Posts by Richard
Peso to Dollar
We’re not saying the Chinese at Mega is any healthier than the Chinese at a typical place in the States, but for less than $4, you get enough food to last all day. More »
Who Says You Can’t Race Your Home?
Mike and Shelly on their totally restored Peterson 44 Avatar are to windward of Tom and Helen’s Lagoon 42 Catatude at the start of the Punta Mita Race.
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©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC Finishing first overall among the 21 boats that participated in the three-race ‘nothing that serious’ racing for cruisers that is the Banderas Bay Blast was Fred Roswold and Judy Jensens’s Serendipity 43 Wings. More »
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC Finishing first overall among the 21 boats that participated in the three-race ‘nothing that serious’ racing for cruisers that is the Banderas Bay Blast was Fred Roswold and Judy Jensens’s Serendipity 43 Wings. More »
Sailors’ Splash / Banderas Bay Blast
Profligate as seen sailing from Punta Mita to Paradise Marina during a recent Pirates for Pupils Spinnaker Run for Charity event. What could be better than raising money for a great cause while having a great time sailing in the tropics? More »
Across the Atlantic at 500 Miles/Day
Less than six days out of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, the great MOD70 Phaedo3 rushes to the finish line off Grenada in the West Indies.
© 2015 Rachel Jaspersen / Phaedo3
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Blogging While Sailing at 30 Knots
The MOD70 Phaedo 3 with her afterburners on, as seen during a record-setting run around St. Maarten.
© 2015 Tim Wright
Brian Thompson, known to a number of Bay Area sailors for his time around here with Steve Fossett’s trimaran Lakota, sent the following report on the excitement of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s 3,000-mile race from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean. More »
SoCal Cruisers Fast & Furious in ARC+
Annie Gardner and Eric Witte’s Catana 47 El Gato at the start of the ARC+.
© 2015 Claire Pengelly / WCC
"We effing killed it!" exclaimed Annie Gardner in her first post after Erik Witte and her Southern California-based Catana 472 cruising catamaran El Gato crossed the ARC+ (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers) finish line over the weekend, fourth in a fleet of 59 boats. More »
Yet Another Tropical Storm?
Passage Weather projects an as-yet-unnamed tropical storm to be near Cabo by Friday night. But the projections change almost hourly. Windyty shows a slightly different path. Both forecasting services show the storm suddenly disappearing a very short time later. More »
Tropical Storm Season Not Quite Over
"We saw 87° water in a number of places on the way from La Paz to here on Banderas Bay," Arjan Bok, the San Francisco owner of the Schionning 43 cat Rot Kat told Latitude about a week ago. More »
Sailors Recoil at Development Plans
Jeff Lee’s San Juan 33 Zwei Flying Fish checks out the breeze off Alameda Marina before an Island Nights Friday night beer can race, hosted by Island YC, whose clubhouse is on the Alameda Marina property. More »
Double Trouble Preps for KWRW and Cuba
The crew works on perfecting roll jibes during last Saturday’s light conditions.
© 2015 Martha Blanchfield
San Francisco’s J/125 Double Trouble crew wrapped up a final practice last weekend before they travel east to Quantum Key West Race Week and the Conch Republic Regatta to Cuba. More »
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