Current News
Aegean Skipper’s Body Found
The San Diego County coroner has identified a body found by Southern California fishermen on Sunday as that of Theo Mavromatis, the skipper of the doomed Hunter 376 Aegean. Mavromatis (49) and crew Kevin Rudolph (53), William Johnson (57), and Joseph Stewart (64) were racing in the cruising division of the Lexus Newport to Ensenada Race on April 28 when their SPOT tracker suddenly stopped transmitting in the early morning hours. More »
Sailing-Centric Activities
At the Bay Model, Kame Richards uses Angel Island as his podium to help sailors understand how to use the Bay’s currents to their advantage.
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©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC If the recent delightful weather has given you ‘boat fever’, there are a number of fun ways to feed the addiction over the next several days. More »
©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC If the recent delightful weather has given you ‘boat fever’, there are a number of fun ways to feed the addiction over the next several days. More »
Save China Camp
Compared to other regions, such as the Pacific Northwest, there’s a dearth of quality cruising destinations on San Francisco Bay, so when one of them is threatened, boaters need to band together to save it. More »
Enough About Lights, What About Tanks?
Please, no more letters about lights on cruise ships, as we’ve been overwhelmed with responses. We’ll have the best of them in the June, not May, issue.
One respondent, however, also went off on a tangent about fuel and holding tank gauges that rarely seem to work. More »
German Student Seeks Home
Two years ago, Cheryl Williams, who works with Inter-Ed to place foreign students in California homes, contacted us to see if we could help find a host family for a 16-year-old German student who was passionate about sailing. More »
A Russian Empire in the South Pacific?
At our annual Panama Puddle Jump party we meet a great diversity of cruisers, whose sailing backgrounds and personal narratives are as varied as the range of countries they hail from. More »
Transponder Info Clarifies Aegean Tragedy
At least part of the mystery of how the Redondo Beach-based Hunter 376 Aegean was destroyed during last weekend’s Lexus Newport to Ensenada Race may have been solved. Aegean‘s SPOT Messenger GPS track shows the boat on a constant course and speed for more than three hours — leading them directly onto the rocky shore of North Coronado Island. More »
Another Emmy for Stan Honey
Two-time Emmy recipient and Bay Area navigating legend Stan Honey helped LiveLine bring home a golden statue of its own this week. Honey, the director of technology for the America’s Cup Event Authority, led the team that developed LiveLine specifically for the AC, and on Monday, it received the Emmy for extraordinary technical innovation. More »
Search for Missing Sailor Suspended
The crew of the Hunter 376 Aegean at Friday’s start to the Newport to Ensenada Race.
© Susan Hoffman
The Coast Guard suspended their search for Theo Mavromatis, 49, yesterday afternoon after a 600-square mile grid search by the Coast Guard, the Mexican Navy and civilian volunteers found nothing but debris from the Hunter 376 Aegean aboard which Mavromatis was skipper. More »
New Latitude and Ha-Ha Sign-up Tomorrow
We don’t normally publish ‘Lectronic Latitude on Tuesdays, so we need to tell you today that the May edition of Latitude 38 will hit the streets tomorrow. . .
The May issue will be available at marine businesses all along the West Coast tomorrow. More »
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