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Michael Harris and his girlfriend Kelly Wells. He was killed and she was injured when the dinghy they were in was involved in a 1 a.m.
Despite the fact that 15-year-old Cody (left) and Alex, 18, live in the high desert, sailing is one of their primary passions.
In its 20-year history, the Clipper Race, a round-the-world race in multiple legs for paying crew, has had an excellent safety record.
Seen here on stage at his club in 2004 holding his trusty Fender Stratocaster, Philo Hayward will be greatly missed.
Big and bold, if we’re not mistaken this is the second largest private sailboat in the world.
How was food preserved, prepared, and consumed aboard sailing ships of the 19th and early 20th centuries?
In the aftermath of a devastating tropical storm last week that left many residents of the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica homeless and its airport unusable, Caribbean sailors as well as visiting international cruisers are being asked to help bring in desperately needed supplies.
As we head into the Labor Day Weekend, we’ll leave you with a highly entertaining video depicting the bustling Dutch port of Amsterdam last month during its five-day Sail Amsterdam event.
This is where charterboats from The Moorings and other charter companies hide from hurricanes in the British Virgins.
London’s Tower Bridge is raised to allow the Clipper Round the World Race fleet to parade down the Thames prior to their start on Sunday.
The Berkeley-based GravlaX anchored in Jamaica, as featured in this month’s Changes in Latitudes.
Trading boat cards with Jack and Lynn Robinson on a canal barge in France.
The podium celebration with the obligatory wasting of perfectly good champagne on Sunday in Gothenburg.
During the weekend, three Category 4 hurricanes roared across the North Pacific: Kilo (left), Ignacio and Jimena.
The September mag comes out tomorrow. Don’t miss it!
latitude/Annie
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC Believe it or not, we’ve been told by more than a few sailors that they are absolutely addicted to reading Latitude 38 magazine each month, and they can’t wait for the first of the month, when each new issue hits the street.
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC Believe it or not, we’ve been told by more than a few sailors that they are absolutely addicted to reading Latitude 38 magazine each month, and they can’t wait for the first of the month, when each new issue hits the street.
When an event has a large number of entries, its needs an appropriately large battle flag, don’t you think?
When it comes to tropical storms, oftentimes the torrential rain associated with them is more destructive than the strong winds.
The second round of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series takes place in Gothenburg (Goteborg), Sweden, this weekend, but AC promoters aren’t making it easy for American sports fans to get revved up about the fast-paced action.
The boat in this photo is not Morpheus, but the narrow waterway is the Corinth Canal.
We do our best to keep track of the 200-plus boats that do the annual Pacific Puddle Jump, but once they move beyond French Polynesia many tend to fall off the Latitude radar.
Exciting isn’t it? Well, this part wasn’t but most of the first Race to Alaska was.
Having just returned from a month at sea, zigzagging the Pacific Garbage Patch, The Ocean Cleanup’s lead researcher Dr.
"What we really need for the SoCal Ta-Ta and the Baja Ha-Ha is our own island," the Grand PooBob/Grand Poobah was thinking to himself the other day.
Much has changed since we snapped this photo of the Panama Canal’s new lane in March.
This National Hurricane Center graphic shows the possibilities of tropical storm-force winds in the next 120 hours.
Delta water wars.
latitude/Chris
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC As a heat wave built at the end of last week, a small band of Delta Doo Dah boats made their way to Stockton Sailing Club, some by way of Richmond and Pittsburg Yacht Clubs.
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC As a heat wave built at the end of last week, a small band of Delta Doo Dah boats made their way to Stockton Sailing Club, some by way of Richmond and Pittsburg Yacht Clubs.
While we’re still wrapping up our coverage of this July’s Transpac Race to Hawaii (be sure to read all about it in the next issue of Latitude 38, coming out on September 1), planning and prep for next July’s Pacific Cup is going full steam ahead, with 49 boats already entered.
There are seven times more cruising kids in this photo than there are residents of Suwarrow.
The year 2015 will be remembered as a slow one for the Rolex Fastnet Race, which started on Sunday afternoon in Cowes, UK, but the first finishers arrived in Plymouth last night and early this morning.
Here’s a pop quiz: What 62-mile ocean regatta starts in Marin County and finishes in Marin County two days in a row?
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