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FEATURE 30 Choose Your Winter Cruising Adventure Quiet Nights at Destination Docks. By Andy Cross
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34 Top 25 Race Boats of 2019
Recognizing the region’s best and most consistent racers. By 48° North Staff
38 Augmenting Righting Moment
An overview of water ballast, canting keels, and side foils. By Paul Bieker
42 Sowing Seeds of Speed While Fostering Fun
Influential PNW coaches and the high school sailing boom. By Julia Soes
46 Dan Kaseler Reflects on Sailing Speed Record His sail designs helped set the world record in 2004.
By Joe Cline
COLUMNS 22 Lessons Learned Cruising
Route planning - oh, the places you’ll go! By Behan and Jamie Gifford
24 Galley Essentials
Ukulele and hot cakes in the South Pacific. By Amanda Swan Neal
26 Tech Talk with SeaBits
A life of boating and fascination with technology. By Steve Mitchell
28 Close to the Water
Go north to go south - getting underway at Port McNeil. By Bruce Bateau
50 48° North Race Report
TTPYC Duwamish Head and STYC Iceberg Regatta.
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ON THE COVER, Erik Kristen and crew aboard the J/105 More Jubilee trim up around Blakely Rock on their way to second-place in that Center Sound race and a first-in-class finish for the series. This win helped them secure the top spot overall in 48° North’s Top 25 for 2019! Photo by Jan Anderson.
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Editor SPEED MATTERS
At the risk of sounding hypocritical after months of telling you how taken I am with cruising speed and the cruising life, I want to talk about speed—how it matters to me, and why I think it matters to all of us. As sailors, we must first acknowledge that movement requires at least some speed, not only for steering control in the rudder, but also because water flowing past our underwater foils enables us to translate the power being generated in our sails into efficient forward motion on points of sail other than a dead run. In most sail-able conditions and configurations, those foils only become more efficient the faster water passes by them. In my experience, cruisers are often as concerned about speed as racers. Fractions of a knot add up on a 30- or 60-mile travel day, let alone an ocean passage! Cruising sailors frequently have to work hard to stay above the speed threshold of efficiency to actually get where they want to go under sail, lest they fire up the iron genny. For cruisers under power, speed is always a desire, usually tempered by the conflicting desire for fuel efficiency. However you get there, a cruising reality doesn’t have be hurried to want it to be efficient. We all know cruisers still like to go fast. I should know, I’m becoming one and it’s true for me! For racing sailors, speed is everything. It’s also relative. I know people who are crazy fast in a San Juan 24 or Thunderbird. And I’ve felt dog-slow on a TP52 a few times. Speed in racing means you’re better able to go the right direction. If you’ve got a half a knot more boat speed than your competitor, you can get the shift or the current relief first, or you can translate that into a few more degrees of point if the situation calls for it. Downwind, speed means soaking for most boats, velocity made good (VMG)—sailing deeper angles and getting more quickly to your destination. That’s true unless you’re on those extra-fun boats with planing potential, then speed means planing, and planing means even more speed, often at angles not that different from the soakers, thanks to the apparent wind vector moving forward... which, you guessed it, is due to that speed increase. The longer I’ve devoted myself to the activity of sailboat racing, the more certain I become that fast looks a lot like smart. It is only on boats when we’re pretty sure we can figure out a speed advantage over our competitors, via sail trim, boat trim, rig tune, a faster bottom, or the like, when racing feels like something a sane person would try to be good at. Those types that look like savants are typically sneakily good at making boats go fast first. Using their sixth sense to sniff out the next shift is amazing, but many of those greats will tell you boat speed is always the first priority. Outright speed, however, that feels like kind of a unifier. Going fast is fun, for nearly everybody, in nearly every activity or vehicle. Control clearly must be a component of it, but the appeal of speed seems near universal. It’s not an original thought, but I am compelled by the oft-used argument that youth sailing has more potential if we help kids sail faster boats earlier in their sailing careers. I think of it like skiing or biking. It may be scary at first, but not long after learning—whatever the activity—there’s an understandable thirst to go faster. Helping kids have pathways to sail fast boats remains a personal priority, along with ensuring access to amazing, remote water-borne wilderness adventures. As long as you govern the parameters of your own comfort, and retain a sense of control and respect for others, I think speed and boating logically go hand in hand. Seeing the possibilities is pure inspiration, like with some of the record-setters out there (page 46). Experiencing fast (per your own definition) is pure exhilaration. Speed matters. Be safe as you pursue it. Now, go have fun! I’ll see you on the water, Joe Cline Editor, 48° North (Visit us at the Boat Show in WEST 21) 48º NORTH
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I reached out to Rob Sendak, requesting a response to these letters, which he duly offered: Thank you for the opportunity to share information about the Washington State Parks’ Clean Vessel Act (CVA) Grant Program and our decision to end the pilot program providing free mobile pumpout services to recreational boaters in Lake Washington, Portage Bay, the Duwamish, Gig Harbor and Liberty Bay. In 2013, we awarded federal grant funds to Terry & Son’s Mobile Marine Pumpout Environmental Services for a pilot program. Effective March 1, 2020, we will end this pilot program and the grant agreements with Terry & Son’s. In 2019, we began assessing the CVA Grant Program. This included publishing a Request for Information (RFI)—seeking input on expanding free or low cost mobile pumpout services—and a desk audit with our federal funding partners at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Based on our findings, we determined the pilot program’s service model was not financially sustainable for these reasons: • Since 2013, the pilot program has accounted for an average of 15 percent of the federal grant funds we’ve received. At its peak, the pilot program served an average of 8 percent of the estimated recreational boaters who have holding tanks. • The average market rate per pumpout is $25-$35. The perpumpout cost of the pilot program’s service is $40-$50. • There is a demand to expand free mobile pumpout services to high-density recreational boating areas, including South Puget Sound, Hood Canal and the San Juan Islands. • The pilot program’s geographic service area is limited, and the state’s CVA Grant Program lacks funding to provide similar services in other areas with limited pumpouts. We want to remain competitive in the national grant process and demonstrate that we spend funding equitably and support the needs of all recreational boaters. We are exploring alternate service models that would provide free mobile pumpout services in areas across Puget Sound and the Salish Sea. We will share information as it becomes available on our website at https://parks.state.wa.us/657/Pumpout. In the meantime, pumpout services are still available. We continue to support ongoing operations and maintenance of more than 140 stationary pumpouts and dump stations and free mobile pumpout services at 10 marinas. We encourage recreational boaters to visit PumpoutWashington.org to find a map of CVA-funded stationary pumpout locations and free mobile pumpout services at select marinas, as well as forprofit mobile pumpout service providers in their area. And a point of clarification: Washington state Legislators are not stopping the flow of federal funds for the CVA pumpout grant.
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February 2020 1 R Henderson Inlet Race Presented by the South Sound Sailing Society. www.ssssclub.com 1 C US Sailing Coaches Clinic Presented by US Sailing in conjunction with The Sailing Foundation and NW Youth Sailing, at Mt. Baker Rowing and Sailing Center. A varied program that is beneficial to coaches, program directors, junior sailing volunteers, instructors, college sailors, etc. Special guest Jen Guimaraes is coming out from US Sailing HQ to present. www.thesailingfoundation.org/ 1 C About Boating Safely (Bainbridge) Taught by members of the USCG Auxiliary. Get your WA State Boaters Card. gawsail@sounddsl.com 4 E Auction of Sailing Gear Facilitated by NW Multihull Association, but non-members always welcome. Bring your used gear to sell and bid on some great new-to-you stuff! Dinner at 6:30, meeting at 7:00, Auction at 7:30. At Puget Sound Yacht Club. www.nwmultihull.org 5–9 E Vancouver International Boat Show The Vancouver Boat Show’s two great locations – an indoor venue at BC Place and Floating Show at Granville Island – offer show-goers of all ages and expertise an unparalleled experience. www.vancouverboatshow.ca 7 T Family Cruising in the Arctic and Beyond - Graeme and Janna Esarey and Their Daughters Talia and Savai Social hour at 6pm, presentation at 7pm. $5 entry for non-members (please preregister), and $10 for dinner with a no-host bar. www.cycseattle.org 8 C Marine Wiring Workshop Presented by Washington Sea Grant, this is for boat owners who want to upgrade their vessels’ electrical systems. Topics include safe wiring practices, selecting wire sizes, circuit breaker and fuse ratings, cable routing and labeling, shore power circuits, battery charging circuits, corrosion protection circuits, and engine instrument systems. 9am - 4pm at Point Hudson Marina, Port Townsend. sfisken@u.washington.edu 8 R Harbor Series #2 Presented by the Corinthian Yacht Club of Tacoma. www.cyct.com 8 R Snowbird #4 Presented by the Shilshole Bay Yacht Club. www.shilshole-bayyc.org 9 C Diesel Engine Troubleshooting Workshop Presented by Washington Sea Grant. The workshop will cover troubleshooting and the maintenance of various systems within marine diesel engines, including fuel, lubrication, electrical, cooling, and exhaust. 9am - 4pm at Point Hudson Marina, Port Townsend. sfisken@u.washington.edu
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BEYOND R2AK AND SEVENTY48: SALISH 100 BECOMES A NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER EVENT Salish 100—the largest organized small-boat cruise in North America—is coming under the umbrella of the Northwest Maritime Center (NWMC), complementing the center’s diverse array of programs. Created by the Port Townsend Pocket Yachters club, the Salish 100 (S-100) joins the Race to Alaska (R2AK) and Seventy48 humanpowered race as three of the most unique and vibrant water-borne events in the Pacific Northwest. Salish 100’s second annual cruise will take place July 10-17, with more than 135 boats voyaging 100 nautical miles—the full length of Puget Sound—from Olympia to Port Townsend, Wash. Volunteers from the Pocket Yachters will continue to help organize during this year’s second running, but the NWMC’s Daniel Evans, Race Boss for the R2AK and Seventy48, will assume oversight of the Salish 100. Marty Loken, founding organizer, said he and other volunteers are looking forward to the new relationship. “We’ve had the best kind of partnership with the Maritime Center for years.” Loken said. “Success of the Salish 100 has outstripped all expectations, and we think the Maritime Center is the perfect home for the event, assuring it’ll be properly supported and organized into the future.” Jake Beattie, executive director of the NWMC, is thrilled to see the popular small-boat cruise become part of the Northwest Maritime 48º NORTH
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Colleen Wagner, cofounder of The Center for Wooden Boats, passed away on January 2, 2020, in the presence of her family. Colleen and Dick Wagner started a small wooden sailboat livery at their floating home on Lake Union in the 1960s. Out of that grew The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB), a fixture in South Lake Union. After Dick passed in 2017, Colleen remained active at CWB. She cut the ribbon at the Grand Opening of the new Wagner Education Center, named in Dick and Colleen’s honor. She helped organize CWB’s first annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, and has been a presence at every Festival since. Colleen was feverishly passionate about maritime heritage, wooden boat building and repair, and hands-on learning. CWB will honor Colleen with a tribute "Sail Past" event on Lake Union on April 11, 2020. www.cwb.org
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Thousands of new species have been discovered on seamounts in recent years. The Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia, stretches for about 100 miles from Cape Otway to Port Fairy, and includes the Twelve Apostles, a collection of large seastacks. In the Lofoten Islands of northern Norway, the Rost Reef, discovered in 2002, is the world’s largest deepwater coral reef, built by Lophelia corals. The world’s deepest marine trench, the Marianas Trench, is half as deep as Mount Everest is tall. The Java Trench off Indonesia, at 1,600 miles long and 50 miles wide, is the world’s longest trench. More than 90 percent of the world’s oceans are more than two miles deep. If you stacked 24 Empire State Buildings, it still would not equal the total depth of the Pacific Ocean’s deepest point.
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ROUTE PLANNING: OH THE PLACES YOU’LL GO! No more paper charts, OMG!
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NOAA recently announced that it will begin phasing out paper chart production later this year. For saltier-than-thou sailors, this news is, apparently, like announcing that rum is going away forever. There’s even a petition started by a Canadian mariner to pressure this American scientific agency within the US Department of Commerce to get on with the business of printing charts. Supporters proclaim electronics are doomed and so shall mariners be without “foolproof” paper charts. Personally, I don’t understand the sentiment, since NOAA charts will be available to download and print or purchase from third-party vendors. Also, suggesting that paper charts alone are foolproof is foolish. Paper and digital charts are tools. Both imperfect, and only part of safely going somewhere by boat. Safely and efficiently sailing from point A to B takes a plan. A simple or familiar trip may only need a rudimentary plan, but going unplanned or with a faulty route plan is the cause of many tragedies. Route planning divides nicely into three parts. To help understand these, let’s bring in the Doctor — Dr. Seuss, that is — from Oh, the Places You’ll Go! 48º NORTH
PART 1: BIG PICTURE “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” Choosing places you want to sail is part of big picture routing, but, as the doctor also said, “I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.” Big picture routing starts by picking annual or seasonal destinations, then reviewing features of the journey and destination to create a sensible trip framework. Review features include weather, security, legal, and practical. Weather defines life on a boat. Thus, a trip up the Inside Passage sounds fine in July, but not January. Or how about that sail through the Caribbean in search of the last bottle of rum? Not happening during hurricane season. Cold and hurricane limiters are obvious, but there are other weather seasons to consider based on your location: gales (higher latitudes), lightning (Central America & SE Asia), squalls (tropics), and monsoon seasons. Monsoonal regions
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bring seasonally changing winds that blow in the right or wrong direction depending on your timing. Consequently, you must plan for weather patterns that make sailing easier on your boat and crew. Security during the journey and at the destination also requires research. Skimming along the coast of North America doesn’t carry much threat to personal safety, but it’s still good to learn if your outboard could sprout legs in a given anchorage. If venturing further, there are many resources online, such as the Caribbean Safety and Security Net, to help you avoid trouble spots. Where you go is a deliberate choice—choose wisely. Legal procedures for traveling to and from countries can be surprising, and limiting if not prepared. French Polynesia requires a long sail, but you’re limited to 90 days unless you get a long stay visa. This requires a trip to a French Consulate well before setting sail. In Samoa, there is a measles epidemic. Without proof of measles vaccination for each crew member, you’ll not be granted entry. Know before you go to avoid the frustrating “Whoa!” Practically speaking, a common mistake of new cruisers is a big picture route plan spanning an unrealistic range of places and time. Always being on the go can get exhausting. And stopping short can lead to a feeling of failure for not accomplishing what you’d planned. Overall, life at 6 knots is slow, so try not to plan a big picture route in the fast lane. PART 2: PRE-PASSAGE “You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.” Many sailors are dreamers, so dreamy big-picture planning comes easily. Pre-passage planning is, in part, a zoomed-in version of a specific leg of the bigger plan—detailing a trip from A to B rather than generalizing the whole season. A way to grasp the difference between these parts is that pre-passage plans presume starting into a real experience, which can be miserable, scary, expensive, or cruise-ending if done poorly. Let’s minimize those outcomes! Route making is the literal path set down on a chart from beginning point to end point. Mark those two waypoints on your chart, whichever type you prefer. If there are hazards between those two points, add waypoints to safely pilot around them. Now zoom in! To which paper chart lovers will chuckle, but same goes for them. A small scale (large area) paper chart may not show all details that a large scale (small area) paper chart does. Inadequate detail, regardless of chart type, was best demonstrated when the Volvo Ocean Race boat Vestas Wind sailed onto a charted Indian Ocean reef. It just looked like big ocean, so their navigator didn’t zoom in to reveal the string of reefs. Nobody was hurt, but there are other boats with tragic outcomes due to this failure. Once free of fixed hazards, consider all the moving hazards to avoid: strong current, overfall areas, shipping lanes, etc., to account for in the route. Research the route to reduce possible surprises. Are there any notices to mariners for the region? It’s good to avoid plodding into a military live-fire drill such as Whiskey Gulf in the Strait of Georgia. Notices to Mariners are broadcast on VHF Channel 16, 48º NORTH
and can be found online at navcen.uscg.gov. Research bailout destinations. You may be going from A to B, but sometimes C or D may be necessary. Also, research the destination, so you know what to expect on arrival. Is it a bar crossing with fair-weather-only entry? Speaking of weather, the term “weather window” gets thrown around a lot in boating circles to denote good enough weather to be underway on a passage. Weather is a whole other topic to cover, but here are a few tips: If you leave the dock because salty paper chart guy said the weather looks fine, and you go out to find otherwise, it was still your choice to go. You need to develop your own weather forecasting skills. Best not to start a trip in a weather window that slams shut because of bad weather following so near. With less time or distance to bad weather, the greater the risk. Build scenarios for slower than expected travel and where that puts you relative to risky weather. Plan your arrival to prevent entering an unfamiliar destination at night. Some trips have awkward distances that set up for a dark finish. Leave earlier, or later, or moderate speed for daylight arrival. The Float Plan is often waved off as old school in an era of easy communications. Even on small trips, it’s a good idea that somebody on land knows what your plan is. And big trips necessitate a comprehensive float plan held by people that understand what you’re doing. Should something bad happen out there, this will save valuable time in getting help. PART 3: ROUTING UNDERWAY “Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!” Once you get going, variables change and so, too, should the routing plan. Sailing from Australia to Papua New Guinea, the weather outlook changed for the worse three days into the 900 mile trip. Our plan was to reach the eastern Louisiade Archipelago and then cruise leisurely downwind through the islands. Robust conditions settled over us, and produced a lively sea state. A beam-on wave sent us skidding. We knew our course and the sea state were working against each other. We looked at options, but they were limited – Great Barrier reef to the west, upwind to the east, and stern Aussie immigration officials behind. A second wave sent us skidding again. Rather than making a big change, we started small. Just 10 degrees of course change to the aim for the western end of the island group eliminated control issues. Three days later, we arrived at a group of islands not surveyed for charts since the mid-1800s—back when they were all paper, and so inaccurate that a sailor’s skills counted for everything. With paper and digital, the tools exist; but common sense routing is not to be missed. It takes more than a dream, but the skills are learnable, you know. And with them: Oh, the places you’ll go!
