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Photos of the Day: Schoonmaker Wreck
At first, locals thought someone had careened this old woodie on Schoonmaker’s beach.
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©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 »
©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 »
Photo of the Day: Spring Tides Happen
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 Comes Full Circle
Gitana 13’s early morning arrival meant only a few boats came out to welcome her crew to the Bay.
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©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 »
©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 Breaks New York to San Francisco Record
Gitana 13 slides into San Francisco at the end of her 43-day run from New York.
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©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 »
©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 »
Gitana 13 on Track to Arrive Thursday
Gitana 13, the 110-ft French catamaran that left New York on January 16, will pass under the Golden Gate tomorrow, Thursday, February 28. Exactly when depends on how well the 10-man crew negotiates the often fickle breeze of the Pacific in winter — and how much fickle breeze there is. More »
Gitana 13 to Arrive on Thursday
To Bay Area residents, 40 days and 40 nights might invoke the biblical weather we’ve been having the last few months. But to the 10 sailors aboard the 110-ft catamaran Gitana 13, it is a measure of pride and progress. More »
Youth Sailing: Speak Now, Or. . .
Just writing the word ‘comprehensive’ makes us a bit nervous. You see, every time we attempt to do a comprehensive overview in Latitude 38 on one subject or another, we invariably leave someone out. More »
Central Pacific Winlink Station Needs Help
Untold numbers of cruisers use the Winlink system for everything from emails to weatherfaxes. The system relies on a smattering of individual ham stations strategically located to help relay signals. The Central Pacific station, located in the Hawaii YC’s ‘TransPac Shack’ in the Ala Wai, is vital to communications between the South Pacific and the West Coast. More »
Maltese Falcon on Fishery Patrol
Tom Perkins swims with the fishes.
© 2008 Tom Perkins
"We have finished four of the most incredible days of diving ever," reports Tom Perkins of the Belvedere-based 289-ft Dyna-Rig Maltese Falcon from Cocos Island, Costa Rica. More »
Soanya Ahmad Jumps Ship
When Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad left Hoboken, New Jersey, on April 21, 2007, their plan was to sail Stowe’s 70-ft schooner Anne out of sight of land for 1,000 days non-stop. More »
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