Archive for July 2011
“I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass”
We weren’t sure whether to laugh or shudder when we read Carl J. Carlson’s report on a most unwelcome midnight visitor. In the end, we did both.
"I anchored my 40-ft Catana Paradox in Barra de Navidad for a week in March while my wife went home to do tax paperwork and see the kids," he tells us. More »
TransPac Big Boats Blazing
Hap Fauth’s R/P 74 Bella Mente is tearing up the racetrack en route to what looks like a new Barn Door record.
© Sharon Green
The big boats in the 46th TransPac are smoking down the course, having put up some big numbers since their start on Friday afternoon. More »
Stuck on Banderas Bay — And Lovin’ it!
The Zen Sailing Federation T-shirts are ready! You can’t buy one, you have to get one the old-fashioned way, by earning it! At which point we give it to you for free. More »
Seahorse Has Great Taste
That looks familiar!
latitude/LaDonna
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC For 34 years, Latitude 38 has been something of an anonomly among monthly magazines. Rather than a one-, two-, or even three-month lag between the time we wrap up an issue and the time it’s in your hands, it’s usually more like four or five days. More »
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC For 34 years, Latitude 38 has been something of an anonomly among monthly magazines. Rather than a one-, two-, or even three-month lag between the time we wrap up an issue and the time it’s in your hands, it’s usually more like four or five days. More »
Seven Men Missing in the Sea
As the survivors of Sunday’s tragic fishing boat accident just off Baja’s Isla San Luis — most of whom were fishing buddies from California — make their way home, the Mexican navy and the U.S. More »
LongPac’ers Get Hammered
Twenty-seven boats started the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s LongPac Wednesday and, as of this morning, only four boats were still racing — all of them singlehanded entries. Bob Johnston’s J/92 Ragtime! was the first to touch 126° 40’W, and is 170 miles away from the Bay after a blistering outbound leg. More »
Understanding Customer Wants and Needs
Pedro Fernandez de Valle, whose dream was to build the 400-berth Marina Riviera Nayarit in La Cruz, says he now has a much better understanding of his customer’s wants and needs. More »
Sea Plane’s Spectacular Crash
It’s amazing how a relatively minor accident can gain quite a bit of attention when a video camera happens to catch it. That’s what occurred on July 1 when Richard Parasol, 75, and James Whitbread, 60, were scooting around Richardson Bay in a Lake LA-4-200 float plane — some have surmised they were showing off a little for the crowd gathered for the Friday Night Jazz & Blues Concert Series in Sausalito’s Gabrielson Park — and caught a boat’s wake, resulting in a spectacular nose dive just off Horizons Restaurant. More »
Cruising Boat Sinks, Crew Rescued
The crew of Ka-Em-Te was transferred from the Chinese freighter OOCL Guangzhou by the Coast Guard in Hawaii.
© 2011 USCG Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony L. Soto
After three years of cruising the Sea of Cortez out of San Carlos, Oregonians Doug Merrell, 52, and Trisha Kelsoe, 53, were sailing home from Cabo San Lucas via the clipper route when they lost steering and had to be rescued from their Bayliner Buccaneer 30 Ka-Em-Te. More »
The Anti-Pirate Potato Cannon
The big fireworks shows don’t start until Monday so what are you going to do with the kids all weekend? It’d be a shame if they played video games and Facebooked the whole time when the weather forecast is calling for the mid-80s over the next several days. More »
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