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EF LANGUAGE & CREW WHITBREAD UPDATE! EF LANGUAGE Takes Leg One in Style Paul Cayard skippered EF Language to victory on Leg One of the Whitbread Round the World Race for the Volvo Trophy, displaying the same coolness of style that has typified his reports to Race HQ during his 30 days at sea. EF Language crossed the finish line at Cape Town at 5:54:26 GMT on Tuesday, October 21 - 30 days, 16 hours, 54 minutes and 26 seconds since the start at Southampton on September 21. As the winner of Leg One, EF Language picks up 125 points - 120 for the leg and five extra points for coming in first. \

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J/105 New Owner Profile

Father and son, both John Sullivan, aboard their new blue J/105. Owners: John & Kathleen Sullivan, John Sullivan Background: The Sullivan family have all been sailing together for many years. The senior Sullivan has been sailing since college and has owned a series of boats since then. In the early days they raced on their J/24 and then moved towards a cruisier lifestyle aboard a Catalina 34 and then a Catalina 42. The younger John Sullivan sailed with the family and with the Richmond Yacht Club Junior Program, starting in El Toros.

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ies of water each day seem oblivious to the possibilities. A trip up the Petaluma River is but one good example of this. MANCHOR ETIQUETTE AND HOLDING TANKS During the past four seasons spent in western Mexico — one on Hinayana and three on Integrity — my spleen has been building. It's tim'd to vent it — although this remark only ap¬ plies literally to my secondary point. I'll start with time-honored anchoring and mooring practices. The West Coast Norte Americano seems to firmly believe in three undeniable truths: 1) The first boat at an anchorage establishes anchoring practice; 2) The space around an anchored boat is sacred: and 3) her captain determines the radius required. As a result, about 10 days before Philomena's St. Patrick's Day Party some years ago, I was told there was no room in the Barfa de Navidad basin because three Canadian boats wanted to swing at anchor. Three days later, however, there were over 20 boats anchored bow and stern as had been historical cus¬ tom. C^n another occasion, I was Med-moored at Las Hadas. Be¬ cause of heavy surge, I put my inflatable on the 'at risk' side. But I was asked to remove it as it was scuffing the wax of a San Francisco-based boat. But the worst current manifestation of the problem exists at Puerto Vallarta's 'Club Entrada' at the entrance to the harbor. It's a popular place to settle in because bow anchors hold well, stern lines are tied to the big rocks on the bank, and there's rarely any surge. When the marina at Puerto Vallarta fills up — which is often — the nearest alternative anchorage is up at La Cruz tyro hours away. In most of the rest of the cruising world, boats would be snuggled in gunwale to gunwale — with fenders, of course — at 'Club Entrada'. In the Med, for example, moored boats wouldn’t just be gunwale to gunwale, but that way three or four rows deep! But at Puerto Vallarta, the Norte Americanos insist on 50 feet between boats by invoking the 'I was here first' privilege. And in many cases they then boast that they're "here for the season." Such behavior is not fair to1 those of us who can't get space in the marina or who can’t afford marina prices. It's also bad seamanship. Boats that feel they need that much room to move with the tide only need to tighten their lines or widen the V’ between them. And if for some reason such boat spacing was really required, then stays should be limited to something like 10 days. It seems to me that the long term 'squatters' are the most vocal about their right to excessive room. Granted, my 30-ton steel boat might cause some alarm. However, 1 cany six anchors starting with a 150 pounder, have chain for mooring to rocks, and put out really big fenders. Ironically the only anchoring damage I have experienced in Mexico was when a late arriving 27-footer anchored close and parallel to my boat. After our boats touched in the night, the other owner was very apologetic — and sailed away. What he didn't say — and what I didn't discover until some days later — was that his boat had punched holes in my rail-mounted sailboard. Anyhow, fellow sailors, what about 'Club Entrada ? Should we insist that more boats be allowed to use this area instead of just a privileged few? Should we petition the Port Captain to limit stays? Should we just force our way into available space, exercising prudent seamanship, and shouting loudly in a for¬ eign language? (Just kidding.) Or perhaps we should simply help others to moor, lending them lines if needed and prudent, arid complain only if there is damage? In my opinion, boats that worry about scuffing their wax should stay in their single slips — preferably in their own

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Bob — You've raised two unpleasant but important issues. With regard to dumping human waste where people anchor and swim, it's illegal, unhealthy, and totally uncool. You have both a right and an obligation to protest. On the other hand, don't jump to the conclusion that all boats that stay in one place for a couple of weeks must be polluting. We once had Big O on the hook at Z-town for two months and never had to take her to sea to pump the holding tanks. Why? Partly because the holding tank was enormous, but even more so because we simply swam ashore each morning to buy a cup of coffee and do our 'business' in the restaurants restroom. As for how much space a boat should be allowed to occupy and for how long, that's always going to be a contentious issue. As you mention, in places like Greece, it's nothing — as crazy as it might sound to those whovhaven't seen it —for boats to be Med-tied three and four rows deep. Often times there are lots of angry objections in different languages, but the boats just keep piling in and with the full support of the port captains. There’s \ more shouting in the morning when somebody tries to leave — only to discover that everybody has their anchor lines snarled in a hopeless mess. There’s not just shouting but lots of screaming when a meltemi comes through. In Caribbean anchorages, where the trades reliably blow from certain directions, boats routinely anchor very close together — and it's not that uncommonfor boats to tap each other when the wind goes light or fluky. It’s just part of cruising. If Treasure Island's Clipper Cove were a popular Caribbean anchorage, there would easily be 200 boats on the hook. In Mexico, boats are rarely packed so close to one another — except around cities such as P.V. While our inclination is always to avoid crowds and unpleasantness, if a boat arrived at 'Club Entrada' and found 50 feet between Med-moored boats, it's our opinion that he/she would have every right to drop the bow hook and back right into the open space — without even asking per¬ mission. If we were already moored there, we'd certainly lend a hand to prevent damage to either of the boats involved. And un¬ less the Port Captain specifically prohibited it, we'd assume that there would be room for at least one or two more boats in the original 50-foot space. The way we see it, everybody should always give everyone else as much room as possible. When out in the boonies, this can mean a newcomer moving on to another nearby anchorage. But

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Your October issue contained a letter from Donald Street that claimed that insurance coverage in the Caribbean was not available due to one Lloyds syndicate's unwillingness to par¬ ticipate in providing that coverage. Mike Waterfield and the Kershaw syndicate is only one of the many sources at Lloyds. There are many other Lloyds syn¬ dicates and other reputable insurance companies available as sources of marine insurance. I know Mr. Waterfield to be a knowl¬ edgeable yachtsman who is sympathetic to the needs of other boaters — and his syndicate will and does under certain cir¬ cumstances extend coverage year round in the Caribbean as well as in other parts of the world. Having said that, I must also state that presently there are other companies better equipped to handle year 'round Carib¬ bean and cruising business. The entire insurance industry is designed around risk and cost of doing business: the higher the risk or the cost of doing business in a particular area, the higher the premium. Hurricane coverage whilst in the Caribbean, Mexico or the South China Sea is available — but is also based on economics. As is the case with cruising insurance anywhere else in the world, the premium will vary with the size crew or age and type of vessel. It simply boils down to this: Does the yachtsman want to pay the extra premium for his given circumstance? As to trying to outrun or outguess a storm, tropical depres¬ sion, hurricanes or anything else Mother Nature throws at us — as Street seems to suggest cruisers should do — it's abso¬ lutely ridiculous. Attempting to beat the odds is what keeps all of our insurance premiums high. Mike Barnett Barnett Insurance, San Diego Mteaky, leaky decks Cruiser feedback on teak decks? We have a Perry 47 ketch with teak decks that we've owned since 1990. The boat, built in Taiwan in '79, has teak over the fiberglass deck. We lived with the teak for years and took the boat to the tropical climates of Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama. Although the teak was beautiful, it was too hot to walk on. Actually, the teak itself wasn't the problem, but rather the black tar-like caulking. We needed to wear sandals to keep our feet from get¬ ting scorched when trying to get around. It's our understanding that back in '79, it was common for teak decks to be installed with a cushion of sealant glue over the fiberglass — followed by thousands of drill holes to secure the teak to the deck. The holes were then filled and covered with teak bungs to maintain the lovely appearance of teak. If we're not mistaken, teak decks are no longer installed this way because of the inherent troubles associated with drilling hun¬ dreds of holes in the decks. • Each year we'd check our decks for possible leaks, and recaulk any suspicious areas. Nonetheless, there would still be leaks. Tiy as we may, we never were able to find the source of the leaks because they could 'travel' between the teak and the fiberglass deck. We know one boatowner who meticulously re¬ moved his teak decks board by board, then sealed and caulked the entire decks, and finally reinstalled and re-caulked the teak. And they still leaked! But for us, other than being a nuisance and ruining some items in lockers, the leaks from the teak decks were something we had learned to Hve with. One year, however, as we were planning our voyage across the Atlantic to Europe, a very heavy rainstorm revealed more

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And thanks to all of the people who housed participants, the members of St. Francis who volunteered their time to help or¬ ganize the regatta, social events and run the race committee. Special thanks to Matt, Theresa, Bill, Joyce, Chris, Joy and all of the other great people too numerous to mention. It took each and every one of you to make this a memorable event! We all thank you! Lynn Olinger, Tom Alexander, Leslie Osmera, Sharon Alexander, Sam Barnes, Erica Mattson, Carol Haverty, Dana Moore, Analise Moore, Kim Smith (The ten USA local 'oldsters', ranging in age from 20 to 51, who qualified for the Worlds.) Oldsters — On behalf of Latitude, and we're sure the St. Francis YC, you're welcome. Ilf] SOLITUDE BY THE BAY?

I'm dropping you guys a line to tell you how much I've en¬ joyed your rag. Even though I live near Yosemite, I keep my Islander 34 Viva Manana in Channel Islands Harbor. I visit my boat as often as I can. I’ve always sailed in the Channel Islands area, but I’m con¬ sidering moving the boat to the Bay Area. Through the years I've read your stories of sailing in Northern California, and it intrigues me. But I don't know if there's as much solitude in your area as there is at the Channel Islands. Moving the boat to Northern California is a long move and it would be a completely new learning experience. And the chal¬ lenge of new problems encountered would be interesting. What do you think? Lee Near Yosemite Lee — In lieu of mitigating circumstances, we think sailors should visit as many different places as they possibly can — especially when the scenery and sailing conditions are as differ¬ ent as they are between Southern and Northern California. On several occasions we left boats we owned in various Southern California locales while we lived in Northern California — and

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Dr. Kent Benedict wrote an article in the September issue about what medical supplies a traveller should carry, and in the article suggested Flagyl for amoebic dysentery. Flagyl is a drpg made by Searle and, from what I know of it, is rather hard on the body. In addition, it needs to be taken for five to 10 days. Down here in Mexico they sell Amefine, another Searle drug, that's used for the same purpose as Flagyl. Apparently Amefine is not available in the United States. Amefine is much easier on the human system than Flagyl, and only needs to be taken for one day. Like most drugs in Mexico, Amefin is sold over the counter. > Could Dr. Benedict comment on the reasons Amefin is not available in the United States? There's yet another drug, Yodoxin, that's available in both the States and Mexico that's also used for amoebic dysentery. Yodoxin is even easier on the system than Amefine, but it does need to be taken for 20 days. Cruisers who feel they can wait until they get to Mexico to fill their medical kit might want to consider the fact that all prescription drugs — except narcotics — are available over the counter down here. You can find them at any farmacia — ajid at prices much less than charged in the States. If anyone needs a narcotic drug, they're available, too, but only with a prescrip¬ tion. If you have a legitimate need for such a drug, however, a local physician will write the prescription. Many of the other items Benedict‘suggests for the medical kit — suture sets, hypodermic syringes and needles, IV fluids and sets, sterile irrigation fluids, and so forth — are all readily available at lower prices here than in the States. If cruisers have a few days in a port like La Paz, they can even have a spare pair of prescription glasses made at prices cheaper than in the U.S. — assuming, of course, they avoid the expensive designer frames. A prescription is not necessary be¬ cause an eye exam is part of the whole deal. Ellis Glazier La Paz Ellis — Here's Benedict's response to your question: "Most travelers to Mexico and other Central American coun¬ tries run a low risk of acquiring amoebiasis. In fact, less than 1% of all cases of'traveler's diarrhea' are due to E. histolitica — the protozoal cause of the disease. Using simple water and food pre¬ cautions is the best way of avoiding it in the first place. But if you do get sick, the problem becomes one of diagnosis. It's impossible to correctly diagnose amoebiasis without labora¬ tory tests, thus you're in a situation where it is necessary to get a physician's evaluation before starting therapy. There are a number of drugs used to treat amoebiasis, but unfortunately no single regimen has proven 100% effective. Metronidazole — Flagyl — when combined with iodoquinol— Yodoxin

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I'm a bit late in writing this, but considering the exodus that's about to begin to Cabo San Lucas and points beyond, it should still be timely. As I was heading toward San Diego from Cabo San Lucas in the summer of '96,1 set up a GPS waypoint about two miles off Punta Santo Tomas — which is a bit south of Bahia de Todos Santos on the Baja California Coast. Fortunately, it was still daylight when I approached dead onto this waypoint — only to discover it was right in the middle of a rocky islet that wasn't noted on my chart. The islet was high and dry, capped by three separate conical rocks, and about the size of a few good-sized city lots. If it had been nighttime. I'd have lost my boat on it! I was using DMA chart #21140. I ended up sailing midway between the islet and shore, and estimated the islet's position at N 31°32.8, W 116”44.0. My chart was a reproduction, so when I reached the Bay Area I checked a fresh original of #21140. The islet wasn't on that chart either! I called the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office in Oakland. They said that I should notify the Defense Mapping Agency — and they gave me an address in Fairfax, Virginia for both their Public Relations Office and the Hydrographic Products Office. I wrote them both, and have never heard a thing from either. I don't know if it's true, but I’ve been told that federal budget cuts have generally curtailed chart corrections by the Defense Mapping Agency. This islet is especially dangerous for boats hugging the Baja coast, be they northbound or southbound. This is because Punta Santo Tomas is a natural place for a waypoint for boats in¬ bound to or outbound from San Diego. I believe that chart #21140 is frequently used by people making this passage. So watch out you Baja Ha-Ha sailors! Joe Lewis Morning Wind

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LETTERS To fully appreciate the changes in the cruising world, when we returned to the Marquesas in May of 95, there were no less than 41 cruising boats crowded into one anchorage at Nuku Hiva! We've been close to a couple of other cruising tragedies. The three of us — yes, we and Que Sera are still all together after all these years — arrived in Whangarei, New Zealand, in early No¬ vember of '95. I d driven up to the Bay of Islands with Tim and Rhonda Hagarty off the Canadian boat Charissa to pay a call to Keri Keri Radio. When we arrived, Keri Keris Maureen informed us that there was an emergency in progress: a helicopter had spotted an overturned dinghy on the beach with someone near by it. Keri Keri's John was directing a boat to investigate, so we left shortly thereafter, not wanting to interfere with the opera¬ tion. Upon returning to Whangarei, we conveyed a message to Martha Waters aboard ChancLelle, who had just arrived in the town basin after a very wet crossing from Tonga. She was to call the local hospital. It had been Judy Sleavin of the Melinda Lee next to the liferaft, and Waters was to spend the next four or five days trying to comfort Judy. We'd met the Sleavin family in Raiatea and had shared a number of anchorages with them. Our Que Sera was damaged 30 miles east of Brisbane by a merchant ship in the wee hours of June 9, 1997 — despite the fact we'd contacted the ship twice before the incident! We'd been tracking three ships on our radar, and had contacted the clos¬ est ship. We wanted to be sure he knew where we were and that we had our spreader lights on. Fifteen minutes later, we con¬ tacted the ship again to express our concern regarding his clos¬ ing distance. The ship responded that he would change course. I put down the mike and returned to the cockpit where Debby was at the wheel — and saw the ship's bow over her shoulder! Unsure of the extent of the damage to our boat, we issued a Pan call. The ship that hit us didn't even respond! One of the things I learned from that incident was that I should have turned our strobe light on — as well as our spreader lights. And instead of assuming the merchant ship knew where we were, I should have had them confirm that he had us visu¬ ally or by radar. We've also learned to keep our. 406 EPIRB in the cockpit. Mike Sleavin had been in the bunk where the Melinda Lee's s EPIRB was kept, but after the boat was crushed by the ship, Mike didn't have time to retrieve the EPIRB from its holder. In order to keep our EPIRB from accidentally being activated by moisture, we keep a ZipLoc bag over the top. Our EPIRB none¬ theless did get wet in a 65+ knot storm we encountered cross¬ ing the Tasman Sea, and even though it was only activated for less than five minutes, the U.S. Coast Guard received the sig¬ nal. As per procedures, they called my cousin — who'd been listed as the contact. Pretty impressive. Luckily the damage to our boat wasn’t extensive, and after five weeks we left Brisbane and are now in Port Douglas visiting Aussie friends — who we met when they had sailed to the States in ’84! We'll return south before the cyclone season and do some land travelling with Cupcake, a cat who enjoys camping, too. P.S. Our friends, who have a marine electronics business here in Port Douglas, want to know how they can become a distributor of Latitude for all the cruising boats that come through. Jay and Debby Millman Que Sera

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Mono Lake, that's fine. But the very last thing they should want is for the population of Los Angeles County to join them on their jet skis. They should think about it — and for the sake of the rest of us, please be good enough to keep quiet about Mono Lake. As for myself, I'm writing the following letter to Jim Hildinger, Executive Director of the Mono Lake Committee: "If I were king, the only boating allowed on Mono Lake would be required for scientific studies. Let me explain! I have been a highly competitive and avid sailor on Lake Tahoe for the past 30 years. My "season" begins in November and ends when the powerboats arrive in May. My very rare appearances on the Lake during the summer months have always been disasters because of the enormous over-crowding, the ever-present smell of outboard engine, and the wakes of power boats and jet skis. It is quite simply a very unpleasant experience during the sum¬ mer months! I’m also an active member of the board of directors of the League to Save Lake Tahoe. I quite agree with the editor/pub¬ lisher of Latitude 38 when he says: ". . . there's something very appealing about being able to enjoy magnificent examples of Nature without having them besmirched by man's synthetic creations. . ." I strongly urge you to stop public boating on Mono Lake before it gets a foothold and becomes impossible to remove. Jim Hildinger , Ghil@oakweb.com

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Jim — In an overcrowded world such as ours, it's increas¬ ingly important that people try to seek a middle ground and al¬ low for divergent interests. While we truly believe that Nature shouldn't always be besmirched, there's also a terrible danger in people with fascist inclinations trying to subdue those who don't share their same interests and desires. The most obvious recent example is smoking. We don't smoke and we don't think others should have to inhale other people's smoke. On the other hand, it's nothing short of fascist to prevent the owners of some bars from designating their establishments as ’smoking bars' and allowing customers to puff away. Not un¬ less the government doesn't also close down all other health de¬ grading emporiums such as pizza parlors, burger pits, rib joints and liquor stores. And not unless we're going to enforce a strict code of behavior in which people are going to be forced to exer¬ cise and eat vegetables until they're able to maintain their ideal weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol. The point is, we may not like jet skis, but other people do, so we think they need to be accommodated to some extent. The same with folks who like to sail on mountain lakes. We can see some lakes being off limits — as long as those who enjoy sailing are assured enjoying their pursuits on some other lakes. Until we get control of the population explosion that's going to make life insufferable in not too many decades, everyone is going to have to be a lot more tolerant of divergent interests.

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Please print these corrections in Letters, as we'd like our local press to finally get our history right. I focused on our files and history this crucial year so continued errors so easily checked are dismaying. Yes, we could have called you to check any info added beyond what I submitted, but we all: a) were redecking Petrel after rescuing it from delirium. b) racing, tuning our ill outboard motors (so lots of towing) c) relied on you'to do better than previous articles in the —--—-— Chronicle (1961, 1990) and you usu» ally do. X I've sent two cor¬ rection articles to WoodenBoat to inject into their commemo¬ rative article in 1998 so we aren't embarassed about our his¬ tory in a national publication. We ap¬ preciate your efforts and photos anyway. — Gunnar Kays (Mavis, Bird 44) Gunnar — Many thanks for your cor¬ rections. Congratula¬ Replacing the transom on 'Bobolink', Bird Boat tions on the 75 th an¬ niversary of your #23. ^_ ' amazing class. a) The photo in the October Sightings is indeed Grey Goose, owned by Jock MacLean and John Jansheski. Since captions are the last detail to go into Sightings, that error got overlooked in the final proofreading. b) Okay, Osprey wasn't stolen. If authorities like Myron Spaulding say so, that's good enough for us. Please inform all your members not to perpetuate this untrue story — they were our sources in the first place, v c) Birds #14 and 15 were built? Again, we bow to your re¬ search. But you really should tell the good follcs at PICYA's Yacht¬ ing Yearbook, who —for the last seven years — have listed num¬ bers 14 and 15 as "not built, numbers assigned to L.A. area." If we kept such stuff, we could also show you several references we've received from the Bird Boat Class over the years that in¬ sist only 24 boats were ever built, despite the fact that sail num¬ bers go to 26. Some of those write-ups glso list John Alden as the designer. At least we found and corrected that one before the October story came out. We try our best to be accurate with everything we print, but at the same time, we don't have the time or manpower to get two or three confirmations for every fact in every story. Particularly in the case of class associations, we have to trust the information we're given.

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counts. The Auckland to Raivavai passage can have a lot of upwind work. Linda and I, however, chose to start on the northwesterly shift of a nice low pressure system. We rode it — and the ensu¬ ing high pressure ridge — all of the way across. So rather than having wind on the nose, we had it on the beam — or even aft — for the entire hip. On the way down to New Zealand, we made the passage from Marina del Rey to Nuka Hiva in 12 days. It was actually kind of a slow passage because five of those days were on the wind. We made the return trip in 12 days and 3 hours. In between, we averaged 300 miles a day for our passages between the Marquesas and Fiji — fortunately the southeast trades were in good shape for the '95 season. Fiji to New Zealand could have been really fast, but the winds were light and it took us four days and three hours. v But I don't think it's at all fair to compare a fully-crewed race boat with a middle-aged couple on a loaded down, shortrigged cruising boat. After all, we have better food, we don't have to sleep on the rail, and we're warmer and drier. If the breeze comes up, we just pump in three tons of saltwater bal¬ last. In the meantime we are nice and comfy in the pilot house. When we're off watch, we sleep between clean sheets, and in cold weather we take hot baths. When we get to sailing deep angles in big waves, we don’t have to worry about stuffing the bow as our 240 pound Bruce anchor makes a wonderful bow plane. The Bruce's flukes generate all sorts of lift, which keeps the foredeck high and diy. We also have a sail area advantage in our cockpit plus two fore.deck awnings, all of which are flown on warm passages. Our real secret, however, is the inferiority complex of the mizzen mast. Because it's six feet shorter than the main, it's forever trying to catch the forward rig — even flying spinnakers and jibs in the process. The main mast isn’t about to let that hap¬ pen, and the two spars race each other — which really helps our passage times. I don't know what the racers do about light air, but like most cruisers we turn on our engine. Beowulf has a range of 2,000 miles at 11 knots. So as you see, it would be unfair to compare Beowulf with a sled such as Pyewacket, Cheval, or Victoria. What might be more interesting would be to load three or four tons of cruising gear aboard Pyewacket — so they'd be more comfortable — then dump the rock stars and have her sailed by mature people. Now that would make for an interesting contest. Steve Dashew Tucson, Arizona

Steve — "If I were interested in a sailboat that was dependent on an engine to make fast passages," responds Gunn, "I'd get one of those MacGregor 25Xs that motors at 25 knots. And since water ballast is really great at enhancing speed, I’m not really going to be impressed until Beowulf averages 300 miles a day — without a propeller!" All right, enough of that! If anyone is interested in the effect oj water ballast on boat speed — or anything else that has to do with cruising — he/she should get a copy of Steve and Linda's Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia. A monumental book with more than 2,200 subjects and 2,500 photos, the encyclopedia not only has a staggering amount of good information, but it's often very entertaining. If we weren't so impressed by it, we wouldn't tell you that you can order one by calling (800) 421-3819. liffWHAT ONE SOLO SAILOR DID

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John — Apparently we haven't been making ourselves clear, for it we did, you’d realize that there is no conflict between what we’re advocating and COLREGS. Our point has always been this: whenever possible, the skip¬ pers of small recreational vessels should, prior to any situation developing with a much larger vessel, get the hell out of the way. When done far enough in advance — and this is the key it usually only requires a minor change in course or speed. We and we’re sure lots of other small boat skippers — do this all the time without peally thinking about it. For one thing, it further re¬ moves us from being in a developing situation, and secondly, it gives the captains of large and difficult-to-maneuver ships one less thing to worry about. What constitutes "prior to a situation developing" depends on the size and speed of the vessels involved. If the larger vessel is a ship, we unconsciously begin to think of how we can stay the heck out of his way — and danger —from the very minute we spot him. If we’re sailing to weather on port tack and it's bringing us closer to the ship, we'll probably flop onto starboard for a minute or two. That’s all it takes. If the larger vessel is a ferry or something, we’ll wait until we're maybe a half mile to mild apart — at which time we’ll ma¬ neuver in such a way as to make it completely clear to the ferry captain that we’re intending to get out of his way. All it takes is heading up or heading down for maybe 60 seconds. The same would be true if we were aboard a 30-footer and the other vessel were a 90-foot sailboat. Sure, we could push our right-of-way, but it would only increase the chances we’d be involved in an unpleasant incident. Again, the whole key is to maneuver so, so far in advance that nobody ever has to think about COLREGS. Because if the skipper of a small boat on starboard waits until the last minute and then tries to avoid the larger vessel by ducking, he’s likely to smack right into the larger vessel on port which, by COLREGS, has had to try to duck the smaller vessel Disaster! If you're skippering a small boat and decide that you're going to insist on your right-of-way in the face of other larger vessels, you must: 1) maintain a constant course, 2) monitor the actions of the larger vessel(s), and 3) get ready for a collision that you're certain to lose. By the way, the analogy between highways and the oceans isn't very good, as highways have marked lanes while the ocean doesn't. UffTHE FUN RACE TO HAWAII Here's some clarification on Peggy Redler’s "Ms. Construc¬ tive Criticism of the TransPac" in October's Latitude 38. Peggy said ", . .West Marine — for the West Marine Pacific Cup. . . have great marketing advantages over traditional yacht-

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through her history in an excellent Sightings piece. That Sightings item sent ripples far and wide, and soon, they were reflecting back into our offices. We heard from people all over who added facts and tidbits to the story — some correct, some^ incorrect. We also heard from publications wanting to reprint the article, who we of course referred back to Mr. Evans. One of those publications was a quarterly newspaper called The Tin Can Sailor, printed for and about destroyer sailors. Anyway, to make a long story, uh, longer, one of the editors here served a couple of years on a ‘can'. So after a long and friendly chat, Tin Can representative Leo Feltz lent him a book called United States Navy Destroyers of World War II. He hardly expected to find anything mote in it than the history of the ship upon which he served, but lo and behold, in the first skimthrough, there it was: a sailing destroyer! The photo here depicts the USS Tucker on air-sea rescue station east of Wake Island in June, 1940. In order to stretch her fuel supply, the enterprising crew rigged ‘square’ sails from the fore and aft masts. No details on what they were made of, but the two big sails were said to move her along at an esti¬ mated 3.4 knots, allowing her to maintain steerage and extend¬ ing her ability to stay on station by several days. The big ouch. Among participants in the ‘96 Ha-Ha, few showed a more upbeat attitude than Doug Hughes and Gayle King of Anacortes. So it’s not surprizing that they reacted to the recent grounding of their Freya 42 Slow Dancin with remarkable stoicism. As Hurricane Nora smashed her way across the Sea of Cortez, Slow Dancin was anchored off Tiburon Island, about 100 miles north of San Carlos. With a 66-lb. Bruce anchor and 300 feet of chain out, Doug and Gayle felt secure enough in the 40-knot winds, but as the swells increased shortly before nightfall, they started dragging. They decided to head out to sea to ride it out. With Doug at the wheel, Gayle reported from the bow that the anchor seemed to be coming up unusually slowly. As it neared the surface she found out. why. They’d hooked a giant steel rectangle that was trailing heavy cables — apparently an aft deck ‘door’ from a shrimp boat. Before they could clear it away, one of the cables got tangled in Slow Dancin’s prop, leaving

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SIGHTINGS our fair lady October 3 was a big day at Alameda’s Stone Boat Yard — in eveiy sense of the word. After five years on the hard, the 103-ft schooner Fair Sarae finally went back into the water, courtesy of Dutra #5, one of the biggest floating cranes on the West Coast. Like any boat with a little age on her, there is a story to Fair Sarae. She was designed for American Henry S. vom Berge by William Meek as a refinement of a Grand Banks fishing schooner. Built at Brook Motor Craft and launched in Lowestoft, England, in September of 1937, Jeanry seemed to fulfill all his expectations of a superstrong, fast, luxu¬ rious yacht that — by means of her staysail rig — could be sailed by a minimum of crew. Unfortunately, vom Berge got to sail her exactly once before World War II broke out and the British Navy seized all private yachts. Vom continued outside column of next sightings page

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“It was absolutely unprecedented,” re¬ calls Oceanic Society naturalist Carol Keiper. She was aboard one of the Society's ‘Natural History and Research Cruises’ (aka: a whale watching expedi¬ tion) on October 4 when a tip came over the radio that a pair of orcas were feeding on a sea lion off the rocky Farallon Is¬ lands. Upon arrival at the site, Carol and her charges were happily observing a 20foot mother and her calf at close range when a dark shape approached the area which proved to be a 10-foot great white. continued middle of next sightings page

“You’re pointing a little high” took on a whole new meaning as ‘Fair Sarae’ was hoisted back into her element. Bulwarks planks were left off so they wouldn ’t get damaged by the slings.

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Berge died before the boat was released back to him. After the war, she was sold to Greek shipping Tycoon Stavros Niarchos, who named her Eros II. She spent the next 20 years, and one more owner, in the Med. In 1977, she finally did what vom Berg had intended all along — came across the pond to America. Well, at least the Caribbean, where she chartered for a few years under American owner Lucy Bancroft. In 1984, Lucy brought Fair Sarae— named for a favorite relative — around to northern California, where the boat became a fixture on the Sausalito waterfront until the early ‘90s. At that point, Lucy sold the boat to a ‘gentleman who lives in Hamburg.’ He had great plans — about $3.5 million worth of plans — to completely restore and upgrade her. Stone Boat Yard in Alameda, specialists in large wooden boats for de¬ cades, got the job. Unfortunately, about halfway through the project, the gentleman started getting in serious financial straits. Even more unfortunate, at that point, Fair Sarae had been almost completely disassembled — both masts and all rigging out, her interior completely gutted and many of her 3-inch Burmese teak planks (some 40 feet long) removed from her st6el frame. Says Stone Boat Yard owner Bill Bodle, “Instead of ha\dng this client with a ready checkbook, all of a sudden all we had was a boat that needed half the project done.” Ultimately, the owner signed the boat over to the yard. The last Bill heard, he was in jail. The result of all this was what many thought would be the end of the beautiful schooner. “She was too big to put in the dumpster," says Bodle, although it’s hard to imagine he ever seriously considered it. A schoonerman from way back (Panda and Grace are just two of the large schooners he’s owned over the years), it seemed like if anyone could pull off a yebirth of Fair Sarae, it would be Bodle. But it was definitely, as he put it, “a back-burner project.” If the yard was between projects, he’d assign a man or two to work on Sarae for a while. Work progressed, albeit slowly. About three months ago, after years of ‘slow cooking’, Fair Sarae finally went back on the front burner. Her hull up to the bulwarks was / finally all refurbished and reattached. Incredibly — well, at least to those of us raised in a throwaway society — all the original planks were in fine shape and were re-used. ‘The teak in those planks was probably cut in the 1890s and sea¬ soned for about 40 years,” notes Bodle. ‘To season it, they’d take the logs back to England and chain them to the bottom of a fresh-water stream.” Other interesting esoterica: Fp.ir Sarae’s hull is fastened with 12,000 custom-made ‘button bolts’. These are similar in appearance to carriage bolts you’d find at any hardware store. The difference is that the button bolts used in Fair Sarae are made of Admiralty bronze (a special aluminum-heavy alloy of about the same strength as stain¬ less steel), and the head of each bolt is designed to seal the hole it goes through, even without a bung. Rare today, button bolts were common in the days of ‘Composite construction’ — wood planks over steel frames. Probably the best known surviving vessel to use them is the famous clipper Cutty Sark. Anyway, on October 3 the huge Dutra #5 — the crane that lifted the broken part of the Bay Bridge after the ‘89 earthquake — was in posi¬ tion, the cables were attached and Fair Sarae s 120 tons were lifted back into her element. A veritable Who’s Who of Bay'Area classic yacht aficionados were on hand to help celebrate the event, including Bob Ciyer, Don Dalziel (whose Natoma was the last large yacht built at Stone’s) and Jack Ehrhorn — “My mentor," says Bodle — who started working at Stone Boat Yard in 1937. Since the photo on the these pages was taken, the rest of Fair Sarae's planks have been attached, her engine installed and much of the deck put back on. Once she’s sealed from the elements, work will begin on the interior, which Bodle plans to restore to a style typical of the 1930s. Bill hopes the boat will be sailing again in about a year. We’ll keep you updated on how it’s going.

