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Solo TransPac Comm Seminar

March 12, 2012
You don’t have to be racing to Hawaii this summer to attend Wednesday’s free ‘Communications’ seminar presented by Paul Elliott as part of the Singlehanded TransPac seminar series. Elliott has sailed in the last three Pacific Cups aboard his Sausalito-based Pacific Seacraft 44 Valis and will be once again acting as comm boat for this year’s running of the race, as he has for the last two years. More »
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Dolphins Rescued in Brazil

March 9, 2012
No experience is quite like hanging over the side of your boat as a pod of dolphin squirm and play and splash in your bow wake — the sheer joy they so clearly take in showing off can’t help but be contagious. More »

Watch Out for Whales

"There’s a whale out there," exclaimed an attendee at Wednesday’s Spring Crew List Party. That was the first we’d heard of the mother grey and her calf that have been delighting the public with their presence for the last few days. More »

Sail a Small Boat Day Fun

March 7, 2012
A WETA tri was among the small boats available to try out on Saturday. © Tracey Berntsen Richmond YC’s annual Sail a Small Boat Day, held last Saturday, was by all accounts a tremendous success. More »

Spring Crew List Party Tonight

Get to know new crewmembers over a cold beverage tonight at our Spring Crew List Party. latitude/LaDonna
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC One bad apple can spoil the bunch, and the same holds true for crewmembers. More »

Doo Dah Registration to Open Soon

March 5, 2012
Don’t miss out on some Delta fun this summer in the Delta Doo Dah ‘Fab Four’! latitude/LaDonna
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC "Say, when are you guys opening up registration for the Delta Doo Dah," asks Maria Braska. More »

March Latitude 38 Ready to Read

March 2, 2012
Yesterday our delivery trucks were scurrying all over the Bay Area delivering the March issue of Latitude 38. If you live outside the Area and have a good internet connection, you don’t have to wait for snail mail to deliver your copy — you can read the entire issue, photos and all, right on your computer! More »

Missing Mexico Cruiser

Donn Pinkney hasn’t been seen since leaving Manzanillo Bay on February 20. Finesse (not the boat in the photo) washed ashore a few days ago at La Ticla. Finesse
©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Friends and family of Donn Pinkney are asking for help in the search for the 43-year-old sailor who left Manzanillo on February 20 aboard his Catalina 27 Finesse bound for Zihuatanejo. More »

No Rehab for Piers 30-32

February 29, 2012
If anyone really thought the America’s Cup could be pulled off without facing a lawsuit or two, they don’t know San Francisco politics. In what appears to be an attempt at a shocking coup de grâce, former president of the Board of Supes Aaron Peskin filed a suit last week — the day before the deadline to challenge the EIR — on behalf of Waterfront Watch, claiming "procedural violations" in the way the EIR was developed and approved. More »