Reading Magazines Brings the Sensual Pleasures of Touch

We’re sending out a reminder for everyone caught up in the digital, social and AI frenzy, while the Surgeon General announces a national epidemic of loneliness, that a visit to your local marine business will help reconnect you with the sensory experiences that make us human. A stop at KKMI, Marina Village, North Sails or any of our 700 magazine distributors on the West Coast is an opportunity for a friendly hello and for grabbing the tactile and sensual pleasures provided by reading a print copy of Latitude 38.

While the experience is not the same, we do also provide the magazine in digital format as a flip viewer in Issuu, or as a PDF download. We recently upgraded our server, which temporarily eliminated our ability to put the August issue PDF online. We received a good number of complaints like this one from Papeete, Tahiiti:

“I’m sitting here on my boat in Papeete desperately [trying] to download your current issue.

“When I wasn’t logged in it showed the PDF for download. I tried and it said to log in, which I did, then the option to download went away, instead it wanted me to read on-line. As you can tell, I’m old, but I want to download it so I don’t use up data reading it. Anyway, sitting alone on a boat now and I was looking for a good read.

“Thanks for all you do.”

– John
S/V KIAPA

Unlike California sailors, Tahiti sailors can’t walk into their local chandlery to pick up the real thing, and our PDF serves many cruisers who are out of the area. The problem is now fixed and you can find the PDF here. You can download or read online every issue, back to April 1977, when you scroll on our magazine page here.

If you are a West Coast sailor, stop by and say hello to one of our many distributors to pick up a hard copy, or, if you know of a location frequented by West Coast sailors that does not get the magazine, send their contact information here. Now, relax and enjoy the read.