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Exciting news from Saildrone Headquarters in Alameda. The 72' SAILDRONE SURVEYOR, while mowing bottom contours 150 nm west of Cape Mendocino using a...

Wow! The DAZZLERS have been to the Arctic Henge in Northern Iceland. Who would have thunk. The photo of the Aurora at the Arctic Henge was taken a...

Can anyone tell us what is going on here? Where and/or when? Just an aside, an Aurora Borealis was sighted Saturday over California....

DELTA DEANNA? Here she is: Built in 1999, by Marco Shipbuilding of Seattle, Washington as the DELTA DEANNA for Bay and Delta Marine Services...

SS Foundation Franklin, 155', single screw, 1,200 hp, was a seagoing salvage tug built for the Royal Navy as HMS Frisky in 1918. In 1930, the FF was...

As a kid, I was fascinated by schooners, Starboats, and photos of the TICONDEROGA. But I've also remained enamored of tugboats. Farley Mowat...

In better days, Sausalito's iconic Taj Mahal houseboat is sinking with little hope of salvage. Despite 16 pumps and divers, she's a going...

I'll edit your edit, and raise you one... Storm casualty: Wishing a quick recovery to our shipmate Bren who fell from a ladder up a tree and broke a...

"Richardson Bay is not a safe anchorage in prefrontal wind." What kind of coffee do they serve at the Taj Mahal? Sanka. (I'm told it sank in...

Congrats, DAZZLER!! Well done in challenging and variable conditions. ~sleddog

Yesterday's intense low zipped up the Coast, passing CBC at mid-day with a pressure of 987.8 Mb and gusts > 50. Not everyday one gets to see a...

The sheer number of large logs and trees that recently appeared on Seabright State Beach, just east of the recently flooded San Lorenzo River, is...

The front passed CBC about noon with 40+ knot gusts....Capt. Palmer wisely decided not to bring Matson ship LURLINE down the Alameda Estuary at that...

The blue spinnaker actress Jennifer Connelly calls the "Afterburner," to Tom Cruise in tonight's Academy Awards Best Picture and Best Visual Effects...

Happy Birthday to Ants' father, Endel Uiga, at age 105, oldest living Estonian and WWII survivor in which 25% of Estonia's population was lost. ...