Posts by LaDonna
Communications & E-Nav Seminar Tonight
The Singlehanded Sailing Society is presenting one of the most important seminars for this summer’s Singlehanded TransPac: Communications and Electronic Navigation. Each year the race sees at least one entrant suffer communication problems, so if you’re planning to sail to Hawaii this summer, it’s worth your time to hit this talk. More »
Waterspout Seen Off La Cruz
This waterspout touched down near La Cruz on Friday morning but caused no damage.
© 2010 Jim Casey
The west coast of North America is no stranger to crazy natural disasters — floods, wildfires, hurricanes and, of course, earthquakes, to name a few — but it’s not often home to waterspouts. More »
Jessica Watson Rounds Cape Horn
Ella’s Pink Lady surfed her way around Cape Horn in 40 knots of wind on 12- to 15-ft seas.
© 2010 Jessica Watson
On Wednesday evening, 88 days into her attempt to become the youngest solo circumnavigator, 16-year-old Jessica Watson rounded Cape Horn. More »
Bismarck Dinius Files Suit
In the days following his acquittal last August on charges that he was the primary cause of the 2006 death of Lynn Thornton, Bismarck Dinius has tried to pick up the pieces of his life. More »
Your Opinion Really Does Matter
Ask three sailors for their opinions and you’ll likely end up with five different answers. That can be a frightening thought when you’re toying with the idea of surveying your readers about what they like and . More »
The Moonduster Blow-by-Blow
Read Wayne Meretsky’s detailed account of how Moonduster ended up on a reef in Fiji.
© Neria Brewerton
In the January issue of Latitude, we wrote about the unfortunate loss of Wayne Meretsky’s beautiful S&S 47 Moonduster on a Fijian reef during December’s Tropical Cyclone Mick. More »
Ringing in the New Year on Catalina
Wayne and Elly Smith couldn’t tell if they were in California or the Caribbean over New Year’s.
© Elly Smith
Wayne and Elly Smith stopped in the Bay for a few months this fall on their way south from British Columbia aboard their custom Stan Huntingford 47 Zeppelin. More »
What to Read in the Southern Hemisphere
In Friday’s ‘Lectronic, a reader asked if there was a magazine in Sydney similar to Latitude 38. Several people responded, suggesting some possibilities (and making us blush):
"The closest thing I know of to a ‘Latitude 33 South‘ would be The Coastal Passage magazine. More »
Is there a Latitude 33 South?
Reader Jim Barrett posed a question we couldn’t answer. "I enjoy Latitude 38 and was wondering if you might know whether a magazine like yours is published in Sydney, Australia? There are of course similar stateside magazines, and you must at least feel flattered by them, but I’d like to know if Sydney has an equivalent." More »
BMW Oracle Arrives in Spain
Spanish Fly! BMW Oracle’s 100-ft tri was off-loaded from a cargo ship in Valencia on Monday to begin training for the 33rd America’s Cup.
© 2010 Gilles Martin-Raget / BMW Oracle Racing
With a little more than a month before the scheduled start of the 33rd America’s Cup — unless more legal wrangling forces a delay — the BMW Oracle Racing team can finally start testing in European waters. More »
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