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Posts by Andy Turpin

Beware of King Tides This Week

December 12, 2012
Walkway to nowhere? No, it’s a pedestrian ramp at the St. Francis YC boat basin during last year’s King Tides. © Matt Richardson If you woke up this morning and saw that sea water had encroached onto roadways and walking paths where it doesn’t normally travel, you may have been tempted to think those much-publicized doomsday predictions — asserting that the world will come to an end in late December — might actually be true. More »

Solo Sailor Rescued; Typhoon Bopha Update

December 7, 2012
Sailor James Blackford is making an unplanned trip to Japan this week aboard the motor vessel Global Explorer. Although a visit to that island nation probably wasn’t part of Blackford’s original cruising itinerary, we’ll bet he’s not complaining. More »

Pacific Puddle Jump Dates Set

December 5, 2012
As Tahitian drummers pound out an ancient cadence, a Puddle Jumper arrives at Moorea’s Opunohu Bay during the annual Tahiti-Moorea Sailing Rendezvous. latitude/Andy
©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s no easy trick to get all the elements of your life to line up in such a way that you can sneak off and go cruising for a few years. More »

Drying Out After a Wet, Wild Weekend

December 3, 2012
This wooden double-ender wound up wedged under a dock at a Belvedere home Saturday morning. © 2012 Tim Sell Bay Area sailors who’d been curious about the effectiveness of their cockpit scuppers and bilge pumps got their answers over the weekend, as the final volley of a three-storm series walloped the region with torrents of rain and gusts higher than 50 knots. More »

December Latitude is Out Today

November 30, 2012
Although you may have to wade through hip-deep water to get yours, the December edition of Latitude 38 is being distributed today in the Bay Area and beyond. latitude/Annie
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Inside, you’ll find our usual mix of racing news, cruising reports, chartering advice and news updates, plus an interview with Webb Chiles, a complete Baja Ha-Ha XIX Recap, and Max Ebb’s thoughts on holiday gift-giving. More »

27th ARC Rally Sails From the Canaries

November 28, 2012
Now celebrating its 27th year, the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) got underway from the Canary Islands yesterday with a fleet of 192 boats from at least 29 countries. Seen here shortly after yesterday’s start, crew of the British yacht Talulah RubyII was revved up and ready for the 2,700-mile crossing. More »

Artemis’ Big Cat Tests Bay Waters

November 19, 2012
Artemis Racing’s big cat was looking awesome as she plied Bay waters last week. © Sander van der Borch It’s a bird. . . It’s a plane. . . No, it’s Artemis Racing’s sleek new AC72 testing the waters of San Francisco Bay. More »

A Petition For Justice

Regular readers will recall our previous posts on the fate of the famous Sausalito-based schooner Lord Jim. Since hitting an unmarked rock off the coast of Brazil in 2007, she and her owners, Holger Kreuzhage and Tracy Brown, have endured an ordeal so complex and twisted that it sounds more like the plot for a novel than reality.  More »