Posts by Richard
Records Set in the Heinie
Paul Allen of Santa Cruz was one of the crew on the untouchable Phaedo3, seen here setting an around-the-island record.
© 2016 Laurens Morel
The 36th annual St. Maarten Heineken Regatta delivered a nice variety of conditions for the diverse fleet of 196 boats and crews over the weekend. More »
An Enduring Partnership
In the April issue we’ll be publishing a letter from a reader about being part of a boat partnership that started 50 years ago. That’s so long ago that, if we’re not mistaken, James Madison was still president. More »
St. Maarten Heinie Revs Up Today
The unusual-looking Fujin up on one hull and moving right along.
© 2016 Gold Coast Yachts
A lot of skippers — 24 — have gone to the dark side for the 36th annual Heineken Regatta in Sint Maarten this weekend. More »
A Week Is Three Weeks too Little
This photo shows one of several anchorages at Antigua’s Green Island. That’s ‘ti Profligate on the lower left, just in front of the reef. The 60-ft Gold Coast charter cat which has circumnavigated Antigua every day of the year for the last 18 or so years zoomed between ‘ti and the reef at high speed. More »
Match Racing for 600 Ocean Miles
The MOD70 Concise 10 pursues the sistership Phaedo3 — just as she would for 600 exciting high-speed sailing miles.
© 2017 Emma Jones
Does ocean racing get much more beautiful and exciting than you see in the photo above of Tony Lawson’s Concise 10 trying to track down Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD70 sistership Phaedo3 in the Caribbean 600? More »
Antigua Is A-OK
Jolly Harbour on the leeward side of Antigua is ‘ti Profligate’s new off-season home. She’s the cat with the turquoise sail covers.
latitude/Drone38
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Having not spent much time in Antigua since doing six Sailing Weeks with our Ocean 71 Big O in the the event’s heyday of the 1980s and 1990s, the Wanderer had forgotten what a great place it is both for dropping out in quiet anchorages and for being in the middle of world-class sailing competitions. We More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Having not spent much time in Antigua since doing six Sailing Weeks with our Ocean 71 Big O in the the event’s heyday of the 1980s and 1990s, the Wanderer had forgotten what a great place it is both for dropping out in quiet anchorages and for being in the middle of world-class sailing competitions. We More »
SPECIAL REPORT: It Happens to the Best of Sailors
The 45-ft cold-molded, owner-built Rage on the beach at La Cruz, Mexico. Having gone over the rocks, she sustained an enormous hole in her port side and will be cut up this afternoon. More »
Double Trouble on the Forbidden Island
Peter Krueger and his well-traveled Double Trouble team continued their adventuring winter ways last week by helping make history in Cuba. After a strong showing at Key West Race Week, the team of Bay Area sailors participated in the first government-approved edition of the Conch Republic Cup from Key West to Cuba. More »
The Route Less Traveled
Sea Child, the Bartos’ Aikane 56, was built in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Sea Child
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC John and Geri Conser of Newport Beach report that they are joining Eric and Tamara Barto on the latter couple’s Aikane 56 catamaran Sea Child for "the trip of a lifetime." More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC John and Geri Conser of Newport Beach report that they are joining Eric and Tamara Barto on the latter couple’s Aikane 56 catamaran Sea Child for "the trip of a lifetime." More »
It Was Just the Belt
Initially it looked fine to our untrained eye. But after talking to Jim Drake, we looked closer and saw the sides of the belt were glazed — and bits of debris from it ended up on the bottom of our Yanmar diesel. More »
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