John “Woody“ Skoriak

1 month ago | latitude38.com | John “Woody“ Skoriak |Monica Grant

In the San Francisco Bay Area, especially the waterfront, winter usually means cold, rain, fog, and often windy conditions. Not much to look forward to. But for crab aficionados, it’s the best time of year — Dungeness crab season. That’s the time when they can feast on their favorite seafood. And feast is exactly what they did at Sausalito’s inaugural Crab Festival, hosted at Clipper Yacht Harbor, Sausalito, last Saturday. The original date, Feb.

2 months ago | latitude38.com | John “Woody“ Skoriak |Monica Grant |John Arndt

San Diego Yacht Club has clinched the 2025 crown for the Women’s Winter Invitational Regatta, hosted by San Diego Yacht Club (SDYC) on Feb 14-16. The weekend festivities kicked off on Friday, February 14, with a lovely welcome reception, which gave competitors the opportunity to meet. Saturday’s breeze kicked in after a short postponement, and the short racecourse was quickly established alongside the docks, with large inflatable windward and leeward pink flamingos for the 24 teams to sail around.

2 months ago | latitude38.com | John “Woody“ Skoriak |Monica Grant

Next time you’re hoisting a new jib, bending on a mainsail, or figuring out how to rig your spinnaker, and it all feels like a lot of work — think about the crew of Call of the Sea’s 132-ft brigantine Matthew Turner. The ship’s 7,200 sq ft of square and top sails need to be hoisted 90 feet above deck. But before the crew can even bend on the sails, they first have to raise the wooden square yards (spars) that support them.

2 months ago | latitude38.com | John “Woody“ Skoriak |John Arndt |San Francisco Bay |Monica Grant

Optimistic Corinthian midwinters racers defied the forecasts to show up for the four-race series on Martin Luther King and Presidents Day weekends, despite the projected lack of an essential racing ingredient:  wind. This past weekend’s racers were happy not to be racing in the 40 knots blasting the Bay on the Thursday before, but the vacuum the front left behind didn’t leave much for the fleet to work with against the runoff-reinforced ebb.

Nov 15, 2024 | latitude38.com | John “Woody“ Skoriak |Monica Grant

Local sailor and friend of Latitude John “Woody” Skoriak happened to be in Sausalito and bumped into Dave Gissendaner (Diver Dave) of Dave’s Diving Services. Woody tells us Dave’s divers and the crew from Parker Diving Service have been removing, and towing to a temporary anchorage, the last of Richardson Bay’s anchor-out boats. Below, Woody shares an update of the situation. Sausalito boaters may have noticed a lot of activity in the Richardson Bay Anchorage.