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A Week Is Three Weeks too Little
This photo shows one of several anchorages at Antigua’s Green Island. That’s ‘ti Profligate on the lower left, just in front of the reef. The 60-ft Gold Coast charter cat which has circumnavigated Antigua every day of the year for the last 18 or so years zoomed between ‘ti and the reef at high speed. More »
Cruisers Aid in Fiji Relief Effort
The picture tells the story: Many Fijian families lost everything to Winston’s fury, including crops and food supplies. But visitors to the islands have been impressed by the upbeat attitude of the survivors, despite the obvious devastation. More »
Match Racing for 600 Ocean Miles
The MOD70 Concise 10 pursues the sistership Phaedo3 — just as she would for 600 exciting high-speed sailing miles.
© 2017 Emma Jones
Does ocean racing get much more beautiful and exciting than you see in the photo above of Tony Lawson’s Concise 10 trying to track down Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD70 sistership Phaedo3 in the Caribbean 600? More »
SPECIAL REPORT: It Happens to the Best of Sailors
The 45-ft cold-molded, owner-built Rage on the beach at La Cruz, Mexico. Having gone over the rocks, she sustained an enormous hole in her port side and will be cut up this afternoon. More »
Training Ship Used to Smuggle Drugs
Here on the West Coast, a great variety of high-volume smuggling attempts have been discovered — including open panga-style fishing boats with bales of pot piled higher than their gunwales and semi-submersible submarines carrying tons of cocaine. More »
Investigation in Megayacht Mishap
The bigger the boat, the bigger the ground tackle, and the bigger the ground tackle the bigger the potential for environmental damage. At least that seems to have been the case on January 14 when billionaire Paul Allen’s 303-ft yacht Tatoosh reportedly destroyed 14,000 square feet of "protected" coral reef in the Cayman Islands — an area a third the size of a football field. More »
‘Pirate’ Attack in Western Carib
Isolated incident or new trouble spot? Colombia’s Isla Providencia lies 120 miles off the Nicaraguan coast. In the interest of keeping plenty of sea room off the lee shore of Nicaragua’s east coast, many mariners on north-south transits pass near Providencia and its sister island San Andreas. More »
Swimming with Dolphins in the Wild
While up the mast, John was surprised to discover a couple of dolphins swimming beneath his and his wife Debbie’s Deerfoot 62.
John Rogers
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Like most sailors, we at Latitude 38 don’t like the idea of dolphins being kept in cages or pens so humans can swim with them. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Like most sailors, we at Latitude 38 don’t like the idea of dolphins being kept in cages or pens so humans can swim with them. More »
Sailors Rescued Nine Times
Yet again the poor Nora needed the help of others besides her two American crew. This time it was in Cornwall after the unattended 40-footer tipped over and caught fire from a candle left burning inside. More »
Where There’s Black Smoke, There’s Fire
The fire started on a powerboat and spread to another powerboat and a sailing catamaran.
© 2016 Rose Alderson
A wicked boat fire broke out Wednesday about 4:30 p.m. on the powerboat Rhum Runner at the Island Water World Dock in Cole Bay, St. More »
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