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The lovely double-ender Sonamara was one of the first boats to try out Ayala Cove’s new buoy system.©
Although California is still operating under drought-induced water restrictions, this season’s El Niño has brought so much relief to lakes and reservoirs that some have been able to release water into formerly parched creeks and rivers.
Can somebody remind the Wanderer what the average monthly cost is for electricity and garbage for a four-bedroom house in California?
After a whale holed his boat, singlehander Allan Tweten was rescued quickly by Mexican Navy SAR resources.
The catamaran Beach House and two monohulls transit the Pedro Miguel Locks in Panama.
This Friday, March 25, Sequoia Yacht Club in Redwood City will host Bay Area sailor Mike Reed for his presentation on the 2015 Rolex Fastnet.
Even on a mellow day such as this, surfing has been great lately at the Santa Cruz Harbor entrance — but that’s about the only good thing we can report about the abnormally heavy shoaling there.
The 186-ft Rosehearty took two out of three firsts in division with Paul Cayard calling tactics.
This Saturday, the Doublehanded Farallones Race will kick off the local 2016 ocean racing season.
The Clipper Race visited Da Nang, Vietnam, for the first time in its history.
The big Perini Navi Rosehearty hits the starting line, with Paul Cayard aboard again this year.
Mariners traveling in American territorial waters and beyond take great comfort in knowing that Coast Guard resources are always standing by to assist them if an emergency should occur.
Alex Thomson, skipper, stuntman and male model for Hugo Boss, is always nattily attired for his stunts.
After two winters in the North Atlantic, the Gunboat 55 Rainmaker is awash and is reportedly being towed to shore.
Early last week, friends of 63-year-old Russian-born sailor Rimas Meleshyus became concerned, as no one seems to know what became of him or his vintage Rawson 30 Mimsy since departing a Schoonmaker Marina end-tie March 7 during a northerly rainstorm.
Jim Clark’s J Class Hanuman, racing in the Caribbean.
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©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC The battle for Owner of the Longest Cumulative Total Feet of Epic Sailing Yachts (OLCTFESY) is, to the best of Latitude’s knowledge, between two men who soared from rags — or at least moderate circumstances — to vast riches thanks to enterprises founded in the Bay Area.
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC The battle for Owner of the Longest Cumulative Total Feet of Epic Sailing Yachts (OLCTFESY) is, to the best of Latitude’s knowledge, between two men who soared from rags — or at least moderate circumstances — to vast riches thanks to enterprises founded in the Bay Area.
Patsy ‘La Reina de la Mer’ Verhoeven’s Gulfstar 50 Talion will be one of at least eight yachts leaving La Paz for the South Pacific this spring.
"US Sailing has created an online version of their Coastal Safety at Sea course which allows sailors to take the course without attending an in-person seminar," writes Chuck Hawley, US Sailing’s committee chair for Safety at Sea.
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.
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.
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A lot of skippers — 24 — have gone to the dark side for the 36th annual Heineken Regatta in Sint Maarten this weekend.
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