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Circumnavigating in a Tin Can

February 8, 2008
After a test sail on San Francisco Bay on Saturday, 39-year-old David Vann of Tallahassee, Florida, hopes to leave Sunday on a four-month non-stop singlehanded circumnavigation via the Southern Ocean aboard his trimaran Tin Can. More »

Boat Explodes Next to Wanderlust 3

Harker rushed out of Hooters in Miami and down the docks on his folding bike to see if Wanderlust 3, the boat he’d just circumnavigated aboard, had exploded. © 2008 Mike Harker When Mike Harker finally returned to Miami following both his personal and his Hunter Mariner 49 Wanderlust 3‘s circumnavigations, he had more excitement than during almost any time during the trip. More »
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Singlehander Finds Calmer Seas

February 6, 2008
In last Friday’s ‘Lectronic, we reported that singlehander Robert Botha, who’d left the Bay on January 9 aboard his Alberg 30 Flyer bound for his native New Zealand, was having a tough time dealing with heavy weather in the middle of the Pacific after his windvane broke. More »

Wanderlust 3 Finishes in Under 11 Months

February 4, 2008
Mike, legally a parapalegic, unsnarls his chute off St. Barth about a week ago when he still had 1,100 miles to go in order to complete Wanderlust 3’s circumnavigation. latitude/Richard
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Mike Harker of Manhattan Beach reports that he completed his circumnavigation with his Hunter Mariner 49 Wanderlust 3 yesterday in the Bahamas. More »

Gitana 13 – Pit Stop at the Horn

The 110-ft maxi cat Gitana 13 is stopped, waiting patiently ‘behind the door’ as they put it. The door in this case is the Lemaire Channel, the final passageway to Cape Horn and the Pacific. More »

Sewage Spill in Richardson Bay

Nearly 3 million gallons of sewage oozed into the Bay on Thursday from a Mill Valley treatment plant. latitude/Rob
© Latitude 38 Media, LLC The hot topic of conversation in Sausalito this weekend wasn’t about which team would win ‘The Big Game’ but why it took nearly 20 hours for officials to notify the public that 2.7 million gallons of partially treated sewage from a Mill Valley treatment plant had spilled into Richardson Bay on Thursday. More »
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Cruiser Found Dead in Mexico

We’re saddened to report that Alameda-based cruiser John Long, 78, was found dead in Puerto Madero, Mexico — just north of the Guatemalan border — on Saturday. Long’s 55-ft steel ketch Culin had run aground and his bruised body was found floating nearby. More »

Life Aboard in the French West Indies

February 1, 2008
A cool and rainy day in the Eastern Caribbean. This is Latitude’s R&C 45 ‘ti Profligate, as seen from Tim Schaff’s R&C 45 Jet Stream. latitude/Richard
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Some folks are under the impression that it never gets cold in the Caribbean. More »

Bound for Glory – Groupama and Gitana

Franck Cammas’ Groupama 3 is one of two giant multihulls currently in pursuit of long-distance sailing records. © Yvan Zedda Two giant mulithulls continue to blast south through the Atlantic as you read this. More »