Silver Lining
The Pan Am Games didn’t end exactly the way the author wanted, but it was still an incredible experience
The Pan Am Games didn’t end exactly the way the author wanted, but it was still an incredible experience
An off day gives the U.S. sailors a chance to spend some time in the one place hotter than a J/24 deck on a light downwind run.
Ruminations on cool-down runs and pin trading from steamy Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
A pair of ones is no fun when you’re starting a round of craps. But at the front end of a regatta, nothing looks better than the beginning of a picket fence.
“Not often does it come down to the last gybe as to whether or not you win a championship,” says Bora Gulari, whose New England Ropes team narrowly defeated Nathan Wilmot and Conor Clarke’s Embar team at this 38-boat affair on Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva. Read about the racing in our Finish Line forum.Photos © 2011
At the J/105 North Americans, Dave Reed loses sight of the reach mark and reflects on the trouble with triangle courses. Editor’s Letter from our October 2011 issue.
The Sailing World edit team sails the new VX One-Design prototype. And left satisfied.
For the second straight day, Narragansett Bay delivered ideal conditions, 10 to 18 knots from the southwest and warm temperatures for this biennial one-design regatta featuring a host of all-amateur international teams. With the regatta about halfway over, two teams have emerged from the fray. The Royal Canadian team is in the lead with the host New York YC close behind. Behind that it’s a scrum for third through eighth or so. [Check out](https://www.sailingworld.com/racing/2011-invitational-cu
San Francsico Bay served up big breeze for the 81 boats competing in this 47-year-old event, which provided plenty of thrills and spills for spectators at St. Francis YC.
It came down to the second tiebreaker, but Blake Kimbrough was able to squeak by Wes Bemus and win Sailing World‘s Pick ‘Em Contest for the 2011 New York YC Invitational Cup. Blake takes home a free pair of Sperry Shoes and the inaugural SW Pick ‘Em championship.
The X-41 World Championship ran concurrently with the Italian X-35 Championship at Marina di Scarlino in Italy’s Maremma region. Photos by Guido Trombetta-Francesco Ferri/Studio Borlenghi Read about the racing in our Finish Line forum.
From grand prix raceboats__ to family-and-friends teams in the cruising division, racers flocked to the Whitsunday Islands for Australia’s premiere keelboat regatta. Photos by Andrea Francolini
The Pan Am Games didn’t end exactly the way the author wanted, but it was still an incredible experience
An off day gives the U.S. sailors a chance to spend some time in the one place hotter than a J/24 deck on a light downwind run.
Ruminations on cool-down runs and pin trading from steamy Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
A pair of ones is no fun when you’re starting a round of craps. But at the front end of a regatta, nothing looks better than the beginning of a picket fence.
“Not often does it come down to the last gybe as to whether or not you win a championship,” says Bora Gulari, whose New England Ropes team narrowly defeated Nathan Wilmot and Conor Clarke’s Embar team at this 38-boat affair on Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva. Read about the racing in our Finish Line forum.Photos © 2011
At the J/105 North Americans, Dave Reed loses sight of the reach mark and reflects on the trouble with triangle courses. Editor’s Letter from our October 2011 issue.
The Sailing World edit team sails the new VX One-Design prototype. And left satisfied.
For the second straight day, Narragansett Bay delivered ideal conditions, 10 to 18 knots from the southwest and warm temperatures for this biennial one-design regatta featuring a host of all-amateur international teams. With the regatta about halfway over, two teams have emerged from the fray. The Royal Canadian team is in the lead with the host New York YC close behind. Behind that it’s a scrum for third through eighth or so. [Check out](https://www.sailingworld.com/racing/2011-invitational-cu
San Francsico Bay served up big breeze for the 81 boats competing in this 47-year-old event, which provided plenty of thrills and spills for spectators at St. Francis YC.
It came down to the second tiebreaker, but Blake Kimbrough was able to squeak by Wes Bemus and win Sailing World‘s Pick ‘Em Contest for the 2011 New York YC Invitational Cup. Blake takes home a free pair of Sperry Shoes and the inaugural SW Pick ‘Em championship.
The X-41 World Championship ran concurrently with the Italian X-35 Championship at Marina di Scarlino in Italy’s Maremma region. Photos by Guido Trombetta-Francesco Ferri/Studio Borlenghi Read about the racing in our Finish Line forum.
From grand prix raceboats__ to family-and-friends teams in the cruising division, racers flocked to the Whitsunday Islands for Australia’s premiere keelboat regatta. Photos by Andrea Francolini
