Posts by LaDonna
Pirates Kidnap Four Yachties
A German family of three and their French skipper were sailing a small yacht across the Gulf of Aden on Monday when Somali pirates forced them off their boat, taking them into the hills behind the fishing village of Las Qoray in the Puntland region. More »
Switlik Life Raft Recall
Switlik Parachute Company, makers of Switlik life rafts, has issued a safety alert and recall on all of their liferafts. It seems that inflation valves on the rafts might fail to "operate properly and discharge the gas from the CO2 cylinder into the life raft." More »
Settling In and Breaking Free
Snickers hardly resembles the scroungy emaciated puppy he was just a couple months ago.
© 2008 Marlene Karas & Jack Joslin
We received the following update on Snickers the pup yesterday from Jack Joslin, who spent countless hours working to rescue Snickers and his crewmate Gulliver the parrot after they were shipwrecked and abandoned on Fanning Island last December:
"The Wild Beast of Fanning that arrived at my home in April has gone dormant! More »
Deep Water on KQED
Local PBS station KQED (Channel 9) will be airing Deep Water tonight at 10:30 p.m. The moving documentary about Donald Crowhurt’s doomed efforts in the first non-stop around-the-world singlehanded race was released last year to rave reviews and is a ‘must see’ — if you can’t stay up till midnight, this one is definitely worth finally figuring out how to use your TiVo. More »
Going Green
Global climate change has been a hot topic for several years but with the skyrocketing costs of fuel in the U.S., more and more Americans are looking to reduce their ‘carbon footprints’ by limiting their reliance on fossil fuels. More »
Five Sailors Rescued, One Perishes
Texas A&M’s entry, Cynthia Woods, at the start of the 40th annual Regata de Amigos.
Texas A&M University
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Regata de Amigos, a 610-mile race from Galveston, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico, turned deadly Friday night for Texas A&M Univerity’s entry, Cynthia Woods, just hours after the race’s 2 p.m. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Regata de Amigos, a 610-mile race from Galveston, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico, turned deadly Friday night for Texas A&M Univerity’s entry, Cynthia Woods, just hours after the race’s 2 p.m. More »
NOAA Charts on Google Earth
Take a Google Earth image, lay a NOAA chart over it, and you get the latest weapon in the arsenal of computer-aided navigation. French company Magic Instinct Software has created a "mash-up" of more than 1,000 NOAA raster charts for the entire coastline of the U.S. More »
Adventures in Glacier Bay
Tim Sell’s Lucky Star anchored in an idyllic cove in Glacier Bay.
© 2008 Tim Sell
Last spring, longtime Sausalito diver Tim Sell sailed his Brent Swain 36 Lucky Star to Juneau, Alaska, spending the summer exploring the area and the winter trying to stay warm. More »
Pterodactyl Spotted by the Navy
When Luc de Faymoreau watched his Olson 40 Pterodactyl sail away without him after he and his crew were washed overboard (and subsequently rescued by another boat) during March 29’s Doublehanded Farallones Race, he was confident that his insurance company would pay for the search and salvage. More »
June Issue Hits the Streets
The June issue of Latitude 38 is being distributed to all the usual outlets around the Bay today, just in time for the weekend. Check out the action at last weekend’s Master Mariners regatta, plan your Delta vacation, see if our cameras caught your boat out on the Bay, and much more! More »
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