SF News Russian Billionaire's Yacht Reappears In S.F. Bay Does anyone remember the last time Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko paid a visit to S.F. in his $323 million Philippe Starck-designed megayacht? It was in 2010, and now, four years later, the
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Press Is Now Glowing, But Larry Won't Commit To Another In S.F. In the aftermath of yesterday's historic and showy win for Oracle Team USA, everyone in the local media is generally doing a mea culpa and saying, "OK, Larry. Good show." Yes, this thing
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 America's Cup Sailing Postponed Another Day; *Might* Wrap Up Sunday Sailing fans had their hopes frustrated once again today as yet another day of America's Cup sailing was called off due to unfavorable wind conditions. We don't understand the specifics, but basically the
SF News Larry Ellison's House Flag-Bombed By Kiwi Ninjas This is funny. Even though we don't understand how the America's Cup is still going, given the wide lead the New Zealanders had as of Sunday, it is still going. And the other
SF News Yachtenfreude No More? America's Cup May Not Be A Wholesale Disaster Just as we learn that Oracle Racing will be docked 2 races as a penalty for that cheating scandal, the Chron is now saying that the whole America's Cup will actually still be
Arts & Entertainment Yachtenfreude Redux: America's Cup Remains A Joke To Everyone But Larry Two more editorials today, one on Gawker and one from Mother Jones, succeed in eviscerating Larry Ellison and his great big, ultra-expensive, no-good boat race in which there's barely anyone competing at this
SF News Another America's Cup Problem: Lawsuit From Disqualified African-American Team Presenting yet another (probably minor) hurdle for Larry Ellison's moment of yachting glory, a lawsuit has bubbled up for the second or third time from a North Carolina-based sailing team that sought to
SF News BART Strike: Commuter Forced To Ride His Boat To Work While some of you kowtowed to AC Transit, the ferry system, or, far worse, casual carpooling (the horror), Wayne Phillips managed to get across the Bay the right way. After waiting in a
Arts & Entertainment Team Oracle Plans To Sink Something Else Thing On Purpose This Weekend Yacht-enfreude will meet Flugtag this weekend as the proficient yacht-sinkers from Oracle Racing plan to pitchpole yet another expensive piece of equipment into the Bay as part of the Red Bull-sponsored, hyper-caffeinated crash
SF News Yacht-enfreude: Oracle Capsizes Their Fanciest Sailboat Yet Yesterday afternoon during practice runs on their $8 million AC72 catamaran, Oracle Team USA took another nosedive into the bay. Skipper Jimmy Spithill, who is really making a splash around the St. Francis
Arts & Entertainment Yacht-enfreude: Watch Oracle's Fancy Sailboat Take A Nosedive As we've been saying for months now, the best part of the America's Cup (aside from the champagne) is watching expensive things make big splashes. This weekend, Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill did just
SF News Man Who Kidnapped Kids on Yacht Admits He Was Crazy Christopher Maffei, the handsome gentleman who absconded with his two small children last week in a stolen yacht and started sailing down the California coast, has spoken out from prison via the Chronicle.
SF News Authorities Searching For Man Who Sailed Away With Kidnapped Children Aboard Stolen Yacht [Updates] Police from South San Francisco are searching for a man suspected of kidnapping his own two and three-year-old children and fleeing with them aboard a yacht he stole from an Alameda marina earlier
SF News Seven Photos Of America's Cup Sailors Spraying Each Other With Champagne Last week's America's Cup events were thrilling, right? Sunday's atmosphere out on the Marina Green felt like one of the city's nicer street festivals. A street festival with boats. With two Team USAs
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
SF News Today Is Your Last Chance To Buy This Navy Stealth Boat Do you have $139,200 lying around to sink into a quirky piece of U.S. naval history? Well, you're in luck because the Navy is looking to unload this sleek piece of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Yacht Partiers Brawl In Tiburon, With Spectator Commentary Sailing season on the Bay opened Sunday, which means every jib-tugger with a berth was out on the water taking their private boats for a spin. While the weather was lovely, things apparently
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 Oracle Racing Footing The Bill For Competitor's Expensive A-Cup Boats After one French team bid adieu to the America's Cup, bajillionaire Larry Ellison and Oracle Racing are scrambling to keep another team from making their own French exit due to the prohibitively high
