Posts by Richard
‘Cuing with Real Sailors at Two Harbors
Sailors’ Banquet at Two Harbors, starring, from lower left, Doña de Mallora, Susan Wolcott, Sangmi Lee, Larry Potter, Bruce Glass, and Cici Sayer.
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©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC When anchored off Catalina, most nights we go ashore and have a BBQ at Two Harbors, inviting which ever friends happen to be around. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC When anchored off Catalina, most nights we go ashore and have a BBQ at Two Harbors, inviting which ever friends happen to be around. More »
Mexico Cruising Photo Quiz
This isn’t a game of Where’s Waldo, but rather if you know your anchorages in Mexico. Where’s Profligate?
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©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC If you think you’ve "been everywhere in Mexico" with your boat, you should be able to identify the anchorage Profligate is at in the above photo. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC If you think you’ve "been everywhere in Mexico" with your boat, you should be able to identify the anchorage Profligate is at in the above photo. More »
Teapot Tony to Join the Swinging Sixties
Happy Birthday, and welcome to the Sixties!
© 2008 Ronnie ‘Tea Lady’
Ronnie ‘Tea Lady’ of Banderas Bay is putting out a call to all friends and clients, old and new, to send her husband, Teapot Tony, a happy birthday, by email or otherwise, by June 26. More »
Looking for Etheral Star in Mexico
Cruisers in Mexico are wondering if anybody has seen Harold Parrett and his green-hulled Newport 30 Etheral Star. Parrett departed Mazatlan on June 14 at about the same time as Ken Douglas on the Astoria-based Pearson 365 Mermaid, both bound for La Paz. More »
A 40-Year Circumnavigation?
Tortuga, seen sailing here on San Francisco Bay, is a sistership to Bag End, which has completed half a circumnavigation.
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©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC "We’re now in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean and have finally crossed the longitude line that means we’ve done at least half a circumnavigation," report Don and Nancy Chism of the Antioch-based Westsail 32 Bag End. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC "We’re now in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean and have finally crossed the longitude line that means we’ve done at least half a circumnavigation," report Don and Nancy Chism of the Antioch-based Westsail 32 Bag End. More »
First Eastern Pacific Tropical Storm of the Season
At first, there wasn’t too much debris getting caught on the yacht club’s offshore docks, or between the docks and boats.
Rhapsody
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Tropical Storm Alma, with winds up to 55 knots, beat the official June 1 start of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season by making an appearance on May 29 and 30th. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Tropical Storm Alma, with winds up to 55 knots, beat the official June 1 start of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season by making an appearance on May 29 and 30th. More »
San Francisco Summer Wear
We all knew that the Southern California-like weather we’ve been having — 85-degree days with little to no wind — wouldn’t last. The brisk summer wind and fog are rolling in, so we’ve stocked our chandlery with some handsome blue-gray long-sleeve T-shirts to keep you warm and looking good. More »
Crap Government and Courts in California
In just the next chapter in the book on complete crap justice in California, on Wednesday Judge Richard Martin ruled there was enough evidence for 39-year-old Bismarck Dinius of Sacramento to stand trial on charges of vehicular manslaughter in the April 29, 2006, boating accident on Clear Lake that resulted in the death of Lynn Thornton. More »
Two Crazy Cats
Funny, Arjan and Jim both look normal.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The two men in the photo above — Arjan Bok of San Francisco and Jim Milski of Colorado and the Bay Area — are crazy. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The two men in the photo above — Arjan Bok of San Francisco and Jim Milski of Colorado and the Bay Area — are crazy. More »
Top Cruising Cat Speeds
Pete and Susan Wolcott’s M&M 52 Kiapa, thanks to a fine design and light build, has no trouble hitting into the 20s.
Schooner Creek Boatworks
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC At the end of Wednesday’s ‘Lectronic report on John Haste’s San Diego-based Perry 52 cruising cat Little Wing hitting 29.5 knots under main and genoa in the Caribbean, we asked for other owners of cruising cats to report their top speeds. More »
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC At the end of Wednesday’s ‘Lectronic report on John Haste’s San Diego-based Perry 52 cruising cat Little Wing hitting 29.5 knots under main and genoa in the Caribbean, we asked for other owners of cruising cats to report their top speeds. More »
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