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Posts by John Arndt

SF Bay Folkboat International Regatta

August 28, 2017
Somewhere in the photo below is a Folkboat International champion — we just don’t know who it is yet. Smiles and a friendly wave start the Folkboat festivities.  latitude/John
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC The San Francisco Bay Folkboat International Regatta starts today at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon with sailors here from Denmark, England, Germany, Sweden and the US. More »

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To go to the Facebook Event page, click here. © South Beach Yacht Club More »

Texas Boaters Brace for Hurricane Harvey

August 25, 2017
We were on the phone with a marine insurance company in Florida yesterday when they mentioned they’d just received a call from a client in Texas. The client went out of his way to notify the company that he was overnighting his insurance payment. More »

The Long Way

August 21, 2017
We were walking down the dock at Schoonmaker Point Marina in Sausalito when Colin Cashmore of the Dickson 60 Avant Garde popped his head out of the fo’c’sle. He told us that he and his wife Marion had been in town just one week after a brisk sail down from Seattle. More »

Seriously? Another Navy Collision?

We still can’t believe this morning’s New York Times headline: Rescuers Seek 10 Missing Sailors After US Navy Ship and Tanker Collide. We first thought it was a follow-up about the recent collision of the USS Fitzgerald in June, but today’s Times story involved a completely different destroyer, the apparently ‘unguided’ guided-missile destroyer John S. More »