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In 10 days the 164-boat Baja Ha-Ha rally fleet will be scudding south toward Cabo – where fleet members will exchange online immigration receipts for actual visas.
While suburbanites fear homeless folks might steal their property, homeless-on-homeless crime is far more prevalent.
The Coast Guard is asking for your help locating Honolulu sailor Greg Stephanoff, 60, who was last seen leaving the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor the evening of October 3 aboard his Catalina 42 C:Drive.
It looks like someone had maybe just a little too much fun at Buccaneer Days earlier this month and didn’t want the party to end.
Five months after his untimely death on May 9, Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson’s autopsy report was finally released yesterday.
Close scrutiny of recent satellite imagery has sparked new hope that the long-missing American schooner Niña may yet be found, and that her seven crew may still be alive.
Yikes, what a mess. But, of course, it could have been so much worse.
In addition to doing a lot of Pacific Cup and other races to Hawaii with big boats, either fully crewed or doublehanded, Philippe Kahn of Santa Cruz has always enjoyed sailing small monohulls off his home waters of Santa Cruz and Hawaii.
Today is just two weeks from the start of the 20th Annual Baja Ha-Ha cruisers’ rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, with stops at Turtle Bay and Bahia Santa Maria.
Jean-Pierre Dick and Rouland Jourdain’s MOD70 Virbac-Paprec capsized and dismasted yesterday while training for the Transat Jacques Vabre.
Heading south of the border this cruising season? If so, you’d be wise to attend many of the helpful seminars offered in San Diego by Downwind Marine, West Marine and others.
Skipper Plenert, behind bars in Ensenada.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC One of the last places you ever want to find yourself is behind bars in Mexico.
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC One of the last places you ever want to find yourself is behind bars in Mexico.
We’re happy to report some good news in the aftermath of the Fountaine-Pajot 46 Blue Marble‘s grounding on the remote South Pacific island of Niue last month.
We can’t think of a more beautiful place to stage a yacht race than within the Vava’u Group’s lush maze of islands.
Planning to race to Hawaii next year, or even just thinking about it?
We’re proud to have been publishing Latitude 38 since 1977 — long before Al Gore invented the internet.
This is the last week to catch the Impressionists on the Water exhibit at the Legion of Honor in the City.
The Folkboats are coming! The Folkboats are coming! Okay, they’re already here and have been for some time, but their International Championships run through tomorrow.
We quizzed our readership last week to see if anyone could properly identify the purpose of the unusual Russian sailing craft pictured below.
In 26 days the 20th Baja Ha-Ha fleet will be breezing south toward Cabo San Lucas.
"Does your site have a place to look for other cruisers to buddy boat with?"
Along with the fall’s first major storm hitting the Oregon/Washington coasts this weekend also came the inevitable request for assistance by sailboat.
All the clamor — mostly from New Zealand, but also from the United States — that Oracle Team USA ‘must have’ cheated in its spectacular comeback from 8 to 1 to retain the Cup is rapidly dying down.
Kiwi Zoe (left), her American boyfriend Scott and their friend Marina were totally psyched up about the Cup.
After winning the last race of the Cup, the U.S. and Oracle flags flew proudly in the wind.
Love him or hate him, Larry Ellison put on a spectacular show on the Bay.
The Rolex flags were blowing the ‘wrong’ way this morning.
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The America’s Cup ended just in time for St.
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