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Crewing in the Caribbean

“Hello, SanDisk, this is Melissa calling on behalf of Latitude 38. I want to know why you can’t use your SDHC memory cards in both Nikon and Lumix cameras. The cards fit in both cameras and are specified for both cameras. More »

Voiles de St Barth Heats Up

Steve Schmidt drives Hotel California, Too, to a 7th out of 22 boats in class in the first of four Voiles de St. Barth races. latitude/Richard
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La Paz Bay Fest This Weekend

The Club Cruceros de La Paz is holding their annual Bay Fest this weekend, April 7-10, and everyone is invited. There will be something for all: the Rock the Dock sailboat race, the art show, the Club Cruceros vs. More »

Seeing the Bigger Picture

Thomas Coville’s Sodeb’O fell just short of Francis Joyon’s singlehanded ’round the world record last Thursday. Coville sailed 28,431 miles in his attempt, at an average speed of 19.42 knots. © 2011 Francois Van Mallenghen / Sodeb’O We’re not much on heroes of any sort, but the individual who comes closest to fitting that description for us is Frances Joyon, the soft-spoken, semi-reclusive, and universally-admired French soul sailor who has astounded sailing experts with his singlehanded around-the-world and transoceanic exploits, and who is the current owner of the singlehanded around-the-world record. More »

The Inflatable Alternative

Lots of sailors like to surf. One of the big problems they have is that surfboards are pretty large and most cruising sailboats are relatively small. In addition, it can be difficult getting boards off and on boats without banging them, resulting in dings in the fiberglass boards. More »

Sailing Voyeurs Delight

Think it would be fun to be 50 feet away as a 180-ft Herreshoff schooner, such as Elena, rips by at 16 knots? It is. And there’s nothing stopping you from doing it. More »

The Greatest Spectacle in Sailing?

Drumbeg, a Dubois/Vitters 140 enters the harbor at Gustavia, giving a graphic depiction of the size of Bucket boats. By the way, those aren’t small boats in the background. For example, the big ketch in the upper left is the 154-ft Mari-Cha III, which like a lot of big yachts, just showed up to be part of the scene. More »

The Floating Red Light District

From morning to night, top sailors are arriving from all over the world to get ready to — work! And play, at the Bucket. latitude/Richard
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC When boats have masts over about 100 feet, they are required to show red lights at the top of their mast(s). More »

The Price of Diesel

A couple of mariners — they have a trawler — who plan to return to Central America and Panama on their boat are hoping to get an update on the price of fuel — diesel and gas — in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. More »

The Richmond-based Eros in St. Barth

Yesterday we saw a big schooner anchored a couple of hundred yards from ‘ti Profligate in the Gustavia anchorage. "Could that be Bill and Grace Bodle’s  Richmond-based 103-ft Eros?" we wondered to ourselves. More »