November, 1997

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SIGHTINGS marine archaeology 101 — the cleanup of richardson bay When the crusty wooden halibut trawler Persevere sank at the edge of the Richardson Bay Channel last year, we were reminded of a popu¬ lar Caribbean T-shirt slogan: 'Not my job, mon'. No one wanted to take responsibility for removing — or even buoy¬ ing — the wreck. The owners apparently didn’t have the means to refloat her and neither the Coast Guard nor the Army Corp of Engineers wanted to deal with her, claiming that she was not their responsibility. So there she sat in about 15 feet of water — deep enough to be completely submerged except for three arched davits that rose in a cluster out of the murky Bay waters like a feeble attempt at conceptual art. As the nyonths rolled by, Persevere's rotting carcass re¬ mained just beneath the surface, silently threatening to snag any unsuspecting-craft that strayed from mid-channel. After nearly a year of frustration with Bill Price with ‘Persevere’s propeller. this and dozens of other wrecks which lit¬ ter the Richardson Bay seabed — Harbor Administrator Bill Price found a creative way to appropriate the $40,000 it would take to raise, demolish and dispose of the old trawler. He convinced the County of Marin and HUD officials to allocate funds for continued outside column of next sightings page

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lunch Carol wasn’t totally surprised to find both species in the area, as both feed on seals, but after nine years of leading trips along the coast, she expected these two types of top 'apex predators' to keep a respect¬ ful distance from one another. Not this time. The larger orca suddenly charged the shark at tremendous speed and caught it squarely between her mas¬ sive jaws. Cocking back disbelief, Carol quickly explained to her charges how rare — how impossible — an event they were witnessing. Already poised for photogra¬ phy, a European tourist caught a few dra¬ matic moments on video of the orca lift¬ ing it’s head high above the surface and thrashing it’s prey from side to side like an angiy housecat toying with a mouse. Keiper, who is a longtime sailor from Benicia, lives aboard her Ericson 35 sev¬ eral days a week at Moss Landing while attending masters classes at the Marine Lab there. She tells us that after hearing of the encounter or seeing the footage, marine scientists around the world have confirmed that the sighting is unprec-

SIGHTINGS — cont’d

Ed. note — The Oceanic Society will be running Farallon Island cruises through the end of this month. Call (415) 474-3385 for details and reservations. Another Ed. note — Try as we might, we were unable to secure images from the footage taken by the European tourist. Apparently, this piece of video is now only slightly less valuable than the Zapruder footage or that film clip of the Hindenburg exploding.

a widespread cleanup of the anchorage, using HUD money 'left over' from removal of Sausalito's WW1I drydocks several years ago. Persevere was the first of about 35 wrecks which have been cleared

Above, cranes and tractors reduced wrecks to rubble at the Corps of Engineers docks. Below, the end of the line for ‘Persevere.’ in the past two months. "Nevertheless, there will always be hazards to navigation in Richardson Bay," cautions Price. Still, his efforts are to be applauded. "On average," says Price, "It costs about $8,000 to $12,000 to raise, demolish and dispose of each of the smaller wrecks." It's a sour irony for taxpayers, of course, that none of the vessels and houseboats which currently lie on the bottom were worth anything close to that amount when they were afloat. About $250,000 was spent continued outside column of next sightings page

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edented in scientiiic literature. A week later, though, a press release issued by the Oceanic Society cleared up this odd phenomenon considerably. It seems that by comparing pictures of this rowdy orca with shots of thousands of pre¬ vious sightings, researchers have con¬ firmed that the cow (mother) in question is ‘CA2’, who has been sighted numerous times before along the coast. She appar¬ ently belongs to the “Los Angeles Pod — an unusual group which does not fit in with the other types of orcas. . Oh-h-h, she’s from L.A. Well that explains every¬ thing!

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SIGHTINGS cleanup — cont’d on this round of removals. While the 'right' of liveaboards to stay in the anchorage indefi¬ nitely has long been debated, there's no denying that when the non-navigable hulks sink and begin to disintegrate on the sea¬ bed, they create a navigational nightmare for local sailors and visiting cruisers, as well as an eyesore for the wealthy residents of Sausalito and Belvedere who look out on them. Legally, a boat which enters Richardson can stay for 72 hours, after which its owner can apply for a 30-day permit. It's possible to extend for another 30 days, but technically, 60 days within a year is the max. There are about 100 floating structures and actual boats moored in the Bay now, half of which are illegal liveaboards. Nevertheless the county is currently taking a low-key ap¬ proach to the 'anchor-out' issue, leaving them alone until they dis¬ appear slowly by attrition. When they sink, however, it's a differ¬ ent story. The owner has a about a month to raise such a vessel — longer if he seems to be mak¬ ing a real effort. A Nuisance Abatement Hearing follows, and in some cases the hull is even¬ tually removed by the County. Pollution of the Bay from rotting fuel tanks is but one of the County's legitimate concerns. Despite their sad end, how¬ ever, most of the wateVcraft that went to the dump in pieces last month had colorful histories. And like all vessels, were un¬ doubtedly loved by their owners in better days. There were two WWII vintage LCMs — landing crafts — named Sea Raker and Ballena, which may well have seen action in the South Pacific. Before sinking and rotting, the Fletcher Foundation houseboat sat on a barge that had originally floated a notable three-story houseboat, the Madonna, which burned to the waterline in the '70s. The 65-ft tug Shana S had been converted to a liveaboard and had served as a comfortable home to several owners. But when she sank last winter and her owner couldn't raise her, the contents of her tanks created an continued outside column of next sightings page

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cleanup — cont’d oil slick that reportedly reached all the way to Point Bonita. The wreck of the Betty Boop, a 30-ft cruise ship-style lifeboat converted to a house¬ boat, was a double decker. She broke loose in the anchorage and sank right on top of a sunken 45-ft ferrocement sailboat. The salvage and demolition team earned an honorary archaeology degree for that one. The tug Kent sank off Schoonmaker Marina in '89, was refloated and another sinker, Upper Line, was plopped inside of her — a common technique apparently for getting a little extra mileage out of ah aging lady. Once submerged, she was not an easy salvage job. But at 103 feet in length, Persevere was by far the most challenging demo job — especially after she became heavily silted in. Price hired Zaccor Company of Alameda as his primary salvage and demolition contractor for this and many of the other derelicts. But even with the arsenal of cranes, front loaders, tractors and boats they brought in, the incredible weight of Persevere s silt-laden hull required them to call up the big gun — a Manson derrick crane whose mighty arm was as tall as a skyscraper. Despite the clearing of tons of boat bones, the prospect of cleaning up the heavily littered seabed completely would take years of work and a mind-boggling amout of money. Perhaps advertising Richardson Bay as an archaeological dig would yield quicker results. Lord knows there are plenty of treasures' to excavate.

three days of the condor

Tallship’ is almost as hackneyed a concept to sailing ships as ‘sum¬ mer blockbuster’ is to movies. The iron men of old never heard of ‘tallships’, and you’ll never hear the word cross the lips of any modern sailor of merit/ It’s one of those danged coined things that some re¬ porter came up with that won’t go away. To the general media, who love to use it, anything from a largish yacht on up qualifies as a ‘tallship.’ If Webster’s ever calls us for the definitive definition, we would point to the Chilean barkentine Esmeralda (left), which stopped in the Bay for three days in early October. At 353 feet and with four 165-ft masts, Esmeralda is the largest sailing vessel in the Western Hemisphere. (And second in the world only to the 400-ft Russian four-master Sedov). Now that’s a tall ship! The steel-hulled square-rigger (on the foremast only) was built in 1952 in Spain, a sister to that country’s Juan Sebastian de Elcano, from which she differs only in rig configuration. Before she was fin¬ ished, though, a fire swept through the ship. In 1953, she was sold to Chile where she was repaired, completed and christened Esmeralda after a 19th century Chilean warship. Her figurehead is a condor, Chile’s national bird, holding the nation’s coat of arms in its claws. Esmeralda!s other vital statistics: 44-ft beam, 23-ft draft, 345 offic¬ ers and crew (no cadets this cruise) and a 1,400-horsepower diesel engine. She can fly up to 29 sails comprising more them 30,000 square feet, and has sailed as fast as 17.5 knots. Under power, she has a range of 8,000 miles at her cruising speed of 8 knots. Unlike most other sail training vessels, Esmeralda is also armed. She carries four 57-mm guns forward. The ship departed her homeport of Valparaiso in May and is on the home stretch of a 25,000-mile Pacific Rim goodwill voyage. She arrived in the Bay Area from Vancouver and was bound for San Diego after leaving. She’s due back home on December 7.

the grand poobah’s hurricane sheet If you’re headed to Mexico in the next two months and are concerned about the possibility of an ‘out of season’ hurricane in this El Nino year, we've collected a bunch of data from the National Hurricane Center that will probably be of interest to you. But first, we want to correct a statement that appeared in the continued outside column of next sightings page November. 1997 •

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SIGHTINGS hurricane sheet — cont’d October issue of Latitude 38. It was claimed that “there has never been a November hurricane in Mexico”. This is not correct. There have been two 'out of season’ hurricanes in Mexico since 1949. The firstwas Tara, which formed on November 10, 1961, and lasted through the 12th. She went ashore near Acapulco with maximum winds of 75 knots. The second was Winnie, which formed on December 4, 1983, and lasted through the 7th. With maximum winds of 80 knot's, she went ashore near Manzanillo. Both of these hurricanes were relatively weak and formed way down at 15”, near the border with Guatemala. Going as far back as 1949, there has never been a hurricane that would have crossed the Ha-Ha track. In addition, going back as far as 1949, there has never been a tropical storm or even a tropical depression that would have crossed the Ha-Ha track. There have, however, been a handful of ‘out of season’ tropical storms and tropical depressions. The following four are the only ones that would have come within 500 miles of the Ha-Ha track: • In 1951, Tropical Storm #9 — they didn’t name them back then — came within 50 miles of Cabo with 45-knot winds. • In 1970, Tropical Storm Selma swirled within 100 miles of Cabo with winds between 25 and 45 knots. • In 1987, another Tropical Storm named Selma came within about 500 miles of the Baja coast with 35-knot winds • And in 1991, what had long before deteriorated from a hurricane into Tropical Depression, Nora came within about 100 miles of Cabo with 30 knots of wind. Remember, however, that just because no hurricane or tropical storm has crossed the Ha-Ha path in at least 48 years doesn’t Tjxean it can’t or won’t happen this year. It can, because the weather and hurricanes are unpredictable. Back in 1975, for instance, what was called Hurricane #12 blew from 40° to 47° — or almost as far north as Seattle! Remnants of it continued as far up as the Aleutian Islands! Remember, too, that Mexico is subject to major weather disturbances other than tropical storms and hurricanes. Historically, in fact, the main threats in November and December have been from chubascos, Northers, ‘Pineapple Expresses', and just plain strong winds. Be that as it may, the following is a summary of hurricane activity in Mexico for each year since the last big El Nino year of ’82-'83. The year is followed by the number of tropical storms, then hurricanes, the name and date of the last hurricane of the year, and that hurricane’s maximum winds — which always occurred several days before the date given. For example, in 1996 there were 8 tropical storms and 13 hurricanes. Hernan, which blew out on October 4, was the last hurricane of the season, and had maximum winds of 75 knots. In cases where there was a tropical storm after the last hurricane of the season, we also note its name, date, and maximum winds. What becomes immediately apparent is that the Eastern Pacific gets many more hurricanes than the Atlantic and Caribbean. Most of them, however, don’t touch land. - 8 tropical storms / 13 hurricanes — Hernan, October 4, 75 knots. 1995: 3/7 —Juliette, September 24, 130 knots. 1994: 4/10 — Rosa, October 14, 90 knots. — Tropical Storm Nona, October 25, 35 knots. 1993: 4/11 — Lidia, September 13, 130 knots. — Tropical Storm Norma, October 6, 45 knots. 1992: 9/16 — Winifred, October, 100 knots. — Tropical Storm Zeke, October 30, 45 knots. 1991: 4/10 — Nora, November 10, 90 knots. Nora formed way down by the Guatemala border, headed out to the Revillagigedos, then fizzled to nearly nothing far before heading toward Cabo. 1996

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new suspects in The plot thickens! Exactly one month after the headline-grabbing news that cruisers Jim and Penny Fletcher had been acquitted of the October, 1996, murder of water taxi driver Jolly Joseph in Bequia, startling new evidence was announced in another celebrated Caribbean murder case. St. Vincent authorities now concede that South African cruiser Alan Heath probably did not kill his wife aboard the

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cruiser murder case couple's cruising boat in the wee hours of November 2, 1996. You may remember reading about the bizarre case of Lorraine and Alan Heath earlier this year (Sightings, Febfuaiy, 1997). While en route to St. Lucia aboard their 31-ft sailboat Freedom Flight, the Heaths sought shelter from rough weather at Cumberland Bay, St. Vincent — a

1990: 5/16 — Vance, October 27, 85 knots. 1989: 8/9 — Raymond, October 4, 125 knots. 1988: 8/7 — Lane, September 30, 90 knots. ' — Tropical Storm Miriam, November 2, 60 knots. 1987: 10/10 — Ramon, October 11, 120 knots. — Tropical Storm Selma, October 31, 35 knots. 1986: 8/9 — Roslyn, October 22, 125 knots. 1985: 10/13— Xina, October 31, 100 knots. 1984: 8/13 — Polo, September 26, 100 knots. — Tropical Storm Simon, November 8, 55 knots. 1983: 9/12 — Winnie, December 4, 80 knots. 1982: 11/12 — Sergio, October 14, 100 knots. — Tropical Storm Tara, October 26, 45 knots.

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SIGHTINGS putting mazatlan back on the map A couple of years ago Mazatlan virtually disappeared from sailor's charts. Cruisers sailed right past in droves because, unlike most Mexi¬ can ports, Mazatlan wasn't keeping up with cruisers' needs. The only anchorage was inside the commercial harbor where the holding ground was poor, the water dirty, the services minimal, and the view not very inspiring. And when the Los Angeles YC cut their traditional Mazatlan Race short at Cabo in 1986 for the first time, Mazatlan became a sailor's backwater. The future began to look a little brighter when a new channel was dredged to the north of town. It led to the small new marina at the continued outside column of next sightings page

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murder case sleepy community not generally fre¬ quented by cruisers. According to Heath, late that night two men boarded the boat, robbed him and murdered his 35-yearold wife. Despite sustaining machete wounds himself, Heath was charged with the crime and was freed only after paying a $25,000 bribe. Once back home in South Africa, Heath mounted a widespread media cam¬ paign against the government of this nor-

SIGHTINGS — cont’d mally tranquil island nation — it was the first murder in the area in 20 years. Even Nelson Mandela got into the fray, demand¬ ing accountability from Son Mitchell, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. For the last few months, how¬ ever, the Heath case moved to the back burner of public attention as the Fletchers went on trial. After languishing for nine months in a Bequian prison, they were continued middle of next sightings page

We don't know what the weather's doing as you read this, but Indian summer in October had us repeatedly quipping, “If this is El Nino, bring it on!”As this couple demonstrates, there were few | more romantic places to enjoy the last of the i warm weather than at Angel Island’s Ayala Cove.

mazatlan — cont’d huge El Cid complex, and to Marina Mazatlan. While the latter only has about 50 berths in operation now, ultimately it will have close to 1,000. But the unexpected devaluation of the peso a few years ago and uninspired marina management combined to stop progress in its tracks. But now Mazatlan is on a roll as a cruiser destination, and it’s pri¬ marily due to the promotions, innovations and hard work of former Alameda liveaboard Dick Markie. Unlike some marina managers in Mexico whose primary functions are to collect marina fees and keep up with the many little problems around their facilities, Markie has worked relentlessly to put Mazatlan back on the cruiser map. He's done this in a combination of ways: by being the chief problem-solver of all cruisers' needs, by highlighting all that Mazatlan and the sur¬ rounding area has to offer, and by creating events specifically for cruis¬ ers. As a result, Mazatlan is rapidly becoming a favorite cruiser destina¬ tion. And just to prove that Markie isn’t going to be resting on his laurels, here’s what he has planned for cruisers in the next few months: • Spanish Bullfights. Markie has convinced the operators of the bull ring to open a month early — for a just-cruisers event. On November 30 at The Sheik, one of the best restaurants in Mazatlan, a matador, picador and forcado — all in full dress — will be there to answer bull¬ fighting questions, in English, and to meet cruisers. After lunch, ev¬ eryone will travel by bus to the bull ring for Spanish-style (which means from horses) bullfighting. • Oso’s Birthday Party. If bullfighting isn’t your idea of how to relate to animals, December 6 is Oso’s birthday, a special occasion at Mazatlan Marina. Oso is Markie’s dog, and his birthday is considered a legiti¬ mate excuse for a party. • Health Day. If you get bored by a bull or scratched by Oso, don’t fret, for December 7 will be Health Day at Mazatlan Marina, sponsored by the staff of the nearby Sharp Hospital. The acclaimed hospital staff will offer free exams and talk about Mexican medicine, drugs, and diseases. They'll also offer a tour of the hospital on December 10th. • Moon Howl With the doctor's okay, you won't want to miss the 1 moon howl’ on December 13, the only chance that month to howl at a full moon. A few days later. Club deVella, the local sailing club, will host Christmas/Posada. • Felice Nauidad. For New Year's, Markie has once again rented an entire waterfront restaurant for a cruiser party. There'll be an all-youcan-eat buffet, drinks, fireworks, and a bus to take ‘happy’ cruisers safely back to their boats. > • Carnival For those of you who won’t be able to cruise all the way to Rio or Trinidad this year, Mazatlan lays claim to the third biggest Carnival in the world. This year the parades, masked balls, all-night street dancing, fireworks and other festivities will commence on Feb¬ ruary 8. And get this: because this carnival is in Mexico, the week lasts nine days! Markie has rented the entire first floor of a hotel and res¬ taurant so cruisers will have a great vantage point for the parade. In¬ cluded will be a Mexican buffet, an all-you-can-drink bar, and lots of friends. • St. Patrick's Day. St. Patty’s, a surprisingly popular holiday in Mexico, will feature a morning mass and blessing of the fleet, an after¬ noon of corned beef and cabbage meal, horseshoes, cjinghy races, darts and storytelling. There might even be a little to drink. • Easter. Just prior to the arrival of the Easter Bunny, Marina Mazatlan will feature a roast boar dinner around the pool, with horse¬ shoes, basketball, and a dance. Markie wants all cruisers to know that all Mazatlan Marina's activi¬ ties are family oriented and that they'll always be special activities for kids. In addition, the city of Mazatlan has lots of things for kids to see and do — a water park, aquarium, bird shows, movie theaters, lots of beaches and, if they must, even a McDonald’s. Mazatlan — if you're headed south, you might want to put it back on your chart. November, 1997 •

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SIGHTINGS fishing road trip We were tooling down Harbor Drive in San Diego in Stuart Kiehl’s (S/V Even KiehQ convertible on September 30, when Linda (S/V Rooster Cogburn) yelled, “Fish!" "Where?” I said “In the road, opposite direction.” “What kind?” I said. “Albacore,” said Don Marcy (S/ V Melinda) 'Turn around!” I yelled to Stuart. “Are you sure?” he asked. “YES!” we all said in unison. He slammed on the brakes and made a screeching U-turn, down¬ shifted and burned rubber toward what at first looked like three dead seals laying in the road. We 'slid to a halt and all tried to pile out the doors at the same time. Keystone Cops style. Stuart and I ‘hooked’ the three beauties and threw them into the trunk. Linda yelled something Left to right, ‘road crew’Don, Stuart and Tim. about, “Don’t throw them on my bag!" Some women just don’t appre¬ ciate the hardships of a normal fishing expedition. Off we zoomed for a hastily-organized barbecue. It lasted two days. Our fishing trip has become legendary around the docks. All it takes is someone to say, “Have you heard the story of the ‘San Diego Roadkill’?” and everyone cracks up. By the way, thanks to the Mission Fish Company. That’s what the tags on the fish’s pectoral fins read. V — tim leathers rooster cogburn, sausalito Tim •— We’ve heard El Nino was bringing the albacore in closer to shore, but we had no idea how pronounced the phenomenon was in Southern California.

SOSpenders recall SOSpenders, the inflatable vests whose popularity has soared since the inception of mandatory lifejacket rules at nearly all levels of racing, are undergoing a recall. Note that this is for automatic vests only — the ones that are designed to inflate when immersed in water. Manuallyinflated vests are not subject to the recall, and the manual features of the automatic vests (lanyard trigger and oral inflation) are not affected. A possible defect in the ‘automatic inflator bobbin- — the thing that triggers the auto-inflation — came to light last year as the result of a fatality in Europe. After 8 hours of submersion, the bobbin failed to trigger the automatic inflator. Initially, Halkey-Roberts, the maker of the bobbin, thought the problem was isolated to some batches of bob¬ bins produced in 1996. They have now announced that as a precau¬ tionary measure, they are recalling all bobbins produced prior to Sep¬ tember, 1997. Sporting Lives, Inc., which manufactures SOSpenders and the simi¬ lar West Marine-brand inflatable vests, considers this problem to be of ‘critical status’. They are joining Halkey-Roberts in an urgent recall/ replacement program. It’s going to be no small task: HR has sold over one million automatic inflators over the years. And, theoretically at least, any of them could have a defective bobbin. The bobbins are red and white or orange and white. The date of manufacture is stamped on the side. For example, HRC 04/96 means Halkey-Roberts manufactured the bobbin in April of 1996. In the vests, continued outside column of next sightings page.

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murder case acquitted August 8. According to reports in the Durban, South Africa, Daily News, two top South African detectives uncovered the new evi¬ dence in the Heath case after a short in¬ vestigative trip to the islands. During ex¬ tensive interviews, an informant disclosed that West Indian Dafton Keil had con¬ fessed to swimming out to the boat to rob it. Keil claimed his accomplice, a man know as Muslim, attacked Lorraine Heath, while he robbed Alan in another part of the boat. This tale is consistent

SIGHTINGS — cont’d with the scenario Heath originally re¬ ported to police. At this writing, both Keil and Muslim are still at large. The two South African investigators came to St. Vincent at the invitation — only recently — of Prime Minister Mitchell, who has been simmering in a pressurecooker of controversy over the handling of both murder investigations. Before leav¬ ing the islands, the detectives will also investigate Heath’s allegations of extor¬ tion. continued middle of next sightings page

recall — cont’d the bobbins can be found inside the automatic inflator mechanism. They are also included in ‘re-arming’ kits. The following models of Sporting Lives inflatables could be affected: 1-38H, 1-38AH, 1-38ASTD, 1-38APRO, 1-38PROA, 1-38BAEZ, 1-23EZ, 1-23A, 1-20A and 1-20AH. Re-arming kits that could have these bob¬ bins inside include 1-38ARP, 1-23ARP, 1-20ARP and A-BOB. West Marine model numbers include WM-38AH (569129) and BOB-A (251829). Halkey-Roberts has set up a toll-free number — (800) 303-4384 — to handle the bobbin replacement program. If you call, they will send you replacement bobbins with instructions. West Marine will also be involved in the recall. You can bring bobcontinued outside column of next sightings page

SOSpenders have become so popular that it’s not unusual to see whole crews wearing them. We applaud manufacturers and distributors for their quick atten¬ tion and diligence in the recent recall.

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recall — cont’d bins or vests into any store and exchange the old bobbins for new ones free of charge, whether you bought the vest from them or not. "I think this is a great example of a manufacturer being ultra-responsive to a potential problem,” says West Marine’s Chuck Hawley of Sporting Lives and Halkey-Roberts. “Ultimately, it will result in better products.” In their news release on the recall, Sporting Lives also addressed a few additional concerns regarding the bobbins, and PFDs in general: • Sporting Lives is concerned that old, possibly defective bobbins will not be completely removed from service, and that they may be¬ come co-mingled with new (September 1997 or later) bobbins. This could be particularly true for re-arming kits. Therefore, the company highly recommends that consumers destroy the old bobbins before discarding them. You can do this by soaking them in water, whacking them with a hammer or anything else to prevent re-use. • In order to maintain the highest degree of performance, even good bobbins need to be replaced at least every 12 months — mofe fre¬ quently in hot, humid and/or heavy-use conditions. This is primarily to reduce the possibility of premature inflation. Remember, all bobbins are subject to long-term deterioration due to temperature and humid¬ ity. v • Whereas inflatable PFDs provide many advantages over foam lifejackets, the former also require more responsibility for care and maintenance. Consumers should check an inflatable vest for leaks at least once a season. Check for leaks by inflating the vest orally until firm, then leave it overnight. The vest should still be firm in the morn¬ ing. Also check for corrosion, make sure the hardware is still strong and that the inflator is properly armed. Additional information can be found on the Coast Guard Web page at: http://www.dot.gov/dottnfo/uscg/hq/g-m/nmc/alert/lifejacket.htm.

de-naming ceremony The debate rages on: is it really bad luck to change the name of a boat, or no big deal? We suspect the answer is somewhere in between, which brings us to the following article by John Vigor. This piece origi¬ nally appeared in our June, 1994, issue — not, as almost everyone re¬ questing reprints has estimated, “about six months ago. ” And have we gotten requests. Not gobs at once, but a steady stream over the months and years since it first appeared in Sightings. Apparently, as people moved up to new boats* whose names they didn’tparticuldrly like, some little bell would go off in the backs of their heads about this article and they’d call us up. So for them, and for all of the rest of you who plan to move up someday, here — back by popular demand, as they say — is Vigor’s denaming ceremony once again. And this time, folks, please ei¬ ther memorize it or make copies for your ‘someday’ file, because we’re not going to run it again. I once met a man in Florida who told me he’d owned 24 different yachts and renamed every single one of them. “Did it bring you bad luck?” I asked. “Not that I’m aware of,” he said. “You don’t believe in those old su¬ perstitions, do you?” “Well, yes,” I said. “As a matter of fact, 1 do. And so do a lot of other sailors who wouldn’t consciously do anything to annoy the ancient gods of the wind and sea. Out there, you need all the help you can get.” Actually, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not so much being superstitious as being careful. It’s part of good seamanship. That’s why I had to invent a ‘de-naming’ ceremony some years ago to ward off bad luck when I wanted to change the name of my new 31-ft sloop from Our Way to Freelance. I needed a formal ceremony to wipe the slate clean in preparation for the renaming. I searched in vain for one. But research showed that such a ceremony should consist of five parts: continued outside column of next sightings page

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With T-minus nine months and count¬ ing until the '98 West Marine Pacific Cup blasts off, all systems are go. Interest in

‘Rage’ will be back in ‘98 to have a go at her own Pacific Cup record.

the tenth biennial 'Fun Race to Hawaii', which will depart from San Francisco in four waves between June 29 and July 2, is running high, as evidenced by the ac¬ companying entry list. 'We've expanded our capacity at Kaneohe YC to take 70 boats this year," said Pacific Cup spokes¬ man Jim Quanci. "Right now we're up to 67 entries, and we plan to accept 90 boats before starting the waiting list. We expect to be 'sold out' by the end of November, so if you're planning to join us, get your application in soon." What if all 90 boats on the list actually complete the 2,070-mile trip? 'That would be a pleasant dilemma, but unlikely," claimed Quanci. "Historically, we usually lose a bunch of entrants as plans change and/or reality sets in, and five or six start¬ ers usually take DNFs. But having said that, this is probably the strongest entry field we’ve seen yet. There are lots of solid boats and experienced people on the list, including quite a few returning veterans." Though Pacific Cup organizers are loathe to admit if, the '98 race is shaping up to be far more serious than in previ¬ ous years. "Yikes, there are some big boats here. It's starting to look more like the TransPac than a Pacific Cup!" noted Com¬ modore Tompkins upon reviewing the entry list. He’ll be one of many 'experi¬ enced people' in this year's fleet, sailing with San Jose pathologist Bill Siegel on the latter’s recently purchased SC 52 Vitesse (ex-Two Dog Gone). Their new-tothem 52 — which will be painted fire en¬ gine red like Siegel's previous boat, the WylieCat 30 Mustang Salty — will have plenty of competition in their size range. Currently four really good SC 50s are en¬ tered (with more to come, we're told), as is City Lights, a SC 52 which Glenn Isaacson (Re-Quest) is chartering. Steve

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to watch in this group. However, a trio of record-hungry ULDB turbosleds — Pyewacket (with '96 overall Pac Cup winners Stan Honey and Sally Lindsay aboard), Cheval and Mag¬ nitude — are threatening to steal center stage next summer. "It’s a mixed bless¬ ing," admitted Mary Lovely, another PCYC staff commodore. 'Those boats will bring a lot of attention and excitement to the race, but we're also getting a long way from the low-key roots and values that the event was founded on." Throw in cur¬ rent record holder Rage (7 days, 22 hours, set in '96), a new under-construction 77foot Wylie/Rander collaboration that is rumored to be a bigger, badder version of Rage, and maybe even Fred Priess' 100-, foot Christine, and suddenly. . . well, Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore. Even the smaller boats, which have been the backbone of the race over the years, aren't particularly small this year. The doublehanded class — 15 strong at this writing — doesn't include any boats under 30 feet (where are the Moore 24s?), and the majority of the fully crewed boats are now in the 40-foot range. Most of the boats (over 40, by our count) are from Northern California; 15 are from the Northwest; and just four each hail from Hawaii and Southern California. Winning the 'long distance award' so far is Saburo Iniki, who's coming out from Mamaroneck, NY. Saburo did the '96 race in his J/ 105 Puff, and is returning this time in a J/120 of the same name. We'll keep you posted on the upcom¬ ing West Marine Pacific Cup, with more frequent updates as the event draws closer. To get a race packet, send $20 to the Pacific Cup YC, 2269 Chestnut Street, #111, San Francisco, CA 94123. "People with questions about the race should feel free to call us," said Mary and Jim, who can be reached at (415) 441-4461.

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an invocation, an expression of gratitude, a supplication, a rededicat¬ ion and a libation. So 1 sat down and wrote my own ceremony. It worked perfectly. Freelance carried us thousands of deep-sea miles and enjoyed good luck all the way. The ceremohy should be read with flair on the foredeck before a gathering of distinguished guests. Or it can be mumbled down below by the skipper alone if he or she finds these things embarassing. The libation part, however, must be carried out at the bow, as was the original naming ceremony. And I would advise you to use nothing but the finest champagne and to pour it all on the boat. One thing the gods of the sea despise most is meanness, so don’t tiy to do this part on the cheap. How much time should you leave between the de-naming ceremony and the new-naming ceremony? There’s no fixed limit. You can do the renaming right after the de-naming, if you want, but I’d prefer to see a gap of at least 24 hours to allow the demons time to clear out. Oh, and one other thing — you have to remove all physical traces of . the boat’s old name before the de-naming ceremony. There may be official papers with the old name on them, of course. If you can’t de¬ stroy them you should at least keep them well out of sight in a locker during the ceremony. But don’t neglect to wipe the name out in the obvious places — bow, stern, dinghy, oars, logbook, lifering, charts and so on. Likewise, do not place the new name anywhere on the boat before the de-naming ceremony is carried out. Hoo-boy, that would be tempt¬ ing fate. The ceremony: In the name of all who have sailed aboard this vessel in the past, and all who may sail aboard her in the future, we invoke the ancient godLs of wind and sea to favor us with their blessing today. Mighty Neptune, king of all that moves on the waves, and mighty Aeolius, guardian of the winds and all that blows before them: we offer you our thanks for the protection you have afforded this vessel in the past. We voice our gratitude that she has always found shelter from tempest'and storm and enjoyed safe passage to port. Now, therefore, we submit this supplication, that the name whereby this vessel has hitherto been known, '_’, be struck and removed from your records. Further, we ask that when she is again presentedfor blessing with another name, she shall be recognized and shall be ac¬ corded once again the self-same privileges she previously enjoyed. In return for this, wb rededicate this vessel to thy domain,in full knowl¬ edge that she shall be subject to the immutable laws of the gods of wind and sea. In consequence whereof, and in good faith, we seal this pact with a libation offered according to the hallowed ritual of the sea.

Sailing is one of the last bastions of serious superstition. Like mom and apple pie, superstition and sailing are an in¬ separable part of one another. They’re sacrosanct and, if you know what’s good for you, you don’t mess with them. Even those who blithely break mirrors and walk under ladders ashore don’t usually mess with sailing superstitions. Many sailing superstitions, of course, no longer apply. Such as the once-thought bad luck of sailing with a woman aboard. But women still figure into the formula. There are places in the North Sea, for ex¬ ample, where fishermen might still refuse to go to sea if a barefooted woman crosses their path on the way to the boat. On the other hand, seamen once believed that gales and high winds would subside if a naked woman appeared before them — thus the proliferation of bare-breasted fig¬ ureheads in the late 19th century. Another one that has thankfully gone away is the belief that to be successful, a warship’s keel must taste the blood of live persons during her launching. This led to tying live slaves to the ways of new Ro¬ man galleys just before they slid into the water — and doubtless some pretty gross cleanup chores for the janitorial staff. But many superstitions linger on: Not beginning a long voyage on Friday, the importance of christening a boat with wine or champagne on launch, and the per¬ ceived bad luck of changing boat names are perhaps the Big Three. More obscure though no less seriously taken: to this day, you won’t often find flowers aboard warship's getting underway (particularly submarines), as they were once thought destined to form a wreath for either a sailor aboard or the ship and all her com¬ pany. What we want to know is, have any of you had experiences that seem to bear out any of the old superstitions? For ex¬ ample, did a recently renamed boat ever meet with bad luck? Have you ever seen St. Elmo’s fire and experienced good for¬ tune soon after? We’ve been told that it’s bad luck to have bananas on board. Ever heard that one? Has whistling a tune aboard during calm weather ever brought desired wind, or whistling during a breeze ever brought an unwanted gale? Has the feather of a wren ever apparently saved anyone from death by shipwreck? (This one was once so popular on the Isle of Man that wrens were nearly eradicated in yearly slaughters.) There are scores of others that we don’t have the time to list — or, frankly, never heard of. We’re depending on those of you

Now pop the cork, shake the bottle and spray the whole of the con¬ tent over the bow. Then go quietly below and enjoy the other bottle yourselves. —john vigor

short sightings MIAMI BEACH — Not long after the media feeding frenzy over An¬ drew Cunanan was over, somebody recognized that the strip of Miami Beach’s Indian Creek where his last hideout was located was the site of the ’60s TV series Surfside Six, which starred Troy Donahue as a hip private investigator (is there any other kind?) who lived on a house¬ boat. There was a huge houseboat community there then. The city banned any new houseboats in 1983, but the ones already there were allowed to stay. Cunanan’s hideout — part of which also consisted of a sailboat docked a couple hundred yards away — is one of the last houseboats on the Creek. continued outside column of next sightings page

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THE EVER-SHRINKING ATLANTIC — Chris Dickson may have wound up a disappointing sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race (see article immediately following Sightings), but he still claimed some of the spotlight upon arrival in Cape Town last month. continued outside column of next sightings page

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who have ‘experienced’ them to enlighten us. If we get enough responses, we’ll com¬ pile them into an update of which super¬ stitions are ‘still in effect’ as we approach the millenium. Send them to us at either

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our street address, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941, or email them to editorial@latitude38.com, and be sure to note ‘Superstitions’ on the correspon¬ dence somewhere.

A few years ago, we had something of a tradi¬ tion going here at ‘Latitude’. Immediately after the issue was done, a few of us would jump aboard our company boat (then an Ericson 35) and go sailing. No particular destination; who¬ ever was steering chose the course. As we usu¬ ally finished on a weekday afternoon, we often had the Bay to ourselves. In a word, it was won¬ derful. But then that boat got sold and the next one was on a trailer most of the time.... In studying this Columbia 34 looking good on an afternoon sail, it occurs to us that we have to restart that tradition again soon.

