Posts by LaDonna
Doo Dah Comes to a Close
The ‘West Marine Contingent’ — Jay and Micah on Moorea, Bruce, Karen and Joshua on Gitana Vela and Doug on Rigel (not all of them work at West Marine) — spent their free days lampin’ in Potato Slough’s Bedroom 2. More »
Dawdling on the Delta
Peter Yates shoehorned 47 boats into Boyd’s Harbor on Bethel Island Monday afternoon. Locals dropped by all day just to see what the heck was going on with all those masts. More »
Doin’ the Deux
As the fleet sailed out of Richmond, they could see what they were in for just past the bridge: blue skies!
latitude/LaDonna
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Delta Doo Dah Deux kicked off Friday afternoon at a great potluck-cum-skippers’ meeting hosted by Tradewinds Sailing Club and Marina Bay Yacht Harbor. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Delta Doo Dah Deux kicked off Friday afternoon at a great potluck-cum-skippers’ meeting hosted by Tradewinds Sailing Club and Marina Bay Yacht Harbor. More »
Sailboat Beaches on Oregon Coast
Around 8 a.m. Friday morning, the Oregon State Police received a report of a beached sailboat in Newport. According to the OSP, a 77-year-old retired physician from Bellevue, WA was singlehanding his 38-ft liveaboard sailboat down the coast and, after going below to sleep, his boat ran up on the beach. More »
Delta Doo Dah Deux to Decamp
The blue dots in the wall of fog off Sausalito are ships. Time to fire up the AIS!
© 2010 Hi-Def San Francisco
If you’re wondering what that grey box is up there, it’s an image taken from a high-definition web cam mounted in the Sausalito hills overlooking the Bay. More »
It’s a Dog-Eat-Dog World
“Trim that sheet, you scurvy dog!” Peaches ‘mans’ her post.
© 2010 Randi Harry
When we posted the story about Bryan and Jennifer Saulsbury’s Portuguese water dog Barley, we had no idea emotions on the topic would run so high. More »
Close Encounter of the Cetacean Kind
Tim Sell reports having seen hundreds of orcas in Alaska and B.C., but none played with him like this one did off Pt. Arena.
© 2010 Tim Sell
Sausalito sailor Tim Sell has kept his Brent Swain 36 Lucky Star in Southeast Alaska for the last three years, spending the summers exploring that state’s spectacular waterways while wintering in Sausalito. More »
Last Chance to Do the Deux
The 2nd Annual Delta Doo Dah is fast approaching — the event runs July 31-August 6, with the Kickoff Party the evening of July 30 at Tradewinds Sailing in Marina Bay Yacht Harbor — and considering the overcast and chilly temps we’ve been seeing on the Bay over the last few days, a week of sun and fun in the Delta looks mighty appealing right about now. More »
Viral Videos
Debunking all the Photoshop theories floating around about the whale-sailboat collision in the above story, CBS has acquired actual video of the incident.
That amazing video reminded us that we’ve watched a number of very cool videos recently, so we thought we’d show you a handful. More »
Man’s Best Trimmer
Bryan and Jennifer Saulsbury often sail their Glen Cove-based Cal 2-27 Boris on the Carquinez Straits, but frequently take longer trips to China Camp, Petaluma and Angel Island. Barley strikes his pose on the windward side and enjoys the ride. More »
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