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America’s Cup Changes of Heart
Oracle Team USA released this diagram of the America’s Cup course were it to be held in San Diego. All they’d need to do is get permission from the Navy and set up big fans to create a good breeze on a consistent basis. More »
Fear a Chubasco Almost as Much as a Hurricane
"Morning chubascos are a little unusual here, but not unheard of," write Jake and Sharon Howard from aboard the Hunter Legend 45 Jake in the Sea of Cortez. A chubasco is a violent storm, usually of less than three hour’s duration, which is often accompanied by lots of lightning and rain. More »
Is This a Great Country or What?
“Keep your hands off!” When a guard with an AK-15 tells you that, you don’t touch the boat. Note the advanced right-arm-under-the-stock technique.
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©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC While riding our bike in San Diego yesterday, we came through a boatyard and saw something we’d never seen in 40 years of going through boatyards around the world. More »
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC While riding our bike in San Diego yesterday, we came through a boatyard and saw something we’d never seen in 40 years of going through boatyards around the world. More »
A Win-Win Maritime Event
It’s been said that creating win-win situations between customers and clients should be the goal of any responsible business. That’s the way we see Thursday’s Cruising for a Cause event at the brand-new West Marine flagship store in Marin City (just north of Sausalito). More »
Navionics Chart Errors
Like a lot of sailors, we navigate using an iPad and Navionics charts. It’s worked great for us in the United States and the Caribbean, but not so great in Mexico. More »
Destination: Half Moon Bay
Don’t expect to slip into your bikinis and Speedos in Half Moon Bay.
© LaDonna Bubak
While San Francisco Bay can offer exhilarating sailing conditions, cruising options are, to put it kindly, limited. More »
Capsized by Blue Whales
Want to swim with blue whales? Capt. Sayer can tell you what it’s like.
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©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Capt. CiCi Sayer is no stranger to excitement and danger. She’s done a couple of deliveries to Mexico, did the stormy Caribbean 1500 nicknamed ‘Nightmare on Night Heron‘, and between 2003 and 2010 drove Two Harbors (Catalina) shoreboats — including during the bacchanalian, Buffalo Milk-powered Buccaneer Days. More »
©2014 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Capt. CiCi Sayer is no stranger to excitement and danger. She’s done a couple of deliveries to Mexico, did the stormy Caribbean 1500 nicknamed ‘Nightmare on Night Heron‘, and between 2003 and 2010 drove Two Harbors (Catalina) shoreboats — including during the bacchanalian, Buffalo Milk-powered Buccaneer Days. More »
35th America’s Cup In Full Tumult
Wine baron Bob Oatley of the Hamilton Island YC, Challenger of Record for the 35th America’s Cup, had some bad news for Russell Coutts and Larry Ellison.
Hamilton Island YC
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last week wasn’t a tranquil one for the 35th America’s Cup — assuming there will be such a thing as scheduled in 2017. More »
©Latitude 38 Media, LLC Last week wasn’t a tranquil one for the 35th America’s Cup — assuming there will be such a thing as scheduled in 2017. More »
Invisible Hand First Pac Cup Finisher
Seen here charging toward the finish off Oahu, Invisible Hand sailed a great race, taking line honors this morning.
© 2014 Leslie Richter
Frank Slootman’s Encinal YC-based R/P 63 Invisible Hand, guided by navigator Patrick Whitmarsh, bounced off Molokai on Friday morning on her next-to-last jibe toward the Pacific Cup finish line at Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. More »
Kaufmans Sue Their Iridium Time Provider
Should a company be held responsible for the consequences if they deactivate an Iridium emergency phone, especially if they charged the customer for the time to use that phone?
The Kaufman family — parents Charlotte and Eric, and their daughters Lyra, 1, and Cora, 3 — were 1,000 miles into the Pacific aboard their San Diego-based Hans Christian 33 Rebel Heart in April when such a deactivation occurred. More »
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