Jamie and Behan Gifford are back on “Totem” in Mexico continuing preparations for their next Pacific Crossing. Follow their adventures at www.sailingtotem.com.
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UKELELE AND HOT CAKES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC by Amanda Swan Neal Lunch at Bill Marsters’ Country Club. I’m learning the ukelele, slowly. As it’s hurricane season in the South Pacific, my boat uke is safely tucked away on Mahina Tiare; but here at home on San Juan Island, ukelele tunes keep dancing through my head. Oh, how folks have made that uke sing and what a delight it is to spend time playing and singing over shared meals. Aboard Mahina Tiare, we’ve had numerous expedition crew who can also strum. Sue was the first. When she joined us on a quiet morning in Rarotonga’s small harbor, over John’s delicious eggs hollandaise breakfast, she promptly announced that she’d been taking uke lessons. By mid-morning, the wind had come around to the NNE— straight into the harbor—at 15 knots and swells began to build as the tide rose. We abandoned our safety briefing in order to stow the uke and scramble for departure. Our destination was Palmerston Atoll and we’d sent word out that we’d be happy to deliver supplies. As crew loaded the Palmerston cargo aboard I dashed to the market for fresh provisions. Upon departing Raro, we had a great reach in 18 knots, but we ended up motoring the last few hours when the wind diminished. Nearly en-route to Palmerston is Winslow Reef, located 80 miles NW of Raro. We’d first heard of it from our friend Kevin, a local charter captain, who’d taken divers there for incredible underwater marine life experiences. Our current charts only label Winslow as a 6-meter shoal, with the notation “1916, PA” (first reported in 1916, position approximate) but on older charts, it’s labeled as Winslow Reef. 48º NORTH
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Eggs with Hollandaise Sauce. We decided to check it out, and arrived at the charted coordinates as the sun rose over a undulating silky blue ocean only to discover no visible signs of a seamount. For two hours, we conducted a spiral search pattern. Finding nothing, we called the Rarotonga harbor master on the satellite phone, asking if he knew its location. He emailed a position from the British Admiralty South Pacific Pilot book, which placed the reef six miles east of the charted position, so we retraced our track and continued searching. Deciding that a spreader viewpoint would be best, I shot aloft to examine the dark sea depths for any color change. Smells from John’s hearty pancakes wafted up to my lofty viewpoint while the tinkling of Sue’s uke practice mingled with the engine hum... but still no seamount. By midday a slight breeze began disturbing the water making
it impossible to further gaze into its depths. Our six hours of scanning had proven fruitless. Winslow Reef remains a mystery, so Palmerston here we come! Palmerston has a colorful history. It was uninhabited when Englishman William Marsters, a ship’s carpenter and barrel maker, settled ashore in 1863 with his three Cook Island wives. Today, most of the 60 inhabitants are direct descendants of his 23 children. Palmerston’s administrator is Arthur Neale, a distant cousin of John’s. Tom Neale, Arthur’s famous father, lived a hermit’s existence on nearby Suwarrow Island, many say searching for buried treasure. Upon completion of our 200mile passage, Arthur greeted us outside the atoll’s fringing reef directing us to an anchorage. Ashore we were hosted by the Bill Marsters family. Having outgrown the yacht club, Bill recently added an impressive extension to their original homestead and it’s now called the “Country Club” as it displays an eclectic collection of flags, photos and paraphernalia from global visitors including vintage regalia from royal yacht Britannia’s repeated visits. After delivering boxes of books to the school, we gathered round the vast and laden dining table for a jovial lunch followed by ukelele dance sessions before partaking in more island adventures.
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“Rendevous” at anchor in Port Ludlow on a glassy evening. With the technology world constantly moving at a break-neck 311, and most recently, an Ocean Alexander 420. There have pace, the challenge for us as sailors is to figure out how to adapt been a lot of smaller stops along the way, but those are the true the speed of that change to the marine world without putting family members that have made a significant impact on my life. safety at risk. My last sailboat, Grace, a Beneteau 311, was a fantastic Technology has given us amazing ways to interact with nautical platform to explore the Salish Sea and beyond. I spent a lot of charts, enhance our safety and communication methods, make time upgrading the technology and electrical systems, with a more accurate weather predictions, and to remain connected focus on making my life simpler and more pleasant while out on wherever we are. the water. One of my favorite trips was to Princess Louisa Inlet When embracing new technologies aboard, I always try to where I was able to be more comfortable and stay at anchor focus on three questions before deciding to move forward with a project: Will it make my time on the water safer or me a more aware captain? Does it provide more comfort and enjoyment for my time on the boat? Does it allow me to spend even more time on the water and away from other commitments? I’ve lived in both the boating and technology worlds my entire life, and find it a constant and exciting challenge. I began sailing Lasers on nearby lakes through Boy Scouts and graduated to larger boats around Gig Harbor and Fox Island. I was fascinated with the melding of complex math and the “gut feeling” in both sailing and technology. Being able to see the math for how they work at the low level, but knowing the other half is a complete art that you could only feel deep within your bones. For most of my professional life, I’ve worked for high tech companies and traveled around the world. I’ve also spent a lot of time as a marine electrician, deep in the bowels of boats, usually working on undoing the previous owner’s “modifications” and learning a lot in the process. My boating journey has included stints with a Catalina 25, Bayliner 4788, US Yachts 295, Hunter 430, Beneteau Grace’s Victron LiFePO4 power system diagram. 48º NORTH
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Princess Louisa Inlet and Chatterbox Falls from above using a DJI Mavic Pro drone. longer because of the upgrades, all while single-handing her the entire way from Seattle and back. Technology plays a huge role in being more aware while on the water, and that is doubly apparent when singlehanding. My current boat, an Ocean Alexander 420 named Rendezvous, is turning out to be a fun platform from which to explore as well. Compared to my previous vessels, drones and ROVs are easier to deploy, crew are happier and more comfortable, and the space and systems have gotten bigger and more complex. I still look at everything I do as if I were on a sailboat—thinking about power draw, weight, space, and functionality—and probably always will.
In the next few years, I am interested to see the continued advances in a couple specific areas: I expect the lines between a chartplotter, PC, tablet and mobile devices to get even blurrier. Vendors are innovating to make sure you can use their products on all of these platforms, and solutions from smaller vendors are showing unique ideas. I’m excited to see continued advances in power technology, allowing smaller, lighter-weight, faster-charging batteries and devices to help keep us at anchor longer with shorter recharge times. Finally, the next year or two should be significant for internet connectivity, specifically for coastal cruisers. The rollout of 5G and new options like Starlink satellite, plus the wealth of devices and choices in the mobile market are going to make staying connected, and being away from shore longer, even more affordable and reliable. Technology on the water is always a good thing to have if you temper its speed with your needs and safety. My goal with the future of this column is to provide you with more awareness of these on-the-water technologies to make your life underway easier wherever you choose to cruise.
Steve is a long-time sailor, musician, and tech nerd who loves working on challenging problems. He is the editor of SeaBits.com and spends as much time as possible on the water, enjoying the smell of the sea and the sound of the waves.
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One of the beauties of a small boat is that you can take it almost anywhere. For me, that meant starting my Inside Passage voyage by hitching Row Bird to my friend Tim’s truck, then driving together from his home on Bainbridge Island to the Blackball ferry. Four hours later, we rolled out of the dark hold and up to the customs line in Victoria, BC. Tim handed over our passports. The agent gave us an icy stare. “Where are you headed?” “Port McNeil.” Her eyes darted away for a moment, and I imagined that she was mentally reviewing the geography of the island. Port McNeil is a little fog-bound town on the north end, nearly 300 miles from Victoria. “And what will you do up there?” she asked, seeming not to notice the boat attached to the truck. “Well, I’ll be dropping him off,” Tim said, pointing at me. “And then he’s going to sail back to the United States.” Her eyes turned to me. “You’re going to sail back in that boat?” I smiled and nodded. “And how long will that take you?” she asked, clearly trying to figure out if we were fooling with her. “I’ve never done it, but I’m guessing about six weeks,” I replied. At this, the agent looked even more skeptical. “And what kind of work do you do, that you can take six weeks off?” But to this question, I knew I had a believable answer. “Bureaucrat,” I said. “I’ve had my vacation capped, and my boss told me to spend it down.” She waved us through. We drove north, occasionally glimpsing vast stretches of open water in the Strait of Georgia. I could barely see the other side of the strait, and glancing back at the 18-foot boat in tow, it seemed so slight, so inadequate. Tim had offered to lend me his 22-foot pocket cruiser for my trip. With its 3-foot keel, cozy cabin (complete with a miniature woodstove), and a sculling oar, I was tempted. But when I’d sailed bigger boats in the past, I spent more time staring at the depth finder, wondering how much water was under the keel, than enjoying the scenery. I would stare up at the rigging, wondering which shroud or stay might part. And motors—is there one that is reliable in a pinch? In the end, I passed on Tim’s boat, deciding it was too big. Besides, I knew a sculling oar would be a challenge during the long stretches of still air I anticipated, and I hated the idea of having to fit the boat with a motor and listen to it roar for hours. No, despite Row Bird’s smaller size, she was the boat for me. As Row Bird slid into the water near Port McNeil, I was grateful that it was calm, because I was not. Nervously fussing and triple-checking my gear, I found myself sweating, despite the weather, which was a mild 50 degrees and cloudy. Rationally, I had little reason to fret; I’d followed my well-honed packing system, gathered extra safety gear, and I knew every inch of Row Bird intimately. But I couldn’t help thinking about the reefs, whirlpools, and roaring currents 48º NORTH
that could cause trouble in the days ahead. Oars have never failed me, I told myself as I rowed away from the ramp. I glanced back a few times to see what lay ahead, but once I was moving, the familiar motion generated a deep feeling of confidence. That night, at anchor, a voice called out from the shore. “Hey, out there.” I ignored it, assuming that someone on the beach was chatting. But the voice persisted, and I lifted the edge of my cockpit tent and waved my flashlight. “You’re in shallow water. You’re going to hit the bottom at low tide,” he called out. “I think I’m ok, thanks. I checked the depth. I only draw a foot.” “No, you’re going to bottom out,” he repeated, as I turned off the light. I awoke in the morning surrounded by water, fully afloat. Setting sail, I headed down the broad channel of Johnstone Strait, tales of endless wind and storms lurking in the back of my mind. It was a little bumpier and significantly wider than my home waters along the Columbia River, but happily I encountered no conditions I hadn’t seen before. I turned north into a river of current within a larger channel, then caught a beam wind as I began threading through the first rocks and islands of the Broughton Archipelago. During the planning process for this trip, I’d poured excitedly over my chart, with its hundreds of unnamed islands. Now, as the actual islands appeared ahead of me, I couldn’t suppress a giant grin of delight. Charted rocks and giant boulders became apparent as I got into the shallows, where the big boats couldn’t go. Each vertical edge hosted a fascinating community of sea creatures: twisted worms, shiny mussels, purple sea stars, luminescent anemones, and an earth-toned array of seaweeds. My oars scraped the occasional rock, but the water was so clear, that as long as a zephyr didn’t catch me, the rock gardens in the shallows would be safe and easy to navigate. In a small boat, I had the pick of anchorages, too. I could nose into a tiny cove or anchor adjacent to a shell beach. Sometimes I’d hang out with the big boats in a popular anchorage, but more often I’d find a calm spot, just big enough for a single little boat, and swing alone. Despite my nervous start, I slept easily over the first few nights, coming to realize that I could only worry about the challenges of the day ahead. Finding my way through dense fog, reading the chart accurately in a lumpy sea, or just staying upright in a gust, I was starting to truly understand what I already knew: with a dose of caution and good seamanship, a small boat can go almost anywhere. And I was going south next, through the current-riddled back channels along the mainland coast.
Bruce Bateau sails and rows traditional boats with a modern twist in Portland, Ore. His stories and adventures can be found at www.terrapintales.wordpress.com
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CHOOSE YOUR WINTER CRUISING Adventure QUIET NIGHTS AT DESTINATION DOCKS
by Andy Cross
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“Yahtzee” bounds northward from Blake Island on a brisk January day. Photo courtesy of Autumn Helling. FEBRUARY 2020
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aint shafts of dull morning light filter through the port above my head, nudging me awake. My eyes slowly blink open and I lay for a moment taking in the scene. Not a hint of winter wind sings in the rigging and the boat is eerily— almost impossibly—still. Climbing out of my bunk, I work quickly to the companionway hatch and in a sort of double motion, slide it open while also pulling a hoodie over my head. A crisp air hits my face, and when my eyes focus, it’s brighter outside than I expect. SNOW! Everywhere. I gaze quickly from Yahtzee’s cockpit to the typically brown wooden docks and then down to where a vibrant green lawn stood just 12 hours earlier. Everything is cloaked in puffy pillows of white. Overnight, Blake Island has turned from a verdant forest hideaway to a winter wonderland piled with snow. After an impromptu snowball fight on the foredeck with our sons—Porter and Magnus—and a tromp through the woods, we carefully make our way off the dock and point Yahtzee’s bow south down Colvos Passage towards Gig Harbor. Just a whisper of wind greets us along the way, but the snow continues to fly. By the time we squeeze in through the harbor’s narrow entrance and make for the public dock, the air temperature is warm enough that the once thick frosty blanket melts rapidly. Within hours, the sun is out and it’s almost as though the snow never even happened. Such is life for the winter cruiser upon the Salish Sea. While cruising Puget Sound and the San Juan and Gulf islands for three consecutive winters without a permanent slip, our family reveled in this season’s uncertainties. All the while, we got particularly good at bouncing from port to port, dock to dock, anchorage to anchorage with a style that made the most of short days, empty spaces, and welcoming locales. In part three of my series on winter cruising, I offer some tips on our favorite places to tie up, other than conventional marinas (though we love those too), and some of the best of these happen to be Washington State Park docks. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WASHINGTON’S MARINE STATE PARKS The numerous marine state parks that dot Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands are a truly exceptional and distinctive feature of cruising the Pacific Northwest. And while many of the state park docks are removed for the winter months, there are several left in place and maintained for boaters to use year ‘round. In part two of this series, I wrote about staying on the dock at Prevost Harbor on Stuart Island, and on the other side of the island the floats at Reid Harbor are available for use in the winter as well. Also, one dock in Fossil Bay on Sucia Island remains in place for winter visitors. Whether you only cruise to these parks in the summer or are an all-season mariner, I highly encourage everyone to buy a state parks Moorage Permit. If you plan to moor at docks, floats, and buoys in these fee areas multiple nights a year, you will likely save money by purchasing the annual permit, which is valid January 1 through December 31. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that all boats over 45 feet are not allowed to moor on buoys, only on docks and at linear moorage. The permit is $5 per foot per year ($60 minimum). Without a permit,
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overnight dock moorage is 70 cents per foot ($15 minimum) and overnight buoy moorage is $15. Here are three of our favorite marine state parks to visit in the winter. JARRELL COVE HIDEY-HOLE Case Inlet was whipped into a frenzy from a strong southerly breeze as we sailed north up the east side of Harstine Island towards Jarrell Cove. Having visited the cove before, I knew it would offer perfect protection from the winter wind and allow for a couple peaceful days for our crew to relax before working our way back north up Puget Sound. Turning into the cover from Pickering Passage, we found the little bay virtually empty and the breeze considerably calmer on this late February weekend. Accordingly, we had our choice of spots on the park dock and deployed our fenders while passing the mooring balls that line the middle of the cove. With Yahtzee set, our crew set off to register and take a walk through the tall trees that line the park. Visiting Jarrell Cove State Park was aptly described by one visitor (according to Washington State Parks) as, “a sensory extravaganza, with a chorus of bird calls, saltwater and conifer smells, dense tree stands and opal-colored water all around. Whether you're there for the peace or the sociability, a day or a weekend at Jarrell Cove will put a smile on your face long after you're back to the grind.” Having visited the cove in both winter and summer, the narrative definitely rings true. Jarrell Cove State Park is a 67-acre, marine camping park with 3,500 feet of shoreline in the South Sound with 14 mooring buoys and 650 feet of dock space. Jarrell’s Cove Marina is across from the park and has a small store and 200 feet of transient space if the park is full. If you’re looking for a truly serene winter cruising experience, this is it. TAKE A BLAKE-ATION Well known to Puget Sound boaters, Blake Island is a gem right smack in the middle of the sound and is an excellent place to visit when the days are short and a bit cold. With its close proximity to Seattle, the marine state park—which covers the entire island—is a welcoming spot for boaters and campers anytime of year, but we particularly love it in the quiet winter months. Twenty-four mooring buoys and numerous campsites surround the island, and the marina's 1,500-feet of moorage with power hookups can accommodate quite a few boats. We’ve spent numerous winter nights here when Yahtzee has been the only boat in the marina. During one late February Blake-ation, frost covered the ground when we started out on the island's 3.5 mile loop trail until bright sunshine burst through the towering treetops to warm up the day, burn off the ice, and have us shedding layers as we went. The trail reveals beauty at every turn and it always feels great to get out meandering its varied terrain and offshoot beaches. When we’re not hiking the trails or combing the beaches, our other Blake Island favorite is to grab one of the shelters to make a fire and cook dinner and roast s’mores. It’s always amazing to stand there in the glowing light and look at our boat sitting in the little marina then across the sound to the city of Seattle—such a contrast!
