Archive for January 2010
Clipper Race Boat Wrecked, Crew Saved
This isn’t the first time Cork has seen trouble. In November, they T-boned England’s Hull & Humber at the start of Race 4, leaving both boats behind to effect repairs.
© Clipper Ventures PLC
Every sailor who signs up to crew on the Clipper Round the World Race expects a high level of excitement. More »
Donzi Mayhem at Sam’s
Sam’s is a popular watering hole for boaters and landlubbers alike – with the former often putting on a show for the latter.
latitude/JR
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Our esteemed publisher has a favorite expression: "If you’ve got to eat shit, you may as well take big bites." More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Our esteemed publisher has a favorite expression: "If you’ve got to eat shit, you may as well take big bites." More »
Thousands Feared Dead in Haiti Quake
Mainstream news outlets are full of reports today on the horrific aftermath of Haiti’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake, which occured Tuesday. Aid workers and newsmen report that perhaps as many as 100,000 people were killed by the temblor, and an untold number of buildings were destroyed, including the presidential palace, the prison, hospitals, schools and churches. More »
The Moonduster Blow-by-Blow
Read Wayne Meretsky’s detailed account of how Moonduster ended up on a reef in Fiji.
© Neria Brewerton
In the January issue of Latitude, we wrote about the unfortunate loss of Wayne Meretsky’s beautiful S&S 47 Moonduster on a Fijian reef during December’s Tropical Cyclone Mick. More »
First Corinthians This Weekend
Last year’s Corinthians didn’t get the breeze, but this weekend is looking good!
© 2010 Peter Lyons
It’s not too late to join the more than 140 boats that have already signed up for the ’10 Corinthian Midwinters; you have until Friday to sign up here. More »
The 2010 Puddle Jump Stampede
Some folks prepare for decades to do the Puddle Jump. Others, like Louis and Alicia, simply get a spur-of-the-moment inspiration, like deciding they’d rather sail back to Oz than fly.
Tar Baby
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC From year to year, the tides of economic recession and political instability rise and fall, but apparently the lure of the South Pacific remains constant. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC From year to year, the tides of economic recession and political instability rise and fall, but apparently the lure of the South Pacific remains constant. More »
Ringing in the New Year on Catalina
Wayne and Elly Smith couldn’t tell if they were in California or the Caribbean over New Year’s.
© Elly Smith
Wayne and Elly Smith stopped in the Bay for a few months this fall on their way south from British Columbia aboard their custom Stan Huntingford 47 Zeppelin. More »
What to Read in the Southern Hemisphere
In Friday’s ‘Lectronic, a reader asked if there was a magazine in Sydney similar to Latitude 38. Several people responded, suggesting some possibilities (and making us blush):
"The closest thing I know of to a ‘Latitude 33 South‘ would be The Coastal Passage magazine. More »
If You’d Been in Their Topsiders
There were two very interesting incidents in the November-December Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) from the Canary Islands to the 2,700-mile distant St. Lucia.
The first incident took place just several days into the event, when the Brit-owned Roberts 53 Pelican lost her rig 325 miles west of the Cape Verdes. More »
Is there a Latitude 33 South?
Reader Jim Barrett posed a question we couldn’t answer. "I enjoy Latitude 38 and was wondering if you might know whether a magazine like yours is published in Sydney, Australia? There are of course similar stateside magazines, and you must at least feel flattered by them, but I’d like to know if Sydney has an equivalent." More »
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