Resources

Here you'll find sailing resources that we think might be useful!

Sailing Resources and How-Tos

Northern California Sailing Weather

• Check out Latitude's Northern California Weather Resources

Preparing Your Boat for Winter Storms:

• Boat Check List

Bay Area Sailing:

• San Francisco Youth Sailing
• Guide to Bay Area Boat-In Dining
• Guide to Bay Area Sailing Charter Companies
• The Heeling Power of Sailing
• Guide to Bay Sailing, May 2009
• Delta Stories, old and new
• The Perfect Daysail, 2007 edition

Cruising:

• Setting Sail on the Pacific Spirit - John Bergstrom uses a MicroStrain 3DMGQ7 with dual antenna and RTK modem to collect navigation and position data using SensorConnect software.
• West Coast Circumnavigators' List
• San Blas Cruisers Guide
• South Pacific Strategies, 2012
• New Safety Requirements for U.S. Sailboat Racers
• Idiot's Guide to Marine SSB (updated)
• Sea of Cortez or the Caribbean?
• Fair Weather Sailors: SoPac Weather Simplified
• South Pacific Weather, Part 1 and Part 2, 1994
• Pacific Puddle Jump 2004 - Part 1
• Pacific Puddle Jump 2004 - Part 2
• Over the Top - Circumnavigating, Siberian Style (Brrr...)
• Young, pregnant and cruising the South Pacific

Racing Insights:

• Rob Moore's Beercan Ten Commandments
• Making Offshore Racing Safer - The Low Speed Chase Tragedy
• 2024 Northern California Racing Calendar

DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Tips and Tricks:

• The Resourceful Sailor's Stern-Tie Set Up

Medical/ Emergencies at Sea:

A collection of articles by Dr. Kent Benedict, a sailing MD:

• Hypothermia (1998)
• Medicine to Go (1997)
• Seasickness (1997)
• Medical Potluck (1997)
• Preparedness (1996)

Tips on Buying or Selling a Boat:

• Tips on Selling a Boat
• Tips on Buying a Boat

Sailing Links

Memorable stories from the print edition of Latitude 38:

• Remembering Rob Moore
• Loss of lives and boats in the 1982 Doublehanded Farallones Race:
  • Doublehanded Farallones Feature
  • Kuhushan Sinking
  • Going For It Once Too Often
• The Bernard Moitessier Interview, January 1981
• Salute to Circumnavigator John Guzzwell
• A ‘Conversation with Paul Elvstrom, November 1990
• An interview with hired big-gun, Dee Smith
• Carl Schumacher, 1949-2002 - Alameda's Gentle Genius
• Shimon Van Collie's profile of Carl Schumacher, 1984
• What's Next for Berkeley Marina? 2019 Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

Charter Stories:

• New sailors bareboat and rock climb Greece’s Aegean Islands.
• From September 1978, Skip Allan's TransPac journey: Skip Across the Ocean
• San Franciscans on the Solent for the RYS Bicentenary
• 35th America's Cup
• 34th America's Cup
• First-Time Charterers Sample Crewed Cat Sailing in BVI

Additional Historical Editorial:

• The Passing of David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and the schooner Mayan.
• The 20th Anniversary of Loma Prieta: Shake, Rattle & Roll
• For Flag Day: Show Your Colors
• Hiking the Channel Islands
• China Sydrome: Sylvain Barielle from Sightings
  
• The Cruise of the Laundry Basket, circa 1948
  
• Baylis Family: Inheriting the Wind
• Surviving the Tsunami
• Boat of the Month: Ranger 33
  
• Peter Blake - Murder on the Amazon
• Our Big Boat Series Retrospective - 37 Years of History
• Cruising with Patrick O'Brian - The Man and the Myth
  
• De-Naming Ceremony
• 55 MPH to Windward - Truckin' Her Home
• Shattered Dreams - The Lure of Booze and Drugs
• The Endeavour
• Pacific Puddle Jump 1999 - The Call of the Conch Shell
• 1998 Baja Ha-Ha Wrapup
• Steve Fossett's PlayStation
• Nightmare Off New Zealand
• Alan Andrews: Eyes on the Prize
• "Weirdos With Boats" - The 1998 Singlehanded TransPac
• The 1998 Big Boat Series
  
• Our coverage of the 1998 J/24 World Championship
• Wisdom...where and what would sailing be without it?

Boat of the Month (BOM):

Rhodes 19 (Aug '79)
Snipe (Sep '87)
Merit 25 (Dec '91)
Knarr (Oct '77)
Columbia 5.5 (Feb '03)
Luders 36 (May '04)
J/24 (Dec '03)
Bear (Jun '77)
Santa Cruz 50 (Feb '87)
Catalina 22 (Jun '83)
Nordic Folkboat (Mar '81)
Bird (Apr 1977)
Islander Bahama (Feb '85)