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Emilio Castañeda’s Hatteras 85 Alexis sank when her shaft seals blew.Our Shangri-La
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC "Mayday, mayday, mayday!
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC "Mayday, mayday, mayday!
No doubt John Aldridge’s family had just about given up hope that the Long Island lobsterman’s body would be found after he fell overboard 12 hours earlier, so when word that a Coast Guard helo crew had not only found Aldridge but that he was very much alive, they were ecstatic.
Ricky and Robin Wright of Lousiana, the parents of Danielle Wright, 19, who has been missing for nearly two months after setting sail from Opua, New Zealand, for Newcastle, Australia, with six others aboard the 70-ft staysail schooner Niña, haven’t given up hope that their daughter and the others can be still be found alive.
In the July 24th edition of ‘Lectronic Latitude we reported that a lawsuit brought by African Disapora Martime against the Golden Gate YC was being heard in New York City.
While the inaugural running of the Mini 650 Pacific Challenge — a race for Mini 6.50s from Marina del Rey to Hawaii — may have gotten off to an inauspicious start, one sailor persevered and finished the course. Belmont’s
In Monday’s ‘Lectronic we mistakenly reported that Emirates Team New Zealand, having given the Luna Rossa Italian team a big spanking on Sunday, had gained a spot in the Louis Vuitton Challenger Finals.
Earlier in the month, we reported on the sad news that Hayden and Fern Brown’s pirate-style 70-ft schooner Aldebaran smashed into the Richmond jetty on July 4.
While the New Zealand America’s Cup team is basking in the glory of an unbroken string of Louis Vuitton Cup wins, one of their countrymen has been making a very different sort of headline.
The Dorade crew are the big kahunas in this year’s TransPac.
© Trans Pacific YC
While a new elapsed-time record wasn’t set, the 47th TransPac has proven to be one of the more interesting and exciting races to Hawaii in years.
A New Zealander who is accused of making false distress calls may have thought he was perpetrating a harmless prank, but we doubt he’ll be laughing if he is convicted.
When ETNZ ditched their headsail, spectators thought Luna Rossa had a lock on the race.
Tritium Lending Club missed the TransPac record by 2.5 hours, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.
While the men on the American Youth Sailing Force, San Francisco’s ‘home team’ for the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup, undoubtedly want to win the event’s trophy so bad they can taste it, the award six of its team members received this week proves more about who they are as people than any sports trophy ever could.
“Beep! Beep! Hey, lady, get out of the passing lane!”
© Adrienne Rogers
You don’t need a steaming cup of Nespresso to wake up when you have ETNZ bearing down on you at top speed.
Artemis Racing is scheduled to race Emirates Team New Zealand tomorrow in Round Robin 3 of the Louis Vuitton Cup, then race Luna Rossa on Saturday.
The Baja Ha-Ha Mothership, Profligate, will be leading the fleet south for the 17th time.
Latitude gets the latest update from Tritium Lending Club’s Gino Morrelli.
Tritium Lending Club
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Latitude just got off the phone with multihull designer/sailor Gino Morrelli of Newport Beach.
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Latitude just got off the phone with multihull designer/sailor Gino Morrelli of Newport Beach.
The final divisions of this year’s TransPac Race got underway on Saturday.
© Peter Drasnin
A brilliant new record has been set in the TransPac — ‘The Best 24-Hour Run for a Boat with a Built-In Pizza Oven That Is Starting a Circumnavigation’.
During the pre-start, Dean Barker skillfully maneuvered the Kiwi boat below his Italian rivals, giving Emirates Team New Zealand a clear advantage soon after, as they sped to the starting line.
Last night we were talking to some folks who reported that they cruised the Sea of Cortez while living on an average of about $300 a month, lobster dinners included.
The murder of four cruisers off Oman in 2011 aboard the sailing yacht Quest substantially raised the stakes for sailors wanting to access the Mediterranean.
Seen here during a recent practice session, LRC and ETNZ will go at it for real Saturday unless the wind pipes up over 20 knots.
No matter how fast a racing boat you have, there’s a big element of luck in doing well for overall honors in the Los Angeles to Honolulu TransPac.
If you’re one of the nearly 100 boats signed up for this year’s Delta Doo Dah DIY, you should know that the Sacramento Delta Bay Marina near Isleton is inviting you to a special Doo Dah BBQ on July 20 from 1-3 p.m.
Jeanne Socrates sailed the bottom paint off Nereida during her solo nonstop trip around.
While the crews of more than 150 cruising boats were celebrating their safe arrival in French Polynesia during recent weeks, the dreams of one adventurous West Coast couple was quashed off the Baja Coast, before they even reached the trade winds.
The mighty Dorade, restored by StFYC’s Matt Brooks, looking fine at the start of the 2013 TransPac Race.
Sadly, the hottest action in this America’s Cup isn’t here. . .
© Gilles Martin-Raget / ACEA
It wasn’t too surprising that Emirates New Zealand won their second straight Louis Vuitton Series race yesterday, as for the second time in a row, theirs was the only boat on the course.
"Ah, Your Majesty, there is no second," is supposedly the response given to Queen Victoria on August 22, 1851, when the schooner America beat 15 other yachts around the Isle of Wight to claim the first America’s Cup.
Hayden Brown designed and built Aldebaran, starting her in 1971.
Aldebaran
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Local sailors will be familiar with the sight of the beautiful 70-ft ‘pirate ship’ Aldebaran plying the waters of San Francisco Bay — she won last year’s Great San Francisco Schooner Race and is the official pirate boat of the Vallejo Pirate Festival — but the merry 4th of July fireworks cruise aboard the schooner came to a tragic end when she ran up on the Richmond Jetty.
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Local sailors will be familiar with the sight of the beautiful 70-ft ‘pirate ship’ Aldebaran plying the waters of San Francisco Bay — she won last year’s Great San Francisco Schooner Race and is the official pirate boat of the Vallejo Pirate Festival — but the merry 4th of July fireworks cruise aboard the schooner came to a tragic end when she ran up on the Richmond Jetty.
And then there was one. Five Mini 6.50s were set to race to Hawaii from Marina del Rey in the inaugural Mini 650 Pacific Challenge on Saturday but shortly before the start, two — Charlie Calkins on C’s Folly and Luiz Eduardo on ARG 842 — failed to qualify while Przemyslaw Karwasiecki on Libra bowed out just after the start.
Jeanne Socrates sailed into Victoria Harbor aboard her Najad 380 Nereida in the wee hours this morning to finish her nonstop solo circumnavigation.
The schooner Niña in New Zealand prior to setting sail for Australia.
© Steve Darden
"My wife Dorothy and I are optimists," Steve Darden told Latitude in a telephone interview.
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