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A familiar winter sight at Blake Island, Yahtzee is the lone boat at the dock. SERENITY AT DECEPTION PASS Swirling whirlpools looped around and underneath Yahtzee as we were swiftly carried eastward with a flood tide towards Deception Pass. With mouths agape, our crew sat in the cockpit looking in awe at both sides of this incredibly carved pass. In the moment, it was easy to see why Deception Pass State Park is the most heavily used state park in Puget Sound. It’s stunning. Once through the pass, we made for the dock at Cornet Bay and found only a lone boat occupying the park float. There are also two 100-foot detached floats that are set parallel to the main float; both sat empty. Though the park is known for heavy use, we hit it right on a cold couple days in late December. Bundled up and with hot cups of coffee in hand, we set out to walk the trails and beaches that stretch east from the park dock. Not knowing much about this part of the park, we were pleasantly surprised by the beautiful walk east to Hoypus Point, where we found concrete ruins that are the remnants of the old Fidalgo Island ferry dock. We lazed away a couple days exploring various portions of the park and, though it is obviously bustling in the summer months, we were happy to find Cornet Bay to be a slice of winter serenity. PUBLIC DOCKS Besides marine state park docks, there are several other alternatives around the sound for inexpensive and unique moorage. The first is to use public docks in Gig Harbor and Eagle Harbor. Gig Harbor’s Jerisich Dock is named for early settler Samuel Jerisich, and is located adjacent to Skansie Brother's Park in the heart of town. The dock provides transient moorage for boaters and features a pump-out station, water, restrooms and power (water and pump-out may be restricted during cold spells). Boats are required to pay an overnight moorage fee that is 50-cents per foot (minimum charge of $10 per night) in the winter and $1 per foot (minimum charge of $20 per night) from the Friday before Memorial Day through Labor Day. At Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island, Waterfront Park features a 900-foot city dock that is open year-round and is first-come, first-served. The dock has moorage for vessels up to 70 feet and is 50-cents per foot for an overnight stay. Water and electrical hookups are an extra $5 per day. We love this dock for its close proximity to the park and playground, groceries, restaurants, pubs, and a variety of other businesses. 48º NORTH
YACHT CLUB RECIPROCITY In addition to park and public docks, we’re huge fans of having a yacht club membership, with a big perk being the use of reciprocal moorage. While some boaters turn their noses up at the thought of joining a yacht club, the stigma of stuffy clubs is misguided. There are dozens of welcoming and accommodating yacht clubs around the Salish Sea that range from small to large with a variety of activities and amenities included. And if cost is an issue, there are a handful of clubs with reciprocal privileges that are fairly inexpensive. Not only does reciprocal moorage allow you to utilize other clubs’ docks and facilities at a reduced (or complementary) rate, but it is also an excellent way to meet members of other clubs—certainly a win-win! Our favorite reciprocal docks around the region include Poulsbo Yacht Club, Swinomish Yacht Club, Olympia Yacht Club, Anacortes Yacht Club, Orcas Island Yacht Club, and Kingston Yacht Club, to name a few. GET OUT THERE While anchoring out can deliver the solitude many cruisers thirst for, many of the busiest dock-destinations around the Puget Sound provide a surprising amount of solitude, a little extra protection and comfort, and some on-shore intrigue during the winter months. Fortunately, whether you choose to sail near or far from your home harbor during the winter, you won’t be lacking in places to stop. That’s one of the things that makes cruising the greater Puget Sound area so appealing this time of year. The seasonal availability and accessibility of the many docks, marinas, anchorages, moorings, and ports from Olympia to the San Juan Islands—and beyond—truly offers a choose-yourown-adventure experience. Though not without its challenges, "off-season" cruising at anchor, tied to the dock, or underway is something we can't recommend highly enough. For our family, these voyages have been overwhelmingly positive and we hope this three-part series makes you want to set out and chart your own winter escapades.
Andy and his family recently sailed into Mexico after spending the summer cruising south from Alaska. You can follow their adventures at SailingYahtzee.com.
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2019 TOP 25
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appreciation for those in the racing community who live it and love it, and sail so well. There’s a chance the list will mix up a bit more next year. We are adding four new races to the qualifying list for 2020—an offshore race out of Oregon, an around-the-buoys regatta in British Columbia, a single-day mid-distance event in the central Sound, and a distance-and-buoy regatta in Seattle. Happy racing, and good luck to all sailors! Here is the list of qualifying races for the Top 25 of 2020 (check www.48north.com/sarc for more details on when and where to go racing): • South Sound Sailing Society Southern Sound Series • CYC Seattle Center Sound Series • Sloop Tavern YC Blakely Rock Benefit Race • West Vancouver YC Southern Straits Classic • Seattle YC Tri-Island Series • CYC Portland PNW Offshore • CYC Seattle Puget Sound Spring Regatta • Royal Victoria YC Swiftsure International Yacht Race • Point Roberts Race Week • Cowichan Bay SC Cow Bay Regatta • Bellingham YC PITCH Regatta • CYC Edmonds Foulweather Bluff Race • CYC Seattle Puget Sound Sailing Championship • Seattle YC Grand Prix Regatta • Orcas Island YC/Friday Harbor SC Round the County Race
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2 Different Drummer Charles Hill Wauquiez Centurion 40s CYC Seattle Score: 88.2%
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Rush Philip Dean J/80 Sloop Tavern YC Score: 86.4%
Jaded Chris Phoenix J/105 CYC Seattle Score: 85.4%
6 Insubordination Buckey Rezabek J/105 CYC Seattle Score: 85.3%
7 Lodos Tolga Cezik J/109 CYC Seattle / Sloop Tavern YC Score: 85.2%
8 Darkside Nicholas Leede Schock 35 Seattle YC Score: 85%
9 Elusive Jeff Whitney C&C 115 CYC Seattle Score: 82.9%
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Madame Pele Tom Andrewes Davidson 29 Lopez Island YC Score: 70%
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Vitesse David Steffen Beneteau First 36.7 Bellingham YC Score: 66.6%
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Anarchy Tom Ward Flying Tiger 10M CYC Seattle Score: 66.4%
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18 Hamachi Dougherty / Andrews J/125 CYC Seattle / Sloop Tavern YC Score: 59.4%
19 More Uff Da Benjamin Braden Moore 24 Port Madison YC Score: 58%
21 Reckless John Sezer J/80 CYC Seattle Score: 56.3%
20 Crossfire Lou Bianco Reichel/Pugh 55 Sloop Tavern YC Score: 56.4%
22 Crazy Ivan Bryan Rhodes J/80 CYC Seattle Score: 55.1%
23 Dash Stephanie Arnold J/33 Orcas Island YC Score: 54.4%
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RIGHTING MOMENT AUGMENTATION IN MODERN SAILING YACHTS
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n the last year, two major events in the Pacific Northwest crowned champions that sailed vessels utilizing a system of enhanced or assisted ballast—Team Angry Beaver won Race to Alaska aboard a canting-keel Schock 40; and the water-ballasted Riptide 41, Blue, topped the fleet of the biggest, fastest boats in a variety of conditions throughout the Van Isle 360. To help us better understand these systems, we are honored to have the help of world-renowned Pacific Northwest designer and the mind behind Blue, Paul Bieker.
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by Paul Bieker
Ultralight Displacement Boats (ULDBs) started making inroads into the sailing scene in the 1970s. This was partially driven by the new cored composite structures and improved engineering methods that allowed yacht structures to be significantly lighter than they had previously been. The first modern ULDBs that I am aware of were designed by John Spencer in New Zealand–the classic example being Infidel (renamed Ragtime). Incidentally, she was the first ULDB that I watched glide by us as I trimmed the blooper on a death48º NORTH
rolling two tonner back in the late 70s. The Santa Cruz scene followed the Kiwi lead, with designers like Bill Lee creating boats that excelled in the California downwind classic races such as TransPac. These boats were exceedingly fast downwind but pretty slow upwind in most conditions. As time went on, Bill Lee, George Olsen, and Carl Schumacher produced smaller ULDBs for the wider sailing public. These boats continued the pattern of downwind strength and upwind weakness established by their predecessors (with Carl Schumacher using
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more powerful hull shapes to improve the situation somewhat). Once sailors got a feel for the excitement of sailing a ULDB downwind it was a hard thing to walk away from. The answer to making a ULDB get around a windward leeward race course in reasonable form is to design the boats with a bit more hull form stability (more beam) than early ULDBs and to sail the boats with extra crew members that are only there as moveable ballast. Nowadays, most of the performance keelboats on the race course are sailed with a significant proportion of their crew acting as self-propelled units of ballast. THE ALTERNATIVES Sailboats that want to go fast on an upwind/downwind course are between a rock and a hard place. Downwind, minimum weight is the most important factor for achieving high performance and upwind righting moment (the resistance of the boat to tipping) is the most important factor. The problem is that righting moment in a monohull keelboat comes to a large degree from ballast weight, so improving upwind performance comes with a loss downwind and vice-versa. One solution is using additional crew as moveable ballast; the other is to use some other system for increasing righting moment without increasing the downwind weight of the boat. There are three methods that are currently being used to increase the righting moment of ultralight boats without compromising their downwind performance: water ballast, canting keels, and side foils (hydrofoils that extend off the leeward side of the boat to provide lift and righting moment). WATER BALLAST Water ballast systems are the lowest tech solution to increasing righting moment and they are what I have the most experience with (most of the boats that I have designed since 1995 have had water ballast systems). A water ballasted yacht has port and starboard tanks that can be filled as needed to provide righting moment when required for upwind sailing and reaching. The tanks are always empty for downwind sailing unless the boat is being forced up onto a tighter than normal reach. Some high performance offshore yachts also have aft centerline ballast tanks to help keep the stern down (and bow up) in heavy air downwind sailing. Water ballast systems usually require a pump (or pumps) to fill the tanks, however the other functions (transfer from one side of the boat to the other and draining) are achieved with the help of gravity alone. The extra power achieved with a water ballast system is significant, for instance our Riptide 41 design (Blue) carries 850kg (the weight of 10 people) of water ballast per side. This increases the upwind righting moment of the boat by almost 40% without giving up any downwind performance. Careful design allows us to do this while still passing all of the stability requirements for Category A offshore racing. The downside of sailing a water ballast boat is that the ballast is a bit slower to move around the boat than a typical crew. For instance, filling a tank typically takes on the order of 5 minutes and transferring water from one side of the boat takes around 20 seconds. This puts a premium on planning ahead on the racecourse and it makes tacking a bit 48º NORTH
more cumbersome and slow than on a conventional yacht. The upside is that you can sail with approximately half the crew as you would on a conventional ULDB designed for racing and you are significantly lighter downwind. Water ballast also has significant advantages when cruising. Boats are typically cruised with much fewer people than when racing. Typical modern racer/cruisers are quite tender when shorthanded, so cruising can be a bit frustrating on windy days. In contrast, a water ballasted boat has almost as much righting moment cruising as it does racing so sailing performance is relatively unaffected. Another advantage is that a water ballasted boat is significantly lighter than a conventional boat when unballasted—so speed and efficiency under power is better. CANTING KEEL The primary alternative to water ballast for giving ULDBs the power necessary to sail well upwind and reaching is canting keel systems. The first operational canting keel yacht that I am aware of was Fiery Cross, designed and built by Jim Young after being inspired by the imaginings of L. Francis Herreshoff. The first canting keel boat I was aware of was Red Herring, designed by David Hubbard of wing sailed catamaran fame. The first production canting keel yacht was the Schock 40—designed and built in Southern California around 2000. The system has become fairly common in offshore racing boats which are focused on outright speed.
Hydraulic canting keel rams, like these designed by Cariboni, enable a canting keel to angle to windward up to 45°. Canting keel boats rely on a keel fin that is hinged at the bottom of the boat to increase the righting moment of the boat. The keel fin extends into the hull of the boat and is attached to a device (usually a hydraulic ram) which cants it relative to the hull. The maximum cant angle is usually on the order of 45 degrees each side of centerline. Keels on monohull boats generally serve two functions: they keep the boat from tipping over and they keep the boat from sliding sideways. The fact that a canting keel is canted significantly relative to the hull centerline means that it becomes less effective at keeping the boat from sliding sideways. For this reason, most canting keels are pared down to the minimum size necessary to carry the weight of the bulb and an additional foil (daggerboard(s) or forward rudder) is added to keep the boat from sliding sideways. This brings us to the first weakness in most canting keel installations: the keel fins are paired down to a structural minimum so that they
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are susceptible to cracking and intolerant of grounding. They are also dependent on fairly complicated electro/mechanical systems (except on small boats where block and tackles can be used). These factors make them a bit more suspect for cruising applications. SIDE FOILS The final alternative for providing righting moment on ULDBs is the use of foils projecting from the side of the boat and configured to provide a combination of side force and lift. The lift reduces the effective displacement of the boat as well as providing righting moment. The current IMOCA solo offshore racing yachts have pushed this to the point where they are effectively flying on many points of sail. The problem with this sort of arrangement for most boats is that the lift is proportional to the square of the boat speed and most boats just don’t go fast enough to get the foil into a range of operating speeds where they are effective. Even in large high performance yachts they are not effective at providing righting moment upwind (i.e. their effect on righting moment does not compensate for their added drag). _________ With the understandable challenges that come with side foils, we are typically left with two realistic options for making ULDBs perform well on reaches and upwind: water ballast and canting keels. Of the two options, canting keels hold the most potential, especially power reaching. On the other hand, water ballast offers relative simplicity and has the advantage that the
The Schock 40, like the one sailed by Team Angry Beaver to win R2AK in 2019, was the first production canting keel boat. boat is operating at a lighter weight downwind and in light air. This makes it a reasonable choice for light air and windward/ leeward sailing, which is why I have gravitated towards that solution for the boats I have designed for the Pacific Northwest.
