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SF Picks the America’s Cup
While this may not end up being the main staging area, the prospects of the Cup coming to San Francisco have never looked better.
© Skidmore Owings Merill LLP
Yesterday, Mayor Gavin Newsom introduced legislation supported by a majority of the Board of Supervisors to bring the 34th America’s Cup to San Francisco Bay. More »
Presumed PPJers Assisted Off Hawaii
A shot from aboard Robert C. Seamans shows three crewmembers going to the aid of Kehaulani mid-ocean.
Robert C. Seamans
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Honolulu Coast Guard reports that the crew of the sailboat Kehaulani were given 40 gallons of diesel and assistance in repairing damaged sails by the crew of the 134-ft steel, brigantine-rigged research and sail training vessel Robert C. More »
©2010 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The Honolulu Coast Guard reports that the crew of the sailboat Kehaulani were given 40 gallons of diesel and assistance in repairing damaged sails by the crew of the 134-ft steel, brigantine-rigged research and sail training vessel Robert C. More »
Socrates Nearing San Francisco
Jeanne enjoys tea at anchor in Hanalei Bay this summer. No doubt she’s been consuming mass quantities of the stuff on the trip down the coast just to stay warm.
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© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Eleven agonizing days after leaving Victoria, B.C. More »
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC Eleven agonizing days after leaving Victoria, B.C. More »
I’m Ready for My Close-up, Mr. DeMille
We fielded an interesting call from 47-year-old filmmaker Cory Wolfe yesterday asking if we knew any liveaboards who would be willing to be interviewed for a documentary project. "I moved to San Diego from Alaska a couple months ago, and became fascinated with people who live aboard their boats," Cory said. More »
A Tale of Two Rescues
Bonvivant’s dinghy can be seen on deck, ready to launch if the mast punched a hole in the hull.
© USCG PO1 Christopher Evanson
Florida news outlets are reporting that Richard Steg, 73, was rescued 50 miles off Jacksonville Beach on Wednesday, two days after his 35-ft sloop Bonvivant was dismasted and her engine died. More »
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 »
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