The Australian arrived a stranger in town but made himself right at home with the familiarly frisky winds and tides and fog and even an unfamiliar mid-regatta heat wave to win the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta, hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club Thursday. On his first visit to San Francisco, Michael Coxon, overcame a [...]
Competitors in the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta gathered around John Craig on Crissy Field earlyWednesday afternoon as the St. Francis Yacht Club race manager offered fair warning before they launched their swift but unstable craft into the meaner elements of San Francisco Bay. “Get ready to get wet,” he said. That wasn’t the half of it. Before [...]
It was a different look for sailing on Day 3 of the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta on San Francisco Bay. On The City’s hottest day of the year no locals could recall offhand when their thermometers last touched 96 degrees, especially following what they were calling their coolest summer in years. The breeze felt [...]
There’s some gambling going on at the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta, and it’s paying off bigtime for the boys from Down Under. Australian sailors—Herman Winning, Michael Coxon and Winning’s dad Woody—have been rolling the waves on port tack starts and now occupy the top three positions in the 13-boat fleet. Port tack starts [...]
Observing the sailing rivalry between the Winnings, father and son, on opening day of the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta, one could conclude it’s intense, but it doesn’t stop there. John Sr.—or, as he prefers, Woody, 58—has a conventional and successful household appliance business in Australia, while John Jr., 24, or Herman, as he [...]
Australia was their birthplace but San Francisco is a pilgrimage for the 18-foot skiffs that test some of the world’s most talented and bravest sailors. They’ll be competing in the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta starting Sunday, hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club. “I always wanted to do this event,” said Michael Coxon, [...]
Round One of the UK 18ft Skiff Grand Prix was sailed from Stone Sailing Club and resulted in a win for the recent German Grand Prix winning Pica team of James Mears, Stewart Mears, Sandy Ramus. Invested (Mason Woodworth) finished second with Hyde (Jack Grogan) in third place. On Day One, conditions were light with winds [...]