Posts by LaDonna
Real Life ‘Lost’
Imagine you’re on an idyllic crossing, halfway between Hawaii and Fiji. The sky and sea are impossible shades of blue, the wind fills your sails, and life couldn’t get much better. More »
At Rainbow’s End
A day like today makes sailors long to find their pot of gold so they can head somewhere warm. But you can’t have rainbows without a little rain, so while today’s forecast for the Bay Area is drippy, the rest of the week should be sunny and in the low 70s. More »
Provisioning Seminar Tonight at OYC
With start of the Singlehanded TransPac just over a month away, skippers are undoubtedly getting ready to start provisioning for their solo run to Kauai. Instead of just packing your boat with protein powder and Gatorade, stop by the Oakland YC tonight for the race’s Provisioning and Return Options seminar. More »
Vote for the Boat
Adventuress was a work boat on San Francisco Bay for many years before being taken to Seattle. She was restored in the ’70s by Ernestine Bennett and has been a youth training boat since. More »
Embezzling Yacht Brokers Sentenced
Former long-time Sausalito yacht brokers Clay and Teresa Prescott were each sentenced yesterday to eight months in the county jail for stealing more than $200,000 from their clients. They must also pay restitution. More »
Extreme Sailing for the Potter Yachters
Those Potter Yachters sure do get around. If they’re not getting stuck in South Bay mud or exploring the Mothball Fleet, they’re getting their transoms handed to them on Monterey Bay or scooting up-Delta in search of back issues of Latitude. More »
Plastiki Reaches Christmas Island
After leaving the Bay on March 20, Plastiki racked up an impressive 92-mile-per-day average.
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©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC After 39 days and 3,600 miles, Plastiki made landfall at Christmas Island on Wednesday. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC After 39 days and 3,600 miles, Plastiki made landfall at Christmas Island on Wednesday. More »
Pier 1½ to Reopen Next Week
In December, fierce storms damaged one of the Bay’s more popular stops: Pier 1½. Though not completely closed, the outermost half of the 180-ft public dock has been roped off, leaving only the inner portion available to boaters. More »
Ski/Sail Gets Banner Conditions
The Laser and Vanguard 15 fleets get mixed up on Lake Tahoe at Ski/Sail.
© Darren Kramer
Eleven Lasers and eight Vanguard 15s showed up at Lake Tahoe this weekend for Ski/Sail the one-of-a-kind triathlon regatta you won’t find anywhere else. More »
An Evening of Hope for Haiti
While today’s headlines are more likely to be about Tiger Woods’ sex life than about Haiti, relief efforts spawned by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake — which killed more than 150,000 people and devastated the impovershed nation on January 12 — are on-going. More »
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