Cruising
Sea of Cortez Sailing Week, Revived
Bob, Bob, and Debbie – no last names in an event as casual as the Sea of Cortez Sailing Week – on the Mac 65 Braveheart found the sailing to their liking. More »
Potter Yachters Strike Again
In a scene reminiscent of David and Goliath, a West Wight Potter teases the behemoths in the Mothball Fleet moored in Suisun Bay.
© 2010 Goose Gossman
"A mere two weeks after our caper in the mud in Redwood City (see April’s Sightings for the full story), our intrepid fleet of micro-cruisers sailed out of Benicia the last weekend of March to visit the Mothball Fleet," writes Dave Kautz, who sails a O’Day 192. More »
Notes from the Frozen North
It’s so warm in Banderas Bay that surfers don’t wear wetsuits and the members of the Young Mothers Club of Punta Mita wear bikinis instead of survival suits.
latitude/Nick
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Of the 20+ boats that were in La Paz for yesterday’s start of the Sea of Cortez Sailing Week, about eight travelled nearly 400 miles north from Banderas Bay for the event. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Of the 20+ boats that were in La Paz for yesterday’s start of the Sea of Cortez Sailing Week, about eight travelled nearly 400 miles north from Banderas Bay for the event. More »
Bar and Humans Broachings in San Blas
The estuary at San Blas — once the base of operations for the Spanish in the Pacific Ocean — as seen from above. A southwest swell pours straight in between the northwest and southeast sides of the estuary. More »
Ha-Ha Solves Robbery in Auckland
And yes, we mean Auckland, not Oakland.
Having moved to the southern hemisphere, Jamie, Mera and Aeron have a new perspective on life.
latitude/Richard
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC We’ll let Toast Conger of the Seattle based-Lagoon 380 Don Quixote — who along with husband Dean and daughters Jaime, Mera and Aeron, had been cruising Mexico the last two years — explain. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC We’ll let Toast Conger of the Seattle based-Lagoon 380 Don Quixote — who along with husband Dean and daughters Jaime, Mera and Aeron, had been cruising Mexico the last two years — explain. More »
Halley Lund Could Use Your Help
"Please help me," writes Halley Lund. "I need to know if Latitude has published any arguments supporting families living on boats. I lived at sea with my daughter, starting when she was a year old, for two years, and believe it’s the way to go. More »
Two Steps Forward to Cuba, One Step Back
Are more U.S.-flagged boats daring to defy their government’s ridiculous prohibition against travel to Cuba?
© 2010 Carmen Miranda
In the March 3 ‘Lectronic, we reported that a couple of Ha-Ha’ers had taken their boat to Cuba, not necessarily in defiance of the U.S. More »
Don’t Be An April Fool
"Don’t be a fool by missing the April 1-6 Sea of Cortez Sailing Week," advises Patsy Verhoeven of the Portland/La Paz-based Gulfstar 50 Talion. "If you’re into saIling as least as much as socializing, and like ‘nothing serious’ cruiser destination racing, the third edition of the revived SOC might be for you. More »
International Cruisers Converge at Panama
They may have originated from vastly different homeports, but they are all headed for the same storied anchorages of French Polynesia.
latitude/Andy
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to conclude that westbound boats of many nations probably pass through the Panama Canal each year. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to conclude that westbound boats of many nations probably pass through the Panama Canal each year. More »
Rosé and the Sunday Sail to Columbie
Just grab some friends, food and rosé, and you’re invited on Afrigan Queen for the Sunday Sail To Columbie.
latitude/Richard
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s a fact that St. Barth is the most très chic — and très chere — island in the Caribbean, so a lot of sailors foolishly assume you can’t enjoy it unless you own a mega yacht and your Wall Street firm was inundated with TARP funds last year. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s a fact that St. Barth is the most très chic — and très chere — island in the Caribbean, so a lot of sailors foolishly assume you can’t enjoy it unless you own a mega yacht and your Wall Street firm was inundated with TARP funds last year. More »
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