Latitude 38 Working Waterfront News Central
Since its inception, Latitude 38 has been able to cover, inspire and connect the people in our sailing community thanks to the businesses that support sailors and sailing. This includes boatyards, sailmakers, marinas, boat builders and numerous trades and craftspeople. Over the decades, the space available along our critical public waterfront continues to shrink. Â Our Working Waterfront page is dedicated to covering these stories to bring awareness to the jobs, facilities and services that are vital to our nation's commercial and recreational maritime infrastructure. Enjoying the 12-month sailing season up and down the California coast is one of the prime features of living in the West. A working waterfront is one that works for all California citizens and retains space for these important waterfront facilities.
Schooner Creek Boat Works is probably best known to San Francisco sailors for building Steve Randers’ Wylie 70 ‘Rage’ and Bruce Schwab’s Vendée Globe Wylie 60 ‘Ocean Planet.’
Even the moon can’t cover it all everywhere but, like the moon, we cover a percentage of the news — the sailing news!
Spring is here, so we’ve packed our duffel bag for sailing and found some news in the side pocket.
The clipper ships of the late 1800s were the most technically advanced use of wind for power in their era. A new generation of technology leaders met aboard the ‘Stad Amsterdam’ as they create a blue wave, developing the sustainable systems of the future.
If you have stories or memories of how Svend Svendsen or his Boat Works made a difference in the community, innovation, or in your life, share them now to support naming the new park at Alameda Marina ‘Svendsen Maritime Park’ in his honor.
The 165-ft historic FDR presidential yacht USS ‘Potomac’ will be dry-docked at Bay Ship, Alameda, on March 11.
Known as Richmond Yacht Club’s flagship vessel ‘Random’s keel was laid at the Nunes Brothers yard in Sausalito, in 1949.
Working Waterfront Issues and Resources
Numerous groups and organizations around the country are working to help preserve maritime economic zones. Working Waterfront Organizations:
Job Opportunities
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Saildrone Launches Its Largest Ever Autonomous Sailboat
Boatbuilding at scale has returned to Northern California, just not in the way we imagine.