Archive for April 2012
Delta Doo Dah Entry List
Spinnakers can be put to great use on the Delta Doo Dah.
latitude/LaDonna
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last Monday, registration for the Delta Doo Dah Fab 4 opened when ‘Lectronic Latitude was posted. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last Monday, registration for the Delta Doo Dah Fab 4 opened when ‘Lectronic Latitude was posted. More »
Cutting the Corner to Complete the Loop
No, they’re not supernatural sailors, it’s just that their charts are a wee bit off.
Feel Free
©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC By the highly unusual route that their chartplotter recorded, you might think that Tom Morkin and Liz Tosoni were really anxious to get around Mexico’s Cabo Corrientes late last month. More »
©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC By the highly unusual route that their chartplotter recorded, you might think that Tom Morkin and Liz Tosoni were really anxious to get around Mexico’s Cabo Corrientes late last month. More »
Vive Les Voiles
She’s indeed a paradox, meaning she defies reason, for she’s a cruising boat built on a chassis, as it were, of an ORMA 60 racing trimaran, one of the fastest, wildest and most fragile racing classes ever. More »
Bon Voyage, Ka’iulani
Ka’iulani’s majestic presence won’t be felt on the Bay until next year.
© 2012 Jim Rimmer
It was clear, sunny and calm this Saturday when the Sausalito-based 86-ft gaff schooner Ka’iulani cast off her dock lines and headed for Tahiti. More »
It’s Boat Show Week
Sailors from all over the Bay Area and beyond are clearing their calendars this week in order to make the most of the annual Strictly Sail Pacific boat show (April 12-15) at Oakland’s Jack London Square. More »
Weekend (and Weekday) Racing
A light air rounding of the Southampton Shoals platform in last year’s SSS Corinthian Race.
latitude/Rob
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The big regatta this Saturday will be the Singlehanded Sailing Society‘s Corinthian Race, a San Francisco Bay tour beginning and ending at Corinthian YC in Tiburon. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The big regatta this Saturday will be the Singlehanded Sailing Society‘s Corinthian Race, a San Francisco Bay tour beginning and ending at Corinthian YC in Tiburon. More »
Strictly Sail Discounts
Socrates and Rutherford Updates
Solitude is what many sailors seek when they take to the water, but some seek it more than others. Jeanne Socrates, the British granny who is making her way to Victoria, B.C. More »
April Sailing Fools
The full-throttle sailing times keep on coming in the Caribbean for locals and visitors alike, including many sailors from Northern California and elsewhere on the West Coast. First there was the St. More »
Cruiser/Pilot Missing in Palau
Longtime Changes in Latitude contributor and former Monterey resident Frank Ohlinger went missing off Palau on Sunday after the plane he was piloting lost its GPS at night. Ohlinger had been hired by Palauan authorities to fly two officials to the site of a burning Chinese fishing vessel suspected of poaching giant clams in the Ngeruangel Atoll marine preserve. More »
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