Cruising
New Stuff at Niue
Here’s of broader view of the landing at Niue. That’s Greetings anchored offshore. When a storm came through, Greg stayed with the boat while Teri and Sierra stayed ashore. That was something different. More »
Avatar Arrives After 934 Miles Adrift
Towing a keelboat in big swells in no easy task. Luckily for Avatar her rescuers refused to give up.
© 2009 Wayne Wilson
A Swiss couple’s 35-day ordeal finally ended yesterday, when their 37-ft sloop, Avatar, was successfully towed the final 17 miles to Pago Pago by a local Marine and Wildlife vessel. More »
U.S. Territory Shifts Focus to Cruisers
American Samoa is working hard to steer cruisers to their islands.
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In the realm of sailing it can take a long time to undo a bad reputation. So the task before American Samoa’s Governor Togiola is a big one: With the imminent shutdown of the island’s biggest employer, he’s attempting to clean up the harbor, as well as clean up this American territory’s image. More »
Rudderless Cruiser Approaches Pago Pago
Wayne and Susan of Daydream have been busy assessing the options to get Avatar towed into the harbor. If all else fails, they’ll tow her themselves.
© 2009 Julie Turpin
Those sailors lucky enough to experience the cruising lifestyle, quickly realize that they have become members of a vast international community of like-minded travelers who assist each other whenever the need arises. More »
Special Taxation in Suwarrow
In the northern Cook islands, taxes normally aren’t a big concern. But the ‘shark tax’ occasionally imposed on fish can be annoying.
A Gross of Ha-Ha Entries
Entries for the ‘Sweet Sixteen’ edition of the Baja Ha-Ha keep rolling in, having just reached 144. We’ll spare you the ‘gross’ jokes and instead remind anyone thinking of doing this annual rally from San Diego the Cabo San Lucas in late October, that just four weeks remain to enter before the September 10 deadline. More »
Profligate is Packed for the Ha-Ha
We want to thank everyone who responded to Monday’s mention that there were a couple of slots open on Profligate for the Ha-Ha. Due to the overwhelming response, we can’t take anymore inquiries. More »
A Whale of a Time in the PNW
"I just finished a 10-day trip around the north end of Vancouver Island on Evening Star, a C&C 43 owned by my friends Dave and Mary Utley from Bainbridge Island, Washington," writes Mike Currie, who sails his "highly modified" Newport 30 Voyager out of Poulsbo, WA. More »
It’s All Good in Petaluma
The trip up the Petaluma River is reminiscent of French wine country.
© 2009 Tim Crowe
We have made annual trips from Alameda to the Petaluma Turning Basin aboard our Catalina 42 Azure for the last several years. More »
What’s Right for the Bite?
This unlucky cruiser got a painful bite at Bahia Santa Maria a few years ago. Unfortunately he didn’t know about the hot water treatment.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s a curious coincidence that we’ve heard reports of painful stings by rare scorpionfish or its relative, the stonefish, from sailors in both the Caribbean and in Mexico. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s a curious coincidence that we’ve heard reports of painful stings by rare scorpionfish or its relative, the stonefish, from sailors in both the Caribbean and in Mexico. More »
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