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Wherever you plan to celebrate our country’s Independence Day, be sure you grab a copy of the July Latitude 38 before you head off.
The big fireworks shows don’t start until Monday so what are you going to do with the kids all weekend?
The Diamond Head Lighthouse and buoy have served as the finish line for the TransPac since 1906.
While local drummers hail his arrival, Kristor Bowman of the San Francisco-based CS 36 Britannia crosses the finish line at the entrance to Opunohu Bay with the aid of his ‘borrowed’ adolescent crewman Harrison Mitgang off the F/P 48 catamaran Watcha Gonna Do.
While the boats in this year’s TransPac are clawing away from the California Coast, the Pacific Cup YC will be hosting the first installment of its biennial seminar schedule — the "Pacific Offshore Academy" — with a revamped, more user-friendly format.
As happens with any haulout, the current one with Profligate has hit a couple of snags.
During the 17 previous Baja Ha-Ha rallies, entrants have come from all along the West Coast — including many from Alaska — and there have been a few dozen Australians, New Zealanders and Europeans who’ve participated after buying boats on the West Coast.
This board will boogie no more.
latitude/Nick
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The chopped-up and stabbed boogie board can mean only one thing — it’s haulout time for Latitude‘s Surfin’ 63 catamaran Profligate.
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The chopped-up and stabbed boogie board can mean only one thing — it’s haulout time for Latitude‘s Surfin’ 63 catamaran Profligate.
Peter Brown spent 10 years building Taj and he did a beautiful job.
In last month’s Sightings, we expanded on a May 11 ‘Lectronic Latitude report on Washington’s ban on copper bottom paint and that California was close to passing a similar law in SB 623.
An estimated 10,000 bees crammed themselves in and around Windsome Winch’s main last week.
The proof, in case you needed any, that this editor got the short experience of sailing on an AC 45.
About to board our Alaskan Airlines flight yesterday morning from San Francisco to Puerto Vallarta, where we would pick up Profligate for a Baja Bash, we got the news the flight was postponed indefinitely.
Sea Scouts show their spirit aboard their bright red whale boat, that’s normally berthed at the Hyde St.
It always warms the cockles of our hearts to see new sailors reading an issue of Latitude.
How will you spend the Summer Sailstice weekend? Don’t even try to top Loick Peyron’s two-day plan.
For the 16 boats in the Encinal YC’s Coastal Cup, it hasn’t taken long to get down the coast.
Northern California’s Louis Kruk sailed to Mexico about four years ago with his sweetheart Laura Willerton aboard their Beneteau 42 Cirque.
Team principals from the America’s Cup Challengers join Oracle Racing CEO Russell Coutts on stage this morning.
The U.S. government has sent its military on some questionable adventures in recent decades, but none so bizarre as the current turf war between Fiji and the Kingdom of Tonga over two tiny submerged atolls called the Minerva Reefs.
The U.S. Coast Guard have released their recreational boating statistics for 2010, which is always an illuminating read.
The AC34s were showing off for the media yesterday before one of them performed a perfect pitchpole (check out the vid below)!
The groom and bride aboard their luxurious new Prout 50 catamaran.
latitude/Richard
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC As the steward for the La Gamelle Syndicate’s Olson 30 La Gamelle, which is currently berthed at Marina Village in Alameda, we’ve suddenly gained a whole new group of sailing friends in that part of the world.
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC As the steward for the La Gamelle Syndicate’s Olson 30 La Gamelle, which is currently berthed at Marina Village in Alameda, we’ve suddenly gained a whole new group of sailing friends in that part of the world.
For several years now, members of a group called GoSailingSF have been quietly working behind the scenes to increase public awareness of sailing opportunities here in the Bay Area, and ultimately to increase participation in sailing on our local waters.
We don’t want to flog this dead horse any more than necessary, but the story of the Alameda Fire Department doing absolutely nothing to come to the aid of 53-year old Raymond Zack in neck-deep water off Crown Beach on Memorial Day just won’t die.
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