What’s the Issue With October? Here’s a Sneaky Preview

As September draws to a close, we’re eagerly anticipating the arrival of our October Latitude 38. The new issue is out tomorrow and will on the docks before you know it!

In the October issue, we’ll be covering both sides of the seashore — that thin line between the water and the land. On the water side, there’s a lot of sailing activity, and right now, one lone swimmer is swimming about three miles offshore from Oregon to Mexico.

“Most cats don’t like to swim, but Cat Breed is a different kind of cat. On July 1, she began her effort to become the first person to swim the entire 900-mile California coast, from the Oregon border to the Mexican border. As of this writing in late September, Breed’s Swim California venture is at Point Conception and turning the corner into SoCal.”

We also have a story about the other side of that shoreline, where people wrestle over what to do with the small scraps of land that give everyone access to the water. Voters in Sausalito will be voting on Measure X to shape the future of what remains of their working waterfront.

“Today’s working waterfront isn’t about freezing an old-fashioned maritime economy in amber. It’s where some of the technologies shaping the maritime economy of tomorrow are being built. And, as the conversation about revitalizing Sausalito’s industrial marine-trade zone has grown, we asked ourselves what’s happening on working waterfronts around the world. The answer is pretty thrilling, and some of it is already local.”

Outside of swimming and land-use debates, we get back to sailing and all that’s going on with West Coast sailors on the Bay, along the coast, and across the world’s oceans. The Rolex Big Boat Series leads the features before we jump into Starlink and cruising, the life of the J/24’s extended family, and the hard truths about living aboard. (It’s pretty good most of the time.)

Max Ebb gets really technical this month as Lee Helm’s sailing guests Rose Wood and Doug Fur get into the physics of wet and dry transoms.

Art Hartinger shares excerpts of his charter around Martinique in our World of Chartering section, while Changes in Latitudes will change your attitude, and perhaps convince you that our lives on the dry side of that thin shoreline would be better spent on the wet side.

Stay tuned for the October issue of Latitude 38, out tomorrow!