Current News
Coville to Start on Christmas Eve
With Francis Joyon and IDEC setting such a furious pace, Coville is having to start in storm conditions to try to keep up.
© 2007 Jacques Vapillon/DPPI
"Thomas Coville has announced that he and his 105-ft trimaran Sodebo will depart France on his solo around the world attempt on what appears will be very strong weather conditions on Christmas Eve," reports Javier de Muns, our man in Brittany. More »
Ice Station Tara – Sailing the Snowy Sea
You may recall that New Zealand sailing hero Sir Peter Blake was murdered by pirates in the Amazon River six year ago this month. At the time, he was heading an ecological research project aboard the 119-ft aluminum schooner Seamaster. More »
Risking Your Life for Freedom
The ‘Freedom 32’ raft designed by Fidel Castro.
© 2007 Rod Williams
Today’s Photo of the Day, of a 10-person Cuban refugee raft that washed up on San Pedro Reef in Belize, should be a reminder to everyone just how good we’ve got it in the United States — and just how bad people have had it in Cuba under the tyrant Fidel Castro for more than 40 years. More »
Tragedy on the ARC
Tragedy has struck this year’s Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. On December 7, John Thompson, 54, of the Great Britain-based Oyster 41 Avocet was hit in the head by the boom during a broach and was severely injured. More »
Joyon Smashes 24-Hour Solo Record
"It seemed unavoidable, and indeed it has happened," writes Javier de Muns, Latitude‘s man in Brittany. "Francis Joyon, racing around the world singlehanded aboard his 97-ft trimaran IDEC has set a new 24-hour solo record of 616 nautical miles — an average of 25.6 knots." More »
Beach Cat Crosses Atlantic in 12 Days
There’s no denying that the French are showing the world the way when it comes to ballsy ocean sailing. The day before Francis Joyon set the new 24-hour record with Idec, Benoit Lequin, 33, and Pierre-Yves Moreau, 35, two other Frenchmen, established a new transatlantic record for a . More »
Perdock’s Story Keeps Changing
Bismarck Dinius, who was charged with manslaughter in the 2006 death of Lynn Thornton, appeared in Lake County Superior Court November 29 to plead not guilty to the charges, and to request that Lake County prosecutors be removed from the case. More »
“I’m So Thankful They’re Safe!”
In Wednesday’s ‘Lectronic, we reported that the disabled San Francisco-based 47-ft motorsailer Darla Jean washed ashore at Fanning Atoll on December 2 after two and a half months of drifting across the Pacific. More »
Harker on Last Leg of Solo Circumnavigation
As Harker rounded Cape Point, South Africa, he returned to the Atlantic Ocean, from where he started his circumnavigation.
© Mike Harker
Mike Harker, whose Lake Arrowhead home burned in the recent Southern California wildfires, reports that he’s left the Indian Ocean and is back in the Atlantic with his Hunter Mariner 49 Wanderlust III, and therefore has just 6,500 miles to go in his very rapid and mostly-singlehanded circumnavigation. More »
Photos of the Day: Sea Level Launched
Jim Milski’s new self-built catamaran Sea Level tasted the water for the first time on December 3 at Mare Island.
© Jim Milski
It was a long time coming, but Coloradan Jim Milski’s dream catamaran touched water for the first time on December 3. More »
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