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Tsunami Strikes Indonesia
In the top left corner of this photo, survivors of the tsunami can be seen trudging through a scoured part of Pagai Utara.
© Indonesian Vice Presidential Secretariat
Mother Nature delivered a helluva 1-2 punch to Indonesia this week. More »
Jeanne Socrates Starts Circumnavigation
When last we checked in with Jeanne Socrates, she’d just sailed her Najad 380 Nereida nonstop from New Zealand to Hawaii for the finish of this summer’s Singlehanded TransPac. Jeanne had left the Canary Islands last October in an attempted nonstop circumnavigation, but unexpected engine troubles forced her into Cape Town — and kept her there for three months — before she could continue on. More »
Bisbee Fisherman Shot During Robbery
Mike ‘Kona’ Meredith, a San Diego-based crewman aboard Intrepid for last week’s multi-million dollar Bisbee Black & Blue (Marlin) Tournament, was wounded last Tuesday evening during a robbery attempt, according to NBC/San Diego. More »
Join the Club!
While surfing the interweb looking for racing results recently, something on two yacht clubs’ websites caught our attention: offers of waived or discounted initiation fees for new members.
For a limited time, the Berkeley YC will be waiving what’s typically a $500 initiation fee, and the Santa Cruz YC is offering a "drastically reduced" fee — which would normally range from $1,000 to $2,000. More »
How to NOT Win Friends
Maybe it’s because we’ve been banging on the keyboard since before the sun came up, but we’re getting a little grumpy with cheap-shot artists who recently have been so quick to wrongly accuse Latitude of managing the news for the sake of money. More »
Take Me Out to the Ballpark
Is that Tiger Woods on the field?
© 2010 Lynn Ringseis
It seems that a handful of folks around the Bay Area are getting pretty excited about some game that doesn’t involve sailing. More »
Mild Hurricane Season Off Mexico
We’re not knowledgeable enough to know if cooler than normal water temperatures are the cause, but it sure has been a mild hurricane season for Mexico.
Consider this: In ’09, there were 8 hurricanes and 12 tropical storms off the coast of Mexico. More »
Crime — or Lack of it — in Cabo
Folks about to start the 17th Annual Baja Ha-Ha from San Diego next Monday morning might be interested in the opinion of Ha-Ha vet Mike Miller on personal safety down around Los Cabos, which is the name for the Cabo San Lucas-San Jose del Cabo corridor. More »
Piracy in Costa Rica
"October 12 was both exciting and costly for us here in Costa Rica," write Bruce Stevens and Clark Nicholson of the Dana Point-based Gulfstar 50 Two Amigos. "We were anchored off the beach at a resort town of Quepos. More »
Pleasure Cruise to Rescue Operation
Upon arrival and approach to Port Resolution, Tanna Island, Vanuatu, two Northern California-based catamarans — Jim and Kent Milski’s Schionning 49 Sea Level and Steve May and Manjula Dean’s Corsair 41 Endless Summer — jumped into a search and rescue operation for 12 locals and a baby whose panga had capsized in rough conditions on return from 10-mile distant Aniwa Island. More »
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