Paul Bieker is the founder and owner of Bieker Boats, which recently relocated from Seattle to Anacortes. He has designed everything from the fastest International 14s in the world to the hulls of the most recent America’s Cup multihulls, and many things in between. See more of his work at https://biekerboats.com/
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SOWING THE SEEDS OF SPEED While Fostering Fun
INFLUENTIAL COACHES & THE HIGH SCHOOL SAILING BOOM by Julia Soes
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n a misty Saturday afternoon, I sit with one of the local island families in the Orcas Island High School gym watching their daughter in the basketball game against Sultan High, another small school that traveled hours to be here. While the Orcas girls are leading the game by a solid 20 point margin, I’m more interested in the blue and white felt banners hanging up on the gym wall—especially the one that says NWISA High School Sailing (Northwest Interscholastic Sailing Association), with years listed below. The other child in the family with whom I was watching the game had been part of the sailing team, and in 2017 they brought home the banner that says NWISA Team Race District Champs. His mother looks at the court and the banner, and tells me that when she realized her son wasn’t going to be interested in traditional sports like this, encouraging him to sail seemed like the perfect alternative. High school sailing is deeply important to another Orcas Islander, Burke Thomas. Thomas has been one of the most influential leaders in youth sailing around the Pacific Northwest. Central to the development of Orcas Island’s youth and high school programs, he cites many reasons for his appreciation of high school sailing: “It’s co-ed, it’s affordable, it attracts a lot of different personality types, and you don’t have to be the jock type to be good at it. It Burke and Barbara Thomas, requires more than that.” In a of Orcas Island. sport like sailing, schools the size of Orcas have a chance to compete against AAA high schools, and win. “When you can tell the community that the team is going to a nationals event in Florida, it’s a really big deal.” said Thomas. Despite being an avid sailor in his youth, Thomas describes his coaching career as almost accidental. He grew up sailing on Lake Washington beginning when he was four-years-old, and moved up to crewing for his brother and skippering in junior sailing programs in Cozy Cove when he was just six. In fifth grade, with help from his older brother Craig, Thomas put together a Smith Brothers El Toro, which he raced on Greenlake and the NW circuit. Thomas moved on to the Seattle Laser Fleet in the 1970s. He credits his brother and Dick Rose with being “great mentors of the sport.” After sailing all through high school and college, Thomas reduced the intensity of his involvement—joining the occasional keel boat race—around 1981 when he married his wife of the past 38 years, Barbara. In 2001 while he was devotedly raising his family and running his construction business on Orcas, someone on the island heard that he used to race sailboats and asked Thomas if he’d be willing to assist with part-time coaching of the new Orcas Island High School Sailing Team. Soon after his induction as a volunteer coach, the lead coach was called up for military duty, leaving Thomas with a full program to care for. After being away from the sport of racing for almost 20 years, he said that coming back to the water
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felt very familiar. It was a place to go to forget whatever worries he had back on shore. “Being on the water took the stress away and saved my life.” He saw it as a way for him to give back to the island community that had welcomed him in, and to pay forward the care and volunteerism displayed by those who had helped him learn to sail. The exact origins of high school sailing in the Pacific Northwest are about as clear as the waters in Portage Bay. Seattle Yacht Club has records of junior sailing programs dating back to the 1930s. Inter-club youth racing—done in Flatties in those days—involved high schoolers. By the 1960s, Sea Scouts was running a racing program for high schoolers on Green Lake. Yet, according to a 2005 Seattle Times article that Thomas showed me, it wasn’t until 1996 that the district officially was formed in the way we understand it today, with school-affiliated teams racing on a structured circuit of regattas. John DeMeyer, of Bainbridge, was the first District President. The small number of teams fluctuated, and when Thomas became NWISA President in 2005, there were only six active teams, including Bainbridge, Anacortes, Orcas, Friday Harbor, and North Kitsap. When Thomas stepped down as President in 2017, there were 56 active high school teams in the district, including his own. When the district was founded, it was almost entirely volunteer run, and Thomas was part of a small group of smart, generous volunteer coaches. The idea of paid coaching is relatively new to Northwest sailing. Parents and sailing enthusiasts who wanted to bring their sport to a community’s youth grew teams out of their own pockets and hard work. Steve Orsini of Anacortes was one such parent and enthusiast. According to Steve Orsini of Anacortes. Orsisi, he joined with Gray and Carolyn Hawken, Fred Abelman, and Tom Glade, to start the sailing program in Anacortes— calling it the Anacortes Sailing Club. Orsini credits the Hawkens with providing much of the capital to get the team started and off the ground. When asked why youth sailing was important, Orsini is enthusiastic. “Sailing is the original STEM course. Sailors have to sail in all kinds of conditions while striving for optimum performance. The sailboat race itself is like chess on the water involving strategic and tactical thinking,” and that, “When the dinghy leaves the dock, the skipper and crew are solely responsible for themselves. Sailing teaches self-reliance. Sailing is a life-long sport and skill.” It was a similar pitch from Orsini back in 2014 that caught my attention and drew me into the sport. As a high school sailor, I felt fortunate to be part of something so unique that allowed me to travel around the Northwest and meet all types of interesting people. While the Northwest was one of the smaller districts, there was a sense of camaraderie between teams that was rare in other 48º NORTH
sports. Races were competitive and highly-charged at times, but you could see sailors from other teams helping each other load boats at the end of regattas, congratulating other competitors on good starts, and sharing advice between teams and coaches. Burke Thomas recalled when another coach who has been central to the development of high school sailing in the region—longtime Bainbridge coach, Susan Kaseler—taught a Level One certification course on Orcas Island back in 2005. “She treated those 40 hours of instruction like the most important hours of her life and made my kids way better sailors.” The most intense race of my high school career was against one of Kaseler’s sailors, and at the end, both skipper Susan Kaseler of Bainbridge and crew congratulated us on Island. the finish. Despite its recent and fairly humble beginnings, high school sailing is now booming around the Pacific Northwest. Boasting a growth rate of about 150% over the last five years, NWISA has become a force to be reckoned with in the world of youth sailing. “I know for sure that it’s going to become more competitive,” said Orsini. He also emphasized that it is now up to the coaches to maintain the community values that sailing offers in abundance. Sailing, like any sport, comes down to the connections it builds. While it’s great to be able to go fast and win, there’s more to it than that. Crossing the line in first or thirty first doesn’t change a lot in the world, but having coaches and friends that you can rely on years after you’ve left the program can. On my high school team, we were not only taught which end of the finish line was favored after rounding the leeward mark, but we were also taught to say “thank you” to the race committee and “good race” to the boats around us when crossing that line. The legacy of coaches like Thomas, Orsini, and Kaseler continues to expand in the fastest-growing youth sailing district in the country; and the sense of community they built is evident and central to the positive experience of future generations of high school sailors. While it can take hours of practice, focus, and chalktalks to win, it takes almost nothing to return a bailer to a fellow teammate or to display good sportsmanship. When sailors are supported by their coaches, parents, and each other, and feel comfortable to make mistakes, it allows for a more productive environment for growth. When I pointed out that I never saw Thomas raise his voice towards his sailors, he recalled developing this peaceful perspective through the experience of having his own children—yelling just doesn’t work. The key to fast sailors is tiller time, and in order for kids to put that time in, they need to want to be there. Describing one of his jovial students who worked his way to the top of the fleet, Thomas said, “I didn’t know back in seventh or eighth grade that he was going to be a great sailor, but you could tell he was having a lot of
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fun, so I figured we’d start from there.” After spending four years as an active participant in NWISA, I remember a few of my races and moments of personal growth, and I gained a deep appreciation for the sport of sailing. However, what I cherish most are the connections I took with me. As my sailing career has progressed, I’ve ended up needing those friendships and people, and always found them there for me—whether that’s needing a boat for my college team at a race 900 miles from home or needing advice on how to sail through choppy water at an unfamiliar venue. I hope that today’s NWISA sailors are continuing
the tradition of care and community that will serve them long after their high school race days are over. If the ever-expanding pool of coaches follow in the footsteps of the coaching legends that brought NWISA high school sailing this far, the next generation will share the profoundly positive experience I had.
Julia Soes grew up racing with Anacortes Yacht Club and sailed for their high school program. She’s now an active member of the Western Washington University Sailing Team.
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CHASING THE SPEED RECORD
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Dan Kaseler’s World Record Sail Design Experience
by Joe Cline Smaller diameter masts and wider luff sleeves were aspects of the record winning sail set-up that remain in the marketplace today.
Most of the Pacific Northwest sailing community knows Dan Kaseler as an accomplished sailboat racer and the busy entrepreneur owner of Raptor Deck and the local Quantum Sails loft. What many may not realize is that in the mid aughts, he was involved in a successful effort to break the World Speed Sailing Record, with professional windsurfer Finian Maynard using sails Kaseler designed. The World Speed Sailing Record is presently held by the wild mono-directional proa, Sail Rocket, which posted an astounding 65 knots in 2012. But at the time Kaseler and his team began their chase in earnest, they were facing an Australian proa, Yellow Pages Endeavor, which had held the record for eleven years, the longest record run in the history of the World Speed Sailing Record Council (WSSRC). The records set on Kaseler’s sail designs set the World Record in 2004, and held it until 2008.
48° North: How would you describe your beginning days in the world of windsurfing? Dan Kaseler: I came from a dinghy sailing background on Bainbridge thanks to my parents. Somewhere in high school, my friend Matt McGregor—who lived a short distance from our yacht club—got this longboard windsurf setup; and I started 48º NORTH
to play with that thing and think it was pretty cool. It quickly became apparent that while dinghy sailing was cool, you can’t really jump a dinghy. So it was more the freestyle vibe and tricks that drew you in, rather than the outright speed? It was all there. It was tropical, there were girls in bikinis, people were going super fast compared to boat sailing. It was like everything I knew, but it had a cool factor. I was like, “I gotta learn how to do that!” What were the speed differences between an average sailboat and the average windsurfer? Even then, you were going at least twice as fast on a windsurf board than you could have on a dinghy. People were flat-out ripping. Laird Hamilton was dropping video edits for Neil Pryde—who knows how fast he was going, but I’m sure it had to be at least 30 knots. That wasn’t an era like today when we have all kinds of boats doing 30 knots, back then it was looking pretty fast. With that build up, you started getting into it? It all came first in the Gorge for me. I managed to windsurf
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across it once and crash on the other side. Then I’d windsurf back. I didn’t know how to jibe or really how to get in the footstraps and harness, but I could plane on a shortboard. I had picked up a Volkswagen bus for $700 and I lived in the bus at something called the Wind Ranch, which was this derelict commune of guys from all over the world who were all there to windsurf. It was a really fun time. I wasn’t even 21 years old yet. Were you exposed to speed sailing in this environment? It wasn’t really on my radar. Speed sailing was actually a very, very small part of my career and wasn’t what I was personally all about in the beginning. I was all about learning how to sail well enough that I could go to The Hatchery. That’s where all the cool guys sailed. There was this host of heroes who had just started doing double forward loops and back loops. There was a speed thing going on, though. The speed events were in the Lyle River mouth. There’s a sandbar and they’d get really flat water. It was mostly a group of national-level riders and I didn’t have a lot of interaction with them. The guys around the Wind Ranch were more concerned with who did the biggest trick or how incredibly windy it was. Were you gaining skills and knowledge of sail design, construction, or repair that paved the way for your future endeavors? Oh yeah, my job down there was at Rushwind. I worked for Dave Russell, who was arguably the most technologically forward-thinking guy. He was the first to make computer-cut sails using a Carlson plotter—there were no boat lofts that were building sails on a computer back then. As I evolved, I switched to work for Hurricane and designed a couple of ranges of sails. I would work my brains out during the season in the Gorge and then would come back and study Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington during the off year. I dropped out to ski and windsurf more… don’t do that kids! A gnarly wipeout at Stevens Pass shattered my femur, and that was the big turning point in my life. With a broken leg, I bought my first computer. I started to build my own sails. And, I started firing off resumes everywhere trying to get a job designing windsurfing sails in the big leagues. And that’s what brought you to Hawaii? Yeah. I flew out there and still had to walk with a cane and couldn’t sail yet, but I managed to win the job working in Don Montague’s garage for Naish Sails Hawaii. Robbie Naish is the Michael Jordan of windsurfing. It was a tiny company at that time, but it was before kiteboarding was started, so windsurf was everything. Between Robbie, all his friends, and his paid team of riders, I was plugged right into basically the best people to ever do it at that point. At Naish, were the priorities balanced between speed sailing and freeride? Speed sailing is a very fringe thing. It’s not even part of the windsurf market, so to speak. There’s a professional windsurf association, and the disciplines are slalom races, foil races, 48º NORTH
Dan Kaseler: sailor, entrepreneur, world record sail designer. freestyle, and wave sailing. So, speed is not a sanctioned discipline. In speed sailing, you’re just trying to get the holy grail—the 500 meter. There are a lot of other measures, but the big one is who can be the fastest of all time over 500 meters. The people chasing that tend to be a very eclectic and eccentric group who often get obsessed with a quest to break that thing. And they often work in their own sandbox somewhere. It’s not industrydriven at all. At Naish, we used the speed sailing results as a marketing tool to sell our regular inline products. I was head of R&D for windsurfing, and while the speed thing was very fascinating to me, it wasn’t where we made our bread and butter. So it was purely rider driven? You’ve got to start with the history. First, it was Crossbow I and II. Then, the windsurfers got a hold of the record and were able to beat the boats. It went around a few times; they’re all interesting stories themselves. Then, down in Australia, they made Yellow Pages Endeavor, a proa with a fixed wing. They were able to blow the windsurfers out of the water. The record at that time was kind of like Sail Rocket’s now—people just thought, “Well, that’s it, nobody’s going faster than that.” Yellow Pages Endeavor held the record for eleven years, and nobody had ever done that. From my point of view, they didn’t even really have anyone chasing them, until Bjorn Dunkerbeck—who was then the winningest windsurf racer of all time—started getting into speed sailing. Bjorn created a speed sailing event with RedBull, and he invited his friends to come and try to get fast times. My boss, Robbie Naish, was one of the guys who got invited, and that was what started my involvement. It began as, “Hey, let’s build some sails for Robbie so he can go do this with his buddies.” The best part of the story is that there was one guy who was pretty interested in speed sailing, a younger rider named Finian Maynard. He was very fast in a straight line and he really, really wanted to do something with speed sailing. However, Bjorn wouldn’t let him enter the event because of some complicated feelings between the two after competing on the slalom tour.
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I also think the event was set up in such a way that Bjorn was perhaps supposed to win it, and Finian was probably the only character that had an honest shot at beating him. The crazy thing was that Robbie invited Finian to be his rig caddy, flew him to the event to carry his gear from the truck and to rig it up for him. Finian has a beast-mode mentality, and he was forced to sit on the sidelines and watch other people try to break his dream. That lit a fire under Finina that ultimately resulted in him getting the record. He was as upset and motivated as a man can be. When I built those speed sails off the plotter for Robbie, I was serious about it, but I also knew Robbie had no shot because he was too small. Everybody knew he was too small. So Robbie had no shot. Finian had a real chance to beat Bjorn. Is it all body size in that world? First, you’ve got to be huge and strong. And then you’ve got to want it. Finian was probably 6’3” and 255 lbs, and Bjorn is just yoked. These are big men, big athletes. Finian wanted it, and that set the wheels in motion. He got an ex-speed-record-holder, Eric Beale, to advise him and started talking to the town in France, Saintes Maries de la Mer, where you can dig a trench. At that point, all the records fell at the French Trench, Namibia wasn’t on the map yet. You had to talk to the local authorities about where you could dig or enlarge this trench in the mud. You also had to get the timing equipment placed and set-up, and then you had to sit there and wait and wait for the conditions. I’m talking months at a time, just sitting there waiting for the right day. Finian was in a unique position in life where he was disconnected. He had the desire, he corralled all the forces, and he camped out there. There were maybe a couple of riders around the world who might have had a chance, but at that moment, Finian had all the magic. He was driven. He was big. He really wasn’t afraid of falling. He was only afraid of failing. Were you there with him? No. I had a lot of other work to do. And no one from the Naish team was there either, although Robby did make visits and do some runs. It was really all Finian. We would get footage back and, even though it was pretty crappy video, we’d use that and his feedback to build another round of sails. Keep in mind this went on over a couple of seasons. We built a lot of cool and interesting stuff during that window. We were putting in a solid effort, but we were on a very small budget. That’s something very unique about what we did. Yellow Pages Endeavor had been done with a massive budget. Even with Sail Rocket today, they have Vestas, a multi-billion-dollar energy company, supporting the project. We were more-orless working out of a guy’s garage with a plotter and a roll of plastic. We looked at that situation and thought about ways to beat the record. We had a very bright computer programmer from Brazil on the team as well, Dudu Mazzocato, so I had some super special design tools, but in general terms, we were a very small team. 48º NORTH
We were able to put it together: the right guy, the right venue, the right day, and the right equipment to get a WSSRC ratified record. The truth is that, in so many ways, I was just a small little cog in that record. My part of it was just the sail; and I don’t really consider the sail to be the key factor to setting that record. It all had to work together. So while I’m proud that we set the record and that I made that sail at that time, the sail that actually set that record was a refinement and culmination of ideas that were widespread in the market, rather than a giant innovative leap. What else can you tell us about the sails that broke the record? There are different ways to attack the speed record, and we came after it in a very crude and brute way. There’s sailing efficiency now where you can do three or four times the wind speed, I think it was only blowing 25-30 knots when Sail Rocket set the record, so they’re going 65 knots in 25 knots. We just attacked the problem by shoveling a ton of wind onto the equation, and that also works. With this approach, you’re almost less concerned with aerodynamics and more concerned
Irish windsurfer and former world record holder, Finian Maynard, blasting down the French Trench with one of Kaseler’s sail designs.
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about whether the guy can hold onto it, or how comfortable it will be when he’s going down the trench. Can he push through his footstraps on his fin hard enough? Can he make the bear away to begin the run (every trench run begins with a bearaway because you have to get up on a plane on a reach before you can go downwind, and it was true with Sail Rocket as well). I felt some negativity coming from some of the leading minds of sailing, that we were just a bunch of dumb guys who were taking advantage of that equation and just piling on more wind and not worrying about efficiency. At the end of the day, we beat all those guys, so there was some redemption in that. I think the focus on rider comfort was the biggest difference between me and the other designers. My logic was that if the rider is comfortable, he will push harder and go faster. We tried to make it rideable when it was really really windy. We built a lot of crazy stuff, but some things stuck in the marketplace. For one, we set up the sail with a smaller diameter mast. We thought it would be better aerodynamically, but we also like the way those smaller diameter masts felt. That played right into my theory of the correlation between comfort and speed. This type of mast is now very common on smaller slalom sails. Another idea was wider luff sleeves, which some other brands were experimenting with as well, but is now commonplace. We built some speed sails that had very wide luff sleeves, which is like a longer, larger aerodynamic fairing. Nowadays, all the race sails look like that. You give a little up because it’s a little heavier, but you gain a little in top-end speed.
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During the record attempts, Finian was within a tenth or a hundredth of a knot of breaking the record, so little things like that start to play into your mentality. You’re so close, you’re looking for anything that can give you just a tiny bit more. We played with inflatable battens to save weight, as well as full carbon wing sails and double-surface sails similar to what you see in today’s America’s Cup. In the end, something very traditional set the record. What did this whole experience mean to you and your career? It was huge for me. Nobody thought Yellow Pages was going down. It was only a few months later that I was getting hired to run R&D at Gaastra, which was the second biggest windsurf sail company in the world. I had done a lot of great things, but when you break the world speed sailing record, people notice. Would you ever pursue a speed sailing record again? Honestly, I’d love to take a shot at it again. The opportunity hasn’t presented itself yet. If I were to go after the record right now, I think I would start with a pretty blank piece of paper, even though I’d look very hard at what worked for others. I am particularly interested in captive kite rigs, and other solutions that minimize or eliminate heeling moment.
Dan Kaseler is the owner of Raptor Deck, Quantum Sails Seattle, and Avanti Windsurfing Sails. Joe Cline is the Managing Editor of 48° North.
