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Sailing north across the Pacific in ideal conditions – what better way for family members to bond?
The Delta Doo Dah fleet crammed into a new location on Bethel Island this year — The Sugar Barge Resort & Marina.
But who are those people?
Dona de Mallorca and the Wanderer are currently on the last few miles of a sloppier-than-normal doublehanded Baja Bash aboard Latitude 38‘s 63-ft cat Profligate.
“We are outta here!” That was the cry from the Delta Doo Dah 3D fleet Saturday morning as they passed under the Richmond Bridge and into the sun.
During the past 20 years the popularity of cruising rallies has increased exponentially.
The Laser 4.7 worlds have had plenty of breeze for the 163 competitors.
The August issue: It’s hot off the press.
© Bahamas Tourism
As you read this, the August issue of Latitude 38 is being delivered to marine businesses and sailing organizations all along the West Coast.
When John Silverwood’s left leg was severed on June 25, 2005, he wasn’t sure he was going to live, much less ever sail again.
Laser 4.7s practice on the waterfront prior to the class’s worlds, which started yesterday.
A rare view of the Mothball Fleet stationed in Suisun Bay.
© Scott Haefner
For sailors who’ve ventured beyond the Benicia Bridge, the Mothball Fleet in Suisun Bay is part landmark, part history and part mystery.
The Santa Cruz 27s used Whidbey Island Race as their nationals. Their 12 boats were the largest one design class out of a 100-boat fleet.
Crissy Fields is one organized shopper, and you can be too! Christmas is closer than we all want to admit, and Crissy’s bag is full of goodies for that special sailor in her life.
As reported earlier, a fleet of six double-hulled voyaging canoes are currently heading to San Francisco Bay from the Hawaiian Islands.
On Monday we challenged readers to explain the photo below: 1) Why do these sailors have so many dinghies piled on their decks?
Now that’s a niiiiiiiiice wave! Jon Roseman is at the helm of the red board.
Researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and Portland State University are trying to determine how often recreational boats in California move, where they go and how often their bottoms are cleaned.
This is not your typical sailboat, but its cargo is even more unusual than its mainsail.
Esmerelda sailed through the Gate yesterday under full sail and foggy skies.
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©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It was truly unfortunate that the 370-ft Chilean tall ship Esmeralda didn’t arrive beneath the Golden Gate Wednesday morning as planned, because the weather was absolutely stunning on that clear, sunny morning.
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It was truly unfortunate that the 370-ft Chilean tall ship Esmeralda didn’t arrive beneath the Golden Gate Wednesday morning as planned, because the weather was absolutely stunning on that clear, sunny morning.
Storm watchers in both the Eastern Pacific and Western Atlantic are breathing a sigh of relief today, as the three powerful storms that have been threatening communities ashore have all diminished in strength and/or moved out to sea.
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"We just tied up at Elba, which is the west coast of Italy’s Catalina — although much more developed," reports Capt.
Dora’s predicted track should keep her from directly hitting land, but hurricanes have a tendency to act unpredictably.
It would be easy to assume the worst if you’d heard a 62-year-old windsurfer had been missing on the Bay for more than 13 hours, but Cathy Caton’s rescue Tuesday morning after spending a very long night getting sucked in and out of South San Francisco Bay was a surprisingly happy ending to a potentially deadly story.
If you took our advice and sailed out to greet the Chilean tall ship Esmeralda yesterday as she entered the Golden Gate, you may have thought she somehow slipped by you unnoticed.
U.S. taxpayers, via the Department of Defense, paid for the development, installation and maintenance of our GPS system.
A moment of TransPac zen. Bob Lane’s Andrews 63 Medicine Man sending it into the finish at Diamond Head.
Two sailors died early this morning during the 103rd Annual Chicago-to-Mackinac Race when a severe thunderstorm sent wind speeds into the 50s.
After a series of obstacles that have prevented us from heading north from La Cruz to do the Baja Bash with Profligate, we were all ready to go.
Like many longtime sailors, we’ve had a fascination with tall ships for decades.
The Oakcliff American Offshore Team on the STP 65 Vanquish is in some good company, finishing the 2950-mile Transatlantic Race next to Karl Kwok’s Farr 80 Beau Geste.
Allen and Kate Barry, liveaboards and worldwide cruisers for 20 years aboard the San Francisco-based DownEast 38 Mendocino Queen, report they were assaulted and robbed around 10:45 p.m.
A patriotic apparition? No, it’s the Freedom Flag, which will be flying over San Francisco Bay today in support of vets.
We watched in awe last year as this traditional vaka drove to windward across Neiafu Harbor, Tonga, in a light breeze.
As long-distance sailors like to point out to nervous landlubbers, it’s not the ocean that’s so dangerous, it’s the hard stuff around the edges.
With much of the fleet at, or past the halfway mark, the 46th TransPac is turning out to be a pretty compelling yacht race.
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