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Shaken yet still smiling, Sarah vows to continue her cruising life.© 2009 Sarah Andrews
As reported Friday, Australian sailor Sarah Andrews, 26, became shipwrecked along the Baja coast last week after her Ericson 39 Gabrielle struck a near-shore reef.
Though we at Latitude 38 do our very best to be perfect, we are, after all, as human as anyone.
San Francisco sailor Sean Haggerty, 39, was reported missing last week after he failed to arrive in San Diego on time.
The Bay was busy this weekend, and not only with the nearly 50 J/boats participating in St.
Following in the footsteps of the successful ‘Take Your Daughter to Work Day’, Ed Killeen of the SF Examiner has dubbed the first Sunday in April as ‘Take Your Daughter to Sea Day’.
On Thursday, April 2, the New York Appeals Court ruled that the paper yacht club CNEV is out, and BMW Oracle — or more accurately, our own Golden Gate Yacht Club — is the Challenger of Record for the next America’s Cup.
The young Aussie sailor in happier times. Today, she hopes to somehow get out cruising again soon.
If you sail out of South Bay, be sure to get your boat all gussied up for Saturday’s South Bay Opening Day.
This is no joke – sailors will be racing around like wild hares today, eager to grab the new Latitude.
Who says picking up trash can’t be fun? At the Bitter End’s recent Go Green event, everybody got into the spirit.
In an effort to boost the softening marine industry, the Obama Administration announced today a nautical twist within its stimulus package.
With Monday’s ‘Lectronic Latitude dedicated to the dramatic rescue during the Doublehanded Farallones Race, we didn’t have room for our usual weekend racing review.
Heat Wave, along with 10 other racers, waited out the lull near Pt.
When longtime Sausalito resident and friend of Latitude Dave Wilhite was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004, he moved to Bellingham, WA, to be close to his parents while he waited to die.
"I just caught this ‘ocean lady’, as the locals call sail fish, yesterday while sailing in the channel between St.
David Crosby’s schooner Mayan sailing off Southern California.
Yachtworld
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC One of the prettiest classic yachts on the West Coast is up for sale, and she comes with an interesting provenance.
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC One of the prettiest classic yachts on the West Coast is up for sale, and she comes with an interesting provenance.
Malcolm Robertson, 64, was murdered by young pirates in Thailand. His wife Linda, 57, survived her ordeal with minor injuries.
• The Bay Area Multihull Association‘s (BAMA) 30th running of the Doublehanded Farallones Race is Saturday.
Can you think of a more dramatic setting for a cruisers’ regatta than Caleta Partida?
Some people don’t believe that the South Tower Demon exists. They explain those instant changes in wind direction and velocity — which often cause nearby boats to spin out and momentarily head right toward the tower — by spouting lame ‘facts’ based on supposed real-world physics.
Louis and Laura of Hayward, on #13 Cirque, hit the pin end of the line at the start of the first race.
The twin islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha’apai have become one large pumice island.
The Left Coast Lifter will soon be put to work on the new Bay Bridge.
Bulldozers made short work of destroying the Panama Canal YC at the end of February.
Ericsson 3 (orange), Ericsson 4 (white), Puma (red), and
© 2009 Volvo Ocean Race
What was only a 50-mile lead yesterday has doubled as Ericsson 3 leads the pack toward Rio in the Volvo Ocean Race.
Cruisers always get a warm welcome – especially during the Sailing Rendezvous. But this year they get a bond exemption too.
The search has been suspended for an unidentified man who fell out of a dinghy near Richmond’s Marina Bay last night.
With just under a month until the start of Strictly Sail Pacific, exhibitors received a letter yesterday explaining that the show will no longer be the only all-sailing boat show on the West Coast.
Monohulls, multihulls, and powerboats alike mingled to raise money for local kids’ charities in the Pirates for Pupils Run.
Vitesse Too gets a tow home.
latitude/JR
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Grant Hayes and crew Bill Schwob were about halfway back to from the Lightship when they heard the dreaded ‘bang’.
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Grant Hayes and crew Bill Schwob were about halfway back to from the Lightship when they heard the dreaded ‘bang’.
In one of those odd twists of fate, last week a ship lost 31 containers in a storm off eastern Australia — and was itself damaged by one of them!
When Scott and Cindy couldn’t find a convenient place to haul, they resorted to careening their cat.
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