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Cruising Boat Sinks, Crew Rescued
The crew of Ka-Em-Te was transferred from the Chinese freighter OOCL Guangzhou by the Coast Guard in Hawaii.
© 2011 USCG Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony L. Soto
After three years of cruising the Sea of Cortez out of San Carlos, Oregonians Doug Merrell, 52, and Trisha Kelsoe, 53, were sailing home from Cabo San Lucas via the clipper route when they lost steering and had to be rescued from their Bayliner Buccaneer 30 Ka-Em-Te. More »
Sea Plane’s Spectacular Crash
It’s amazing how a relatively minor accident can gain quite a bit of attention when a video camera happens to catch it. That’s what occurred on July 1 when Richard Parasol, 75, and James Whitbread, 60, were scooting around Richardson Bay in a Lake LA-4-200 float plane — some have surmised they were showing off a little for the crowd gathered for the Friday Night Jazz & Blues Concert Series in Sausalito’s Gabrielson Park — and caught a boat’s wake, resulting in a spectacular nose dive just off Horizons Restaurant. More »
The Anti-Pirate Potato Cannon
The big fireworks shows don’t start until Monday so what are you going to do with the kids all weekend? It’d be a shame if they played video games and Facebooked the whole time when the weather forecast is calling for the mid-80s over the next several days. More »
Pacific Offshore Academy
While the boats in this year’s TransPac are clawing away from the California Coast, the Pacific Cup YC will be hosting the first installment of its biennial seminar schedule — the "Pacific Offshore Academy" — with a revamped, more user-friendly format. More »
The June/July Haulout in Tropical Mexico
This board will boogie no more.
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©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The chopped-up and stabbed boogie board can mean only one thing — it’s haulout time for Latitude‘s Surfin’ 63 catamaran Profligate. More »
©2011 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The chopped-up and stabbed boogie board can mean only one thing — it’s haulout time for Latitude‘s Surfin’ 63 catamaran Profligate. More »
Taj, Ha-Ha Entry #51
Peter Brown spent 10 years building Taj and he did a beautiful job.
© Peter Brown
As of this morning, the total number of paid entries for this fall’s Baja Ha-Ha, the 18th or ‘Barely Legal’ edition, had reached 91. More »
Politics as Usual
In last month’s Sightings, we expanded on a May 11 ‘Lectronic Latitude report on Washington’s ban on copper bottom paint and that California was close to passing a similar law in SB 623. More »
Hurricane Beatriz Fizzles
About to board our Alaskan Airlines flight yesterday morning from San Francisco to Puerto Vallarta, where we would pick up Profligate for a Baja Bash, we got the news the flight was postponed indefinitely. More »
“Honey, I Think We Have a Problem”
An estimated 10,000 bees crammed themselves in and around Windsome Winch’s main last week.
© Mary Kraybill
It’s not uncommon for sailors to come down to their boat after a prolonged absence only to find a bird’s nest tucked into the main — usually after raising the sail. More »
How Will You Celebrate Summer Sailstice?
How will you spend the Summer Sailstice weekend? Don’t even try to top Loick Peyron’s two-day plan.
© 2011 B. Stichelbaut / BPCE
As many grade-school scholars know, the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere occurs when our old friend Mr. More »
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