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ICEBERG REGATTA SLOOP TAVERN’S SEASON OPENER
Southeast winds ranging from 6-12 knots greeted the fleet for STYC Iceberg Regatta on Shilshole Bay, the official kickoff of the 2020 Sloop Tavern racing season. The race committee set the long course from Shilshole to West Point, over to a temporary mark at Skiff Point, then to Spring Beach and back to the finish off of the Shilshole breakwater. A long single port tack was the name of the game for the majority of the fleet as they left the start and sailed toward West Point buoy. Most boats chose just to bear away to the heading for Skiff Point. Some of the sprit boats were first to set kites, on a roughly 60° apparent wind angle. Regardless, it was a quick trip across the shipping lanes to Skiff Point before the rounding had everybody jibing around the temporary buoy. Another long close reach back across the sound, with the wind oscillating back and forth between south and east. Spinnakers went up and down and back up again all across the course. After a tack around the Spring Beach buoy, it was another long port tack back towards Meadow Point. Then the wind lightened and turned more southerly for a while before swinging back east, rewarding the boats who had stayed inside after Meadow Point, where they also may have found a bit less of the outgoing tide. The three J/105s started in a tight group somewhat away from the other boats in Class 4. On Creative, we stretched out 48º NORTH
a little bit up to West Point then even more on the two tight reaches. We held off a good charge by the Insubordinates over the last mile. Peer Gynt rounded out the 105 finishes. From our point of view, the experts on Poke and Destroy and Rush played the last mile very well indeed. Grayling was trucking along all day, particularly on the close reaches. Elixir showed again what another old boat can do when updated and sailed well. It was a bit of an adjustment for us to be back at fleet racing instead of a one design start. For the Creative crew, it was another outing that was great for most of the course, before misreading the winds or tides cost us a lot in the last bit. To add insult to injury, a total brain cramp right at the pin had us in circles with competitors razzing us and even had the race committee confused at what was going on. We track our performance with an app called RaceQ, and I think that the track will be very interesting. We still had a lot of fun and most of the fleet was back at the dock by 2:00pm, leaving plenty of time for the first post-race party of the year to match the first race of the year. By Al Hughes Photo by Lizzy Grim Results on Page 54
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DUWAMISH HEAD 2020 FUN FOR ALMOST EVERYONE
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Duwamish Head is the second race in the yearly winter tradition called the South Sound Series. When I think about the race, it conjures up images of high wind adventures like the viral video of Bill Walton’s Farr-Ari blasting along to Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song so many years ago; or the super carnage of boats just trying to make it out of the marina. It also brings up memories of extended drifting, especially the “old days” when it was rare to shorten course and we spent hours drifting in the general vicinity of Des Moines well into the dark hours of the evening. In recent years, Duwamish Head Race has often meant hearing the roar of the crowd in Elliott Bay from CenturyLink Field as the Seahawks battled through the playoffs. This year, we got an ideal day for winter racing on Puget Sound. There was a convergence zone in the central sound with a northerly at the north end and a southerly at the south end and less wind in the middle. We had a solid 15+ knots at the start that tapered off to 10 knots or less around Alki and built back up to a steady 20 knots at the finish line. At the start, it was too close of a reach to hoist the kite right away in those conditions. It was also a bit too windy to maneuver safely in the starting area with the #1 up. On Lodos, we considered starting with a more manageable #3 to swap out later, or to save the headsail until the final approach and go straight to the #1. As with most of our fleet, we opted to start with our #3. It worked for a while but became inevitable that we needed the extra horsepower of a #1; and then almost as soon as we started we were ready for a kite. It wasn’t long before the sleds powered through and we were pointed directly at Alki. On the radio, we suddenly heard a distress call going out to the fleet. Miss Mayhem lost their foredeck crew overboard and were not able to get him back on deck. Sonic was first to respond, followed by Dark Star, and Jan and Skip on the photo boat. Sonic has a handful of crew members that are well practiced in Safety at Sea crew overboard (COB) rescue. Lizzy Grim in particular is recently trained as a member of the Clipper Race Team Seattle. In the end, the Sonic crew used their own foredeck guy in his harness to rescue the COB and physically lift him onto the deck. Lots of conversations have occurred since that event, and happily it has resulted in plans for positive changes and increased safety in our sailing community. Fleets and yacht clubs, including my own Anacortes Yacht Club, are currently scheduling COB practice days. There were many different opinions shared about how to best rescue a COB, and in the end it seems like it’s really about doing it on your own boat with your own equipment with a trained expert leading the practice, in a situation where you can safely practice until everyone is comfortable and competent. Be on the lookout for events later this year when it warms up a bit. After the rescue, Miss Mayhem made it safely back to Des Moines and the crew member was transported quickly by Jan and Skip while the rest of us carried on toward Duwamish Head. The wind clocked back to more of a true southerly and there were many more tactical choices involved in tide changes and localized wind shifts. You had to throw in some jibes, and you had to plan your jibes to get to the beach when the angles were good while still avoiding the new tide that was lined with big logs and storm debris. 48º NORTH
It was a scary, but thankfully successful, rescue of the bowman overboard off of a San Juan 24. Special thanks to TP52, Sonic, for their quick and effective assistance. It was an uneventful reach to Duwamish Head after Alki, with the best course being the most direct one. After rounding, it was a fetch to Blakely Rock, with some accounting for tide change. On the way back to the finish, early boats had more of a true southerly and put in some tacks upwind. As the afternoon continued, the wind went more and more westerly until we eventually cracked off for Three Tree Point. I was a believer in staying high, and not giving up any lateral until it was obvious that we wouldn’t need to tack, and I think I was right but I’d listen to someone argue that point! I haven’t verified this, but I’ll bet it was a record year for elapsed finish. With positive tide and solid breeze all day, it would have been hard to beat that one. All boats finished early, and many boats opted to turn and burn for Seattle after dropping off crew. Thank you to the volunteers at Three Tree Point Yacht Club for a great race and a fantastic day on the water. And thank you to Skip and Jan for coming out to take photos and ultimately rendering assistance to a fellow racer (something they have done on numerous occasions). Congratulations go out to John McPhail’s JAM in the big boat Division 2, and Iain Christenson’s Flying Tiger Izakaya in Division 3. PHRF Division 4 featured 12 boats with only a three second differential, with six of them being J-35s and three boats registered for the Pacific Cup race this summer. The win in Div 4 went to Tolga Cezik’s J-109 Lodos, yay team! In Division 5, it was Jeremy Bush’s Antrim 27 Goes to 11 for the top spot. Division 6 went to Matthew Gardner-Brown’s J-105 Dulcinea, and J. Rosenbach’s Beneteau Bodacious won Division 7. In the end, it was my favorite little south sound boat, Mark Harang’s Evelyn 26 Nimbus for the win in Division 8 and overall for the day. An honorable mention in second place in Division 8 went to Cherokee, with an impressive entourage of family and fans at the after party at Anthony’s. Cruising class went to Roger Deitz’s classic Cal 40 White Squall. Next up is Olympia—time to rally your crew for a trip to Toliva Shoal in February! By Stephanie Campbell Photos by Jan Anderson Results on page 54
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TTPYC DUWAMISH HEAD SOUTH SOUND SERIES #2 Pos Boat
Skipper
CLASS 2 PHRF 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ret-BF
JAM Constellation Dark Star FLASH Sonic Crossfire Absolutely
Izakaya Kahuna String Theory EQUUS McSwoosh korina korina
Iain Christenson John Leitzinger Robert King Dean Conti Clark McPherson Jon Knudson
CLASS 4 PHRF 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Lodos Tantivy Grace E Great White Altair Darkside Intrepid The Boss Rock Paper Scissors Perplexity
Boat
Skipper
CLASS 5 PHRF John McPhail Ronald Holbrook Jonathan McKee J McKay Marek Omilian Lou Bianco Charlie Macaulay
CLASS 3 PHRF 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ret-BF
Pos
Tolga Cezik Stuart Burnell Brian White Dan Wierman Jason Vannice Nicholas Leede Patrick Robinson Chad Stenwick Hans Seegers John Wilkerson
1 2 3 4
Goes to 11 Dos Passion Seabiscuit
Jeremy Bush Ian Beswick Michael Johnston Andrew Norton
CLASS 6 PHRF 1 2
Dulcinea Sidewinder
Matthew Gardner-Brown Mike and Brad Jones
CLASS 7 PHRF 1 2 3
Bodacious Chinook Slick
J Rosenbach jj Hoag Christine Nelson & Paul Grove
CLASS 8 PHRF 1 2 3 4 Ret-BF
Nimbus CHEROKEE Blue Max Solitaire
Mark Harang Pat Stewart Charles Hendrick Chris Caudill
CRUISING CLASS NON-FLYING SAILS 1
Koosah
Dave Knowlton
COMMODORE CLASS FLYING SAILS 1 2 3 Ret-BF
White Squall Steamy Windows Miss Mayhem
Roger Deitz Laura Sullivan Melissa Davies
Pos
Boat
Skipper
STYC ICEBERG REGATTA Pos
Boat
Skipper
CLASS 2 - FLYING SAILS
CLASS 4 - FLYING SAILS
1
Grayling
Duke H Phan
1
Poke & Destroy
Alex P Simanis
2
Lady Too
Damon Darley
2
Anarchy
Tom Ward
3
Mata Hari
Jeff Blyth
3
Creative
Al Hughes
4
Impulsive
Ulf Georg Gwildis
4
Insubordination
Buckey Rezabek
5
Midnight Escape
Borge Ellingsen
5
Freja
Jonathan Cruse
CLASS 3 - FLYING SAILS
6
Solution
Tyson Varosyan
1
Elixir
Megan Kogut
7
Peer Gynt
Sara Billey
2
Rush
Phillip Dean
8
Hyperion
Geoffrey Wolf
3
Ruby
Jessica & John Aguilar-Kazaras
4
Zap
Don Sarin
5
Jolly Green
Ryan Porter
6
Uproar
Morris Lowitz
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RACE ANNOUNCEMENTS INTERNATIONAL 6 METRE NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP Point Roberts Race Week will host the International 6 Metre North American Championships July 13-17, 2020. Yachts from Canada and the USA will include both Modern and Classic (designed pre-1965) 6 Metres racing as a single division on windward leeward courses set on the Strait of Georgia. "We’re looking forward to a great event,” expressed Nigel Ashman, appointed liaison representing the U.S. and Canadian Associations. “Given the caliber and experience of the race management team provided at Point Roberts Race Week, we know the 6 Metre Class will be in very capable hands.” The 6 Metres will participate in the five-day championship and compete for the Bill Gooderham Canadian–American Trophy, awarded to the overall championship winner; and the Olin J. Stephens II Trophy awarded to the highest placing Classics winner. Additionally, a new trophy will be awarded to the highest placing ‘transitional’ Modern, defined as a boat built between January 1, 1966 and September 15, 1979 with an unmodified keel shape. The International 6 Metre was first conceived as a Class at the 1907 meeting of the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU), now known as World Sailing. The same rule governs 6, 8, and 12 Metre yachts, with the 12 Metres gaining world renowned status as an America’s Cup competitor from 1958 to 1987. www.pointrobertsraceweek.com
EXPAND your WATERWAYS Travel opportunities in the new year!
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US SAILING COACHES CLINIC February 1, 2020 Presented by US Sailing in conjunction with The Sailing Foundation and NW Youth Sailing, at Mt. Baker Rowing and Sailing Center. This clinic offers a varied program that is beneficial to coaches, program directors, junior sailing volunteers, instructors, college sailors, etc. Special guest Jen Guimaraes is coming out from US Sailing HQ to present. www.thesailingfoundation.org US SAILING RACE MANAGEMENT SEMINAR March 7, 2020 in Renton March 14, 2020 in Portland Learn skills to help out as a part of a race committee that may one day lead you to certification as a race officer. www.ussailing.org/competition/rules-officiating/race-officers
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US SAILING SAFETY AT SEA SEMINAR February 29-March 1, 2020 A rare and important opportunity, this seminar is required for a percentage of crew on any offshore race. This seminar is made possible by The Sailing Foundation, and is taking place this year on Bainbridge Island. www.thesailingfoundation.org 48º NORTH
Sail with us this summer! Group sailing offers more than just camaraderie. Dates, pricing and details: nwmaritime.org/travel 55
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CLASSIFIEDS
BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
MALO 38 - $55,000 USD Moored in NZ, LARK is looking for a new owner to take her cruising. With NZ import tax paid and a favorable exchange rate, it’s a perfect location for coastal cruising or preparing for an offshore voyage. Swedish built in 1989, hull #169 is sloop rigged with aft cockpit and a 44 HP Volvo diesel engine. Spacious mahogany interior, maximized storage, comfortable accommodation for 5. Teak decks removed and replaced with Awlgrip nonskid 2018. Well maintained, we’re offering her “as is”. For full specs and recent survey reports email wde5505@hotmail.com
26’ THUNDERBIRD SAILBOAT PRICE REDUCED. One of the original Thunderbird class of sailboats designed/built in the Pacific Northwest. Hull #117. Full refit/West System epoxy hull, excellent condition, measured racing sails, set up for cruising, current survey, lots of accessories. Excellent boat for young family or new or downsizing sailors. Asking $4,500 OBO. Located on Vancouver Island, BC. Additional information and photos available. Contact Paul at (250) 755-5151 or via email at p_steele@shaw.ca
SAN JUAN 24 This 1973 San Juan 24 has a very good 9.9 HP motor and a trailer. New halyards, new porti-potty, new Richie compass. Good hull and deck: no blisters. Good Trinidad bottom paint (1 season). Newer Main, good 150 (the “go to” sail), spinnaker, 110, and 170. Bruce anchor. Solid boat, on trailer ready for inspection. $1,500 OBO. Brigand85@yahoo.com for more info.
37 TARTAN 2002 - $165,000
FRASER 41 CUTTER RIGGED SLOOP 1984 Custom built, located in Guaymas, Mexico. $37,000. One owner, nice condition, fast mover. Loaded with equipment: VHF, windlass, Aries vane, new CPT autopilot, new batteries, solar panels, Max-Prop, teak interior, fridge, stoves, new upholstery. Sails & canvas good. Sleeps 5. Standing rigging good. 35 HP Izuzu 3ABI diesel, 800 hours. Rebuilt Yamaha OB included. For info, email dryrotlinda@yahoo.com or call (622) 183-9907.
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1996 HYLAS 46 Kokopelli is a unique Hylas 46, set up for extended long distance cruising. In-boom furling main, full batten. Added forestay with a huge Code O drifter. All foresails (Code 0, Genoa and Staysail) on Schaefer foiled furlers. Lines run to the cockpit, color-coded. 1000 watts of solar, watermaker, 2 autopilots installed, etc. etc. This one is ready to go on the Puddlejump, with just a trip to the grocery store. $295,000. Currently in Hawaii. For more info, contact briblack@earthlink.net
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Well cared for Tartan 3700. Features LeisureFurl boom; working jib and 130% genoa; and Facnor spinnaker furler. Yanmar 40HP with sail drive (new SD60 in 2019). diesel heat, electric head with fresh/ saltwater option. Charger / inverter, solar panels. Newer Raymarine plotter, HD radar, AIS, autopilot. 9' Avon dinghy with 5HP OB. Recent vessel survey and "normal" oil analysis. Priced at survey value!
San Juan Sailing - Bellingham, WA brokerage@sanjuansailing.com 360-671-0829 FEBRUARY 2020
BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
1974 WESTSAIL 32’ Factory offshore layout. New sail suit. Cutter rig. New Lewmar skylight, updated propane system. All necessary items. Ready to be used and enjoyed. Presently on hard in Anacortes. Perkins 4-108 runs fine. Hurth, dripless. Owner since '01. Ready to be used, loved, & enjoyed. $24,000 OBO. Dan at (360) 202-8611 call/text or via email at danjuan.sanjuanenterprise@gmail.com
1989 PACIFIC SEACRAFT 37 Proven blue water cruiser, Anna Marie, located In Portland, Oregon. $107,500. Newer Lifeline AGM batteries; Xantrex 2kw inverter/charger; Balmar 100 amp alternator; wind generator; solar panels; watermaker; liferaft; knot, depth, wind instruments; Alpha Spectra auto pilot; Garmin radar, AIS, chartplotter, VHF; ICOM M802 SSB; Pactor III; computer; EPIRB; Monitor windvane steering; Yanmar 40 HP; 40 gallons fuel; 80 gallons water; MaxProp; custom carbon-fiber whiskerpole; 8 sails; standing/running rigging replaced 2013. robert.curry@yandex.com or (904) 728-9199.
CRUISE READY CAL 31 1979 Cal 31 in excellent condition. Elixir II has cruised the Salish Sea for many years and is ready for many more. Newer sails, engine, and electronics. Perkins 21 HP M20 installed in 2000, 4 berths, forced air diesel furnace, 50 gallons water, 20 gallons fuel. Raymarine chartplotter, radar, autopilot, and wind instrument. Sails include full-batten main, genoa, jib, and cruising spinnaker. Find details, more info and contact us at www.tinyurl.com/31CalSale $21,600.
SAN JUAN 28 1980 Clark San Juan. At the dock in Port Ludlow, WA. Recent service of diesel engine. Roller furling on the jib, sails in good condition. Great, fast, easy boat to single handle. OBO, obviously, this is an older boat! Still in great shape at a great price. We do not know the engine hours. 6' head room. $9,000. Contact Fritz at (360) 316-9453.
J.M. FINOT 39 STEEL SLOOP 1985 39' steel French design cruising sloop; Reve d'Antilles; hull #151 to this design. 1 of 11 built in Nanaimo BC by High Seas Steel Yachts. US documented. Ak/ Mexico/Hawaii vet. Flush deck, hard dbl chine, fin keel, skeg, fixed wheel 16x9. Hard dodger. 2 inches insulation. Lee sails, spin/sock, Profurl, Aries, AGM, solar, reefer, propane stove/oven, radar, plotter, VHF, HAM, Dickinson heat, new Yanmar and all running gear in 2018. Lying Hood River, Oregon. $68,900. (541) 490-1022 or charlesshuster@gmail.com
J24 - LUCKY JIM $7,000 - 1982 International J24. Extensive sail inventory. All in good condition, a Ray Marine autopilot and a galvanized tandem trailer. Lucky Jim is a proven race winner and ready to go One Design or PHRF. Two Genoa Lopez lead blocks, GPS, digital depth sounder, Pro Start and mast bracket. 5HP Tohotsu outboard motor. Located in Oak Harbor, Washington. For info, please contact Jim McAlpine at (360) 679-4825 or via email at Melusine@hughes.net
Kettenburg PC32 -$8,900 Launched in San Diego in 1948, Orion #68 underwent a large restoration by Baird Boat Works of Port Townsend WA in 2006. Orion is as competitive today as she was 60 years ago. Mahogany planks--some new, over steamed oak frames--all sistered. Updated rigging with Schaefer and Harken blocks. Lots of bronze hardware and varnish. Very minimal systems, but she makes up for it with volumes of class. Needs paint, varnish, and a new halyard to be out racing again.
