MANY WAYS TO SUPPORT LATITUDE 38
Sailing is awesome. You can support the magazine and the sailing community with a story, a photo, a subscription, or a contribution. Learn how below!
As we adapt to shifting winds of journalism we're asking for your direct financial support or any of the other ways to contribute listed below. If you have the ability, enjoy sailing and the work of Latitude 38, your contributions will help and be greatly appreciated.
Yes, I'd like to support Latitude 38 with a contribution:
More ways to support Latitude 38:
Subscribe
Have Latitude 38 delivered to your home: Subscribe for yourself or as a gift to a friend.
Sign Up for Our Sailing Newsletter: 'Lectronic Latitude
Advertise in our Display or Classified Ad sections. When you do you reach the world's greatest sailors:
We love our advertisers. You can help by patronizing the advertisers in Latitude 38 or become one of them! Click here to see the advertisers to supporting our current edition or to become an advertiser email [email protected].
Place a Classified Ad here. Place a FREE Classified with photos for boats or gear priced under $1,000 here.
Send Your Story:
Whether sailing the Bay, cruising the Channel Islands or Mexico or circumnavigating the globe, if you are a West Coast sailor, our readers would appreciate hearing your story. Editorial contributions are welcome for your comments in Letters to the Editor or Sightings, Changes, Features and 'Lectronic Latitude. You can read our Writer's Guidelines here or just email you story and photos to [email protected].
Send Your Best Shot to Sailagram:
Email your sailing photos to: [email protected].
Suggestions:
Got a suggestion on what we can do better? We love ideas to help improve our offerings, especially from folks who have the skills and/or ability to help us find the solution. We're constantly working to improve our website, magazine, crew list, events, distribution and all other aspects of serving our West Coast sailing audience. If you have a thought regarding what we can do better you can contribute it here.
See you on the water.
Subscribe to Latitude 38. Delivered to your door every month.
'Lectronic Latitude
More Pirate Attacks off Somalia
It appears to be high season for Somalia’s pirate industry. On Sunday, just days after the 30-member crew of a French megayacht were released and several pirates arrested by French forces, pirates seized control of the 250-ft Spanish fishing trawler Playa de Bakio in the Gulf of Aden. The 26-member crew are being held captive…
Mariners Rescue Downed Aviator and His Plane
After the float plane crashed, it didn’t float very well, and needed to be hand-carried to shore. Thanks to Dick Roland of Mar Si 2, a former cruiser and Tripui resident, who made the announcement on Channel 16, and Todd Butler, who was first on the scene with his small aluminum boat, both the pilot…
Cosco Busan Pilot Indicted
John Cota, the pilot aboard the Cosco Busan when the ship “touched” the Bay Bridge last November, was indicted on felony charges this week. © Jeff Berman Federal prosecutors have indicted pilot John Cota for alledgedly lying to Coast Guard officials about prescription drugs he was taking. Cota was on the bridge of the Cosco…
Crashing the Party
She looks bad here, but Gitana Vela suffered relatively minor damage in her double dismasting. © 2008 Jenny Haldeman Anyone who was out sailing last Saturday knows that it was really windy in the afternoon. Up to 60-knot blasts were reported atop some of the mountain peaks, and we’re pretty sure a few gusts in…
Ha-Ha Reunion Party Recap
A seeing eye dog aboard the Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors’ boat greets a new friend on the docks of Strictly Sail Pacific. latitude/LaDonna©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC If you didn’t make it to Strictly Sail Pacific this year, you missed a good one. Construction at Jack London Square in Oakland meant smaller tents…