In completing the qualifying trans-Atlantic run on the Whitbread 60 Toshiba, which he co-skippers with Dennis Conner (who was not aboard), Dicko and the boys set a new 24-hour monohull speed record.

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Noon to noon between July 29 and 30, Toshiba sailed 434.4 miles, an average of 18.1 knots! The highest boatspeed attained (by watch cap¬ tain Steve Cotton) was 31.4 knots! “Wet, windy and wild, with the deck continually awash,” is how Dickson described the crossing. The cel¬ ebration of the record was delayed until late October because it took that long for the World Sailing Speed Record Council to ratify the new mark. The old record of 428 miles was also set by a W-60, Lawrie Smith’s Intrum Justitia, during the ‘93-’94 Whitbread. BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA — A team of searchers was hard at work off this this east coast city as we went to press, excavating the wreck of ship that may have belonged to the infamous pirate Blackbeard. / Queen Anne’s Revenge was sunk about a year before Blackbeard — whose real name was Edward Teach — was killed in 1718. So far, all the right indicators are there: Queen Anne’s Revenge was a captured Dutch flute of about 100 feet, the same size as the wreck, and the wood, white oak, is also correct. It was never clear whether Blackbeard grounded the ship on a sandbar accidentally or scuttled it, so the team is also looking for ‘purposely made’ holes in its surviving timbers.

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DRAKE'S BAY — While we’re on the subject of searches for historic ships, another team is hard at it in Drakes Bay. The object of their desire is the San Agustin, the elusive Manila galleon that reportedly went down there on November 6, 1595. The ship’s company had stopped to provision and have a look around when a storm came up and drove the Agustin ashore, killing 12 of her crew. The rest, who watched help¬ lessly from shore, finally made it back to Acapulco in an open boat they’d built on the beach. The searchers are from a variety of state and national agencies, as well as UC Berkeley. If found, any remnants of the ship or her cargo — which included Ming Dynasty porcelain — would remain in the public trust and be put on display. As we recall, that’s why famed treasure hunter Robert Marx abruptly called off his planned excavation of the same ship a few years ago. He claimed to have found the San Agustin, but the state agency that con¬ trolled the piece of water it was in (we forget which one) said he had to turn everything he found over to them. He couldn’t keep anything. We also assume this is why the group presently searching doesn’t just call Marx and ask him where the wreck is. MASSACHUSETTS — Firefighters who extinguished a blazing Mercedes station wagon near Eastham were surprised at how the fire started. Seems the trailer hitch on the 20-ft boat it was towing disen¬ gaged and punctured the gas tank. The solo driver wasn’t injured. November. 1997 • IxtSUjL• Page 107

WHITBREAD RACE, LEG ONE -t3elying the oddsmakers — who had slipped them from 12-1 to 20-1 longshots when navigator/meteorologist Nick White departed abruptly just before the start — Paul Cayard and his EF Language crew pulled into Cape Town 20 hours ahead of the next boat to claim the opening round of the '97-'98 Whitbread Around the World Race for the Volvo Trophy. "It was a team effort, and everyone gave 120%," claimed a jubilant Cayard, who reserved special praise for navigator Mark Rudiger. "Rudy did a great job for us! He only had a week to learn the systems, let alone grasp the historical data of the route." EF Language had trailed first half leader Kvaerner Innovation and Merit Cup until Ilha de Trindade, the turning mark off Brazil. That’s where Rudiger called the game-winning move. "I saw some fronts and associated lows coming off Argen¬ tina," said Mark. "I thought if we could hook into one of those we could gain some miles. . . but it took some convincing be¬ fore Cayard agreed!" From there, the kites went up and the sleigh ride started — riding the low pres¬ sure ridge, EFL grabbed the lead and never looked back. Cayard, Rudiger and ten tough-as-nails other guys — Ameri¬ cans Kimo Worthington, Steve Erickson, Josh Belsky and Curt Oetking, with Curtis Blewett (CAN), Mark Christensen (NZ), Justin Clougher (AUS), occasional Bay Area resident Marco Constant (NED), and two 'token' Swedes, Klas Nylof and Magnus Olson —jammed the throttle wide open for the dash to Cape Town, run¬ ning up a lead of over 100 miles before the fleet compressed together at the light air finish. Unlike a lot of their competitors, the EFL crew didn't break anything big (al¬ though there were 170 items on their to-

yard. "Curtis is a tough young kid," said Paul, "But I decided never to let him do that again." A close race for second ultimately went to Grant Dalton's Merit Cup, which beat Kvaerner by under two hours. Merit Cup, the narrowest design with the smallest rudder, had a particularly wild ride — they broached "too many times to count," and blew out almost all their spinnakers. Silk Cut, by contrast, pulled in 24 hours later with just one slightly ripped sail — a tes¬ timony to finding less wind on the race course. Silk Cut did, however, manage to post a 412-mile day near the end of the race, tops in the fleet for this leg. Chessie Racing finished better thap expected in fifth, while Chris Dickson's Toshiba was a disappointing sixth after improbably battling underdog America's Challenge for most of the leg. The rest of the fleet dribbled in up to a week after EFL, with the hard-luck BrunelSunergy lads still 171 miles out at this writing. This boat broke the bottom two feet of their rudder off in a collision with a whale and had to make a quick pit-stop in Recife, Brazil, for repairs. Add¬ ing insult to injury, their top mast inverted next (a backstay shackle broke), leaving them unable to fly masthead kites. Leg Two, 4,600 miles to Fremantle through the colder but more predictable Southern Ocean, starts on November 8. Be sure to watch ESPN next month for the full Leg One story, as well as the Leg Two start (see Calendar for dates). Also, if you have access to the internet — and who doesn't these days? — punch up the truly excellent Whitbread web site [http:/ /www.whitbread.org). You'll find tons of info on the Race, including e-mails from

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do list after the race), hurt anyone or run out of food. Still, they took some risks that lesser sailors might have found unaccept¬ able: for example, bowman Blewett freeclimbed from the hounds to the masthead (20 feet higher, while 75 feet above the deck) to retrieve their last masthead halPage 108 • b&UdtZS • November, 1997

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the crews that describe the sailing better than we ever could. Ah, the miracle of modern technology! We’ll leave you with a sampling of those e-mail 'sound bites'. Tune in next month for more. . .

"n V>/h, the joys of being on the wind in a Whitbread 60. The boats are very flat and shallow up front and with four tons of water ballast, sails, food, stores and people all on the windward side, Toshiba sails fast without a lot of heel. Put waves into the mix with nine knots of boat speed and the boat crashes over the waves with horrifying smacks and bangs several times a minute. The sound is deafening, the sudden motion unbalancing and the loads on the mast and sails is too much to think about. The motion is ten times worse than flying through bad turbulence in the back of economy on a 747 (I pre¬ sume). It makes typing very difficult, standing up dangerous and sleeping only for the very tired, which happily we usu¬ ally are." — Chris Dickson, Toshiba. "Looking at the sky, temperature in the water, temperature in the air, the wind. . . . it's all perfect for anything but yacht racing. We've been looking at the same piece of garbage in the water for a day now. Today the first sign of mistrust came. Somebody said if we arrive in Cape Town, not when we arrive. Pretty serious, that." — Gunnar Krantz [Swedish Match) after sailing just 17 miles in six hours. "The temperature has crept up to a steady 29 degrees Celsius with humidity to match at close to 100%. The air is thick and sticky, clothes are continually damp and paper is too soggy to write on. On deck in the wind it is very pleasant, but a bit damp from spray. Down below the tem-

NOTES & QUOTES had the chance to explore the limits be¬ fore the race — we're doing on the job training." — Ross Field, whose America's Challenge was the last boat to secure funding. "Great sailing, tropical temperature, nice steady wind. The crew is working the boat hard. We spend copious amounts of time stacking sails on deck and gear in¬ side the boat to windward to maximize the righting moment without taking on the weight of the water ballast until we absolutely have to. This is one of the chores that you do much better when you are doing well as opposed to when you are behind." — Paul Cayard, EFLanguage. "Life in the cheap seats is not a lot of fun." — Pre-race favorite Chris Dickson, upon finding himself mired in sixth place.

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'EFL' leads the charge out of Southampton. In¬ set: Versatile supersailor Paul Cayard clobbered the fleet in his Whitbread debut.

perature is a lot hotter from the heat of cooking, generator use, lights and people. There is little air circulation even though the vents and hatches are all wide open and all of the fans (two, that is) are fan¬ ning away. It is too hot to sleep below and too wet to sleep on deck. So we lie still on our mesh bunks, trying not to move even in our dreams for fear of overheating fur¬ ther, and think of how pleasant the South¬ ern Ocean will be with its lovely cool nights and diy crisp air." — Chris Dick¬ son, describing life near the Equator. "We have him full of drugs now and he's enjoying a nice ride to Cape Town from his bunk. He'll be okay, but the crew present at the de-fingering weren't. They fainted on the spot, leaving only the helmsman standing at the wheel. These tough Whitbread sailors will remain nameless until they wish to reveal their identities." — Ross Field, skipper of Amer¬ ica's Challenge and father of 27-year-old Campbell Field, who lost half an inch off the end of his index finger when it got caught in the mainsheet block. "Every once in a while us sailors are treated to a gift from King Neptune. In our case, in the last couple of days he opened up his gates from the North to the South Atlantic with apparently no strings attached. For you more scientific types, we were able to 'sail' through the Inter-

Tropical Convergence Zone where the Northern Hemisphere trades meet the Southern Hemisphere trades in a turbu¬ lent, confused, squally, no wind area. One onboard real-time satellite image we downloaded looked like the opening of the Red Sea, as the winds filling in between the two pushed the normally troublesome clouds aside ahead of us and we quickly skirted through. Now we’re watching it close behind us — and wondering which of our less fortunate competitors will be fighting to free themselves." — Mark Rud¬ iger, EFL navigator. "It was 2 a.m. in the morning and ev¬ eryone was huddled down aft to keep the bow from burying itself. Waves were pour¬ ing across the deck. . . I don't know how fast we were going, the speedo was un¬ derwater. I guess we must have been hit¬ ting 25 knots when a big puff came through — probably about 50 knots — and we wiped out. I was literally swim¬ ming along the cockpit floor, the boat was completely submerged in water. . . The boys had to drop the main to recover and we lost about an hour and a half cleaning up the mess. It was a night of total de¬ struction, but we survived. The only real damage is that we lost a valuable sail over¬ board — our code six, a 1.5 ounce run¬ ning spinnaker. And we also destroyed the spinnaker we had up at the time. "We just held on too long. But now we know the limit. Next time we get into these conditions, we'll know when it's time to back off. It's another part of the learning process with a new boat. Everyone else

"This is the real Whitbread now, no more Princess Cruises. . . The shudder¬ ing, shaking and violent jerking of the boat throws people out of their bunks. On deck you can't tell if this thing is a boat or a submarine. Because of the water ballast, it sails quite upright and fast at a rela¬ tively high angle. The decks are completely awash, sometimes up to one metre. When we change headsails and the boys go for¬ ward, you wonder how they can make headway for the force of the water. Last night I steered for four hours straight and never have been pelted with a fire hose like that. Several times people simply got washed away until their safety harnesses fetched up. i "Everything is wet. You don't sleep, you rest out of the wind and water. Everything is stacked aft now trying to keep the bow from submarining. The waves are 15 feet high. This is a sleigh ride you can't imag¬ ine. . . We're pushing the hell out of this crate. We grind the mainsheet constantly, even in 35 knots of wind. We hit 30 knots of boatspeed regularly, and 18 knots seems parked." — race virgin Paul Cay¬ ard, after the wind picked up. "Driving is very difficult. We can push the boat hard, but it is true that we canpot push as hard as men in the long term." — Christine Guillou, EF Education. "There's going to be a number of pro¬ posals in Cape Town, but if the women have any sense they will turn them down. Why marry a person who is never home, earns very little money, nil future job pros¬ pects, very untidy, smells when he fin¬ ishes work, wants to drink with his mates, etc., etc.?" — Ross Field November, 1997 • UfcWt?? • Page 109

WHITBREAD RACE, LEG ONE snowballs." — Gunnar Krantz, still cheer¬ ful after finishing eighth.

"It’s wet, wild and wonderful! It's al¬ most impossible to stay on your feet on deck. There will be more than a few big bruises to show for this. No one has been to sleep for 24 hours. We've been on deck for all that time. At least it has tempo¬ rarily stopped them from moaning about the (lack of) food." — Grant Dalton, Merit Cup. "The fire company is still practicing on us. I'd say we got four trucks, a hook and ladder, three choppers and one Hughes seaplane pumping water at us. The good news is that this means we're hauling the mail to Cape Town. We are going to do another 100 miles at the barn on this sked. The boat is clean. We are even semi¬ clean." — Paul Cayard (ed. note: the sked' is the 6-hour position report) "It's getting very cold at night. Would be nice with sleeping bags now. I have all the gear (two sets of underwear) on, even though it has been used for almost four weeks and smells a bit funny. Saturday is a sad day — it's our last day with a regular meal. After that, we are just liv-

"The first mile was great and the last mile was great, but the 7,000 in between were not so good. . . Two minutes made the difference of two days." — Chris Dickson, explaining how a missed windshift on the fourth day doomed them to the "middle class." "They're all old blokes. Who’s gonna pull the sails up and down in 35 knots? They'll all be standing at the back of the boat wondering how to get the big spin¬ naker down!" — Lawrie Smith (Silk Cut), speaking before the race about Cayard's EFL crew. Last-minute draftee Mark Rudiger rose to the occasion. The Sausalito sail maker gets our vote — and everyone else's — for MVP honors.

ing on savings and leftovers from previ¬ ous meals." — Knut Frostad, Kvaerner. \ "There were no major problems. We just ended up in the wrong spot, and that

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They were all there, just as I had predicted: a group of disappointed windsurfers, not ready to admit that the strong morning northerly had faded for the day and probably wouldn’t return. They were adjusting their rigs and watching the sky from the parking lot by the small strip of beach next to the marina. I had wandered over in search of ablebodied sailors. My dock neighbor was unstepping his mast and needed about six more sets 6f strong arms to do it safely — but the yacht club had suddenly become strangely deserted for a Saturday morning. So after being assured that everything was completely ready and he’d only need help for “five minutes maxi¬ mum,” I volunteered to lead a press gang to the beach to find some sailboarders with time on their hands. Also as predicted, Lee Helm was one of the group. Judging by her wet hair and wetsuit she was one of the lucky ones, having been out early before the wind died. Most of the others were in various stages of rigging up, and the air was thick with “you should have been here an hour ago.” Lee, however, was talking about something completely different: “Last night was awesome!” she exclaimed. “I dove south of the fleet and must have been one of the first across the cold front. Then I changed course again at midnight, and ran to the north with the front. I mean, like, I must have gained 30 miles on the boats that stayed on rhumbline.” “I did that too,” said another windsurfer. “But I held high^ after the front. You made a short-term gain by cracking off, but wait ‘til you see what that high does.”

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“Where is this race you’re talking about?” “South Indian Ocean,”she said.“We’re racing right now.” ‘That’s the strangest race postmortem I’ve ever heard from a bunch of windsurfers,” I said as I walked into the group, fighting off the feeling of being way out of place by imagining I was walking into my own yacht club bar. “Yo Max!” Lee greeted me. “You should have been here an hour ago!” The Bay was smokin’,” confirmed one of her friends. “Then shut off real suddenly. Lucky to get back at all on my sinker.”

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96-hour prog?” I don’t know much about meteorology, but something sounded fishy about easterlies on top of a high. “Where is this race you’re talking about?” I asked. “And is it past, present, or future?” “South Indian Ocean,” she said. “We’re racing right now. And I’m going to beat this geek to Australia.” “In your dreams,” answered her competitor. “But I’m way to the south of both of

Unreal idea — Virtual Whitbread race screens include wind patterns (above) and virtual yacht tracks (right).

you,” said another windsurfer, “and the forecasts show five more knots of wind for me all the way to the end of the leg." “But from 150 miles back?” taunted Lee. “No way!” “Way!" she argued. “Stop!” I practically shouted. “Will someone please explain what this is all about?” ‘The Virtual Whitbread," Lee said. ‘The what?" “You mean there’s someone on the planet who doesn't know?” someone gasped. “Remember it’s still 1997,” said another sailor. “You know, there are people operating with limited connectivity, in low-bandwidth space...” But Lee finally gave me the straight answer. “It’s a real-time race simulator that shadows the Whitbread Round-theWorld Race. There are 4,000 entries from all over the world. We race the same nine legs as the real thing, and for as long — nine months. A couple of times each day we log into the Whitbread website, check our boat’s position, see where the competition is, view a set of weather maps, and set a new course to steer ‘til the next login. Way kool. I’m in 107th place!” “Is this something like the 'Transpac Simulator’ you were talking about a few years ago?” I asked.

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by John Bertrand — the Aussie A-cup skipper, not the American Olympic Finn guy — and some other Australians. They got the exclusive for the Whitbread website. They’re also going after Olympics, World Cup, Tour de France, maybe even A-cup 2000. But like, it’s hard to imagine how any of those other venues could lend themselves as well to interactive participation by the fans.” ‘There are some race car simulators on the net that look pretty good,” someone noted. “You could probably do a reason¬ able bike race simulator in real time using some of the same techniques.” “But the biological model dominates in bike racing," someone else replied. “As it does in nearly all the Olympic sports."

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“Where’s the beer?” asked one of her friends. This will only take a minute!” cried the owner from inside the cabin as he flailed around for the necessary rope. “So how can I enter this virtual race?” I asked Lee while we waited. “You can’t,” she said. “At least not ‘till this leg is over. I mean, they originally projected 2,000 players maximum, after nine months of racing. But like, they had twice that before the first leg even started! So new entries have been restricted to narrow time windows between legs.” “Yeah,” said another virtual racer, “but of those 4,000 entries, I think about 3,000 of them never logged on during the entire first leg. Mainly due to connectivity and software problems at Quokka’s end, it seems. The boats just sailed in autopilot mode, meaning they sailed along the rumbline and all came in tied with each other. “I was one of them," said another windsurfer. “Sometimes I’d log in and an applet would freeze, sometimes I couldn’t

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“In some ways, yes. It’s an ocean racing strategy game at the core, although they did have to dumb it down a bit because it’s also an experiment in interactive spectating for the Whitbread.” “Sounds like good fun,” I allowed. “Who’s behind it, the Whitbread folks in England?” “Nope, it’s being run right out of an office here in San Francisco,” said Lee. “A company called Quokka Sports, started

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He was still backing off turnbuckles, and tools were spread everywhere on the deck. “Okay, we’re here,” I announced. “Where to you want us all positioned?” “Oh, um, let’s see. How about two of you holding this halyard from on the dock, way forward of the bow. Just a sec, let me get an extension for it and make sure the other end is secure...” “Your five minutes are running,” called Lee.

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get in at all, sometimes the program wouldn’t accept my instructions. 'What a mess' is all I can say as a computer professional. Sheesh, I have degrees in comp sci and believe me I know how to configure a browser. But that site was hopeless.” “Why they ever did it all in Java is beyond me,” said another windsurfer who also turned out to be in the programming business. “In fact the whole thing could November, 1997

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MAX EBB have run just fine in a text-only interface, with two orders of magnitude more bandwidth. Maybe an option to spend a half hour downloading a program to run in the local machine for the fancy view and the graphic depictions. But why use Java when all we needed was a few Kbytes of numbers swapped back and forth with each login?” “Well, if your only tool is a hammer...” The programmer continued his rant. “Ironic, wasn't it? So much fancy highbandwidth footwork that the T3 line to the Tandem server in Cupertino got swamped, and for days there were people all over the world who couldn’t even get the basic press releases on the main website. “It certainly wouldn’t be the first time that ambitious web site designers torpedoed themselves with too much pizzazz,” noted the computer science grad. “And they were still re-writing code all through the first leg!” added the programmer, with a certain amount of morbid enjoyment now showing in his voice. “At least one of the consultants even¬ tually ‘fessed up on rec.boats.racing to having the 'u' and 'v' coordinates of the wind field backwards for one quadrant of the wind direction.” “Is that what it was?” asked another windsurfer. “I was wondering how the wind managed to be right out of the south

up VJTosh, I sure am thirsty,” said one of the helpers in a bellowed stage whisper.% “Could use something to eat too,” said another. “Any chips or cookies down there?” “I’m getting awfully hot in this wetsuit,” complained Lee. The owner just grimaced as he ran around loosening the last turnbuckles as fast as he could. “How often to you have to,log on to race these virtual boats?” I asked. Lee tried to explain it all in one gulp: ‘They do a ‘crank’ every 6 hours, at 00, 06, 12, and 18 GMT. That’s when they update the boat’s positions*based on the wind field. But the new weather maps only arrive twice a day, at 00 and 12 GMT. I don’t think there’s any advantage to logging on more than four times a day, right before each crank. And as a practical matter, twice a day will do it, right after you can see the new weather.” “What about over the weekend, if I only log on from work?” “There’s an autopilot mo'de that it defaults to. But the boat won’t sail very aggressively that way. You can, however, specify a waypoint to aim for that’s far enough down the track so you’ll still be sort of in control a few days later. In CMG

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on that leg when all other weather reports, and the real racers, not to mention the pilot charts, said the wind should be from east-southeast. But my virtual boat was making decent time right upwind, so I figured something had to be screwy.” The owner was back on deck with the halyard extension.

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mode, it adjusts course to maximize the component of speed in the direction of the next waypoint. So like, it’s got at least a little bit of onboard smarts when you’re not there to reset the destination waypoint with every shift." “I’ll read the instructions," I said. ‘That is, if I can get to the website." “I think by now the egg is off of Quokka

Sports' face,” said the programmer, “now that most of the early problems have been resolved. But the architecture still makes very little sense to me.” “How would your version work?” asked Lee. “Here’s how I would do it,” he began. “First, lose the Java and the cookies. Those are fine as optional extras, but this thing should work with older technology if they want to include sailors with only average computer literacy and less than the latest versions of everything.” “Agree with that,” said Lee. There are people in this race who can’t tell a traceroute from a tiysail.” “But without the applets, how would we see the chart and the boat tracks and wind forecasts?” asked another windsurfer. “That should all be in the local program,” said Lee. “Like, if it wasn’t so much darn fun to play this game, no one in their right mind would wait 30 seconds for each pan and zoom of the race viewer chart. A modest file in the local computer could do that panning and zooming almost instantly. Same with boat positions and wind fields. Log on, download some numbers, all the work is done in the local machine so you don’t tie up the whole world’s telecom network sending the exact same chart of the South Indian Ocean over the wires 90 million times a clay.” “Two million hits per day is the actual number I’ve heard quoted,” said the programmer. “For sure. The 'point, click, and wait’ paradigm is justified when there’s new graphical info being sent with each click. But no way is that the case here.” “And even mofe important is the faulttolerance that local processing would allow,” added the comp sci grad. “The way the sight is designed now, with nested applets, one glitch sends you back to the login screen or worse.” “So let me get this straight,” I repeated. “You’d log in the first time to set up your account, download the software, and then from that point on do it all in email?" “You could,” said the programmer. “I was thinking in terms of a mainly-text web page. But email would work too for the seriously network-impaired, once they had the local software installed. The game would work exactly the same way, only very fast and very reliably and with only a tiny fraction of the bandwidth they use now."

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“Here’s an idea,” said another windsurfer. ‘They could let you set it up for email notification if conditions change.

“They’re getting almost continuous reports from the real racers,” explained the programmer. “And in fact, if the virtual

‘They originally projected 2,000 players But they had twice that before the first leg even started!” So you get to specify, for example, ’wake me up if the wind shifts more than 20 degrees to the right' and you’d get the email telling you to log on to decide whether to jibe.” “Some things about the game design itself need to be fixed.” continued Lee. “Like those random gear failures. The way it is now you can set your ‘index of aggression.’ At 90% gear failures are rare, but at 100% things break all the time and you get time penalties while they’re fixed.” “Just like real ocean racing!” I said.

"D 1 J ut like, that’s not what makes this game interesting,” said Lee, taking issue with my apparent acceptance of random failures as part of the game.. ‘The whole attraction is to see if we can outguess the pros — and each other — on the weather strategy. We'don't wanna play no random dice game.” “I agree with that,” remarked the programmer. “I made some good moves in the last leg that got wiped out when my mainsail tore. There’s plenty of chaos built into the weather itself, no need to introduce arbitrary randomness here." “Imagine playing chess where every 10 minutes someone walks up to the board and takes away another piece at random,” added the computer science grad. “And they won’t even tell you what the odds are. Not the game for me.” The feature I’d like to see added,” said another windsurfer, “is better onboard data reports. Whenever we log in we should get a report of the actual true and apparent wind speed and direction, course and speed of the boat, heel angle, what sails are up, last day’s run, other boats within sight, and so on. Basically the report from the watch captain to the navigator, if you will. In general, the weather on deck won’t agree with the current weather map, but that’s pretty realistic, too, for an ocean race.” “But how do they know what real conditions really are, if they're different from the map?"

boats were moved only on the basis of the polars and the wind on the maps, after awhile there’d be a serious divergence between the real boats and the virtual boats. So the wind is usually fudged a bit to keep the virtual pack right up with the real boats. This ‘watch captain’s report’ is a great idea because it would let us know the size and direction of the current fudge — I mean adjustment — to the wind to make it match reality. Then we could sail accordingly. “Plus that deck report would be a kind of nice non-techie makes-you-feel-likeyou’re-really-out-there-playing-with-thebig-kids kinda thing,” noted Lee.

Finally, the mast was really ready to come down, and we formed teams at various positions for the operation. Lee and a very big windsurfer with very big arms took the extended halyard forward as the main lowering line. We put other people on each side of the mast to keep it on the centerplane, and three more at the aft end of the cockpit to ’catch’ when the angle became too steep for ’the lowering line to hold. The owner unhooked the forestay and we started to lower. “Wait!” yelled the owner. “Electrical connectors!” We held a still-life pose for another five minutes, mast raked back about 15 degrees, while my friend found the tools to disconnect the corroded electrical fittings between the mast wires and the deck plug. At last we began the final descent, everything going smoothly with plenty of muscle applied where it was needed. But with the mast almost within reach of the ‘catchers’ in the cockpit, the process suddenly came to a grinding halt. “Lunch time,” said Lee. “Union Rules!” said the large windsurfer taking most of the load on the lowering line. “Come on, guys!” said the owner of the boat. “Let 'er down just a little more!" “What’s your charge number at the yacht club bar?” Lee shouted back.

“You wouldn’t....” The big guy nodded his head slowly, and started to pull the mast back up. “Okay, okay, okay! “squealed the owner. “I’m sorry I wasn’t better prepared! And you’re right, I should have had beer and snacks out for you.” He told them his charge number. “I am unworthy, and you are right,” he announced. “Have a round on me, with my thanks.” ‘That’s more like it,” said the big guy with the rope. “Lower away!" We spent another 10 minutes sorting out the stray wires and ropes and getting things properly tied off, then finally the owner shooed us all off. But before we had made it to the yacht club bar, the windsurfers sniffed a change in the air. They looked over the breakwater and saw a new breeze filling in. Not as strong as the morning northerly, but promising to build fast. “Maybe some other time,” they said as they all altered course back toward the beach. I eventually did get myself entered in the Whitbread Virtual Race. But first I had to add more memoiy so I could upgrade my operating system so I could use a more up-to-date browser. I also bought a faster modem, then I had to switch to a different ISP with better access, and finally I had to sift through the hints on the

URLS FOR THE VIRTUAL WHITBREAD • www.whUhread.org ' • www.whithread.org/virtualrace/ index.html — If main site is busy • www.goldcoctstwx.com— among the most useful off-site weather charts • www-pcmdi. UnLgov/Jiorino/wxmap/ doc/wxmap.intro.htm— even more useful • rec.boats.racing — the newsgroup

race problems, work-arounds, and strategies. rec.boats.racing newsgrqup to see which browser settipgs had to be changed to finally get the applets to work. Then I found I needed even more memoiy, so I finally ended up buying a new computer. Now I can play the game. But so far this has proven to be more a test of navigating the internet than of navigating around the world — and just like in real sailboat racing, spending a little dough on the latest equipment seems to help a lot, too. — max ebb November, 1997 • ixOUdi IS? • Page 115

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Fixing a Kevlar and carbon fiber boat takes knowhow. craftsmen capable of performing the repairs plus the ability to carry out these repairs in an efficient manner. Equally, and arguably more important, is their reputation within the boating community. Everyone knows that after a major 'incident' they will be required to disclose this matter when they sell the boat. It is of paramount importance that should the repairs ever come into question down the road, all you need to do is simply offer the name

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In the Bay Area you can choose from several boat yards, but when it comes to something as important as getting your boat repaired after a major 'incident', this becomes a critical decision. Beyond the issues such as can the yard accommo¬ date the size boat you own, you need to be sure the yard is capable of making the type of repairs you need and have accomplished this type of work be¬ fore. The yard must offer a combination of skilled

Post crunch. extraordinary good luck for KKMI, but the fact is these owners did not get to the point in life where they can afford these boats by making poor deci¬ sions. They selected a boat yard based on what will best serve their needs and KKMI happens to be the clear choice. So the question will become, when your boat is in need of repairs, don’t you want to go to a yard where your interests are best served? KKMI does far more than just fix the bows and stems on larger boats. They do it all, from installing bow thrusters to replacing masts; from fiberglass repairs to plank

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CATCHING THE BUG If you enjoy dining on lobster, you will be pleased to learn that they are abun¬ dant, available and catchable throughout the Pacific. From the coast of Mexico to the atolls of Palmyra and KirabatiT from the island

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“A little more garlic, a little more wine.. . and turn up PavarottiI” nations of Tonga. Fiji and Vanuatu to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef; from the Mid-Pacific Samoas to the Coral Sea nations of Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia, these brilliantly colored critters dwell in the rocks and the coral, some¬ times growing into vast colonies. On isolated South Pacific reefs like the Minervas, Sumarez and Chesterfield that are not frequented by cruisers, lobsters are well established. We’ve spent the past three years cruising these waters on our Downeast 38 Mendocino Queen and have enjoyed this delicacy with decadent regularity. Anyone with access to reefs and islands can do the same. Let’s start with the gear you'll need. Equipment List 1) A complete snorkeling outfit, including a wetsuit and gloves. This is not for protection against cold, but against coral cuts and the sharp spines on the

Author Allen Barry at Minerva Reef, an excellent place for ‘bug’ hunting.

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new for $80 or less. » 2) A speargun or Hawaiian Sling. The head of the spear should have multiple prongL. and they should be well barbed. If you use unbarbed points, it’s more likely that you’ll just maim a lobster and it will retreat deep into its hole and die. (Under¬ water target practice on non-living targets will also help avert this.) 3) A large net bag for the catch is necessaiy if you’re going after more than one. You can weight it down with a i^ock when you're hunting so it stays put. Where To Find Lobsters \ Lobsters prefer turbulent water, so you're most likely to find them on the windward side of islands and reefs. They love waves crashing through, so they usually take up residence in the surf line. A large coral head with lots of hollow spaces through it and situated in 3 to 10 feet of water in an area of breaking waves Can easily contain a colony of 15 or 20 lobsters. If you're in the surf but there are no suitable lobster homes, move on. They live in coral and rock crevices as well as under rocks and coral. That said, we have found lobsters in calm water, too. Sometimes even inside protected lagoons. But not with the regularity or certainty with which we can find them in the surf. North Minerva Reef is a good example of lobster in the lagoon. At the southeast corner of the lagoon, the reef drops off abruptly creating a wall with many cracks, crevices and holes. Low tide, when the lobsters seem to all be in about 6 feet of water, is the best hunting time. At South Minerva Reef we found an abundance of lobsters on the windward side. We got there by walking over the reef from the lagoon side. On the windward side you can’t really just jump in the water as the waves are mountainous and crash against the reef with great force and fury. So what you do there is find where the waves have cut great holes or channels fifty feet or so into the reef. It is relatively

safe to go in these pools as the waves will have spent their force on the reefs edge. There is still considerable surge, so you'll have to hang on to a rock or something to avoid getting carried up onto the reef. The payoff is all the lobsters living in the coral walls of these pools. Lobster Spotting You wouldn’t think we’d need to say anything here, would you? If you look

THE ART OF LOBSTERING

inside a likely hole you’ll either see one or you won't, right? Well, not exactly. I once took four lobsters from a coral head that another person had just checked and declared empty. I learned how ter really 'see' lobsters from a local fisherman in Vanuatu, who spent an afternoon pointing out all the lobsters I'd missed the first time around. First of all, don't expect to see the whole animal waiting in the doorway of his abode

You don’t eat everything, but there’s more to lobster than just the tail.

as if to say, "Catch me! Eat me first!" Most of the time, your first view of a lobster is just a very thin white or reddish feeler sticking out from a hole or a shelf. This feeler is the end of a tapering antenna that may be over a foot long, allowing the rest of the lobster to remain well concealed. If the lobster is close to his 'front door', you

jnay see the entire unmistakable antenna or even the head. But these encounters are comparatively rare. Also remember that lobsters are nocturnal feeders, so daytime is kind of a down time for them and they usually spend it deeper inside their holes. So you’re now looking at a cavernous coral head and there doesn't appear to be a single lobster within miles. Swim down a few feet and begin looking in the holes. November, 1997 • U&UJ&39 • Page 119

CATCHING THE BUG No, not a quick glance. We're talking a long, hard look before you come up for air. Hang on to the coral or rock to keep you in place if you need to. And don't just look on the floor of the hole. Lobsters don't have 10 legs for nothing. They could be hanging onto the wall, upside down on the ceiling or curled into a ball in some tiny nook. If you can't hold your breath long enough, get another one and come back to complete your check of the same hole. Look up and down the walls. Check the ceiling. Shift your position and try to see more passages and nooks within the coral head. And don't stop looking when you see one. I've come across as many as four in one room' within the coral. Setting Up The Shot Lobsters tend not to spook until you act aggressively towards them. And even then it's often only the attacked one who attempts flight. The others just sort of sit there. So don’t rush in blazing away like Rambo with a snorkel. Hang back a minute and take stock of the following: 1) Is it big enough? Things look about 20% larger underwater. Compare it with other lobsters if there are several. Avoid taking juveniles. 2) Can you get off a good, clear shot? Don’t just shoot into the hole and hope for the best. You generally get only one shot and if it's not successful then you have probably wounded the critter and it has retreated to some inaccessible place. The goal here is to dispatch the lobster into the next life as quickly as possible. 3) After spearing the lobster, can you retrieve it? We have had to pass on some big guys inside a coral head. We could see them clearly enough and could have gotten off a good shot but would have been unable to extract them from the coral. We

were looking in little windows but the door was somewhere else. Sometimes you can work it out by spearing through one hole and extracting through another. Just figure it all out before shooting — and remember, breaking or otherwise injuring

protection on the hand that will be holding the lobster. We also remind you that there's a lot of meat in a lobster besides just the tail. There are the legs, antenna, and body meat. People who use just the tail are wasting some of the best parts. | gif -

Lobsters don’t have 10 legs for nothing. a reef to get a lobster is not an option. Preparing The Bounty \ You’re home from the hunt. Rinsed all that salt off your body, poured yourself a glass of wine and are now ready to prepare a great lobster for the table. In Vanuatu my friend just took a machete, split the lobster in half lengthwise and laid it over a fire. Well, okay, but we think there are better ways. We've tried most of the cookbook recipes and some are pretty good, but people we have over for dinner become quick converts to our style of lobster. Again, we learned the basics of this meth¬ od from another friend we made during our cruising: A tall, thin Italian (one of the few) who played opera, sang, schmoozed, and drank red wine all through the lobster preparation and cooking. . . “A little more garlic, a little more wine and turn up Pavarotti!” Before you dig in, we recommend that you wear a leather glove or some form of In some places, when people say, "The bugs are thick!" they're not necessarily talking about mos¬ quitos.

