Posts by John Arndt
Diamond in the Rough?
Looking at any collection of aging sailboats tarnished by years of sailing, sun and salt, it would be easy to be dismayed by their loss from active sailing fleets. Yet many sailors know some boats simply are beyond repair. More »
Pacific Crossing Question
Malcolm Leth of the Jeanneau 39 Dancia from Brisbane, Australia, is getting ready to join the Pacific Puddle Jump currently underway from the West Coast. He wrote in to ask, "Do you have longitude degrees that most sailors prefer to transit across the equator to the south in the PPJ? I More »
San Francisco Bay Whale Sighting
Mel Ellison sent this shot with a note, "I managed to snap a photo of a humpback whale coming under the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday and thought your readers might be interested. More »
Pac52s Ready to Rumble
All four of the new Pac 52 box-rule class boats are now in San Diego in preparation for the start of their first season, which will kick off with San Diego Yacht Club’s Yachting Cup on May 5-7. More »
Lookin’ Good in a Knarr
The San Francisco Knarr fleet is one of the most active, most competitive, most beautiful and longest-lived fleets on the Bay. They’ve been sailing on the Bay for more than 50 years and regularly field fleets of 15-20+ boats. More »
Message in a Bottle
Sailors have long followed the tradition of putting a message in a bottle and hurling it into the sea, sometimes as a call for help after being stranded on a deserted island, sometimes just to see where it goes. More »
Infamous Boat Changes Hands
Roger Ruud, our 2016 King of the Beer Cans, stopped by the booth during the Pacific Boat Show while shopping for gear for his new-to-him 1987 Nordic 40 hull #26, now named Mystic. More »
Sausalito Midweek Escape to the Bay
Sausalito Yacht Club’s every-other-week Sunset Series began last night with classic, breezy Knox-racing-area conditions. Sailing on San Francisco Bay is never better, and it makes for an ideal excuse to disentangle from your devices and take an early ‘hump day’. More »
Budgets as Clear as Mud
There is federal money available to dredge silted-up Bay Area waterways, but boaters will have to act fast, before April 28!
If you’ve never sailed up the San Rafael Canal to Terrapin Crossroads let this sailboat serve as a warning. More »
Happy Anniversary
While adjusting the dials on the ‘wayback’ machine as we dug into the archives for stories and anecdotes for Latitude 38’s 40th-anniversary features, we discovered we’re sharing our decade anniversary with a good number of other businesses and organizations that also started in years ending in the lucky number ‘7’. More »
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