General Sailing
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.
© 2013 Thomas Odenwald
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 »
Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
La Gamelle crosses the finish line at the end of the second circumnavigation.
La Gamelle
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC A couple of years ago we came up with the idea of buying an Olson 30 and bringing her to St. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC A couple of years ago we came up with the idea of buying an Olson 30 and bringing her to St. 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 »
The Evolution of Sailboats
We’ve been in the sailing business for 40 years, and we’ve noticed two big in changes.
The first is how much easier and safer it is to sail, thanks to modern electronics such as GPS, AIS, radar, EPIRBs and such. More »
Where Have All the Outboards Gone?
A recent rash of outboard thefts on the Estuary is a good reminder for boaters to secure their motors. "We recently bought a boat on eBay, and between the time we won it and the time we picked it up, the outboard had been stolen," writes an Alameda sailor who prefers to remain anonymous. More »
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