(360) 503-8874 kris@nwmaritime.org 48º NORTH
1998 SAGA 43' CRUISING YACHT Cantamar is a 1974 53’ GB Alaskan Pilothouse w/ flybridge. Recently professionally overhauled and extensively updated. Twin John Deere 6404 diesel engines, completely rebuilt. Engines have only 55 hours. New Magnum MS2012 inverter/charger, new house batteries, newer gen-set, new high output alternators, Wabasto heat throughout, bow thruster, propane stove, diesel fireplace. Queen Master stateroom ensuite head w/tub, V-berth, captain's quarters, guest head, huge salon, spacious galley. Much more! Owner retiring. $369,500 OBO. For more info, please contact (253) 722-7998.
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1999 BENETEAU OCEANIS 381 Hard to find 3 cabin, 2 head layout, Great condition, 42 HP Westerbeke, Raymarine chartplotter/radar, wind instrument, 2500 watt Inverter, cold plate refrigeration, Webasto diesel heater, wheel pilot, new house and start batteries, fresh bottom paint and hull wax, dodger/ bimini/connector, newer North vertical batten furling main sail, asymmetrical spinnaker with sock, Zodiac dinghy, full inventory of pots/pans/dishes/silverware. Many mechanical updates. Asking $88,000.
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BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
TOM WYLIE CUSTOM CUTTER 45 45ft custom built Tom Wylie designed cutter. $69,500 OBO. Hand built by a furniture maker as his dream boat. It is overbuilt in all the best ways, beautiful woodwork, cold molded, gorgeous laminated beams, there is no other boat like it. The builder and owner passed away and we are looking for a home where the boat can be appreciated by someone new. Requires some repairs/updating. Survey available. Vallejo, CA. More info: jsilverman7@gmail.com / (510) 634-0866.
GULF ISLAND 29 Stout and simple. Launched in 1968 by builder Chine of Vancouver, B.C. 29' X 8.5' X 4.5'. 8,300 lbs. LWL not known. FWC 4 cylinder Ford gas engine. There are a lot of benefits to a gas engine! Main with 3 reefsvery good, jib, lapper and genoa are good said the sailmaker who inspected them. Traveler installed, so too 2 speed winches. Recent survey. Laying Blaine, WA. Michael Owen: (360) 220-0962. $5,000. WA registered.
1972 YANKEE 38' , IOR HULL #5 Pretty Sparkman & Stephens design in good condition for $26,000. Good racer/cruiser: beefy solid fiberglass hull, balsa core deck and all new standing rigging. Re-powered: 27 HP Yanmar 3GM30 and Max-prop. Includes: three Lidgard mylar jibs and roller furling. Lidgard/North spinnakers (graphite pole, strut), full batten main, staysails and storm jib. Mahogany interior sleeps six: 6ft+ headroom, gimbaled oven/stove, shore power, GPS, instrumentation, furnace, dodger, Balmer alternator, Lifeline batteries(4), Livingston(8'), Fortress anchors(2). Steve at (206) 462-9026. Olympia, WA.
TRAWLER CAPE DORY 28 (1985) Caper is a well maintained, sea kindly, semidisplacement, down-east style cruiser w/ a lobster boat profile & heritage. 100 HP diesel engine. Cruising speed 7 knots. Original gelcoat. New fuel tank, Wallas stove/heater, cushions/upholstery, Lewmar windlass, Shark Skin non-skid on decks, Trojan batteries and Pro-nautic charger in 2015. Perfect all season Pacific Northwest cruiser for a couple or small family. Price $43,500 USD. Located in Victoria, BC. Contact Bill at wjmarshall2555@gmail.com or (250) 882-5471 (cell).
CLARK SAN JUAN SAILBOAT, 24' Vintage 1973 Clark San Juan sloop, 24ft. Good condition; needs a little TLC. Sails in marked bags in dry storage. Oregon registration, tabs good through 12/2020. $1,000 OBO; cash or PayPal. In gated marina, Portland, OR. Buyer to arrange lift out, tow, or moorage. Contact Shiela at (360) 852-7101 (voice, text) or via email at Tehillah_Singer@hotmail.com
SOUTHERN CROSS 31 IN MEXICO This classic double-ended cruising yacht was built in 1979. It is located at San Carlos, Mexico, at a great marina with excellent dry storage. The cruising season is the winter. The boat is simple, but very utilitarian. Heavy ground tackle, Westerbeke 30, new through-hull fittings. Needs new sails. The perfect single-handler or for a couple who is ready for a sea adventure. Very flexible at $15,000. Jock@sopris.net
45' CUSTOM ALUMINUM PH 2006 - $239,000
LASER 28 SLOOP DU JOUR Bottom stripped and refinished with 3 coats VC Offshore burnished to 320 grit with new waterline accent. New lexan windows and front hatch, stronger stanchion bases. New standing rig, Harken Carbo race foil and boom kicker. Full inventory of cruising & racing sails. New Evolution main, lapper, carbon genoa & 1/2 oz spinnaker. Bukh diesel & drive leg rebuilt. $25,000 CDN. Includes trailer, spare BNIB Gori prop, TackTic, etc. For more info or details, please reachout to sailem@shaw.ca
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Professionally constructed in BC, cruise loaded with electronics, 100 HP Isuzu Diesel, 500 gal fuel, 250 gal water, watermaker, solar panels, windvane, AP, lot of upgrades and spares. Newer sails w/ furling mainsail and genoa, new RIB dinghy and OB w/ davits, liferaft, hydraulic windlass, refrigerator w/ freezer, two cabins. A great NW equipped, long range cruising pilothouse. San Juan Sailing - Bellingham, WA brokerage@sanjuansailing.com 360-671-0829
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1988 38’ CALIBER SAILBOAT Proven bluewater cutter rigged sail boat, cruised Seattle to Australia and back. Great local cruising, offshore or liveaboard boat. Highlights: Enclosed cockpit, hard dodger, Raymarine chart plotter and autopilot, Yanmar diesel (4000 hours), sails-main, trys’l storm sail stays'l, jib, spinnaker, 2 heads, holding tanks, 2 staterooms, comfortable main salon and galley, Force 10 propane stove, Alder Barbour fridge. Please call for pictures and more details. For more info, please contact (360) 917-5168. $95,000.
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BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
1976 CHEOY LEE 33' CLIPPED KETCH Classic Bill Luders design, lying in Hope, ID at Kramer's Marina in Lake Pend O'Reille. In fresh water since May of 2003. Yanmar diesel(3 cyl. 27 HP 3GM30 with 252 hours). New genoa and jib(Doyle), full 3 piece winter cover, hull is exceptionally clean and strong. Laminated box Sitka Spruce spars, stripped base, examined and completely refinished during last haulout in 2018. Asking $30,000 OBO. For more info, contact John Murphy at (870) 371-2782.
18 FOOT CAPE COD CATBOAT Built by Marshall Marine in 1986. Sanderling Model, LOA 18'2" Beam 8' 6" Draft 19" board up, & 44" board down. Sail Area: 253 sq. ft. Displacement: 2200 lbs. Ballast: 500 Lbs. Gaff Rig. 2014 Mercury 5 HP outboard. Asking $10,000. Call (206) 660-5766.
EUROPEAN OCEAN GOING 41' SLOOP A Rebel 41 designed by Van de Stadt, built by Southern Ocean Shipyards in UK in 1968, in excellent condition. Solid layup construction, integral lead long fin keel, Aries windvane, diesel heater, autopilot, JRC radar,AIS, 90m chain, 60lb CQR, 44lb Bruce and rode, Muir windlass, full tropical awning, Force 10 stove, 400l water, 5 proper seagoing berths, 6' 6" headroom. Perkins M50 . A sea-kindly boat waiting to go again. isrebelx@hotmail.com for specifications. $59,000 CDN.
32' SLOOP 1988 Ericson 32-200 sloop. KNOTTY OTTER. Very good condition. Asking $35,000. Berthed at John Wayne Marina, Sequim, WA. Berth F-31. Call for details or to make offer. (360) 683-8921 or (360) 461-0216. Also for sale: Used 8' Boston Whaler Inflatable and 8' Quicksilver Inflatable. Make offer. Sail inventory; North Sails Main and 110% Jib on furler and Sobstadt Crusing Spinaker (used once). 30' LYLE HESS FALMOUTH CUTTER $60,000 OBO. Kirin is a beautiful example of a Lyle Hess designed Falmouth Cutter built in 1991 and restored between 2014-2017. The hull is bronze fastened Douglas Fir planks on double sawn riveted white oak frames. She has a fir backbone with new purple heart stem and mast step, and bronze floors. Kirin is much loved and is looking for a new caretaker. Please email Erik at gosailkirin@gmail.com for more info.
APHRODITE 101 Averisera, 101USA264, located in Chatham, MA and ready to race. Details at www.averisera.com We need a cruising boat or we'd be keeping her! $15,000. More info at (617) 678-4286 or nhmartin@outlook.com
CT41 KETCH LIVEABOARD Classic CT 41 Ketch (1974) liveaboard on Multnomah Channel in Portland, OR. Very comfortable ocean sailing vessel. Good fuel and drinking water capacity. Propane stove and very adequate galley. Lots of storage. FRP hull, teak decking, 75 HP Volvo Penta diesel (low hours), aluminum masts, windlass, shower, radar, VHF, 5 sails……$32,000. Call Bob at (503) 309-3097 or via email at aeallc@comcast.net
1977 37' TAYANA CUTTER 1977 37’ Tayana. $32,000. Robert Perry bluewater boat. Cutter rigged, custom solid teak interior, 36 HP Volvo engine. Autopilot, VHF radio, radar, 12 volt refrigerator/freezer, 110 volt hot water heater, 110 volt electric wall heater, diesel Adriatic cookstove, custom Woodland wood stove, Lorance chart plotter with US and Canadian charts, 100 gallon water tank, 90 gallon diesel tank. Moored in Portland, OR at Crown Point Marina. For more information call (360) 624-4295.
38' HINTERHOELLER NIAGARA 35 - 1980 Grand Marina, Alameda, CA. $42,000. S/V Gambit. Equipped for offshore. Volvo, SailDrive, nav computer, lazy-jacks, solar panel. watermaker, composting head, refrigerator and more. For sale "as-is". Info at schoonerbk.gmail.com or (925) 202-9092.
EUROPEAN CANAL BOAT - FRANCE MOVING ON - 41 Ft. 1986 Steel Dutch Cruiser $115,000. Classic, well maintained Super Lauwersmeer 12.50 AK, twin 120 HP diesel engines, located Corre France. Fully outfitted ready for the canals and rivers of Europe, just stop by the marché for supplies. This boat was designed and built for all of the canals of the Europe. Visit https://www.thorntonsjm.net/ for pictures & complete details, JoelSails@Gmail.com or via phone at (425) 495-6937.
48 TAYANA DS - 2002
The nicest on the market! Highly maintained with records. Many recent upgrades. CRUISE LOADED and turn key ready! Easily sailed by a couple. Located in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Cruise Mexico now and start your adventures. Surveyed, hauled and bottom painted. Boom furling, furling foresails, elec. winches, watermaker, gen set, custom hard dodger w/ full enclosure, 2 cabin & Contact Wes Koenig (360) 201-2459 heads. $319,000. Shown by appointment. Owner available for orientation. wes@sanjuansailing.com 48º NORTH
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2013 ARCHAMBAULT A27 Super sporty and sexy 27’ keel boat! Similar to a J/88 or Express 27. Fully outfitted for double-handed ocean racing but also excellent as a casual weekend boat. The cabin is very spacious. Steering: Inboard Nanni engine N2.14 (14HP) Carbon fiber tiller, spinnaker pole and bowsprit. Can be sailed with symmetrical or asymmetrical spinnakers. B&G electronics: H5000 CPU, Zeus2 Charplotter, autopilot. Sails: 2 mains, 2 sym & 3 asym kites, 7jibs, 1furling code zero. $49,000. For more info, contact amkleha@gmail.com
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BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
BOATS FOR SALE
PETERSON 35 Ready to cruise and race, Georgia Strait Gulf Islands. Low hours. Beta 25 diesel, Kiwi prop. 4-burner propane stove with oven, broiler, propane cabin heater, gas BBQ, inverter, 2-8D batteries, 1 large engine battery, freezer and cooler, tiller tender, chart plotter, Mylar #1 on roller furling, Mylar main, spinnakers , (2) like-new dacron #3, assorted other sails, 35# Bruce with chain and rode, Skipper age forces sale. Located Cowichan Bay. Asking $24,000 CDN. Email nb3992@gmail.com
33 ' WELDED ALUMINUM - $49,900 Built for whale watching, finished and launched in 2005 as a cruiser. 200 Yamaha gives trawler speed with economy. Change to larger engine or twins on pod for more speed. Sisterships travel at 30 knots with 14 people. Panoramic windows, queen berth, big galley, dinette for 3/4 in cabin plus possible 2 singles under pilothouse. Short sleeve traveling or happy hour in convertible pilothouse with twin pilot/copilot seats. $49,900 USD In Victoria. For more info or for pictures, please contact harlingpoint@gmail.com
FREEDOM 39 EXPRESS The Freedom 39 Express was designed for sailing ease. She's a fast, stable sailor and a great live-aboard. Read about Freedom construction quality in Ferenc Mate’s 'World’s Best Sailboats(Vol I)'. This one comes with lots of extras including radar, central heat, bimimi/dodger, microwave oven, rebuilt engine new transmission, etc. Priced competitively at $40,000. Contact Tom at (928) 554-1877 or email at tm@ketch-22.com. Or see all about Ketch 22 at www.ketch-22.com/4Sale.html
BOAT DONATIONS
2017 CUTWATER 30 COMMAND BRIDGE Northwest Luxury Edition. 425 HP Volvo. Impeccably maintained. 200 hours. Lower and upper helm. Loaded. Twin Garmin displays at main helm. Upgraded bow and stern thrusters. Upgraded packing replacement gland. Aft cockpit bimini w/sun shades new in 2018. Full array of canvas covers, windows, seats, etc. 2000 watt inverter. Built in ice maker & wine cooler. Inflatable dinghy, 4 HP Yamaha w/less than 5 hours. $260,000. No broker. Call Russ at (425) 418-9487.
DONATE YOUR BOAT TODAY! DE 38 KETCH 1977 Down Easter 38 ketch for sale asking $33,000. Boat is in Brownsville. Repowered, replaced all ports with NFM, replaced fwd hatch and added 3 more., Solar, wind generator, hard dodger, new windlass, forward sonar, garmin chart plotter with back up depth finder, radar, Alpha Marine 3000 auto pilot, composting head, all thru hulls removed, and replaced two below waterline, tv with dvd, diesel fireplace, newer sails. Email me for complete list and photos: travpdx@gmail.com
Contact Wes Koenig (360) 201-2459 wes@sanjuansailing.com 48º NORTH
for more info, or to donate, call (360) 714-8891 or email us at
31S RANGER TUG 2016 - $254,900
Like-new 31 Sedan, boathouse kept. Upgraded interior / cockpit cushions, new cockpit table and carpet runners. Equipped with NW Edition package. Features include 300HP Volvo D4 engine (~325 hrs), low speed trolling valve, bow/stern thrusters with remote, 2nd helm station in the cockpit, custom cockpit enclosure, Weaver davit with dinghy and 6HP OB. Diesel heat, Fusion system, charger/inverter, AGM batteries, solar panel, full Garmin navigation / pilot package, KVH SAT TV, cockpit ice maker, wine frig, underwater lights and recent bottom paint. Meticulously maintained and it shows. Possible charter owner opportunity, ask us how!
All donated vessels and equipment help raise funds that support CBC youth programs. Donated vessels and equipment are eligible for itemized charitable tax deductions.
info@boatingcenter.org
PARTNERSHIPS
1990 CATALINA 36 WT Cruise ready and meticulously maintained. Raymarine SL70C color chartplotter/GPS, ST60 Tri Data, Wind; Autopilot (ST4000); Windlass (Maxwell Freedom 800); Forced air heater (ESPAR D3L); Refrigeration with second control for custom enlarged freezer (Adler/ Barbour); Electric head (Raritan) with holding tank Watch 4; 440 AH house battery plus 100 AH starter with Link 10 monitor, 700 watt inverter. $55,000. Many more upgrades, call for details (360) 662-6293.
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1980 CATALINA 30, NEWER ENGINE 1980 Catalina 30 ft. sailboat with $4,000 Yamaha gas outboard engine in addition to Atomic 4 engine. Most popular cruising sailboat ever sold! 50/50 partnership $5,900, OBO. Possible monthly payments with large amount down. Currently moored in Langley but may be relocated to mutual agreeable location. I just don’t use it much! Call Bill at (425) 248-0231 or Rowlands@whidbey.com
SAILBOAT PARTNERSHIP Experienced sailors looking for additional 1/4 interest partner for upscale bluewater sailboat 37-45 feet. Expected budget $130k to $200k. Please contact via email at SkiPilot99@msn.com or via phone at (206) 853-8811.
FEBRUARY 2020
MOORAGE
Full service rig shop serving the Puget Sound
ROANOKE REEF MOORAGE, EASTLAKE New 14' slip floating moorage on Lake Union, Eastlake, Seattle. Slip is open to the south. Length: 42' with 2' overhang. Beam: 13'+. Locked gate, power & pump out. Downtown views. Sorry, not a liveaboard slip! $600/Month + Electricity. Call Herb: (206) 909-0903.
