SIGHTINGS shorts — cont’d and wishbone rig with a sleek, narrow hull, Wylie created a very fast boat that can be sailed by a very small crew. (Try singlehanding a Farr 40 sometime.) With no headsail to mess with, about the only string there is to pull on is the mainsheet. Since there’s no traveler and the bendy rig itself is ‘self adjusting’ to small variations in windspeed, you don’t even have to fiddle with that much if you don’t want to. Want to ‘see what she’ll do’ with a crew? Put up the optional fractional asymmetrical kite and hold onto your hat. Congratulations to Tom Wylie and Randy Reynolds for their welldeserved accolades. For more on the WylieCat 44, log onto www. wyliecat.com (and keep an eye out for Charles Ray’s C2 sailing the Bay). For more on the Reynolds 33, log onto www.r33.com. SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is on the brink of losing yet continued on outside column of next sightings page
state giving The State Boating and Waterways Commission last month approved $6 million in grants and loans for boating infrasructure improvements in 2006. Among the recipients: San Francisco Marina — The Commission okayed a two-phase loan of $3.7 million to the City for a $16.5 million project to improve the West basin. The loan covers demolition of existing structures, construction of new ones and upgrades to docks, gates, breakwater and buildings. Redwood City — A grant of $1,080,400 to the Port of Redwood City to improve
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