Okay, let's get to work. 1) Take the lobster and turn it upside down exposing the underside of the tail. Cut the tail off as close to the body as possible. Set the body aside and we’ll do the tail first. 2) Turn the tail so the bottom is facing up. What you’re looking at is a thin membrane, reinforced at regular intervals by some very hard ridges that cross the tail from side to side. You want to remove those ridges and the membrane. Using a set of strong cutters — wire cutters work well — cut the membrane and the ridges as close to the outside edge as you can. Once cut, take a small sharp knife and insert it between the membrane and the tail meat at the end where you cut it from the body. Cutting any meat that clings to the membrane as you go, peel the membrane all the way back and then cut it away. 3) Cut through the tail lengthwise all the way down to the shell. At the bottom of that cut is a vein that you can remove by running your finger through the cut. Once that’s out you’re home free. 4) Now on to the rest of the lobster. Place the body/head right side up. Cut away the antennae as close to the body as possible. There are nice chunks of meat in the thick base. Cut the antennae so they'll fit in a pot. You’ll be steaming these parts. Keep the antennae intact if you can, as they make the best tools for getting meat out of the legs. Turn the body over and cut each leg off, again as close to the body as possible. There are chunks of great meat in that last joint. Inside the body cavity you will find a mixture of things, notably brightly colored internal organs and a translucent meat that looks just like the tail meat. Extract all the meat. We're Cookin' Now! The tail, the legs and the body meat

THE ART OF LOBSTERING

are all excellent and taste about the same. You can cook them together if you want, but as they are different densities we normally cook them separately, like this... Tail — Crush a few cloves of garlic on the tail meat and into the cut you made. Drip a bit of olive oil on it and bake at 350° F (shell down, meat up) until the meat turns white and puffs up. The meat expands when it's cooked and gets a nice plump look about it. When it’s plump it’s done. It will take 20 to 40 minutes, depending on size. Antennae and Legs — Put all these ’extremity' parts in a pot and steam for five to ten minutes. The meat will turn white and plump up. Body Meat — Saute with butter and garlic for a very short time. Again, just until it turns white and plumps up. While All That's Cooking — We make a dip of melted butter in which we have lightly sauteed crushed garlic and fresh or dried basjl leaves. Add a pinch of salt. Can’t be beat.

Kate with a big one — three meals apiece for two people.

Every medium size lobster we take provides two meals each for Kate and I; a big one does three.

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In most of the Pacific Islands, lobsters are in little danger of overfishing as the indigenous people don't eat them. They much prefer fish cooked in coconut milk. We have never, in three years, seen lobster on the table of any island family. It’s certainly not for lack of availability. One fined note regarding the people, however. Before going off fishing at any inhabited island, make sure it’s okay. The culture in most of the island nations holds that everything belongs either to some individual, family or village. This includes the fish off their shores and everything on the reef— every coconut, every mango, every paw paw. Anytime we're near a village and want to fish, we visit the village first, find an elder or a chief and ask permission. These are generous people and no one has ever said 'no', but the formality of asking is definitely part of the whole process. Happy hunting! — alien barry

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ON THE AIR I3y day, Tom Barnum works as a vice president of an Irvine-based manu¬ facturer of wood stains and varnishes. But in the dark hours before dawn, he as¬ sumes another identity. In a gloomy in¬ ner sanctum, bathed in the glow of com¬ puter screens and radio readouts, he be¬ comes part seer, prognosticator, radio per¬ sonality and road warrior. By 7:30 a.m.,

there, it gave Barnum an intimacy with the subject matter not shared by most weathermen. Nowadays, Tango Papa factors in a third element for even more accuracy: em¬ pirical evidence. Before each broadcast.

“When we’re having Santa Anas up here, 24 hours later, there’ll be notherlies in the Sea of Cortez.” he prowls the streets in a specially equip¬ ped van and speaks to his minions, far and wide. He is no longer Tom Barnum, mild-mannered executive. He is Tango Papa, weatherman of the Chubasco Ham radio marine net. Well, okay. He's still mild-mannered and there are no colorful spandex body¬ suits involved. But it's hard to dimish the importance of the service provided by Ham operator AA6TP; 'Tango Papa' for short. If you're a cruiser in Mexico who's interested in the weather — and who isn't? — Tango Papa is the only game in town. Yes, cruisers can tune into Mexican TV, but they must have a TV and understand Spanish. Weatherfaxes work down there, too, but are comparatively old (up to six hours) and have to be interpreted. Tango Papa's weather is usually about an hour old, and tailored — through thorough re¬ search, empirical evidence and personal experience — to the places the cruisers go-

13 ar mini, a ruggedly handsome 53year-old grandfather with an easy grin, came to the position by default. He blames mentor Gordon West for turning him into a Ham nut nearly a decade ago. For the last six years, he has been a regular vol¬ unteer on the Chubasco Net. He started out relaying messages and doing phone patches. But when Chubasco's thenweather guy quit about five years ago, netmeister Brent Bogdanski (N60AH) asked Tango Papa if he'd fill in until they found a replacement. Somewhat to his own surprise, Bar¬ num was not only comfortable with the new responsibility — he found he was en¬ joying it, too. Having minored in clima¬ tology in college, he quickly became adept at reducing meteorological charts and sat¬ ellite images to real-world forecasts. Com¬ bined with a detailed knowledge of Baja derived from a lifetime of vacationing Page 122 •

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information comes in from cruisers all over Mexico, including present barometer readings — and any significant discrep¬ ancies in the previous day's' forecast. For instance, if Tango Papa forecast 10 knots in a certain area and it really blew 20, then next time he might modify the fore¬ cast to reflect that. At first, Barnum modeled his broad¬ casts after the previous weatherman.,But things took a turn for the better when the weatherman for the concurrent 'Baja Net' also quit. "I usually have a question and answer period after the broadcast, and all of a sudden about four years ago, there were lots more questions," says Barnum. "I re¬ alized a lot more people were tuning in." When he found out why, he phoned the recently retired Baja weatherman at home in Southern California. "He turned out to be a great guy and really helped me a lot," says Tom. "He gave me a whole bunch of sources on which he based his weathef reporting. Most of them are outmoded now, and he didn't use the internet, but he really got me on the right track for how to go after this stuff."

typical morning finds Tango Papa up at 5 a.m. and headed for the 'inner sanctum', a small alcove wedged into the far downstairs reaches of his Laguna Beach home. There he really is bathed in the glow of a handful of computers and weather read-out screens as he pores over reports from all over. His 'faithful sidekick’ Samantha, the family's golden re¬ triever, keeps him company as he scrib¬ bles notes. Among the sources he uses are the Los Angeles NOAA website for the National Weather Service, local NOAA ra¬ dio, websites for the University of Hawaii, Purdue University and the Los Angeles Times, the local weather channel, AOL weather sources and — one of the best —

Ohio State University. Ohio State? 'Yes!" he laughs, amazed as his guest. 'They don't have a weather service, per se. The service they do offer is to select the best resources of weather news from all over, then make them easily available on line." Barnum distills all the information into a page or two of notes, then climbs in his Chrysler minivan and drives to work. He does the weather forecast on the way — from the car! "I used to do it from home when I lived in Laguna Niguel, but since we moved two years ago, my Ham set at home doesn’t have the same reach. I can get a much clearer shot' if I drive a ways down the road." Although he’s actually done the report

WITH TANGO PAPA

while underway, what he normally does these days is to leave for work a little early and find a space in a nearby grocery store parking lot. There he sets up the van's 9 foot antenna and completes his report. The only difference on weekends is that he can park nearer the house and doesn't wear a tie. Tango Papa provides this service, rain or shine, every day of the year except dur¬ ing vacations to his Los Barilles property an hour's drive north of Cabo on the Sea of Cortez. For those 10 days to two \yeeks, George Hively of the Southern California Yachting Association fills in.

am-fluent readers will be inter¬ ested in the mobile setup. Tango Papa uses a Kenwood TS-50 Ham set, a solid-

Tom Barnum (with Samantha) in Tango Papa's inner sanctum.

state Metron amplifier and an antenna known as a Texas Bug Catcher. The setup puts out 600 watts. The normal Ham set emits about 80. "I've been told I have one of the stron¬ gest signals on the net," says Tom. 'They can hear me easily in Acapulco." Barnum's wife is happy that he does the radio thing away from the house these days; all that wattage used to play havoc with the TV and phone. It still manifests itself in odd ways. "I was stopped at an intersection once and I every time I'd key the mike, 'Walk' and 'Don't Walk' would come on at the same time," chuckles Tom. "Somehow, the power from the antenna was exciting the neon in the sign."

-L ango Papa's weather report is the first official service of the Chubasco net every morning. The only items that pre¬ empt him are time-sensitive or emergency traffic. But most days, his report begins promptly at 7^30 a.m. PST (1530Z) dur¬ ing the winter, and 7:45 during daylight savings time. The weather forecast begins with a dis¬ claimer. Barnum notes that the report is an amateur endeavor courtesy of the Chubasco net, and that any decisions based on the information are the sole re¬ sponsibility of the listener. Then the weather begins. Naturally, tropical storms are a major concern to cruisers. So, if there are any, they lead the 'news' every morning. (At November, 1997 • lauJUW • Page 123

ON THE AIR

ITCZ (Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone) all the way to Hawaii, and from Socorro, Mexico, about halfway to French Polynesia (which is as far as his broad¬ cast will reach). The Chubasco Net’s offi¬ cial weather broadcast ends with a fore¬ cast for the Tradewinds in the Eastern Pacific and, when the situation warrants, any addendums of interest such as the recent comet, earthquake news or simply mention of a good star show that night. Then Tango Papa takes three or four questions. One might be from a cruiser wanting to know what to expect on a trip from Cabo to Mazatlan. A guy in the Bay of LA wonders when the next westerly is coming in. And a couple of boats going to the Socorro Islands ask Tango Papa to keep an eye on that area. If he sees any¬ thing special going on out there, can he

the time of this interview, tropical storm Olaf was active.) Tango Papa gives a ver¬ bal description of the satellite picture, strength of the storm's winds, its central pressure, its track and speed, 12 and 24 hour forecasts and any other details that might be of interest to cruisers. If there's another active tropical depression, he'll do the same for that one. When such a storm threatens cruisers, Tango Papa sometimes volunteers to come back on the air in the evening for updates. Then it's on to the 'regular' weather. He begins with the 'outside' (Pacific) fore¬ cast from San Diego to Cabo, including mention of any Santa Ana conditions in Southern California. "A lot of the time, what's happening in Southern California is a harbinger of things to come in Mexico," says Barnum. "Santa Anas are a good example. When we're having them Page 124 • UvaUiVi • November, 1997

On the road, on the air. Notes for a typical fore¬ cast cover the front and back of a single legal page._

up here, within 24 hours, there'll be northerlies in the northern Sea of Cortez." The 'outside' forecast is followed by the same information for the inner and outer waters from Guerrero Negro to Cabo. Then he forecasts the Sea of Cortez, North, Central and Southern. Next is the Mexi¬ can mainland from lVlazatlan to the Gua¬ temalan border, which ends with a spe¬ cific forecast for the Gulf of Tehuantepec. "Everyone wants to know that one," he notes, "and the National Weather Service is aware of that interest, so there's a spe¬ cific place on their website that deals just with the weather in the Gulf." When cruising boats start departing for other horizons at season's end, Tango Papa will also note the goings-on of the

Of all the various radio nets active in Mexico — and when you include' > / VHF nets, there are dozens — Chubasco is one of the most llstened-to by cruisers. Which is not that unusual once you real¬ ize it was designed specifically by and for them. The origins of the Chubasco Net go back to the early ’80s when a retired L.A. County Fire Captain named Brent Bogdanski and his wife lived in Guaymiyj Though not sailors, they soon came to be known to boats passing through. 'They'd give us dinner aboard, we'd give them showers and rides to town.' remembers Brent. Bogdanski was also a Ham operator, back in the days before Mexico even is¬ sued licenses for it. Although he received the second provisional Ham license ever issued in Mexico, for years boats coming into Mexican waters were all 'bootlegging' — operating their Ham sets Illegally. Still, business got done, usually through the Baja Net, the main 'long dis¬ tance' net for passing information back There were a lot ol features about the way the Baja Net worked that didn't work par¬ ticularly well for cruisers, but up until the mid 80s, it was all they had. In the mid-'80s, debate over licensing issues came to a head. In the U.S., Ham classifications run from Novice and Tech, the basic licenses, to the more advanced General and Extra tickets. In this coun-

WITH TANGO PAPA

please put in on the air? The whole forecast takes about 15 min¬ utes. Then Tango Papa becomes Tom Barnum again, and Tom lowers the car's big antenna and goes to work. Although it's difficult to gauge just how many people tune in to the Chubasco net every day, from what Barnum and Bogdanski have been told, during peak season, Tango Papa will have an audience of at least 100 boats.

Barnum's 'secret identity’ is a neverending source of amusement to his family and co-workers. "1 used to do the weather from the parking lot at work, but so many people were coming out to watch that I stopped," he notes. The grocery store parking lot is much more conve¬

nient, even though he still gets some pretty curious looks. Cruisers regard him with respect bor-

JN^uch ofTango Papa's question and answer session this year centers on El Nino. Does he foresee any of the drastic weather swings for cruisers that have been forecast for just about everywhere else? "Well, I'm not a meteorologist, so I’m

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dering on reverence. Sometimes, sailors back from their travels will find his name in the phone book. "I've been listening to you for five years and just wanted to thank you person-ally," is a typical call. Other times, they'll even show up at the door of the Los Barilles house when he's down there on vacation — just to shake his hand. Said one, "I have breakfast with you every morning!"

not sure how qualified I am to make pre¬ dictions like that,” says Tom. "But 1 have been reading about it, and there's cer¬ tainly a lot of information out there. Five years ago, if you typed 'El Nino' into Ya¬ hoo, you'd get nothing. Now you get enough hits to keep you busy all day long. "Basically, from what I've read, the El Nino may cause a more active ITCZ. Be¬ cause of the warmer water, you’re going

CHUBASCO — THE NET FOR CRUISERS try, Novices and Techs are only allowed to talk on very narrow bands. With a MexiNt can provisional license, however, youxah talk anywhere on the band. To make a long story short, some U.S. , Hams felt this was unfair, th£ end result being they wouldn't recognize' people like Bogdanski. who at the time had just a Novice American license. '

gether. they came up with a Ham net dedi¬ cated to the cruising community. Brent 1 was unanimously elected its leader. "When they asked me to name the net, I chose Chubasco' because it's a swift, fierce storm that comes up suddenly and no one can do anything about it. Just like what had happened to us!' Although the Net ran for a few weeks prior, Bogdanski considers September 1. 1986, as Chubasco s official birthday. Located at 7.294 Mhz on the 40-meter band, Chubasco has been going steadily, seven days a week, ever since. Bogdanski eventually obtained his General License and had since moved back stateside to Arizona, but he still helms the Net per¬ sonally nearly every day Aside from Tango Papa's unique weather feature, the Chubasco Net. like the Baja Net, is primarily a vehicle to : ; transfer personal 'traffic', Brent has primary Net control stations in Mexico and: he shepherds the Net almost daily. After the weather, the Net calls lor Stateside . traffic. That is. messages going from the

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deal with as many as 50 to 60 check-ins. Interestingly, the health of the Chub. \ vx real value of Ham radio — a value they might never realize back home in the : realize it's really no good to them in the States because they can’t talk to any¬ body," says Bogdanski. sional license and they can talk to every • can waters. As soon as they get more than 12 miles from land, such as a crossing from Cabo to the mainland, they're boot-

cies.

(As a matter of policy, Chubasco en¬ courages all Ham operators to obtain Mexican licenses as soon as possible af¬ ter entering the country. Licenses can also be obtained in Tijuana before the boat leaves San Diego. Check with Downwind Marine (619-224-27331 for details on how to do this.) The result is the formation of an ac¬ tive VE (volunteer examiners) corps that helps Novice Hams up the ladder to higher U.S. classifications. Largely through the influence of the Chubasco Net, Bogdanski is aware of 100 cruisers a year who take

the Slates to help out. As mentioned, there are many other radio nets out on the airwaves besides Chubasco. As far as Ham-only options, on the 40-meter band — for Tong distance* communication — the concurrent Baja Net is still alive and well. Down on the 8p-meter band, which is for more shortdistance communication, the Sonrisa Net (3.968 MhZ, beginning at 1430Z) is popu¬ lar with cruisers, as are the Manana Net (19GGZ), Women's Net (2330Z) and Happy Hour Net (OOO0Z). Obviously, if you plan on hamming it up' during a cruise south, there are plenty of options available. Just make sure you invest the few pesos for a provisional li¬ cense from the SCT (the Mexican FCC) before you start talking. November, 1997 •

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to get more convection and therefore more storms and squalls along the Mexican and Central American mainland. 'The official word from the National Weather Service is that there will be about the same number of tropical storms, but that there's a greater likelihood that they're going to turn right — toward land. That's obviously going to effect anyone cruising those waters between May and November, as there’s going to be a much greater risk. "As for the possibility of late or early tropical storms, the official word is no. My feeling is that with all that wqrm wa¬ ter, the possibility does exist. That’s the position I’ve taken on my forecasts. "Overall, though, I think El Nino is probably going to change cruising condi¬ tions in other parts of the world more dra¬ matically than in Mexico."

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main boating interest is in the little fish¬ ing panga he keeps down at the Los Barilles residence. However, he is acutely aware of the importance of the service he provides, and of his audience. He may not have sailed there, but as mentioned, this Southern California native has been vacationing in Baja all his life, so he's able to talk to cruisers with familiarity with most of the places from which they call. All in all, it's a formula that works well. "Tom's weather is the best in Mexico, bar none," says Chubasco founder Brent Bogdanski, echoing the sentiments of most Chubasco regulars. From a personal standpoint, Barnum can hardly imagine a better melding of his two avocations. "I've always been fascinated by the weather and by Ham radio," he says. "So there’s definitely a fun element to this. I hope to keep doing it for a long time to come." — latitude /jr

Rememer Darth Vader’s planet-zapping laser cannon in Star Wars? Tango Papa uses it for an antenna.

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Spread: The view from Pier 39. Above: Jeff Mad¬ rigali made his fourth withdrawal from Citibank.

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man Brent Ruhne, Madro’s 4,3,3,1, 9,^,5,4 record earned him $5,000, which he split equally among his crew. The vic¬ tory literally couldn't have been closer: Chris Perkins put the bow of Ultra Nectar over the finish line two feet in front of Madro in the last race to pull into a tie with 31 points each. Madro, with one bullet to Perkins' none, won on the tie¬ breaker. 'This was our hardest-fought Citibank win yet," claimed Rowedder, who's bat¬ ting an amazing 4-for-4 in the series. "All the players were there with deep crews — the level of competition just keeps getting bfetter and better." For that matter, the regatta keeps get¬ ting better, too. After a shaky 8-boat turn¬ out at the Spiing Cup, Pier 39, Citibank and presenting sponsor Mercedes-Benz really ratcheted this latest event up. In addition to the usual fare — the biggest cash prize for sailing on the Bay, excel-

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CITIBANK FALL CUP REGATTA lent race management by Jim Taylor, six on-the-water judges, running shoreside commentaiy by KGO weatherman Zach Berkowitz, TV coverage by SportsChannel, and so on — this Citibank Cup featured two other crowd-pleasing sideshows. One was the Extreme Watershow (a bunch of jetskiiers and muscle boats), the other was a five-race exhibition regatta by the zippy new 49er class. Seattle sailors Jonathan and Charlie McKee dominated the 49er sailing, and nearly stole the weekend show from the 11 :Metres. In addition to the title sponsors, other supporters of the Fall Citibank Cup in¬ cluded HeadSail Regatta Wear, Swatch, Kodak, The Oakland Tribune, KABL-960 AM, and San Francisco Business Times. Tune in to the SportsChannel in early November to catch all the regatta high¬ lights (check local listings for times). 11 METRES— 1) Kodak, Jeff Madrigali, 31 points ($5,000); 2) Ultra Nectar, Chris Perkins, 31 ($2,500); 3) Svendsen's Marine, Russ Silvestri, 34 ($1,000); 4) Mercedes-Benz, John Sweeney, 39 ($750); 5) Citibank, Seadon Wijsen, 46 ($500); 6) Black Star, Morgan Larson, 53 ($250); 7) Kiwi, Joergen Sundeline, SWE, 57; 8) Nexus Group, Howie Shiebler, 57; 9) Structured Funding, Mike Ratiani, 58; 10) SBAB,

Photo finish: 'Ultra Nectar' nosed out 'Kodak' in the final seconds of race eight.

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MEET THE FLEET, PART III jt3y the time this issue hits the docks, the annual cruiser parade we call the Baja Ha-Ha will be well underway. Barring ex¬ tremely bad weather, the fleet was slated to start October 28 off San Diego's Coronado Roads and end in Cabo San Lucas around November 6. Following up on two previous install¬ ments, we now give you the final batch of mini-profiles on this year's participants. You have our apologies for breaking up the entry roster this way — we hate the words 'to be continued' as much as you do — but with 170 entries this year, it was the only way. Next month we'll bring you the complete post-rally wrap-up, but after that we promise not to mention the words Baja Ha-Ha until sometime next year! Raspberry Tart — Islander 36 Earl & Evelyn Roberts, Auburn We're not sure if Earl and Evelyn are 'quiet types' or not, but for some reason they didn't tell us much about themselves on their entiy forms. Future Ha-Ha'ers should take note that to do so can be dan¬ gerous, in that it give us free license to exaggerate, misconstrue or simply make stuff up which has no basis in reality! Anyway, we do know that Earl and

No, he's not the 'Cap'n Ron'that inspired the Kurt Russell movie. Meet Cap'n Ron of 'Relax'.

Evelyn love their Islander which they just bought in February of this year. Although they apparently just started sailing a year and a half ago, they’ve owned eight other boats of one type or another. We'll take a wild guess that Earl and Evelyn are re¬ tired. Additional crew has yet to be an¬ nounced. Page 134 • IxPXtdt.'ii • November, 1997

Regulus — Challenger 40 Chris & P.J. Zirkle, San Diego "We can't wait for the warm water and, a cold 'rita down in Cabo," say Chris and P.J. Zirkle. They refer to a frosty margarita, we assume, not an unfriendly woman named Rita. In any case, Chris, 35, and his wife of two years, P.J., 31, seem to be extremely anxious to throw off the docklines and get on with their long-held dreams of cruising. Both are city planners for the City of San Diego, a career choice prob¬ ably well suited to the various prepara¬ tions for cruising. Chris apparently pulled P.J. onto the cruising bandwagon shortly after they were married, as they soon moved aboard. They've been attending to "endless projects" ever since. After the run to Cabo, they plan to spend six months exploring the Sea of Cortez before hauling their boat at Puerto Pehasco and trucking her back to San Diego. Two or three additional crew are yet to be announced. Relax — Crealock 57 Ron & Bill Jordon, San Diego Relax may be the only home-built boat in this year's rally. We don't know how long it took Cap'n Ron to complete this big 57-footer, but we're truly impressed with his follow-through. He took her from a bare hull to a completed yacht in his own back yard. Heck, we're impressed with the size of his back yard, let alone completing a seemingly endless project like this one. Ron, a retired crarie operator, was on the Ha-Ha roster last year, but was ap¬ parently seduced into completing a few last projects and consequently put off his big cruising adventure until this year. Never having cruised before, Ron may not realize that the projects probably won t end when he heads out on the ocean — they'll only begin! Brother Bill, who crewed on Probacion in last year's Ha-Ha, will be along to help Ron "relax on Relax. " For Relax, the Cabo rally will serve as one tiny step in a planned 8 to 10-year circumnavigation. Reverie — Dufour 45 G. & J. Williams, Gardnerville, NV Although Gary and Judy don't have an enormous amount of cruising experience, they do know what they don't like to do: bash into headwinds and big rolling seas. They had their fill of that in '93 while trying to get some offshore experience on a

delivery up to the San Juans. Downwind sailing in the tropics seems like a much better idea. Gary, 55, a soon-to-be-retired dentist, and Judy, a retired occupational thera¬ pist, started sailing in '89 when they bought Reverie, their first boat. After reaching P. V., they plan to leave her there

This shot from the start of last year's Ha-Ha is telling: The three leading boats are within spit¬ ting distance, while the rest of the fleet plays it safe, taking full advantage of the 2-mile line.

and 'commute' back and forth for a year. They'll then work their way south, then face the big question: To turn right or left? John Cressaty, 48, and Mike Theime, 56, will be along as crew. Reva — Celestial 48 Steve & Jamie Sidells, Menlo Park If we've done our math correctly, it looks like Steve, 57, started sailing when he was 7 years old — that's 50 years, and he still hasn't had his fill. Jamie is no new¬ comer herself. She got her first thrills on the water 37 years ago. Now retired from IBM and Stanford respectively, Steve and Jamie bought Reva, their fourth boat, a year ago and have apparently been fitting her out for cruising ever since. Among a long list of go-slow extras, Reva has a washer/dryer, a scuba compressor, two dinghies and two outboards. They say the most interesting thing about their entry is that they're "bringing Bob Pearson (who’ll navigate). He looks like Earnest Hemingway and laughs like Santa Claus — what more could we ask?" Ruth Ann Gardner and Eric Person will help crew. Future plans are to stay in the Sea of Cortez for the winter, then. . . it’s anybody's guess.

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Rewa — S&S 65 Dewey & Darlene Hines, S.F. In his plea for a handicap adjustment due to 'go-slow' factors aboard his big Abeking/Rassmussen-designed sloop, Dewey wrote: "senile skipper and old people as crew!" We may not give them a scoring break, but at least they'll be in

cabin, five-head Beneteau Oceanis should be a delight for Mexican cruising. We don't have much background info on Gerald, 37, and his dad Kent, 61, but we always applaud fathers and sons who have a close enough relationship to cruise together. Having bought Rhapsody only recently, they’ll both learn about her

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subtleties at the same time. Future plans and additional crew are yet unannounced. j Romance — Pearson 424 Bill Marmann & the Jehns, Eugene Four years ago Debbie and her then11-year-old daughter Laureen joined Bill on an ambitious offshore adventure: a circuit from Seattle to Mexico, out to Ha¬ waii and back to square one. This year they're heading back 'out there' for more. Although Debbie and Laureen had only known Bill for a couple years at the time,

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they probably had few doubts about his abilities: now 53, he's about to retire from his second career as a chief engineer with the Washington State Ferries, preceded

by a 17-year stint in the Merchant Ma¬ rine. He's circumnavigated twice on big ships. Debbie makes her living teaching mu¬ sic and elementary education and is an accomplished flautist — we expect her to fill in the high end during anticipated HaHa jam sessions. Her daughter Laureen, now 15, is a bit reluctant to leave her buddies back in Lake Stevens, but the idea of open-ended cruising along the Mexican coast and across the Pacific was too good to pass up. Rooster Cogburn — Ericson 36 Tim & Linda Leathers, Angel's Camp We don't know why Tim and Linda named their boat after the crotchety old character that John Wayne played in True Grit, but they're likely to be asked about it every time they pull into port during their planned five-year circumnavigation. Recalling their preparations, Tim, an environmental consultant, and Linda, an office manager, tell us: "When we bought her she Was tired and in poor condition. Now she has a new life and a new atti¬ tude: We be cruisin'!" Tim's been sailing for 25 years, during which time he's done a good deal of coastal and offshore racing including the '94 Pacific Cup aboard Merlin. Linda, who began sailing in the mid-'80s, has also spent time offshore. In our eyes, however, the attribute they share that makes them most qualified for the Ha-Ha is: "We are not whiners!" > Route du Vent — Cheoy Lee 43

Bev & Seth Bailey, Alameda "Our boat is the magic carpet that takes us south in the winter to enjoy the sunshine, warm water, friendly people and relaxed lifestyle of Mexico, then brings us home again for the summer to see our kids, work on the boat and sail the Bay." Sounds like Bev and Seth have got it all figured out! Bev, who's on a leave of absence from her job as a community college office man¬ ager, and Seth, who's a retired military man, bought Route du Vent in '93, their fifth boat. Veterans of Baja Ha-Ha II, they advise newcomers not to take the 'racing' aspect too seri¬ ously: "It doesn't matter how you finish, even if you’re 'DFL'." We'll leave you to translate that acronym. Also along for the ride south will be Dinah and Roger Goodsell, who cruise and occasionally race their Catalina 42 X-to-Sea. November. 1997 • UiU*jL 12 * Page 135

MEET THE FLEET, PART III Runke — CT 41 Rick Granmo, Boyes Hot Springs, CA Now here's a guy with a varied list of professions: air traffic controller, pilot and tow truck driver. Since cruising requires being multi-talented and adaptable, Rick is probably well suited to the task. Although he's owned this William Gar¬ den-designed ketch for less than a year, Runke is Rick's eighth boat. Now 53, he's been sailing since he was a teenager. Apres-Ha-Ha plans are sketchy, but Rick intends to'spend at least a few weeks in the Sea of Cortez. Additional crew are yet to be announced. Saga — Rogers 39 Robert & Michaela Swan, Seattle "We gotta go!" say Robert, 32, and Michaela, 31. ’This is the beginning of our one-year honeymoon." We say congratu¬ lations! But beware, a Latitude staffer set off to the Caribbean on a ’one-year’ hon¬ eymoon and didn't return home for 10 years! How time flies when you're having fun. One of the most notable things about this 1981 Peterson-designed sloop is that the prototype of this model won the Fastnet in '79. Saga may, then, be one of the boats to beat'. On the other hand, by the looks of her entry form she's loaded down with plenty of 'go-slow' additions. Having begun their sailing careers only three years ago, Robert and Michaela are relatively new to the sport, but have al¬ ready chalked up quite a few miles of coastal cruising. Their 'Honeymoon' will take Robert and Michaela south to Costa Rica, on to Ec¬ uador, out to the Galapagos, up fo French Polynesia, through the Line Islands, to Hawaii and home to Seattle. Savage Lady U — Kelly Peterson 46

Guy & Mary Black, Concord Savage Lady's game plan is the excep¬ tion rather than the rule this year; plans are to spend only a few weeks in Mexico before beating back up the coast. Then again, the peacefulness of the Sea of Cortez has seduced many a sailor into re¬ thinking his schedule. "If it ain't fun, to hell with it," says Guy, who makes his living as a contractor. Pe¬ rusing Mary and Guy's entry form we dis¬ covered their true reason for making the trip south this year: "The doctor says to take vitamin C, and it works better in La Paz!" They've been sailing for too many years to count and have owned this cut¬ ter-rigged sloop for nine years. She's their fourth boat. '■ Friends Ken and Mary Jo Adamske will round out the crew. Poge-136 • UKUJili • November. 1997

Sea Rascal will continue south to Ztown, then the crew will consider thenoptions.

'Sea Rascal' is no antique, but she is a schoo¬ ner, crewed by Alan, Lisa and Darcy, age 5. Sea Rascal — Downeast 38 Alan & Lisa Gardner, Marina del Rey In a possible attempt to stump the unsuspecting Ha-Ha race committee. Sea Rascal's crew querried: "Does a gollywacker count as a working sail?" The great minds of the committee pondered briefly in silence before uttering their re¬ ply: "Ah-h-h, whatever." This incident caused a moment of embarassment that was twofold: not only were several com¬ mittee members unsure just what the heck a gollywacker is, but it became clear that the designer of the Ha-Ha entry forms — who claims to be a lover of traditional craft — neglected to include schooner' as a rig type option! In any case, this 38Tooter isn't exactly an antique classic, but she is a schooner rig — a rarity in this year's fleet. Alan and Lisa will share the role of captain, and we assume whoever isn't attending to captain's chores will be looking after young Darcy, age 5. Molly the dog will log time on lookout duty, but additional crew have yet to be announced. The Gardners have been trying to get out of Dodge and go cruising for nearly a decade. They sold the house and moved aboard in '88, but career moves and a baby kept pushing the dream to the back burner. Alan's work as an electrical engi¬ neer who specializes in defense radar has taken him and his family around the globe in past years. Lisa gave up her career as a municipal analyst to raise Darcy and prepare for cruising. Darcy too has been making preparations. We understand she practices barking useful bits of sailor-talk like 'port', starboard', 'bowsprit' and 'walk the plank'.

