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Save Your Strength and Sail

June 23, 2014
Why row when you can sail? Being a handy fellow, John Chille (left) quickly fashioned this reefable sail for two weary paddlers. © 2014 Meta Allegretto A couple of weeks ago a young couple walked into Beacon Marine, Ventura Harbor’s Chandlery. More »

Singlehander Loses Boat In Nature Reserve

Exactly one year after leaving Southern California aboard his Los Angeles-based Salt Peter, singlehander Peter Rudiger has lost his sailboat to Komakame Reef, which is three miles to the southeast of the southernmost landmass of New Caledonia, about 40 miles from Noumea. More »

The Comeback Kids

June 20, 2014
Hugo Boss glides through New York Harbor on her way to a victory celebration. © 2014 Hugo Boss / breymaiersailing.com After a long, hard-fought battle with both SAFRAN and Neutrogena, American Ryan Breymaier and Spaniard Pepe Ribes onboard Hugo Boss have claimed victory in the IMOCA Ocean Masters inaugural New York – Barcelona race. More »

How Does Your Onboard Garden Grow?

June 18, 2014
The transom garden as seen aboard Majj and Sufiyo’s boat while Majj was up the mast trying to call Reflections. Majj
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC For Sheri Seybold, who has been cruising for a long time with husband Gene on their Esprit 37 Reflections, and is currently cruising Malaysia, the garden is going pretty well. More »

Hurricanes Are a Fact of Life

VIIRS day-night-band image of hurricane Cristina from Wednesday evening. Colorado State
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s now hurricane season in both Eastern Pacific (i.e. Mexico) and the Atlantic/Caribbean. Mexico, where the season starts earlier, has already had two hurricanes, including Christina, the second powerful Category 4 (out of 5) hurricane of the season, which is now blowing at 130 knots. More »

The Miller-Maxwell Mistake

June 16, 2014
In the Friday ‘Lectronic we made a major blunder by identifying Robert Maxwell as the owner of Mari-Cha III and Mari-Cha IV, both of which raced in the Pacific Cup. We want to thank Greg Swart and others for pointing it out that it was actually Robert Miller who owned the two great yachts. More »

Classified Deadline Sunday

June 13, 2014
A friendly reminder to our Classy Classified advertisers that the ad deadline is always the 15th of each month. That rule holds true this month, even though the 15th falls on a Sunday. More »

The Pacific Cup!

The 139-ft Mari-Cha IV exits San Francisco Bay at the start of the 2004 Pacific Cup. latitude/Richard
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC With less than a month until the start of the 2070-mile Pacific Cup race to Hawaii  — in which there will be a "Latitude 38 division" for big boats for the first time — we thought we’d turn back the time machine to recall the biggest boat in the 2004 Pacific Cup. More »