Latitude Nation, here’s your November Caption Contest(!). This is our first-ever photo from the Facebook Yacht Club, so we cannot attribute this shot to any one person — but thanks to reader Jere Visalli for sending it in.

In the ‘old days’, a lot of deals were formed in secretive, smoke-filled rooms.

Readers — after having light wind and an even lighter Internet connection, the Grand Poobah has sent this 25th Anniversary Baja Ha-Ha postgame analysis: A quarter century of Baja Ha-Ha’s — the 750-mile cruisers’ rally between San Diego and Cabo San Lucas with R&R stops at Turtle Bay and Bahia Santa Maria — is now part of sailing history.

Westpoint and BCDC Closer to Settlement Westpoint Harbor and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission are one step closer to reaching a settlement.

The past few weeks have seen a flurry of women’s regattas in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Southland.

It’s not often that we get to write about local cruising, but it’s nice to be reminded that you can.

This 11th edition of the Route du Rhum solo transatlantic race has been a challenging one for the competitors and their boats.

 

A bond measure passed yesterday that will put over $400 million into repairing the Embarcadero seawall in San Francisco.

West Marine issued a brief statement on Tuesday saying CEO Doug Robinson has left the company after less than a year in the post.

Perhaps the biggest race most Americans have never heard of is about to get underway in France.

Here are some news nuggets for your Friday: Coast Guard Comes to Aid of Diabetic Sailor off Eureka On Wednesday, the Coast Guard came to the assistance of a sailor onboard a 29-ft sailboat off Patrick’s Point, near Trinidad, California, just north of Eureka.

On Monday we challenged you to test your nautical knowledge by playing along with Richmond Yacht Club’s Great Pumpkin Regatta trivia quiz.

After decades of passionate debate, the fate of Marin County’s most contentious piece of water seems poised to change, at least in Sausalito waters.

Max Perez of the Pearson 303 Olive filed this report on his solo Delta Doo Dah cruise this summer: I had far too brief a trip to the western part of the Delta this year in late June.

  Cruising sailors know that if you stay close to the water, you’ll regularly cross tacks in harbors anywhere in the world.

Halloween Mist on San Francisco Bay “No fog machine needed for this event!”

There’s a whole lot of racing going on at Richmond Yacht Club’s Great Pumpkin on the last weekend in October, but it’s also one of the busiest regattas we can think of in terms of extracurricular fun.

Midwinters Don’t be afraid, but here comes ‘winter. Not the actual calendar season — the winter solstice is still 53 days away — but the midwinter racing season.

Hurricane Willa underwent an expected weakening as it approached the Pacific Coast of Mainland Mexico yesterday, but made landfall packing 120 mile-an-hour winds, and forcing the evacuation of approximately 4,000 people from coastal towns, according to CBS News.

What the heck is the Pacific Puddle Jump? It’s a long-established annual migration of cruising sailors from various ports along the West Coast of the Americas to French Polynesia — an ambitious bluewater crossing of 3,000 to 4,000 miles.

  Sailors should know better than to expect wind just because they’ve planned a big weekend of racing.