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CREW LIST 2006

I AM / WE ARE LOOKING FOR CRUISING CREW

NAME(S):__________________________________________ AGE(S):_________ SEX:______ PHONE:(____)___________ CONTACT IF DIFFERENT THAN PHONE: _______________

WHERE AND WHEN:

MY/OUR BOAT IS A:__________________________________ I/WE PLAN TO SAIL TO:______________________________

ON OR ABOUT (DATE):______________________________

MY / OUR IDEAL CREW WILL:

(Check as many as apply) 1)____ Be willing to share basic expenses such as food and fuel 2)____ Be willing to bust butt preparing the boat 3)____ Have more desire than experience 4)____ Have lots of ocean experience 5)____ Know more about offshore navigation than just pushing buttons on the GPS 6)____ Have mechanical skills for the engine, refrigeration, etc. 7)____ Have language skills: a) Spanish, b) Other:___________ 8)____ Other skills (woodworking, scuba, etc.)______________ 9)____ Be unattached and unopposed to the possibility of a friendship blossoming 10)____ Look good in a bikini/speedo/birthday suit 11)____ Understand and appreciate Jim Carrey’s humor Mail completed form and $7 to: Latitude 38, Attn:

Cruising Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15, 2006.

Don’t artificially inflate your experience or skill level. It’s bad karma, for one, and — on a racing boat especially — it will come back to bite you. We don’t mind sailing with BS’ers, as long as they’re honest ones. • Along the same vein, little or no experience is not always a disadvantage. If you’re looking for a boat on which to crew, you newbies out there have as good a chance — okay, almost as good — as more experienced hands. If the truth be told, you might even have an advantage over more experienced folks in some cases. Why? Experienced people are more likely to take issue with an owner about the set of the sails, best way to anchor and so on. Novice hands, however, are happy to do things just the way the skipper teaches them. Hey, it is his (or her) boat. • Be realistic about the commitment. Sailing takes time. Even a simple daysail can end well after dark by the time the boat gets put away — the ‘time flies when you’re having fun’ principle in action. Cruising and chartering are obviously 24-hour-a-day pursuits, but perhaps the most time-intensive type of sailing out there is racing. Tons of behind-the-scenes work goes on in any successful racing campaign, and only a portion of it takes place out on the race course. Racing campaigns require after-hours work at the dock, on the trailer or in the yard. And sometimes on-the-water practice days. As part of the crew, you’ll likely

I / WE WANT TO CREW ON A CRUISING BOAT

NAME(S):__________________________________________ AGE(S)________SEX:______ PHONE: (_____)____________ CONTACT IF DIFFERENT THAN PHONE:________________

__________________________________________________ SAILING EXPERIENCE:

1)____ None, but I’ll do anything within reason for the chance. I understand that from time to time I’ll probably get cold, seasick, mad at the owner and wish like hell I was anywhere but on the boat. I’m still game 2)____ Some. At least a) 5, b) 10, c) 20 sails on the Bay or equivalent while being active and suffering the normal cuts, bruises and hollering 3)____ Moderate. Several years active crewing on the Bay or equivalent, or at least one long coastal or trans-ocean trip 4)____ Lots. Several long ocean passages

I / WE WANT TO CRUISE:

(check as many as apply) 1)____ SF Bay and/or Delta 8)____ Caribbean 2)____ Monterey Bay 9)____ Mediterranean 3)____ Southern California 10)____ Anywhere warm 4)____ Mexico this fall/winter 11) Other destination(s): 5)____ Hawaii and/or South Pacifi c 6)____ Pacifi c Northwest or Alaska 7)____ Antarctica

I / WE CAN OFFER:

(check as many as apply) 1)____ At least a month of shared expenses 2)____ Mechanical skills: engine, electronics, refrigeration, etc. 3)____ Elbow grease for bottom work, varnishing and upkeep 4)____ Cooking and cleaning skills 5)____ Language skills — I’m reasonably conversant in a) Spanish; b) Other(s):_________________________ 6)____ Ornamental skills — I look good in a bikini/speedo 7)____ Personality skills — I don’t get pissed when awakened at 3 in the morning and can maintain a sense of humor in most situations 8)____ Other skill(s):__________________________________ Mail completed form and $7 to: Latitude 38, Attn:

Cruising Crew List, 15 Locust Ave.,Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15, 2006.

