
Archive for April 2010
Ha-Ha Registration Opens Monday
If you’ve been chompin’ at the bit to sign up for next fall’s Baja Ha-Ha rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, your time has come! We’ve been working on a new online signup protocol, and expect to have it up and running just after noon next Monday, May 3 at the event’s website. More »
Plastiki Reaches Christmas Island
After leaving the Bay on March 20, Plastiki racked up an impressive 92-mile-per-day average.
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©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC After 39 days and 3,600 miles, Plastiki made landfall at Christmas Island on Wednesday. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC After 39 days and 3,600 miles, Plastiki made landfall at Christmas Island on Wednesday. More »
May Issue Released Today
Hittin’ the streets – the May issue is out today!
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©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The May issue of Latitude 38 hits both newsstands and the interweb (later) today, and you don’t want to miss out. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The May issue of Latitude 38 hits both newsstands and the interweb (later) today, and you don’t want to miss out. More »
Are You Going to Vallejo?
Saturday could look a lot like this, albeit with more breeze.
© Peter Lyons
The party hats and hangover kits are being packed, and the division splits are up, because its time for The Great Vallejo Race. More »
Pier 1½ to Reopen Next Week
In December, fierce storms damaged one of the Bay’s more popular stops: Pier 1½. Though not completely closed, the outermost half of the 180-ft public dock has been roped off, leaving only the inner portion available to boaters. More »
Ski/Sail Gets Banner Conditions
The Laser and Vanguard 15 fleets get mixed up on Lake Tahoe at Ski/Sail.
© Darren Kramer
Eleven Lasers and eight Vanguard 15s showed up at Lake Tahoe this weekend for Ski/Sail the one-of-a-kind triathlon regatta you won’t find anywhere else. More »
Bogus Claims by Boguslaw Bob
Looks like the highly controversial sail training operation aboard the homebuilt steel cutter Columbia was a bit ‘bogus’ after all.
Regular readers will remember our reports on the widespread search effort for this long-overdue 45-footer, run by a Frenchman operating under a British flag off the South American Coast. More »
An Evening of Hope for Haiti
While today’s headlines are more likely to be about Tiger Woods’ sex life than about Haiti, relief efforts spawned by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake — which killed more than 150,000 people and devastated the impovershed nation on January 12 — are on-going. More »
Photo of the Day Revealed
This photo was taken just outside Ell Cove on the east side of Baranof Island in Southeast Alaska. Some of the more exotic guesses were Scotland, Crater Lake and even Costa Rica. More »
The Email Scam Using Norm Goldie’s Name
Last Friday we ran what we believed was a very suspicious email supposedly sent by the controversial Norm Goldie of San Blas asking for funds to pay for emergency medical care for a relative in England. More »
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