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“Do the Ha-Ha and Get Your Head Cut Off!”

August 29, 2011
Each year we’re reminded, in a very curious way, when it’s about two months until the start of the Baja Ha-Ha. The ‘alarm’ is that a few people, most of whom refuse to identify themselves — try to tell as many people as possible that they would be crazy to do the Ha-Ha. More »

Maybe Immigration Should be Plasti-Dipped

August 26, 2011
We’ve had a corrosion problem on a couple of Profligate components that have given us fits — and cost us a few bucks. The components are the electric motors — one drives the windlass, the other drives the electric mainsheet winch. More »

Summer’s Here — At Least Was for a Day

August 24, 2011
Morgan Jackson flips out off the back of the Catalina 34 Aquavite yesterday afternoon and into the Oakland Estuary. latitude/Richard
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Global warming notwithstanding, there aren’t many days when people feel like jumping off their sailboats and into the waters of the Oakland Estuary. More »

Speaking a Couple Days Too Soon

August 22, 2011
It’s been such a mellow hurricane season to date in both the Eastern Pacific (Mexico and Hawaii) and the Atlantic-Carribean, that we hadn’t given it much thought. At least until August 19, when Jerry Blakeslee, formerly of Alameda and St. More »

Score One for Nature!

August 15, 2011
Finally, some great news about Nature! While there are still a lot of fish in the Sea of Cortez, there are no longer the number or variety there was just 20 years ago, when the Sea was absolutely alive. More »

Another Bash

August 5, 2011
We’re not gentlemen, and we can prove it. For the second time in three years, we just completed a 1,000-mile Baja Bash. And as everybody knows, gentlemen don’t go to weather. More »

People Are Talking

August 3, 2011
But who are those people? Dona de Mallorca and the Wanderer are currently on the last few miles of a sloppier-than-normal doublehanded Baja Bash aboard Latitude 38‘s 63-ft cat Profligate. There’s been a surprising amount  of conversation aboard — surprising because one person is usually on watch while the other is trying to catch up on sleep.  More »

Swell Time at Cloudbreaks

July 25, 2011
Now that’s a niiiiiiiiice wave! Jon Roseman is at the helm of the red board. © 2011 Kurt Roll "We had a great seven-day passage from Opua, New Zealand, to Fiji aboard Dietmar Petutschnig and Suzanne Dubose’s Las Vegas-based Lagoon 440 Carinthia," reports Kurt Roll of San Diego. More »

Sea Diamond Does the Med

July 22, 2011
"We just tied up at Elba, which is the west coast of Italy’s Catalina — although much more developed," reports Capt. Rob Wallace of Cita Litt’s magnificent Newport Beach-based Rhodes 90 motorsailor Sea Diamond. More »