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Eight Bells for Rudy Choy
Renowned catamaran designer Rudy Choy passed away on September 13 in Honolulu. He was 88 years old.
In 1947, Choy, along with mentor Alfred Kumalee and Woody Brown, created the first modern catamaran in Hawaii. More »
Cosco Busan Settlement Largest Ever
Though no one knows for sure what the long-term effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill on San Francisco Bay will be, it appears the recent $44.4 million civil settlement between local, state and federal officials and Fleet Management Ltd, the owners of the ill-fated oil tanker, has brought the legal wrangling to a close. More »
Armed Guards on Cruising Boats?
While moored at Catalina’s Cherry Cove a weekend ago, the crews of Miss Teak, Destiny and Serendipity — all of whom spent the last winter cruising Mexico as far south as Zihua and as far north as Puerto Escondido — got into a conversation with three gentlemen in a large inflatable who reported they were going to do this year’s FUBAR (Fleet Underway To Baja Rally). More »
Armed Guards on FUBAR Boats?
After leaving Oceanside earlier in the month, we spent a few days at Two Harbors in Catalina. What a lot of fun!
While there, we met a lot of people who had done the Ha-Ha or were about to do the Ha-Ha — and were they excited! More »
Here Comes the Sun. . .
Forecasters swear this is the week to work on your tan. And what better place to do so, than out on the Bay.
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©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC How did that old George Harrison song go? More »
September 17 is Passport Day
The San Francisco Passport Agency is hosting a special ‘Passport Day in the U.S.A.’ event on September 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the S.F. Passport Agency on Hawthorne Street in San Francisco. More »
The Basics for Clearing into Mexico
With the start of the 18th — ‘Barely Legal’ — Baja Ha-Ha less than six weeks away, we’re getting a few letters about clearing into Mexico. This is all covered in Latitude‘s ‘First Timers Guide to Cruising Mexico’, which Ha-Ha’ers can find in their registration packet or you can read directly from the Ha-Ha site. More »
Ka-Em-Te Makes it to Hawaii
Regular readers will remember the story of Doug Merrell and Trish Kelsoe of the Buccaneer 30 Ka-Em-Te. At the end of June, the couple, along with Doug’s sons as crew, were sailing the clipper route from Mexico, where they’d lived aboard and cruised for three years, back to Oregon so Doug could have better access to cancer treatment. More »
Sailing Acrobats to Visit the Bay
Franck and Delphine wowed the crowds at Seattle’s Elliot Bay Marina recently.
© Derek du Nann
As reported earlier, a unique troupe of sailing acrobats will arrive in San Francisco Bay any day now, and will perform their amazing aerial acts — suspended from their rigging of their 40-ft sloop — in a variety of Bay locations. More »
Talk and Heal Like a Pirate
It’s been a very rough year for the cruising community in the Puerto Escondido area of Baja. For one thing, personality and other conflicts tore the community apart. With the two main combatants now gone, one to Cuernavaca and the other to San Diego, things began to simmer down. More »
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