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Deadly Accident During Sequoia YC Race
The well-kept Catalina 42 Bella sits mastless after the tragic accident, cordoned off by police tape.© John Tuma Two sailors were injured, one fatally, when the Catalina 42 Bella became entangled with a day mark during the first race of the Sequoia Yacht Club’s popular Wednesday night race series. A racer aboard another boat reported…
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A Visit to the Bird’s Nest
A bevy of Bird boats flocked together for spring maintenance recently at Pt. Richmond’s KKMI boatyard. latitude/Ross©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC San Francisco’s Bird boats have enjoyed a long and storied past. But, it seems that the future of the Birds on the Bay is brighter than it’s been in years. Pictured above are five…
Wear the Kill Switch or Risk Being Killed
If a ‘picture is worth a thousand words,’ what’s a video worth? No matter how many times mariners are warned about the dangers of not wearing an outboard kill-switch cord around their wrists when operating their outboard-powered inflatables, the message doesn’t seem to get through. Perhaps the accompanying video will help to change that. Shot…
Encouraging Paperwork Developments
A sample of a new Temporary Import Receipt. Note the bar code which should make tracing such transactions much faster. Mexican government© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The photo above is a copy of Mexico’s latest Temporary Import Permit form for boats, sent to us by Tere Grossman, President of the Mexican Marina Owners Association. We…