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Archive for November 2015

November Classics

November 18, 2015
Steve Carroll’s Tule Fog was one of 16 Express 27s racing in the BYC Midwinters on Saturday, a civilized day for sailing on the Berkeley Circle. © Erik Simonson Each fall, Latitude 38 trots out that old saw about how the wind is usually lighter and the winter season is a good time for newbies to try racing. More »

Sailor’s Run ‘Shafted’ During Solo Lap

November 16, 2015
Two weeks after departing from Bahia Caraquez, Equador, on a solo, nonstop lap around the planet aboard the Baba 40 Sailor’s Run, West Coast sailor Jeff Hartjoy, 69, reports that the sailing thus far has been "some of the very best I have ever done." More »
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Sailing Just Got Real

Virtual reality just got more real for sailors, thanks to filmmaker Alex Pearce. Just check out this video of him sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge aboard his Sausalito-based Cascade 36 LaDonna Jean. More »

How Many Horses to Plane?

Jonathan and Rebecca Mote and their six-month-old Morkie, Pirate, of the Corona del Mar-based Jeanneau 42DS Serendipity relax in Turtle Bay during the Baja Ha-Ha. latitude/Andy
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Jonathan and Rebecca Mote of the Corona del Mar-based Jeanneau 42DS Serendipity probably don’t have many questions about how to sail. More »

Merlin Memories

Merlin finishing the 1977 Transpac, captured by an unknown photographer. © Wizard Yachts, Ltd. We got a number of responses to Monday’s call-out for Memories of Merlin. This is one of the best. More »

The Mexico Report

For cruising sailors the annual Sailors’ Spash and Banderas Bay Blast are great fun without the pressure of serious racing. Organizers are hoping for a record turnout this month.  latitude/Archives
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s mid-November and the cruising season is in full swing south of the border. More »

Triumph in the Transat Jacques Vabre

The first week of the 12th Transat Jacques Vabre was full of doom and gloom; two autumn gales led the way to a flipped maxi-tri, several broken boats, a half-sunk Hugo Boss, and several sailors enduring dramatic helicopter rescues at sea. More »

El Yo-Yo Is Complete

November 11, 2015
Profligate, fleeing the temperate zone for the tropics, despite the danger of sailing off the curve of the earth.  latitude/Richard
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC It was only in August that we brought the 63-ft catamaran Profligate 1,000 miles north from Puerto Vallarta to San Diego, with a six-day weather layover in Cabo and Gomorrah. More »

Midwinters Notebook

Peter Boland and Erik Pavelka’s J/80 Acqua Veloce raced in SYC’s chilly, foggy, drizzly first Midwinter race on the first day of November. © 2015 Roxanne Fairbairn Sausalito Yacht Club’s first Chili Midwinter Race kicked off the Bay Area Midwinter season on Sunday, November 1, in a mild southwest wind and building flood. More »