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ARE YOU READY TO HA-HA? If you check out the everexpanding entry list of this year's rally and you'll see that there is no shortage of sailors eager to head south this year. With a few days still remaining until the September 10 entry deadline, 160 boats have already signed up, with homeports as diverse as Kauai and Montreal. The smallest so far is Little Lara, Jay Bowden's Pacific Seacraft 24 from Santa Barbara, and the largest so far is William Hogarty's Rhode Island-based Maxi 97 Odysseus. If you're new to the event, let us explain that the Ha-Ha is a 750-mile cruisers’ rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, with stops along the way at Turtle Bay and Bahia Santa Maria. You'll find frequent updates on this year's event, in addition to all sorts of other hot sailing topics at Latitude's three-times-weekly news portal, 'Lectronic Latitude (found at www.latitude38.com.)
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