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Baseball Improvement in Turtle Bay

August 23, 2017
The fabulous baseball stadium at Turtle Bay as seen during the Cruisers versus Local Kids annual baseball game. With the Ha-Ha fleet boats in the background, the stadium is often compared favorably with AT&T Park in San Francisco. More »

Opposite of Ships Passing in the Night

"What do you do when you cross paths with cruising friends in the middle of the ocean and you’re headed in different directions?” asked Lewis Allen and Alyssa Alexopulous of the Redwood City and Fiji-based Voyage 43 catamaran Quixotic. More »

Internet at the Islands

August 11, 2017
There is no Internet at Santa Cruz Island. If there were, we can imagine the number of boats anchored there in the summer would dramatically increase.  latitude/Richard
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC Several entries for this year’s Baja Ha-Ha — there are currently 123 — have indicated they plan on spending some of the fall at the Channel Islands. More »

Extremely High Diesel Prices

August 7, 2017
The pier at Turtle Bay, with Enrique’s fuel dock at the very end. The boats in the background are from last year’s Baja Ha-Ha.  latitude/Richard
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC "I want to give everyone doing a Baja Bash a heads-up on what Enrique has been charging for diesel at the pier in Turtle Bay," writes Leonard Lee of the San Diego-based Hunter Legend 40 Mi Casa. More »

Last Call for SoCal Ta-Ta Entries

Once upon a time, Channel Islands was the home of many empty slips. That’s no longer true.  latitude/Richard
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Due to space limitations at Channel Islands Harbor, the SoCal Ta-Ta is going to have to cut off entries at 25. More »

Brilliant Simplicity

August 2, 2017
Why didn’t I think of that?  © 2017 James Tantillo At some point in your boat owning career, it’s likely that you’ll have to tension the belt(s) on your engine. If your experience was like ours, the belt(s) were hard to get at, and you used some kind of lever to pry things apart to create the proper amount of tension. More »

“Inaccurate” Charts or Not?

July 31, 2017
This is the track of the Deerfoot 62 Moonshadow when she was headed toward a reef off Huahine. Fortunately, it was daylight and one of the crew noticed the problem. Moonshadow
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Following our Friday ‘Lectronic report on the loss of the Ventura-based Leopard 46 catamaran Tanda Malaika on a reef off Huahine in French Polynesia, allegedly because of inaccuracies in a Navionics electronic chart, we asked South Pacific veterans for their opinions of the accuracy of Navionics charts. More »

Why Sign Up for the SoCal Ta-Ta?

July 28, 2017
There are lots of reasons for signing up for the September 10-16 SoCal Ta-Ta Rally from Santa Barbara to Catalina, starting with the fact that it’s the only ‘Reggae ‘Pon Da Ocean’ sailing event in the world. More »