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Did you take advantage of this weekend’s lovely weather to go for a daysail?©
At 211 boats, this year’s ARC cruising class fell short of record numbers.
Two of the three legs in this year’s Banderas Bay Blast will almost certainly be downwind.
Heather ‘I’ll try really, really hard to be good’ Corsaro, the new Commodore of the Punta Mita Yacht & Surf Club.
Stanford held on to The Big Sail trophy with wins in the first and last of the annual best-of-three match racing event against Cal.
Seth and Elizabeth earlier in their honeymoon at Martha’s Vineyard on the Fourth of July.
The San Francisco Maritime Museum may be closed until next year, but the Park Service still has many free and low-cost activities for the public to enjoy.
Sailing beneath the towering peaks of the Cascade Range, charter trips in the Northwest are a visual feast.
We’ve heard it said that the average sailboat leaves its slip just 15 times a year.
We’re sorry to report that George Olson lost a long battle with cancer last weekend.
Pablo’s stamina for craziness is phenomenal – and he doesn’t even wear ear plugs.
Loick Peyron is first to the doldrums in the 2008 Vendee Globe.
© Jean-Marie Liot DPPI/Vendee Globe
Ten days into the singlehanded 2008 Vendée Globe Race, the leaders are running into the doldrums with Loïck Peyron and his Farr-designed Gitana 80 leading the charge.
All sorts of folks do the Pacific Puddle Jump. Meet the Liberty crew from the Class of ’08.
The biggest drug bust in Irish history occurred on the high seas on November 6, when armed teams boarded the MacGregor 65 Dances With Waves about 150 miles southwest of County Cork.
The Vallejo YC reports that the BCDC has finally approved permits to dredge the VYC harbor and replace the deteriorating wooden breakwater.
Tom and Diane Might, and their Hallberg-Rassy 62 Between The Sheets, have done their landlocked hometown of Phoenix proud by being the first of 47 entries to cross the finish line in the 19th annual Caribbean 1500 from Hampton, Virginia, to Tortola in the British Virgins.
Having crossed from Cabo, Bob Smith’s self-built 44-ft cat Pantera takes a breather at the Punta Mita anchorage.
We were shocked to receive the news last evening that Joanne McFee of Island YC had passed away on Wednesday.
After this writer’s husband returned safely from this summer’s Singlehanded TransPac Race, we had a surplus of safety gear we no longer needed.
Although they ultimately were not seriously injured, we’ve received yet another disturbing report of cruisers being attacked while at anchor, this time in Ecuador, where we don’t remember there being any problems in the past.
The Cirque crew got service with a smile – and good prices, too – at the new La Cruz fuel dock.
Tragedy struck in Venezuela Saturday night when three men boarded Ken and Cathy Peters’ sailboat Chill in an apparent robbery attempt.
Francis Joyon was snubbed in the voting for the ISAF’s male World Sailor of the Year for 2008.
After nearly 40 years of service, the Queen Elizabeth II began her final voyage last Saturday — by being blown onto a sandbar near Southampton.
Yesterday, Peter Tong’s SC 70, OEX, finished first in the 2008 Long Beach to Cabo San Lucas Race in record-breaking time of 2d, 22h, and 50m, eclipsing the elapsed time race record set back in 1987 by just under five hours.
Mix kids with gentle surf and you’ve got an ideal recipe for fun in the sun.
Tranquila, a Leopard 45, was stolen last Wednesday from Marina Palmira in La Paz.
The same jury that found Skylar Deleon guilty of three murders — including those of cruisers Tom and Jackie Hawks — spent 10 hours last week deciding his fate: life in prison or death by lethal injection.
The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s inaugural RORC Caribbean 600 looks likely to get off to a good start.
Shortly after the 7 a.m. start of Leg Three, chutes were popping all across the horizon.
Francis Joyon and his IDEC 2 just took 15 hours off the singlehanded Route of Discovery record from Cadiz to San Salvador via Grand Canary Island.
The Coast Guard and family of Bob Arvin are asking for help finding the 49-year-old sailor who left Honolulu on July 14 bound for San Diego aboard his Cape Dory 30 Ua Noa.
Apparently not all of our readers believe in being fair and balanced. In an email responding to Isabel Tifft’s request in Wednesday’s ‘Lectronic for more beefcake photos in the pages of Latitude 38, Captain Lewis Keizer of Moss Landing-based Ericson 27 Sandpiper says: "I don’t care for men’s butts.
Southern Star will have traveled 18,000 miles in 12 months during this expedition.
Following a slow spot in the middle of the Atlantic, Francis Joyon has his 97-ft Irens/Cabaret-designed trimaran IDEC 2 going in the right direction.
Isabel ‘Piper Afloat’ Tifft, of the Bay-based Ranger 29 Voyager, recently wrote what this writer believes to be a very valid note:
"It seems you regularly run a letter from a woman who’s disgusted by a photo that’s more tawdry or cheesy than usual.
There’s hardly a weekend — heck, hardly a day — when sailing shutterbug Peter Lyons isn’t out shooting on the Bay.
In Monday’s ‘Lectronic, we posted a request for info on Darla Jean III, Jerry and Darla Merrow’s newest boat.
Light fog accompanied last Monday’s start off Coronado Roads, but the westerly breeze gave everyone a nice push toward the border.
Just when you thought it was over, the saga of Darla Jean continues.
What, no pretty pictures?
As much as we all enjoy a good sailing photo, if you’re 2,000 miles from nowhere, you’ll be glad to hear you can still get the text of ‘Lectronic Latitude via Sail Docs on SailMail.
The last week or so reminded us once again how stepping off land and onto a sailboat can immediately put miles of psychic distance between oneself and the all the economic and political craziness of the day.
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