General Sailing
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The Dumbest Thing I Ever Did While Sailing
Some classic 'dumbest things I ever did while sailing' from the Latitude 38 archives.
Latitude Nation: What’ve You Been DIY-ing Lately?
Like the arrival of the rain, the setting of the sun and the rotation of planets, so too comes work on the boat. The project may be something you’ve been meaning to do, or something that broke on your last sail. More »
Team New Zealand Crashes and Burns, Very, Very Slowly
OK, crash and burn is a bit too dramatic. Team New Zealand’s boom boom on Thursday was more like watching someone just barely lose traction on an icy patch, then slide, slide. More »
Don’t Let the Grass Grow
Jim Hancock has been a busy guy. How do we know? He sent us the photo below of his dockline sprouting grass after our seasonal rains. That's not a good sign for someone we know who loves to be sailing the Bay.
‘Matthew Turner’ Struts Her Stuff off San Francisco
While we were making the (not) first-ever circumnavigation of Red Rock on Saturday, a certain Bay Area boat was enjoying a first-ever of her own. “We sailed Matthew Turner across the Bay to the San Francisco Cityfront, along the Embarcadero, then back around Alcatraz to Sausalito,” said our roving reporter John ‘Woody’ Skoriak. More »
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A First-Ever Circumnavigation in the Bay Area
To be fair, first-evers are relative. What’s a sailing first-ever to me has probably been done a gazillion times.
But it’s no less significant. On Saturday, as the rain clouds finally parted in Northern California and the breeze filled in, we decided to make our first-ever circumnavigation of Red Rock, a rust-colored lump of island plopped down to the immediate south of the Richmond Bridge. More »
A Different Kind of Cruising for a Californian
Krista Swedberg caught the sailing bug early. Starting out as a little girl aboard her parents’ Santa Cruz-based Islander 40, she remembers trips every summer south to Monterey and north into the Delta. More »
Workaholics Adrift by Judy McCandless
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