Thanking the Advertisers for the Annual Latitude 38 YRA Calendar
In a world inundated with distractions, it’s helpful to narrow your focus. Latitude 38 thanks all the advertisers who supported the 2025 Northern California Sailing Calendar to help everyone with a boat on the Bay distill the most important events of the year — sailing events. There are almost 1,000 of them! Luckily you can participate one evening or weekend at a time. There’s racing almost every weekend day of the year, with events really ramping up in March.
If you’re looking for a date, the calendar has them — and much more. The annual calendar includes simplified racing rules, charts of the Bay’s racing buoys, radio call channels, a consolidated Beer Can Racing schedule, a list of Northern California youth sailing programs, and numerous other ways to drop a winch handle overboard. Regarding racing rules, in our podcast with sailing coach Ron Rosenberg he reminds us there are really only three critical rules: port/starboard, windward/leeward and room at the mark. Most of the rest are common sense, with the big one being to be courteous and avoid hitting another boat.
When you head out on the Bay with your crew and the annual YRA sailing calendar, you have almost everything you need to compete on the Bay. You can pull out the book to discuss future racing plans and find your course for the day’s racing.
As you can see, by the time we get to March the racing calendar is full. And not only that, March has five weekends of racing, including the one that just passed. This coming weekend is the Big Daddy Regatta, and numerous other events. You can see them in the book and online here.
As in our monthly magazine, toward the back of the book is our complete Advertiser Index. We’re grateful to all the organizations that work together to promote participation in sailing and provide the products and services that allow us all to sail the Bay. Right above the Advertiser Index we have two very affordable fleets to join — the local Santana 22 class and the J/24 class. You can often find those boats for sale in our Classy Classifieds. Right now there’s a winning, pedigreed Santana 22 for sale for $3900.
We think advertising often gets a bad rap. It’s the advertisers that support racing and the production and distribution of a free calendar to help you discover more Northern California sailing and racing opportunities. We thank them for their support and ask that you also support all the advertisers that enable us to create these free publications.
If you’ve read this far and thought, “But I don’t have a boat,” you can sign up for our Crew List and attend our Crew List party at the Bay View Boat Club one month from today, on April 3. You’ll connect with boat owners and other sailors ready to help you get on the water. And if you’re a boat owner looking for crew, the Crew List and Crew Party will help you find the crew you need.
Again, we thank the advertisers, the YRA, and all the race committee volunteers who make racing possible. To enjoy your boat more frequently, sign up for some racing. You’ll get out on the water more often and increase your appreciation for owning a sailboat.
Pick up a free calendar at one of our Northern California magazine distributors here.