General Sailing
August Latitude Is Out
Gracing Latitude’s cover this month is Sharon Green’s awesome aerial of the vintage S&S yawl Dorade steaming toward the TransPac finish. The much-acclaimed woodie corrected out to win.
© 2013 Sharon Green
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Light At the End of the Profligate Tunnel?
Profligate heads to the water last Tuesday under the direction of General de Mallorca. It’s hard to know which, but either the cat looks bigger than ever or the General looks smaller than before. More »
Galilee Harbor Maritime Day Saturday
The site now called Galilee Harbor (named after a local ferryboat) has been involved in maritime trades since shortly after the Gold Rush.
© 2013 Courtesy Galilee Harbor
This Saturday’s Maritime Day celebration at Sausalito’s Galilee Harbor honors well over a century of boatbuilding and other ‘working waterfront’ activities on that site, at the foot of Napa Street. More »
20 Years Ago October
Big O is a great ocean-going boat, and was a terrific ‘Mothership’ for the inaugural Baja Ha-Ha.
Big O
©2013 Latitude 38 Media, LLC A little more than 18 years and nine months ago, Latitude‘s Ocean 71 ketch Big O led an intrepid group of 39 boats south to Turtle Bay, Mag Bay and Cabo San Lucas in the first-ever Baja Ha-Ha cruisers’ rally. More »
©2013 Latitude 38 Media, LLC A little more than 18 years and nine months ago, Latitude‘s Ocean 71 ketch Big O led an intrepid group of 39 boats south to Turtle Bay, Mag Bay and Cabo San Lucas in the first-ever Baja Ha-Ha cruisers’ rally. More »
Distress Frequency Change This Week
Offshore sailors make note: Effective Wednesday, August 1, the US Coast Guard will no longer monitor voice frequency 2182 kHz for International distress and safety. They will also drop 2670 kHz for marine information and weather broadcasts, and they will discontinue monitoring the International Digital Selective Calling (DSC) distress frequency 2187.5 kHz . More »
Flossie Barrels Toward Hawaii
If forecasters are correct, heavy rain, high surf and strong winds should be hitting the western edges of the Hawaiian Islands about the time of this posting (noon Monday).
This fascinating NOAA satellite image (taken this morning) shows water vapor concentrated south of the eye of the storm. More »
Joy Ride for Top Gun
Besides the big bucks that AC competitors get paid, they also garner a wide range of perks, such as getting to meet celebs like ‘Top Gun’ Cruise.
© 2013 Gilles Martin-Raget / ACEA
Adding to the sailing superstars who’ve earned nine straight wins for Emirates Team New Zealand in the Louis Vuitton Round Robin series, yesterday the team treated ‘Top Gun’ Tom Cruise and his son Conner to a high-speed cruise around the Bay aboard their AC72 Aotearoa — after another easy defeat of Luna Rossa Challenge. More »
Macklemore Promotes Lady Washington
Hip hop and sailing don’t often mix well — aside from The Lonely Island’s hilarious 2009 spoof hit I’m on a Boat, which was technically powerboating — but Seattle’s Macklemore & Ryan Lewis hit the sweet spot with his new music video for Can’t Hold Us. More »
Lobsterman Saved by His Boots
No doubt John Aldridge’s family had just about given up hope that the Long Island lobsterman’s body would be found after he fell overboard 12 hours earlier, so when word that a Coast Guard helo crew had not only found Aldridge but that he was very much alive, they were ecstatic. More »
Cat Rescues Six Near Cabo
Emilio Castañeda’s Hatteras 85 Alexis sank when her shaft seals blew.
Our Shangri-La
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC "Mayday, mayday, mayday! This is the motor vessel Alexis. We are at 23°12.595N by 110°25.092W and we are sinking! More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC "Mayday, mayday, mayday! This is the motor vessel Alexis. We are at 23°12.595N by 110°25.092W and we are sinking! More »
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