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Gonzalo Hammers St. Martin and St. Barth
A sailboat on the cement dock at the inner harbor of St. Barth. (Photographer unknown. All photos here are circulating on the Internet without photographer attribution.)
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For five hours on Monday evening St. More »
Fast TIP Processing and Delivery
"Tim Brill of Intrepid here. On Monday, October 6, I filled out the Banjercito form to get a Temporary Import Permit. It was easy. I paid my $43.40 online and received a reference number within minutes. More »
More Clarifications and Confusion About Mexico Paperwork
Mexican officials at Huntington Beach yesterday tried to make sense of the often confusing and sometime contradictory aspects of applying for nautical tourist visas and Temporary Import Permits.
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©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC We will not lie to you. More »
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC We will not lie to you. More »
Cabo Welcomes First Post-Odile Cruise Ship
The Holland Zaandam, the first post-Odile cruise ship, called on Cabo San Lucas last Friday, reports Claudia Ruiz Massieu, México’s Secretary of Tourism. The ship arrived from San Francisco with 1,857 passengers and 804 crew. More »
Mexican Paperwork Questions
Tomorrow the Baja Ha-Ha rally’s Grand Poobah and others will be attending an invitation-only meeting in Huntington Beach that will address the many problems with paperwork for boats and people going to Mexico this winter. More »
Amsterdam Not So Open-Minded After All
You can pay to rent privately-owned boats in colorful Amsterdam, but not through ‘boat Airbnb’ hopefuls such as GoBoat.
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©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s a common misconception that anything goes in Amsterdam. More »
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It’s a common misconception that anything goes in Amsterdam. More »
Beyond The World Series
There is more green on the baseball field in Turtle Bay than in the rest of Baja — minus the Cabo golf courses — combined.
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Don’t think baseball season will end in late October with the San Francisco Giants winning their third World Series in five years. More »
Another Hurricane Headed for Baja?
Passage Weather’s model for next Tuesday shows Simon hitting the Middle Reach area of Baja as a reasonably strong tropical storm.
Passage Weather
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Depending on whose long-range forecast you want to believe, Simon, another tropical storm about to become a hurricane, is circuitously headed toward Baja California Sur, which has already been ravaged by hurricane Odile. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Depending on whose long-range forecast you want to believe, Simon, another tropical storm about to become a hurricane, is circuitously headed toward Baja California Sur, which has already been ravaged by hurricane Odile. More »
Paperwork Review for Baja Ha-Ha
While reminding everyone that the Baja Ha-Ha does not do TIPs or Nautical Visas for anyone, we’ll try to review the process one more time to answer common questions. (The Dona Jenkins Maritime Document Service in San Diego, 619-223-2279, will do TIPs for $150.) More »
Do the Ha-Ha Aboard Profligate?
Profligate about to round Cabo Falso.
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©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Almost everybody who does the Baja Ha-Ha aboard the 63-ft catamaran mothership Profligate is a repeat, but this year one cabin has opened up. More »
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Almost everybody who does the Baja Ha-Ha aboard the 63-ft catamaran mothership Profligate is a repeat, but this year one cabin has opened up. More »
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