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Issues with Medicines in Mexico

October 19, 2015
If you’re traveling to Mexico this season, there are several important issues you should be aware of concerning prescription meds.  La Paz-based sailors Dennis and Susan Ross recently alerted us that there have been changes in Mexican law regarding prescriptions for controlled medications. More »

A Salute to Unsung Heroes

September 28, 2015
During an interview not long ago, we asked a Coast Guard rescue pilot how often mariners who’ve been rescued return to a Search and Rescue (SAR) base to personally thank their saviors. More »

Hear Sally-Christine’s Voyaging Tales

September 18, 2015
Many newly released books cross our desks here at Latitude 38 ‘world headquarters’. One recent standout was Convergence – A Voyage Through French Polynesia (Paradise Cay Publications), by Sally-Christine Rodgers. It details a voyage taken by the author, husband Randy Repass (founder of West Marine) and their teenage son aboard Convergence, their custom-built Wylie 65 cat. More »

Baja Ha-Ha Deadline Nears

September 11, 2015
Before you take off sailing this weekend, remember that September 15 is the deadline to enter this fall’s Baja Ha-Ha cruising rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. Registration will close automatically at midnight on Tuesday (although exceptions can be made by emailing here). More »

Free Event at Fort Mason

September 4, 2015
How was food preserved, prepared, and consumed aboard sailing ships of the 19th and early 20th centuries? Find out at a free lecture on Food in the Age of Sail on Thursday, September 10, when the Friends of the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library present historian and author Simon Spalding at the Maritime Research Center in Fort Mason’s Bldg. More »

Catching up with the Delta Doo Dah

August 3, 2015
Mike, Mecala, Rosalyn (age 11) and Zachary (13) Gill, cruised into Owl Harbor on July 18 with their Alameda-based Ericson 27 Emily. latitude/Chris
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC What?! It’s August already? More »

Pink Sail for Cancer Research

July 29, 2015
Why are these grown men and women all wearing pink? Read on and find out. © Martha Blanchfield The fourth annual Pink Sail and Pink Party ponied up the cash for cancer research. More »

Resolute in the Delta Doo Dah

July 13, 2015
Eric, Roxie and Jason Kopps are Delta cruising vets. latitude/Chris
©2015Latitude 38 Media, LLC Jason Kopps, his 18-year-old son Eric, and their border collie mix Roxie have been doing the Delta Doo Dah aboard the Richmond-based Hunter 33 Resolute every year since 2011. More »

Wet, Wild and Action-Packed

June 26, 2015
Southern California’s Ron Bartczak paints "wet, wild, exciting and action-packed" images of yacht races. © Ron Bartczak While Northern California enjoys the stylized nautical artistry of the legendary Jim DeWitt, Southern California has Ron Bartczak. More »