Archive for June 2008
‘Tall Ship Girls’ Learn Life Lessons
“Wow! It actually floats!” Taking a ride in their hand-built skiff was quite a thrill.
© Christian Buhl
Friday was a very special day in the lives of a dozen Bay Area high school girls. More »
Top Cruising Cat Speeds
Pete and Susan Wolcott’s M&M 52 Kiapa, thanks to a fine design and light build, has no trouble hitting into the 20s.
Schooner Creek Boatworks
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC At the end of Wednesday’s ‘Lectronic report on John Haste’s San Diego-based Perry 52 cruising cat Little Wing hitting 29.5 knots under main and genoa in the Caribbean, we asked for other owners of cruising cats to report their top speeds. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC At the end of Wednesday’s ‘Lectronic report on John Haste’s San Diego-based Perry 52 cruising cat Little Wing hitting 29.5 knots under main and genoa in the Caribbean, we asked for other owners of cruising cats to report their top speeds. More »
Something to See While Becalmed Off Montara
It was long thought that the Cape Mayo lighthouse on Cape Cod had been destroyed in the ’20s.
Lighthouse Digest
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC If every picture tells a story, every lighthouse tells a thousand stories. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC If every picture tells a story, every lighthouse tells a thousand stories. More »
Anyone Going To Stockton?
“Hey, buddy, goin’ my way?” Latitude’s Race Editor Rob Grant is looking to hitch a ride for tomorrow’s Delta Ditch Run. Sextant, optional.
latitude/LaDonna
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC In the last week, I happened to mention to a few people that I’d be driving up to Stockton to get the lowdown on the Delta Ditch Run. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC In the last week, I happened to mention to a few people that I’d be driving up to Stockton to get the lowdown on the Delta Ditch Run. More »
NOAA Charts on Google Earth
Take a Google Earth image, lay a NOAA chart over it, and you get the latest weapon in the arsenal of computer-aided navigation. French company Magic Instinct Software has created a "mash-up" of more than 1,000 NOAA raster charts for the entire coastline of the U.S. More »
Leopard Sets Transatlantic Record
ICAP Leopard en route to breaking the west-east transatlantic record for monohulls with power-assisted winches.
© Rick Tomlinson
Briton Mike Slade’s 100-ft maxi ICAP Leopard passed the Lizard just before 8:30 p.m. More »
Adventures in Glacier Bay
Tim Sell’s Lucky Star anchored in an idyllic cove in Glacier Bay.
© 2008 Tim Sell
Last spring, longtime Sausalito diver Tim Sell sailed his Brent Swain 36 Lucky Star to Juneau, Alaska, spending the summer exploring the area and the winter trying to stay warm. More »
How High Can Your Cat Jump?
Little Wing sailing off St. Barth on New Year’s Day ’04. Has any Bob Perry designed boat sailed as fast as this 52-footer with a complete cruising interior?
latitude/Richard
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC In the 10 or so years that John Haste of San Diego has owned his Bob Perry designed 52-ft cat Little Wing, he’s sailed and raced her everywhere from Southern California to St. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC In the 10 or so years that John Haste of San Diego has owned his Bob Perry designed 52-ft cat Little Wing, he’s sailed and raced her everywhere from Southern California to St. More »
Want a Morgan 41 for $10,000?
Shimmer is not an Out Island but a full keel aft cockpit Morgan.
Shimmer
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Looking for what might be a lot of boat for the money? More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Looking for what might be a lot of boat for the money? More »
The Pirates of Clipper Cove
There’s a lot of stuff at the bottom of Clipper Cove that could cause an anchor rode to part, but this one parted above the water
© Teddius Maximus
When the Coast Guard notified me that my Santana 22 had been floating aimlessly around the eastern towers of the Bay Bridge (near the construction zone) and I needed to come get it from Yerba Buena Station right away, I rushed right over. More »
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