Archive for July 2010
Delta Doo Dah Deux to Decamp
The blue dots in the wall of fog off Sausalito are ships. Time to fire up the AIS!
© 2010 Hi-Def San Francisco
If you’re wondering what that grey box is up there, it’s an image taken from a high-definition web cam mounted in the Sausalito hills overlooking the Bay. More »
It’s a Dog-Eat-Dog World
“Trim that sheet, you scurvy dog!” Peaches ‘mans’ her post.
© 2010 Randi Harry
When we posted the story about Bryan and Jennifer Saulsbury’s Portuguese water dog Barley, we had no idea emotions on the topic would run so high. More »
Cuddle Up With the New Latitude!
The August issue of Latitude 38 is a ray of sunshine after an otherwise gray month.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC All throughout July, the weather outside has been frightful. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC All throughout July, the weather outside has been frightful. More »
Ten-Year-Old to Singlehand Around the World?
Sure, why not?
The age bar for singlehanding around the world keeps slipping lower. For a long time it was the 20s, then Zac Sunderland of Thousand Oaks did it at 17 years, 229 days. More »
Kerry Reconsiders
After a hurricane of public outrage, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has decided that he will pay $450,000 in sales tax to the state of Massachusetts following the purchase of his $7 million Ted Fontaine-designed 76-ft sailing yacht Isabel. More »
New Girl in Town
Seemed like everyone in Sausalito wanted to meet the new girl in town.
© John Skoriak
If someone had asked Sausalito yacht skipper Paul Dines to find a well-built traditional sailing schooner, survey her, purchase her, haul and ship her from Miami to Ensenada, offload her, sail her to Sausalito, and insure that she would pass a Coast Guard inspection — all within 60 days — he would have said it was impossible. More »
Shadow’s Lessons Learned
Peter Stoneberg, Shadow‘s owner, got back to us on Monday evening with a wrap-up and some lessons learned from his and his crew’s capsizing on Sunday afternoon following the YRA’s second-half opener. More »
Determination Gets It Done
Some sailors merely dream about crewing in exotic destinations; others, like Kat Gartin and Brian Morrison are more proactive — a lot more proactive. When we bumped into them last month on the Tahitian island of Moorea, they told us how, after a year and a half of false starts and misadventures afloat, they finally found a great ride to this sun-kissed tropical Shangri-La. More »
Another Political Tin Ear
It’s not quite as bad as if he’d won the Presidential election and discovered that his Vice President had been a bald-faced liar in repeatedly denying that he was a baby daddy, but longtime Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has foolishly sailed into some very hot water with his constituents. More »
Close Encounter of the Cetacean Kind
Tim Sell reports having seen hundreds of orcas in Alaska and B.C., but none played with him like this one did off Pt. Arena.
© 2010 Tim Sell
Sausalito sailor Tim Sell has kept his Brent Swain 36 Lucky Star in Southeast Alaska for the last three years, spending the summers exploring that state’s spectacular waterways while wintering in Sausalito. More »
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