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Ha-Ha Entry Deadline Approaches

August 17, 2011
If you’re a regular visitor to this site, or are a regular reader of Latitude 38 magazine, you already know that our phenomenally successful Baja Ha-Ha rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas has grown into the second largest cruising rally in the world. More »

Another Bash

August 5, 2011
We’re not gentlemen, and we can prove it. For the second time in three years, we just completed a 1,000-mile Baja Bash. And as everybody knows, gentlemen don’t go to weather. More »

A South Pacific Loop

August 3, 2011
Sailing north across the Pacific in ideal conditions – what better way for family members to bond? Calou
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People Are Talking

But who are those people? Dona de Mallorca and the Wanderer are currently on the last few miles of a sloppier-than-normal doublehanded Baja Bash aboard Latitude 38‘s 63-ft cat Profligate. There’s been a surprising amount  of conversation aboard — surprising because one person is usually on watch while the other is trying to catch up on sleep.  More »

Cruisers’ Rally to El Salvador Accepting Entries

August 1, 2011
During the past 20 years the popularity of cruising rallies has increased exponentially. Following that trend, the three-year-old Cruisers’ Rally to El Salvador has just announced the dates of it’s 2012 event: March 10 through April 29. More »

And the Winner is . . .

July 27, 2011
On Monday we challenged readers to explain the photo below: 1) Why do these sailors have so many dinghies piled on their decks? 2) Where are they? 3) What is their profession? More »

“I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass”

July 11, 2011
We weren’t sure whether to laugh or shudder when we read Carl J. Carlson’s report on a most unwelcome midnight visitor. In the end, we did both. "I anchored my 40-ft Catana Paradox in Barra de Navidad for a week in March while my wife went home to do tax paperwork and see the kids," he tells us. More »

Determined to Ha-Ha

June 27, 2011
During the 17 previous Baja Ha-Ha rallies, entrants have come from all along the West Coast — including many from Alaska — and there have been a few dozen Australians, New Zealanders and Europeans who’ve participated after buying boats on the West Coast. More »

Nav Beacons Destroyed in Turf War

June 15, 2011
The U.S. government has sent its military on some questionable adventures in recent decades, but none so bizarre as the current turf war between Fiji and the Kingdom of Tonga over two tiny submerged atolls called the Minerva Reefs. More »