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Sea Diamond Does the Med
"We just tied up at Elba, which is the west coast of Italy’s Catalina — although much more developed," reports Capt. Rob Wallace of Cita Litt’s magnificent Newport Beach-based Rhodes 90 motorsailor Sea Diamond. More »
Dora Downshifts
Storm watchers in both the Eastern Pacific and Western Atlantic are breathing a sigh of relief today, as the three powerful storms that have been threatening communities ashore have all diminished in strength and/or moved out to sea. More »
Bonus Points for Esmeralda
Esmerelda sailed through the Gate yesterday under full sail and foggy skies.
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©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It was truly unfortunate that the 370-ft Chilean tall ship Esmeralda didn’t arrive beneath the Golden Gate Wednesday morning as planned, because the weather was absolutely stunning on that clear, sunny morning. More »
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC It was truly unfortunate that the 370-ft Chilean tall ship Esmeralda didn’t arrive beneath the Golden Gate Wednesday morning as planned, because the weather was absolutely stunning on that clear, sunny morning. More »
Long Night for a Bay Windsurfer
It would be easy to assume the worst if you’d heard a 62-year-old windsurfer had been missing on the Bay for more than 13 hours, but Cathy Caton’s rescue Tuesday morning after spending a very long night getting sucked in and out of South San Francisco Bay was a surprisingly happy ending to a potentially deadly story. More »
Esmeralda Delayed Until Thursday
If you took our advice and sailed out to greet the Chilean tall ship Esmeralda yesterday as she entered the Golden Gate, you may have thought she somehow slipped by you unnoticed. More »
Crony Capitalism About to Degrade Your GPS?
U.S. taxpayers, via the Department of Defense, paid for the development, installation and maintenance of our GPS system. Now it’s in danger of degradation anywhere within the range of cell phone towers — thanks to what would appear to be crony capitalism of the worst sort at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the White House. More »
Hurricane Dora Threatens Mexican Coast
Dora’s predicted track should keep her from directly hitting land, but hurricanes have a tendency to act unpredictably.
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Hurricane Dora is making both sailors and landlubbers nervous today all along the central Pacific coast of Mexico, as she recently built in strength to a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. More »
Help Us Welcome a Chilean Beauty
Like many longtime sailors, we’ve had a fascination with tall ships for decades. And having observed many of them both in port and under sail, we decided long ago that the Chilean Navy’s four-masted, 370-ft Esmeralda was one of the most beautiful — if not the most beautiful — of them all. More »
Bashing Ahead of a Hurricane?
After a series of obstacles that have prevented us from heading north from La Cruz to do the Baja Bash with Profligate, we were all ready to go. Then we looked at Passage Weather. More »
Two Dead in Chicago-Mackinac Race
Two sailors died early this morning during the 103rd Annual Chicago-to-Mackinac Race when a severe thunderstorm sent wind speeds into the 50s. The Kiwi 35 WingNuts was reported capsized around 12:40 a.m. More »
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