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Frank Slootman was a happy man after launching, sailing and christening the new Invisible Hand for the debut season of the Pac 52 class.
Divisions 7 and 8 started off Point Fermin on July 16 in the 2015 Transpac.
Hal Fauth’s 72-ft Bella Mente, on the way to honors and a near record in sail changes, in the Caribbean 600.
After 10 straight days of rain, Kerry, Shirley (pictured here), Ruthie and Terena took the 42-ft one-off cutter Cetacea out to soak up some sunshine.
Conrad Colman finished the Vendée Globe today under jury rig with two biscuits to spare.
It’s just our opinion of course, but isn’t Sailing Yacht A ugly on a stick?
"Yes!" reads the encouraging word on Conrad Colman’s ‘main’.
© Conrad Colman
Dismasted on Friday, February 10, off the coast of Portugal with more than 700 miles to go to finish the solo nonstop Vendée Globe in Les Sables d’Olonne, France, Kiwi-American Conrad Colman set up a jury rig and vowed to finish the 27,440-mile race around the planet.
For the third year in a row, Lloyd Thornburg’s St. Barth/Santa Fe/Newport Beach-based MOD70 trimaran Phaedo3 has taken elapsed-time honors in the grueling RORC Caribbean 600 race.
When racing everyone likes to be on the right side of a lift, and the US Sailing National Sailing Programs Symposium was on the right side.
The view of the start of the Caribbean 600, as viewed from Block House.
Young scholars enjoy a pleasure cruise around Zihua Bay aboard the big daysail cat Picante.
Recovery efforts for an Etchells oopsy.
© Jillian Humphreys
This Jimmy Warfield Etchells, owned by two board members of Stockton Sailing Club, looks as if it was knocked over in one of the storms that have been pummeling California, but actually what happened is that someone drove off with the hoist still attached to the boat’s lifting harness.
On Tuesday, the Coast Guard issued a warning to mariners about debris in the California Delta.
What’s wrong with this photo?
Clipper Race sailor Gavin Reid climbs the mast of a stranger’s boat to go to the aid of a crewman stuck at the top.
An outrigger sailing canoe glides across the Moorea lagoon. The island of Tahiti lies in the background, 12 miles away.
"Now that the days are starting to become a little longer and dare I say drier soon, we’ll be hopefully enjoying some late afternoon and early evening sailing once again," writes Chuck Bullett, vice commodore of Berkeley Yacht Club.
Former Point Richmond cruiser Antonia Murphy stands in the doorway of the one-bedroom brothel she co-owns in Whangarei.
The young solo skipper Conrad Colman, after dismasting in the North Atlantic Ocean on February 10.
Over the weekend, docks in the Bay Area were bustling with activity, as we were blessed by two splendid, sunny days, after enduring weeks of almost nonstop rainstorms.
"A new race is being formulated to run from San Francisco to Ensenada, Mexico.
Wood from the Guayacan tree is perfect for both sailors and cops.
Jack van Ommen
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC It looks as though Latitude’s great friend Jack van Ommen of the Gig Harbor, Washington-based Naja 30 Fleetwood will not make it “around the world in 80 years” as he had hoped.
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC It looks as though Latitude’s great friend Jack van Ommen of the Gig Harbor, Washington-based Naja 30 Fleetwood will not make it “around the world in 80 years” as he had hoped.
When you have a trimaran such as Phaedo3 that can hit 40 knots, you can quickly cover a lot of ground between race venues.
The Pacific Cup Yacht Club has posted the official Notice of Race and registration is open for the 2018 Pacific Cup.
Our February Calendar listed an incorrect date for Corinthian YC’s Speaker Series event featuring Dirk Rosen of MARE.
Ex-president Barack Obama was all smiles after successfully learning to kiteboard in the BVI’s Gorda Sound — for which he scores big points in our book.
When a boat washes up on Bay Area shorelines it is the owner’s legal responsibility to remove it.
Good news for the weekend: not only is the weather predicted to clear, but the hoist at Alameda Marina is back in action.
Balboa YC in Corona del Mar will host the 2017 Youth Match Racing World Championship on July 30-August 5.
During Latitude 38’s early years one of the most challenging editorial efforts was reporting on the December 1982 storm that devastated the Cabo San Lucas anchorage.
In the January 18 ‘Lectronic Latitude, we asked the following quiz question: ‘What is the official maritime rule most often broken by sailors?’
During the years that we’ve been editing Latitude 38’s Calendar, we’ve noticed that a mustering of energy in preparation for the spring sailing season manifests itself as a spate of seminars during the break between the holidays and the beginning of evening beer can racing.
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