Latitude 38 Magazine
Sailing from San Diego to Australia — How Hard Can It Be? (Part 1)
It's great to buy your boat in California. But what if you want to bring it home to Australia?
Singlehanded Farallones Race Starts in Light Air
The Singlehanded Farallones Race started under a forecast of light winds building into the 20s by late afternoon.
The Strange Journey of the Formosa 51 ‘Fair Seas’
In June we asked readers for help in reconstructing the history of Fair Seas, a Formosa 51 that became the centerpiece of a restaurant in Tonga.
SV ‘Atalanta’ — Refitting a Modern Classic
When my boat partner Chuck Drake and I upgraded to 'Atalanta', a custom 1988 New Zealand-built Farr 53, although she looked beautiful, we knew we were in for a project.
Max Ebb — In Praise of Raster
Our local sailing school and its affiliated "club" were planning a charter flotilla, and tried to get around this limitation by projecting the charts on the big screen in the yacht club bar.
Richard Gordon-Rein and Angi Lungu’s Second Chance Cruise
On March 10, 2020, I sailed from La Cruz on my Pearson Triton 28 'Darwind', bound for the South Pacific and beyond. I was 19 years old.
First the Pacific Puddle Jump — Then College Graduation
In 2024, three college friends and I quit our jobs and poured our savings into a sailboat with the goal of crossing the Pacific Ocean.
Latitude 38 July Issue Out Now
Take a look at what's inside the July issue of 'Latitude 38'.
Eighteen Years Aboard the 85-ft Ketch ‘Nereus’
After sharing the story of the Pomeroy family's cruise aboard Nereus in the 1960s, a Port Townsend reader tells her story of 18 years working aboard Nereus.
Cruising Then and Now — A Retrospective
Have Starlink, solar power and Lithium batteries, AIS, and even stand up paddleboards changed the way we cruise?
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