Current News
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 »
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 »
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 »
The Ha-Ha Forecast
It seems that the weather gods just won’t give up on what’s been the worst summer weather along the coast of California since . . . well, probably the beginning of time. More »
More on Myths About Mexico
We don’t know what it is about the approach of the Baja Ha-Ha each year that causes some people who aren’t even part of the Ha-Ha to get their knickers so bunched up, but they do. More »
Fleet Week Ends With a Boom
Too close for comfort! Jeff Berman snapped this shot of a Blue Angel through the rigging of his Catalina 36 Perseverance. “It was LOUD,” he said.
© 2010 Jeff Berman
Fleet Week couldn’t have ended on a more perfect weekend. More »
Readers Respond to Norm Goldie
As one might expect, we got quite a bit of response to the long and rambling letter in Friday’s ‘Lectronic that Norm Goldie of San Blas insisted that we publish.
Norm Goldie of San Blas, who claims to have “personally” saved the lives of “numerous hundreds” of mariners. More »
Norm Goldie on New Navigation Rules
"No boaters will give instructions to visiting vessels who desire to enter or find moorings in the San Blas Estuary."
"No diagrams or pirated satellite images are to be used [for navigation], as they are useless and in many ways confusing." More »
"No diagrams or pirated satellite images are to be used [for navigation], as they are useless and in many ways confusing." More »
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