
Archive for November 2012
December Latitude is Out Today
Although you may have to wade through hip-deep water to get yours, the December edition of Latitude 38 is being distributed today in the Bay Area and beyond.
latitude/Annie
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Inside, you’ll find our usual mix of racing news, cruising reports, chartering advice and news updates, plus an interview with Webb Chiles, a complete Baja Ha-Ha XIX Recap, and Max Ebb’s thoughts on holiday gift-giving. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Inside, you’ll find our usual mix of racing news, cruising reports, chartering advice and news updates, plus an interview with Webb Chiles, a complete Baja Ha-Ha XIX Recap, and Max Ebb’s thoughts on holiday gift-giving. More »
La Buena Vida in Mexico
On days like this, we hope that the sailors back on San Francisco Bay are enjoying fine weather, too.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Having now spent a full month of the 2012-13 cruising season in Mexico, our verdict is not ‘todo es bien‘, but rather ‘todo es muy, muy bien‘. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Having now spent a full month of the 2012-13 cruising season in Mexico, our verdict is not ‘todo es bien‘, but rather ‘todo es muy, muy bien‘. More »
Eight Bells for Chris Corlett
Longtime Bay Area racer Chris Corlett — seen here with his son Jesse at this summer’s Pacific Cup finish line — passed away last week. He will be remembered at Encinal YC on Friday at 1 p.m. More »
27th ARC Rally Sails From the Canaries
Now celebrating its 27th year, the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) got underway from the Canary Islands yesterday with a fleet of 192 boats from at least 29 countries.
Seen here shortly after yesterday’s start, crew of the British yacht Talulah RubyII was revved up and ready for the 2,700-mile crossing. More »
The Mysterious Disappearing Island
With modern advances in science and technology, it seems that new things are always being discovered, be it a miracle drug, a cure for a disease or a previously unknown species. More »
World Sailing Speed Record Smashed
Not generally known as a sailing mecca, Namibia seems to be the place to break world sailing speed records. Aussie Paul Larsen chose the country’s Walvis Bay on the Skeleton Coast for its flat water and strong winds to attempt to break the 500-meter outright sailings peed record — held by kiteboarders for the last three years — with his custom carbon fiber, wing-sail hydrofoiler Vestas Sailrocket 2. More »
Vendée Globe Loses Riou
© Vincent Riou / PRB / Vendee Globe
There’s no denying that the Vendée Globe is a race of attrition. Twenty skippers started from Les Sables d’Olonne on November 10, and before the fleet was even 25% of the way around the course, 35% had retired from damage to their fragile boats, the latest being Vincent Riou on PRB. More »
Doing Good While Cruising
A common question cruisers hear all too often is, "What do you do with all that free time?" Experienced cruisers laugh and try to explain that there’s never any shortage of tasks to complete, whether is schlepping miles to the nearest grocery store, repairing worn sails or giving the bottom a good scrub. More »
Hoisting Your Dinghy No Longer Enough?
"On November 12, we had our dinghy — with outboard motor attached — stolen while at anchor at Isla de Piedra outside of Mazatlan," report John Gratton and Linda Hill of the San Francisco-based Hans Christian 33 Nakia. More »
Happy Thanksgiving!
A meme that’s been trending on Facebook over the last couple days shows a woman pushing a shopping cart with the caption, "Black Friday: Because only in America do people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have." More »
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