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Smithsonian Boat Usage Survey

July 25, 2011
Researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and Portland State University are trying to determine how often recreational boats in California move, where they go and how often their bottoms are cleaned. More »

Sea Diamond Does the Med

July 22, 2011
"We just tied up at Elba, which is the west coast of Italy’s Catalina — although much more developed," reports Capt. Rob Wallace of Cita Litt’s magnificent Newport Beach-based Rhodes 90 motorsailor Sea Diamond. More »

Dora Downshifts

Storm watchers in both the Eastern Pacific and Western Atlantic are breathing a sigh of relief today, as the three powerful storms that have been threatening communities ashore have all diminished in strength and/or moved out to sea. More »

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Bonus Points for Esmeralda

Esmerelda sailed through the Gate yesterday under full sail and foggy skies. latitude/Andy
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It was truly unfortunate that the 370-ft Chilean tall ship Esmeralda didn’t arrive beneath the Golden Gate Wednesday morning as planned, because the weather was absolutely stunning on that clear, sunny morning. More »

Long Night for a Bay Windsurfer

July 20, 2011
It would be easy to assume the worst if you’d heard a 62-year-old windsurfer had been missing on the Bay for more than 13 hours, but Cathy Caton’s rescue Tuesday morning after spending a very long night getting sucked in and out of South San Francisco Bay was a surprisingly happy ending to a potentially deadly story. More »
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Crony Capitalism About to Degrade Your GPS?

U.S. taxpayers, via the Department of Defense, paid for the development, installation and maintenance of our GPS system. Now it’s in danger of degradation anywhere within the range of cell phone towers — thanks to what would appear to be crony capitalism of the worst sort at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the White House. More »

Hurricane Dora Threatens Mexican Coast

Dora’s predicted track should keep her from directly hitting land, but hurricanes have a tendency to act unpredictably. © NOAA Hurricane Dora is making both sailors and landlubbers nervous today all along the central Pacific coast of Mexico, as she recently built in strength to a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. More »