General Sailing
Almost Nothing
Remember the lawsuit filed by Todd Tholke, the liveaboard musician and member of the St. Francis YC, against French Energy Team over the ‘salvage’ of their AC45? You’ll recall that the lawsuit was settled in February and, as is always the case, the financial settlement was not disclosed. More »
More Darling Strangeness
The weird tale of the theft of John Fruth’s Sausalito-based Oyster 82 Darling and her subsequent grounding at Pacifica’s Linda Mar Beach just keeps getting weirder. After we wrote our update on Wednesday, it was announced that two of the three suspects aboard had been released. More »
The Loss of the Schooner Raindancer
Raindancer was lost on a reef at Grenada.
© 2013 John Rogers
Maybe it’s because wood yachts are organic, like us humans, that we find the loss of a wooden boat to be more depressing than the loss of a fiberglass or steel boat. More »
$1 Mill Bail for Darling Suspects
John Fruth’s Oyster 82 Darling took a pounding by the Pacifica surf for about 24 hours before she was finally pulled free.
© Tim Sell
A million bucks. That’s the bail amount for the three geniuses who apparently decided stealing a multimillion dollar yacht to go on a drunken joy ride was a good idea. More »
Full Story on Boarding at Caleta de Campos
The following is Judy Lang’s detailed summary of what happened the night she and her partner Bill Lilly of Newport Beach were victims of an armed robbery aboard Bill’s Lagoon 470 catamaran Moontide. More »
An Oyster 82 on the Beach
According to Darling’s owner, she was stolen from her slip in Sausalito. Parker Diving is en route to effect a salvage.
© 2013 Steve Hajnal
Curious.
That’s our reaction to this morning’s news that Darling, the second Oyster 82 built — launched in 2007 or 2008 and worth about $3.5 million — went up on the beach at Pacifica’s Linda Mar Beach, one of our favorite surfing haunts from back in the day. More »
March Latitude Ready to Read
The March issue of Latitude 38 starts hitting all the usual Bay Area spots today. Things are really heating up on San Francisco Bay, and we’ve covered some of the hottest events. More »
Latitude’s First-Ever Boat Review
Longtime readers know that Latitude has always been averse to doing boat reviews. After all, in the typical boating publication review, somebody looks at a boat just as you could at a boat show, then goes out for an afternoon sail. More »
Sin on Wheels
After smashing the existing monohull sailing record from New York to San Francisco, the turboed Volvo 70 Maserati has hauled out at the KKMI boatyard in Richmond. Having sailed some 30,000 miles since their last haul out, the boat is in need of a full check and service. More »
Was the Charm Blow Mayday a Hoax?
The Coast Guard risks their lives during SAR missions.
© USCG
Speculation is running rampant across the country that the distress calls received by the Coast Guard on Sunday, reporting that two adults and two children abandoned ship to a makeshift liferaft as their 29-ft sailboat Charm Blow sank out from under them, was a hoax. More »
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