Archive for September 2017
Coastal Cleanup Day
California’s largest annual volunteer event, California Coastal Cleanup, takes place on the third Saturday of each September, along more than 2,000 miles of coastal and inland waterfront. This year’s Cleanup Day will be tomorrow, Saturday the 16th, from 9 a.m. More »
Caption Contest!
Here is your September Caption Contest(!). We’re excited to see what you all come up with for this quirky, head-scratching photo. As always, the winner will be published in Loose Lips of next month’s issue (or October as it’s also known). More »
Monohulls for Next Cup
Monohulls. Foiling monohulls.
At least that’s the news we heard from Radio New Zealand, who on Tuesday wrote, "The next edition of America’s Cup racing will switch from catamarans to high-performance monohull yachts, defending champions Team New Zealand have confirmed. More »
Irma Survivor: “It’s Gone, All Gone.”
The Bitter End YC, one of the Virgin Islands’ most famous waterside resorts, was pulverized by Irma. Can it be rebuilt?
© Dive BVI
"Damage? No Dad, you don’t get it: It’s gone, all gone." More »
A Guide to Rolex Big Boat Series
Here it is again — Rolex Big Boat Series — a four-day sweep of either lots of wind or no wind, starting tomorrow at St. Francis Yacht Club. Of ridiculous tank-top heat days and suntanning at the docks, or cold and wet conditions. More »
Dorade Down Under
Dorade is Down Under, adding to her collection of prizes in events like Audi Hamilton Island Race Week.
© Andrea Francolini
The Dorade Down Under campaign is going swimmingly for the 86-year-old 52-ft Sparkman & Stephens yawl. More »
Thanks for Coming to the Crew Party!
Thank you to everyone who made it out for Latitude 38’s Fall Crew Party last week at Spaulding Marine Center. We were delighted to see a ton of familiar faces in attendance, along with a host of new ones. More »
Irma Lashes Florida
Hurricane Irma, which was described by some analyst as the ‘"size of France," has moved into Florida and the US.
© 2017 NASA
After devastating the Caribbean, Hurricane Irma marched toward Florida, changing categories from 5, down to 3, and back up to a 4, according to ABC news. More »
What’s Wrong with This Photo?
Ben, having climbed Mt. Coronado in the Sea of Cortez, checks out the beauty of nature.
Sonrisa
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC The obvious answer is that Benjamin Brettingham-Moore of the La Paz- and Tasmania-based Lagoon 440 Sonrisa, having climbed Mt. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC The obvious answer is that Benjamin Brettingham-Moore of the La Paz- and Tasmania-based Lagoon 440 Sonrisa, having climbed Mt. More »
Smoke on the Water
While natural disasters elsewhere have garnered the headlines, the western United States has not slid into September unscathed. Wildfires too numerous to list, some massive and catastrophic in scope, dot the West Coast from border to border. More »
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