Events
Happy Holidays from Latitude’s Crew
Tom and Naty Marlow’s Ketch 22, towing her dinghy, was among the boats lighting up the Estuary on December 3.
© 2016 Fred Fago
In observance of the winter solstice, the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re sharing some photos of sailors brightening up the darkness. More »
Lighted Boat Parades Part 2
In Wednesday’s ‘Lectronic Latitude, we listed a plethora of lighted boat parades that will put holiday sparkle into the next three weekends in Northern California and San Diego. We wondered what we’d missed, and some alert readers clued us in. More »
Lighted Boats Parade into the Holidays
Island Dreamer in last year’s Lighted Yacht Parade on the Oakland-Alameda Estuary.
© Fred Fago
Over the next couple of weekends, it will seem as if there are as many lighted boat parades as there are LEDs on a string of Christmas lights. More »
America’s Cup World Series Preview
Four of the six teams racing in Fukuoka, left to right: Artemis Racing (SWE), BAR Land Rover (GBR), SoftBank Team Japan and Groupama Team France, sailing on Friday.
© 2016 Phil Uhl
The first America’s Cup racing ever to be held in Asia begins today and concludes tomorrow in the final Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event, hosted by Fukuoka on Kyushu Island, Japan. More »
Solo TransPac Cruise-In
Summerlike and beautiful Ayala Cove, along the north shore of Angel Island, on Saturday, November 5.
Tortuga
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC "We had a great group of Singlehanded TransPac alumni show up at the reunion get-together at Ayala Cove on Angel Island Saturday," reports Randy Leasure of the Westsail 32 Tortuga. More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC "We had a great group of Singlehanded TransPac alumni show up at the reunion get-together at Ayala Cove on Angel Island Saturday," reports Randy Leasure of the Westsail 32 Tortuga. More »
The Latest Life on the Water Premiere
Life on the Water, the Sausalito-based documentary company, will premiere their latest film, Jon Wilson, The Restorer’s Journey, on Wednesday, November 16, at the Rafael Film Center in downtown San Rafael. More »
Champagne and Sashimi Sailing
The Baja Ha-Ha is a two-week event that, thanks to the nonstop activities, seems as though it’s at least a month long. Now that we’re in (foggy!) Bahia Santa Maria following the second leg, the costume kickoff party in San Diego seems so very long ago. More »
Summerwind Aground in Baja Ha-Ha
The 350-mile San Diego-to-Turtle Bay first leg of the Baja Ha-Ha cruisers’ rally featured the strongest, most consistent leg-long winds in the 23-year history of the event. After a 2.5-hour rolling start — motoring allowed — out of San Diego on Monday morning, the wind filled in nicely to the 18- to 25-knot range, just south of the Coronado Islands. It More »
Flashgirl’s Homecoming
Flashgirl is home after a decade in the South Pacific.
It wasn’t what we’d call an ideal photo op, but somehow Nancy Tompkins’ camera managed to record this shot of Flashgirl returning through the Golden Gate to her Sausalito homeport on Wednesday night. More »
Huge Baja Ha-Ha Fleet Heads South
The crew of the New Mexico-based Catana 471 Footloose was in high spirits as they paraded out to the starting line.
latitude/Andy
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC At 10 a.m. today, the 23rd annual Baja Ha-Ha rally’s fleet of 136 boats paraded out of San Diego Harbor escorted by two local fireboats, while print, TV and radio reporters captured the scene from the deck of the sportfishing vessel Dolphin. More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC At 10 a.m. today, the 23rd annual Baja Ha-Ha rally’s fleet of 136 boats paraded out of San Diego Harbor escorted by two local fireboats, while print, TV and radio reporters captured the scene from the deck of the sportfishing vessel Dolphin. More »
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