— THE BIG ONE

I / WE WANT TO CO-CHARTER

NAME(S):__________________________________________ AGE(S):__________ SEX:_____ PHONE (_____) __________ CONTACT IF DIFFERENT THAN PHONE:_________________

WHERE AND WHEN:

I/we want to co-charter for ______________ weeks in the

(spring, summer, fall, winter)_____________________ of 2006.

SAILING EXPERIENCE:

(Check one from each column)1)_____ Little or none a)_____ I’d like co-charterer to skipper and give me 2)_____ Moderate. I sail direction regularly and have b)_____ Prefer co-charterer of chartered before at least equal profi ciency 3)_____ Lots. I’ve sailed c)_____ Would be willing to co- and/or chartered many charter with less types of boats and am experienced party a competent skipper

I/WE PREFER TO CO-CHARTER:

(check as many as apply)1)_____ Bareboats (we sail) 2)_____ Crewed (professional skipper and/or crew)3)_____ With other couples 4)_____ With other singles 5)_____ With my/our well-behaved kids, age(s) __________________________ 6)_____ A smaller (30 to 40 ft) boat with one or two other people7)_____ A medium (40 to 50 ft) boat with four to six other people8)_____ A large (60 ft or more) boat, the more co-charterers the merrier

I/WE WANT TO CHARTER IN:

1)_____ San Francisco Bay 6)_____ Pacifi c Northwest2)_____ Monterey/Santa Cruz 7)_____ Caribbean3)_____ Southern California 8)_____ Mediterranean4)_____ Mexico 9) Other: ______________5)_____ Hawaii

Mail completed form and $7 to Latitude 38, Attn: Co-Charter Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15, 2006.

be expected to put in your share of layday work. This is not to mention the racing itself, which goes on for some fleets several weekends per month from April through September. Whatever the schedule of your boat’s fleet, you as crew will be expected to show up on time and in working order for each race unless you call ahead well in advance to let your mates know about changes in plans. In a related tenet, even if you discover halfway through the season that racing’s not really your cup of tea, tough it out with a good attitude until the end. The sailing community is a small one, and once you establish yourself as a dependable player, other opportunities will develop. • Be realistic about deadlines. We must receive forms from racers no later than February 15. Everyone else has until March 15. These dates are not arbitrary. If we don’t have the forms in our carpal-tunneled little hands by then, your name won’t go in. Your name will also not go in if the $7 advertising fee isn’t included with the form. In case you forget, all the pertinent information is at the bottom of each Crew List form. • Women Crew Listettes. Women taking part in the Crew List are encouraged to use first names only — and some filter to screen responses such as email or voicemail or ‘text messaging’, whatever that is. Why? Because if you are a woman, you will get lots of calls from men, some of whom are interested in more than just sailing. (Yeah, we know, we’re hopeless.) • One person per form please — unless you are offering your skills or services as a couple only and don’t wish to be considered individually. Hey, we’ve been in love; we know how great it can be to share an adventure like cruising to a faraway land together. If you need more forms for friends or whatever, just make copies of these. Well, that’s about it. We plan to rerun the forms next month, but we strongly encourage you to use these and get them in early. Why? Because Mark Twain also observed, “I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it ceased to be one.”

I / WE WANT TO BOAT-SWAP

NAME(S):___________________________________________ AGE(S):_________ SEX:_____ PHONE: (_____)____________ CONTACT IF DIFFERENT FROM PHONE:_________________

___________________________________________________ WHERE AND WHEN:

My/our boat is a _____________________________________.

I/we would like to swap boats with the owner of a similar vessel

in the (Pacifi c Northwest, Caribbean, SoCal, Mediterranean, etc.)

_______________________________________ area.

I/we would like to cruise this area for about __________ weeks

in the month of ______________________, 2006.

Mail completed form and $7 to: Latitude 38, Attn: Boat-Swapping Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15, 2006.

SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART III SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART III

"Tying up loose ends" is a phrase that often came to mind as we were putting together this final installment of our three-part Season Champions series. So many classes have proclaimed their independence from umbrella organizations like YRA (Yacht Racing Association) and SBRA (Small Boat Racing Association) that it's hard to keep track anymore of who's who and what's what. An exclamation mark on that theme is that SBRA disbanded in 2001 and its members are so scattered, we couldn't even find results for half of them. But of course YRA is still chugging along, and its Wooden Boat Racing Association continues to buck the odds and attract some of the best sailors and competition Bay racing has to offer — in some of the oldest boats. (The Birds, for example, have been around for 80 years, yet still get the required minimum of five boats on the line to qualify as a one design.) The Knarrs, with 15 boats qualified this year, were once again the largest WBRA fleet, and their championship may have been the hardest-fought of any group. We kick off this edition of the 'champions' trilogy with a recap of that cliffhanger. Joining those winners are a potpourri of season champions from other fleets — dinghies, three-man keelboats (Wylie Wabbits), Singlehanded and Doublehanded class winners and, for the first time, the winner of the Bay Area Multihull Association season. BAMA has long had a strong presence in the Bay Area (they sponsor the Doublehanded Farallones) and their numbers are growing.

Knarrs 'Peerless', 'Eos' and 'Svenkist' fl y up the Cityfront in tight formation.

BOB LAW

We didn't have room to run interviews with all the winners so first congratulations go to the following skippers and runners-up:

WBRA

Bird — 1) Oriole, Dan McLean; 2) Curlew, James Josephs; 3) Widgeon, Donald Cameron. (5 qualifi ed) IOD — 1) Bolero, Richard Pearce; 2) La Paloma, James Hennefer; 3) Youngster, Ron Young. (5 qualifi ed)

Folkboat — 1) Polperro, Peter Jeal, BVBC; Dream, Kirk Smith; 3) Polaris, Chris Noe. (7 qualifi ed)

DINGHIES

Byte —1) Dan Ouellet; 2) Gail Yando; 3) Jeff Nelson. (15 boats)

Coronado 15 — 1) Ken Crawford; 2) Ryan Nelson; 3) Fred Turner. (8 boats)

Millimeter — 1) Ball IV, Bruce Munro; 2) Metric Ruler, Pax Davis; 3) 12, Dave Mosher. (10 boats) Snipe — 1) David/Susan Odell; 2) Vince Casalaina/Sherrie Eldridge; 3) Packy/Julie Davis. (15 boats)

Now, without further ado, our 2005 one design season champions. Congratulations all!

GRAND FINALE

WBRA — Knarr Lykken

Williams/Fisher SFYC

"It all began in a Starbucks in Berkeley," says Hans Williams, who last year partnered with Lykken owner Rick Fisher in a three-year campaign to win the Knarr Worlds when it returns to the Bay in 2007. But their history with the fleet goes back decades to when they crewed on their fathers' Knarrs (Bob Fisher on Lykken, Hibbard Williams on Kestrel II) in the 1980s.

Lykken's 2005 win may have been the hardest-earned of any fleet. Going into the final race, the boat carried a three-point lead over '04 season champs Chris and Jon Perkins on Three Boys and a Girl. The first unimaginable thing that happened was that Lykken was over early at the start, while the Perkins brothers sailed away clean. Lykken restarted, then set about regaining what they could. Incredibly, they worked back into third by the finish behind 'Boys and Sean Svendsen's Svenkist. The second unimaginable thing was that Svendsen learned that he, too, had been OCS. That elevated Lykken to second in the race and first — by a scant two points — in the season.

Lykken's crew consisted of Allie Rowe on the foredeck and an ever-changing 'galaxy of stars' tending jib, including Jeff Thorpe, Barry Stompe, Joel Fong, Tom Strutman and Mark Eastham. Williams makes his living as handler of a bombsniffing dog for the UC Berkeley Police Department.

2) Three Boys and a Girl, Chris/Jon Perkins; 3) Sophia, Tom Reed. (15 qualifi ed)