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Alex Thomson, skipper, stuntman and male model for Hugo Boss, is always nattily attired for his stunts.©
Early last week, friends of 63-year-old Russian-born sailor Rimas Meleshyus became concerned, as no one seems to know what became of him or his vintage Rawson 30 Mimsy since departing a Schoonmaker Marina end-tie March 7 during a northerly rainstorm.
Jim Clark’s J Class Hanuman, racing in the Caribbean. latitude/Richard
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC The battle for Owner of the Longest Cumulative Total Feet of Epic Sailing Yachts (OLCTFESY) is, to the best of Latitude’s knowledge, between two men who soared from rags — or at least moderate circumstances — to vast riches thanks to enterprises founded in the Bay Area.
Patsy ‘La Reina de la Mer’ Verhoeven’s Gulfstar 50 Talion will be one of at least eight yachts leaving La Paz for the South Pacific this spring. 
"US Sailing has created an online version of their Coastal Safety at Sea course which allows sailors to take the course without attending an in-person seminar," writes Chuck Hawley, US Sailing’s committee chair for Safety at Sea.
Aussie cruisers John and Leanne Hembrow strike a pose off the entrance to Moorea’s Opunohu Bay during the 2012 Tahiti-Moorea Sailing Rendez-vous.
Strictly Sail Pacific, the biggest all-sail boat show on the West Coast, will open in less than four weeks: Dates are Thursday, April 7 – Sunday, April 10.
PHOTO It only takes 12 seconds to appreciate the difference in speed between an all-out racing multihull such as Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD70 Phaedo3 and a fast cruising cat such as Greg Slyngstad’s Seattle-based Bieker 53 Fujin, which is the gray-colored boat in the foreground.
Forty-six boatloads of westbound cruisers attended the free Tahiti Bon Voyage seminar and party Sunday at Panama’s Shelter Bay Marina, which lies near the Caribbean entrance to the world-famous Canal.
As you’ve been reading on ‘Lectronic Latitude and in the pages of Latitude 38 magazine, recent developments have put the future of the Alameda Marina at serious risk.
Paul Allen of Santa Cruz was one of the crew on the untouchable Phaedo3, seen here setting an around-the-island record. 
A parade of J/120s at StFYC’s Spring One Design on Sunday, with a parade of J/105s going the opposite way in the background.
The San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, screening on March 10-13 in the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, will include a documentary about the unlikely North American winner of the first Whitbread Round the World Race, Ramon Carlín of Mexico.
The 112-ft LOA brig Lady Washington and 104-ft LOA swift topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain sailed out of Oakland during the last week of February.
In the April issue we’ll be publishing a letter from a reader about being part of a boat partnership that started 50 years ago.
The unusual-looking Fujin up on one hull and moving right along. © 2016 Gold Coast Yachts A lot of skippers — 24 — have gone to the dark side for the 36th annual Heineken Regatta in Sint Maarten this weekend.
It could be the title of a B movie from the mid-20th century, but — to all reports — it’s a true story.
The folks at OCSC, a sailing school in the Berkeley Marina, invite you to come watch a documentary and meet its director, a person with the intriguing name of ‘Moxie Marlinspike’, this Sunday, March 6. Hold
James McDowell’s Corel 45 Heartbeat smashing downwind toward Koko Head at 15 knots. © 2016 Ronnie Simpson While the Bay Area continues to creep toward spring and longer days on the water, the sailing season has already kicked into high gear in the winterless Hawaiian Islands.
 
As the March cover of Latitude 38 might suggest, among the many sailing stories within will be one about the Three Bridge Fiasco.
This photo shows one of several anchorages at Antigua’s Green Island. That’s ‘ti Profligate on the lower left, just in front of the reef.
Laurie and Sonia Haynes’ Australian Fountaine Pajot Bahia 46 Moana Roa makes landfall in French Polynesia.
Mighty Merloe crossed the PV Race finish line Tuesday morning at 8:30. © 2016 John Rogers HL Enloe’s ORMA 60 trimaran Mighty Merloe crossed the finish line of San Diego Yacht Club’s Puerto Vallarta Race at 8:30 Tuesday morning, for an elapsed time of 2 days, 19 hours, and 49 minutes. Their
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