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:
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
- Marine Hazards Map - Richmond, January, 2025
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
- 2025 Northern California Racing Calendar
DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Tips and Tricks:
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:
Memorable stories from the print edition of Latitude 38:
- Remembering Rob Moore
- Loss of lives and boats in the 1982 Doublehanded Farallones Race:
- 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)