Posts by Richard
The Fiasco South of the Border Isn’t Over Yet
"I was also in a meeting at the SAT (Mexican IRS) with their legal department, Banjercito (the military bank Temporary Import fees are paid to), Aduana (Customs), and other agencies, with Maria Elena Carrillo, the attorney for our Mexican Marina Owner’s Association," reports Tere Grossman, president of the Mexican Marina Owner’s Association. More »
Cruiser Loses Lower Leg and Foot
John Spicher of the Anacortes-based custom Coast 34 Time Piece has been released from a hospital in San Diego following the amputation of the lower part of his mangled left leg. More »
Repurposing Crocs
We’ve never like crocs, the ugly-but-functional footwear that are sometimes referred to as "the fanny packs of the 2000s." For reasons we don’t understand, we’ve never liked the word ‘re-purposing’ either. More »
Chillin’ In The Sunny Caribbee?
The modest base at BVI Yacht Charters. They’ve been our yacht management company for about six years, and we think they’ve done a great job for us.
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©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Wanderer and Dona de Mallorca are currently in Tortola aboard the Wanderer’s Leopard 45 cat ‘ti Profligate to begin our annual editorial investigation of the Caribbean. More »
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Wanderer and Dona de Mallorca are currently in Tortola aboard the Wanderer’s Leopard 45 cat ‘ti Profligate to begin our annual editorial investigation of the Caribbean. More »
Cruising Clipper Cove
Winter schminter! The cruising this long holiday weekend was fabulous.
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Who says you can’t cruise in the winter? Nearly 20 boats proved that theory wrong at Clipper Cove this long holiday weekend. More »
Finally, Solid Numbers on Impounded Boats
Tere Grossman, president of the Mexican Marina Owners Association, has provided us with a list, complements of the AGACE, of the boats that were ‘Reviewed’, ‘Embargoed’, and ‘Liberated’ in Mexico.
The first actual list of embargoed boats that we’ve seen. More »
More Impounded Boats to be Released
Tere Grossman, owner of San Carlos Marina, reports that AGACE agents were back at San Carlos Marina on Tuesday, and that as a result she expected that most of the impounded boats in her marina would soon be "liberated." More »
Windy in the Windward Passage
Newport Beach’s Devan Mullins must have been going through old photos, because he recently sent us a photo of the Wanderer at the helm of Latitude’s Big O from back in 1996. More »
Last Call to Sail Aboard ‘ti Profligate
Last year’s Bucket was won by Adela, the 182-ft schooner that was launched 111 years ago! She was driven by our old friend Shag Morton, perhaps the most Caribbean and un-corporate of all mega yacht drivers. More »
The Overflowing Bucket; the ‘ti and You
There are a lot of great regattas in the Caribbean, and depending on the criteria, many could vie for the title of ‘the best’. But if the criteria is a ‘spectacle of huge sailing yachts’, none in the Caribbean, let alone the world, can compare with the St. More »
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