Bob Bitchin, Latitudes & Attitudes TV, reviews the Pacific Seacraft Dana 24 pocket cruiser. Go small, go now. After a long production run, the DANA was put on hold for a few years. When Bob did his review, new hulls were again coming off the Seacraft Yachts production line in Seattle, WA. Designe...

Latitudes & Attitudes TV's Bob Bitchin reviews the Tartan 440. This model has power winches and and a lot of top draw features that make her very comfortable to live aboard and easily handled by a crew of two. Bob's test sail took place on San Francisco Bay. The boat quickly accelerated to 8 knot...

Latitudes & Attitudes reviews Jolly Bear, a 50 foot custom wooden pilothouse ketch launched in 1996. This review will give you a good understanding of what such large wooden vessels offer in terms of livability below. But of course that comes with the price of big wooden boat maintenance.

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Latitudes & Attitudes TV's, Bob Bitchin reviews the 32 foot C&C 99 racer/cruiser in Vancouver, Canada. Very fast and surprisingly well fitted out below with a cherry wood interior. By the way, new boats came with a 15 year warranty, so previous owners should have had no excuse to repair any probl...

Latitudes & Attitudes does a dockside video shoot aboard a classic plastic Hans Christian 43 to the music of Eric Stone.

Here's a short video showing aerial footage of a Hans Christian 43 sailing under spinnaker along the southern California coast. https://youtu.be/W0znxVzJRbo
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Latitudes & Attitudes TV's Bob Bitchin, reviews the Sabre 426 Another high end cruising boat on San Francisco Bay. Below, a plush roomy interior making living aboard a pleasure. Above, power winches makes light work out of raising the fully battened mainsail and trimming the headsail. In 20 knots...

Latitudes & Attitudes does a video shoot dockside aboard a classic plastic, Bob Perry Designed Tayana 37 to the music of Eric Stone.

Here's a short video showing S/V Kalliope sailing from Bellingham to Seattle, Washington the day after the tsunami. The first shot says it all. https://youtu.be/vf...

Latitudes & Attitudes TV's Bob Bitchin reviews the 36 foot Island Packet Estero, a bluewater cruising boat with a unique open interior design eliminating the traditional forward bulkhead separating the v-birth. Instead, the area is open as serves as the main saloon with a large wrap-around settee...

Back in the late 2000's, Island Packet added a pilothouse cutter to its bluewater cruising fleet. Latitudes & Attitudes TV's Bob Bitchin takes us aboard for a walk-through and test sail. (LATV S5:57)

In 2015 IP updated the SP Cruiser with a Mark II version. Here's a review from SAIL magazine... ...

Latitudes & Attitudes TV's Bob Bitchin, reviews the Island Packet 420 cutter. IPs have a reputation of being world class cruising boats. When introduced in the mid 2000s, the IP 420 delivered bluewater capability with creature comforts and ease of handling for a crew of two. (LATV-S1:05)

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