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Latitude’s Secret HQ?

By LaDonna | October 30, 2013 | Clipper Cove |
We had no idea what we were looking at when we sailed into Clipper Cove on Labor Day weekend.

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"Uh oh," writes reader Rod Williams, who keeps his Catalina 42 Azure at Marina Village in Alameda. "Isn’t this Latitude 38‘s secret world headquarters? Your cover is blown — better head out to sea!"

We quickly clicked the link Rod supplied and were relieved to find our cover wasn’t blown after all. It was just Google’s super-secret barge structure that CNET reported on late last week. We were wondering what was under construction when we joined friends in Clipper Cove over Labor Day weekend. Now we know . . . sort of.

The Borg Family — Laurie, Austin, Spence, Briana and Friday — aboard their Jeanneau SO 45.2 Solace joined in the festivities. They didn’t seem at all curious about the barge either.

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These crazy cats — Ronnie Simpson, Mark Rayner, Brian Gonzalez-Jones and Erik Jones — were too busy breaking in the Joneses’ new Island Packet 370 Aventura to give a rat’s ass what Google was up to.

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Honestly, we were too busy having fun with our friends and enjoying the view of the freshly lit San Francisco Bay Bridge — and the eerie hush that filled the cove due to the bridge closure that weekend — to pay much attention to the ugly structure.

Besides, this view was much more enjoyable.

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Now excuse us while we go search Google Earth to make sure satellite images of our real secret headquarters haven’t populated yet.

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