Posts by John Arndt
It’s a Small World
Cruising sailors know that if you stay close to the water, you’ll regularly cross tacks in harbors anywhere in the world. So it was no surprise when we were standing at the Latitude 38 table at the Baja Ha-Ha kick-off party in San Diego that a woman came up and found her cover shot on our new backdrop. More »
Everybody Loves a Parade
On Monday, the almost 170 boats signed up for the 2018 Baja Ha-Ha fleet will officially kick off the Mexico cruising season as they gather off Shelter Island for start of the 25th annual Baja Ha-Ha. More »
Extremely Light
Sailors should know better than to expect wind just because they’ve planned a big weekend of racing. And they do. For last weekend’s Extreme Sailing Series, race villages were set up, boats were tuned up and sailing fans appeared along the shore despite a shortage of wind to help the speedy MC32 cats leap onto their foils. More »
A Win/Win in the Leukemia Cup Regatta
If you sailed this weekend, you enjoyed another spectacular weekend of fall sailing on the Bay. And if you sailed in Saturday’s Perkins Cup or Sunday’s Leukemia Cup Regatta, bonus! You were one of the many sailors contributing to the San Francisco Bay Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. More »
Mexico Braces for Back-to-Back Storms
This year’s 23rd Pacific tropical storm has become a Category 5 hurricane, and is expected to make landfall between Mazatlán and Puerto Vallarta tomorrow afternoon. Hurricane Willa “is on track to be one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the Pacific coast of Mexico,” according to CNN. More »
A Gathering of the Cal 40s
One hundred eight Cal 40s were built since they were introduced in 1963 and finished production in 1971, and, at the time, they were considered a radical design. Fifty-five years later they continue to inspire sailors and make themselves known on the race course and the world’s oceans. More »
New Nonprofit to File Lawsuit Against BCDC
Good things often emerge in the face of adversity.
We have been reporting on the aggressive tactics of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, or BCDC, regarding Westpoint Harbor in Redwood City, and against John Sweeney at Point Buckler in Suisuin Bay. More »
Destination Drake’s Bay
What a difference a Bay makes. This past weekend we joined our friends, Randy and Jennifer Gridley, for a weekend ‘sail’ up to Drake’s Bay aboard their Sabre 38 Aegea. The forecast was good and the local destination ideal for a weekend great escape. More »
Foiling Cats to Return to the Bay
Surprise. After the 2013 America’s Cup on San Francisco Bay and local disappointment over moving the 2017 Cup to Bermuda, it felt like we’d never see Larry Ellison, Russell Coutts and their foiling spectacle on the Bay again. More »
Windless Lake Garda Latitudes
Nothing to report here, except that Baja Ha-Ha and Mexico cruising veterans Carole and Pat McIntosh headed out to visit the famed sailing site and found it glassy calm. Perhaps they’re Photoshopping all those fabulous sailing images? More »
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