Eight Bells for Sailors Now on Obituaries Page

Since the Latitude 38 community’s lives revolve around sailing, and nearly all our friends are sailors, we’ve long struggled with how to give recognition to those we lose. Eventually, our friends cross the bar and eight bells toll. We have always been challenged to have space available to memorialize these sailors whose lives have meant so much to the sailing community.

We are now honored to be able to pay tribute to these great sailors, our friends with whom we will no longer sail, with a new section in the magazine. We hope to give the community another avenue through which to share the news of their loss. With this in mind, we recently created a page on our website dedicated to our departed sailing friends — Eight Bells Obituaries.

Avid Bay Area sailor, Sabre 40 Escapade owner and Sausalito Yacht Club member Nick Sands recently crossed the bar. His wife, Renee Lind, honored his legacy with our first submission to this new section of Latitude 38. You can see it in the magazine here and online here.

Eight Bells Obituaries provides an opportunity for readers to submit a notice of, or remembrance for, a favorite sailor who has crossed the bar. Not unlike the obituary pages in newspapers, it’s a simple way to let the sailing community know about the loss of one of its members. We are constrained by space and resources to allow more tributes like our recent story on Don Trask, and are hoping our Eight Bells page allows the lives of more sailors to be recognized by the community.

The Eight Bells page follows the format used by newspapers, allowing you to select the size, add the text and photos of your choosing, and make payment. The notice will then be proofread and posted on our Eight Bells page online and also included in the next available issue of Latitude 38. See the page here.