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  • The Great San Francisco Schooner Race
    Whenever ol’ salts get together, they waste no time before lauching into highly annimated story-telling. That was certainly true in the aftermath of last Saturday’s Great San Francisco Schooner Race, as everyone had plenty …
  • Gold Cup In Full Swing
    Eighty-six sailors representing almost 30 countries kicked off the Finn Gold Cup Monday. With sunshine, breeze that topped out in the low-20s, and some typical Circle…
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  • Bridge Collapse Isolates Nayarit Riviera From P.V.
    What is believed to have been a month’s worth of tropical rain during Mexico’s rainy season fell in one day, Monday, in the high mountains above Puerto Vallarta, resulting in the collapse, at 2:30 a.m., of a 180-foot long sec…
  • Earl In The Eastern Caribbean
    While the East Coast of the United States eyes the approach of Earl, now a Category 3 hurricane, the northern islands of the Eastern Caribbean are trying to clean up the damage wrought by Earl when he came through Sunday afternoon throug…
  • September is On the Streets
    ‘Jonesing’ for your Latitude 38 fix? No worries. The September edition is hot off the press and on the streets today, chock full of all the latest sailing news from the Bay and beyond. If you don’t know were to find it, check ou…
  • Hurricane Earl Approaches
    The eye of Earl will pass near or over the northernmost Virgin Islands this afternoon and this evening, NOAA reported this morning. This is spooky stuff, because Earl is a Category 3 hurricane, with wind…
  • Weekend Racing Wrap-up
    If you were out on the Bay this weekend, you know that someone turned on the fan. While Saturday’s forecast was for a sedate 15-18 knots, if you were on the water after about 8:00 a.m., you know that it didn’t take long for…
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  • The Cruising Diet
    When you see somebody with a big cat, you assume he/she has a lot of money. But as Gary Burgin of the Capitola-based Marples 55 catamaran Crystal Blue Persuasion can tell you, that’s not necessarily true. Gary left Calif…
  • Ronstan Bridge to Bridge
    With breeze that peaked in the low 30s and a 3.5-knot ebb, the Ronstan Bridge to Bridge race on August 25 was a full-blown carnage fest. The 7.5-mile classic run from the Gate to Yerba Buena Island brought out 57 entries: 3…
  • Solo Sailor Tells His Tale
    In a follow-up to Wednesday’s report of a solo sailor being rescued 55 miles off Fort Bragg on Sunday, we spoke wit…
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  • The Danger of Dinghies
    Before going cruising, most sailors put a lot of thought into safety. For example, what they will do to prevent getting hit by a ship, how they will pick up somebody who has fallen overboard, or how they will respond to water inexplicabl…