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Ta-Ta Again This Summer?

March 4, 2015
Three Ta-Ta boats approach the entrance to Channel Islands Harbor at the same time. The Ta-Ta is rally-style cruising, not racing, so spinnakers are optional.  latitude/Richard
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC “Is there any chance there will be another SoCal Ta-Ta this summer?” More »

Stand Out in the Crowd

Show your colors with Latitude logowear! latitude/Annie
©2014Latitude 38 Media, LLC There’s no better way to stand out in a crowd than by wearing a Latitude 38 T-shirt, available in an array of fruity colors plus basic black and white. More »

Hard to Say Goodbye to Old Friends

March 2, 2015
Have you ever had to absolutely throw away a piece of sailing gear because it was so useless? We’re not the most sentimental types, but recently it was hard for us to throw away a bit of terribly frayed 3/4-inch three-strand because . More »

Zen Sailing Again

February 25, 2015
The Joker competes in the Carnaval Race aboard the boat designed and built by George Olson (and friends) of Santa Cruz. The color of the water hints at just one of the reasons sailing in the Caribbean is so delightful.  More »

New Generation Claims the Record

There’s a new ocean racing sheriff in town, and it’s the young gun Lloyd Thornburg with his MOD70 Phaedo3.  © 2015 Ocean Images / Team Phaedo As if the RORC Caribbean 600 needed any more pizzazz to elevate itself on the world racing scene, it got a huge boost when 35-years-young Lloyd Thornburg of St. More »

Howdy Partner!

February 20, 2015
A bird’s eye view of ‘ti Profligate, anchored in the aqua waters of the Caribbean. latitude/Richard
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC With our Leopard 45 ‘ti Profligate coming out of the yacht management program at BVI Yacht Charters in July — there are still a few dates open in June — we’ve been thinking about our options. More »

Team Phaedo Adds Three New Hulls

The new Phaedo3 in the trade winds off Antigua.  Team Phaedo
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC The need for sailing at extreme speed under sail has apparently taken a powerful hold on Lloyd Thornburg, Latitude’s friend from Newport Beach, St. More »

Are the New Charts Worse?

February 18, 2015
Navionics Gold electronic charts © Cabela’s It’s not unheard of for new software to be less well liked than earlier versions of the same software. We find this to be the case with Navionics, the very popular marine charting software. More »

Food, Booze, Sails & Safety Gear Aren’t Enough

February 16, 2015
You need some common sense, too. “We’ve got plenty of food, plenty of booze, good sails and all the safety gear you could ever need, so we’re going to be OK,” Jason McGlashan told the Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News before he and his dad Reg took off from Conanicut Marina in Jamestown, Rhode Island last Friday on what they expected to be a six-to-eight-week passage to 8,600-mile-distant Port Macquarie, Australia. More »