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America’s Cup Live Broadcasts This Weekend

If you have the time and interest you can tune in to the live broadcasts of the America's Cup series races from Venice this weekend. Quite a treat to hear the familiar "Guys, we got a cluster f**k here" spoken by a highly paid athlete in an Australian accent.

It's an amazing sight with the Cup catamarans racing in the narrow confines of the bay in front of lovely and historic Venice.

You can find the races at http://www.youtube.com/AmericasCup.

Port to Port 2012

SCIROCCO and THATUNA racing back to PT. Photo by Wendy Feltham from SILENT WAY

(Results revised Monday, May 14. Norma Mae has been given a provisional rating of 150 and Sea Puppy’s time has been included)

Eleven PT boats, and one Sequim boat (Sea Puppy), were ready to challenge Port Ludlow sailors Sunday morning for a race to Port Townsend. Apparently the sight was so intimidating that no Ludlow boats dared to join in, or maybe they are all NBA fans (who knows?).

Silent Way was the first to call the RC as they finished. By the time I got to City Dock the fifth finisher, Sirocco, was about to cross the line. A big thanks to The Wizard for taking times in my absence. My GPS time for Sirocco was 14:48:12 and the Wizard’s time on course for Sirocco was 2 hours 53 minutes 12 seconds. To accommodate for this 5 minute difference, I subtracted five minutes from the time on course given for finishers 2, 3 & 4 (Silent Way, The Wizard, & Dorado) so they would be in sync with the 8 finishes I subsequently took via GPS and Sea Puppy’s time which was taken with GPS. Confused yet?

In addition to the rated boats, Pleades finished 12th at 15:11:58.

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Ken Read, VOR Leg 6, Day 16

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Battles on the ocean are hard. Especially in super light air like what we have had out here the last few days. The chess match is long and painful and very often has stops and starts that stretch out the agony.

We are amongst it with CAMPER at this stage and there is a lot of runway left and tons of potholes along the way.

First of all, this could not be more unlike every other leg we have had in this race. Dry, cool nights and warm days. T-shirts and shorts always. No hint of a need for foul weather gear. A huge full moon making it closer to needing sunglasses at night rather than headlamps.

This game of chess probably has been a bit more like a tug-of-war if you are watching at home. We stretch out to what seems like a “comfortable” lead only to hit the next light air patch and watch the troops coming reeling us in. CAMPER is within sight almost always, making things a bit more tense with constant bearing checks with the handheld compass.

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2012 Port-to-Port Race, Sunday, May 13th,

The Port Townsend Rigging sponsored 2012 Port-to-Port race is a challenge race between two yacht clubs: The Port Townsend Sailing Association and the Port Ludlow Yacht Club. In the distance past there was likely a moment in some local sailor’s dive where one slightly tipsy resident of one town pointed a finger at [...]

A Rare Tragedy at Sea Hits SF’s Sailing Community

After the glorious, easy evening on our Bay that was Race 2 of the Spring Whitecap Series, it’s hard to remember that things on the water can go wrong quickly and profoundly. The conditions in San Francisco for the Farallones race were much more challenging with winds in the 20′s and a confused, [...]

Got Wood? Here is Another Race Just for You!

First Annual Yellow Island Wooden Boat Regatta

Deer Harbor, Orcas Island, Saturday May 19, 2012

Any kind of wooden sailboats may enter. Non-wood boats are also welcome but will receive no prizes. The course will have a starting line with a committee boat south of the Deer Harbor Marina. [...]

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