Archive for August 2015
International Canal Update
Much has changed since we snapped this photo of the Panama Canal’s new lane in March. In April the massive lock doors were installed, and the locks were flooded for testing in June. More »
Getting Ready for the Ta-Ta and Ha-Ha
"What we really need for the SoCal Ta-Ta and the Baja Ha-Ha is our own island," the Grand PooBob/Grand Poobah was thinking to himself the other day. Fortunately, he was walking through the West Marine Super Store in San Diego at the time, and nearly ran into something called the Airhead Reef Island. More »
Racers-Turned-Researchers Return
Having just returned from a month at sea, zigzagging the Pacific Garbage Patch, The Ocean Cleanup’s lead researcher Dr. Julie Reisser gives details of the collection process to local and international journalists. More »
Pacific Passage Prep
While we’re still wrapping up our coverage of this July’s Transpac Race to Hawaii (be sure to read all about it in the next issue of Latitude 38, coming out on September 1), planning and prep for next July’s Pacific Cup is going full steam ahead, with 49 boats already entered. More »
Danny Threatens from the Atlantic
This National Hurricane Center graphic shows the possibilities of tropical storm-force winds in the next 120 hours.
National Hurricane Center
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Atlantic has gotten the first major hurricane of the season, in what has long been forecast to be a year with fewer than the normal number of hurricanes and major hurricanes. More »
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Atlantic has gotten the first major hurricane of the season, in what has long been forecast to be a year with fewer than the normal number of hurricanes and major hurricanes. More »
Hot Times in the Delta Doo Dah
Delta water wars.
latitude/Chris
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC As a heat wave built at the end of last week, a small band of Delta Doo Dah boats made their way to Stockton Sailing Club, some by way of Richmond and Pittsburg Yacht Clubs. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC As a heat wave built at the end of last week, a small band of Delta Doo Dah boats made their way to Stockton Sailing Club, some by way of Richmond and Pittsburg Yacht Clubs. More »
Who Says There Are No Kids Out Cruising?
There are seven times more cruising kids in this photo than there are residents of Suwarrow.
© 2015 Heather Tzortzis
Not Heather Tzortzis of the San Francisco-based Lagoon 470 Family Circus. More »
Finishers in Fastnet Driftfest
The year 2015 will be remembered as a slow one for the Rolex Fastnet Race, which started on Sunday afternoon in Cowes, UK, but the first finishers arrived in Plymouth last night and early this morning. More »
Ocean Racing in Marvelous Marin
Here’s a pop quiz: What 62-mile ocean regatta starts in Marin County and finishes in Marin County two days in a row? The answer of course is the Drake’s Bay Race. More »
Slow Sailing in the Fastnet
A 356-boat Rolex Fastnet Race fleet heads out of the Solent, bound for the Fastnet Rock.
© Kurt Arrigo / Rolex
The Rolex Fastnet Race started from Cowes on the Isle of Wight yesterday afternoon. More »
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