Posts by John Arndt
Earthquake: Barra de Navidad
Baja Ha-Ha vet and Mexico cruising aficionado Pat McIntosh of Sacramento wrote us on Friday: "Good morning, at 8 a.m. (+/-), about an hour ago, we had a bit of a jolt this morning, not sure where it was centered. More »
Boats on the Beach
When settlers first arrived on the shores of New England a few hundred years ago, they said lobsters were so plentiful they’d just wash up on the beach after a storm. More »
Playing Hooky? Who Needs Weekends?
It’s been a terrible winter for skiing but pretty sweet for sailing. Driving out of San Francisco on Wednesday we noticed a few boats were ‘playing hooky’ and snagging a little hump-day sailing. More »
Oops! The Waterfront Changed Again
One of our readers called the other day with a ‘hot tip’: He went by his favorite Latitude 38 pickup joint, Western Boat & Tackle on Third Street in San Rafael, where readers have been picking up Latitude for about 40 years, and found the magazines but not the business. More »
Relief: The February ‘Latitude’ Is Out
We always look forward to the beginning of the month, when we can put a fresh magazine on the top of the stack in the ‘reading room’. As always (or almost always), the current issue of Latitude 38 hits the streets on the first of the month, with our drivers dropping off stacks all over the San Francisco Bay Area on yet another sunny winter day. More »
How Regattas Succeed
Most regattas succeed with a few basic ingredients — a good venue, decent sailing conditions and good race committee work, but, as always, the most important ingredient is the people. It’s the people who step up to organize the event and invite attendance, and the people who show up to participate. More »
Would You Like to Sail?
While visiting the Berkeley waterfront, we stopped by the little club that’s launched thousands of sailors. Walking into the grounds, we found Anthony and Daniel busily doing some weekday maintenance on Cal Sailing Club’s eclectic fleet of boats. More »
Crushing Issue
Here’s a new one for us. On Monday, December 22, Greg Quilici received a message from Sausalito Yacht Harbor that his boom had fallen through the hard-top dodger of his Catalina 445 Blue Seaclusion. More »
Alert: Change in Mexico Tourist Visas
We just got off the phone with Fito Espinosa, harbormaster at Marina Coral in Ensenada, who was bringing us up to date with an important clarification in the procedure for acquiring a tourist visa for cruisers entering Mexico. More »
Westpoint Harbor Woes, Again
On Thursday, January 18 Mark Sanders and Westpoint Harbor once again squared off against the Enforcement Committee of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC). Although the Enforcement Committee voted 5-0 in November 2017 to refer their Cease and Desist Order (CDO) for consideration by the full Commission at the January 18 meeting, that order was withdrawn and replaced with a revised CDO on January 8, 2018. More »
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