Archive for December 2007
Risking Your Life for Freedom
The ‘Freedom 32’ raft designed by Fidel Castro.
© 2007 Rod Williams
Today’s Photo of the Day, of a 10-person Cuban refugee raft that washed up on San Pedro Reef in Belize, should be a reminder to everyone just how good we’ve got it in the United States — and just how bad people have had it in Cuba under the tyrant Fidel Castro for more than 40 years. More »
Holiday Shopping with Lat 38 Logowear
Need the perfect holiday gift for your favorite sailor? Time’s running out — only 10 shopping days left. Check out our chandlery for tons of T-shirts and hats — they make great stocking stuffers! More »
Tragedy on the ARC
Tragedy has struck this year’s Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. On December 7, John Thompson, 54, of the Great Britain-based Oyster 41 Avocet was hit in the head by the boom during a broach and was severely injured. More »
Ecuador Makes it Hard for Cruisers
Cocokai as seen earlier in her travels, not the way she entered the bar at Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador.
Cocokai
©2007 Latitude 38 Media, LLC "We’re finally on a mooring here in Bahia de Caraquez, but it wasn’t easy getting here," reports Greg King from aboard Jennifer Sander’s Long Beach-based 64-ft staysail schooner Cocokai. More »
©2007 Latitude 38 Media, LLC "We’re finally on a mooring here in Bahia de Caraquez, but it wasn’t easy getting here," reports Greg King from aboard Jennifer Sander’s Long Beach-based 64-ft staysail schooner Cocokai. More »
Joyon Smashes 24-Hour Solo Record
"It seemed unavoidable, and indeed it has happened," writes Javier de Muns, Latitude‘s man in Brittany. "Francis Joyon, racing around the world singlehanded aboard his 97-ft trimaran IDEC has set a new 24-hour solo record of 616 nautical miles — an average of 25.6 knots." More »
Beach Cat Crosses Atlantic in 12 Days
There’s no denying that the French are showing the world the way when it comes to ballsy ocean sailing. The day before Francis Joyon set the new 24-hour record with Idec, Benoit Lequin, 33, and Pierre-Yves Moreau, 35, two other Frenchmen, established a new transatlantic record for a . More »
Banderas Bay Blast Couldn’t Have Been Better
The youngest of all the Pirates for Pupils was Katie Millison of colony Emiliano Zapata, weapon at the ready.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The crews of the 30 boats that participated in this year’s first ever three-day Pirates for Pupils Banderas Bay Blast for Charity couldn’t have hoped for better weather or sailing conditions. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The crews of the 30 boats that participated in this year’s first ever three-day Pirates for Pupils Banderas Bay Blast for Charity couldn’t have hoped for better weather or sailing conditions. More »
Joyon Ripping Up MacArthur’s Record
I’m glad that you consider me “your man in Brittany.” I hope to honour that title and send you good, accurate and first-hand news from the sailing scene in this part of Europe. More »
Maxi Racing Across The Atlantic
Nariida, a Wally 105 from Norway, has set her chute and is leaving volcanic Tenerife for the much warmer and lush St. Maarten in the Caribbean.
© 2007 Rolex TransAtlantic Maxi Race
Why do West Coast boats sail and race to Hawaii in the summer? More »
Perdock’s Story Keeps Changing
Bismarck Dinius, who was charged with manslaughter in the 2006 death of Lynn Thornton, appeared in Lake County Superior Court November 29 to plead not guilty to the charges, and to request that Lake County prosecutors be removed from the case. More »
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