Sea Squirt — Columbia 35 David & Ellie Scandling, Fremont "Maybe we'll head back north in the spring. . . or maybe not," say Dave and Ellie, reflecting the attitude of many care¬ free Ha-Ha'ers. Both of them began sailing with Club Nautique in the early ’80s and have pro¬ gressed through the ranks of club certifi¬ cations over the years. They've done sev¬ eral coastal hops, including crewing for friends from P.V. to Z-town. Dave also enjoys scuba diving, while Ellie prefers windsurfing. They should have plenty of opportunities for both along the Mexican coast. Another thing Dave and Ellie have in common is their profession. They're tech¬ nical recruiters, current status: on sab¬ batical without pay! Sea Turtle — Bristol 41.1 Linda & Bob Stone, Alameda Judging by the name they've given their vessel, we assume Linda and Bob don't expect her to set any speed records. No matter. Since virtually every boat in the fleet will be laden with cruising ac¬ coutrements, they'll be in good company. Bob, 57, is a retired manufacturer's rep who sold bis business in order to pursue the cruising life. Linda's former profes¬ sion as a reading specialist should prove useful as she travels through third world countries where she'll undoubtedly en¬ counter many locals who are trying to polish up their English skills. Unlike many Ha-Ha'ers, their future plans are pretty well defined: after Mexico, they’ll cruise to Costa Rica, transit the Canal, explore Guatemala’s Rio Dulce, transit the Caribbean to Florida, then head up the Eastern Seaboard. Second Kiss, Norseman 447 John & Diana Lorentzen, San Pedro What can we tell ya? We invited Pamela Anderson to come along on this year's HaHa, but we got retired L.A. Baywatch life¬ guard John Lorentzen instead. (He'll be the guy wearing red Speedos.) Seriously, Lt. John, 52, spent 33 years driving L.A. County rescue boats and pull¬ ing endangered swimmers out of the drink — a noble accomplishment. John and Diane are both long-time sailors who've done a good deal of offshore passagemaking. They crewed aboard the

BAJA HA-HA IV 'nature freak' Bridget, 10, and little Tracey, the 'queen of the ocean' who is 8. The family motto: 'There is more to life than increasing its speed." — Mahatma Ghandi.

Viva during Ha-Ha II and. .had so much fun we wouldn't miss it this year!" After the Ha-Ha, they’ll steer their big cutter south to the Canal and into the Caribbean. Connie and Robert Nixon will be along as crew on the jaunt south.

Shanti — Formosa 41 Bill & Margie Strickland, Oxnard Bill, 64, who's retired from the construction biz, and Margie, a retired elementary school teacher, say they don’t miss working a bit, and they're definitely ready for long-term cruising. We expect they'll adapt easily to their new lifestyle, since they've been together as a couple for some 25 years. They were married only recently, however, during a Carmel ceremony where ship’s cat Gabriel was their ring-bearer! Good friend Mike Arndt will navigate as far as Cabo, then will leave the Stricklands to "keep on cruising" on their own.

Sedona — Taswell 43 Alan & Patsy Mosley, Long Beach We call it the Baja Ha-Ha, but A1 and Patsy call it "the beginning.” Reaching Cabo San Lucas will be the first tiny step in their planned 5 to 10-year circumnavi¬ gation. We assume that means they'll be 'jumping the puddle' to the South Pacific after a season or two in Mexico and Cen¬ tral America. Alan, by the way, is one of,several re¬ tired docs in the rally. Sharing watches on the ride south will be Rosemary En¬ glish and Max DeZemplen.

Shanti — Columbia 35 See World — Sea Wolf Ketch 41

The Prophet family, Ventura See World. Sounds like a phrase you might find scribbled on some daydreamers wish list, as in: 1) Read the Complete Works of Shakespeare, 2) Clean out ga¬ rage, 3) Sort, file and label all family pho¬ tos, 4) See world. Anyway, seeing a bit more of the world is exactly what Dean Prophet, his wife Gay Garabedian and their two boy's are about to do as they head south on a six-month Mexican sojourn. Plan ’A' is to head from Cabo to Z-town, then harbor-hop north into the Sea of Cortez, then slog home¬ ward in the spring. Although Gay learned to sail when she was in high school and Dean has been sailing since his college years, it appears this will be their first substantial cruis¬ ing experience. Dean and Gay live aboard year-round with their sons, Trevor, 13, and Max, 11, but this trip will show them the real benefits of the liveaboard lifestyle. No doubt they'll keep up with their stud¬ ies en route, as dad is a teacher and mom is a registered nurse. Jimbo Gingery, 70, will round out the crew. Shadowfax — Morgan 38 Tom & Diane Thee, Areata Now here's a guy you'll definitely want to get acquainted with — Tom Thee's a diesel mechanic! Bear in mind, however, that he's sailing to Mexico for R & R, not to find new 'projects'! "I started sailing 20 years ago, and I'm still learning," says Tom. Aren't we all? His wife Diane's quotable quote was, "Oh, my goodness!" We'd interpret those words

If other Ha-Ha kids are looking for playmates, they'll want to remember the name 'Shadowfox' — this boat's got kids in all sizes. Top to bottom are Alec, 14; Meghan, 13;Caitlin, 12; Bridget, 10; and Tracey, age 8.

to meafn "I can't believe we’re finally go¬ ing to do this!" They've owned this Ted Brewer-designed sloop for three years; she’s their third boat. Doug Norby, 55, and Larry Keasley, 57, have been shanghaied for the run to Cabo. Shadowfox — Germania 40 The Swirski family, Alameda Throughout the English-speaking world the name Shadowfax is one of the most common boat names (note previous entry), but we can't wait to hear how the name Shadowfox came into being. The Swirskys take the prize for having the most children on board — they've got five ranging in age from eight to 14. The fact that Michael and Kathleen, who are both in their forties, are taking off to cruise with their kids is a testament to the idea that the will to do something is the most important factor in making it happen. They've lived aboard in Alameda since they bought this ketch 14 years ago and have apparently been cultivating their dreams of cruising for much of that time. The Ha-Ha will serve as leg one of their long-anticipated circumnavigation. Listed as 'electronics specialist', Alec, 14, is the oldest child; followed by ’galley officer' Meghan, 13; 'dreamer' Caitlin, 12;

Walt Lew, Benicia The fleet's second Shanti is a Colum¬ bia 35, one of several boats entered from the Benicia Yacht Club. "We're beer can racers," says Walt, 64, "who have won more prizes for decorat¬ ing than for racing." With five racing bud¬ dies from Benicia slated as crew, Walt and company should have a whopping good time on the trip south. Gary Peterson will be along to navigate, with John Karuzas, Tom Ormand, George Kiseliot and the skipper's son Joe rounding out the crew roster. By the way, Walt, who's now retired, lists his former profession as Prison Ad¬ ministrator. We're not sure if he's serious or not, but until we find out, we're defi¬ nitely going to tread lightly around him. Sidione — Tartan 27 Buck Anderson, Oceanside "After 18 months of totally rebuilding Sidione from keel to masthead, plus three months of finish work, I'm ready for the trip south," says Buck. If this gives you the idea he’s a handy guy, you're right. In fact, we're probably setting Buck up for a good deal of pestering by exposing the fact tjaat he makes his living as an Atomic 4 engine mechanic. One of the most notable things about this entry is her name. Sidione is named after Buck's grandpa, Sidione Krebs, a shipwright who's specialty was building 80-ft gaff-rigged fishing schooners at his shipyard in Pascagoula, MS. In 1936 he built a 45-ft ketch that was the subject of the novel Hurricane's Wake by Ralph Kaufman. November, 1997 •

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MEET THE FLEET, PART III At press time Buck's crew list was yet to be announced, but we know candidate numero uno is his ladyfriend of 15 years who speaks perfect Spanish due to her Mexican/Indian roots.This run to the cape will merely be a shakedown for longer voyages in the fu¬ ture. So shortly after arrival, Buck antici¬ pates, "Beating uphill to home, cursing every mile!" Snow Bird — Catalina 38 Glen & JoAhn Robinson, San Leandro Glen, a retired firefighter, and JoAnn, a young grandma, came close to heading south with last year’s Ha-Ha, but like many others, couldn't quite complete all the items on their pre-cruise checklist. This year, they're definitely ready: "We can't wait!" Plan 'A' is to head from Cabo to Acapulco and points south, then retreat to San Carlos for the summer hurricane season. In '98 they may transit the Ca¬ nal, then keep cruising "until ft ain't fun." Snow Birds additional crew couldn’t be more appropriate: Glen's brother Bill Robinson and his wife Sandy own their own Catalina 38, which they sail out of Oyster Bay Yacht Club. The entire Snow Bird crew has sailed to Mexico before — a rare distinction within the fleet. Song of San Francisco — 44-ft Trawler

John & Connie Talmage, S. F. A what? Trawled Have we gone out of our minds? Compromised our principles? Sold out? Not to worry. You’ll never see a trawler as the boat of the month in Latitude 38, but John and Connie seemed like such nice folks we figured, "What the heck." Besides, we loved the 'quotable quote' they sent in with their entry forms: "There was a man who never lived, he never romped and played, he never drank, he never smoked, he never kissed the maid. So when one day he passed away, insurance was denied. For then they said, he never lived, therefore, he never died!" John, 58, an airport manager, and Connie, a former sales rep with Disney Attractions have a grand itinerary sketched out for 3 to 4 years of cruising: They'll head south to the Canal, cross the Gulf of Mexico to Florida, explore the East Coast and eventually transit the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Great Lakes, fi¬ nally arriving at Connie's home in Brookville, Ontario, Canada. Sonrisa — Valiant 40 John & Sylvia Parr, Corpus Christi Sonrisa, which means smile in Span¬ ish, was signed up for last year’s Ha-Ha, Page 138 • LiUtUtlS • November, 1997

owned six boats, but bought Sun Singer only recently. And although they've done several offshore races, the Ha-Ha will be their first ocean jaunt to Mexico. If you've ever been to a boat show in Santa Rosa or Suisun City, you may have run into Dave and Pat — they've produced them in the past and will take breaks from cruising to do so in the future. Their son Jim, 36, will be along on the trip to Cabo as 'tactician'.

Grampa Buck spent 18 months rebuilding 'Sidione'. His grandpa built fishing schooners.

but sadly, when John and Sylvia arrived in San Diego prior to the start, they dis¬ covered that John had a detached retina — ouch! After two operations, however, tney're rarin' to go this year. Now their biggest problem may be, "We're sinking from too much boat junk!" To say the Valiant 40 is well equipped would be an understate¬ ment. After spending 29 years in the Bay Area, John and Sylvia now call Corpus Christi, Texas, home. Both are early re¬ tirees from careers in computer program¬ ing and network design. Sonny Wical, Einar Lorentzen and Nube the cat will round out Sonrfsa’s crew. Spellbinder— Beneteau 40 Barry & Pat Gaiidin, Vancouver If you happen to be sitting on the beach at Hiva Oa next spring, you just might see Spellbinder sailing in from the east. Barry and Pat plan to jump the pond' to the Marquesas after wintering in Mexico. Never having done any long-range cruising before, Barry and Pat are "cau¬ tiously optimistic" about their newly adopted lifestyle. They recently unplugged from careers in broadcasting/computers and banking, respectively. They've owned their Beneteau First for four years, and in that time have fitted her out with a wide range of cruising 'ex¬ tras' such as a radar arch, dinghy davits and a full cockpit enclosure.

Sun Singer — Cheoy Lee 43 David & Pat Wheeler, Walnut Creek Cap'n Dave and 'Admiral' Pat plan to explore Mexico for a while, then will prob¬ ably head to the Caribbean. During their 25 years of sailing they've

Sunset Run — Caliber 38 Bill & Jean Coltrin, Manhattan Beach 'Thanks for all the Latitude attitude," say Bill and Jean, "we read you cover to cover.” Hey, no problem. If there's one thing we’re long on, it's attitude. Bill, 56, a retired mechanical engineer and Jean, who formerly worked in sales and marketing, got their boat the hard way. They bought her in Norfolk, VA, then trucked her to L.A. and have spent the past year and a half upgrading her for long-term cruising. Future plans: "Hang around Mexico until spring, then head west — we hope." Surge — Jonmeri 40 Patricia & Brownell Chalstrom, Wilmington, DE We don't have a whole lot of info on the Surge crew, but one thing that stands out on their entry forms is that Patricia is listed as the captain — good for her, the world needs more lady skippers. Brownell (Horace) will do the navigating. It looks like the crew of this Nymandesigned sloop has done a fair bit of ocean sailing along the Eastern Seaboard, but this will be their first major hop along the West Coast. Post-rally plans are yet to be decided, but Patricia and Brownell have an appro¬ priate motivation for heading south: "Why not?" Swan Fun, Swan 55 Danny Colangelo, S.F. Every year there seem to be more 'class acts' attracted to the Ha-Ha, and Danny's 1972 Swan is certainly one of them this year. She was originally commissioned to race in the '72 Admiral's Cup, then cir¬ cumnavigated the globe. Her former owner refitted her in '92 after which she won the Rolex Regatta here on the Bay. Danny is taking a break from the de¬ manding world of commercial filmmak¬ ing — he owns New View Films — to cruise for an unspecified length of time. How serious is he about the Ha-Ha? "We may

BAJA HA-HA IV size this year is about 44 feet — but that doesn't mean the trip can't be made in a smaller boat. The Wilcoxes know from ex¬ perience that their Catalina 27 — which they've owned for 13 years — is up to the trip. "She’s little, but mighty and strong!" After the rally, they plan to visit La Paz, then hop over to the Mexican mainland.

not win the race, but we always win the party.” Heading the roster of additional crew is navigator Peter Cameron who has circled the planet at least once under sail. Andrew Whittome, Garrett Freberg and Monica McClintic will also be along for the ride south. Synergy — Westsail 42 Richard Williamson, San Diego The Ha-Ha committee absolutely will not accept late entries. Period. Unless, of course, you have a truly ex¬ ceptional excuse, and you catch the Grand Poobah in a generous mood, as did Richard Williamson: "1 was in Mexico on my boat without any checks or any way to send cash. I just arrived back in' the States, rushed to my bank, filled out a counter check, wrote this letter and dropped it in the mail." Okay, already, you're in. Actually, \ye couldn’t very well keep Synergy out of the rally this year, as her two previous attempts to complete the HaHa fizzled. In '95 they made the start, but had to withdraw soon after because of "an unfortunate coming together with another boat." Then, in '96 a serious illness in the family quashed Richard's cruising plans again. Much to his credit, however, he did not whine about his bad luck, and he's back this year for another try. Let's hope the third time's the charm! Richard is a lifelong sailor who's done plenty of coastal hopping, plus a cross¬ ing to Hawaii. He'll be joined by Amy En¬ sign and David Foulds, who’ve already been initiated into the cruising life via their Ranger 33 Red Baron which is pres¬ ently lying in Mazatlan. Tally Ho — Nauticat 43 Carl Mischka, Newport Beach "It's finally my turn,” says Carl, 59, who has earned his living, in the advertising business. It looks like he plans to stay 'out there' for a long, long time. After coasting down to Panama, he'll take Tally Ho through the Canal, through the Car¬ ibbean and possibly across the pond to Finland for a refit in 1999 or 2000. As we go to press, we don't have a com¬ plete crew roster, but Carl assures uS his shipmates will have varied skills and backgrounds. "We'll have Swiss and American; one novice cruiser, one experi¬ enced and one long-time wannabe." Carl, himself, has been sailing for 25 years. He’s had two previous boats.

The Dorcas Hardy — MMC 41

Pat and Dave of 'Sun Singer' have been sailing together for over 25 years — they still love it. Teacher's Pet, Catalina 34 Jerry & Sue Eveland, Santa Cruz Jerry and Sue Eveland seem to have the right idea. While they undoubtedly intend to have a lot of fun during their travels, they’re already planning on visit¬ ing a lot of school children as they travel. With that in mind they've stocked Teacher's Pet with plenty of pads and pen¬ cils to distribute en route. Jerry is a re¬ tired instructor from San Jose State and Santa Clara Universities. Sue and Jerry plan io harbor-hop down the Central American coast after the Ha-Ha, then cross the Caribbean via Belize and Jamaica before sailing up the East Coast to Boston. Later, they'll retrace their path to the Caribbean, island-hop througn the Antilles and eventually head back to Santa Cruz.

Dick & Mary Hein, Sausalito Yeah, we know. The Dorcas Hardy is a 'stink-potter', not a sailboat, but as we've mentioned before, in a magnanimous moment the Grand Poobah decided that having a few motoiyachts might actually be a plus. Besides, we know Dick and Mary are warm, friendly folks since they did Ha-Ha II as crew (aboard a sailboat). They owned two sailboats prior to con¬ verting to power. "The Ha-Ha begins our 'Cruise for the Duration’. With a little luck we won't live on land again." Plans are to spend 2 to 3 years cruising Mexico, then transit the Ca¬ nal, cross to Florida and head up the In¬ tercoastal Waterway. Eventually they plan to make it to the Great Lakes and per¬ haps cruise the Mississippi and Ohio Riv¬ ers. Dick is a retired management analyst for the Social Security Administration — but we assume he'd rather chat about practically anything else — while Maiy is a retired Bank manager. Rounding out the crew are Sandra Bushmaker of Sausalito and Ray Dorn who's flying in from Madi¬ son, WI, for the cruise.

Temptress — Crealock 37 Wayne & Cherry Knapp, Alameda Temptress is yet another boat planning to 'jump the puddle' to French Polynesia after a season or two of Central American cruising. Although Wayne and Cherry just bought Temptress this year, they've obvi¬ ously been pipe-dreaming about cruising for a good long while. Wayne, a former electronics technician from Stanford, got some of his prelimi¬ nary cruising experience aboard our own boat, the Ocean 71, Big O, on a run from Costa Rica to Panama. He's been sailing for 10 years, while Cherry, a former book¬ keeper, began only four years ago. Marcia Vienstra, Ward Wogsland and Ronald Bambo will be along as crew.

Third Wish — Catalina 34 ’ Don Anders, San Diego If the typical California sailor could have three wishes, a great number of them would undoubtedly wish for a decent cruising boat, an ample cruising kitty and the time to enjoy them. It would appear that's what Don's got. A former consultant and executive in the fast-paced computer industry, Don has plans to kick back in one of the most appealing cities on the West Coast, La Paz. Although he began sailing in 1970, this appears to be his first long-distance get¬ away. At press time additional crew were yat to be announced.

The Darien’ B — Catalina 27 The Wilcox family, Richmond The crew of The Darien' B is composed of mom (Darlene), dad (Bill), and their two grown-up sons, George and Mark. They've all cruised to Baja before, but they're go¬ ing back for another dose of laidback fun. Each year we seem to get bigger and bigger entries in the Ha-Ha — the median

Thunder — Valiant 32 Rose & Ralph Harding, San Rafael 'We've been there, done that four times before, but never with the Ha-Ha group," says Rose. "It's time to get back on the water again." If Ralph, 73, has been sailing for 60 years we figure he started sailing at age 13 — not too much younger than his November, 1997 •

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MEET THE FLEET, PART III grandson, Tyler Harding, age 15, who will be along as crew. If he doesn't yet appre¬ ciate what cool grandparents he has, he surely will some day. Rose, too, has loads of experience, with 20 years of Bay sail¬ ing and international cruising to her credit. After reaching the Cape, they plan to cruise their Perry-designed sloop toward the Mexican Riviera. Tiare — Morgan 38 Larry & Phyllis Turner, S.F. "We announced our retirement, the house sold in 30 days and we arranged a 30-day escrow," Larry and Phyllis recall. Both young retirees from HewlettPackard, they began sailing 23 years ago and, we assume, have been cultivating their cruising dreams for quite some time. They bought Tiare two years ago, their sixth boat. As is par for the course, Larry and Phyllis are taking off on an open-ended itinerary. After two years in Mexico, they'll decide to 'jump the puddle' or head into the Caribbean. Jack Szilasi and Judy Tillson will be aboard at least until Cabo San Lucas.

Tinuviel — R.M. Miller 52

Bob Dunakey, Ketchikan "I shall not whine!" promises Bob. And you can bet we ll hold him to it. Tinuviel a classic teak ketch built in the 1930s, is the probably the oldest boat in this year's rally — and may also be the only wooden entry. She's a proven cruiser, however, with a circumnavigation to her credit (from '78 to '84). Bob, 56, is a retired firefighter who’s seeking a change of pace from the Alas¬ kan climate. 'The majority of my sailing has been in Southeast Alaska and the Alaskan Gulf. I'm told the Pacific is a little warmer down your way!" After the rally, Bob plans to 'Ha-Ha' in Mazatlan and join the cruiser Christmas festivities in Ztown. Additional crew are yet to be an¬ nounced.

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No, submarine in the Ha-Ha, but they've dived in one. 'Thunder' will carry Ralph and Rose to Cabo.

Too Sassy — Catalina 42 Bob & Judy Morrison, San Diego Bob and Judy have been sailing for 11 years and in that time have owned three sailboats. The run to Cabo, however, will

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BAJA HA-HA IV Piuric. The latter two will earn their keep as cook and mechanic, respectively. Transition is one of the more aptlynamed boats in this year's rally. On Sep¬ tember 1, Mike turned in his badge, end¬ ing a 30-year career with the L.A. County Fire Department. On October 28, his 40year dream of going cruising finally reached flashpoint. At last report, it had become a raging inferno with no chance of containment until at least next spring. We have the feeling that's one fire Mike and Roni won't feel like putting out for a long time to come.

be their longest cruise by far. Bob, 56, is taking a break from his sales career and Judy will leave behind her work as a contract administrator to explore the Sea of Cortez and points south for an undetermined period. Additional crew for the Cabo run were yet to be an¬ nounced at press time. Toshal — Tripp 46 Alan & Susan Burg, Newport Beach "This isn’t a houseboat," notes Alan, 57, on Toshals entry form. "Let's get go¬ ing!” We couldn't have picked a better motto for this year's Ha-Ha if we tried. The Burgs are perhaps more motivated to cast off than most, for they've tasted the cruising life already — 18 years hgo. "We went on a two-year cruise with our three children in Florida and the Grena¬ dines in the late ’70s," says Alan. "We're itching to get going again." In fact, Alah, a pool service manager, and Susan, a teacher, plan to relive that long-ago trip with their kids. After the HaHa, they’ll summer in the Sea of Cortez,

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Phyllis and Larry left careers at Hewlett-Packard to pursue the cruising life aboard 'Tiare'.

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MEET THE FLEET, PART III slow' cruising gear on board as an 8KW generator, wind generator, hard-bottom dinghy, two outboards, a bimini, dodger, barbecue and six cases of wine, we're thinking an extra couple of hours per mile handicap may be conservative. Crewing on Tsunami at least as far as Tahiti is Russ Anderson, 58, who sold his Oldsmobile/GMC/Jeep dealership, in Walnut Creek to do the trip.

Yoohoo! We're the 'Uhuru' crew: Baby Marena, Rhonda and Gordon.

Marena, our year-old daughter, full time together." With a plan to head to the Marquesas and New Zealand after the HaHa, little Marena is going to be enjoying quality time with her parents for a long time to come. Like Star Trek's communications of¬ ficer, Uhuru was named for the Swahili word for 'freedom.' And she delivered on that long before Gordon and Rhonda got her a year ago. According to Gordon, the boat has been around the world under a former owner. Both he and Rhonda also have long sailing resumes. They've each been sailing since they were 5, and have both made long coastal and ocean pas¬ sages.

Uhuru — Cal 40 Gordon Collins & Rhonda Salerno, Juneau If we 'knew then what we know now', we might well have done things like Gor¬ don. a 44-year-old builder, and Rhonda, 39, a teacher. "This trip marks the begin¬ ning of a long-awaited dream of both of ours," they write. "We have the ability to shed our land tentacles ftnd be with

Unencumbered — Mason 43 Charles Kadigan & Terry Kane, San Jose Chuck and Terry are coming into the Baja Ha-Ha a little differently than most other participants. They're coming back from Mexico to join the start in San Di¬ ego! Actually, it's just from a shakedown cruise to Ensenada, but it does offer some

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John Hartono, Oakland "I learned to sail as a boy in Indone¬ sia." As if that fact isn't interesting enough, John, 51, has been sailing the world for the past 30 years as a merchant seaman. This time, however, he'll be do¬ ing it in style, as skipper of his own Swan 43. Turning Point, which was launched in '71, already has plenty of cruising miles to her credit. We understand her former owner sailed her extensively in the South Pacific. Bill James will navigate on this coastal run, while Dru DiMattia, Mark Feinberg and Charlie James will be along as crew. Unlike most entries. Turning Point will sail back to the Bay shortly after the rally.

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MEET THE FLEET, PART III Viva — Grand Soleil 39 Steve & Pam Jost, San Pedro Steve and Pam are returning Ha-Ha veterans, having done Ha-Ha II in 1995. They're also veteran cruisers and racers — they bought Viva in Italy 12 years ago and cruised west for the next 18 months as far as Texas. The boat has also won her division in two back-to-back Ensenada Races. Sandy and Mike McKeen will help out with the crewing chores on the trip down the coast. Voyager — Rawson 30 Dennis & Gregory Koehn, Vallejo From riding the rails to riding the waves — In 1992, Dennis Koehn retired from a 25-year career as a locomotive elec¬ trician with Southern Pacific Railroad. He's now in the planning stages of his next 'full time' career — sailboat cruiser. Here's the plan: Dennis already has the boat he wants. Among the attributes he lists for the Rawson 30 are "the weight and ability to sail comfortably in most weather conditions" and "this boat has more character than some sailors I've met." \

thence on to a long cruise of their own. It works for us.

Meet the vivacious crew of 'Viva'. On the left, Steve and Pam; on the right: Mike and Sandy.

He also has the crew he wants, his older brother Greg. The two have been sailing together since the early 80s. And finally, there is Gerry, Dennis' wife. Just about the time Greg and he get home from this shakedown cruise next July, Geny will retire. * Then, next year about this time, you'll be reading about Dennis and Gerry head¬ ing south again on Baja Ha-Ha V — and

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BAJA HA-HA IV back into the fold. We hope Ha-Ha IV is as memorable as the first one was. certainly have all the right gear for it: roller furling, washer/dryer, dive compressor and enough amp-hours in house batter¬ ies to jump-start a Saturn V rocket. As for the Ha-Ha in particular, they hope to meet people with whom they'll enjoy continued friendships in the big cruise to come. If past Ha-Has are any indication, there'll be plenty of those. Many past participants are still out there buddy-boating in the far corners of the world. Sailing out of Marina del Rey, Trace and Denise are really on a mission in 1997. Earlier this summer, they cruised toward the Pacific Northwest before turn¬ ing back south to make San Diego for the start of the Ha-Ha. West Wind — Islander 34 Richard & Marcia Rowland, Goleta Richard and Marcia, both 64, are part of an elite grqup who took part in the very first Ha-Ha in 1994. At the time, we didn't know if the idea was going to fly at all, but folks like the Rowlands help spread

Windhover — Cheoy Lee 43 Bill Coons, Cathlamet, WA

Just two ‘vild und crazy guys' — say hi to broth¬ ers Greg and Dennis of 'Voyager'.

the word and make it the success it is today. Richard, a retired think-tank VP and Marcia, a retired loan shark', have owned West Wind since 1989, steadily rebuild¬ ing the boat to suit them. Among modifi¬ cations and additions: a permanent in¬ ner forestay (making the boat a cutterrigged sloop), strengthened bulkheads, running backs, increased tankage and all lines led to the cockpit. Also thoughtfully aboard: clothes and school supplies to give to children in Mexicd ' It's great to welcome the Rowlands

Compared with most Ha-Ha boats, Windhover is a bruiser of a cruiser: 600 gallons of diesel tankage, 300 of water; more than 5 feet of freeboard, a 120-horse engine with a three-blade stainless prop — and an extensive tile interior. "It was there when 1 bought the boat," notes Bill of the latter amenity. Bill, 42, retired from a career in tele¬ communications service sales in April. In the nearly two years he's owned Windhover, he’s done several long coastal cruises up and down the coast. Being more interested in the sailing part of the 'motorsailing' equation than previous owners apparently were, he discovered when he bought the boat that the mizzen on the 15-year-old boat had never been flown! "With roller furling main and jib, I guess it was too much trouble to hoist the mizzen," he says. Windhover will have additional crew for the run to Cabo, but as we go to press the rest are yet to be announced.

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Windrose — Islander 30 Lee Freeman, Hidden Hills "Enough reading about this," observes Lee, a 57-year-old lawyer. "This year I'm going to do it!" Like most boat owners, Lee had always been looking forward a larger boat. But in the three years he's owned Windrose, he's put so much money into her that "now she's too expensive to get rid of." In other words, Lee is pretty much like the rest of us. Freeman brings 35 years of sailing ex¬ perience to the Ha-Ha, including several Mexico cruises, numerous coastal trips and a two-week sojourn from Athens to Tel Aviv. Windrose is his seventh boat. Ron Crowd and one more yet-to-be-determined crew will make the trip down with Lee — and the trip back to her Bay Area slip in the spring.

semi-legend there, having taken thou. sands of people out sailing over the years on his PC Wings. . . My uncle, Ted Holcomb, had the schooner Landfall in San Francisco for many years. . . " Whether sailing is a congenital condi¬ tion or a learned one, Don, 40, and Jane, 47, have it bad. And particularly cruising in Mexico: Don and Jane met there dur¬ ing a winter cruise on an Ericson 41 two years ago. A couple of interesting sidelights to Zia!s cruise: she's one of four Morgan 38s taking part — almost enough for a onedesign class. Also, Don and Jane will be experimenting with 'NOPEC' fuel. They'll be running a 25% blend of biodiesel (de¬ rived from soybeans) fuel in their tank.

Zia — Morgan 38 Jane Kelley & Don Hartley, S.B. Don's reputation precedes him — or at least his family's does. "Our family has been sailing in San Diego for almost 100 years. My grandfather Paul Hartley is a

\Since Zia is this year's final entiy — the 170th — we'll leave you with a quote from that inimitable yachtsman, Porky the Pig: "A. . . tha. . . a. . . tha. . . a. . . that's all folks." Until next year, that is.

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WEEKEND GETAWAY C'hina Camp State Park, just north of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on the southwest shore of San Pablo Bay, is one of those anchorages everyone talks about, but few go to. Protected from San Francisco Bay

At its peak, China Camp had three general stores, a marine supply company and a barber shop. winds by nearby Marin County hills rising 600 feet above the water, and with a full mile of beachfront stretching from China Camp to neighboring McNears Beach County Park, China Camp is a place for an interesting overnight cruise — or longer if history interests jfou at all. And does this place have a history. China Camp is home to the last of nearly 30 such fishing camps that flourished a century ago. It's now protected as an historical site by the state, complete with a interesting museum and a working shrimp fishery run by Frank Quan, whose grandfather, Quan Hock

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company and a barber shop. Frank still works the nets, with most of his catch now going to area marinas which sell the tiny grass shrimp for bait. Sturgeon fishermen''are the most steady customers, believing almost mystically that these shrimp will bring up the fish.

C^hina Camp is nine miles from Angel Island and almost the same distance from the mouth of the Petaluma River. The channel entrance buoys are visible from the anchorage area. In this case, getting there can be at least half the fun, with Bay winds pushing you quite well under the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge and over to the Sisters, a pair of large, flat islands that can be passed on either side as you round Point San Pedro to head into the anchorage. The anchorage itself is a long, flat stretch of water from McNear’s Beach down to Rat Rock, which brings us to several notes of caution. The closer you anchor to McNears Beach, the more exposed you are to the wind, and the less likely you are to get a good hold on the bottom, which has a high

concentration of clay. Ranger Pat Robards from China Camp recommends moving well past McNear’s before dropping the hook. Closer to China Camp, the bottom is that soft, tidal mud that keeps anchors quite snug, particularly when you want to pull them up. Anchor a good 200 yards offshore, even though the calm water closer looks so inviting. The water gets quite shallow as you near China Camp and at extreme low tides, mud flats can appear where six feet of water once was. Robards reports that he has seen a number of sailboats tipped over on their sides in his 16 years as a ranger there. And some of them didn’t tip back up quick enough when the tide came in and filled them with water, he says. Robards gave me this news as we sat talking in our respective dinghies just off end of the China Camp pier as I nervously watched the water swirling around the pilings in a very strong ebb. When I pointed out where we had anchored Sabbatical, he drew a line with his finger from the end df the pier to the McNears Beach pier and said “You’re in a perfect spot, but don’t go closer to shore..."

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The currents run strong through the area and it’s not unusual to have a good ebb chop come up when the prevailing westerly winds curve into the anchorage. China Camp veterans tell tales of rocky rides when these conditions set up — and of sudden swells that come from tugs and ferries out in San Pablo Bay. If you've ever moored in front of the Sausalito Yacht Club or Decker Island in the Sacramento River you know all about contrary winds and currents. You'll feel right at home. When we visited China Camp aboard Sabbaticcdin September, we observed one other anchoring phenomenon we had heard about from China Camp cruisers who favor a cc nbination of chain and nylon rode — the China Camp Waltz. When the current shifts, a boat that moments before had been taut on its rode suddenly will appear to have pulled anchor. It does a swift, graceful ballet across the water until it pulls up tight again, pointed the other way. Roger and Mona Elliott of Martinez, cruisers aboard their Catalina 32 Cherokee Eagle, did the dance and wrapped their rode around

Spread, China Camp offers an idyllic fall desti¬ nation. And the shrimp cocktail can’t be beat. Left, ranger Pat Robards makes his rounds. Cen¬ ter, China Waltzers Roger and Mona Elliott. Right, the China Camp pier.

their keel, making for a few anxious moments when the current reasserted itself in the opposite direction and they were stern-to the wind. The 'Waltz would seem to dictate against any raftups, unless you're willing to swing on oneboat’s hook or spend time untangling matters later. Sabbaticals all-chain rode seemed to keep us from such problems, but at peak ebb, our knotmeter registered 1.5 knots, making for a fast dinghy ride out for a close look at the Sisters and long motor back. A dinghy — or a buddy boat with a dinghy — is a must for this destination, as there are no docks available for tying up, even for just an afternoon visit. But if you're feeling lazy, this is one of the warmest anchorages around the Bay and certainly a relaxing spot to sit with a good view of boats working their way to and from the Carquinez Straits. A dinghy will get you to the historic

area of China Camp State Park and China Camp village — a half-dozen wooden buildings and museum that tell the tale of the shrimp fisherman who at the peak of their catch would haul in 6,000 pounds of shrimp with their 40 or so nets per boat,

At the snack bar, visitors declared the tiny shrimp the best they’d ever had-and way too tasty to be fed to sturgeon. bringing it back to the fishing camp where it was dried and crushed so that the meat could be separated from the shells. One hundred years ago the dried shrimp meat was considered a delicacy. It was used as flavoring, with the separ¬ ated hulls going to feed animals or be used November, 1997 •

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WEEKEND GETAWAY as fertilizer. And prior to the turn of the century 90 percent of the Chinese shrimp catch was exported, much of it headed back to China. But in 1905 the legislature made exporting driecl shrimp illegal, forcing most of the Chinese out of the shrimp business. China Camp remained with the Quan family which shifted their business to trawling with a new style of net to replace 'bag nets.' Staked into the bottom, the bag nets caught much more than just shrimp.

n Sabbatical's visit to China Camp, Frank Quan had just dropped off a small catch to the museum and the snack bar next door. There it was boiled and peeled for visitors who declared the tiny shrimp the best they had ever had — and way too tasty to be fed to sturgeon. That day also featured a visit by Alma. the flat-bottomed scow schooner that's normally berthed with the other historic ships at the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco. Accompanying Alma was a mini-fleet of small workboats that were also part of a traveling historical exhibit. ‘This is living history," Ranger Robards says. ‘The state couldn’t possibly arrange this fishery or these boats as a demon¬ stration. People see the way it was all around here." In years past, Robards enjoyed his off hours sailing a windsurfer around the anchorage. He says the beach offers great protected sailing for novice boardsailors. For more experienced boardheads, there's much stiffer wind just beyond where most of the boats anchor to keep off the shal¬ lows. The downside to boardsailing there — or at nearby McNears Beach — is that the wind usually blows strongly offshore. So novices who can't get back to shore could end up on a slow trip to Petaluma or Vallejo. Many afternoons the wind does clock around to the northwest, at least for a short time, Robards reports, but it is generally not strong and it frequently signals a quiet night without much breeze at all. If a strong wind does come up out of the north, the China Camp anchorage is wide open to the full fetch all the way from the southern end of Sonoma and Solano Counties — and is not a pleasant place. On peak summer weekends, as many as 50 boats will come to the anchorage, Robards says. Average summer weekends will see a dozen boats anchored, with a like number in the fall, perhaps the best time for a visit given the likelihood of light winds. Weekends also feature many people stopping by for a break on their way to back from the Delta, especially Page 150 •

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those waiting for slack water. On Sabbatical!s trip we were blessed with a strong southwest breeze that sent us flying to China Camp in less than three hours from our Alameda slip. We had 80degree weather all afternoon, and the calmest night I ever spent at anchor, with San Pablo Bay so still you could see the stars reflected in it.

