Sailing in the Times of Pandemic
While the current health drama unfolds we’ll do our best to keep this page up to date with news that we feel impacts our readers. Disclaimer: There is no way for it to be comprehensive or completely up to date but we’ll do our best to keep it helpful and as current as possible. If you have news you think we should post email it to [email protected]. We’ll do our best to include given time and resource constraints.
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News of Opening Day on the Bay, California Offshore Race Week, Transpac Tahiti and the Atlantic Cup.
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As we shelter in place and catch up on our reading, studying, streaming and viewing, it occurs to us that it is like we are having a second winter season.
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Fito Espinosa, harbormaster at Marina Coral in Ensenada, sent us this update from Neil Shroyer of Marina de La Paz, president of the Mexico Marina Association, on the current situation in Mexican marinas: “Yesterday, Sunday the 29th, Mexico’s Maritime authority issued Directive #13 to all Port Captains in Mexico, informing them that they may not authorize…
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Normally in this slot we would post a look ahead to next month’s racing calendar highlights. Instead, we’ll continue with the updates we’ve been filing since that fateful Friday the 13th.
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Bay Area sailor, Memo Gidley of the Elliott 1050 ‘Basic Instinct’, writes in to offer aid to mariners in distress.
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As far as the Coast Guard is concerned, as long as there are active shelter-in-home orders in place, marine event permits are nullified.
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“The IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021.”
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The schooner Seaward has spent three months cruising Mexico and is now headed north to her homeport in Sausalito.
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Unlike the traffic jams on the highways leading to beaches over the weekend, San Francisco Bay was remarkably uncrowded. Social distancing? No problem out here!
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