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Family Rescued from Sinking ARC Boat
Leaving behind the sinking Noah, her crew drifts away.
© Dr. Bramley Murton / National Oceanography Centre
Four family members and their one crew were successfully rescued last weekend from the BH39 Noah in the Atlantic Ocean while participating in the 2,750-mile Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) from the Canary Islands to St. More »
A Splash and a Blast
Because the Banderas Bay Blast is held in mid-December, the wind tends to be light and the air warm: mellow tropical sailing. This file photo is from the Blast in 2012. More »
Otto Is Late and South but Coming
You don’t see the likes of tropical storm/hurricane Otto very often. First of all, he’s a very late-season storm. Even more unusual, he formed very far to the south in the western Caribbean. More »
Is This Cool or What?
What possible connection could there be between holiday shopping and the opening of the Panama Canal’s ‘Third Set of Locks’ last summer? (Seen here near completion, with the original Pacific-side locks in the background.) More »
Getting to the Tropics
We made it! El Gato owners Annie Gardner and Eric Witte, on the right, stand atop the cat’s house after making the 1,500-mile passage from Virginia to the British Virgins.
El Gato
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Do you know the three reasons that it’s much harder to get to the tropics from the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states than it is from California? More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Do you know the three reasons that it’s much harder to get to the tropics from the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states than it is from California? More »
20 for 20 for Ol’ 63
Profligate, a sometimes sunny place for shady people sailing to Cabo San Lucas.
latitude/Richard
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Thanks to Internet and other issues in Cabo San Lucas, the Baja Ha-Ha photo wrap-up report we’d planned for today has been postponed, and may not even appear until Friday because of a mandatory 300-mile crossing to Puerto Vallarta. More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC Thanks to Internet and other issues in Cabo San Lucas, the Baja Ha-Ha photo wrap-up report we’d planned for today has been postponed, and may not even appear until Friday because of a mandatory 300-mile crossing to Puerto Vallarta. More »
Coville Flying Fast Below the Radar
The 48-year-old Frenchman Thomas Coville departed Brest, on the coast of Brittany, on Sunday, in hopes of a solo around-the-world record aboard Sodebo Ultim’. (The sponsor, Sodebo, is a French packaged-food company.) More »
German Cruiser Kidnapped Again
On Monday, the Associated Press reported that a German sailor who was kidnapped by Somali pirates eight years ago has apparently been captured again — this time by Islamic militants in the southern Philippines. More »
Two Hulls, Two Big Mahi
Lewis got the ‘mermaid’, the restored cat, and here a whopper of a mahi.
Quixotic
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last fall Tropical Cyclone Winston nailed Fiji, and one of the unfortunate results was something like 21 holes being put in the hull of the Voyager 43 cat Quixote. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last fall Tropical Cyclone Winston nailed Fiji, and one of the unfortunate results was something like 21 holes being put in the hull of the Voyager 43 cat Quixote. More »
Welcome to La Paz!
Guess what city in Baja is welcoming the Ha-Ha fleet once the event is over?
Cat ‘n About
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC "On the evening of October 24, officials in La Paz unveiled the new ‘La Paz’ sign on the malecon," report Rob and Linda Jones, who left Puget Sound long ago aboard their Gemini 3000 catamaran. More »
©2016Latitude 38 Media, LLC "On the evening of October 24, officials in La Paz unveiled the new ‘La Paz’ sign on the malecon," report Rob and Linda Jones, who left Puget Sound long ago aboard their Gemini 3000 catamaran. More »
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