The China Camp village snack bar is an historic kind of place itself, offering beer, sandwiches, and — of course —

We had 80-degree weather all afternoon, and the calmest night I ever spent at anchor. shrimp cocktails. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends, and has the look of a 1950s roadside stop. All around the village are picnic tables and even inside the small museum, you can peer out every now and then to make sure your anchored vessel is safe. The park is open from 8 a.m. to sunset and for visiting boats there's no charge to land a dinghy and explore. With no space on the 330-foot pier for dinghies, however, the beaches are your only landing site. Be warned that they can be rocky in spots, so choose your

Though you can still see it in the distance, China Camp is far from the hustle and bustle of San Francisco.

landing carefully. And if you decide to check out China Camp at extreme low water, be prepared to walk through 20 yards or so of seriously gooey mud. This is a beaching expedition that dictates some kind of “get-wet” footgear. You will also nped footgear ashore, either on the gravel around the buildings or if you stroll out on the pier, where I collected several historic splinters in the soles of my bare feet at no charge. Of allvthe places in the 1,500-acre park ripe for ’discovery1, the shiniest jewel is probably the museum. It features a dozen exhibits, beginning with a story board at the shrimp tank that directs you clock¬ wise around the room past photos, histor¬ ic documents, and even a 1905 advertise¬ ment for author Jack London's series of stories With The Fish Patrol, in which he writes about law enforcement’s attempts to capture poachers in San Pablo Bay at the turn of the century. If you don't walk clockwise, museum volunteers like William F. Cox will point out the error of your ways, and in doing so enhance your visit even more. Cox offers a quick but thorough history of China Camp and nearby McNears Beach, which many old-time Bay sailors may remember as having a near mountain next to it. Most of that was removed by the active gravel operation there. The McNear brothers purchased much of the existing state park in 1868, adding it to their properties and businesses in Peta¬ luma and Sonoma County. The state pur¬ chased the China Camp property in 1977 and began a restoration back to its original look at the height of the shrimping

CHINA CAMP

exploited and eventually hated as they joined the Gold Rush, helped build the railroads and became successful fisher¬ men around the entire Bay Area. There are also happier notes in the timeline, such as the U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1881 invalidating many Cali¬ fornia laws which discriminated against the Chinese. And, for John Wayne fans, a 1954 note that Blood Alley, starring Wayne and Lauren Bacall, was filmed right there on the shores of China Camp.

business. Cox is also the keeper of a fascinating time-line document for China Camp. It which offers an abbreviated history lesson in how the immigrant Chinese were first welcomed as a source of cheap labor, then

If you need a break from history — or you have children aboard who need offthe-boat diversions beyond what China Camp offers — McNears Beach offers a more cosmopolitan dinghy desti-nation, with extensive grassy areas for picnicking and even a line of palm trfees so you can pretend you're somewhere more tropical.

There’s also a snack bar, a swimming pool, tennis courts, and a long fishing pier that extends out several hundred feet. The Marin County rangers there seem quite willing to let you land a dinghy on their swimming beach, but be sure you shut off any outboard a good distance out and paddle the last bit in if it’s swimming season. (You can land with your engine closer to China Camp and easily make the short walk to the county park.) The warm waters of McNears draw plenty of swimmers in the warm months, and if the conditions are right, the beach is mostly sandy. After spending such a peaceful night, Sabbatical waited most of the next morning thinking our luck might also give us a gentle northerly for a downwind sail home. But after seeing that was unlikely, we pushed the bow out into the channel and whizzed by the Sisters and the Brothers’ lighthouse on a powerful ebb in plenty of time to catch the express breeze through the slot on our way back to Alam da.

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GETTING THE MAXIMUM RANGE One of the most useful and univer¬ sal electronic devices available to boaters is the handheld VHF marine radio. These ever-smaller and more sophisticated units form the mainstay of marine communi¬ cation in coastal waters. Their ease of use.

signals. Given the right frequency for the time of day and the strength of the soldf radiation, this bending will allow the sig¬ nal to be returned to Earth at great dis¬ tances from the transmitter. In a phenom¬ enon referred to as 'skip', the signal may then bounce off the earth, back into the upper atmosphere and return to land even farther away. VHF signals are not subject to this type of skip, although under dertain special atmospheric conditions, they can reach surprising distances.

V HF transmissions are commonly re¬ ferred to as Tine of sight' transmissions. In reality, radios can 'see' a little farther than humans due to the fact that the ra¬ dio signal follows the curvature of the Earth slightly beyond the visible horizon. Here's how it's expressed mathematically. Visible Horizon Horizon in miles = 1.141 X VH ' ... where H is the height of the observer's eye in feet.

Lightweight, affordable and it goes well with a tuxedo — the handheld VHF radio.

reliability, small size and reasonable price have earned them this position. However, like many 'black boxes', their full poten¬ tial is not always achieved byvthe user. "How far can you talk on that thing?" is a question asked by someone seeing one in use for the first time. For genera¬ tions used to worldwide direct-dial tele phone, live satellite TV and the expecta¬ tions of Star Trek-like communications, the basic range of a handheld radio with its supplied antenna may be a disappoint¬ ment. Several factors govern the transmis¬ sion range of radios. Marine Single Side¬ band, for example, operates in the short¬

Radio Horizon Horizon in miles = 1.415 X Vh ... where H is the height in feet of the transmitting antenna plus the height of the receiving antenna. In other words, all things being equal, the radio horizon js about 24% farther than the visible horizon. The practical ap¬ plication of this is that, when it comes to antennas, bigger is better. The higher your antenna, the farther you can talk.

I magine you're sitting in your dinghy in calm conditions. With a handheld VHF, you can reasonably expect someone 2 or 3 miles away to hear you. If you are on the cabin top of the average 35-ft sailboat, your range increases to 3 or 4 miles. And

In practical terms, doubling the height of your antenna is equivalent to increasing the power of the transmitter by a factor of four. wave band — also referred to as 'high frequencies' or simply HF'. The efficiency of this band depends to a large extent on the 11-year sunspot cycle and its effect on the Earth's outer atmosphere. This upper atmosphere effect 'bends' the HF Page 152 • It&UUi IS? • November, 1997

if you connect your radio to your mast¬ head antenna, it jumps to 7 to 8 miles. If the boat you are talking to is also using a masthead antenna, add another 7 miles to each of these figures. The Coast Guard takes advantage of this height factor by

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2) Measure 1 inch from the 20-inch point along the exposed braid and with a pair of fine scissors or diagonal wire cut¬ ters, cut around the braid. Remove the now-free 19-inch section of braid. You can do this easily by bunching up the braid and slipping it to the free end (the same way you used to'get those Chinese finger puzzles off). You should now have the length or cable to reach your radio with 20 inches of braid exposed at one end. 3) Comb out the 1 -inch section of braid with a sewing pin or needle and bend it back over the outer insulation. Spread it out to cover as evenly as possible. Care¬ fully apply solder to this bent-back braid , taking care not to apply to much heat and melt the insulation. placing its antennas atop coastal moun¬ tains wherever possible to extend its range to about 50 miles offshore even when communicating with low-level antennas. So, increasing the height of the an¬ tenna increases range. What about more power? Well, power is not as important as you might expect. In the most mar-

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5) Slide the braid over the prepared end of the other coax and over the other insu¬ lation so that the braid lies on top of the tinned 50-ohm braid and neatly covers the outer insulation of the remaining length of the 50-ohm cable. 6) Solder the 19-inch length of 75-ohm braid to the tinned ends of the 50-ohm ’skirt’. Carefully trim off any whiskers that remain in the joint area. Smooth the ex¬ posed braid back along the coax and trim it so that a total of 19 inches is left. Tape the free end to the coax with PVC electri¬ cal tape.

7) There should be a length of white insulated inner conductor exposed at the upper end of the 50-ohm coax that was exposed in step 2. Measure 18 1/4 inches from the soldered braid junction and crimp on the ring terminal. The terminal must be crimped over the white insula¬ tion and not contact the inner conductor. 8) Attach the connector that mates with your radio to the other end of the cable. Instructions come with the connec¬ tors. The BNC type can be a little fiddley. If you're not comfortable with attaching this by soldering, you can use a 'no-sol¬ der’ type connector — or even the larger and easier-to-attach UHF connector. like the ones used on full size VHF or CB ra¬ dio's. If you choose the latter route, you'll also need an Inexpensive adaptor to mate it with your radio's BNC connector. If at all possible, avoid the alternatives and use a soldered connector. Any Ham operator will likely be familiar with this process. If you know one, he’ll probably be more than happy to help you out.

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ginal conditions and at extreme range, some extra power may help you be heard. But in comparison to raising the height of your antenna, it's aveiy expensive and much less efficient way to increase your 'readability' — at least in Earth-based communications of the type we're discuss¬ ing here.

In practical terms, doubling the height of your antenna is equivalent to increas¬ ing the power of the transmitter by a fac¬ tor of four. Just standing up in the din¬ ghy can make this difference and not cost you anything.

9} Apply a little clear silicone sealant to the junction of the braids and tightly bind the exposed braid the full 19 inches plus some with.The PVC tape, or slip a. length of heat-shrink tubing over the thing arid shrink it to fit. The latter gives a more professional appearance, but doesn't af¬ fect the performance one way or the other.

>5 o far no mention has been made of the type of antenna used, as the above principles apply to all types. The flexible rubber duck' antenna supplied with most handhelds has its place in short-range communcations. It's compact and almost November. 1997 • U&UJtlS • Page 153

HANDHELD VHF indestructible — and very inefficient in delivering all the power produced by your radio to the air. It is, in'fact, only part of your antenna system. The other part is provided by your body and the metal

crease. (You can find a commercial ver¬ sion of this simple accessory in Harii magazines.)

If the boat you are talking to is using a masthead antenna, add 7 miles to your range. — ---------1— If you have a no masthead antenna, or frame of the radio. As the metal content cannot or don't want to mount a perma¬ in new radios continues to decrease, the nent antenna high up in your boat, for a body becomes a less-efficient ground and this second part of the antenna equation few more dollars you can make an effec¬ becomes less effective. tive temporary antenna that can be hung To regain it, you can borrow a cheap from any convenient structure, hoisted to and simple trick from Ham radio opera¬ the spreaders in an emergency or even tors. Cut an 18 to 19-inch length of hook¬ held aloft with a oar, paddle or boathook. up wire, connect one end to a suitable All you'll need to build it is some com¬ alligator clip and attach it to the base of mon coaxial cable and a few hand tools. your radio's antenna connector (if it's the (Instructions on previous page.) \ BNC 'bayonet' type) or to the metal belt When your new antenna is ready for a clip (if you have a screw-in antenna). This test, attach a light line to the ring termi¬ will give a measurable performance in¬ nal and hoist the antenna as high and

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SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART I

v "Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans." — Charles de Gaulle n that note, welcome back to Latitude's an¬ nual three-part salute to the Bay Area summer sail¬ ing champions. This month, we'll meet the folks who "made the least mistakes" in the Handicap Divisions I Association (HDA), as well as a sampling of the Ocean Yacht Racing Association (OYRA) winners. Next (month, well check out the one design champs; in {January, well profile winners of the woodies, din! ghies, youth sailing and anyone else we bump into. Frankly, there's not a lot different about HDA or OYRA from last year — and, in this case, no news is probably good news. The numbers in HDA were down somewhat, with 78 season sign-ups and 38 qualifi¬ ers (i.e., boats that sailed in at least 50% of the races), but OYRA was up slightly with 107 entries and 43 qualifiers. One-time entries for the more popular races i|||lB (e.g., Vallejo, Lightship) continue to grow. To get the HHH full low-down on HDA or OYRA, call Glenda or Lynn at the YRA office, (415) 771-9500. Without further ado, let's raise the curtain on our H first crop of '97 season champions (applause now). Congratulations to all winners, especially those listed below who didn't get profiled this year. — latitude /rkm PHRO l-A — 1) Dolphin Dance, SC 50, Dave Sallows, EYC; 2) | X-Dream, Jeppesen 39, Steen Moller, TYC; 3) Zamazaan, Farr 55, I Chuck Weghorn, StFYC* (15 entered; 5 qualified) PHRO l-B — 1) Petard, Fdrr 36, Keith Buck, CYC; 2) Paladin, l SC 33, Dean Daniels, S.BYC; 3) Friday Harbor, J/35, Ryle Radke, [ SFYC. (16 ent.; 4 qual.) MORA I — 1) Baffett, Express 27, Forest Baskett/Tom Baffico, i SFYC; 2) Friday, Express 27, John Liebenberg, RYC; 3) Wachi Wara, j Olson 30, Bob McLeod/Don Ahrens, EYC. (17 entered; 6 qualified) MORA 11 — 1) Redux, Olson 911-S, Nick Barnhill, RYC; 2) ] Freewind, Cal 9.2, Don & Betty Lessley, RYC; 3) Eyrie, Hawkfarm, j Tom Condy/Sylvia Seaberg, SCYC. (14 entered; 8 qualified) SHS — 1) Tiger Beetle, Newport 33, Rob Mac-farlane, SSS; 2) | Tinsley Light V, WylieCat 30, Hank Grandin, SFYC; 3) Giggles, Baltic 138, Dale Parshall, RYC. (16 entered; 9 qualified) MULTIHULL— 1) Erin, Antrim 30+, Dan Buhler, EYC. (3 entered; H qualified)

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Mike Taylor, a Silicon Valley computer exec, grew up back East'crewing on IOR leadmines on the Great Lakes, Florida and the East Coast. "I’m so old I even remem¬ ber the CCA rule!" joked Mike, who owned a Soling when he lived in Toronto. Mov¬ ing to California, he discovered ultralight sailing, doing distance races on the SC 50 Acey Deucy, among others. "When it was time to get another boat, multihulls were a logical step," he said. "I couldn't imagine going back to a slow boat!" Taylor bought Indigo in 1992, choos¬ ing the Dragonfly because of its nice in¬ terior and its ability to "fold up" in the berth (other designs fold up, but only for getting on the trailer). 'The boat's perfor¬ mance is exhilarating, and the sails are small enough you don't need an army of guys to handle it," explained Mike. "We're competitive with just me, my wife Valerie, and our two kids — Geoffrey, age 14, and Stephen, 11 — as crew. I don't think my family realizes how good they've gotten!" The Taylors, who also own a trawler for Delta cruising, won the season com¬ fortably and look forward to defending their title next summer. "Go to all the races, and don’t break down," was Mike's advice for a winning season. "But win or lose, multihull sailing on the Bay is great fun — it's a small but friendly fleet that races on the water, not the protest room. The steady summertime wind is just per¬ fect for these boats — we typically do 12 knots upwind and 16-18 downwind!"

"Yeah, we had a bit of fun this sum¬ mer," said David Thomson,, an under¬ stated Kiwi who also had great success with his previous boat, the Farr 1020 Kotuku. Thomson, a private investor from Woodside who disappears frequently to sail on Sayonara, and righthand man Kim Desenberg, an Alameda boat repairer, won the first half of the season and then hung on as InJraRed, sporting a new PHRF rat¬ ing, fired off five bullets in the second half. "Kim steered when I couldn't make it, and put together our great crew," ac¬ knowledged David, who listed Colin Moore, Damon Harvey, Don Teakel, Tony Basso, Andy Hamilton, Karina Vogen, Anna Desenberg, Aimee Hess, Doug Frolich, John Donovan, John Hansen and Mark Cummings as contributors to Peregrine's winning season. "We were heavy on Wabbit sailors, which is always a good thing!" noted Kim. Other highlights from Peregrine's first year of racing included coming in second overall in the Coastal Cup, second in class in the Doublehanded Farallones, and sec¬ ond in the seven-boat one design class in the NOOD Regatta. Next summer, the duo plan to put Per¬ egrine on her trailer and hit the road in search of more one design racing. Speak¬ ing of which, there are four Mumm 30s in the Bay Area now, with hopefully more to follow. Rumors of a class at the '98 Big Boat Series are even starting to circulate. "Wouldn't that be fun?" grinned David.

"Congratulations to everyone who sail¬ ed in our division," said Mike Bilafer, a building engineer and patriach of this Walnut Creek sailing family. "We found out it's a lot harder sailing in HDA than one design." After winning the Olson 30 title two years straight (out of three at¬ tempts), the Bilafers took on HDA for the second time this summer. They took the season with a 5.75-point cushion, hold¬ ing off a late charge by My Rubber Ducky. "It was a fun experience," claimed Mike, "but next year we ll probably take our show on the road, maybe some lake and ocean sailing." Bilafer singled out his 26-year-old son Jim, a computer tech, for special thanks. "He's the boat's caretaker, and he sched¬ ules the crew," said Mike, the primary driver. Other Family members include another son, Jeff, Tina and Rico Ven¬ ables, Tony Rivano, Jim Carlson, Mike Bruzzone, Dave Hankel, Peter Fostiak, Tim Meaney and Eric Seward. 'The weather was wierd this summer," claimed Mike. 'There was hardly any wind for the Vallejo Race, and then two weeks later there was so much at the Stone Cup that most boats didn't fly chutes." Oh, about the picture — that's Jama Bilafer, the boat’s mascot. The six-yearold standard poodle, as well as wife/mom Jean, crew on Family Hour in the 'just for fun' races, and provide shore support for the 'real' ones. 'They're both really im¬ portant parts of our team," said Mike.

2) Ja Mon, F-25c, John Kocol, BAMA; 3) Bad Boy, F-28, Gary Helms, EYC. (6 entered; 4 qual.)

2) InfraRed, David. 44, Richard Peck, StFYC; 3) Recidivist, Schum. 39, Colin Case, SFYC. (12/4)

2) R. Ducky, Hobie 33, L.Garami, SSS; 3) Two Scoops, Exp.34, Longaker/Goodwin, RYC. (12/7)

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Ed Durbin Richmond YC

Diana & Jim Freeland Berkeley YC

Slabeck (left) & Gokey Sausalito YC

About 45 years ago, Ed Durbin, the 'Big Apple Kid', was invited fishing on a motorboat, where he witnessed a boat glide by with no audible energy source. "What the heck keeps that thing moving?', I remember wondering," said Durbin, an executive at an aerospace and electron¬ ics company. "That single moment spark¬ ed a lifetime of interest for me." The potential fisherman has come a long way since then, owning a Lightning, a Rhodes 19, a Coronado 25 and a Cat¬ alina 27 named Catalyst, which he sailed to four national championships. Ixxis, which is 911-S in Roman numerals ("I tell everyone it's named after an Egyptian wind goddess!"), is Ed's "favorite boat ever, a real sweetheart." This was his most suc¬ cessful season since buying the boat in early '95, but winning HDA-J was far from easy — Ixxis and Harp traded bullets right up to the end. Ed aced the last race to win by two points, and then capped the year off by winning the Yankee Cup. "I've never had a better crew," men¬ tioned Durbin. "My thanks to crew boss Ed Lewis, John Styslinger, Mark Salmon, Greg Stevens, Dave Morgan, Denise Costello, Charlie Griffin, Jeff Sears and Jeff Thorpe." Other 'go-fast' factors were a new bottom job, some new UK sails, and Ed’s fiberglass fishing pole invention to keep the runners clear of the boom. Durbin, currently commodore of Richond YC, hopes "that the 30-footers will get organized as a class next year!"

"We didn’t know we'd won until we opened the mail," claimed Diana Free¬ land. a small business consultant. Both she and Jim, a United Airlines pilot, fig¬ ured Mintaka had beaten them. However, they were happy (and amazed) to learn that through HDA's convoluted scoring of the Stone Cup (basically counting four races as two, and awarding weird num¬ bers for ties). Max took the season by an eighth of a point. There literally has never been a slimmer margin of victory in HDA," laughed Diana, "Heck, we’ll take it!" This was a new division for the Free¬ lands, who won HDA-J two years ago. "It was a tougher class," noted Jim. "But without good competitors, it's not really racing, is it? Everyone was very friendly, too." Max came on strong in the home¬ stretch, scoring three bullets en route to dethroning '96 champion Gerry Brown. "We raced the second half with our 125% jib, getting the six second a mile rating break," said Jim. "That made us boat-forboat with Mintaka, which was really fun!" The Freeland's "family" crew consisted of 27-year-old son Neal, Heather and Steve Nagle (who tailored their recent wed¬ ding around the race schedule), Steve Crawford ("fantastic foredeck and tacti¬ cal input!"), Cecil and Jim Pearson (no re¬ lation), Greg DesBrisay and Bill Sauneuf. Max, built 12 years ago in Germany to the IOR rule, is seriously for sale. The Freelands are planning to move up to a bigger boat, "something like a J/44."

The Bloodvessel gang started the year off right with a second in class at Key West Race Week, a "totally fun week," accord¬ ing to owner Margaret Gokey. Tactician/ sailmaker Peter Winter trailered the boat home in a record 60 hours, but then jumped ship to InfraRed for the summer. His wife Julie ("our unauthorized joke teller") stayed with the crew, as did Ber¬ nard Slabeck ("the most patient helms¬ man on the Bay"), bowman Larry Fogelquist, David Byron and David West. , Gokey, a hand therapist and budding vintner (she has several acres of grapes on her Glen Ellen ranch), does the pit on Bloodvessel and steers in the extracur¬ ricular races. Slabeck, a professional pho¬ tographer, handles the varsity steering chores. Their record speaks for itself: af¬ ter steamrolling HDA-J last year. Blood¬ vessel went on to dominate HDA-L (the new class for boats under 6,500 pounds) with a perfect score of ten bullets. Their 15-point winning margin was by far the largest in HDA this summer. "Thanks to the YRA and all the race committees for their time and energy in putting the races together," said Marga¬ ret, who isn’t sure she'll be back next year to defend her title. "The boat is currently for sale, and we're researching various one design options on the Bay, as well as con¬ templating dinghy sailing on the Lake Cir¬ cuit. Bloodvessel has been fun and is com¬ pletely beefed up for the Bay. . . if only there were more B-25s to race against!"

2) Harp, Cat. 38, Mike Mannix, IYC; 2) Fat Bob, Cat.38, Bob Lugliani, CPYC. (9 entered; 6 qual.)

2) Mintaka, C&C 36, Gerry Brown, BYC; 3) Jane Doe, Ols. 911-SE, Bob Izmirian, StFYC. (17/6)

2) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair, BYC; 3) Derf, Soling, Pete Rowland, BYC. (12 entered; 5 qual.) November, 1997 • LxKUJUli • Page 159

SEASON CHAMPIONS HDA — M Catalina 27

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Nolan (left) & DeFrank Encinal YC

Frank Burkhart Sausalito YC

Bill Chapman, president of an energy management company in San Ramon, started sailing Snipes as a young boy on the Thames River in England. After briefly co-owning a Columbia 26, he bought Latin Lass (named after his wife Myriam, who is from Spain) new in 1981. He's raced the boat extensively ever since, claiming, "We've broken and subsequently up¬ graded everything but the mast — touch wood! — at least once by now." HDA-M continues to be a bit on the thin side, and Chapman's onl^ real com¬ petition came from Dulcinea. "Mike and Bill are excellent sailors," reports Bill. "They're also real gentleman." Each boat had five bullets, with Lass taking the title by 2.5 points. "It was nice to win, but it would have been more challenging to sail with the 198 raters in ODCA," admitted Bill. "1 broke ranks with the one design group because it conflicted with MORA, which I actually prefer over buoy racing." This was Bill's second summer of do¬ ing both HDA and MORA. "I couldn't have done it without Brent Draney," said Chapman. "He's been incredibly loyal, a fine bowman and tactician for the last four years. Brent just bought a B-25 — I'll miss him, but I know it's time for him to move on." Mike Giglio and Bill Hunt were stal¬ warts in the cockpit, and "at least a dozen" others sailed on Lass last summer. "I'm grateful to everyone," claimed Bill, who noted that BYC Friday night races were fertile grounds for recruiting good crew.

Though he sailed a little bit 20 years ago in L.A., Livermore's Pat Nolan didn't really catch the bug until the fall of '95. He bought a used Catalina 36, but quickly began searching for a higher performance boat. 'The J/42 was marketed perfectly at me and my family," said Nolan, a part¬ ner in a national beverage distribution company. "I bought one on the spot at the boat show last year, and took delivery in June of '96. We did a few races last year, but this summer was my first com¬ plete season — and we did pretty well!" In fact, Je Taime> had a fabulous de¬ but, winning her ocean division by a com¬ fortable 7-point margin. Other highlights included a second in class in the windy Coastal Cup, first in the Lipton Cup ("We had an all-star cast for that one — I was just happy to be along for the ride!"), and a mid-fleet finish in the Big Boat Series. "I haven't done much buoy racing, so that regatta was a tremendous learning expe¬ rience," said Pat, who has been honing his skills in the Estuary with his other boat, an as yet unnamed Columbia 5.5. Nolan, whose other hobbies include fly¬ ing airplanes and playing bass in a clas¬ sic rock band, listed Mike DeFrank, Chris Corlett, Norman Davant and Will Paxton as his sailing mentors. Other important crewmembers on Je Taime this summer were Susannah Carr, John Parisot, Allisa Roberts, Joan Burleigh, Dwight Beal, Jane Jeppesen, Juan Benavidez, Craig Voeglele and Jeff Nalaway.

"Our defining moment came in the '96 Drake’s Bay Race, the third ocean race we'd ever done," said Frank Burkhart, a Redwood City-based owner of a data and distribution company. "We were beating into 40 knots of wind with 12-foot seas. We were totally overpowered, unable to furl the jib far enough or flatten the main. Half the crew was sick, everyone was cold and miserable. . . That race has been our V benchmark of what the ocean can throw at you. We've upgraded the boat since then, and the crew has really improved. The payoff came this summer!" Island Girl won three races en route to a 2.75-point victory over Scotch Mist. "Our 'secret formula' was spending lots of time and money on the boat, a good crew and my wife's gourmet sandwiches," figured Frank, who also campaigned the Girl in ODCA and the SYC Tuesday night races. "All the effort is worth it when you're out there. It’s beautiful: dolphins, whales, sharks, the Bridge, lighthouses at night. . .OYRA is a perfect combination of friend¬ ship and competition. I have total respect for everyone who sails in this series." The Girl's crew included Kathy and John Acomb, Ruth Ann Barrett, Mary Kay Kazmerski, Chuck Marlowe, Boyd Sprehn and Willy Teng. "It's an eclectic combina¬ tion of scientists, business owners, law¬ yers, writers — all very intelligent people," claimed Frank. "Our tactics are based on a consensus qf opinion, a system which usually works out to our advantage."

2) Dulcinea, K-Whale, Mathiasen/Pritchard.lYC; 3) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles, OYC. (10/6)

2) Enchante, Ben. 42, David Jacoby, MBYC; 3) Intrepid, Baltic 37, K. Mau, SBYC. (14 ent.;6 qual.)

2) Scotch Mist, Cal 39, Ray Minehan, CYC; 3) Trial Run, Pass. 40, J.Bieda, BYC. (11 ent.;4 qual.)

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TUAMOTU TRACTOR PULL \nr With all the talk of El Nino adverse¬ ly affecting the weather in the South Pacific this season, we’ve often heard cruisers complain on the net, "No one told us it would be like this.” "That’s the South Pacific for you!” respond the veteran cruisers. We’ve certainly not had the wonderfully predictable sailing conditions of Mexico, and — as we learned the hard way — reliable trades are but a myth. Nonetheless, after a month exploring the totally stunning islands of the Marquesas and enjoying some of the most spectacular anchorages we’ll ever see, we began to look forward to the protected lagoons of the Tuamotus. The 'we' being my husband Bob, myself, our 11 -yearold son Malcolm, and our 9-year-old daughter Naomi. Almost all of the deeply indented bays in the Marquesas are open to ocean swells, and the steep cliffs play havoc with the wind. One night at Fatu Hiva, for example, we — along with five big boats from Jimmy Cornell’s Around the World Rally — were blown out of the bay by 50-knot gusts. We dragged our anchor off into unknown depths — but at least we were in good company! Gumboot had a smooth sail down to the Tuamotus Archipelago, our evening landfall announced by the heady perfume of tropical flowers. Rovoia Atoll was our first stop. This place was recommended to us by friends on the SSB, who said their Naomi and Malcolm — the shark children of Rovoia.

two weeks alone on Rovoia were idyllic. So idyllic, in fact, that they’ll be stopping in New Zealand later this year to have their baby! Followed by two other boats, we pushed through the current in the pass

When the last of the chain came up, there was no anchor attached! '

to pop out into the calm lagoon waters. ’Wow, it’s huge in here,” shouted Malcolm, who was conning for us from halfway up the mast. “I can barely see the other side.” At 6 miles across and 12 long, I think we all expected Rovoia to be a bit smaller than it turned out to be.

f^ovoia has a small pearl farming village near the entrance. The holding ground near there is poor, however, so we wound our way up to the northern end of the lagoon, tacking across the sun so we could maintain a sharp lookout for the beautiful but deadly cored heads that rise out of the depths to-within a foot or so of the surface. These ’bombies’, as we took to calling them, make for great diving arid are fortunately very easy to spot — as long as you don’t have to look into the sun to do it. We eventually set our anchor in fine coral sand 20 feet below the surface. The children dove in to confirm that the anchor had set — and in the process were thrilled to see their first small black-tipped reef sharks. They, the kids, kept chasing them, the sharks, in order to get a better look. Thank goodness they never got around to seeing Jaws! Ah, the joys of settling in at a calm anchorage at the end of a passage — and the prospect of unbroken sleep. We marveled at the beauty of a wild lightning show way to the south of us as we enjoyed dinner aboard Beau Soleil When we later rowed back to our boat, the mirror smooth surface of the lagoon reflected even the

smaller stars. It couldn’t have been more than an hour after we turned in that the great lightning show had reversed its course to wake us with rain and shouts of “shut the hatches, it’s bucketing down — grab the bimini, too, it’s windy!" What a wild nightmare to wake to, as it was blowing 40 knots and suddenly we found ourselves off a lee shore! The 12 miles of fetch was quickly building up a killer chop that had Gumboot heaving and bucking. I could see the lights on the other three boats as everyone struggled to catch up to the conditions, putting out extra

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outboard for our dinghy, and it had worked out well up til this point. But now we really wished we had an outboard, because there was no way anybody could row a dink against that powerful wind to set a kedging anchor. Fortunately, we weren’t alone, and once the others had gotten their own boats secured, Karsten from Jaisila, Mike from Beau Soleil, and singlehander Maas from Calypso appeared out of (he darkness. What a welcome sight they were! The squall passed as quickly as it had arrived, so we were able to spend the next several hours setting anchors, trying to heel the boat over as far as we could, hoping the winches would take the strain and pot get ripped off the deck — and all the while grinding, grinding, and grinding to try to free Gumboot from the bottom. At nqarly low tide, we gave up and sent

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kind that bends around itself, had pulled open in the blow! Before we knew it, the choppy waves were bouncing Gumboot’s keel off the sand bottom. I would later look at the broken link as another case of our good luck, for it allowed us to miss the coral heads that had been on either side of us. Furthermore, Gumboot was built as an IOR race boat in the late ’70s, which means she’s strong. I was very grateful for all those layers of glass and resin as I felt the floorboards flexing beneath my feet! But at the time, as our predicament compounded itself, I was worried anyway. The children, being children, slept

I was grateful for all those layers of glass and resin as I felt the floorboards flexing beneath my feet. the others back to their boats. Bob and I sat up as the wind came back for one more pass at us, digging Gumboot’s keel 18 inches or so into the bottom and sand¬ blasting all the fiberglass from the rudder. It was not an experience I enjoyed!

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daylight arrived with the last minutes of what would be the highest tides for weeks, so we all made one last big effort to free Gumboot. This included running a spinnaker halyard out all the way and tying it to Beau Soleil, which then pulled us sideways as much as possible to heel us over. At the same time, Jaisila pulled on a line from our bow and the kedge swing our boat around. The combination of these three efforts pulled Gumboot out of the sand and into deep water with no more damage than the abraded rudder. Thank heavens for friends in such a remote spot. If it wasn’t for them, we'd probably still be out there! We later learned that the same weather system, an offshoot of cyclone Kelt, roared through Papeete Harbor, causing many boats to drag their anchors. Escapade apparently sustained major damage when she washed up on the beach, and has reportedly been put up for sale. Lots of other cruiser had their own exciting stories of how they coped with the abrupt

Doing the dance is easy enough during the day, but sailing among the 'bombies' at night is just impossible — and we all know that it’s at night that all the bad stuff happens.

Malcolm cools his heels (and everything else) for some correspondence school studying.

weather change. Many did what became known as the Tuamotu dance', which is chasing windward motus for protective lee.

