Star Sailors League Finale

If sailing your own boat is not on your to-do list for a sunny but chilly winter’s day, you may want to tune in to the Star Sailors League Finals to experience some vicarious thrills. Today is Day 4 and the final day of qualification rounds. The professional racing on these classic — and formerly Olympic-class — boats in Nassau has been exciting to watch, and the coverage, including the graphics and play-by-play announcing, is of a caliber equivalent to the sailing itself. Check out the live stream or replay races at www.starsailors.com. Tomorrow (Saturday, December 8) will be the final day of the Finals.

This is not recreational sailing. Twenty-five teams from 20 countries are competing for a $200,000 purse. After nine races, Brazilians Robert Scheidt and Henry Raul Boening were in the lead with Americans Mark Mendelblatt and Brian Fatih in second. Bay Area star Paul Cayard, with Arthur Lopes crewing, lay in ninth place. But the leaderboard keeps shifting like wind on a lake.