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An aerial view of Saturday’s race around the cans in Alicante.© David Ramos / Volvo Ocean Race
Seven teams will start the 39,000-mile around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race tomorrow in Alicante, Spain, bound for Cape Town, South Africa.
Mexican officials at Huntington Beach yesterday tried to make sense of the often confusing and sometime contradictory aspects of applying for nautical tourist visas and Temporary Import Permits.
After their budget-related 2013 hiatus, the Blue Angels and other aerial daredevils will be back this weekend.
Tomorrow the Baja Ha-Ha rally’s Grand Poobah and others will be attending an invitation-only meeting in Huntington Beach that will address the many problems with paperwork for boats and people going to Mexico this winter.
The Holland Zaandam, the first post-Odile cruise ship, called on Cabo San Lucas last Friday, reports Claudia Ruiz Massieu, México’s Secretary of Tourism.
Talk about an unlikely life raft. Who would have thought this plastic container could deliver a wayward sailor to safety.
There is more green on the baseball field in Turtle Bay than in the rest of Baja — minus the Cabo golf courses — combined.
You can pay to rent privately-owned boats in colorful Amsterdam, but not through ‘boat Airbnb’ hopefuls such as GoBoat.
Passage Weather’s model for next Tuesday shows Simon hitting the Middle Reach area of Baja as a reasonably strong tropical storm.
Talk about getting up close and personal with your reading material. . .
As hinted by our October cover, right now is prime time for southbound cruisers to enjoy tranquil Channel Islands anchorages.
While reminding everyone that the Baja Ha-Ha does not do TIPs or Nautical Visas for anyone, we’ll try to review the process one more time to answer common questions.
Transit of Venus was looking good as she approached Honolulu a couple of months ago.
Profligate about to round Cabo Falso.
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©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Almost everybody who does the Baja Ha-Ha aboard the 63-ft catamaran mothership Profligate is a repeat, but this year one cabin has opened up.
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Almost everybody who does the Baja Ha-Ha aboard the 63-ft catamaran mothership Profligate is a repeat, but this year one cabin has opened up.
So you’re preparing to head down the coast to Mexico and are planning several stops along the way to refuel, rewater and reprovision.
This could be you — heading south under sail to the sunny latitudes of Mexico.
A big surge in last-minute Baja Ha-Ha entries has brought the total to just shy of 170, making it the largest Ha-Ha in the last three years.
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This is what the beach on the Pacific side of Cabo looked like the day AFTER hurricane Odile came through.
Get on your paperwork, then get on your boat, then get on your board.
Getting a receipt for a tourist visa was so easy that a publisher could do it.
Mexican government sources confirmed over the weekend that the dead body of British sailor and scuba instructor Paul Whitehouse, 45, was found in the mangroves adjacent to La Paz Bay.
Sometimes at this time of year, everything south of Mag Bay, as well as the entire Sea of Cortez, is the color of dried blood, indicating 85 degrees or more.
Current Overview of the Hurricane Odile Disaster:
1. The body of Guenter Trebbow was found Wednesday by Mexican navy divers aboard his sunken Fisher 30 ketch Princess in La Paz Bay.
If you’re in the market for a new boat, or you may be in the near future, be sure to check out Boat Fest this weekend in Alameda.
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