Is San Francisco Bay the world's greatest sports arena? Come out and see

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Most of the participants in this weekend's West Marine US Open Sailing Series will be Olympic aspirants, hoping to land a spot at the Paris 2024 or Los Angeles 2028 games. Read more ⤵️

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Looking for something to do this weekend? Get your mind off our collective troubles? A reason to celebrate our city and the bay? Come out to Crissy Field, where you can watch superhuman sailors crisscross the waves at mach speeds.

That’s right. Our majestic and salty centerpiece provides among the best conditions, toughest tests and most beautiful backdrops of this magnificent water sport. Does anyone remember the America’s Cup back in 2013? I do, having been pressed into action to chronicle the event at that other paper in town. I got to know the sport, the players, the inventors and engineers.

During this weekend’s regattas, competitors will compete in a number of different classes, including smaller sailboats, manned by one or two people. The real show will involve wind surfers and kite boarders, cutting through the water on boards lifted by hydrofoils, wing-like devices that lift a vessel into the air as it gathers momentum, decreasing drag and increasing speed. The kite foilers can hit up to 30-35 knots, which is about 40 miles per hour.

“It’s a great domestic circuit,” said Tunnicliffe Tobias, who is holding a meet and greet for sailing enthusiasts at West Marine Sausalito Friday, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. “In the winter, it’s in the Florida region. Then, in the summer, we move out to the West Coast, and just basically move up the coast of California starting in San Diego, Long Beach and then finishing here in San Francisco.

“It’s a protected bay, so it’s inland water with generally flat water and very exciting, physically demanding sailing. Besides that, it’s incredibly beautiful with the bridge and mountains all around you,” he said.

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