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Play Santa to Your Cruising Friends

December 18, 2009
If you’re planning a trip to visit cruising or chartering friends in far-flung places over the holidays or New Year, we know how you can earn their undying admiration (at least until you break the head): Take down a bundle or two of the most recent Latitude 38s! More »

Get Out the Boat

Give holiday stress the boot with a turn on the Bay. latitude/Rob
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC We’ve always wondered why something as relaxing as the holidays should be become such a royal charlie-foxtrot. More »

Classies Get It Done

December 16, 2009
"You guys rock!" writes Classy Classified advertiser Eric Sorensen of Half Moon Bay. "I sold my Fatty Knees dinghy in less that a week. What a great service to fellow boaters!" More »

Roy Disney Succumbs to Cancer

Roy Disney, top left, with his ’07 TransPac crew from Pyewacket. Disney passed away earlier today. He was 79. © One of the world’s preeminent yachtsmen, Roy E. Disney, passed away earlier today in Newport Beach — less than a month from his 80th birthday — after a year-long bout with stomach cancer. More »

Giant ‘Berg Heading for Western Australia

December 11, 2009
B17B is headed for warmer climes, wandering toward Western Australia, already clear of the Freezing Fifties. © NASA A 55-sq-mile iceberg measuring some 12 miles long by five miles wide — twice the size of Manhattan — is drifting slowly north from Antarctica towards Western Australia. More »

Vessella Takes Piana Cup

Peninsula-based St. Francis YC member Peter Vessella and his crew of Tracy Usher and John Callahan beat a "who’s-who" field at the Piana Cup on Biscayne Bay last weekend. The first of the four events that constitute the Jaguar Cup midwinter series for Etchells, the regatta brought out 45 boats for what had been scheduled to be a two-day regatta. More »

Wally to Build M&M Design

December 9, 2009
Designed by the Huntington Beach-based firm Morrelli and Melvin, the Aeroyacht 110 features an optional two-seater Icon A5 amphibious sports plane and pod to house it in. Morelli & Melvin
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Although typically associated with large, sleek, maxi-daysailers, Italian yard Wally and its 300-by-40-meter shed in Ancona, Italy, has signed on as the builder for the Aeroyacht 110 — a cruising maxi cat designed by the Huntington Beach firm of Morelli and Melvin. More »
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Iran Releases British Sailors

December 2, 2009
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has released five British sailors who were detained on November 25. Oliver Smith, Sam Usher, Luke Porter, Oliver Young and David Bloomer were taken into custody, and their Volvo 60, Sail Bahrain, impounded, while on a delivery to the start of the Dubai-Muscat Race. More »

In the Shadow of Table Mountain

November 23, 2009
With no French team around, Cork takes out Ireland’s frustration at being robbed of a berth in the 2010 World Cup on Hull & Humber. Clipper Ventures
©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Race 4 of the Clipper ‘Round the World Race got off to a cracking start yesterday — literally. More »