Posts by Richard
“A Lot of Unpleasant Situations”
We’ve gotten considerable impassioned telephone and email response to our Wednesday ‘Lectronic titled ‘Is The Hangman’s Noose the New Symbol of Puerto Escondido?’ Puerto Escondido is the very popular cruiser center on the east coast of Baja that is also home to Loreto Fest, the largest cruiser gathering in the Sea of Cortez. More »
Is the Hangman’s Noose the New Symbol of Puerto Escondido?
Welcome to Puerto Escondido?
Lifeline
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC We’re told that the air and water temperatures aren’t the only things that have been heating up at cruiser favorite Puerto Escondido on Baja. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC We’re told that the air and water temperatures aren’t the only things that have been heating up at cruiser favorite Puerto Escondido on Baja. More »
Bar Pilots . . . or Bar Pirates?
"The pilots who steer the big ships in and out of the Bay have been green-lighted for a rate hike that could have them making upward of $432,000 a year by 2015," reported Phil Matier and Andrew Ross in the May 7 San Francisco Chronicle / S.F. More »
The Aussies are Coming!
We were up in the Harbormaster’s Office at Marina Bay in Richmond last week, where we bumped into Phil Howe, an old friend and yacht broker. Phil had a big smile on his face because he’d just sold a Beneteau 40.7 to a buyer from Melbourne, Australia. More »
Forty-Six Ha-Ha Entries After Just Two Days
Come November 4, you could be freezing your ass off in California, or you could be on the beach in Cabo with a couple hundred of your best new sailing friends. More »
Sign of the Times?
Are you in the ‘zone’ yet? If so, make sure you’re in the right zone, or it will also be ‘tow time’.
© Dwight Witherspoon
Reader Dwight Witherspoon of the Islander 36 Surfseaker sent us a photo of a sign posted at the dinghy/fishing dock at 15th St. More »
Ira of Bolinas Takes Antigua Classic
Ira aboard his much-loved Lone Fox, which was built in Scotland for Commander Whitbread in 1957.
Lone Fox
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Sincere congratulations on three levels are due Ira Epstein of Bolinas, the owner of the 1962 Robert Clark-designed classic 65-ft wood ketch Lone Fox. More »
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Sincere congratulations on three levels are due Ira Epstein of Bolinas, the owner of the 1962 Robert Clark-designed classic 65-ft wood ketch Lone Fox. More »
Linehandling in the Panama Canal
"I’ve heard rumors that yachts transiting the Panama Canal will pick up help, in the form of line-handlers, for a transit," write Jeff and Lisa Thayer, who own Jim, an International 470, in Montara. More »
Breaking the Promise Made to Bill Lee
Twenty years ago, Steve Schmidt, then of Saratoga, promised Bill Lee of Santa Cruz Yachts that he would never race the heavily ‘cruis-ified’ Santa Cruz 70 that he wanted Bill to build for him. More »
Mike Harker’s Sudden Death
In late 2007 Harker rounded Cape Point, South Africa, thus returning to the Atlantic Ocean where he would complete his mostly solo circumnavigation.
© Mike Harker
We regret to report that Manhattan Beach-based solo circumnavigator Mike Harker passed away last Friday in St. More »
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