Cliff Hennen (206)NW 718‑5582 6327 Seaview‑ Ave Seattle, WA 98107 www.evergreenrigging.com ‑ (360) 207‑5016
Phone (206) 789-7350 Fax (206) 789-6392 email jen@48north.com
LOPEZ ISLAND - SPENCER'S LANDING For immediate sublet starting November 1, 2019 - 50' open slip at Spencer's Landing, Shoal Bay on Lopez Island. $450 per month + electricity. For more info, please contact Jason at (206) 963-1414.
50' SLIP ON SAN JUAN ISLAND 50' slip available immediately on San Juan Island (Friday Harbor). Hard to find location and slip. Great location, just 5 minute walk from ferry terminal in Friday Harbor. Long-term lease possibility. Photos available on request. First and Last month rent required. $550 per month. Contact Mark at scheerlaw10@gmail.com
EQUIPMENT SPINNAKER This spinnaker is off of a tartan 37’ this boat had two spinnakers 1/2 oz and 11/2 oz almost 90% of the time the 1/2 oz sail was used. this boat sailed in the Great Lakes so this sail has never seen salt water. The mast hight is 52’ . This sail is a radial head spinnaker the colors are black yellow and white it looks beautiful I am asking $450 but will take offers. For more info or questions, please call (408) 718-1502 or send an email to Anthonyrittenhouse@gmail.com
OLSON 25 & TRAILER WANTED For a change of pace and space, I am looking for an Olson 25 with trailer. Both must be in good condition, and ready to go. With options, please contact Barney at (360) 640-0046. WANTED - HARBOR 20 I'm looking for a Harbor 20 sailboat. If you know of any available in the Pacific Northwest, please contact me at acstults@hushmail.com
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The Best Racing in the Northwest • On the Lake or Sound • Active Cruising • Reciprocal Rights Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle 7755 Seaview Ave. NW, Seattle, WA 98117 Phone (206) 789-1919 for information www.cycseattle.org
SLOOP TAVERN YACHT CLUB 2442 NW Market St. #94, Seattle, WA 98107 “Established in Ballard since 1976” $90 Annual Dues - Reciprocal Moorages High quality sailing at the lowest cost For more info call Mike at (206) 265-9459
MARINAS Nancy Anderson - Seattle 206/669-0329 • sureritesigns@gmail.com www.sureritesigns.com
1.5 inch =$60/month Business Classified ad V E SS E L issue M OV ING 2016 March PROOF No ocean too big, no trip too small, no ship too large, no mast too tall, sail or power, we move them all!!! When you are ready, give us a call. Professional service since 1967.
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Gateway to the San Juans
6327 Seaview Ave NW Seattle, WA 98107
34’ - 50’ slips for lease/purchase Free Wifi, Pumpouts & Showers, Fuel, Store /Café
Phone (206) 789-7350 (360) 371-0440 • semiahmoomarina.com Fax (206) 789-6392 Email calla@48north.com
LIBERTY BAY MARINA 40’ - 48’ - 60’ open slips. Great location in Poulsbo, WA Restrooms, Showers. 360-779-7762 or 360-509-0178
ANACORTES MARINA
Annual moorage available now: 32’ to 80’ Open and 32’ to 60’ Covered slips. In town rental slips w/security gates, mini storage, full service boat yard, fuel dock & pump out on site. Anacortesmarina.com or (360) 293-4543
SAILRITE LSZ-1 SEWING MACHINE Ultrafeed LSZ-1 sewing machine for sale. $600. Only lightly used. Plus a box of accessories and materials (webbing, zippers, thread, dvd's, balance wheel). Will deliver near Seattle/Tacoma. For more info, contact Margaret at mpaterson1@live.com
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FEBRUARY 2020
Brokerage Sailboat Listings Boat Type
Yr Aux Price
Broker
Pg
Boat Type
Yr Aux Price
Broker
15' Montgomery w/Trlr
14 O
17,900
Passion
66
33' Ranger
75 D
13,500
Yachtfinders 68
Boat Type
Yr Aux Price
Broker
Pg
38' Beneteau OC 38.1
20 D
~
Passion
16' Doughdish 12.5
99
29,500
NW Yachtnet 7
33' Tartan 101
20 D
66
199,900 Seattle Yachts 65
38' Block Island
60 D
119,500 Yachtfinders 68
18' I550 w/Trailer
16 O
7,900
Passion
66
33' Wauquiez
19' W. Wight Potter w/Trlr
97 O
7,000
Passion
66
33' Beneteau 331
83 D
49,000 West Yachts 70
38' C&C Mark ii
77 D
19,900
West Yachts 70
02 D
74,900
Passion
66
38' Catalina
80 D
29,900
20' Laser SB3 w/Trlr
08
19,500
Mar Servic
9
Yachtfinders 68
33' Hunter 33
11 D
99,900
Mar Servic
9
38' CT 38
84 D
68,500
20' Marsh Wren
99 D
33,900
Passion
Seattle Yachts 65
66
33' Hunter 33.5
92 D
39,900
Passion
66
38' CT Sloop
86 D
74,500
22' Catalina 22 w/trailer
77 G
4,500
NW Yachtnet 7
Passion
66
33' Saturna Offshore
81 D
36,900
Passion
66
38' H. Christian MK II
80 D
72,000
22' J/70
20 G
~
Mar Servic
9
Sail NW
2
33' Yamaha
78 D
21,900
Passion
66
38' Hans Christian
85 D
94,900
Passion
22' Marshall 22
66
06 D
55,000 NW Yachtnet 7
34' C&C 34+
90 D
64,500
ElliottBYS
67
38' Hinckley
69 D
79,500
Seattle Yachts 65
22' Capri w/Trailer
07 G
12,500
Passion
66
34' Catalina 34
88 D
41,500
ElliottBYS
67
38' Ingrid
78 D
47,500
West Yachts 70
22' US Yacht w/trailer
78 O
6,800
Passion
66
34' Catalina 34
86 D
14,500
Mar Servic
9
38' Pearson
66 D
75,000
Yachtfinders 68
25' Herreschoff
05 D
55,000 Swiftsure
69
34' Catalina Sloop
88 D
39,500
NW Yachtnet 7
38' Sabre 386
05 D
194,000 Seattle Yachts 65
25' Catalina w/trailer
87 O
6,900
Passion
66
34' Gambling 34
74 D
24,900
Mar Servic
9
38' X-Yachts
94 D
39,000 Yachtfinders 68
25' Hunter 25 w/trailer
09 G
23,900
Passion
66
34' Gemeni 105Mc
05 D
109,000 ElliottBYS
67
38' Yankee
72 D
29,900
26' Custom Dive Boat
92 D
74,500
Seattle Yachts 65
34' Gemini
98 D
77,500
38' Catalina 387
04 D
134,900 Passion
66
26' Hake
12 D
64,000 Yachtfinders 68
34' Hallberg-Rassy 342
08 D
162,000 Swiftsure
69
38' Catalina S&S
83 D
24,900
Passion
66
26' Tartan Fantail
19 D
69,575
34' Hunter 34
84 D
29,000 Mar Servic
9
38' Hans Christian
78 D
85,000 Passion
66
26' Hunter 260 w/trailer
02 G
20,900 Passion
66
34' Irwin
85 D
23,500
38' Island Packet
01 D
197,500 Passion
66
26' MacGregor w/Trailer
89 G
4,900
66
34' Jeanneau 349
20 D
192,490 Mar Servic
39' Beneteau 393
04 D
129,000 Seattle Yachts 65
27' Hunter
06 D
45,000 Seattle Yachts 65
34' Schock
89 D
44,900
39' Cal 39
78 D
27,500
27' Catalina
84 D
7,900
Passion
34' Tartan 3400
07 D
139,000 Seattle Yachts 65
39' Fast Passage
79 D
85,000 Passion
66
28' Cape Dory
79 D
29,900
West Yachts 70
34' Tartan 345
19 D
269,900 Seattle Yachts 65
39' Beneteau 393
02 D
109,900 Passion
66
28' Herreshoff
95 D
39,500
Yachtfinders 68
34' Alsea Bay
85 D
51,900
Passion
66
39' Catalina 390
02 D
84,900
Passion
66
28' Catalina mkII
01 D
38,900
Passion
66
34' Hunter 340
02 D
63,900
Passion
66
39' Freedem Cat Ketch
83 D
65,000 Passion
66
29' Ericson 29
77 G
6,900
Passion
66
35' Baba Cutter
79 D
62,500
Waterline
66
39' Fast Passage
77 D
75,000
Waterline
66
29' Hunter
01 D
29,900
Yachtfinders 68
35' Beneteau
89 D
45,000 Yachtfinders 68
40' Beneteau OC 40
11 D
169,500 Signature
71
29' J Boat
85 D
23,900
Yachtfinders 68
35' Beneteau
95 D
58,500
40' Beneteau Oceanis
94 D
85,000 ElliottBYS
67
29' J/88
20 D
~
Sail NW
2
35' Beneteau 35.1
18 D
179,900 Signature
71
40' Catalina 400
99 D
125,000 Seattle Yachts 65
29' Carrera 290
93 G
12,900
Passion
66
35' Beneteau First
83 D
49,500
Signature
71
40' Colin Archer Ketch
94 D
55,000 Sail NW
30' Baba
84 D
47,500
Yachtfinders 68
35' Cheoy Lee Sloop
80 D
33,500
NW Yachtnet 7
40' Cust. Acapulco Cutter
78 D
89,500
30' Beneteau OC 30.1
20 D
166,252
Signature
35' Contest Sloop
81 D
49,500
NW Yachtnet 7
259,900 Seattle Yachts 65
79 D
12,500
NW Yachtnet 7
35' Cooper
82 D
44,000 Seattle Yachts 65
40' Elan Impression Sailtime
17 D
30' Cape Dory 30' Catalina MKII
88 D
17,000
NW Yachtnet 7
35' Elan E4
17 D
223,920 Seattle Yachts 65
40' H. Christian Christina
86 D
149,000 Rubicon
19
30' Catalina Sloop
79 D
17,500
NW Yachtnet 7
35' Island Packet 350
01 D
147,500 ElliottBYS
67
40' J/121
20 D
~
Sail NW
2
30' Catalina Tall Rig
80 D
17,999
NW Yachtnet 7
35' Trident Voyager PH
78 D
59,500
Mar Servic
9
40' J/122e
20 D
~
Sail NW
2
30' Farr
97 D
35,000 Sail NW
35' Waquiez Gladiateur
81 D
35,000 Mar Servic
9
40' J/40
89 D
79,000 Sail NW
2
30' Fisher
79 D
19,900
Yachtfinders 68
35' Wauquiez
82 D
34,950
NW Yachtnet 7
40' Jeanneau Sun Odyssey
99 D
125,000 Swiftsure
69
30' J/95
20 D
~
Sail NW
2
35' Young Sun
86 D
63,500
Yachtfinders 68
40' Marlow Hunter
13 D
219,000 ElliottBYS
67
30' Yamaha 30 MKII
84 D
22,000 Rubicon
19
35' Beneteau OC 35.1
20 D
~
Passion
66
40' Nauticat 40 PH
85 D
119,000 Waterline
66
30' Catalina Sloop
93 D
5,900
NW Yachtnet 7
35' Young Sun Cutter
79 D
24,900
Passion
66
40' Nordic
94 D
94,900
71
30' Hunter 306
02 D
39,900
Passion
66
36' B. Roberts Spray
01 D
55,500
Waterline
66
40' Passport 40
84 D
149,900 Mar Servic
31' Beneteau
10 D
79,500
Signature
71
36' Bavaria 36
02 D
93,000 Mar Servic
9
40' Perry 41 Sloop
85 D
69,000 Seattle Yachts 65
31' Beneteau Oceanis
19 D
169,000 Signature
71
36' Cal
66 G
14,900
40' Stevens
83 D
79,500
31' Cape George
81 D
29,000 West Yachts 70
36' Catalina
89 D
55,000 Seattle Yachts 65
40' Beneteau Oceanis
97 D
90,000 West Yachts 70
31' Hunter
84 D
19,500
36' Catalina Sloop
90 D
56,900
41' Beneteau OC 41.1
19 D
315,000 Signature
71
31' Beneteau Oceanis
19 D
169,900 Passion
66
36' Cheoy Lee
85 D
25,000 Yachtfinders 68
41' Burnham & Crouch
63
69,500
Mar Servic
9
31' Hallberg-Rassy
75 D
39,900
Passion
66
36' Hunter
04 D
92,500
NW Yachtnet 7
41' C&C
86 D
49,800
Yachtfinders 68
32' C&C
80 D
29,500
West Yachts 70
36' Hunter Legend 35.5
90 D
47,900
NW Yachtnet 7
41' Ericson Sloop
68 D
37,500
West Yachts 70
32' Downeast Sloop
78 D
18,900
NW Yachtnet 7
36' Islander
79 D
34,500
Yachtfinders 68
41' Finngulf
03 D
210,000 Seattle Yachts 65
32' Dragonfly
16 D
295,000 Seattle Yachts 65
36' Islander Sloop
78 D
29,900
NW Yachtnet 7
41' Hunter 41DS
07 D
149,950 Signature
71
32' J/97e
17 D
199,000 Sail NW
2
36' J/111
20 D
~
Sail NW
2
41' Island Packet SP
07 D
265,000 Mar Servic
9
32' J/97e
20 D
~
Sail NW
2
36' J/112e
20 D
~
Sail NW
2
41' Islander Freeport
81 D
69,900
NW Yachtnet 7
32' J/99
20 D
~
Sail NW
2
36' Morgan
73 D
24,900
Yachtfinders 68
41' Islander Freeport
76 D
63,500
Yachtfinders 68
32' Nor’Star
86 D
38,000 Sail NW
2
36' Perry Custom Boomer
07 D
99,500
Seattle Yachts 65
41' Jeanneau 410
20 D
319,948 Mar Servic
32' Fuji Ketch
78 D
39,900
West Yachts 70
36' S-2
79 D
47,500
West Yachts 70
41' Morgan Classic CC
87 D
81,500
NW Yachtnet 7
32' Hunter 326
03 D
49,900
Passion
66
36' Catalina
91 D
58,000 West Yachts 70
41' Morgan Giles Classic
87 D
86,500
NW Yachtnet 7
33' Alerion Express
10 D
209,000 Swiftsure
69
36' Islander
82 D
29,900
66
41' Morgan O/I
87 D
59,900
Passion
33' C&C 99
05 D
82,000 Mar Servic
9
37' Beneteau
15 D
169,900 Signature
71
41' Neptune Ketch
79 D
69,900
NW Yachtnet 7
33' Freedom Cat Ketch
82 D
39,900
Seattle Yachts 65
37' Hunter 37.5
92 D
69,900
66
41' Tartan 4100
06 D
249,000 Seattle Yachts 65
33' Hans Christian 33T
84 D
79,500
NW Yachtnet 7
37' Hunter 37.5 Legend
89 D
535,000 ElliottBYS
67
41' Beneteau OC 41.1
20 D
~
33' Hobie
83 G
35,000 Yachtfinders 68
37' Nautor Swan
80 D
84,750
West Yachts 70
42' Barnett
86 D
110,000 Yachtfinders 68
33' J/100
07 D
64,500
Swiftsure
37' Pac. Seacraft Crealock
82 D
57,000
Seattle Yachts 65
42' Catalina Sloop
93 D
83,500
NW Yachtnet 7
33' Jouet 940 MS
85 D
39,900
West Yachts 70
37' Rustler
15 D
365,000 Sail NW
2
42' Catalina Sloop
92 D
99,700
NW Yachtnet 7
33' Legendary 33 Ketch
00 D
180,000 Waterline
37' Swan 371
85 D
69,500
9
42' Sabre 426
09 D
298,000 Swiftsure
69
33' Luguna GT
86 D
24,900
NW Yachtnet 7
37' Tartan 3700
02 D
165,000 San Juan
64
42' SK 42 Pilothouse
06 D
124,500 Mar Servic
9
33' Mason OS Cutter
86 D
79,500
Waterline
37' Tayana Cutter
84 D
53,950
71
42' Tayana Vancouver CC
82 D
130,000 Seattle Yachts 65
33' Nantucket
84 D
178,000 Seattle Yachts 65
37' Pacific Seacraft
99 D
145,000 Passion
66
43' Gulfstar
77 D
44,900
33' Nauticat PH
85 D
79,900
37' Tayana
78 D
65,000 Passion
66
43' H. Christian Christina
89 D
139,001 Rubicon
48º NORTH
Seattle Yachts 65 Passion
66
71
2
West Yachts 70
Mar Servic
69 66 66 9
63
Pg
Seattle Yachts 65
Yachtfinders 68 9
Yachtfinders 68
Yachtfinders 68
Yachtfinders 68 NW Yachtnet 7
Passion Passion
Mar Servic Signature
NW Yachtnet 7
Waterline
66
2
Seattle Yachts 65
Signature
9
Seattle Yachts 65
Passion
9
66
66
Yachtfinders 68 19
FEBRUARY 2020
• Sailing School • Guided Flotillas • Charters • Sales
San Juan Sailing
Bellingham, WA (360) 671-4300 • sanjuansailing.com brokerage@sanjuansailing.com
Start here, start now … CAPTAIN’S LICENSE TRAINING 32' Nordic Tug - 2010
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38' oceAN AlexANder - 1986 Twin diesels, bow thruster, diesel heat, nice electronics, autopilot. $128,500
48' TAyANA ds - 2002 Cruise loaded, full enclosure, hard dodger, boom-furling sails. Priced below survey value! $319,000
45' cusTom AlumiNum PH - 2006 Cruise loaded, watermaker, Isuzu 100 HP diesel. Many upgrades, two cabin model. $239,000
37' TArTAN 3700 - 2002 LeisureFurl boom furling, spinnaker, diesel heat, dinghy with OB, nice electronics. $165,000
31s rANger Tug - 2016 Low hours, full enclosure, meticulously maintained. Charter owner opportunity! $244,500
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Brokerage Sailboat Listings Boat Type
Yr Aux Price
Broker
Pg
Boat Type
Yr Aux Price
Broker
Pg
Boat Type
Yr Aux Price
43' Luengen 43 OS
87 D
69,500
Waterline
66
46' Formosa Cutter
81 D
77,000
Rubicon
19
50' Lavranos
90 D
