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Weekend Warriors Win Whitbread

March 7, 2016
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. More »

Another Way

March 4, 2016
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. latitude/John A.
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC How did you start sailing? More »

Hold Fast Film Screening

March 2, 2016
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 More »

Mummy Sailing a Ghost Ship

It could be the title of a B movie from the mid-20th century, but — to all reports — it’s a true story. Last sighted in 2009, the ghost ship in question is a 40-ft sailboat named Sayo, sailed by the now-mummified German singlehander Manfred Fritz Bajorat. More »

Hawaii Opening Weekend

February 29, 2016
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. More »

Land Rover BAR Takes Oman

Despite the soft breeze, the AC45F cats were able to get up on foils yesterday. © Ricardo Pinto / ACEA The first real competition in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series was sailed in light air over the weekend off Muscat, Oman. More »

March Latitude Out Tomorrow

As the March cover of Latitude 38 might suggest, among the many sailing stories within will be one about the Three Bridge Fiasco. latitude/Annie
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Someone — not us — inserted an extra day into the month of February this year, but no worries, March 1 is tomorrow and that’s when the March issue of Latitude 38 will begin appearing in all the usual places. More »
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Big Swell Captures Cat

 
Thursday’s big swell also affected the Big Island of Hawaii, as this catamaran entering Kona’s Honokohau Harbor demonstrates. More »

America’s Cup Racing Resumes

February 26, 2016
The Cup arrives in Muscat’s Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque for a photo shoot. Left to right: Glenn Ashby, skipper of ETNZ; Adam Minoprio, who is taking the place of the injured Franck Cammas in Oman only for Groupama Team France; Dean Barker, SoftBank Team Japan skipper and CEO; Jimmy Spithill, Oracle Team USA skipper; Sir Ben Ainslie, Land Rover BAR skipper; Iain Percy, Artemis Racing team manager. More »

Racing into PV

February 24, 2016
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 More »