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Aussie cruisers John and Leanne Hembrow strike a pose off the entrance to Moorea’s Opunohu Bay during the 2012 Tahiti-Moorea Sailing Rendez-vous.latitude/Julie
Strictly Sail Pacific, the biggest all-sail boat show on the West Coast, will open in less than four weeks: Dates are Thursday, April 7 – Sunday, April 10.
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It only takes 12 seconds to appreciate the difference in speed between an all-out racing multihull such as Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD70 Phaedo3 and a fast cruising cat such as Greg Slyngstad’s Seattle-based Bieker 53 Fujin, which is the gray-colored boat in the foreground.
Forty-six boatloads of westbound cruisers attended the free Tahiti Bon Voyage seminar and party Sunday at Panama’s Shelter Bay Marina, which lies near the Caribbean entrance to the world-famous Canal.
If you’re going to have your bilge pump alarm go off, it’s best if it happens when: 1) The water is warm.
As you’ve been reading on ‘Lectronic Latitude and in the pages of Latitude 38 magazine, recent developments have put the future of the Alameda Marina at serious risk.
Paul Allen of Santa Cruz was one of the crew on the untouchable Phaedo3, seen here setting an around-the-island record.
A parade of J/120s at StFYC’s Spring One Design on Sunday, with a parade of J/105s going the opposite way in the background.
The San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, screening on March 10-13 in the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, will include a documentary about the unlikely North American winner of the first Whitbread Round the World Race, Ramon Carlín of Mexico.
The 112-ft LOA brig Lady Washington and 104-ft LOA swift topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain sailed out of Oakland during the last week of February.
In the April issue we’ll be publishing a letter from a reader about being part of a boat partnership that started 50 years ago.
The unusual-looking Fujin up on one hull and moving right along.
© 2016 Gold Coast Yachts
A lot of skippers — 24 — have gone to the dark side for the 36th annual Heineken Regatta in Sint Maarten this weekend.
Posed for their ‘Class of 2016’ portrait, these lucky cruisers will all be heading west soon from Banderas Bay.
It could be the title of a B movie from the mid-20th century, but — to all reports — it’s a true story.
The folks at OCSC, a sailing school in the Berkeley Marina, invite you to come watch a documentary and meet its director, a person with the intriguing name of ‘Moxie Marlinspike’, this Sunday, March 6. Hold
James McDowell’s Corel 45 Heartbeat smashing downwind toward Koko Head at 15 knots.
© 2016 Ronnie Simpson
While the Bay Area continues to creep toward spring and longer days on the water, the sailing season has already kicked into high gear in the winterless Hawaiian Islands.
Despite the soft breeze, the AC45F cats were able to get up on foils yesterday.
As the March cover of Latitude 38 might suggest, among the many sailing stories within will be one about the Three Bridge Fiasco.
Alameda Marina, seen here from the Estuary, is a busy place during weeknight races.
The picture tells the story: Many Fijian families lost everything to Winston’s fury, including crops and food supplies.
The Cup arrives in Muscat’s Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque for a photo shoot.
This photo shows one of several anchorages at Antigua’s Green Island. That’s ‘ti Profligate on the lower left, just in front of the reef.
The MOD70 Concise 10 pursues the sistership Phaedo3 — just as she would for 600 exciting high-speed sailing miles.
Laurie and Sonia Haynes’ Australian Fountaine Pajot Bahia 46 Moana Roa makes landfall in French Polynesia.
Mighty Merloe crossed the PV Race finish line Tuesday morning at 8:30.
© 2016 John Rogers
HL Enloe’s ORMA 60 trimaran Mighty Merloe crossed the finish line of San Diego Yacht Club’s Puerto Vallarta Race at 8:30 Tuesday morning, for an elapsed time of 2 days, 19 hours, and 49 minutes. Their
Jolly Harbour on the leeward side of Antigua is ‘ti Profligate’s new off-season home.
Residents of Fiji are still reeling from Saturday’s pummeling by ferocious Tropical Cyclone Winston, the most powerful storm ever to hit the multi-island South Pacific nation — and probably the most destructive.
Although the weather was perfect for a raft-up on Saturday, it wasn’t so keen for a Bay tour yacht race.
Former Sausalito boatwright Jody Boyle and his soon-to-be-four-year-old daughter Frances pose beside one of the smallest projects being built at NSWBB.
Unlike the original locks, the Third Lane will recycle much of the water it uses, and will have sliding gates that operate faster than those on the original Canal.
Subscribers to the YRA of S.F. Bay newsletter learned of changes to the organization’s biggest race of the year, the Great Vallejo Race, earlier this week.
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