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Doug Baker’s Andrews 80 Magnitude 80 demolished the Tahiti Race record by 3.5 days, finishing Thursday with an elapsed time of 11 days, 10 hours, 13 minutes and 18 seconds.
Since the early 1990s, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has been handling drunken boating convictions — aka BUIs — like drunken driving convictions in the sense that they’ve suspended the driver’s licenses of the offenders.
There are only a few days left before the 22 competitors in the Singlehanded TransPac start their 2,120-mile odyssey to Kauai, and they are no doubt busily putting the finishing touches on their boats and gear.
When you go cruising, Beverage Reef is actually one of the places you want to avoid.
Bay Area sailors couldn’t have asked for a better weekend to celebrate our country’s independence.
Hundreds of paddlers were competing in the Tahiti lagoon as part of the annual Heiva Festival.
A 2006 U.S. District Court ruling is forcing the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a ‘discharge permit’ for every recreational boat in the U.S.
Jake La Dow and Brooks Clark go down the mine at the US Sailing Youth Champs.
Matt and Judy Johnson of Antioch, along with their grandson Tyler, were rescued last Saturday after running their 40-ft Elsewhere onto the reef surrounding Aur Atoll in the Marshall Islands group.
Wings takes flight last Independence Day.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Independence Day is one of the most popular sailing days on San Francisco Bay — hundreds of boaters take their family and friends for a great daysail in the Slot followed by a quiet picnic behind Angel Island.
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Independence Day is one of the most popular sailing days on San Francisco Bay — hundreds of boaters take their family and friends for a great daysail in the Slot followed by a quiet picnic behind Angel Island.
Jeanne Socrates credits the 2006 Singlehanded TransPac for giving her the confidence to set off on a 15-month solo circumnavigation.
Patrick Whitmarsh, Kevin Richards and Joe Penrod won the inaugural American Sailing League Championship off Pier 39, and with it a check for $10,000.
Entries for the ‘Fabulous Fifteen’ Baja Ha-Ha have been pouring in since we decided to ‘tip-toe’ into the 21st century by offering online sign-ups at www.baja-haha.com.
Boats are bound to sail more thanks to the hike in French Polynesia’s fuel prices.
Crew of the 40-ft crabber Reward scramble to the high side after the boat capsized off Pier 45 a week ago.
We get tons of mail, so we can only suppose that some of it would be a little .
Sailors’ Banquet at Two Harbors, starring, from lower left, Doña de Mallora, Susan Wolcott, Sangmi Lee, Larry Potter, Bruce Glass, and Cici Sayer.
In Wednesday’s ‘Lectronic, we gave a pop photo quiz asking if anyone could identify the spot in Mexico where Profligate was shown anchored.
This isn’t a game of Where’s Waldo, but rather if you know your anchorages in Mexico.
Firefighters called to San Rafael YC around 2:50 a.m. on Monday were greeted by a flaming back deck.
A German family of three and their French skipper were sailing a small yacht across the Gulf of Aden on Monday when Somali pirates forced them off their boat, taking them into the hills behind the fishing village of Las Qoray in the Puntland region.
In Friday’s edition of ‘Lectronic Latitude, we put the word out that cruising friends of Harold Parrett were concerned about his well being as he’d not been heard from since leaving Mazatlan on June 14 aboard his Newport 30 Etheral Star.
Switlik Parachute Company, makers of Switlik life rafts, has issued a safety alert and recall on all of their liferafts.
The Vallejo Race has long been touted as the largest race on the Bay, and one of the largest inland races in the nation.
Medicine Man ducks behind Magnitude 80 in the fog off Pt. Fermin during Sunday’s start of the 13th Tahiti Race.
Ten men, aged 18 to 43, piled into a 14-ft aluminum fishing boat in Tracy for some fun on the Delta on Sunday.
Happy Birthday, and welcome to the Sixties!
© 2008 Ronnie ‘Tea Lady’
Ronnie ‘Tea Lady’ of Banderas Bay is putting out a call to all friends and clients, old and new, to send her husband, Teapot Tony, a happy birthday, by email or otherwise, by June 26.
Snickers hardly resembles the scroungy emaciated puppy he was just a couple months ago.
Cruisers in Mexico are wondering if anybody has seen Harold Parrett and his green-hulled Newport 30 Etheral Star.
Tom Akin’s SC 52 Lightning at the start of the 2006 Pacific Cup on the way to a clean sweep: 1st in class, 1st overall, 1st to finish.
A shot from the intrepid couple’s cruising scrapbook – striking a pose at New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island.
Sailing on the Bay? No worries, just wear a sundress and bring lots of sunblock.
Dinghy racing in Clipper Cove is one of many festivities planned for Treasure Island’s Summer Sailstice celebration this weekend.
Taking a turn paddling alongside native Polynesians is always a memorable thrill for visiting cruisers.
Local PBS station KQED (Channel 9) will be airing Deep Water tonight at 10:30 p.m.
Four months from now, hundreds of cruisers will be making final preparations for the 15th annual San Diego to Cabo rally.
Close encounter – Pterodactyl gets checked out by a boarding party from the MV Namrun in mid-May.
Striking a pose at the dock for cameramen, Zac has now left the media circus behind to face many months of solitude on the open ocean.
At first, there wasn’t too much debris getting caught on the yacht club’s offshore docks, or between the docks and boats.
How’s this for the start of a Friday the 13th: One of the first emails we read this morning was a note that a "skull fracture had proved fatal" to longtime racer and Richmond YC member Bob George.
We all knew that the Southern California-like weather we’ve been having — 85-degree days with little to no wind — wouldn’t last.
The oldest of seven children, Zac strikes a pose with his parents, who have given his dream project their full support.
Tortuga, seen sailing here on San Francisco Bay, is a sistership to Bag End, which has completed half a circumnavigation.
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