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Less than six days out of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, the great MOD70 Phaedo3 rushes to the finish line off Grenada in the West Indies. ©
If weather prognosticators are correct, there will be a lot of rainy days this winter when you probably won’t want to go out on the water.
With the first weekend in December comes the first batch of holiday lighted boat parades, the nautical contribution to brightening the year’s darkest month.
The ‘aires‘ might be bueno in the capital of Argentina, but the agua apparently isn’t.
The December issue of Latitude 38 hit the somewhat chilly docks of the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday, and has been shipped and mailed to ports beyond our horizon.
As we slip from November and the conspicuous consumption of turkey and fixin’s into December and the conspicuous consumption of consumer goods, it’s perhaps a good time to look ahead to the following month, when consumption turns to reflection.
On Sunday at 4:01:58 GMT, the trimaran Spindrift 2 crossed the start line that runs from Créac’h lighthouse (Ushant Island, France) to Lizard Point (Cornwall) for the start of her crewed nonstop circumnavigation.
Jeff Lee’s San Juan 33 Zwei Flying Fish checks out the breeze off Alameda Marina before an Island Nights Friday night beer can race, hosted by Island YC, whose clubhouse is on the Alameda Marina property.
The crew works on perfecting roll jibes during last Saturday’s light conditions.  © 2015 Martha Blanchfield San Francisco’s J/125 Double Trouble crew wrapped up a final practice last weekend before they travel east to Quantum Key West Race Week and the Conch Republic Regatta to Cuba.
"We saw 87° water in a number of places on the way from La Paz to here on Banderas Bay," Arjan Bok, the San Francisco owner of the Schionning 43 cat Rot Kat told Latitude about a week ago.
The recent voyages of Russian-born sailor Rimas Meleshyus, 63, have garnered widespread interest within the sailing community, not because he has proven to be a great mariner, but because despite having virtually no training or previous offshore experience, he has survived thousands of miles of open-ocean sailing aboard a tiny trailer-sailer.
Steve Carroll’s Tule Fog was one of 16 Express 27s racing in the BYC Midwinters on Saturday, a civilized day for sailing on the Berkeley Circle.
Jonathan and Rebecca Mote and their six-month-old Morkie, Pirate, of the Corona del Mar-based Jeanneau 42DS Serendipity relax in Turtle Bay during the Baja Ha-Ha.
Two weeks after departing from Bahia Caraquez, Equador, on a solo, nonstop lap around the planet aboard the Baba 40 Sailor’s Run, West Coast sailor Jeff Hartjoy, 69, reports that the sailing thus far has been "some of the very best I have ever done."
For cruising sailors the annual Sailors’ Spash and Banderas Bay Blast are great fun without the pressure of serious racing.
Merlin finishing the 1977 Transpac, captured by an unknown photographer. © Wizard Yachts, Ltd.
The first week of the 12th Transat Jacques Vabre was full of doom and gloom; two autumn gales led the way to a flipped maxi-tri, several broken boats, a half-sunk Hugo Boss, and several sailors enduring dramatic helicopter rescues at sea.
Profligate, fleeing the temperate zone for the tropics, despite the danger of sailing off the curve of the earth. 
This boat is surrounded by either a flood or a drought. Since it’s in California… latitude/JR
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC In addition to the much more dire consequences of the California drought, lake sailing has suffered.
Peter Boland and Erik Pavelka’s J/80 Acqua Veloce raced in SYC’s chilly, foggy, drizzly first Midwinter race on the first day of November.
Doing their best impression of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the 1953 classic From Here to Eternity, this unidentified couple gets an A for effort. 
We were on the Baja Ha-Ha when we read in ‘Lectronic that Bill Lee had bought Merlin, the ultralight sled that he’d designed and built in 1977, and that he had trucked back to Santa Cruz with an eye to doing the 2017 Transpac.
These days, historical milestones seem to pop up every few weeks on the evening news.