San Francisco Bay

1 week ago | latitude38.com | John Arndt |San Francisco Bay

The first two Corinthian YC Friday evening beer can races were especially pleasant: warm air, flat water and light winds. In fact, it was so light on the first Friday that nobody finished the short course by the 15-minutes-after-sunset deadline. The second Friday was similar, with some boats not finishing, though we managed to slip in at 7:55, which was just three minutes ahead of the 7:58 deadline. Phew! Finish or not, the evenings were spectacular.

1 week ago | latitude38.com | John Arndt |San Francisco Bay |Newport Beach |Martha Blanchfield

With the Transpac start coming up on July 1, a reader wrote in to ask, “What are the best things to include in the halfway package?” What’s the halfway package? It’s a tradition of family and friends of Transpac crews who put together a Transpac package that the crew gets to open at the race’s halfway point. The package contains “goodies.” If you’ve raced the Transpac or Pacific Cup, or even circumnavigated, what is the best surprise, food or goodie you’ve received?

3 weeks ago | latitude38.com | San Francisco Bay |John Arndt

As many folks are aware, the north magnetic pole is migrating. What many people don’t realize is that they need to calibrate their radar units so when in “north-up” display mode, things are accurate. We recently hired a radar technician specialist and he walked us through the process. It was simple enough, and we share the procedure for your navigational safety. It’s quite similar to boxing a compass, but with radar instead.

1 month ago | latitude38.com | John Arndt |San Francisco Bay |James Bender |Monica Grant

The annual California Dreamin’ Match Racing Series is a series of four events run each year at four West Coast yacht clubs: San Diego Yacht Club, Balboa Yacht Club, St. Francis Yacht Club, and the Long Beach Yacht Club. The series gives California match racers looking to move up the ladder the potential to qualify for higher-caliber events. The St. Francis Yacht Club event was run the weekend of March 8–9.

1 month ago | latitude38.com | John Arndt |San Francisco Bay

Angel Island remains one of the Bay Area’s crown jewels, but as most readers know, access for recreational sailors has been severely limited for a long time by dilapidated docks overrun by seals and recently closed entirely, in addition to a shallow, silting mooring field. We spoke to Matthew Allen, Deputy District Superintendent, Bay Area District at California State Parks and Captain Maggie McDonough of the Angel Island ferry to get an update.