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Ouch! That Had to Hurt
Doh! A boater trying to avoid paddleboarders at the entrance to Ballena Bay wound up high and dry last Saturday.
© 2012 Nathaniel Penn
It’s easy to assume from this photo that the powerboat pictured simply cut a corner last Saturday and ran up on this concrete pipe on the north side of the entrance to Ballena Bay. More »
Dolphins Rescued in Brazil
No experience is quite like hanging over the side of your boat as a pod of dolphin squirm and play and splash in your bow wake — the sheer joy they so clearly take in showing off can’t help but be contagious. More »
My Boat Gets No Respect!
"I think the Hunter 54 might be the most maligned boat design ever," our old friend Warren Stryker of St. Thomas told us the other day. We became friends with Warren in the ’70s when we both owned Rhodes-designed full keel Bounty IIs in Sausalito. More »
Watch Out for Whales
"There’s a whale out there," exclaimed an attendee at Wednesday’s Spring Crew List Party. That was the first we’d heard of the mother grey and her calf that have been delighting the public with their presence for the last few days. More »
NorCal Sailing News from the Carib
When we reported Monday on the results of the 32nd annual Heineken Regatta, we announced that Rick Wesslund of Tiburon had won his class with the J/120 El Ocaso. What we didn’t know at the time is that he also won the trophy for the ‘Most Worthy Performance Overall’. More »
Missing Mexico Cruiser
Donn Pinkney hasn’t been seen since leaving Manzanillo Bay on February 20. Finesse (not the boat in the photo) washed ashore a few days ago at La Ticla.
Finesse
©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Friends and family of Donn Pinkney are asking for help in the search for the 43-year-old sailor who left Manzanillo on February 20 aboard his Catalina 27 Finesse bound for Zihuatanejo. More »
©2012 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Friends and family of Donn Pinkney are asking for help in the search for the 43-year-old sailor who left Manzanillo on February 20 aboard his Catalina 27 Finesse bound for Zihuatanejo. More »
No Rehab for Piers 30-32
If anyone really thought the America’s Cup could be pulled off without facing a lawsuit or two, they don’t know San Francisco politics. In what appears to be an attempt at a shocking coup de grâce, former president of the Board of Supes Aaron Peskin filed a suit last week — the day before the deadline to challenge the EIR — on behalf of Waterfront Watch, claiming "procedural violations" in the way the EIR was developed and approved. More »
Right Boat for the Job
Most sailors wouldn’t dream of sailing from Puget Sound to San Francisco in the middle of winter. But most sailors wouldn’t be sailing a bulletproof 64-ft steel cutter along that route, which had already proven its seaworthiness during an entire circumnavigation of the Americas. More »
Cruise Ship Passengers Robbed in P.V.
"I was surprised to see nothing in Monday’s ‘Lectronic about the 22 Carnival cruise ship passengers who got robbed at gunpoint south of Puerto Vallarta the other day," writes Michael Robertson of the D.C.-based More »
“This Message Will Self-Destruct”
Who needs Reuters, the CIA, the Office of Naval Intelligence and Al Jazeera to track Somalian pirate activity when you have ‘Lectronic Latitude?
© Teddius Maximus
Avid ‘Lectronic readers may recall Cap’n Ted, the too-smart-for-his-own-good sailor who loves to supply us with juicy stories and photos — all of which cleverly avoid giving away his real identity. More »
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