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6 days ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt
Richmond Yacht Club member Mike Josselyn wrote in with an urgent appeal to Bay Area sailors to help find funding for San Francisco State University’s Estuary & Ocean Science Center:As Latitude 38 has covered, San Francisco State University’s Estuary & Ocean Science Center, the only marine science laboratory on San Francisco Bay, is slated to close due to a loss of university funding.
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6 days ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt
The USCG barque Eagle is headed to the West Coast. It’s the first time she’ll have been west since 2008!The Coast Guard reports, “The selected port calls leverage Eagle’s unique ability to advance and foster international relations with some of the region’s most critical partners, and provides an opportunity to integrate domestic engagements along the US West Coast.”We’re glad California is on the list of critical partners. The Eagle is currently nearing Cuba as she heads toward the Panama Canal.
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6 days ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt
Green power is expanding on the Bay, with Berkeley Marina adding one new boat and five vehicles to its fleet.
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1 week ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt
With the Transpac start coming up on July 1, a reader wrote in to ask, “What are the best things to include in the halfway package?” What’s the halfway package? It’s a tradition of family and friends of Transpac crews who put together a Transpac package that the crew gets to open at the race’s halfway point. The package contains “goodies.” If you’ve raced the Transpac or Pacific Cup, or even circumnavigated, what is the best surprise, food or goodie you’ve received?
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1 week ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt |San Francisco Bay
The first two Corinthian YC Friday evening beer can races were especially pleasant: warm air, flat water and light winds. In fact, it was so light on the first Friday that nobody finished the short course by the 15-minutes-after-sunset deadline. The second Friday was similar, with some boats not finishing, though we managed to slip in at 7:55, which was just three minutes ahead of the 7:58 deadline. Phew! Finish or not, the evenings were spectacular.
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1 week ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt |San Francisco Bay |Newport Beach |Martha Blanchfield
With the Transpac start coming up on July 1, a reader wrote in to ask, “What are the best things to include in the halfway package?” What’s the halfway package? It’s a tradition of family and friends of Transpac crews who put together a Transpac package that the crew gets to open at the race’s halfway point. The package contains “goodies.” If you’ve raced the Transpac or Pacific Cup, or even circumnavigated, what is the best surprise, food or goodie you’ve received?
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1 week ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt
Charlie Enright, winner of the 2022–23 Ocean Race, made a huge jump in his sailing career when he raced the 2007 Transpac as part of Roy Disney’s Morning Light project. He has now been selected to lead as the new CEO of US Sailing. Enright has been well-recognized for his success in The Ocean Race aboard Team Alvimedica in 2014–15 and Vestas 11th Hour Racing in 2017–18, and winning in 2022–23 aboard the IMOCA 60 Malama with 11th Hour Racing.
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1 week ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt
Following the January arrest of John Sweeney outside the Solano County courthouse, he is now headed back to court with his own lawsuit. As first reported in The Daily Muck on April 8, John Sweeney and his wife Jennifer Frost utilized AI to file a lawsuit alleging a 25-year environmental and judicial conspiracy in California. Using Grok AI and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, they produced a 34-page legal complaint to draft a lawsuit primarily created by these artificial intelligence tools.
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1 week ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt |Monica Grant |Max Ebb
Following the January arrest of John Sweeney outside the Solano County courthouse, he is now headed back to court with his own lawsuit. As first reported in The Daily Muck on April 8, John Sweeney and his wife Jennifer Frost utilized AI to file a lawsuit alleging a 25-year environmental and judicial conspiracy in California. Using Grok AI and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, they produced a 34-page legal complaint to draft a lawsuit primarily created by these artificial intelligence tools.
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1 week ago | 
latitude38.com | John Arndt
What did you do on Wednesday evening? If you were smart enough to sign up for Richmond Yacht Club’s Wednesday evening races, you probably had a better chance of enjoying one of the midweek’s best evenings on the Bay. We did hear from one participating sailor who said, “I did a Wednesday night race at Richmond.
