The ProSail 40 Tuki currently owns the Jazz Cup record. In 2005, she sailed the 26-mile course in 2 hours and 1 minute. latitude/JR
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Jim Forquer, seen here volunteering as Race Committee Chair for January’s ZihuaFest, was also the second year Director of the Balboa YC of Newport Beach. latitude/Andy
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC We’ve not be able to confirm it, but Cornelia Gould of the Valiant 42 A Capella has passed along a report that Jim Forquer, owner and skipper of the Newport Beach-based Catana 52 catamaran Legato, died last night as the result of an onshore accident. More »

Who knows the proper name for a group of rays? latitude/Richard
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC While cruising along the mainland coast of Mexico, Heather Corsaro of the Monterey-based Cal 36 Eupsychia took this photo of a fleet of little rays. More »

"‘Lectronic readers might be interested to learn that it appears that there may be some limited monthly or seasonal availability for east moorings in Monterey for boats from 25 to 50 feet this season," advises Scott Pryor of the Monterey Harbor Office. Monthly More »

At first, locals thought someone had careened this old woodie on Schoonmaker’s beach. latitude/LaDonna
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Saturday night’s northerly winds played the usual havoc with the anchored boats in Richardson Bay, sending this abandoned woodie smack onto Schoonmaker Point Marina’s beach. More »

It sort of looks like these boats were knocked over by a hurricane… © 2008 Rob & Linda Jones Rob and Linda Jones, Ha-Ha vets with their Gemini 3000 catamaran Cat’n About from Whibey Island, Washington, sent us the accompanying photo of what looks to be sailboats in Costa Rica knocked askew by hurricane force winds. More »

Gitana 13’s early morning arrival meant only a few boats came out to welcome her crew to the Bay. latitude/Richard
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC While most folks at Corinthian YC yesterday came to catch a glimpse of the 110-ft catamaran Gitana 13 and her 10-man crew, CYC member Jim Gibbs was there on ‘family business’. More »

Gitana 13 slides into San Francisco at the end of her 43-day run from New York. latitude/JR
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC The 110-ft catamaran Gitana 13 slipped quietly under the Golden Gate this morning, the end of her record-setting 14,000-mile record sail from New York attended by only a handful of local boats. More »