General Sailing
Swimming with Dolphins and More
Kurt Roll of San Diego recently flew to Auckland to join Dietmar Petutschnig and Suzanne DeBose of the Las Vegas-based Lagoon 440 Carinthia for another season of cruising. For the trip, he packed a new Quadcopter equipped with a GoPro camera for ‘helicopter’ video of their sailing. More »
The Floating Boat Show
One of the great things about anchoring off St. Barth is the great boats you get to see. Some are old, some are new, some are big, some are small. It takes all kinds. More »
Eight Bells for Rick Wood
It is with heavy hearts that many Bay Area sailors are learning of the drowning death of local sailor and boatbuilder Rick Wood. His body was reportedly found near him home in Richmond on Sunday. More »
The Spectacle will Soon Begin
Lionheart and Rainbow prepare to go out for some test sailing.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC St. Barth has been pretty quiet for the last 10 days or so, but that all changed this morning as the St. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC St. Barth has been pretty quiet for the last 10 days or so, but that all changed this morning as the St. More »
Jeanne Socrates Passing Cape Leeuwin
As of this morning, Jeanne Socrates’ Najad 380 Nereida was just passing Australia’s Cape Leeuwin. For the last few days Socrates has been dealing with 20-ft seas and gale-force winds, causing her a few headaches in the form of a destroyed wind generator, damaged radar mount and displaced windvane rudder. More »
Bumping into Jim Jessie
Jim Jessie welcomed us aboard Nalu last weekend at Clipper Cove.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC In another installment of ‘You Never Know Who You’ll Bump into at Clipper Cove’, we ran into circumnavigator and Oakland YC Historian Jim Jessie on his classic wooden Grand Banks Alaskan 53 Nalu last weekend. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC In another installment of ‘You Never Know Who You’ll Bump into at Clipper Cove’, we ran into circumnavigator and Oakland YC Historian Jim Jessie on his classic wooden Grand Banks Alaskan 53 Nalu last weekend. More »
We All Scream for…Sailing
Yannick Odenwald tells us how he feels while sailing on his dad’s South Beach-based Catalina 42 Leluya.
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Yeah, us too, buddy! More »
Joyon Going for the ‘Grand Slam’
One of the complaints about the current America’s Cup boats is that very little of the technological advances will trickle down to regular boats. We suppose that’s mostly true, but then we learned that Frenchman Francis Joyon has equipped his 33-meter trimaran IDEC with foils such as those found on the AC boats. More »
How Can You Tell When a Yacht Is Big?
There are many more large yachts in the Caribbean than on the West Coast of the United States. For instance, 150-footers seem as common in the Caribbean as 70-footers are on the West Coast. More »
Youth AC Volunteer Needed
You just never know when an Red Bull Youth AC boat is going to charge across the Bay, as one did this weekend during practice.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Want to have a front row seat for the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup in September? More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Want to have a front row seat for the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup in September? More »
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