The Maltese Falcon arrived in San Francisco Bay to great fanfare on Saturday. This is her first visit to the home port of her owner, Tom Perkins.

Photo by Latitude 38
We have had the good fortune to see this, the worlds’ largest privately owned sailing yacht, on two occasions during our past two Captain Cruise Flotillas. [...]

It has been a glorious Summer here at Channel Islands Harbor this year. We have had very little marine layer and temps seem to be up about 10 degrees on average during the day. Most days in July and August have been in the 70’s and now the water is approaching that elusive swimming temperature [...]

As luck would have it, The Cap’n and I were returning from Anacapa, doing Yeomans work on the Big French Girl, when we crossed a group of 2008 McNish Classic participants doing just a bit more than drifting about. It gave me a chance to get some incredible shots with my new 400mm lens. The [...]