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The Sockeye, a United States Coast Guard vessel backs away from Yerba Buena Island after refueling and heads back out to sea to search for four people missing off the Farallon Islands on Sunday, April 15, 2012, in San Francisco, Calif. One person died and four others remain missing after a 38-foot yacht ran aground while racing near the Farallon Islands on Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Two people were rescued from the rocks and a third from the water after the sailboat Low Speed Chase wrecked about 3 p.m. while competing in the Full Crew Farallons Race, a 58-nautical-mile contest starting and ending at St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Chris Hanzlik said. The race circles the Farallon Islands, a rocky, uninhabited set of islands 27 miles outside the Golden Gate. (AP Photo/The Contra Costa Times, Susan Tripp Pollard)

Lost sailors were adventurous, experienced

Carolyn Jones, Henry Schulman, Kevin Fagan San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 2:21pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- The crew of the Low Speed Chase was a relaxed but adventurous cadre of expert sailors who were fixtures on the Marin County waterfront, friends and family say.

For five of them, the toughest race in local yachting circles -- the Full Crew Farallones Race, held annually since 1907 -- was their last. A towering wave washed them overboard Saturday afternoon as their boat rounded the islands, and rescue efforts by three crew members who survived the disaster were dashed by another wall of water that wrecked the sailboat.

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U.S. Coast Guard cutters Pike, right, and Sockeye, center, that were involved in the weekend search and rescue of yacht crew members thrown form their boat during a weekend race, are shown docked at the Coast Guard station on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, Monday, April 16, 2012. The search for the missing sailors off Northern California was indefinitely suspended, with the Coast Guard saying the "window of survivability" had passed. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Crew members killed in yachting accident mourned by fellow sailors

Julia Prodis Sulek, Tracy Seipel San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:15am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The crew of Green Buffalo was exhausted and seasick from being tossed in seven- to 10-foot swells and drenched by a wave that had crashed over their sailboat when the skipper spotted a fixed white pole sticking up from a rocky outcropping on the backside of the Farallon Islands, 28 miles from the Golden Gate.

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In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, Air National Guard parajumpers, from the 129th Rescue Wing prepare medical supplies to be dropped from a Coast Guard aircraft to a 67-foot sailing yacht with three injured persons aboard, the Clipper Venture Six which is sponsored by Geraldton Western Australia, in the Round the World Yacht Race, Saturday, March 31, 2012. The Coast Guard's Rescue Coordination Center in Alameda, Calif. is coordinating the efforts to rescue the three injured persons 400 miles west of San Francisco. (AP Photo/Seaman David Flores, U.S. Coast Guard)

Battered racing yacht limps into SF Bay

Paul Elias The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 2:07pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- The battered "Geraldton Western Australia" yacht and its bruised crew were limping into port here Monday after a giant wave smashed over the stern with such force that it carried away the boat's steering wheel and knocked the crew about like bowling pins.

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Enviros call for better America's Cup planning

Jason Dearen The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, August 13, 2011 - 4:22pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- Conservation groups on Thursday called on city leaders to improve plans for reducing the environmental impact of events related to the America's Cup in 2013, when the world's fastest yachts will race on San Francisco Bay drawing millions to its famous shoreline.

City planners were set to hear public comments Thursday afternoon on the 1,400-page draft environmental impact report outlining plans to protect water, air and land from pollution during the event's 50 days of racing.

The America's Cup is expected to draw 5 million spectators, including 500,000 people a day on peak race days. San Francisco's total population is just above 800,000, so city residents, especially in neighborhoods near the waterfront, are girding themselves.

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Brother-sister sailors aiming for Olympic medals

Brian Gomez, The Gazette

Last updated Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 7:51pm

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Zach Railey has sailed on the sport's biggest stage. His sister, Paige, has come within an eyelash of doing the same. Both know that the bar has been raised, that expectations have been enhanced, that they must bring everything they've got, with little room for error.

"Our goal is to go to the Olympics," Zach said. "And to win Olympic medals."

They're considered favorites for the 2012 London Games, rounded into shape last month during a four-day camp at the Olympic Training Center that prepared them for European races serving as qualifiers for events to determine the 16-person U.S. Olympic team.

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2 killed, 8 hurt after sailboat capsizes

Los Angeles Times, Rich Connell

Last updated Monday, March 28, 2011 - 10:50am

SAN DIEGO -- Two men drowned and eight others, including two children, were injured when a sailboat capsized Sunday evening in San Diego Bay.

The boat, initially reported to be a 35-foot rental, ran into unknown trouble shortly after 5 p.m. near Harbor Island. It was not immediately clear why the boat overturned, said Marguerite Elicone, a spokeswoman for the San Diego Port Authority, which oversees Harbor Police who are conducting an investigation into the incident.

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(Kristin Heinichen/Standard-Examiner) Viking outfits were the theme of the January cruise on Great Salt Lake.

This motley group used engines, too -- Vikings theme of cruise

Kristin Heinichen Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 9:43pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The assembled sailors told tales of their stalwart adventures. Raising their grog and steely knives, they spoke of 12 vessels that sailed the frigid waters of The Great Salt Lake. They also boasted about crewing with the likes of "Hagar the Horrible" and his cast of characters.

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(ERIKA SCHULTZ/Seattle Times) Sara Raile steers on the Zodiac in July 2010. The Zodiac is a restored 1924 wooden sailing ship that carries an all-woman crew of sailors and those learning to sail.

NAUTI GIRLS! Novice discovers sailing on Zodiac's all-women cruise

McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Saturday, September 4, 2010 - 12:55am

SEATTLE -- First things first. I am not a nautical person. Growing up in Ohio, the closest our family ever got to a body of water was the plastic kiddie pool in our backyard. So when I got the assignment to join an all-women's, learn-how-to-sail group headed to the San Juan Islands this summer, I hesitated.

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