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No, this image hasn’t been color-adjusted in Photoshop. The water in Tonga really is that blue, clear and inviting. ©
Farr 40s Nightshift, Plenty, and Voodoo Chile racing on the Cityfront in September’s Rolex Big Boat Series.
An aerial view of Saturday’s race around the cans in Alicante. © David Ramos / Volvo Ocean Race Seven teams will start the 39,000-mile around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race tomorrow in Alicante, Spain, bound for Cape Town, South Africa.
After their budget-related 2013 hiatus, the Blue Angels and other aerial daredevils will be back this weekend.
Tomorrow the Baja Ha-Ha rally’s Grand Poobah and others will be attending an invitation-only meeting in Huntington Beach that will address the many problems with paperwork for boats and people going to Mexico this winter.
Talk about an unlikely life raft. Who would have thought this plastic container could deliver a wayward sailor to safety. 
There is more green on the baseball field in Turtle Bay than in the rest of Baja — minus the Cabo golf courses — combined.
As hinted by our October cover, right now is prime time for southbound cruisers to enjoy tranquil Channel Islands anchorages.
While reminding everyone that the Baja Ha-Ha does not do TIPs or Nautical Visas for anyone, we’ll try to review the process one more time to answer common questions.
Profligate about to round Cabo Falso. latitude/Richard
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Almost everybody who does the Baja Ha-Ha aboard the 63-ft catamaran mothership Profligate is a repeat, but this year one cabin has opened up.
So you’re preparing to head down the coast to Mexico and are planning several stops along the way to refuel, rewater and reprovision.
A big surge in last-minute Baja Ha-Ha entries has brought the total to just shy of 170, making it the largest Ha-Ha in the last three years.
This is what the beach on the Pacific side of Cabo looked like the day AFTER hurricane Odile came through.
Mexican government sources confirmed over the weekend that the dead body of British sailor and scuba instructor Paul Whitehouse, 45, was found in the mangroves adjacent to La Paz Bay.
 Sometimes at this time of year, everything south of Mag Bay, as well as the entire Sea of Cortez, is the color of dried blood, indicating 85 degrees or more.