
Latitude 38 Magazine Have you noticed anything different about our home page? Now you can download the magazine by clicking on the current issue's cover. We also added 'Lectronic Latitude's headlines to the home page. What do you think about the changes?
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What the Heck? Weekend Racing Wrap-up Ad: Position Available at KKMI Stand By for Blast Off! Sale Boat of Day: KKMI Brokerage

Latitude 38 Magazine Sorry, I totally forgot about FB with all the drama. We got the call around 10 am Weds about the EPIRB alert. Worked most of that day to help any way we could. Too many of the fleet were too far south to be of assistance. Thrilled everyone was rescued safely! What a random thing to be attacked by whales! We'll have a full feature on the story for the December issue.

Latitude 38 Magazine The Ha-Ha is off and it looks like it could be a wild ride. The Poobah is encouraging everyone to stop for a day or so around Tuesday/Wednesday to let 15-ft seas settle down. "Some of the rough riders, like the one entrant who's circumnavigated four times, might tough it out," he said, "but we just want everyone to have a good time!"

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BAM! Done with another issue! What to do now? Go for a sail on the new Antrim 49 Rapid Transit? Sail in this weekend's Great Pumpkin? Meet a circumnavigator who just transited the NW Passage? Or maybe kick off the 'Sweet Sixteen' Baja Ha-Ha? The answer is ALL OF THEM!
What are you gonna do?
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Oct. 3 — 2nd Annual SailFest at Sausalito's Modern Sailing School, 1-5 p.m. Free sailboat rides, live music, food and a boat show. Info, (415) 331-8250.

Latitude 38 Magazine We're on deadline so most of us were chained to our desks in the dungeon, though Race Editor Rob Grant escaped for a few hours to shoot photos of a newly launched boat. What kind of sailing did you get in this weekend before the rain hit?

Latitude 38 Magazine Just posted a great story of a new sailor's first storm at sea. What a character!
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The last thing anybody with a boat in Baja or with a boat entered in the Baja Ha-Ha wants to hear is that Rick, now a tropical storm 315 miles SSE of Acapulco, is expected to develop into a hurricane by Sunday.

Latitude 38 Magazine Here's a direct link to the list of school supplies needed in Turtle Bay.
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A lot of southbound boats, headed for cruising in Mexico this winter, have asked for ways to donate needed items to the children's schools in Baja. We have friends that live and have a small business in Bahia Tortugas and we contacted them about giving back. ...

Latitude 38 Magazine Phwew! Some carnage in Richardson Bay. See the pix in today's 'Lectronic. Are you heading south for the winter? If so, consider dropping off school supplies in Turtle Bay. Details also in 'Lectronic.
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As all of us in Northern California know, we got pounded by what was a combination of a very early winter storm and the remnants of a Japanese typhoon. The results were record one-day amounts of rain for October, winds to 67 knots, and seas outside the Gate to 14 feet.

Latitude 38 Magazine It's a wild ride out there today. Gusting for 48 knots at Angel Island.
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Sailing weather for San Francisco, Sausalito, Tiburon, Angel Island, Treasure Island, Alameda, Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Richmond, Vallejo, and Redwood City.

Latitude 38 Magazine Facebook acting strange - let's try this again: Despite the fog & clouds, the Bay was packed this weekend for Fleet Week. Did you go out? More importantly, is your boat tucked safely away for tomorrow's storm? Stay safe!
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Boats poured onto the Bay this weekend to take in Fleet Week festivities. Unfortunately, fog prevented the stars of the show — the Navy's elite flying team, the Blue Angels — from performing on Saturday. ...

Latitude 38 Magazine The Vallejo 1-2 is this weekend - are you a 1 or a 2?

Latitude 38 Magazine The October issue of Latitude 38 is on the streets! Today's 'Lectronic features more reports from South Pacific cruisers on the Samoan tsunami and Indonesian earthquake.
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As rescue workers in Samoa and American Samoa continue cleaning up after Tuesday's earthquake-triggered tsunami, the death toll has risen to 169 and counting. Among the missing is Dan Olszewski of the Florida-based Freedom 39 Mainly. ...

Latitude 38 Magazine Buddyboating: Yea or Nay?
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"We've been buddyboating down the coast with one of the 191 registered Ha-Ha boats," report Mark and Vicki Reed of the Portland-based Ericson 38 Southern Cross. "While in Monterey, we met ...

Latitude 38 Magazine Can you guess where this fiery photo was taken?
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We often receive fantastic sunset shots from cruisers scattered all over the globe, but this one, snapped recently by Jo Brosnan, caught our attention as being unusually spectacular. Tell us where you think it was taken — the first five correct answers get a Latitude bumper sticker! ...



















