SF News An 83-Year-Old Sailor Just Left San Francisco on a Tiny Sailboat Headed to Osaka 83-year-old Kenichi Horie, who's captaining the Mermaid III — a 19-foot-long sailboat — left the San Francisco Bay Saturday en route to Osaka, Japan. What's more impressive? He's doing the entire trip by himself.
SF News Bay Area Sailing Crew Returns Home to Surreal Scenes After Three Months at Sea A Sausalito-based sailing crew just sailed back under the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time since December, and the Bay Area they are returning to is a whole lot quieter and weirder than the one they last saw.
SF News San Francisco Likely Eliminated As Potential Host For Next America's Cup Though Larry Ellison and his reps at Oracle Racing might love (and live in) San Francisco, their threats to move the race to San Diego in 2017 were real. Negotiations with potential host
SF News Sailors Helpless After Boat Crashes Into Whale What luck! Five people and a whale are all safe and uninjured in a maritime collision that could have been much, much worse. According to Rebecca Rosenblatt, a spokesperson for the San Mateo
Arts & Entertainment The Impossible Made Possible: Oracle Ties It At 8-8 In The America's Cup We really didn't expect ourselves to be getting so excited about the sailing (and we were, seriously, rooting for NZ), but here we are, riveted. It was a windy day out there, and
SF News New Zealand Still Closer To Clinching America's Cup, But U.S. Scores One It was a beautiful but windy day on the Bay yesterday, though not as windy as Saturday when Team New Zealand almost toppled their boat and the second race had to get called
SF News Also, America's Cup Opened Yesterday According to the Chronicle, yesterday's kickoff to the America's Cup drew "throngs to the waterfront." The controversial race, dating back to the Victorian era, will pit four countries against each other: Oracle Team
SF News America's Cup Director Could Torpedo The Regatta [Update] There have been a lot of contentious moments leading up to the America's Cup, but the latest development could completely sink the main event by revoking the Coast Guard permit allowing the boats
SF News Sailor Dies After America's Cup Yacht Capsizes [Update] One member of Swedish team Artemis Racing was killed earlier this afternoon when his team's 72-foot AC72 catamaran capsized during practice runs near Treasure Island on the San Francisco Bay. The sailor was
SF News Seniors Steal $2.8M Yacht For Beer- and Pizza-Fueled Joyride Stealing a luxury yacht may always seem like a good idea in the moment, but here's a cautionary tale for all you teens early retirees with too much time on your hands. Shortly
SF News The America's Cup Has At Least One Fan, And He Is Nuts Although attendance has been thin down on the Northern waterfront where the first of the America's Cup practice races have been hitting the water this week. The early runs did, however, bring out
Arts & Entertainment Nobody's Watching the America's Cup Preliminary Regatta Have the preliminary, World Series races for the America's Cup been overhyped? Do yachting enthusiasts really give a rat's ascot about them? It appears the answers to those question are yes, and not
SF News Five Sailors Lost After Yacht Race Accident Near Farallon Islands Saturday afternoon, a yacht racing crew based out of the San Francisco Yacht Club suffered the bay area's deadliest yachting accident in 30 years. The Low Speed Chase, a 38-foot yacht out of
SF News San Francisco Celebrates America's Cup Promising to bring an estimated "$1.4 billion in economic benefits and 8,000 jobs to a city facing a $379 million deficit," San Francisco celebrated the America's Cup pick on Wednesday. The
SF News It's Official: America's Cup 2013 To Be Held in S.F. Suck it, Newport, Rhode Island. San Francisco has been chosen to host the next America's Cup. Our fair city was chosen much in part due to our "natural amphitheater" in which spectators can
SF News Breaking Down the Cost of the America's Cup While it seems like San Francisco is a shoe-in to host the 2013 America's Cup, there's still the small issue of how much this thing will cost the city. Today both the SFAppeal
SF News America's Cup: It's Down to Two The contest to become the host of the 2013 America's Cup is down to two finalists. According to the sailboat-happy Chronicle Valencia, Spain has dropped out, which leaves San Francisco and an "undisclosed
SF News Daly Vows to Stop America's Cup In S.F. We've noted before that, amid concerns over the city plans to use "the people's money so that a billionaire can have his yacht race," Supervisor Chris Daly wasn't keen on San Francisco's plan
SF News Chris Daly Speaks Out About S.F.'s 'Billionaire Yacht Race' Bid "It's a billionaire's regatta. Why are we going out to raise $270 million for Larry fucking Ellison?" asked Supervisor Chris Daly at a recent press conference. What's he talking about? This: San Francisco's
SF News S.F. Promises $270 Million for America's Cup The Chron has word that the city plans on raising loads of money in order to host a fancy sailing race. Check it: "San Francisco officials have promised to raise at least $270
SF News SoCal Girl Trying to Sail Around the World Is Safe and Sound Not sure if any of you have been following the tale of 16-year-old Abby Sunderland's attempt to circumnavigate the globe solo in a sailboat and become the youngest person ever to do so
SF News Update: SF Boater, Boat Missing The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a 26-foot sailing vessel captained 39-year-old Sean Haggerty, who is reportedly lost at sea. His boat, christened the "Sea Hag," was supposed took off from
