Cruising
Champagne and Sashimi Sailing
The Baja Ha-Ha is a two-week event that, thanks to the nonstop activities, seems as though it’s at least a month long. Now that we’re in (foggy!) Bahia Santa Maria following the second leg, the costume kickoff party in San Diego seems so very long ago. More »
Summerwind Aground in Baja Ha-Ha
The 350-mile San Diego-to-Turtle Bay first leg of the Baja Ha-Ha cruisers’ rally featured the strongest, most consistent leg-long winds in the 23-year history of the event. After a 2.5-hour rolling start — motoring allowed — out of San Diego on Monday morning, the wind filled in nicely to the 18- to 25-knot range, just south of the Coronado Islands. It More »
Huge Baja Ha-Ha Fleet Heads South
The crew of the New Mexico-based Catana 471 Footloose was in high spirits as they paraded out to the starting line.
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©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC At 10 a.m. today, the 23rd annual Baja Ha-Ha rally’s fleet of 136 boats paraded out of San Diego Harbor escorted by two local fireboats, while print, TV and radio reporters captured the scene from the deck of the sportfishing vessel Dolphin. More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC At 10 a.m. today, the 23rd annual Baja Ha-Ha rally’s fleet of 136 boats paraded out of San Diego Harbor escorted by two local fireboats, while print, TV and radio reporters captured the scene from the deck of the sportfishing vessel Dolphin. More »
Homeschooling While Cruising
Over the years we’ve been heartened to meet many families cruising with school-age kids who are home-schooled aboard while experiencing different cultures firsthand. And we know that when those kids return to regular classrooms ashore, many of them test higher than the majority of their peers. More »
When Can I Sign Up for PPJ 2017?
Our Pacific Puddle Jump Recap article in the current (September) issue of Latitude 38 has prompted a number of Tahiti-bound cruisers to ask "When can I sign up for the 2017 Jump?" More »
It’s Two Months Until Halloween
While there are never any guarantees about the weather, Ha-Ha conditions have historically been light to medium winds from aft of the beam. Most of the time most boats will have a number of other boats in sight. More »
Brutal Last Miles to Africa
"Gannet looks as though she just came in from a daysail," says Webb Chiles of his trusty steed, a flush-deck Moore 24, pictured here docked in Durban Harbor.
© Webb Chiles
"Sleep, fresh water showers, and a taste or two of gin have worked wonders, though I’m not quite ready to do the passage again," solo circumnavigator Webb Chiles, a resident of Illinois, wrote to us this morning. More »
Notes From Out There
Photo quiz: If you’ve cruised the South Pacific you can probably recognize the mountain profile in the background of this shot. But can you tell us: 1) what island it was shot from, and 2) what must-see attraction we were anchored near when we shot it? More »
Lat 38 Readers on Offshore Readiness
Rogues’ Scholarship, as seen in ‘Lectronic Latitude on June 10.
© 2016 US Coast Guard District 13
One of the reasons we report on offshore emergencies is that there are usually lessons we and our readers can learn from both tragedies and near-tragedies. More »
Gannet to Begin the Big Stretch
Gannet’s bow slices through the water.
© Steve Earley
"I’m about to sail from Darwin for South Africa," writes solo adventurer Webb Chiles.
Tomorrow, which will be July 1 in Australia but June 30 in the US, Webb Chiles plans to continue his sixth circumnavigation, sailing from Darwin, Australia, bound for South Africa on Gannet, his ultralight Moore 24. More »
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