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Long Night for a Bay Windsurfer

It would be easy to assume the worst if you’d heard a 62-year-old windsurfer had been missing on the Bay for more than 13 hours, but Cathy Caton’s rescue Tuesday morning after spending a very long night getting sucked in and out of South San Francisco Bay was a surprisingly happy ending to a potentially…

Esmeralda Delayed Until Thursday

If you took our advice and sailed out to greet the Chilean tall ship Esmeralda yesterday as she entered the Golden Gate, you may have thought she somehow slipped by you unnoticed. That wasn’t the case. Being 370 feet long, she’s not the sort of vessel that goes anywhere without turning heads and inspiring awe.…

Crony Capitalism About to Degrade Your GPS?

U.S. taxpayers, via the Department of Defense, paid for the development, installation and maintenance of our GPS system. Now it’s in danger of degradation anywhere within the range of cell phone towers — thanks to what would appear to be crony capitalism of the worst sort at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the White…

Hurricane Dora Threatens Mexican Coast

Dora’s predicted track should keep her from directly hitting land, but hurricanes have a tendency to act unpredictably. © NOAA Hurricane Dora is making both sailors and landlubbers nervous today all along the central Pacific coast of Mexico, as she recently built in strength to a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105…

Help Us Welcome a Chilean Beauty

Like many longtime sailors, we’ve had a fascination with tall ships for decades. And having observed many of them both in port and under sail, we decided long ago that the Chilean Navy’s four-masted, 370-ft Esmeralda was one of the most beautiful — if not the most beautiful — of them all. Nicknamed The White…