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Enough About Lights, What About Tanks?

May 4, 2012
Please, no more letters about lights on cruise ships, as we’ve been overwhelmed with responses. We’ll have the best of them in the June, not May, issue. One respondent, however, also went off on a tangent about fuel and holding tank gauges that rarely seem to work. More »

German Student Seeks Home

Two years ago, Cheryl Williams, who works with Inter-Ed to place foreign students in California homes, contacted us to see if we could help find a host family for a 16-year-old German student who was passionate about sailing. More »

Another Emmy for Stan Honey

May 2, 2012
Two-time Emmy recipient and Bay Area navigating legend Stan Honey helped LiveLine bring home a golden statue of its own this week. Honey, the director of technology for the America’s Cup Event Authority, led the team that developed LiveLine specifically for the AC, and on Monday, it received the Emmy for extraordinary technical innovation. More »
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Debate Continues, Investigative Panel Announced

Philosophically, we at Latitude 38 have always been much more in favor of personal responsibility than we are of big and/or nanny government. Nonetheless — and perhaps mostly in deference to the families of those who lost their lives in the terrible Low Speed Chase tragedy — we have sort of grudgingly accepted Captain of the Port Cindy Stowe’s decision to suspend offshore racing until an investigation can be completed. More »

Transponder Info Clarifies Aegean Tragedy

At least part of the mystery of how the Redondo Beach-based Hunter 376 Aegean was destroyed during last weekend’s Lexus Newport to Ensenada Race may have been solved. Aegean‘s SPOT Messenger GPS track shows the boat on a constant course and speed for more than three hours — leading them directly onto the rocky shore of North Coronado Island. More »