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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 »
“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 »
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 »
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 »
Photo of the Day: Pucker Factor
Talk about ‘pucker factor’ – this monster is bigger than the storm that killed the crew of the northbound catamaran Cat Shot last December.
NWS/NCEP – Ocean Prediciton Center
©2007 Latitude 38 Media, LLC If you were thinking of going out for a daysail today anywhere along the Washington, Oregon or Northern California coast, you might want to rethink those plans. More »
©2007 Latitude 38 Media, LLC If you were thinking of going out for a daysail today anywhere along the Washington, Oregon or Northern California coast, you might want to rethink those plans. More »
Adventure of a Lifetime
The 40-year-old ‘eco-cruise ship’ Explorer sank after hitting an iceberg in Antarctica.
Chilean Air Force
©2007 Latitude 38 Media, LLC That’s what the brochures said, and that’s what the 100 passengers aboard the 250-ft ‘eco-cruise ship’ Explorer got. More »
©2007 Latitude 38 Media, LLC That’s what the brochures said, and that’s what the 100 passengers aboard the 250-ft ‘eco-cruise ship’ Explorer got. More »
Atlantic Rally for Cruisers Underway
The 22nd Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) kicked off yesterday morning with 235 boats sailing across the starting line in fresh 20-knot winds. Racers are undoubtedly pleased that the 2,700-mile jaunt to the Caribbean island of St. More »
What’s Missing from U.S. Yacht Racing?
“Sis, boom, bah, jibe on their wind” . . . or something like that.
© Marchin Grzeslo
You have to hand it to the Chinese, they’ve got a pretty dynamic country right now. More »
Pegasus Project Expands Horizons
The 51-ft Pegasus was lookin’ good at last spring’s Master Mariner Regatta.
© 2007 Mariah’s Eyes
“In the 14 years since we started, we’ve introduced about 5,000 kids to San Francisco Bay and sailing,” explains Peter Hayes, founder of the Pegasus Project. More »
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