Posts by Richard
Today Is the Day
Costumed fleet members took over the parking lot of the Shelter Island West Marine, the fiesta’s co-sponsor.
© 2014 Kurt Roll
For the skippers of 131 boats and 490 crew, today is the long-awaited day of the start of the 21st Annual Baja Ha-Ha cruising rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas with stops at Turtle Bay and Bahia Santa Maria. More »
Mystery Ship
Long may she run? This wood beauty has been running in style for more than 100 years.
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©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC When we came into Channel Islands Harbor during the SoCal Ta-Ta in September, we spotted a large wooden vessel that looked familiar, but as though she might be missing something. More »
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC When we came into Channel Islands Harbor during the SoCal Ta-Ta in September, we spotted a large wooden vessel that looked familiar, but as though she might be missing something. More »
Ha-Ha XXI Starts on Monday
Crew positions are apparently still fluid on some Ha-Ha boats.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC After months of preparation and perhaps the expenditure of a few dollars, the skippers of Baja Ha-Ha XXI, the cruisers’ rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, have completed all preparations for the Monday-morning start, and will be spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday relaxing, making new friends, and seeing the sights of San Diego. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC After months of preparation and perhaps the expenditure of a few dollars, the skippers of Baja Ha-Ha XXI, the cruisers’ rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, have completed all preparations for the Monday-morning start, and will be spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday relaxing, making new friends, and seeing the sights of San Diego. More »
Things Are Looking Great for the Ha-Ha
What a difference a month makes. The photo here shows Alex Thompson’s great, but older, Hugo Boss, with the damage caused by hurricane Odile. She was the second to last boat into the marina. More »
Last Minute Paperwork Advice
While right now cruising in Mexico may seem to be all about paperwork, this photo is more indicative of what it’s really like. Pictured are RotKat and Profligate at a little cove about 25 miles from La Paz. More »
Mexican Paperwork Wallows in Chaos
Jim Milski of the Lake City, Colorado-based Schionning 49 Sea Level has sailed around the world. He’s doing another Baja Ha-Ha this year with his wife Kent, and wanted to do all the paperwork by the book. More »
The Biblical Job Was a Sniveling Whiner
We don’t care what anybody says, the Biblical Job didn’t suffer anywhere nearly as much as the Grand Poobah of the Baja Ha-Ha has in his endless attempts to make paperwork requirements understandable to normal human beings wanting to bring their boats to Mexico. More »
Gonzalo Hammers St. Martin and St. Barth
A sailboat on the cement dock at the inner harbor of St. Barth. (Photographer unknown. All photos here are circulating on the Internet without photographer attribution.)
© 2014
For five hours on Monday evening St. More »
Fast TIP Processing and Delivery
"Tim Brill of Intrepid here. On Monday, October 6, I filled out the Banjercito form to get a Temporary Import Permit. It was easy. I paid my $43.40 online and received a reference number within minutes. More »
More Clarifications and Confusion About Mexico Paperwork
Mexican officials at Huntington Beach yesterday tried to make sense of the often confusing and sometime contradictory aspects of applying for nautical tourist visas and Temporary Import Permits.
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©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC We will not lie to you. More »
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC We will not lie to you. More »
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