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Watson Tags Equator

November 20, 2009
Jessica Watson shows her offering to King Neptune. Ella’s Pink Lady
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Yesterday, sixteen-year-old Aussie solo sailor Jessica Watson crossed the equator — the first milestone in her attempt to set the record for the youngest person to sail around the world alone, non-stop and unassisted. More »

Groupama 3 Abandons Record Attempt

November 16, 2009
Structural failure ended the ’round the world record attempt of Franck Cammas’ Groupama 3 this morning at about 4 a.m. PST. Sailing at 90° true in a north-northeasterly breeze of up to 35 knots, Thomas Coville and Bruno Jeanjean were on deck and averaging 25 knots of boatspeed when "a bulkhead attached to the aft beam simply gave up the ghost," according to a statement released by the team. More »

Can You Say “High-Aspect?”

November 13, 2009
BMW Oracle Racing’s new hard sail being put through its paces off San Diego yesterday. © Gilles Martin-Raget BMW Oracle Racing finally put their new hard wing to the test yesterday, when they sailed BMW Oracle 90 outside San Diego Bay for the first time since stepping the giant wing earlier this week and adding a fabric fairing to the trailing edge of the aft crossbeam. More »

Oil Spill Update

November 6, 2009
We received a range of responses from Monday’s query about the impact on the Bay from last week’s 800-gallon Dubai Star bunker oil spill, which fouled beaches and wildlife in the East Bay: A containment boom on the Estuary following the oil spill from the Panamanian-flagged tanker Dubai Star a week ago. More »

Stone Wins J/105 NAs

November 4, 2009
Bruce Stone and Power Play romp along in some decidedly Bay-like conditions on Western Long Island Sound. Stone and his crew won the J/105 North Americans there this weekend . . More »

BMW Oracle Racing Drops Rig

What’s wrong with this picture? BMW Oracle Racing is missing her rig, unexpectedly. © Peter Rusch Just a few days after resuming testing aboard BMW Oracle 90, BMW Oracle Racing suffered a setback yesterday in the wake of some impressive wins in the courtroom. More »
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‘Dubai Star’ Spilled up to 800 Gallons

November 2, 2009
Early hopes that Friday morning’s bunker fuel-spill in Anchorage Nine would have little impact on the Bay have turned out to be unfounded. The Coast Guard is estimating that 400 to 800 gallons of the cruddy junk spilled from the Panamanian-flagged tanker Dubai Star during fueling operations. More »

Different Takes on D-Day

Ahhh, clones attack! Paul Kaplan and Ken Keefe have replicated multiple times over at KKMI in Pt. Richmond. © Erica Kaplan Last week, we thought we’d throw out an example of a "Delivery Day" party in anticipation of the impending delivery of the November issue of Latitude 38. More »
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Tanker Spills Fuel

October 30, 2009
A ruptured fuel line may be to blame for what the Coast Guard is calling an "unknown amount of fuel" released into the Bay from the Panamanian-flagged tanker Dubai Star. Just before 7 a.m., More »