By admin | Published:
February 28, 2011
It was a bit silly. I believe we were all thinking that. But how can you not show up when a press event is announced for the arrival of the boat that won the America’s Cup for San Francisco Bay? Rallying up for some words from the Port’s deputy director, Peter Dailey. Photo KL The [...]
By admin | Published:
February 27, 2011
When San Francisco’s Rincon Hill neighborhood was slated for redevelopment, the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco challenged students—in its annual competition—to create a fantasy project for Rincon Hill. To re-imagine the city where they’re growing up. Now comes the prospect of an America’s Cup in 2013 and the re-imagining of a neglected waterfront. And knowing [...]
By admin | Published:
February 24, 2011
OK, I’m not above stretching a headline to get your attention. But history should record that on February 11, 2011, the first tests of the new America’s Cup sports graphics system were conducted in South San Francisco Bay, using volunteer Cal 40s and a rented helicopter. They woulda done it on the cityfront, in America’s [...]
By kimball | Published:
February 17, 2011
Where do old raceboats go? Great places, some of them. Alaska Eagle won a Whitbread Round the World Race under the name of Flyer, then sailed another as Alaska Eagle before being donated in 1982 to the Orange Coast College School of Sailing and Seamanship. The boat hasn’t been around the world since, but with [...]
By kimball | Published:
February 16, 2011
From the team blog of Oracle Racing comes word that the M.V. Star Isfjord entered the Panama Canal yesterday, carrying the America’s Cup winning trimaran, USA 17. Photo by John von Seeburg/Oracle Racing Ship and cargo are due to clear the Golden Gate on March 1 and enter the waters of the 34th America’s Cup.
By kimball | Published:
February 14, 2011
A year ago today . . . Photo by Guilain Grenier/BOR And a few hours later . . . Photo by Guilain Grenier/BOR Meanwhile, the usual suspects and the new usual suspects are gathering in Oman for some catamaran sailing in the Extreme 40 class. Artemis skipper Terry Hutchinson writes: “Over the weekend we ran [...]
By kimball | Published:
February 11, 2011
The news out of city government this week includes a few surprises when it comes to America’s Cup racing on San Francisco Bay. A lot of early thinking had to do with creating a box on the cityfront, but the proposed racecourse is a bay tour that crosses the shipping lanes to the Marin County [...]
By kimball | Published:
February 8, 2011
Remember when Italy fielded three teams to challenge for the America’s Cup? That is so 2007. In 2010, catamaran-crazy France looks to be the only country fielding two teams for America’s Cup 34. Two teams, each with a rather different approach. Yacht Club de France has a formal announcement scheduled for Wednesday, to discuss details [...]
By kimball | Published:
February 7, 2011
At the National Maritime Museum, Paris Stan Honey’s status as the navigator of the fastest-ever circumnavigation is safe. For a while. A broken Banque Populaire V is even now sailing back to France—a nighttime collision damaged a daggerboard beyond repair, just as the boat was approaching an entry point to the Southern Ocean—and there will [...]
By kimball | Published:
February 2, 2011
You have to look closely to see the helmsman ducking spray. © Groupama The giant trimaran that holds the round-the-world sailing record, with the speed to hop from weather system to weather system, and the even larger —suddenly crippled—trimaran that has now retired from trying to beat that record . . . “Are fragile,” says [...]