Archive for April 2014
Get Your Latitude Gear Here
If you missed us at Strictly Sail Pacific, you can still get your official Latitude 38 gear on our website. Just visit our chandlery to choose from an eye-popping array of T-shirts and hats. More »
Grab a Latitude & Head for the Hammock
We think you’ll like the cover of the May Latitude 38. Perhaps best titled simply as “Smokin’,” it shows the West Coast-based Hotel California, Too roaring down a wave at the recent Voiles de St. More »
The End Is Near!
The brutally active sailboat racing season in the Northeast Caribbean — which we take to be between the British Virgins and Antigua — is not over, but the end is nigh. More »
Atlantic Racing Update
As mentioned above, the 12th biennial Transat AG2R has come to a thrilling conclusion in Gustavia, St. Barthélemy as the top four one-design Beneteau Figaro IIs finished within two hours of one another after more than three weeks at sea. More »
Golden Gate Bullship Race
This reporter enjoyed her maiden Bullship in a boat generously loaned by John Amen, but unfortunately took too long (almost an hour) to clear the Marin shore and so was told to turn back by the race committee. More »
Loving the Boat Yard & Freedom from Excessive Regulations
Peter Vargas, center in blue hat, stands below Moonshadow with his Sea Tek team. The Deerfoot looks darn nice for a boat that did a 16-year circumnavigation under her previous owner. More »
What’s Slower Than Snail Mail?
While perusing the UK Guardian last month we came across a fascinating item about a German fisherman who pulled a brown beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel, only to discover that it had a message in it scrawled on a very old post card. More »
Free Dashew Weather Books
Weather forecasts are one of the most talked-about topics in any cruiser gathering, often because they’re so often wrong or misunderstood, and so much depends on accurate forecasting when you’re in a small boat in a large ocean. More »
The 27th Antigua Classic Regatta
The 83-ft Fife schooner Adventuress, now 90 years young, shows her stuff in this year’s windy Antigua Classic Regatta.
© 2014 Tim Wright
If there is a better classic regatta in the world than the four-race Panerai Antigua Classic, sailed off historic English Harbor, we’re not aware of it. More »
Boarded, Attacked and Beaten
When you are forced to use your hands to defend against a machete attack, you can come away with some nasty souvenirs.
© Kirk McGeorge
"Our voyage from Cape Town to Trinidad covered 5,503 nautical miles in 33 days of sailing, during which time we crossed both the prime meridian and equator. More »
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