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Archive for December 2012

Beware of King Tides This Week

December 12, 2012
Walkway to nowhere? No, it’s a pedestrian ramp at the St. Francis YC boat basin during last year’s King Tides. © Matt Richardson If you woke up this morning and saw that sea water had encroached onto roadways and walking paths where it doesn’t normally travel, you may have been tempted to think those much-publicized doomsday predictions — asserting that the world will come to an end in late December — might actually be true. More »

Dinghy Thefts at South End of Town

Based on recent reports we’ve received from cruisers, there have been a couple of brazen dinghy/outboard thefts and attempted thefts at the south end of Mazatlan, meaning the Old Harbor and Stone Island. More »
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A Most Dramatic Boarding

December 10, 2012
The folks over at Moto Journal certainly have a good sense of humor. One of their journalists, identified only as Lolo, was captured on video taking a tumble over the edge of a wharf in St. More »

Splash and Blast on Profligate?

Are you a new cruiser to Banderas Bay? If so, join us aboard Profligate — or another boat — tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. at the Marina Riviera Nayarit in La Cruz for a seven-mile sail over to Paradise Marina in Nuevo Vallarta, the official starting point of the Riviera Nayarit Sailors’ Splash. More »

The Vendée Tango

The top five leaders in this year’s running of the Vendée Globe have been dancing back and forth, in and out of the lead position since the fleet passed the tip of South Africa. More »

Solo Sailor Rescued; Typhoon Bopha Update

December 7, 2012
Sailor James Blackford is making an unplanned trip to Japan this week aboard the motor vessel Global Explorer. Although a visit to that island nation probably wasn’t part of Blackford’s original cruising itinerary, we’ll bet he’s not complaining. More »
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More Details on CG Death

The Santa Barbara Independent has published a fascinating piece on smuggling between Mexico and California that also offered more details in the death of USCG Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III on Sunday. More »

Forget Shopping, Go Sailing

Don’t squander prime sailing time this weekend. Get your boat out of the slip! latitude/LaDonna
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC If you’re still wringing out your foulies from last week’s drenching, you’ll be glad to know that this weekend’s forecast is for sunny, if not terrifically warm, weather. More »

Pacific Puddle Jump Dates Set

December 5, 2012
As Tahitian drummers pound out an ancient cadence, a Puddle Jumper arrives at Moorea’s Opunohu Bay during the annual Tahiti-Moorea Sailing Rendezvous. latitude/Andy
©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s no easy trick to get all the elements of your life to line up in such a way that you can sneak off and go cruising for a few years. More »