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Ha-Ha Reunion Party Recap

A seeing eye dog aboard the Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors’ boat greets a new friend on the docks of Strictly Sail Pacific.

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©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC

If you didn’t make it to Strictly Sail Pacific this year, you missed a good one. Construction at Jack London Square in Oakland meant smaller tents and a ‘cozier’ setting. "It’s wonderful," Lin Pardey told us. "It feels more like a festival than a boat show."

You never knew who you were going to bump into at the Latitude 38 party on Friday night.

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And that festival turned into one heck of a party outside the Latitude booth on Friday night. Ostensibly the "Baja Ha-Ha Reunion Party," our bash is really for anyone and everyone — and they all came! Trying to maneuver through the crush was not for the faint of heart but you just never knew who you’d literally be brushing elbow with — Randy Repass, Lin Pardey, Jim Antrim, Olaf Harken, and the kid from one of our most popular covers ever.

Connor Kresge was the proud ‘coverboy’ for our November ’07 issue.

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And standing sentry in the middle of the crowd was the ‘Hall Monitor’, provided by Hans Bernwall of Scanmar, the offiical windvane sponsor of this fall’s ‘Fabulous Fifteen’ Baja Ha-Ha.

Sherri Wilkinson cozies up to Scanmar’s ‘Hall Monitor’.

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So if you didn’t make it down for the show, you missed a good time — but there’s always next year!

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Yankee with a bone in her teeth at the Master Mariners Regatta. latitude/JR
©2008 Latitude 38 Media, LLC San Francisco Bay is home to one of the largest, coolest and most active fleets of classic yachts anywhere in the world — the Master Mariners Benevolent Association.
Seen here days before setting sail from La Cruz, outside Puerto Vallarta, Gina and Paul are headed home to New Zealand.