General Sailing
Sea Otter Spotted in Estuary
Bay Area diver Matt Peterson saw an unusual sight last night on the docks at Alameda Marina last night. "In all my years of working and sailing on the Bay, I’ve never seen one of these guys here before," he says of the sea otter. More »
Closure of Nelson’s Forces Boat Exodus
Word on the docks is that Alain Thébault’s 60-ft foiling trimaran l’Hydroptere, which is hauled at Nelson’s in preparation for this summer’s assault on the TransPac record, has been given until Monday to find a new homebase. More »
Marina Vallarta Sold
Marina Vallarta has been sold and new management have plans for cleaning it up.
© Marina Vallarta
The 400-slip Marina Vallarta, the oldest of all the marinas on Banderas Bay, and by far the one closest to downtown Puerto Vallarta, has been sold. More »
May Issue Splashes to the Streets
The May issue of Latitude 38 is coming at you!
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©2013 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s May Day and you know what that means: Latitudes for all the workers of the world! More »
©2013 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s May Day and you know what that means: Latitudes for all the workers of the world! More »
British Sailor Lost Overboard in Pacific
An experienced 38-year-old British sailor crossing from Osaka, Japan — where he’d been working for the last three years — to Hawaii, with plans to continue on to Southampton, UK, reportedly fell overboard on Saturday night about 575 miles west of Midway Atoll. More »
Dinghies for Sale or Rent
"Cruisers in the Sea of Cortez have been pretty casual about securing their dinghies overnight, usually just tying them to the stern of the mothership," writes Jon Doornink of the Puerto Escondido-based Morgan Out-Island 37 Seadream. More »
Big Fun on Little Boats
Dennis Olson of Santa Rosa sent us the following report about having big fun aboard little boats on Tomales Bay.
“I think we should launch,” said Dave McEligot, the best sailor of the group. More »
Whale of a Time
“Hey, what are you doing breaching on our race course?”
“No, what are you doing sailing in my swimming pool?” © 2013 Jay Ailworth Talk about having a ‘whale of a good time’. More »
“No, what are you doing sailing in my swimming pool?” © 2013 Jay Ailworth Talk about having a ‘whale of a good time’. More »
The Biggest Antigua Classic in Memory
If you’re going to have a classic regatta, there are few better places than Antigua’s historic English and Falmouth Harbors.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Ira Epstein — long of Bolinas, and more recently of St. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Ira Epstein — long of Bolinas, and more recently of St. More »
Two Siblings Survive Long Swim
Two siblings are lucky to be alive today after the charter boat they were on sank out from under them. San Franciscan Dan Suski, 30, and his Seattlite sister Kate, 39, had chartered a fishing boat off the north coast of St. More »
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