18ft Skiff International Regatta is scheduled to start on Sunday.
The powers ruling the next America’s Cup want to make sailing a spectator sport, they need look no farther than their own front yard for a primo demo with the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta starting Sunday.
The fast and frighteningly unstable three-person boats winging it in reliably brisk breeze will make that point in the natural amphitheater fronting the host St. Francis Yacht Club and its next door neighbor, the Golden Gate Yacht Club. The latter now owns the sport’s top prize through the efforts of its representative, the BMW Oracle Racing team of software tycoon Larry Ellison …Â Details & Wild Pictures