Posts by Rob Grant
Stanford Keeps ‘The Big Sail’ Trophy
Stanford held on to The Big Sail trophy with wins in the first and last of the annual best-of-three match racing event against Cal.
© 2008 Peter Lyons
With wins in the first and last races in fog and 8- to 12-knots of breeze, Stanford beat Cal in the Varsity division at Tuesday’s Big Sail. More »
‘Round the World Report
Loick Peyron is first to the doldrums in the 2008 Vendee Globe.
© Jean-Marie Liot DPPI/Vendee Globe
Ten days into the singlehanded 2008 Vendée Globe Race, the leaders are running into the doldrums with Loïck Peyron and his Farr-designed Gitana 80 leading the charge. More »
Snubbed!
Francis Joyon was snubbed in the voting for the ISAF’s male World Sailor of the Year for 2008.
© 2008 Vincent Curutchet/DPPI/IDEC
When it voted to discontinue the multihull event for the 2012 Olympics, we started to wonder if all the rancor directed at ISAF wasn’t warranted, at least in part. More »
Cabo Record Falls
Yesterday, Peter Tong’s SC 70, OEX, finished first in the 2008 Long Beach to Cabo San Lucas Race in record-breaking time of 2d, 22h, and 50m, eclipsing the elapsed time race record set back in 1987 by just under five hours. More »
Caribbean 600 Drawing Big Crowd
The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s inaugural RORC Caribbean 600 looks likely to get off to a good start. It will be even stronger if an anticipated first — a head-to-head battle between the two 100-ft super maxis, Mike Slade’s much modified Farr-designed Leopard and Alex Jackson’s Juan K-designed Virgin Money/Speedboat — comes to fruition. More »
Joyon Reclaims Route of Discovery
Francis Joyon and his IDEC 2 just took 15 hours off the singlehanded Route of Discovery record from Cadiz to San Salvador via Grand Canary Island.
© Jean-Marie Liot DPPI/IDEC
Francis Joyon sailed his 97-ft Irens/Cabaret trimaran IDEC 2 into San Salvador a little after 6 p.m. More »
Joyon Close to the ‘Savior’
Following a slow spot in the middle of the Atlantic, Francis Joyon has his 97-ft Irens/Cabaret-designed trimaran IDEC 2 going in the right direction. Although the "simple sailor from Locmariaquer" is sailing in lighter breeze that will likely continue until he finishes, Joyon’s increased his lead over the current record pace for the singlehanded Route of Discovery run — from Cadiz to San Salvador via Grand Canary Island — to over 350 miles with just 300 miles to go while maintaining a heading that puts him very close to finish. More »
Sailing Fills Glass Past Half-Full
The last week or so reminded us once again how stepping off land and onto a sailboat can immediately put miles of psychic distance between oneself and the all the economic and political craziness of the day. More »
Great Pumpkin Pics Wanted
Have you always wanted to see your photo, or one you’ve taken, published in Latitude 38? If you caught any of Saturday night’s party at Richmond YC’s Great Pumpkin Regatta in your viewfinder, this may be your chance. More »
24-Hour Record Smashed
Ericsson 4 set a new monohull speed record today.
© 2008 Oskar Kihlborg/Ericsson Racing
With a new generation of Volvo 70s racing around the globe in this year’s Volvo Ocean Race, the consensus had been that the 24-hour monohull speed record set in the last edition would fall — it was only a question of when. More »
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