The Mexican Navy’s boarding parties have become decidedly casual — either that or this is just a group of friendly sailors stopping by for a cerveza. © 2010 Lou Freeman Lou Freeman of the San Diego-based Swan 51 Seabird reports a surprsingly delightful late-night ‘boarding’ last night by the Mexican Navy at the docks of Grand Bay Marina in Barra de Navidad. More »

The Nyby’s 33-ft cat Aita Pe’ape’a may not be large or new, but it got them where they wanted to be — in the blue waters of the South Pacific. Aita Pe’ape’a
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Norm Goldie, who moved from New York to San Blas, Mexico, something like 35 years ago, has long been a controversial figure. On the positive side, he’s helped a lot of cruisers over the years with normal questions about the San Blas area and how to safely enter the channel to San Blas. More »

“Say, Joanne,” says Randy, “why don’t you and I take this big guy out for a little sail while everybody is busy at the post-no race press conference?” © 2010 D. More »

The Mamas and the Papas had it wrong – you’d be safer and warmer at Grand Case than you would in L.A. on a winter’s day. latitude/Richard
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David Addleman singlehands the Cal 36 Eupsychia, which has been in his family for over 35 years. She’ll now play second fiddle to X. latitude/Richard
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Because of the unrelenting requests by Latitude readers for information on how easy it might be to buy a used sailboat in Asia, it’s fortunate that we can draw on the experience of David Addleman of Monterey, who has been cruising his Cal 36 Eupsychia in Mexico for the last several winters. More »

We recently paid a visit to Raffles Marina on the northwest coast of the sparkling island nation of Singapore. It’s an upscale facility with nice docks, a great pool and a fine restaurant and bar. More »

Eric Willbur and Emmy Newbould are currently exploring New Zealand aboard their Brickyard Cove-based Flying Dutchman 37 Nataraja. They spent New Year’s Eve at Motukawanui Island off the northeast tip of New Zealand, where they met some new friends. More »

Jim and Julie Focha of the Stockton-based Westsail 32 Worldwind shared a story that illustrates one reason why Mexico is such a popular cruising ground. "When we left La Paz bound for home, I’d carefully calculated how much fuel we’d use and took out just enough money from the bank to cover our needs. More »

Halong Bay, a three-hour bus ride from Hanoi, has hundreds of unusual ‘stacks’. It also has about 400 house-like charter boats and is subject to typhoons. latitude/Richard
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Because of America’s troubled yet intense relationship with Vietnam during the war years, we think an unusually high number of American sailors think they would like to cruise the waters of that Socialist Republic. More »