"\A^’re now in the protected waters of Vava'u, Tonga, and I’m sleeping much better, thank you. If any cruisers are wondering about where to have, friends visit, this part of Tonga is perfect. Three families of Bob’s siblings came down and chartered two Moorings boats, so with three boats, eight adults and eight children, we had a blast exploring this wonderful part of the South Pacific. Best of all, the water was flat and the winds a pleasant 15 to 20 knots. It'd be a great spot for Latitude’s next adventure — but everyone should bring a sweater and wetsuit, as it seems chilly after the Society Islands. — jennie crum

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RAY JASON'S SEA GYPSY VIGNETTES No

ilormal people might have found our display of bravado a bit strange. They might have felt that our devil-may-care attitudes were an attempt to repress hidden, deep-seated ffears. But we were so far removed from normal, that we

Holland but spent much of her life in Canada. She has been a scuba devotee (or

"The story would be even better if you showed them the Glob.” probably couldn’t even spell it anymore. In fact, between our three, sea-roving sailboats, we had two and a half circum¬ navigations. We had been Out There with a capital O and a capital T. So to us it made perfect sense to pass the time during a ferocious lightning storm by telling first-person lightning stories. We were seated in the saloon of a handsome Beneteau 50 which had just finished chartering its way around the world. Lots of folks make a living by running charters in one particular area, such as the Caribbean or the Med; but Captain Lars and Diverqaster Johanna rejected that normal approach in favor of a more difficult but more rewarding, globe-rounding, itinerary. Through their own extensive contacts, they could fill the boat with up to six paying guests for much of the year. They supplement this with the help of Maiy Crowley’s adventure sail/travel company called Ocean Voyages. This Sausalitobased agency specializes in finding vessels for people who seek the out-of-the-way places from Zanzibar to Zhmboanga. Anybody savvy enough to charter aboard Jennifer would soon find themselves under the spell of two pretty amazing sea gypsies.

Xars is a reformed lawyer and an unreformed vagabond. He has traveled around the world twice. Along the way he would trek, ski, climb mountains, scuba dive, run marathons and teach aerobics. He was born in Sweden and took his masters in Law at the University of Illinois. So his English is better than half the Senate and all of the House. He is also a damned fine captain who believes that good seamanship is proven by smooth, trouble-free passages. Johanna refers to herself as Dutch Canadian. This threw me at first, because I was aware of French Canada and of the British part of Canada, but didn’t realize that there was a Dutch section. Then she explained that she had been born in Page 166 •

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should that be dive-otee) tfor a very long time. Her very impressive resume includes some pioneering cave dives in Yucatan Ind ovming a dive resort in Belize. She met Lars by"thumbing rides on sailboats all the way from California to Mexico to the South Pacific. They’ve now been together for three years and three oceans. The other couple seated in Jennifer’s saloon had also left the norm far astern. They, too, had circumnavigated, and in a most unusual sloop. It had so many tools arrayed below, that it looked like the supply ship for a fleet of Mr. Goodwrenches. That’s because Eric, the skipper, was a master mechanic, or as he liked to describe himself, a “master bleeder.” This referred to the main task which other cruisers hired him to perform — the mystic and secret ritual known as the bleeding of the diesel. His first mate, Audrey, was an excellent canvas worker. This had earned her the nickname in the fleet of Canvas Audrey. However, because of her almost neurotic penchant for sewing covers for almost everything on the boat, she was some¬ times called Compulsive Audrey. She had even made a cover for their main anchor. This must have added at least three days to the lifespan of this galvanized steel plow, which could already survive about 10,000 years before the sun began to damage it. Eric and Audrey were from Australia. The name of their boat was from Mars. At least that was my first guess when I saw the word Icflgin painted across their stem. Then, when I saw the inside of their sloop, I thought that perhaps it was the brand name of an Australian torque wrench. Finally I just broke down and asked. “Oh, it’s an acronym,” said Audrey, with a playful smile. "It stands for, ‘I Can Feel It Going In Now’,” added Eric, with an equally naughty smile. So, I guess it had some¬ thing to do with fuel injection or pistons or crankshafts. As for my own failure to conform to

SAILING TO MOMBASA the norm, it started a long time ago, and I have never been able to tack away from the course less taken. In fact, my truancy from normalcy is so extreme that when I’m not out sailing Aventura in search of new sea gypsy yarns, I earn my keep by juggling bowling balls in exotic, tropical locales.

Well, as I previously mentioned, we were seated in the saloon of a handsome Beneteau 50. What I didn’t tell you was that it was docked at Marina Hemingway, a few miles west of Havana. There was a thunderstorm raging around us that was impressive even by Capitalist standards, but apparently this was just an average one by Cuban standards. That’s because many of the workers at the marina kept claiming that this was the “lightning capital of the world.” Now, I can recall at least three other ports in North and Central America that have also bragged that they were the “lightning capital of the world.” So my conclusion was that this was the “lightning capital of the Communist world,” which probably isn’t that big a deal since, to the best of my knowledge, Cuba is the only Communist country still left in the western hemisphere. Unless you count Berkeley. After a particularly fierce lightning and thunder combo, Eric said, “Hey, have I got a great lightning story for you guys. You’re all familiar with Foster’s Beer aren’t you?” “More than we should probably admit to,” came the consensus reply. “Well, Icjxgin was sailing from Fiji to New Zealand and . . .” At this point Audrey interrupted. “Eric, the story would be even better if you showed them the Glob.” “Great idea,” he said, as he quickly climbed up the companionway ladder and headed to his boat which was berthed just behind Jennifer and directly in front of Aventura. “He’ll get drenched,” said Johanna, in mild disbelief. “Ah, no worries, Jo," said Audrey, “He’s a true Aussie. He thinks that since we’re in the northern hemis¬ phere, the rain flows up”. He soon returned bearing a large metallic blob. Looking at it, I was reminded of a friend’s theory: “If you don’t know what something is — it’s probably Art.” So my guess was that it was either chrome-plated road kill. . . or sculpture. Well, it turned out to be a work of art created by the Sky Bosun himself. Because on that trip from Fiji to New November. 1997 • UtUtJc

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RAY JASON'S SEA GYPSY VIGNETTES Zealand, Eric and Audrey had an entire case of Foster’s stowed in the bilge. During a strong thunderstorm, they thought they had taken a direct lightning hit, because the cabin lights went out a second after they saw the blinding flash. But they came back on in a few seconds, and they could hear the autopilot whirring away as it made course corrections out in the cockpit. So they figured it was just another near-miss.

L/ater that afternoon, Eric opened the bilge to get a few brews to transfer to the fridge. What he saw was a true male Aussie nightmare. His entire supply of Foster’s was destroyed. The lightning had come down the mast, evaporated the beer, and melted the cans into a pelican-sized blob of blue and silver metal. His impassioned curses could probably be heard in both Fiji and New Zealand. And it didn’t matter whether you were from Down Under or Up Over; they could be easily understood. Audrey tried to calm him down by pointing out that the sacrificial beer had probably kept all of their electronics from being destroyed. “Screw the GPS!” he replied, “I cam navigate with my sextant, but I can’t drink melted aluminum!” Eventually, Audrey managed to calm him down by suggesting that they make something positive out of this molten negative. After all, they had that big space on the main bulkhead that needed something decorative; so riather than imbibing the Foster’s, they could immor¬ talize it. This is consistent with much of modern art in that what ends up on the wall looks a lot like something that went wrong. “So, is that a great lightning story, or what?” asked Eric. “Pretty good,” replied Johanna, “but I think Lars can top it." “You’re kidding,” said Audrey. “Oh. it’s no joke,” responded Lars. “Come on, Lars. Tell them," urged Johanna. “All right. Well, we were sailing to Mombasa . . .” “Wait! Stop right there, mate,” pro¬ tested Eric. “You can’t bloody start a story with. ’We were sailing to Mombasa.’ Do you think you’re Joseph Conrad or something?"

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Mombasa on the coast of Kenya. We were heading there because Tony from the Ham net which stretches all across the Indian Ocean and up the Red Sea lives there. After having spoken with him by radio so often, we wanted to meet him. But to get to him you have to go up a river. And to go up that particular river you have to pass under a bridge and under some high tension power lines.” \ “Other cruisers from that area had told us that we would have no trouble clearing those obstacles. But they failed to tell us something veiy critical — namely that you couldn’t steer the obvious course. The highest part of the bridge was in the middle of the river, but the power lines were slightly higher over by the right hand bank. Unfortunately, this is not apparent to someone approaching from mid¬ channel.” At this point, Johanna picked up the tale. “So I was up on the foredeck, trying to judge if our mast would clear the wires. There were three of them about 30 feet apart. The middle one had some weights or conductors or something on it. They looked like big heavy balls and made this one hang down the lowest.” “We cleared the first one okay, and as we eased forward, ever so slowly, it looked like we would miss the second one. Which we did. So now I thought that we were home free. But as we got closer to the last one, I thought it looked too iffy, so I let go of the headstay and ran back toward the cockpit and told Lars to throw it into reverse. . .” “Which I did,” continued Lars, “be¬ cause from my perspective it also looked too close. But before I could get the boat stopped, we hit it. People standing on the shore later told us that they saw a blue bolt of electricity travel down the headstay and arc into the water at the bow. But some of it came my direction too.”

“My hand was on the metal throttle lever and this huge charge of current just started surging through my body. After a few seconds it jolted me back against the stern railing where I could now feel the electricity rushing up and down my body. I thought I was dead meat — very welldone dead meat.” “But then boat, which was still in reverse, must have freed itself from the wire. The current released me from where it had me pinned, and I stumbled forward onto one of the cockpit benches. It would be a while before I left that spot.” “A while?" chuckled Johanna. ‘Try a week! The electricity had injured him so severely that he couldn’t move from there for an entire week. It was so extreme that I had to feed him and bathe him and attend to, shall we say, less-pleasing needs. I built a screen all the way around the cockpit out of clear plastic to keep out the rain and the bugs. He literally couldn’t move.” “But I’m getting ahead of myself in the story," she continued. "I continued backing up the boat and then put out a mayday call on the radio. Some nearby cruisers came racing out in their dinghies. One of them even brought a doctor. “I had already given him a muscle relaxant and a Valium, and when the doctor got there he did a very careful examination. Just like I had secretly done, he was looking for an exit wound where the electricity might have come out.” “I told the doctor that it probably blasted out through his hair because when I first saw him stuck against the stem rail, his normally wavy locks were sticking straight up just like in the cartoons. With that jock’s body of his, and that hair, he looked like a cross between Einstein and an aerobics teacher.”

nrn -1-he fact that Lars could move his fingers and toes was a good sign. This meant that he had suffered no permanent spinal or nerve damage. Essentially, he had just sustained extreme muscle trauma caused by the voltage ripping through him. So even the slightest attempted movement caused big groups of muscles to cramp up which meant ex¬ cruciating pain. Once the doctor assured me that he would be okay, and that he just needed rest and immobilization, I felt a lot better.” “Then, with the help of some of the other cruisers, I moved Jennifer into the

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mchorage — using the proper route. It urns out that you have to come down he river mid-channel until you're near he wires, and then zig over to the right Dank and pass under them there. Once dear, you zag back to the middle of the channel again in order to clear the bridge, -low everybody could fail to mention the ill-important zig-zag part seemed pretty negligent to me, but I was feeling so good about the fact that Lars was okay that I didn’t' press the issue.” “It was a whole week before I could even sit up,” said Lars, taking over the narrative again. “I know it was difficult for Jo having to wait on me day and night, but for a lifelong athlete like myself it was pure hell being stuck there like that. After I could finally move without my system going into panic and cramp mode, it took another 10 days before I regained full mobility and a couple of mohths before I felt like my real self." “Were there any long term effects?”

asked Audrey with a smile and a wink, “Did any of his parts glow silver-blue in the darkness?” “Not any more than it used to!” replied Johanna as the male skippers chuckled. “And he didn’t lose his sense of humor, either. In fact, as we were motoring out of there a month later he was gearing huge oven mitts as we passed under the wires.”

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v With reports this month on The Caribbean's Checkered History, one couple's experience with Jjow-Budget, High Quality Chartering, and miscellaneous Charter Notes.

There's no doubt about it, the islands of the Easterh Caribbean definitely com¬ prise one of the most spectacular cruis¬ ing grounds on earth. Easterly trade winds blow predictably year-round, sea conditions are mild, and beneath the water's surface lie lush coral gardens where visibility is often more than 100 feet. But there's much more to the Antilles' Islands of the Eastern Caribbean than their geographic features and its sublime climate. The more you under¬ stand about the people and their heritage, the richer your experience will be. In terms of ancient history, the Carib¬ bean isles can't begin to compare with sailing destinations like Greece and Tur¬ key, but the relatively short history of these islands is fascinating and colorful nonetheless. Anthropologists tell us the first inhab¬ itants of the Caribbean islands were Amerindians who migrated north into the Sea from the Orinoco River basin of South America around 1000 A.D. While the peaceful Arawaks, the war-like Caribs and others never achieved 'sophisticated' civi¬ lizations like the Mayas and Incas, you could argue that they generally had a bet¬ ter life. Living in small self-sufficient com-

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munities, they fished the abundant wa¬ ters and farmed the land, which yielded cassava, corn, beans, potatoes, peanuts and tobacco. Until the Spanish arrived, life was good! We all know how ol' Chris Columbus launched the tidal wave of Western mi¬ Page 170 • UlCtwk?? • November. 1997

gration that would burst the Indians' bubble forever, but unlike the planeloads of tourists who flock to the Caribbean these days to bask on the( beaches, Co¬ lumbus and his Spanish backers were focused on economics. 'Show me the money' might well have been the catch phrase of the Age of Discovery', as the lust for New World treasures quickly spread throughout Europe. Despite an exclusive grant from the Pope, Spain's monopoly on the Caribbean Basin could not last. Expanding on the perennial international feuding back home, the Portuguese, French and En¬ glish were merciless in attacking Span¬ ish galleons laden with treasure, tobacco and other valuable commodities. The Amerindians were the big losers in this era of wild imperialism. Within a half century after the Spanish set up their first settlements, Indian populations had been wiped out by massacres, disease and slavery. (A small group of Caribs still live in a special preserve on Dominica, how¬ ever.) Until the early 1600s, the Spanish still held the reins throughout most of the Car¬ ibbean. Then, less than a decade after founding the Dutch West Indian Company which established av number of trading stations protected by Dutch ships, an entire Spanish fleet was captured by the Dutch, effectively ending Spain's exclu¬ sive control of the region. In 1625 Sir Thomas Warner estab¬ lished the first English colony on the is¬ land of St. Christopher — now called St. Kitts. Again, it was with an eye on poten¬ tial commerce that private English — and later French — companies first estab¬ lished colonies in the Caribbean. Soon afterwards, however, their governments took control of the islands that they had colonized. (And you think 'big government' meddles in private business todayl) Even¬ tually, every island of the Greater and Lesser Antilles was colonized, although many changed owners several times — the extreme example is St. Croix, where the flags of seven different nations have flown. Armed ships and their masters com¬ missioned by European governments as

privateers' originally helped patrol Car¬ ibbean holdings,.but they often converted to the status of pirates, thereby eliminat¬ ing the government's cut of the take! This practice launched the short-lived but highly-romanticized age of plunder’ which adds spice to the tale of early Caribbean history. Although marauding pirates were hated and feared by all governments, the legendary exploits of notables like Blackbeard, William Kidd, Anne Bonny and Mary Read have fascinated students of history for generations. Tobacco was the original cash crop for the islands, but by the mid-1600s plant¬ ers had lost their market share to the American colonies, whose product was both cheaper and more flavorful. Mean¬ while, Europeans were also yearning for an alternative to their expensive tradi¬ tional sweetener, honey. The native Caribbean sugar cane was thought to be the

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hideous cycle began again. Both the Dutch and French also played major roles in the slave trade. The British were the first to abolish slavery in 1834 — over 30 years prior to U.S. abolition. From the beginnings of the slave era in the early 1500s — when a Spanish priest supposedly proposed the idea! — this inhuman practice was doomed to eventually fail. Many proud Africans re¬ sisted their masters, some revolted and some escaped. Finally, several factors combined to end the era of slavery in the 1800s: first, slave trading was abolished, then the market for cane sugar weakened as sugar beets were cultivated in Europe, and finally the anti-slavery movement in Europe grew strong enough to bring about legislation. The transition to freedom had differ¬

ent effects on each group of islands. In the Virgin Islands, for example, abolition coincided with a lengthy drought. As a result, many planters simply packed up and went back to Europe, leaving their former slaves free to take possession of the land, but with little means of devel¬ oping it beyond a subsistence level. On most larger islands a strong Euro¬ pean presence remained, but many freed slaves chose to leave the plantations and become peasant farmers rather than re¬ main and work for meager wages. To fill the void, indentured laborers from India and China were brought to the larger ag¬ ricultural islands — especially Trinidad. East Indians added to the multi-eth¬ nic mix that gives the Caribbean its unique cultural identity. And while each island has its own distinctive cultural qualities, most share regional common¬ alities — particularly in music, food and a laid-back attitude toward life. A shared passion for Calypso music helps bind all generations of Eastern Caribbean island¬ ers together like no other matrix. From Trinidad, where the steel drum was in¬ vented, comes the universally celebrated tradition of Carnival, which takes its roots from a Roman Catholic religious rite, yet has incorporated elements of African, East Indian and other ethnic influences into its lively mix of music, dance and pagean{ry. Today, virtually every populated island holds an annual Carnival celebra¬ tion where the workaday world comes to a grinding halt so the populace can cel¬ ebrate life. When you witness the thriving tour¬ ism in the islands today — many of which are now independent nations — it’s hard to appreciate the harsh tiroes they've en¬ dured. During the century after abolition some larger islands prospered, but none kept pace, of course, with the U.S. — the largest New World colony'. Smaller is¬ lands that lacked rain forests and enough ground water to support large agricultural tracts remained ih a virtual time warp, where little changed from decade to decadl. Then came tourism, the ultimate cash crop. The present-day tourism boom that al¬ most eveiy Caribbean island now relies on as its principal moneymaker was born in the post WWII era, when a trickle of wealthy adventurers began taking winter getaways to these sunbaked isles. The region's popularity grew slowly at first, but as cruise ship traffic increased and re¬ sorts were built, the Caribbean vacation option gradually moved higher on interNovember, 1997 •

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national travelers' wlsh lists. During the past three decades yacht chartering has grown from a casual side business of a few private yachtsmen into a sophisticated multi-million-dollar in¬ dustry that draws clients from all over the globe. Some of the world's most beautiful charter yachts now ply Caribbean waters in addition to a wide range of both mOnohull and multihull bareboats. Over the past 500 years, the Eastern Caribbean islands have come full circle. They’ve weathered the transition from primeval natural paradises to multi-na¬ tional battlegrounds; from hotbeds of ra¬ cial oppression to top-rated playgrounds for international fun-seekers. And despite occasional — highly publicized — inci¬ dents of smuggling, murder and mayhem, the island chain remains an absolute ^ mecca for sailors due to its near-perfect wind and weather. If you haven't yet ex¬ plored these islands, we strongly encour¬ age you to do so. With that in mind, we'll leave you with a few final thoughts on getting along with the locals. If you'll permit us to generalize, more than anything else West Indians simply want outsiders to be respectful of them and their culture. Apart from recently arrived expats, most islanders you’ll en¬ counter today have ancestors who arrived there 300 - 400 hundred years ago. So regard it a privilege to share their turf. Showing respect through common cour¬ tesies will earn you a welcome reception, as most West Indians are exceedingly friendly and gregaribus. Be aware, however, that although healthy tourism economies allow some islanders to enjoy a standard of living that approaches our own, most Caribbean folks live simple lifestyles in very modest homes with a limited number of material possessions and creature comforts. That being the case, it's only natural that some develop a bit of an attitude about the con¬ stant parade of tourists who come to en¬ joy their homeland in ways that they themselves rarely, if ever, do. The aver¬ age British Virgin Islander, for example, has never taken a week-long sailing trip through his/her own territory. As the days grow shorter and the weather grows colder in North America, the prime Caribbean sailing season is about to begin, so don't hesitate to firm up your plans. We can guarantee you'll have steady trade winds to carry you, sunny skies and soft, sandy beaches to bask on. — latitude/aet Page 172 • UVUMM • November. 1997

Share the Boat and Shave the Bill: A BVI Charter Alternative Your correspondent's commentary last fall on the costs of chartering (World of Chartering, November 1996) inspired me to share another concept with your read¬ ers: booking a cabin instead of a whole boat. Bonnie and I took a crewed charter to the British Virgin Islands the first week of October last year. We bought a cabin on a Jeanneau 50. There were three other cabins, one for the crew and two for other couples. We paid only for our own cabin — $849 each. By booking dates in October, the tail end of the hurricane season, we took a calculated risk on the weather and on the occupancy of the boat. I figured that big storms or hurricanes, while averaging five

You can still have a rollicking good time at Soper's Hole, Tortola, but these days you'll be partying with laid-back islanders and semiper¬ manent expats. The same hills that hid pirate schooners from the sight of passing ships give excellent protection to charter boats.

every September, would happen only about once every three Octobers. I was right. The sea state was perfect, as was the weather. I also figured that early Oc¬ tober would not be a popular time with other couples and we would probably only have a total of six people on the boat — us, the crew and perhaps one other couple. Again I was right. The added bonus was that there were several nights Miere we were alone in an anchorage — and often we were alone on

the beaches. On two nights at anchor there were no lights to be seen anywhere, which proves you can still find secluded spots in the BVI. Warm squalls were com¬ mon, though, but they Were accompanied by little wind. When a squall came by, I wouldn't see my hand in front of my face, ft was an eerie feeling, especially since the anly sound we could hear was the surf in the reef. On the beach at Anegada, our skip¬ per, an Englishman we called Captain 3hil, dropped the other couple, Mark and \ngela, off on one beach and us at anither. As far as we could see down the shoreline, there was nothing but soft tal:um-powder sand. Out to sea, there was lothing but our own boat, Chasing Sky.

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Captain Phil told us the boat cost $395,000. Mark, who's a banker, was amazed. 'The numbers don't add up. There’s no way we can be having this va¬ cation for $850 each." But we did. The $849 included transportation to and from Beef Island International Airport, a night at a fine tropical hotel with restaurant and pool in Roadtown, Tortola, and six nights on the boat, including full bar and all meals except one dinner ashore. The dinner out cost us $90 and one other night we dirighied ashore to listen to Quito Rymer sing reggae — we spent maybe $25. We tipped $250 to Phil and his mate, Traci, and spent another $100 for lunch, dinner, drinks and breakfast the one day in Roadtown. The total cost was $1036.50 each for the week, and all the expenses of a bareboat were included, like the taxes, mooring fees, food, drink, etc. Not bad! And what a week it was. The boat was new, the weather perfect, the beaches and anchorages deserted, the diving incred¬ ible, the company was entertaining and Traci's cooking was excellent. Not to men¬ tion that every night Captain Phil made a different rum drink at cocktail hour. Since And you should have seen the one that got away! There are plenty of fish in the BVI but don't for¬ get to get a license before trying your luck.

We were served meals, drinks, snacks, asked if we wanted to steer, asked if we wanted them to steer. We were waited on like we were the Trumps. I have my own boat, but there is no way I would go on a bareboat after this wonderful experience. Why would I want to worry about where to go, how to anchor, and what to do about breakdowns? Bonnie sure didn’t want to rummage ashore for the very expensive food we saw in the stores and she wanted to cook even less on her vacation. And the bareboat price for the identical vaca¬ tion was $200 more each. — douglas drake sacramento Readers — Douglas' story gives us an opportunity to remind you that there are a variety of'per-cabin’ chartering opportuni¬ ties — especially in the Caribbean — of¬ fered through yacht charter brokers or larger bareboat firms. While such trips minimize your personal responsibilities toward the boat, they can also serve as a perfect introduction to chartering in exotic locations for those who hope to someday take a bareboat on their own or a crewed yacht with a hand-picked group of friends.

Charter Notes Isn't anybody staying in the Bay Area this winter? First the Ha-Ha fleet sucked hundreds of sailors from the Bay Area crew pool, now all the charter boats are heading to sunnier latitudes. You'd think no one enjoyed the cold, rainy days of winter! Long-time charter skipper Alan Olson is off to new adventures this winter. He'll teach sailing to his 'paying crew' on a series of trips in Mexico.

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the Bay November 1 for San Diego, after which a circuit of 7-to- 10-day cruises will take her to Cabo San Lucas into the Sea

of Cortez, along the Mexican Mainland and offshore to Socorro Island — famous for its giant manta rays — before heading back home in March. Co-skipper Kevin O'Neill, a long-time Modem Sailing Acad¬ emy Instructor, will skipper about half of these trips. Want to know more? Call (415) 331-8250. On the international bareboating scene, the biggest news we know of is that Sunsail has announced the opening of a new charter base in the Maldives, Islands. Lying off the coast of India, this vast ar¬ chipelago of islands and atolls has long been regarded as one of the top scuba diving destinations in the world, but charter boats have been restricted except for a smattering of traditional wooden vessels. In December Sunsail (800-317-2276) will move nine of its Beneteaus — rang¬ ing from 35 to 46-ft in length — from the Med down through the Suez and across the Indian Ocean to the new base. This new venue is a long way from home, but worth the effort.

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With report§ this month on two prestigious women's regattas (the Rolex Keelboat Championship and the Women's One Design Chal¬ lenge), a three-peat at the International Masters Regatta, the lightlyattended Yankee Cup and Champion of Champions, the ULDB 70's Alessio Race, the San Francisco Cup for Folkboats, a wrap-up of all the summer beer can senes, lots of box scores and the standard smattering of race notes.

Women's Keelboat Championship Jody Swanson finished the tenth and last race of the 1997 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship in New¬ port, RI, in sixth place — good enough to just barely win. But the lack of a horn from the race committee indicated that they'd started prematurely. . . and the si¬ lence was quickly broken by cheers from Betsy Alison's boat, which had topped the 36-boat fleet. This was Alison's fifth Rolex Women's crown, a remarkable string. "Betsy's the benchmark,' saidTiburon sailmaker/soccer mom Vicki Sodaro, the early leader in the prestigious biennial J/ 24'regatta. "It's her home waters, and she works hard at winning. Any time you can beat her, it feels pretty good!" Sodaro and

ing in six Rolex appearances. In fact, she was the only skipper in the top six who wasn't a past Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year — not bad company! "The field was a little smaller than usual, but the competitibn was still re¬ ally intense," noted Vicki. "The foreign teams were better than before, with three boats finishing in the top ten." Two other California boats didn't fare quite as well — Liz Hjorth (Marina del Rey) ended up 18th, while Charlie Arms (San Diego) was 26th; Next summer, Sdfiaro, Wondolleck and Vogen plan to team up for an assault on the Adam's Cup, which will be held in Santana 20s in Eugene, OR, in Septem¬ ber. , 1) Betsy Alison (Newport, RI), 23 points; 2) Jody Swanson (Buffalo, NY), 27; 3) Cory Sertl (Rochester, NY), 27; 4) Vicki Sodaro (Tiburon, CA), 34; 5) Ellie

Fast moms: Tiburon's Vicki Sodaro (above) and Annie Nelson (right) of San Diego.

Karina Vogen, Dawn Miller, Michelle Ostrander and Sylvaine Guille) opened with a 1,2,2,4,4 but then struggled as the wind dropped to almost nothing by the end of the regatta. S^ill, her eventual fourth place finish was Vicki's best show¬ Pag© 180 • tOdiJUli • November, 1997

Field/Courtenay Becker-Day (Little Compton, Rl/Rye, NY), 45; 6) Heidi Backus Riddle (Vermilion, OH), 51; 7) Felicity Hayward (Toronto, CAN), 55; 8) Gayle Melrose (Auckland, NZ), 69; 9) Laurence Fremanteau (Paris, FRA), 69; 10) Karen Lynch (Scituate, MA), 78. (36 boats)

Women's One Design Challenge Annie Nelson won the Sixth annual Women’s One Design Challenge at Long Beach YC on October 18-19, but it cer¬ tainly wasn’t easy. In fact, things were looking pretty grim for Nelson’s San Di¬ ego YC squad going into the last race of the two-day series. They were in third place — 5.25 points behind Colleen Cooke from Southwestern YC, and half a point behind Richmond YC’s Liz Baylis. Nelson needed more than just a good race — she also needed a major ‘hiccup’ from both Cooke and Baylis. A pretty tall order con¬ sidering Cooke kept getting better each race with a 5-3-2-1 series — and Baylis had just won two of the last three races. Nelson’s start in the last race did noth¬ ing to raise her hopes. “It sucked,” she candidly admitted later. “We were buried pretty deep.” However, Nelson was able to bail out quickly and found a big fat lane over to the right corner — not a bad place

.SHEET Women’s Nationals and then won the Hobie 20 Nationals as crew. The Women's One Design Challenge was staged by the LA/Long Beach Women’s Sailing Association in the same Catalina 37s used for the Congressional Cup. Skipper selection was based on sail¬ ing credentials submitted to WSA. — tom leweck 1) Annie Nelson, SDYC, 16.75 points; 2) Liz Hjorth, CYC, 19; 3) Colleen Cooke, SWYC, 19.75; 4) Linda Elias, LBYC, 23; 5) Kathy Hewett, VYC, 23.75; 6) Liz Baylis, RYC, 26.5; 7) Kelli Farrar, WSA-SD, 38; 8) Susanne Worthington, SBYC, 38; 9) Nina Nelson, NHYC, 39; 10) Valerie Navarro, SBYC, 40; 11) Diana Lorentzen, CBYC, 45.

Masterful performance: England's Jardine twins socked it to the 'gray panther' fleet for the third time. Inset, Stuart (left) and Adrian.

to be on a mid-afternoon in Long Beach. Baylis was not as lucky. She was pushed over the line before the gun and for the second time during the regatta had to go back to restart. Cooke was also in trouble at the start. Not only was she in the second row, she simply couldn't find a lane to go right. Cooke kept getting pushed to the left side of the course, which was suffering from a distinct lack of pres¬ sure. Nelson rounded the top mark in front and turned a big lead into a horizorrjob. The SDYC team was in a different zip code from the other Catalina 37s when they got the bullet — and then began their wait to see where Cooke and Baylis would fin¬ ish. The two former leaders both had their worst races of the regatta, winding up 9th

and 11th respectively — and Annie Nelson’s SDYC team had the regatta victory. Liz Hjorth from California YC wound up in second place, 3/4 of a point ahead of Cooke. Hjorth won this event in 1995 and was second last year. Defending champion Linda Elias from the host club took fourth place. Annie Nelson finished fourth in this regatta two years ago, her only previous appearance. What was different this time? “There might have been something magic about the paste-on tattoos that Heide Schlageter bought for us to wear,” Nelson suggested with a smile. “Also, this crew has really gelled. My starts were consis¬ tently awful, but we were always able to recover. I’ve been racing on catamarans a lot lately, which obviously hasn't helped my keel-boat timing.” It did, however, help her racing resume: Nelson was the win¬ ning skipper at this year’s Hobie 16

International Masters Regatta "We do love sailing here!" grinned Stuart Jardine, who breezed to his third St. Francis YC International Masters Re¬ gatta in a row on October 17-19. Sailed in J/24s by skippers over 55 years old and crews over 45, the six-race Cityfront regatta drew a smallish fleet of 12 boats. Jardine, the reigning UK J/24 champion, put together a 1,2,1,2,3,2 record to take the no-throwout series. Malin Burnham of San Diego, with Vince Brun calling the shots, sailed an inconsistent 5,1,12,1,1,1 series to claim a distant second. Their downfall came in the third race when they jibe-set at the windward mark, headed toward shore for current relief and sailed into a gigantic parking lot. Belvedere's John Scarbor¬ ough, who comes out of retirement once a year for this regatta, came in third with buddies Jim Lindsay and Bill Claussen helping out. Perennial contender and re¬ gatta godfather Don Trask missed the Masters this year, electing to join his sonin-law Kimo Worthington in Cape Town at the Whitbread finish. Jardine's crew for the three-peat was 'older' brother Adrian (he was launched 20 minutes prior to Stuart), Lewis Con¬ ger, Greg and Rosie Larson, and Dave Holscher, who provided his boat Sockeye for the victorious effort. "Stuart knows these boats and has a well-tuned crew," said Burnham. "He got good starts, and sailed conservatively to win." Despite dwindling participation over thg years, the Masters Regatta has always been a 'feel-good' gathering, featuring some of the sport's most respected play¬ ers. Organizers expect next year's 20th anniversary of the event to pack the house, bringing back lots of Masters vet¬ erans including luminaries like Buddy Melges, Ding Schoonmaker and Sir James Hardy. 1) Stuart Jardine (64 years old), Hants, UK, 11

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points; 2) Malin Burnham (69), San Diego, 21; 3) John Scarborough (62), Belvedere, 24; 4) David Wyman (61), Ventura, 29; 5) Bruce Munro (59), San Francisco, 34; 6) Hank Grandin (70), Sausalito, 40; 7) Charlie Dole (83), Honolulu, 43; 8) George Writer (62), Littleton, CO, 44; 9) Saburo Oniki (65), Mamaroneck, NY, 51; 10) Julie LeVicki (56), Tiburon, 52. (12 boats)

Yankee Cup and C-of-C The recent Yankee Cup (HDA winners Page 182 • UMmUIS • November, 1997

and runners-up) and the Champion of Champions Regatta (ODCA winners) were, yawn, about as interesting as this year's World Series. Held on October 18-19 out of the Golden Gate YC, the two events attracted just 16 boats total — a lame turnout, particularly from the ODCA con¬ tingent. "It wasn’t promoted well and was rather unorganized," complained one competitor. "It’s traditionally more of a

Scenes from the Yankee Cup and Champion of Champions Regatta. All photos 'latitude'/rob.

