{"id":4959,"date":"2025-10-28T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:08:26","slug":"jan-pehrson-5-times-americas-cup-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/jan-pehrson-5-times-americas-cup-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Pehrson, 5 times America\u2019s Cup Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jan Pehrson has photographed all the America\u2019s Cup races since 2000, either out there on the media photo boat or in a helicopter.  Her photo of the 37th Louis Vuitton America\u2019s Cup race in Barcelona 2024 is now a finalist in an International Photo contest and also featured as the first ever NFTs of America\u2019s Cup in a Unique  Digital Commemorative Tokens (UDCTs).   She is also the only photographer allowed to photograph the Bahamian Wooden sailboat races in the Bahamas, where the sailors have been making their own boats by hand out of wood and racing them, in a type of boat design that dates back thousands of years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Buy NFTs: \u201cUCDT Winds Of Emergence I\u201d, featuring America\u2019s Cup here:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solsea.io\/c\/68f995cd22109f1efd9feeb5\">https:\/\/solsea.io\/c\/68f995cd22109f1efd9feeb5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vote for Jan\u2019s Photo in Yacht Racing Award Contest here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yachtracingimage.com\/gallery.html\">https:\/\/www.yachtracingimage.com\/gallery.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Former Interview of Jan on March 4, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Karen Lile and Jan Pehrson met at the 37th Americas Cup in Barcelona, both accredited media for the race. Jan joins us on our Sail Sport Talk live broadcast to 100 million people in 168 countries to talk about photographing these amazing boats. A photography student, George, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/leighstationersacademy.org.uk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/leighstationersacademy.org.uk\/\">Leigh Stationer\u2019s Academy<\/a> in London will be asking a question of Jan during the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Audio 309) Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and Rick Tittle: Jan Pehrson\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1062674071?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jan Pehrson specializes in sailboat racing photography and journalism, particularly of the world\u2019s most exciting and beautiful sailing regattas. Her action photographs of the world\u2019s fastest sailboats and most skillful and joyful sailors, young and old,\u00a0capture the beauty, thrill, and drama of the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jan photographs and writes about all aspects of sailing, from youth regattas to classic yachts to Grand Prix racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a racing and cruising sailor, Coast Guard licensed skipper, and former juniors instructor,\u00a0Jan\u2019s familiarity with sailing and the sailing community lends an in-depth element to her prolific array of photographs and articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jan is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and spends winters in St. Petersburg, Florida when she is not at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jan\u2019s sailing articles have been published worldwide in print and online magazines, newspapers, books, and news sites.\u00a0She is the former Sailing Columnist for the Marin Independent Journal Newspaper, published in Marin County, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2014, Jan began photographing and writing about Bahamian Wooden Racing Sloops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jan\u2019s photos have appeared on the covers of national and international sailing magazines,\u00a0corporate advertising, regatta tee-shirts, private collections,\u00a0regatta programs, paintings, murals, furniture and websites. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.janpehrson.com\">https:\/\/www.janpehrson.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Pehrson has photographed all the America\u2019s Cup races since 2000, either out there on the media photo boat or in a helicopter. 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She is also the only photographer allowed to photograph the Bahamian Wooden sailboat races in the Bahamas, where the sailors have been making their own boats by hand out of wood and racing them, in a type&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8034-1-e1761667697762.png?fit=1179%2C626&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}