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Archive for August 2017

Opposite of Ships Passing in the Night

August 23, 2017
"What do you do when you cross paths with cruising friends in the middle of the ocean and you’re headed in different directions?” asked Lewis Allen and Alyssa Alexopulous of the Redwood City and Fiji-based Voyage 43 catamaran Quixotic. More »

Baseball Improvement in Turtle Bay

The fabulous baseball stadium at Turtle Bay as seen during the Cruisers versus Local Kids annual baseball game. With the Ha-Ha fleet boats in the background, the stadium is often compared favorably with AT&T Park in San Francisco. More »

Beer Can Challenge in September

On Monday, ‘Lectronic Latitude brought you a report and some fab photos of Sausalito Yacht Club’s Tuesday night race. That unusual choice of a weeknight is a key component in making Latitude 38’s Beer Can Challenge possible. More »

The Long Way

August 21, 2017
We were walking down the dock at Schoonmaker Point Marina in Sausalito when Colin Cashmore of the Dickson 60 Avant Garde popped his head out of the fo’c’sle. He told us that he and his wife Marion had been in town just one week after a brisk sail down from Seattle. More »

Seriously? Another Navy Collision?

We still can’t believe this morning’s New York Times headline: Rescuers Seek 10 Missing Sailors After US Navy Ship and Tanker Collide. We first thought it was a follow-up about the recent collision of the USS Fitzgerald in June, but today’s Times story involved a completely different destroyer, the apparently ‘unguided’ guided-missile destroyer John S. More »

Tuesday Night Racing in Sausalito

A typical summer evening in Sausalito: A thick fog bank rolls over Wolf Ridge and down the Waldo Grade, seeking out Richardson Bay. © 2017 Roxanne Fairbairn Sausalito Yacht Club’s August 8 Summer Sunset race was sailed in typical Bay Area summer conditions, with a brisk westerly wind, waning ebb and an early sunset. More »

‘Matthew Turner’ Gets its Masts

The Matthew Turner is looking more and more like a ship. On Saturday — and with the ceremonial fanfare we’ve come to enjoy from Educational Tallships — the Turner’s fore and aft masts were lifted by crane, stepped and fastened into place. More »