169,900 Swiftsure
69
43' Saga 43
98 D
169,000 Signature
71
46' Hunter 460
01 D
149,500 Mar Servic
9
51' Able Apogee
00 D
449,000 Swiftsure
69
43' Wauquiez Amphitrite
84 D
132,500 Mar Servic
9
46' Hunter 466
02 D
145,500 NW Yachtnet 7
51' Alden Skye Ketch
80 D
129,500 Mar Servic
9
43' Polaris Cutter
78 D
69,900
66
46' Outbound
07 D
425,000 Swiftsure
69
51' Beneteau
93 D
89,900
44' Amazon
98 D
289,000 Swiftsure
69
46' Outbound
09 D
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Swiftsure
69
51' Beneteau OC 51.1
19 D
639,900 Signature
71
44' Bruce Roberts OS
93 D
38,500
Mar Servic
9
46' Outbound
06 D
399,000 Swiftsure
69
51' Carius Steel Ketch
84 D
45,000 Rubicon
19
44' Bruce Roberts OS
80 D
45,000 Mar Servic
9
46' Beneteau OC 46.1
20 D
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Passion
66
51' Formosa Ketch
78 D
147,000 Seattle Yachts 65
44' Cheoy Lee
80 D
129,900 West Yachts 70
46' Spindrift CC
84 D
138,000 Passion
66
53' J Boat
97 D
474,900 Yachtfinders 68
44' Island Packet
05 D
318,000 Signature
71
47.7' Beneteau
05 D
179,000 ElliottBYS
67
53' J/160
03 D
449,000 Sail NW
2
44' Jeanneau 440
19 D
419,812
9
47' Bowman 47
97 D
215,000 Mar Servic
9
53' Jeanneau Yacht 53
15 D
389,900 Mar Servic
9
44' Jeanneau 44DS
16 D
279,900 Signature
71
47' Chris White Atlantic
13 D
695,000 Swiftsure
69
53' Simonis
01 D
495,000 Swiftsure
69
44' Jeanneau SO 44
90 D
129,000 Passion
66
47' Vagabond Ketch
83 D
184,000 Mar Servic
9
53' Tartan 5300
19 D
1,048,630 Seattle Yachts 65
44' Nauticat
83 D
154,000 Swiftsure
69
48' C&C Custom
73 D
217,000 Swiftsure
69
55' Outremer 55 Light
02 D
399,000 Swiftsure
44' Nauticat 44
80 D
185,000 Mar Servic
9
48' Chris White Atlantic
10 D
565,000 Swiftsure
69
55' Tayana CC
92 D
249,000 Seattle Yachts 65
44' Norseman
88 D
195,000 Yachtfinders 68
48' J-145
01 D
295,000 Signature
71
55' Tayana CC
85 D
179,500 Seattle Yachts 65
44' Spencer 44
73 D
40,000 Mar Servic
9
48' Tayana
11 D
399,000 Seattle Yachts 65
55' Tayana Cutter
86 D
245,000 Seattle Yachts 65
44' Tanton
83 D
129,000 Swiftsure
69
48' Tayana
05 D
359,000 Seattle Yachts 65
56' Herreshof Marco Polo
56 D
215,000 Waterline
44' Worldcruiser
79 D
275,000 ElliottBYS
67
48' Tayana DS
02 D
319,000 San Juan
64
56' Morgan
81 D
177,000 Seattle Yachts 65
44' Nuaticat Pilothouse
84 D
172,000 Passion
66
48' Waterline
97 D
355,000 Swiftsure
69
58' Tayana CC
02 D
349,000 NW Yachtnet 7
45' Bestevaer 45st
11 D
499,000 Sail NW
2
49' Jeanneau 490
20 D
524,869 Mar Servic
9
58' Tayana DS
06 D
575,000 Seattle Yachts 65
45' Brewer
78 D
59,000 Yachtfinders 68
49' Jeanneau SO 49
05 D
274,500 Mar Servic
9
59' Schooner Pinky
90 D
79,900
45' Bruce Roberts OS
83 D
62,000 Waterline
66
49' Jeanneau SO 49
05 D
285,000 Waterline
66
60' Mariner
78 D
465,000 Yachtfinders 68
45' Cust. Aluminum PH
06 D
239,000 San Juan
64
49' Jeanneau SO 49P
07 D
349,500 Mar Servic
9
61' C&C
72 D
153,900 Mar Servic
9
45' Garcia Exploration
15 D
595,000 Swiftsure
69
49' Trans Pac 49
86 D
159,000 Mar Servic
9
64' Frers
78 D
377,000 Swiftsure
69
45' Jeanneau SO 45
06 D
199,500 Mar Servic
9
49' Transpacific
80 D
99,000 ElliottBYS
67
65' Bruce Roberts NY
97 2D
295,000 Waterline
66
45' Morgan
94 D
119,000 Yachtfinders 68
49' TransPacific Marine
80 D
89,000 Sail NW
2
65' Irwin
84 D
249,000 Seattle Yachts 65
45' Sweden Yachts
05 D
420,000 Seattle Yachts 65
50' Baltic
99 D
475,000 Swiftsure
69
65' Sparkman & Stevens
68 D
350,000 ElliottBYS
67
46' Beneteau 461
99 D
139,900 Signature
71
50' Beneteau 50
99 D
168,500 Signature
71
67' Waterline
97 D
395,000 Swiftsure
69
46' Beneteau OC 46.1
19 D
489,859 Signature
71
50' Gulfstar
78 D
75,000
75' Custom Schooner
87 D
199,000 NW Yachtnet 7
46' Cardinal
82 D
149,500 Yachtfinders 68
50' Jeanneau 50DS
11 D
299,999 Mar Servic
83' Cust. Stysl. Schooner
34 D
175,000 Waterline
48º NORTH
Passion
Mar Servic
64
NW Yachtnet 7 9
Broker
Pg
Yachtfinders 68
69
66
NW Yachtnet 7
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Brokerage Trawler Listings Boat Type
Yr
Broker
Pg
Boat Type
Yr
Broker
Pg
Boat Type
22' Sea Sport Sportsman
00 G
38,500
West Yacht
70
34' Red Wing
08 D
89,000
Swiftsure
69
45' Devlin Sockeye Fantail 03 D
649,000 Waterline
66
24' MAXUM 2400 SCR
95
G
19,900
West Yacht
70
35' Four Winns Vista
18
D
299,807
Mar Servic
9
46' Nielson Trawler
81
D
189,000 West Yacht
70
25' Four Winns Vista
19
G
139,564
Mar Servic
9
35' MJM 35z New
19
G
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Sail NW
2
48' Bayliner
01
D
249,999
68
25' Grady White Journey
08 G
67,900
Mar Servic
9
36' Albin 36 Tri-cabin
79
2D 34,000
Waterline
66
49' DeFever Raised PH
90 2D 349,000 Waterline
25' Lyman
64
D
20,000
Swiftsure
69
36' Carver 365
00 G
89,000
Signature
71
49' Grand Banks
85
D
249,500 NW Yachtnet 7
25' Ranger Tug
12
D
89,000
Swiftsure
69
36' Covey Island
97
D
189,000 Swiftsure
69
50' Devlin Sedan
12
D
884,500 NW Yachtnet 7
26' Cascade Lobster Boat
02 D
129,000 West Yacht
70
36' Grand Banks Classic
84
D
132,000 Rubicon
19
50' Grand Banks
70
D
129,900
NW Yachtnet 7
26' NORDIC TUG
82
D
71,900
West Yacht
70
36' Ralph Stanley
67
D
45,000
Swiftsure
69
50' Kristen PH Trawler
03 D
550,00
West Yacht
70
26' Nordic Tug
81
D
64,900
West Yacht
70
37' Hershine 37 Trawler
79
2D 39,500
Waterline
66
50' MJM 50z New
19
D
~
Sail NW
2
27' Ranger Tugs
15
D
140,000 Elliott Bay YS 67
37' L. Nelson Victory Tug
83
D
145,000 West Yacht
70
53' Aluminum LRC
74
2D 144,900
Waterline
66
28' Bayliner Ciera
02 G
29,500
Mar Servic
9
37' L. Nelson Victory Tug
88
D
154,000 West Yacht
70
53' MJM 53z New
19
D
Sail NW
2
29' Four Winns Horiz.
19
225,572
Mar Servic
9
37' Nordic Tug
99
D
235,000 Elliott Bay YS 67
53' Nordlund 53
79
2D 125,000 Waterline
29' Ranger Tug
09 D
129,000 NW Yachtnet 7
38' Bayliner 3818
89
D
35,000
54' Seaforth Custom
03 D
995,000 NW Yachtnet 7
30' Osrey
02 D
119,000
West Yacht
70
38' Eastbay Hardtop
01
2D 235,000 Elliott Bay YS 67
55' Seaton-Neville LR
81
379,000 Waterline
66
31' Camano 31 Gnome
95
1D 85,000
Waterline
66
38' Gr. Banks EastbayHX
00 D
209,000 Swiftsure
69
58' Bayliner
05 D
795,000 Yachtfinders
68
31' Camano 31 Troll
93
D
84,500
Waterline
66
38' Helmsman 38
16
D
439,000 Waterline
66
60' DeFever/Angel 60
84
D
349,500 Waterline
66
31' Camano 31 Troll
92
D
68,500
Waterline
66
38' Helmsman 38
12
D
379,000 Waterline
66
60' Ocean Alexander PH
85
2D 430,000 Elliott Bay YS 67
31' Camano Trawler
06 D
19
38' Helmsman 38E
17
D
419,000 Waterline
66
61' Ocean Alexander PH
98
D
649,000 NW Yachtnet 7
31' Helmsman Sedan
15
1D 229,000 Waterline
66
38' Marine Trader
84
D
49,500
Yachtfinders
68
65' Circa Marine FPB64
14
D
2,225,000 Sail NW
2
31' Ranger Tug
16
D
244,500 San Juan
64
38' Nordlund Sedan
66
D
39,500
Waterline
66
65' Malahide 65 PH
72
D
765,000 Waterline
66
31' Ranger Tugs R-31CB
15
D
229,500 Waterline
66
38' Ocean Alexander
86
D
128,500
San Juan
64
66' Seaton PH Trawler
97
D
800,000 Rubicon
19
32' Grand Banks
72
D
27,500
Elliott Bay YS 67
38' Hatteras
72
D
79,900
West Yacht
70
70' Monte Fino MY
96
D
749,000 NW Yachtnet 7
32' MDI Downeast
97
D
99,000
Elliott Bay YS 67
39' Mainship
00 D
145,000 West Yacht
70
72' McQueen CPMY
77
D
525,000 West Yacht
70
32' Nordic Tug
94
D
139,980
Mar Servic
40' MJM 40z New
19
D
~
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2
76' Conv. Wallace 76 Tug
1906 D
130,000 Waterline
66
32' Nordic Tug
08 D
219,000 NW Yachtnet 7
40' Sliverton
83
G
35,900
Yachtfinders
68
85' Cust. Research Yacht
62
D
360,000 Rubicon
19
32' Nordic Tug
10
D
245,000 San Juan
64
42' Grand Banks Cl.
77
D
89,900
Mar Servic
9
100' Steel Bushey Navy Tug 44
D
300,000 Waterline
66
32' Nordic Tug
91
D
130,00
West Yacht
70
43' Gran Mariner
70
G
38,500
Yachtfinders
68
150' Custom Ferry
D
1,495,000 NW Yachtnet 7
34' PDQ Catamaran
03 D
219,000 West Yacht
70
43' MJM 43z New
19
G
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2
34' Pursuit
00 D
119,000
70
43' Sabreline Aft Cabin
95
2D 259,000 Waterline
48º NORTH
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139,000 Rubicon
West Yacht
9
Aux Price
66
Rubicon
19
Yr
36
Aux Price
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65’ S&S “Amorosa”
49’ Transpacific “Flying Cloud”
Sai l l i S t i n g S 65’ S&S ’68 ............................. $350,000 49’ Transpacific ’80 ................... $99,000 47’ Beneteau 47.7 ‘05 ............ $179,000 44’ Worldcruiser ‘79 ...............$275,000
47’ Beneteau “First Light”
42’ Perry South Pacific “Good as Gold”
42’ Perry South Pacific ’87 ...New Listing 40’ Beneteau Oceanis ’94 ....... $79,500 40’ Marlow-Hunter ’13 ........... $219,000 37’ Hunter 37.5 Legend ’89 ..... $49,500
40’ Hunter Marlow “Too Cool Runnings”
40’ Beneteau “Oatie Jo”
35’ Island Packet 350 ’01 .......$147,500 34’ C&C 34+ ‘90 ......................$64,500 34’ Catalina ’88..........................$41,500 34’ Gemini 105Mc ‘05 ........... $109,000
37’ Hunter Legend
35’ Island Packet “Legacy”
Elliott Bay Marina 2601 West Marina Place, Suite D Seattle, Washington 98199
34’ Gemini “Attitude” 48º NORTH
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38’ CUSTOM BLOCK ISLAND ’60...$119,500 36’ MORGAN OUT ISLAND ’73...$24,900 36’ CHEOY LEE PEDRICK 36 ’85...$25,000
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35’ BENETEAU 351 ’95...........$58,500
34’ SCHOCK 34 PC ’89.........$44,900
34’ IRWIN CITATION 34 ’85......$23,500
30’ FISHER 30MS ’79.............$19,900
ADDITIONAL BOATS IN OUR INVENTORY 46’ 45’ 44’ 43’ 42’
CARDINAL 46 ’82 $149,500 MORGAN 45CC ’94 $119,000 NORSEMAN 447CC ’88 $195,000 GULFSTAR G43 ’77 $44,900 BARNETT CUSTOM ’86 $99,000
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PEARSON INVICTA II ’66 CATALINA 38 ’80 X-YACHTS IMX ’94 ISLANDER 36 ’79 CAL 36 ’66
$75,000 $29,900 $35,000 $34,500 $14,900
35’ 35’ 33’ 33’ 30’
YOUNG SUN ’86 BENETEAU 35S5 ’89 HOBIE 33 ’83 RANGER 33 ’75 BABA 30 ’84
$63,500 $45,000 $35,000 $13,500 $47,500
29’ JBOATS J-29 ’85 28’ HERRESHOFF’95 26’ HAKE SEAWARD 26 ’12
$23,900 $39,500 $64,000
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Scan Marine / Wallas............................. 49
Ballard Yacht Rigging............................ 33
Mahina Offshore Expeditions............ 45
Seattle Sailing Club..................................3
Beta Marine Engines................................8
Marine Servicenter........................ 9 & 72
Seattle Yachts International................ 65
Blaine Harbor.......................................... 21
Marine Thrift........................................... 33
Second Wave @ the Boatyard............ 49
Boat U.S................................................... 17
Milltech Marine..................................... 33
Seventh Wave Marine........................... 27
CSR Marine.............................................. 41
North Cascades Bank........................... 33
Signature Yachts..................................... 71
Dockside Mail........................................ 21
Northwest Rigging................................. 41
Southern Straits Race............................ 51
Downwind Marine................................. 16
NW Yachtnet...............................................7
Swiftsure Yachts..................................... 69
Doyle Sails Seattle................................. 21
Passion Yachts........................................ 66
Ullman Sails............................................ 19
Drivelines Northwest............................ 25
Port of Friday Harbor........................... 19
UnCruise.................................................. 11
Elliott Bay Yacht Sales.......................... 67
Port of Port Townsend.......................... 10
United Yacht Sales................................. 27
First Federal........................................... 15
Port Townsend Rigging......................... 27
Waterline Boats...................................... 66
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R2AK/Seventy48 Volunteers............... 45
West Yachts............................................. 70
Flagship Maritime.................................. 64
Rubicon Yachts....................................... 19
Yachtfinders/Windseakers................... 68
Gallery Marine........................................ 25
Sailrite...................................................... 13
Yager Sails & Canvas............................. 16
Ground Tackle Marine........................... 33
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44' Cheoy Lee 1980
42' Catalina Mark I 1992
41' Ericson 1968
40' Beneteau Oceanis 1997
38' Ingrid Ketch 1978
37' Nautor Swan 1980
36' Catalina 1991
36' S-2 1979
33' Wauquiez Gladiator 1983
33' Jouet 940 Pilothouse 1985
32' C & C 1980
32' Fuji Ketch 1978
31' Cape George Cutter 1981
28' Cape Dory 1979
46' Nielson Trawler 1981
39' Mainship 2000
37’ Lord Nelson Victory Tug 1983
37' Lord Nelson Victory Tug 1988
32' Nordic Tug 1991
30' Osprey Log Cabin 2002
26' Cascade Nor’easter Lobster 2002
26' Nordic Tug 1981
26' Nordic Tug 1982
22' Sea Sport Sportsman 2000
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37' Beneteau ‘15 ...................$169,900 35' Beneteau 35.1 ‘18 ...........$179,900 35' Beneteau First ‘83 .............$49,500 31' Beneteau ‘10 .....................$79,500 35' Carver 365 ‘00 ....................$89,000
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