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No More Dusty-Field Ha-Ha Baseball
The formerly brown baseball field at Turtle Bay is now a lush, plastic green. Even the outfield!
Chip Prather
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Perhaps the most hilarious recent innovation at the Baja Ha-Ha has been the now-annual baseball game on the dusty dirt field at Turtle Bay. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Perhaps the most hilarious recent innovation at the Baja Ha-Ha has been the now-annual baseball game on the dusty dirt field at Turtle Bay. More »
America’s Cup Wins Emmy
America’s Cup 34 has won an Emmy in the newly created "Outstanding New Approaches — Sports Events Coverage" category. This new category "recognizes a seismic shift in how the sport of sailing is covered and consumed," says an America’s Cup spokesperson. More »
Know Why You’re Celebrating Today?
Here on the Left Coast today — aka Cinco de Mayo — is one of those holidays that gets marketers, restaurateurs and bar keepers revved up to a fever pitch of excitement. More »
The Baja Ha-Ha and SoCal Ta-Ta
The early-morning start of the last leg of the Ha-Ha from Bahia Santa Maria. Despite the early hour and ‘marine layer,’ it’s already 75 degrees. It won’t be any cooler at midnight under the cover of stars. More »
Late-Season Santa Ana Waves Hit Avalon
Last Tuesday and Wednesday weren’t the best days to sunbathe on the beach at Avalon, reports Kate Olsen, Administrative Assistant for the Avalon Harbor Patrol. "We had a late-season Santa Ana, which resulted in big waves on the beach. More »
The End Is Near!
The brutally active sailboat racing season in the Northeast Caribbean — which we take to be between the British Virgins and Antigua — is not over, but the end is nigh. More »
Free Dashew Weather Books
Weather forecasts are one of the most talked-about topics in any cruiser gathering, often because they’re so often wrong or misunderstood, and so much depends on accurate forecasting when you’re in a small boat in a large ocean. More »
The 27th Antigua Classic Regatta
The 83-ft Fife schooner Adventuress, now 90 years young, shows her stuff in this year’s windy Antigua Classic Regatta.
© 2014 Tim Wright
If there is a better classic regatta in the world than the four-race Panerai Antigua Classic, sailed off historic English Harbor, we’re not aware of it. More »
Boarded, Attacked and Beaten
When you are forced to use your hands to defend against a machete attack, you can come away with some nasty souvenirs.
© Kirk McGeorge
"Our voyage from Cape Town to Trinidad covered 5,503 nautical miles in 33 days of sailing, during which time we crossed both the prime meridian and equator. More »
Matt Rutherford’s New Challenge
Matt and Nicole broke away from their last-minute preparations this morning to strike a pose aboard their custom Harbor 29 Sakura. She was just launched April 1.
© 2014 Mike Sheck / Scanmar
Two years ago Annapolis-based sailor Matt Rutherford, then 31, made headlines when he successfully completed the first-ever singlehanded circumnavigation of the Americas. Tomorrow, More »
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