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Fujin Rocks the Heineken
The great sailing photographer Tim Wright catches Fujin as she rips her way around St. Martin faster than any monohull has done.
© Tim Wright
While they didn’t get much recognition from the official press, a big congratulations is due Greg Slyngstad and crew of the Seattle-based Bieker 53 catamaran Fujin. More »
Crew List Party This Wednesday
Meeting and mingling during last year’s Crew List Party at Golden Gate Yacht Club.
latitude/Chris
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s the latest in social networking — not! Actually, Latitude 38 has been inviting skippers and prospective crew to Crew List Parties since 1980. More »
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s the latest in social networking — not! Actually, Latitude 38 has been inviting skippers and prospective crew to Crew List Parties since 1980. More »
Morning Commutes Can Be a Pain
It isn’t the Bay Bridge in the morning, but the St. Barth commute in the morning has its drawbacks, too.
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©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC East Blithedale in Mill Valley. The Maze in the East Bay. More »
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC East Blithedale in Mill Valley. The Maze in the East Bay. More »
Sun Shines Upon Merlin’s Party
At the celebration on a sunny afternoon, Emily Abbink and Paul Rangell played Italian folk music from Merlin’s cockpit.
latitude/Chris
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC On Sunday, Mother Nature smiled upon Santa Cruz for the blessing, recommissioning and 40th birthday party of Merlin, Bill Lee’s ‘Fast Is Fun’ 68-ft sled. More »
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC On Sunday, Mother Nature smiled upon Santa Cruz for the blessing, recommissioning and 40th birthday party of Merlin, Bill Lee’s ‘Fast Is Fun’ 68-ft sled. More »
Looking Good
Here is one terrific photo of a cruising boat.
El Gato
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Our nomination for the Best Cruising Boat Photo so far this year goes to Eric Witt and Annie Gardner’s San Diego-based (but never been there) Catana 47 El Gato, which they bought in France a few years back. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Our nomination for the Best Cruising Boat Photo so far this year goes to Eric Witt and Annie Gardner’s San Diego-based (but never been there) Catana 47 El Gato, which they bought in France a few years back. More »
Pac52 ‘Invisible Hand’ Hits the Bay
Frank Slootman was a happy man after launching, sailing and christening the new Invisible Hand for the debut season of the Pac 52 class.
latitude/John
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC With the mid-February deliver of Frank Slootman’s all-carbon rocket ship Invisible Hand to San Francisco Bay, the dream of building a West Coast Pac52 fleet has taken giant step closer to becoming a reality. More »
©2017Latitude 38 Media, LLC With the mid-February deliver of Frank Slootman’s all-carbon rocket ship Invisible Hand to San Francisco Bay, the dream of building a West Coast Pac52 fleet has taken giant step closer to becoming a reality. More »
12,600-ton Yacht Busted
It’s just our opinion of course, but isn’t Sailing Yacht A ugly on a stick? (Actually three sticks.)
© 2017 Karle Horn
Mainstream news sources are reporting that authorities in Gibraltar seized one of the largest and most advanced super-yachts in the world over an unsettled bill. More »
Uplifting Gathering of Sailing Talent
When racing everyone likes to be on the right side of a lift, and the US Sailing National Sailing Programs Symposium was on the right side. The NSPS, which concluded Saturday, is where passionate sailing program instructors and leaders go to inform and energize their upcoming season. More »
It’s Phaedo3 Once Again
For the third year in a row, Lloyd Thornburg’s St. Barth/Santa Fe/Newport Beach-based MOD70 trimaran Phaedo3 has taken elapsed-time honors in the grueling RORC Caribbean 600 race. And for the second year in a row, he and his crew, led by co-skipper Brian Thompson, held off a strong challenge from another MOD70. More »
Etchells Oops
Recovery efforts for an Etchells oopsy.
© Jillian Humphreys
This Jimmy Warfield Etchells, owned by two board members of Stockton Sailing Club, looks as if it was knocked over in one of the storms that have been pummeling California, but actually what happened is that someone drove off with the hoist still attached to the boat’s lifting harness. More »
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