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Archive for August 2010

Under Cover in Indo

August 11, 2010
Much like Charles Townsend in Charlie’s Angels, Cap’n Ted’s face is never fully visible. His is the third ass from the left in this shot of his helping to launch a small boat in Bali. More »

Big Cruising Cat Flips Near Niue

American Kelly Wright and crewman Glen McConchie of Christchurch, New Zealand, are in good health after Wright’s Chris White-designed Atlantic 57 catamaran Anna Valdivia flipped 120 miles west of Niue in the South Pacific last weekend. More »

Trouble Ashore At Tenacatita Bay

August 9, 2010
Tenacatita Bay, the four-mile by four-mile bay on mainland Mexico’s Gold Coast between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, and just north of Barra Navidad, has long been a favorite with cruisers. Its calm anchorage offers access to surfing, the ‘jungle ride’, the ‘aquarium’, the ruins of the McHale’s Navy movie set, the village of La Manzanilla, and all kinds of friendly vendors ashore. More »

Misty on the Delta

You never know who you’ll run into when bopping around the Delta. While recluctantly working our way back to the socked-in Bay, we stopped in Potato Slough last night. As we neared a pretty little Aries 32, we realized that it was Misty, owned by Tiburon’s Bob and Jane van Blaricom. More »

IKC Gets Underway

The 26 teams entered in this year’s IKC got exactly what they came for during yesterday’s second race. © 2010 Sergei Zavarin The 42nd International Knarr Championship hosted by St. Francis YC got underway on Sunday in typical mid-summer fog and drizzly skies. More »

Galilee Harbor Celebrates 30 Years

With shifty winds gusting to 30 knots, just getting to the starting line of the dinghy races was a challenge. Hans List, seen here, and others came home soaking wet. latitude/Rob
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The story of Sausalito’s Galilee Harbor should be inspirational to anyone who thinks ‘you can’t fight City Hall’. More »
Pursuit

In Hot Pursuit

August 6, 2010
Just about everywhere you look around San Francisco Bay, there are treasures of our rich maritime heritage. Some, though, are less obvious to the untrained eye than others. We last saw the M-Class sloop Pursuit on the Bay in 2005, during the Sail San Francisco parade. More »

Doo Dah Comes to a Close

The ‘West Marine Contingent’ — Jay and Micah on Moorea, Bruce, Karen and Joshua on Gitana Vela and Doug on Rigel (not all of them work at West Marine) — spent their free days lampin’ in Potato Slough’s Bedroom 2. More »

No Sun, No Fun

Yes, even though you haven’t had seen the sun in months, it still exists. This is what it looks like when the sun shines on a boat in Mexico. In fact, so much sun shines on boats in Mexico, you don’t want to skimp on the bimini. More »

Be The Windlass!

Margie shows what it takes to bring up an anchor by hand during a season of cruising in Mexico? And say, isn’t that David Crosby’s Alden schooner Mayan in the background on the left? More »