Posts by Tim Henry
YouTube Sailors Visit Bay Area (Last Summer)
My family and I have avidly followed YouTube channel Ran Sailing for several years since this Swedish couple, Johan and Malin, untied the lines and set sail from Sweden in winter 2016. More »
Latitude Nation: What’ve You Been DIY-ing Lately?
Like the arrival of the rain, the setting of the sun and the rotation of planets, so too comes work on the boat. The project may be something you’ve been meaning to do, or something that broke on your last sail. More »
Take a Quick Scroll to the Bottom of the Ocean
Did you know that emperor penguins can dive 1,700-ish feet? Do you know how deep a human being has dived (and when)? What’s the largest type of crab? Who were the first people to take a submarine into the Mariana Trench? More »
Team New Zealand Crashes and Burns, Very, Very Slowly
OK, crash and burn is a bit too dramatic. Team New Zealand’s boom boom on Thursday was more like watching someone just barely lose traction on an icy patch, then slide, slide. More »
‘Matthew Turner’ Struts Her Stuff off San Francisco
While we were making the (not) first-ever circumnavigation of Red Rock on Saturday, a certain Bay Area boat was enjoying a first-ever of her own. “We sailed Matthew Turner across the Bay to the San Francisco Cityfront, along the Embarcadero, then back around Alcatraz to Sausalito,” said our roving reporter John ‘Woody’ Skoriak. More »
Today’s Bay Area Weather Report
It’s windy.
And it’s gonna rain. Rapidly spreading crappy weather with a high chance for dreary later today. More »
A First-Ever Circumnavigation in the Bay Area
To be fair, first-evers are relative. What’s a sailing first-ever to me has probably been done a gazillion times.
But it’s no less significant. On Saturday, as the rain clouds finally parted in Northern California and the breeze filled in, we decided to make our first-ever circumnavigation of Red Rock, a rust-colored lump of island plopped down to the immediate south of the Richmond Bridge. More »
Elana Connor Singlehands to New Zealand
Elana Connor sailed out the Golden Gate in 2017, bound for Hawaii. Captain Conner’s only crew was Jadzia Dax, her dog.
Yesterday, Connor posted on her Instagram that she’d just arrived in New Zealand — it was a long and critical leg along her current west-to-east circumnavigation. More »
The World Famous Latitude 38 Caption Contest(!)
Here’s your December Caption Contest(!). Don’t forget to check the January issue’s Loose Lips for the winner.
Good luck! More »
Jeanne Socrates Cruises Through the West Coast
One of our favorite singlehanders is on a whirlwind West Coast tour — but not by boat.
“The reason for being in the Bay Area was an invitation to Cruising Club of America’s awards dinner on Wednesday [December 4] evening, where I was presented with their special recognition award for my fourth circumnavigation,” Socrates wrote us in an email. More »
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