Posts by Christine Weaver
Lighted Boats Brighten December
With the first weekend in December comes the first batch of holiday lighted boat parades, the nautical contribution to brightening the year’s darkest month.
Sailors have an advantage over powerboaters in lighted boat parades — they can get creative with the rigging. More »
December Latitudes Out and About
The December issue of Latitude 38 hit the somewhat chilly docks of the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday, and has been shipped and mailed to ports beyond our horizon. Within the magazine’s pages, you’ll find a comprehensive recap of the Baja Ha-Ha, the second batch of profiles of Season Champions, tips and tricks for Mastering Mal de Mer, and Seeing Red with Max Ebb, plus Calendar, Letters, Sightings, Racing Sheet, World of Chartering, and Changes in Latitudes. More »
Injury Sidelines Cammas
French skipper Franck Cammas won the Little America’s Cup, with Louis Viat, in September.
© 2015 Yvan Zedda / Groupama
If most any of us weekend warriors fell off a boat while sailing and got hit by the rudder, we’d likely come away with a serious injury only if we took the blow with our head. More »
Sailing Resolutions for 2016
As we slip from November and the conspicuous consumption of turkey and fixin’s into December and the conspicuous consumption of consumer goods, it’s perhaps a good time to look ahead to the following month, when consumption turns to reflection. More »
Jules Verne ‘Race’ Is On
On Sunday at 4:01:58 GMT, the trimaran Spindrift 2 crossed the start line that runs from Créac’h lighthouse (Ushant Island, France) to Lizard Point (Cornwall) for the start of her crewed nonstop circumnavigation. More »
November Classics
Steve Carroll’s Tule Fog was one of 16 Express 27s racing in the BYC Midwinters on Saturday, a civilized day for sailing on the Berkeley Circle.
© Erik Simonson
Each fall, Latitude 38 trots out that old saw about how the wind is usually lighter and the winter season is a good time for newbies to try racing. More »
Sailing Just Got Real
Virtual reality just got more real for sailors, thanks to filmmaker Alex Pearce. Just check out this video of him sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge aboard his Sausalito-based Cascade 36 LaDonna Jean. More »
Triumph in the Transat Jacques Vabre
The first week of the 12th Transat Jacques Vabre was full of doom and gloom; two autumn gales led the way to a flipped maxi-tri, several broken boats, a half-sunk Hugo Boss, and several sailors enduring dramatic helicopter rescues at sea. More »
Midwinters Notebook
Peter Boland and Erik Pavelka’s J/80 Acqua Veloce raced in SYC’s chilly, foggy, drizzly first Midwinter race on the first day of November.
© 2015 Roxanne Fairbairn
Sausalito Yacht Club’s first Chili Midwinter Race kicked off the Bay Area Midwinter season on Sunday, November 1, in a mild southwest wind and building flood. More »
Let the Good Times Roll… and Roll
Flop-stoppers, roll stabilizers, anti-roll devices — whatever you call them, they’re required equipment if you want a good night’s sleep in a rolly anchorage.
latitude/LaDonna
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC Southbound cruisers from Puget Sound or San Francisco Bay are spoiled by placid, lake-like anchorages. More »
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC Southbound cruisers from Puget Sound or San Francisco Bay are spoiled by placid, lake-like anchorages. More »
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