Posts by Richard
20 for 20 for Ol’ 63
Profligate, a sometimes sunny place for shady people sailing to Cabo San Lucas.
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©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Thanks to Internet and other issues in Cabo San Lucas, the Baja Ha-Ha photo wrap-up report we’d planned for today has been postponed, and may not even appear until Friday because of a mandatory 300-mile crossing to Puerto Vallarta. More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Thanks to Internet and other issues in Cabo San Lucas, the Baja Ha-Ha photo wrap-up report we’d planned for today has been postponed, and may not even appear until Friday because of a mandatory 300-mile crossing to Puerto Vallarta. More »
Potter-Yachters Stop Traffic
A fleet of West Wight Potters and similar craft approaches the Georgiana Slough bridge, as the bridgetender swings it open to allow the flotilla through.
© Goose Gossman
Twenty boats attended the annual 6-Bridges cruise in the Delta at the end of October. More »
Coville Flying Fast Below the Radar
The 48-year-old Frenchman Thomas Coville departed Brest, on the coast of Brittany, on Sunday, in hopes of a solo around-the-world record aboard Sodebo Ultim’. (The sponsor, Sodebo, is a French packaged-food company.) More »
Two Hulls, Two Big Mahi
Lewis got the ‘mermaid’, the restored cat, and here a whopper of a mahi.
Quixotic
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last fall Tropical Cyclone Winston nailed Fiji, and one of the unfortunate results was something like 21 holes being put in the hull of the Voyager 43 cat Quixote. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last fall Tropical Cyclone Winston nailed Fiji, and one of the unfortunate results was something like 21 holes being put in the hull of the Voyager 43 cat Quixote. More »
Champagne and Sashimi Sailing
The Baja Ha-Ha is a two-week event that, thanks to the nonstop activities, seems as though it’s at least a month long. Now that we’re in (foggy!) Bahia Santa Maria following the second leg, the costume kickoff party in San Diego seems so very long ago. More »
Summerwind Aground in Baja Ha-Ha
The 350-mile San Diego-to-Turtle Bay first leg of the Baja Ha-Ha cruisers’ rally featured the strongest, most consistent leg-long winds in the 23-year history of the event. After a 2.5-hour rolling start — motoring allowed — out of San Diego on Monday morning, the wind filled in nicely to the 18- to 25-knot range, just south of the Coronado Islands. It More »
The Race for Glory Begins
Four years since the last contest and practically two years in the making, the big day is finally upon us. Around the world people are anxiously wondering who will win, weary from the long build-up and preparations of a seemingly endless campaign. More »
Cruising When You Were Young
Romayne and Cameron Riddell, in what the well-dressed cruising kids apparently wore back in the day.
© 2016 Emily Riddell
We love the accompanying photos that were sent to us by Cameron Riddell of Los Angeles. More »
Welcome to La Paz!
Guess what city in Baja is welcoming the Ha-Ha fleet once the event is over?
Cat ‘n About
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC "On the evening of October 24, officials in La Paz unveiled the new ‘La Paz’ sign on the malecon," report Rob and Linda Jones, who left Puget Sound long ago aboard their Gemini 3000 catamaran. More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC "On the evening of October 24, officials in La Paz unveiled the new ‘La Paz’ sign on the malecon," report Rob and Linda Jones, who left Puget Sound long ago aboard their Gemini 3000 catamaran. More »
No, What Are YOU Doing Up at 3 a.m.?
Jeanne Socrates in warmer climes.
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©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Having done more major things in his life during the past week than in any previous one-week period, the Wanderer/Grand Poobah was up at 3 a.m. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Having done more major things in his life during the past week than in any previous one-week period, the Wanderer/Grand Poobah was up at 3 a.m. More »
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