Did You Visit ‘Cuauhtémoc’ on the Weekend?
While the Latitude crew were mingling with sailors and marine-business vendors at the Sausalito Boat Show this past weekend, the Mexican navy sail-training vessel Cuauhtémoc was docked in San Francisco welcoming visitors aboard. We raced out to the headlands to take some photos of the ship’s arrival last Wednesday, but … yep, fog. We couldn’t see a thing. Thankfully the ship found her way into port without incident.
As we mentioned, given that our local crew were all busy at the boat show, we didn’t visit the ship. Perhaps some of our readers did and could share some of their thoughts about their experience. We recall being aboard 378-ft BAP Union when she spent four days in the Bay in 2019. She was an impressive vessel, and it was fun to be among her greeting party as she sailed in under the Gate. Granted, Cuauhtémoc is only 296-ft, by comparison, but that’s still significantly longer than the boats we frequent.
Friend of Latitude, Call of the Sea’s director of community and business development Sylvia Stompe, was sailing aboard her Hughes 48 Iolani as Cuauhtémoc headed back out the Gate on Sunday.
“Amazing to see the difference in scale of the 100-ft [LOD] Matthew Turner in the background,” Sylvia commented.
At the same time, another friend of ours, sailor and photographer Bryan McDonald, was out on the Bay paddling with the Tamalpais Outrigger Canoe Club when Cuauhtémoc crossed beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. We snuck the photo below off Bryan’s Instagram page.
