© 2021 Sharon Green / Ultimate Sailing

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.

3 Comments

  1. Dan Brenny 3 years ago

    John, I think the first photo or the third photo are the best. They all are great, but number 1 and 3 show it all.

  2. milly Biller 3 years ago

    Sharon takes incredible photos. I can’t single out one- maybe the Comanche one

  3. Mark Reid 3 years ago

    They are all awesome!

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