Welcome back to part two of our chat with Barry and Samantha Spanier. After impressive careers in sailmaking and advertising, they’re now living their dream on their custom-built scow bow junk rig boat Rosie G. More »

Welcome back to Good Jibes. In this week’s episode we travel down under where we catch up with Bay Area sailors Barry and Samantha Spanier to chat about their lifelong passions of sailing and sailmaking. More »

Welcome to this week’s Good Jibes. Today we bring you four stories from the January issue of Latitude 38 Sailing Magazine. Tune in as host Monica Grant reads, “The To-Do List en Route to the Ha-Ha” by John Walsh, “Then and Now” by Liz Newkirk, “A Sailing Dad’s Family Charter” by Pippin Brehler, and “The Secret to a Long Life? More »

This week we chat with professional sailor, sailmaker, and new Grand Poobah of the Baja Ha-Ha Chuck Skewes about the present and future of sailing, his plans for the Ha-Ha, and sailmaking. More »

As we introduce this week’s episode of Good Jibes, we want to extend a big “Thank you!” to our listeners and sponsors — we recently surpassed 200,000 downloads of the Good Jibes podcast! More »

Welcome to Good Jibes where we chat with the West Coast sailing community to hear their stories and tips on cruising, racing and just plain sailing. This week we chat with 36-year U.S. More »

In this episode of Good Jibes, we chat with Laura Muñoz, the executive director of the Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay (YRA). This week’s host, Latitude 38 Racing Editor Fritz Baldauf, makes his Good Jibes debut as he and Laura talk about how she found the YRA after working in the equestrian world, the behind the scenes work the YRA does with the US Coast Guard to get regattas approved, the YRA Women’s Series, how the organization’s growing opportunities for beginning racers, and the story of her broken ankle on the water. More »

Join us this week for part two of our chat with one of the great legends of the sailing world, Commodore Tompkins. The 93-year-old Californian has sailed over 600,000 miles and has accumulated a life-time of sailing stories spanning his earliest memories to today. More »

This week we’re joined by one of the great legends of the sailing world, Warwick “Commodore” Tompkins. The 93-year-old Commodore has sailed over 600,000 miles and has essentially been sailing since birth. More »

  This week’s host, John Arndt, reads three articles from the December 2025 issue of Latitude 38.   Hear “On Board the Mothership for the Poobah’s Last Ha-Ha” by Nicki Bennett, “Convergence Comes Home” by Sally-Christine Rodgers, and “Boat Kids and Kid Boats” by Katie Levy. More »