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Not-So-Strictly Sail Pacific News
With just under a month until the start of Strictly Sail Pacific, exhibitors received a letter yesterday explaining that the show will no longer be the only all-sailing boat show on the West Coast. Strictly Sail Pacific has merged with the Northern California Marine Association’s Pacific Power Boat Expo and will now be known as…
Puddle Jump Bond Exemptions Approved!
Cruisers always get a warm welcome – especially during the Sailing Rendezvous. But this year they get a bond exemption too. latitude/Andy©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC As reported recently, the annual migration from the west coast of the Americas to French Polynesia has begun, with a few boats now closing in on landfalls in the…
Ship Damage by Its Own Container
In one of those odd twists of fate, last week a ship lost 31 containers in a storm off eastern Australia — and was itself damaged by one of them! The bit of poetic justice occurred aboard the Hong Kong-flagged Pacific Adventure near Moreton Island off the Queensland coast. It was unclear whether the ship…
No Direction Home
Vitesse Too gets a tow home. latitude/JR© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Grant Hayes and crew Bill Schwob were about halfway back to from the Lightship when they heard the dreaded ‘bang’. It was a riveted piece holding the rudder shaft together on Hayes’s Hobie 33 Vitesse Too. Without control, they suddenly went from doing pretty…
Going Back to the Old Ways
When Scott and Cindy couldn’t find a convenient place to haul, they resorted to careening their cat. Beach House©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC One of the biggest problems with larger cruising cats is that there aren’t very many places that have big enough Travel-Lifts or marine ways to haul them out. So as Scott and…