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Old Sail Bags and Really Old Sail Bags

August 10, 2015
This sailbag is old enough to have grandchildren. Can you tell us anything about it? latitude/rs
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC We were walking down a dock at the Marina Riviera Nayarit recently and came across a sail bag with a logo on it that we hadn’t seen in many years. More »

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Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream

August 7, 2015
The title is not only the opening line of a fine Traffic rock ‘n’ roll song from the 1970s, it’s also what happened to us the last two nights. On the first night, we dreamed that we owned two Ocean 71 ketches — we sold our Ocean 71 Big O 20 years ago — and a smaller Olson 30-ish kind of boat. More »

StFYC at the RYS Bicentenary

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Royal Yacht Squadron, which was founded on June 1, 1815, in Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the UK. During a race around the Isle in 1851, New York Yacht Club Commodore John Cox Stevens successfully challenged for the Squadron’s £100 Cup with the yacht America. More »

Take Us for a Ride

August 5, 2015
With the California cruising season in full swing and the Mexico winter season not that far away, lots of sailors are wondering whether it makes sense to carry bikes on boats, and if so, what kind of bikes. More »

Still Sailing at 100 Years Old

What did aunt Cornelia want for her 100th birthday? To go sailing with a boatload of close friends, of course. She’s seen here at the helm of the Trilogy VI cat with her son, sailmaker Barry Spanier of West Maui Sails and Canvas.  More »

Catching up with the Delta Doo Dah

August 3, 2015
Mike, Mecala, Rosalyn (age 11) and Zachary (13) Gill, cruised into Owl Harbor on July 18 with their Alameda-based Ericson 27 Emily. latitude/Chris
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