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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Kiwi Robert Botha left the Bay aboard Flyer on January 9 bound for his homeland. © 2008 Mike Robinson Mike Robinson of Orangevale reported this morning that Robert Botha, who left San Francisco solo on January 9 aboard his Alberg 30 Flyer en route to his native New Zealand, has been pounded by storm after storm since leaving the Bay. More »

The beaches on the windward side of the Christophe Harbour development site on St. Kitts aren’t anywhere as crowded as California beaches during the summer, and the water is 30 degrees warmer. More »

Russ Clark, Holly Scott, and the donated North Sail. Now, to get the sail to Liz on her boat on Christmas Island. Holly & Russ
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Not 12 hours after we published a notice in ‘Lectronic saying that Liz Clark of the Santa Barbara-based Cal 40 Swell, who is on a sailing/surfing safari in the Pacific, was in dire need of a low cost or no cost headsail, did Holly Scott of Seal Beach respond. More »

A park ranger first spotted tar balls washed up on Pacifica State Beach Monday morning. By Monday afternoon, contracted clean-up crew had collected several gallon bags of dollar-sized tar balls but reports of more tarballs were coming in from several other Bay Area beaches. More »

For those who heard Belvedere’s Tom Perkins say on KQED’s Forum that he might bring his 289-ft Dyna-Rig Maltese Falcon to the Bay in May, we’ve got a clarification. "I don’t know yet whether Falcon will make the trip to the Bay," Perkins wrote Latitude, "as it all depends on the completion date for the submarine that Hawkes Ocean Technology of Richmond is building for us. More »