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Tahiti calls. Having received several inquiries from interested boat owners, the Transpac YC hopes to run their long-established Tahiti Race again next June.
If you ever wanted proof that a newspaper article can be mostly true, yet very misleading, you only need to visit this Daily Mail site.
Beautiful sailing conditions in last year’s SoCal Ta-Ta.
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©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Because of space limitations, there are only 50 slots available for SoCal Ta-Ta III, aka ‘Reggae ‘Pon Da Ocean’, the Baja Ha-Ha style cruising rally from Santa Barbara to Catalina with stops at Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands Harbor and Paradise Cove.
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Because of space limitations, there are only 50 slots available for SoCal Ta-Ta III, aka ‘Reggae ‘Pon Da Ocean’, the Baja Ha-Ha style cruising rally from Santa Barbara to Catalina with stops at Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands Harbor and Paradise Cove.
More than 30 skippers have signed up for the 22nd annual Baja Ha-Ha since registration opened last Friday.
Racing up the San Joaquin River out of Isleton with ACYC.
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Andreas Cove Yacht Club on the San Joaquin River is organizing a Delta Ironman Challenge.
The final days of Kaiwo Maru’s nearly 6,000-mile crossing from Japan saw punishing gales.
Softbank Team Japan launches its Challenge for the 35th America’s Cup. Left to right: Kou Watanabe, commodore of Kansai Yacht Club, signs with Japan’s AC team leader, Kazuhiko Sofuku.
The May issue of Latitude 38 is making the rounds of docks and chandleries in the San Francisco Bay Area today.
Picture yourself breezin’ downwind in the sunny latitudes of Baja California. Will this be your year to Ha-Ha?
If we had only tagged the photo with a GPS position.
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©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC We’ve always liked this photograph of Profligate in this unusual-looking anchorage.
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC We’ve always liked this photograph of Profligate in this unusual-looking anchorage.
Randy and Dawn Ortiz in happier times.
Randy Ortiz
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC As reported earlier, Pacific Puddle Jumpers Randy and Dawn Ortiz were forced by circumstance to abandon their Canadian-flagged S&S 42 Nirvana Now on April 8, after rescuers Bob and Mona Jankowski of the North Carolina-based Caliber 40 Continuum arrived on the scene, roughly 1,200 miles from the first possible landfall.
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC As reported earlier, Pacific Puddle Jumpers Randy and Dawn Ortiz were forced by circumstance to abandon their Canadian-flagged S&S 42 Nirvana Now on April 8, after rescuers Bob and Mona Jankowski of the North Carolina-based Caliber 40 Continuum arrived on the scene, roughly 1,200 miles from the first possible landfall.
H.L. Enloe’s ORMA 60 trimaran Mighty Merloe slipped into Ensenada minutes before dawn on Saturday at 5:55:35 to secure Best Elapsed Time honors at the 68th annual Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race.
If you think it was windy on San Francisco Bay, you should have been in Mobile Bay, Alabama.
The 87-year old schooner was in the middle of her most successful charter season yet in the British Virgin Islands when she was rammed and nearly sunk by a landing craft.
Charlie and Cathy, back in St. Lucia where they started their circumnavigation 15 months ago.
A place as dreamy and stunningly beautiful as Tahiti gets plenty of press.
If you’re in the Sea of Cortez, why not plan to check out the all-new Loreto Fest on Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2?
The almighty Phaedo3 rolls over the top of San Franciscan Peter Aschenbrenner’s Irens 63 Paradox.
A body found last summer has been identified via DNA as a missing sailor, but the cause of his death as well as the whereabouts of his sailboat and companion remain a mystery.
As we post this edition of ‘Lectronic Latitude, the once-again six-strong fleet of Volvo Ocean 65s is at sea and racing toward the United States.
Sailing at an average speed of 27 knots, the San Francisco-based CEO of Lending Club, Renaud Laplanche, with co-skipper Ryan Breymaier and the crew of the 105-ft trimaran Lending Club 2, set a new record for the 635-mile course from Castle Hill Lighthouse in Newport, RI, to Kitchen Shoal Beacon in Bermuda.
The famous VOR70 Maserati isn’t the driest boat ever built, but she gets the job done.
The stylish and fast new Perini Navi Perseus 3 stretches her long legs.
Monsters at the start, with Comanche in the distance and Ramber 88 up close.
When you’re sailing offshore in a small sailboat, the sight of an enormous commercial vessel passing close by might make you nervous.
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