Posts by LaDonna
Latitude 38 Now on Facebook & MySpace
We had to recruit a few pre-teen web gurus to help us figure it all out but Latitude 38 finally has fan pages on both Facebook and MySpace. If you have no clue what we’re talking about, you have permission to skip to the next story. More »
Opening Day on the Bay & Delta
This weekend’s forecast of high 60s might make the crew of this parade entry trade in their sarongs for parkas.
PICYA
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC For some ice-bound souls around the world, Opening Day marks the first day they’re actually able to take their boats out for a spin. More »
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC For some ice-bound souls around the world, Opening Day marks the first day they’re actually able to take their boats out for a spin. More »
Moby Dick in Richardson Bay
The ‘ick meter’ was cranked up several notches last week when, on the same day the big wind storm rolled through, a dead gray whale made its smelly way around Richardson Bay. More »
Dinius Trial Date Closing In
Regular ‘Lectronic and Latitude 38 readers know that we’ve steadfastly supported Bismarck Dinius in his fight against vehicular manslaughter charges stemming from the 2006 death of Lynn Thornton. On April 29 of that year, Dinius had sailed in the Konocti Cup on Clear Lake aboard a Catalina 22. More »
Guzzwell Talk Draws a Crowd
John Guzzwell (left) and Clifford Cain both circumnavigated aboard Trekka.
latitude/Rob
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s a pretty amazing evening when many of your heroes gather to celebrate one of their heroes. More »
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s a pretty amazing evening when many of your heroes gather to celebrate one of their heroes. More »
Nataraja Says Goodbye . . . Again
Eric and Emmy acquired a taste for baguettes on their first South Pacific cruise aboard Nataraja in 2000.
latitude/LaDonna
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Eric Willbur and Emmy Newbould are no strangers to the South Pacific. More »
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Eric Willbur and Emmy Newbould are no strangers to the South Pacific. More »
Pirate Hostage Killed in Raid
On April 4, the French-flagged 47-ft Colin Archer-designed Tanit, bound for Kenya and 500 miles off the Somali coast, was seized by Somali pirates who took the yacht’s five passengers — two couples and a three-year-old boy — hostage. More »
More Exposure for Classy Classifieds
In the ‘good old days’, if you wanted to place a Classy Classified, you sent in your ad and payment by the 18th of the month and it would magically appear in the next month’s issue. More »
Oops! We Did It Again
Though we at Latitude 38 do our very best to be perfect, we are, after all, as human as anyone. In April’s Calendar, we listed a Sailing Skills & Seamanship course offered by the USCG Auxiliary for April 8 through May 27. More »
Missing Sailor Found
San Francisco sailor Sean Haggerty, 39, was reported missing last week after he failed to arrive in San Diego on time. The unemployed Haggerty reportedly left the Bay a few weeks ago aboard his Ranger 26 Sea Hag to gunkhole his way down the coast to San Diego, where he had lined up a job. More »
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