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World ARC Starts Today

January 23, 2008
Thirty-five monohulls and six multihulls are departing St. Lucia today on the 15-month World ARC cruise around the world. This is the fifth around-the-world event for the World Cruising Club, which has also had 3,000 of their boats cross the Atlantic in the ARCs (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers) since 1984. More »
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‘Global Cooling’ in Mexico?

January 21, 2008
With all the talk about global warming, cruisers in Mexico are wondering why it’s been so cold — since about the 10th of December — compared to other seasons. "It’s been the coldest in the four years that I’ve been down here," reports Tom Hoffman of the San Francisco-based Peterson 44 Persistence from Puerto Vallarta. More »

“That’s Not Me!”

"I was a bit surprised last week when one morning I had three new emails from ladies I didn’t know," writes Marc Hachey of the Auburn-based Peterson 44 Sea Angel which is now in Dominica. More »

Harker to Finish Circumnavigation

January 16, 2008
Mike Harker expects to finish his circumnavigation this weekend, just a month or so behind schedule. © Mike Harker Like Frenchman Francis Joyon and his 97-ft trimaran IDEC, Mike Harker of the  Manhattan Beach-based Hunter Mariner 49 Wanderlust III is expected to complete his circumnavigation this weekend: "I’m 900 miles southeast of Antigua, and now that I’m in the trades, I’m making better than expected progress. More »

Life in the Caribbean

January 14, 2008
Capt. Scotty and his family and crew romp along aboard the schooner Juno on the way to the Columbier anchorage. latitude/Richard
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Sunday is the Day of Rest in the Caribbean, so many of the locals and visiting sailors at St. More »

Baby on Board

Peter and Antonia Murphy, who embarked last summer on what they called the Trans-Pacific Baby Project aboard their wildly painted Mariner 36 Sereia, welcomed their new deckhand, Silas Joseph Murphy, into the world at 2:23 p.m. More »
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Injured Singlehander Calls Pub for Rescue

The story of British singlehander Alan Thompson’s mid-Atlantic rescue illustrates that there’s more than one way to call for help. According to a story today in Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, the 61-year-old fell and broke his pelvis while singlehanding his recently purchased 37-ft Hunter Legend Padolu from Florida to the UK. More »

Blue Heron Headed for Carnival

January 11, 2008
Jerry Eaton of the Belvedere-based Hallberg rassy 43 Blue Heron, the only West Coast boat to participate in the last Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, reported in January’s Changes that he, along with crew Wyman Harris and Walter Sanford, had a great time in the ARC. More »

The Elusive ‘Long-Stay Visa’

January 9, 2008
It’s the time of year when dozens of cruisers are currently preparing to embark on the so-called Pacific Puddle Jump from the Americas to French Polynesia. A hot topic of conversation among them is how to get a ‘long-stay’ (six month) visa, since most American cruisers are only granted a three-month visa upon arrival. More »