'beauty pageant' than a meaningful re¬ gatta, but this year was worse than usual." Ed Durbin's Olson 911 -S Ixxis topped the Yankee Cup field, a victory which would have gone to the Mumm 30 Per-

RACING SHEET Murphy's Law, Columbia Challenger, Bill Murphy, 8. (8 boats)

egrine if they hadn't sailed the wrong course in the first of the three races. Meanwhile, the Santana 35 Dance Away, sailed by Doug Storkovich and Les Haos, took the one-day Champion of Champi¬ ons with two bullets. YANKEE CUP — 1) Ixxis, Olson 911 -S, Bd Durbin, 8.75 points; 2) Mintaka, C&C 36, Gerry Brown, 11; 3) Peregrine, Mumm 30, David Thomson, 11.75; 4) Bloodvessel, B-25, Margaret Gokey, 11.75; 5) Latin

Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman, 14; 6) Blue Max, Dehier34, The Freelands, 17; 7) Family Hour, Olson 30, The Bilafers, 18; 8) Harp, Catalina 38, Mike Mannix, 20; 9) Dulcinea, Killer Whale, Mike Mathiasen/Bill Pritchard, 22. (8 boats) C-OF-C — 1) Dance Away, Santana 35, Doug Storkovich/Les Raos, 1.5 points; 2) Challenge, Is¬ lander 28, Peter Schoen, 4; 3) Advantage II, J/29, Pat Benedict, 7; 4) Absolute, Islander 36, Steve Schneider, 8; 5) Sonita, Express 27, Craig Page/Bill Melbostad, 9; 6) Trey Shay, Catalina 30, John Jacobs, 13; 7) Serendipity, Cal 29, Tom Bruce, 13; 8)

Alessio Race The ULDB 70 season championship came down to the last race, a 238-mile dash from San Francisco to Point Con¬ ception named after Aldo Alessio. Three boats — Taxi Dancer, Alchemy and Grand Illusion— were capable of taking the sea¬ son prize, which is based on a boat's best six of eight races (the PV Race, TransPac and a mixture of other races all counted equally this summer). Taxi Dancer, which just won the Big Boat Series, brought a slim lead into the finale — but GI could win if she put two boats between her and Taxi, while Alchemy could win with just one boat between her and Taxi. Not easy in a five-boat fleet, but still possible. The race started off the St. Francis YC at noon on October 3, straight into the teeth of a three-knot flood with ten knots of breeze. Alchemy, with Jim Yabsley driv¬ ing, won the favored pin end with GI and Kathmandu tight on her hip. Taxi was last off the line after approaching on port and not finding a hole to tack into. The whole group headed for the tidal relief on the beach with the next mark being the South Tower. Alchemy led out the Gate and elected to play the north side of the chan¬ nel. She was followed closely by Grand Illusion, Kathmandu and Taxi Dancer with Mongoose taking an ill-advised flyer to the south side. First boat to the channel marker was GI, who bailed out early from Pt. Bonita and was lifted to the mark as the breeze wept right. She was followed by Kath¬ mandu, Taxi and Alchemy, all within 100 yards of each other. Mongoose was a good mile back after crossing the current twice. As the breeze built to 15 knots and lifted, Mongoose and Alchemy set chutes and dropped inshore away from the lead¬ ers, who opted to stay out with jibtops and staysails. Taxi Dancer again showed the reaching speed she exhibited in the early days ofTransPac, opening up a half mile lead under .6 polyester spinnaker by dusk. The boats inside dropped back as the wind lightened for them off Daven¬ port. Alchemy decided to hit the other corner and jib-reached behind the fleet in an aggressive move to go out. Taxi was faced with the need to cover two boats at once. This became even more tricky when G7jibed and headed in on what was now the favored tack to Pt. Conception. On Taxi, tactician Dave Ullman elected to let GI go, knowing as long as we stayed ahead of Alchemy, chances were good we could hold off Kathmandu and a fading MonNovember, 1997 •

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goose for at least a third. Alchemy finally jibed onto port from the right corner and on Taxi we watched her running lights cross our stem before jib¬ ing to cover her. We had both now overstood Pt. Conception by ten degrees and we had a pretty hot angle in a building breeze. By 0200 we had a steady 25 knots of wind and were sailing right down the track averaging 14 knots with plenty of bursts to 18. Tough steering with no moon and confused seas made for a wet boat! With the building breeze, we were con¬ vinced GI would be ahead by morning. But still, it was a wonderful night of star-filled sailing and we knew dawn would raise Pt. Argeullo on our bow. As daylight broke and the breeze soft¬ ened, we picked up GI inshore and slightly ahead, just as predicted. A quick couple of shots with the handbearing compass and we realized she was lighter than us and was losing ground quickly. Alchemy appeared behind us, maybe three miles astern, with Kathmandu a half mile far¬ ther back. We were positioned as we hoped, outside and ahead of our fleet. Although Pt. Conception can be one of the nastiest spots on the coast, the mornings are often very light and the leftover chop makes for difficult sailing until the ther¬ mal draws the sea breeze back in. Our breeze dropped as low as five knots as we watched Alchemy and Kathmandu quickly compress on us. GI suffered even more, watching their five-mile lead on these two evaporate with the morning dew. The breeze slowly came up again, bail¬ ing us out of what could have^ been a hor¬ rible death. GI was slow to consolidate off the beach and, in true form, Steve Grillon was racing for first, not second. Both Kath¬ mandu and Alchemy crawled past her as she wallowed with her drifter up playing the inside for a miracle offshore breeze. Taxi kept at least a mile gap on second and third place boats and just tried to stay between them and the mark. Nine or ten light-air jibes and a spinnaker peel from the .5 oz to the .6 poly was all the work needed to sail down the remaining 10 miles to the finish line off Pt. Conception. Kathmandu and Alchemy had a vicious jibing duel all the way to the finish line, crossing bow to bow arguing over who was second! GI took a flyer to the southwest once the breeze reached her, but was unable to catch up and finished fourth. Mongoose came in a distant fifth. Santa Barbara YC threw a great party with free beer and burgers for all the crews, a welcome treat after the four-hour motor down the windless coast from Pt. Page 184 •

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Conception — a ride which confirmed yet again the wisdom of finishing the race at Conception. With this latest victory. Taxi Dancer earned the season High Point Trophy, winning three of the six races she counted for the year and avenging her poor show¬ ing in TransPac. Her friendly rival Al¬ chemy was second for the season. Coin¬ cidentally, both Alchemy and Taxi Dancer hail from Santa Barbara, where constant battles in the Wednesday night series have helped elevate both their games. Only time will tell what the future holds for the ULDB 70s. Half the boats have gone turbo, while many others have been sold out of the area. With declining num¬ bers, it will be hard to match the type of close racing the fleet enjoyed this year. — nick gibbens (taxi dancer) ALESSIO RACE — 1) Taxi Dancer; 2) Alchemy; 3) Kathmandu; 4) Grand Illusion; 5) Mongoose. (5 boats) SEASON — 1) Taxi Dancer, 93 points; 2) Al¬ chemy, 85; 3) Grand Illusion, Ed McDowell,79; 4) Orient Express, 72; 5) Kathmandu, 52; 6) Evolu¬ tion, 48; 7) Mongoose, 48; 8) Holua, 36; 9) Mirage, 28; 10)Cheval, 16. (10 boats)

San Francisco Cup Sean Svendsen, who grew up sailing Folkboats with his father Svend, won the biennial San Francisco Cup for the sec¬ ond time in a row early last month. Sail¬

San Francisco Cup action. Inset, Sean Svendsen was head and shoulders above the fleet.

ing the family's tricked-out fiberglass Little Suendle against a 19-boat international fleet (11 local Folks, 4 from Germany and 2 each from Sweden and England), Sean crushed all comers in the St. Francis YChosted event with a convincing 1,1,1, 1,1,2,DNS record. For the last race, Sean dismissed his talented crew — Chris Perkins and Mike Ratiani — and jumped on one of the tail-enders in the fleet to see just how 'slow' it really was. As crew, Sean directed the boat to the: upwind mark first and, to the delight of the owner, they hung on to take third in the race. Svendsen, who now works with his dad in the family's Alameda boatyard, attrib¬ uted his runaway victory in the mostly light-air series to good starts, good boatspeed and tons of local knowledge. "I've been sailing these things forever," confessed Sean, "and I've figured out all their quirks." It also doesn't hurt that Sean often sails in much more competi¬ tive classes — this year, he steered the J/130 Sceptre to a second place finish in the BBS, and crewed on the Mumm 30 and ID-48 national circuits. "We'd usually round the weather mark first and then just walk away," said Ratiani, who rode the bow on the down¬ wind legs to lift the boat's transom out of

SHEET

Box Scores We just couldn't let the summer rac¬ ing season end without subjecting you to one more round of 'box scores'. Warning; This material may cause drowsiness. Do not drive your car or operate heavy machiney while reading.

10.75; 3) Sundancer, Hunter 34, Bob Carlen, 13.75. (8 boats) CLASS B — 1) Jet Lag, Catalina 34, Roger Roe, 4 points; 2) Chiquita II, Catalina 36-TM, Hank Schade, 10. (5 boats) CLASS C — 1) Hardtack, J/24, Charles Allen, 3.75 points; 2) Tight Squeeze, C&C 29, Wayne Yacoots, 11.75. (6 boats) CLASS D — 1) Chablis IV, Cal 25 Mk. II, Dave Few, 3.75 points; 2) Folie A Deux, Islander 28, Frank Gibson, 9. (6 boats) (7 races; 2 throwouts)

SFYC FALL ONE DESIGN INVITE (Seot.27-28): MELGES 24 — 1) John Oldham, StFYC, 9 points; 2) Jessica Lord, StFYC, 10; 3) Kevin Clark, EYC, 14. (9 boats) ETCHELLS — 1) Jett Hayer, StFYC, 9 points; 2) Bob Park, SFYC, 12; 3) Brian Berger, Cuttyhunk YC, 16. (12 boats) J/29 — 1) Pat Benedict, DSC, 6 points. (6 boats) J/24 — 1) Andrew Tuthill, StFYC, 10 points; 2) Brian Goepfrich, WJSC, 16; 3) Wayne Clough, EYC, 17. (11 boats) (4 races; 0 throwouts)

DOLPHIN CUP (Moore 24s. MPYC. Sept, 27-28): 1) Fatuity, Dave Hodges; 2) Kamikaze, George Wheeler; 3) Geli Fetch, Shana Rosenfeld; 4) Mer¬ cedes, Joel Verutti; 5) Nobody's Girl, Syd Moore; 6) Minnow, Dan & Lisa Nitake. (12 boats) (5 races; 0 throwouts)

the water. 'We'd get so launched that the three of us would start discussing the stock market, interest rates, anything but the race." With the exception of fourth place fin¬ isher Janne Nilsson, the Swedish national Folkboat champ, the out-of-towners were roughed up pretty badly on the race course. But the shoreside activities, in¬ cluding an Angel Island picnic on the layday, were all fun. The visitors were largely housed by the local fleet, who also pro¬ vided their boats for free. "All they had to bring was their own sails," noted Sean. "We broke out our best set, too — they were new at the last SF Cup and have been in storage ever since. The sails are the lightest weight allowed, and we were lucky it never blew over 12 knots!" Svendsen won that last San Francisco Cup with five straight bullets, again sit¬ ting out the sixth and final race. After winning this latest SF Cup, and finally ’slipping’ to a second in one race, Sean says he’s had his fill. "This was my sec¬ ond and last Folkboat Cup," he claimed. "Maybe the regatta would be more chal¬ lenging if it were round-robin, like the Knarr’s international regatta." , 1) Sean Svendsen, StFYC, 27 points; 2) Tom Reed, GGYC, 29; 3) Peter Jeal, BVBC, 33; 4) Janne Nilsson, SWE, 36; 5) Ed Welch, GGYC, 41; 6) Otto Schreier, TYC, 42; 7) Harold Heitmann, GER, 52; 8) Gerd Augustin, GER, 56; 9) Rainer Hasselmann, GER, 57; 10) Norbert Schlobohm, GER, 76. (19 boats)

FALL REGATTA (Folsom Lake SC: Seot.27-28): OPEN KEEL — 1) Poco A Poco, J/22, Rob Koch, 5 points; 2) Windy Britches III, Capri 22, Wade Behling, 6. (5 boats) OPEN CB — 1) Steve Dolan, Thistle, 5 points; 2) Ryan Twelves, Banshee, 7. (5 boats) CATALINA 22 — 1) Unknown, Trish Moratorio, 4 points; 2) Green Flash, Gary Preston, 8. (5 boats) SANTANA 20— 1) Moon, Ken Cardwell, 4 points; 2) Unknown, Dan Clark, 11. (5 boats) (5 races; 1 throwout)

SOUTH BAY YRA SUMMER SERIES (FINAL): CLASS A — 1) Coyote, Wylie 34, Nick Kluznick, 3.75 points; 2) Pizote, Santana 30/30-GP, Kevin Knick,

JESTER DINGHY WORLDS (Monterey Bay. 9/28): OVERALL & LIGHTWEIGHT — 1) Bruce Edwards, 12.5 points; 2) Chris Watts, 12.75; 3) Joe Francis, 15. HEAVYWEIGHTS — 1) Ian Klitza, 23 points; 2) Fred Moinar, 42; 3) Gary Tracey, 59. (5 races; 13 boats)

FALL OLYMPIC CLASSES (StFYC; OCt. 3-5:6 races): FINN (North Americans) — 1) Richard Clarke, 12 points; 2) Russ Silvestri, 14; 3) Darrell Peck, 16; 4) Rod Meireles, 30; 5) Andrew Kern, 42; 6) Brian Hunts¬ man, 44; 7) Chic Parsons, 48; 8) John Callahan, 48; 9) Scott Griffiths, 56; 10) Eric Doyle, 59. (14 boats) LASER — 1) Peter Vessella, 7 points; 2) Chuck Asper, 11; 3) Will Benedict, 18; 4) Tracy Usher, 23; 5) Simon Bell, 25. (15 boats) LASER II — 1) Chad Frejtas/Dan Malpas, 4 points. (3 boats) IMCO — 1) Ted Huang, 5 points; 2) Al Mirel, 10; 3) Mark Zimmer, 17. (5 boats) SNIPE— 1) Doug Hart/Scott Lindley, 8.25 points; 2) Michael Lenkeit/Nelson Wingard, 13.75; 3) George Szabo/Stacy Dumain, 19.75; 4) Lee Griffith/Chris Dyer, 27; 5) David Tillson/G. Ratliffe, 31. (24 boats) 49er— 1) Bart Hackworth/Dave Shelton, 6 points; 2) David Houser/Adam Lowry, 11; 3) Jim Wondolleck/ The Bird, 14. (5 boats) . (6 races; 1 throwout)

LITTLE ENSENADA ISWYC. 10/5. 62 miles): PHRF AA— 1) Pyewacket, SC 70+, Roy Disney; 2) Victoria, Andrews 70+, Mike Campbell. (6 boats) PHRF A—1) Iceman, Melges24, Tim Hahnke; 2) Red (Hornet, DynaFlyer 40, Peter Isler; 3) Ginger»

BEER CAN SERIES FINAL RESULTS

Milligan, 18. (17 boats) DIV. D (non-splnhaker, 191-up) — 1) Tackfut, Santana 22, Cathy Stierhoff, 4 points; 2) P-Trap, Cal 20, Gerry Gorski, 10. (5 boats) (second half only — 5 races; 1 throwout)

St. Francis YC Friday Night Windsurfing Series 1) Bill Weir, 26 points; 2) Chip Wasson, 31; 3) Darwin Ayres, 50; 4) Paul Buelow, 52; 5) Gregory Fowles, 52; 6) John Radkowski, 53; 7) Jean Rathle, 59; 8) Don Lester, 79; 9) Vlad Moroz, 80; 10) Al Mirel, 91; 11) Ted Huang, 93; 12) John Callahan, 102; 13) Bill Martinson, 103; 14) Ivan Popov, 103; 15) Emily Dale, 105. (31 boards) (10 nights; 3-5 races a night) South Beach YC Friday Nights DIV. A (spinnaker, < 150) — 1) Highlighter, Is¬ lander 36, Bill Hackel, 6.25 points; 2) Northern Light, Santana 35, Rod Neathery, 9.5; 3) Deadline, J/35, Richard Wixted, 19.75. (9 boats) DIV. B (spinnaker, > 150) — 1) Friday's Eagle,

Catalina 30, Mark Hecht, 10.5 points; 2) Grenadier, Contessa 32, Paul Osborn, 10.5; 3) Dreamer, Hunter i 31, Doug Gooding. 12.75. (8 boats) DIV. C (non-spinnaker)—1) Fat Bob, Catalina 38, Bob Lugllani, 5 points; 2) Acabar, Jeanneau 45, JeanYves Lendormy, 9 75; 3) Ole, Soverel 26. Wayne Moskow, 24; 4) Spirit of Elvis, Santana 35, Lesley Cunningham, 24. (12 boats) (second half only — 6 races; 1 throwout) Vallejo YC Wednesday Nights GLASS A— 1) Summer Wind, O'Day 27, Jim Nuss, 32.75 points; 2) X-Ta-C, Olson 29, Bill Sweitzer, 35.75; 3) Fred, J/24, John Todd, 42. (9 boats) CLASS B — 1) De'gage', Ranger 23, Jeff Ruszler, 20.5 points; 2) Cinnabar, Quarter Ton, Harry Heimsley, 31,75; 3) Stormln, Ranger 23, John Wilson, 45.75. (11 boats) CLASS C (non-spinnaker) — 1) Scarlett, Tartan 30, Rick Riker, 26.25; 2) Everyday, Islander 28, Ken Leslie, 33.75; 3) Esprit, Elite 29, John Miller, 37.75. (14 boats) (21 races; 5 throwouts)

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THE RACING bread Man, J/120, J. Brown; 4) Bravura, Farr 44, E. Pennell; 5) Tabasco, N/M 39, John Wylie. (15 boats) PHRF B — 1) Low Orbiter, NY 36, Dennis Conner; 2) The Antares, Ant. 40, R. & L. Taylor; 3) Speedy Gonzales, J/92, Steen/Winnard. (17 boats) PHRF C — 1) Thunderbox, Andrews 26, I. & R. Trotter; 2) Michegaas, Soverel 30, J. Greenblatt; 3) Finale, Santana 30, F. Bourgault. (8 boats) PHRF D — 1) Aphrodite, Catalina 27, J. Gruenwald; 2) Masquerade, Santana 30, A. Willson; 3) Veiero, Peterson 30, M. Rubio. (14 boats) ANCEINT MARINERS — 1) Pacifica, S&S 48, D. Jones. (5 boats) SWHF — 1) Scarlett O'Hara, Serendipity 43, J. Prentice. (5 boats) CRUZ — 1) Mariah, O'Day 34, Joe Brinker; 2) Raycyn, Catalina 36, R. Fritsch. (9 boats)

FALL SCORE FINAL (Santa Cruz YC: 3 races): DIV. 1 — 1) Octavia, SC 50, ShepKett, 3.5 points; 2) New Wave, Custom 30, Homer Lighthall, 8.75; 3) Redhawk, SC 40, Lou Pambianco, 10. (10 boats) DIV. II — 1) TechnoTrousers, Moore 24, Roger Ivie/Mark Gibbs, 2.25 points; 2) Prince Charming, Spruit 30, Terry Drew, 9; 3) Free Fall, Moore 24, Fred Cox, 10. (8 boats) DIV. Ill — 1) Moonchiid, Olson 25, Tim Kelbert, 3.5 points; 2) Pau Hana, J/24, Cliff McNamara, 4.75. (5 boats)

FALL ONE DESIGN FINAL (Santa Cruz YC: 7 races): SC 27 — 1) Ciao, Andy Carson, 14 points; 2) Kurzweile, Bret Gripenstraw, 23; 3) Sumo, Cassady/ Livingston, 27. (9 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Gelifetch, $hana Rosenfeld, 12 points; 2) Free Fall, Fred Cox, 19. (5 boats) TUNA 22—1) Tara, Jim Samuels, 9 points; 2) Surge II, Charlie Roskosz, 17.5. (7 boats)

WOMEN SKIPPER'S CUP (BYC: Oct. 5: 14.2 miles): PHRF A—1) Bodacious, Farr 40, Bobbi Tosse; 2) Takeoff, Laser 28, Joan Byrne; 3) Zilla, B-25, Bridgett Raumann; 4) Hotfoot, Choate 30, Aimee Gabbed. (7 boats) PHRF B — 1) Freewind, Cal 9.2, Betty Lessley; 2) Paddy Murphy, Merit 25, Caroline Ross. (4 boats) OVERALL — 1) Bodacious; 2) Freewind; 3) Takeoff. (11 boats)

OLSON 25 NATIONALS LTibYC: Oct. 4-5: 9races): 1) American Standard, Dean & Daria Eppley, 14.75 points; 2) Barking Dog, Jeffrey Kroeber, 15; 3) Moonchiid, Tim Kelbed, 17.75; 4) Three Ring Cir¬ cus, Dave McMurty, 18.75; 5) Hamburger Haus, Jens Jensen, 18.75; 6) Picante, Frank Chen, 32; 7) Honey's Money, Jay Aiken, 32; 8) Osprey, Hal Wrentmore, 38; 9) Vivace, Jeff McDougall, 48; 10) Red Stripe, Pete Peters, 51. (10 boats)

JR. WATERHOUSE (RYC: Oct. 11: 33 miles): PHRO IA — 1) Blue Chip, Mumm 36, Walt Lo¬ gan; 2) Oaxaca, SC 50, Dick & Patti Cranor. (5 boats) PHRO IB — 1) Paladin, SC 33, Dean Daniels; 2) Petard. Farr 36, Keith Buck. (4 boats) PHRO IIA — 1) Ice Nine, Santana 35, Brendan Busch; 2) Je T'Aime, J/42, Pat Nolan. (4 boats)

‘Taxi Dancer' (left) and 'Alchemy' at the start of ‘The Aldo'. The Santa Barbara-based boats fin¬ ished the race, and the season, 1-2. PHRO 118 — 1) Trial Run, Passpod 40, Jack Bieda; 2) Scotch Mist, Cal 39, Raymond Minehan. (4 boats) MORA I — 1) Friday, Express 27, John Liebenberg; 2) Run Wild, Olson 30, Dale Scroggin. (6 boats) MORA II — 1) Redux, Olson 911-S, Nick Barnhill; 2) Takeoff, Laser 28, Ron Byrne; 3) Freewind, Cal 9.2, The Lessleys. (8 boats) SHSV— 1) Tiger Beetle, Newport 33, Rob Macfarlane; 2) Tinsley Light V, WylieCat 30, Hank Grandin; 3) Grey Ghost, Zaal 38, Doug Grant. (8 boats)

BEER CAN SERIES FINAL RESULTS DIV. II (spin. 121-179) — 1) Naked Call, Etcheils, Frank Tulp, 58.755 points; 2) Blue Ribbon, Etcheils, Dinny Waters, 58.25; 3) Topper, Moore 24, Rich Korman, 52.5; 4) Another White Boat, J/24, George Peck, 52; 5) Oz, Santana 23 Max, Alfonzo Sosa, 51.25. (13 boats) DIV. ill (non-spin. < 179) — 1) QE 3, Tadan Ten, Tom Perot, 74.25 points; 2) Sockeye, J/24, Steve Etheridge/Dave Holsher, 74; 3) Dogman, Peterson 34, Dave Reed, 62.5; 4) Veronese, Beneteau First 4Sf5, Chris Dawson, 60.25; 5) Little O, Oisort 30, John Arndt, 54.25. (13 boats)

DIV. IV (spin. > 179) — 1) Big Wow, Rhodes 19, Tom Royalf, 38.5 points; 2) Geronimo, unknown, Michael Campbell, 24.25; 3) Puff, Cal 20, Jerry Leth, 17.25. (8 boats) DIV. V (non-spin. > 179) — 1) Tension II, Cal 20, John Nooteboom, 56.25 points; 2) Roeboat. Catalina 30, Rod Decker, 46.5; 3) Opus II, Opus 34, Peter Birnbaum, 36; 4) Wet Hon, Santana 22, Frank Brooks, 33; 5) Tacky Lady, Santana 22, Charles Brochard, 30.5. (13 boats) (second half only —11 races; 0 throwouts) ' i i (tfnmiwiai'rrr■

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Encinal YC IVvilight Series (Friday Nights on the Estuary) DIV. A-1 — 1) Legacy, Gemini, John Melder, 4.25 points; 2) Insufferable, N/M 30, Peter Rookard, 10.5; 3) Hot Foot, Choate 30, Tom Forstreuter, 11. (10 boats) DIV. A-2 (spodboats) — 1) Hot Rod, Pyramid 660 mod., Ame Jonsson, 4.25 points; 2) Smokin', Melges 24, Kevin Clark, 9.75. (5 boats) DIV B-1 (Moore 24)— 1) Hurricane, Adam Sadeg, 3 points. (3 boats) DIV. B-2 — 1) Bewitched, Merit 25, Lorraine Salmon, 4.25 points; 2) Tazi, J/24, George Lythcott, 6.75. (5 boats) DIV C-1 — 1) Uno, WylieCat 30, Steve Wonner, 5.5 points; 2) Top Gun, Express 27, Bill Mohr. 7.5. (6 boats) , DIV. C-2 — 1) Tiger Beetle, Newpod 33, Rob Macfarlane, 4.25 points; 2) Maverick, Columbia 5,5, Mike Keller, 10.75; 3) Demi Onze, Columbia 5.5, Mike Rettie, 13, (10 boats) DIV D — 1) Lelo Too, Tadan 30,'Emile Cartes, 6.75 points; 2) Snow Goose, Santana 30, Ted Mattson, 9.5; 3) Flying Cloud, Ranger 23, Bruce Baker, 13.75.

(11 boats) DIV. E —1) Tempest, Santana 22, Hal Wondoileck, 4.25 points; 2) Spridle, Catalina 22, Mike Faber. 9.5; 3) Peg O' My Heart, Ericson 35, Steve Wert, 13. (8 boats) (second half only — 5 races: 1 throwoul)

Island YC Friday Nights DIV A (0-150) — 1) St. Anne, Olson 30, Dick Heckman, 7 points; 2) Top Gun, Express 27, Bill Mohr, 15. (6 boats) DIV. B (151-up) — 1) Drummer, Columbia 5.5, Alan Weaver, 14.5; 2) Dulcinea, Killer Whale, Mathiasen/Pritchard 27; 3) Quickie, Capri 25, Iron Will Matievich, 27. (14 boats) DIV. C (non-spin.) — 1) Nobody Famous, un¬ known, 6.25 points; 2) Takatak, Cal 30, Dan Kadell, 13.75; 3) It’S Jazz, Ranger 33, Joanne Wnght, 15.75. (8 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Fast Company 2, Chuck Wright, 8.25 points. (3 boats) E-SCOW — 1) E-Ticket, unknown, 7.25 points. (3 boats) i^Se - >w- <• '

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LIGHT WEIGHT (100-149) — Hank Jotz. MIDDLE WEIGHT (150-180) — Will Paxton. HEAVY WEIGHT (181-up) — Ron Hanford. BULL THROWER —Will Paxton. TENDER TROT (junior novice) — Mallory McCullum. ALL TROT (adult novice) — Mary McHugh. GREEN BOTTLE (no centerboard) — Chris & Dawn Nash. SODA SPECIAL — Jim Armstrong. TEAM — Fred & Will Paxton, Dave Vickland, Gordy Nash. LEFTHANDED ALBINOS — No entries.

Race Notes Stop the presses! At the mid-October US Sailing Annual General Meeting, the powers-that-be passed a resolution mak¬ ing personal flotation devices manda¬ tory while racing under ORC (Offshore Racing Council) regulations. The new rule, which mainly effects ocean racing and some big boat events, states that be¬ ginning next March, PFDs must be worn "while starting and finishing without ex¬ ception, and at all other times except when the captain of the boat directs that it may be set aside." Seems like a loop¬ hole big enough to drive a SC 70 through to us. Also, no definition of "personal flo¬ tation" was given, except that wetsuits don't suffice. . . John Bonds, chairman of the Safety at Sea Committee, suggested that "US Sailing has a moral obligation to lead the way in changing the norms of the sport until every sailor wears personal flotation as naturally as they now buckle their seatbelts on the way to the marina." If this sounds vaguely familiar, it should — the St. Francis YC already has imple¬ mented a similar (actually stricter) rule, which was accepted with hardly a whim¬ per by Bay Area sailors this summer. Scde boats of the month: Chris Corlett has finally broken down and bought a sailboat of his own, a Columbia 5.5 Meter

FALL ONE DESIGN SERIES (MPYC. 7 races): SHIELDS —1) October, Donna Womble, 20 points; 2) Patriot, Dick Clark, 21; 3) Medora, Lt. Shawn Lobree, USN, 26. (9 boats) SANTANA 22— 1) Windsong, Danny Garcia, 16 points; 2) Santy Anno, Greg Cailliet, 17. (4 boats)

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MULTIHULL — V) Ja Mon, F-25C, John Kokol. (2 boats)

PNG REGATTA (TibYC: Oct. 11; 3 races): 1) Orange Crate, Mike Schaumburg, 7 points; 2) Sea Saw, Dave Green, 7.5; 3) Ya Think, Ted Rogers, 9.75; 4) Ice, Bren Meyer, 10. (9 Cal 20s) EL TORO STAMPEDE (RYC: Oct. 11-12): SENIOR — 1) Dave V|ckland; 2) Jim Warfield; 3) Hank Jotz; 4) John Amen; 5) Will Paxtdn; 6) Fred Paxton. (22 boats) INf ERMEDIATE — 1) Rusty Canada. (3 boats) JUNIOR — 1) George Granelli; 2) Tim Armstrong; 3) JV Gilmour; 4) Andy Goodman; 5) Derek Meyer; 6) Jim Oiler. (21 boats) FLY WEIGHT (under 99 lbs) — Whitney Gilmour.

TOPTEN— 1) Peter Gilmour, AUS, 11910 points; 2) Ed Baird, USA, 11330; 3) Bertrand Pace, FRA, 10967; 4) Peter Holmberg, ISV, 10545; 5) Thierry Peponnet, FRA, 10300; 6) Chris Law, GBR, 10252; 7) Sten Mohr, DEN, 10045; 8) Morten Henriksen, DEN, 9733; 9) Russell Coutts, NZL, 9670; 10) JesperBank, DEN, 9354. USA SAILORS —27) Paul Cayard; 43) Betsy Allison; 59) Morgan Larson; 72) Courtenay BeckerDey; 89) Drew Slattery; 91) Jeff Madrigali; 99) Scott Dickson. / (as of October 20 rankings)

TEAK DECK REGATTA (EYC: Oct. 18; 2 races): CLASS A— 1) Mistress, Swan 53, Tom Mitchell, 1.5 points; 2) Balaena, Swan 431, Ed Penn, 4 points; 3) Intrepid, Baltic 37, Karsten Mau, 6. (6 boats) CLASS'S — 1) Starstruck, Swan 53, Jerry Zavalney, 1.5 points. (3 boats)

J/FEST SOUTH (BCYC: Oct. 18-19:3 races): J/120 — 1) Indigo, Scott Birnberg, 5.75 points; 2) Snooker, Jim Cochran, 6.5; 3) Hot Tamale, Tom & Doug Jorgenssen, 7. (8 boats) J/35 — 1) Flambuoyant, Steve & Barney Flam,

BEER CAN SERIES FI WABBIT — 1) Wet Bunns, Bill Gardner, 6.25 points. (3 boats) (second half only; 5 races) 37th Folkboat Wednesday Night Series (at Golden Gate YC) FOLKBOAT — 1) Little Svendle, Sean & Svend Svendsen, 12.5 points; 2) Thea, Tom Reed, 13; 3) Freja, Ed Welch, 23. (15 boats; average starters *11) KNARR — 1) Snaps III, Knud Wibroe, points un¬ known; 2) Sugar, Mark Heer; 3) The Brookester, Chris Perkins. (17 boats; average starters = 14) IOD — 1) Hecate, Dennis Jermaine, 9 points; 2) Icfigln, Jeff Lawson, 21; 3) Xarlfa, Paul Manning, 23. (S' boats; average starters = 4) OVERALL (George Degnan Trophy) — Little Svendle, Team Svendsen. (12 races; 3 throwouts) Oakland YC Sweet 16 Series (Wednesday Nights) DIV. A (0-168) — 1) Warhawk, Hawkfarm, DaVe Hankel, 16.25 points; 2) Tongue Depressor, E-Scow,

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THE RACING which he'll race with his 13-year-old son Jesse. The boat, hull #29 from Stockton SC, will be painted British racing green and named Jaguar. "My goal is never to sail it outside the Estuary," stated Chris. "These things can sink!". . . Michael Red¬ mond of Redwood City has bought the J/ 92 Miller Time, a used boat from Wiscon¬ sin. He's looking forward to racing it in the midwinters. . . Rumor has it that Flank Speed, Santa Cruz 50 hull #18, has been purchased from Florida by a Ventura sailor. . . HDA grand wazoo Jo¬ seph Melino is taking delivery of his new Antrim 27 in nearly November. The boat, hull #4, will be named Owslarah, which comes from the book Watership Down. The mouse that roared; Folsom Lake YC, which has all of about 90 members, won three national championships this summer: Terry Cobb took the Catalina 22 crown, Charlie Hess bagged the Wave¬ length 24 title (and sold No Big Thing shortly thereafter) and, just last month, Dean and Daria Eppley won the Olson 25 Nationals with their American Stan¬ dard (see Box Scores). Daria did the driv¬ ing (it was her first time racing on San Francisco Bay!), Charlie Hess provided the tactics, Austin Quilty Trimmed, Kori Stephens did halyards and husband Dean tended the foredeck. The light air five-race series was hosted by Tiburon YC. Sailmaker shoot-out: Annapolis rockstar Terry Hutchinson and his Quantum Sails crew (tactician Seadon Wijsen, Hogan Beatie and Dave Crocker) domi¬ nated the fourth annual DuPont Sailmakers Challenge for the second year in a row. Held in conjunction with last month’s Annapolis Boat Show, the Chal:

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lenge pitted seven national sailrnakers against each other in a 21-race Melges regatta. Hutchinson, a definite front-run¬ ner for Rolex Yachtsman of the Year hon¬ ors, easily defeated teams Representing: 2) North (Chris Larson): 3) NuClear (Mark Mendleblatt); 4) Banks (Steve Benjamin); 5) UK; 6) Ullman; and 7) Doyle. Class actions: The hottest design in the country right now seems to be the Farr 40, of which 12 have been built and 19 more are ordered. Hull #11 went to Ho¬ nolulu sailor Doug Taylor (Zamboni)-, Walt Logan (Blue Chip) is getting #21, Mike Condon (Endurance) is waiting for #26, and Robert Shaw, (Gai-Jin) will get #29. •*

BEER CAN SERIES FINAL RESULTS Bay View Boat Club Monday Night Madness DIV. A — 1) Spanky, Carinita, Linda Rieman, 3 points. (3 boats) DIV. B— 1) Quasar, Columbia Challenger, Forrest Martin, 4:25 points; 2) Bad Dog, Ericson 27, ArjanBok, 7.75; 3) Goose, IB-24, Joe Spro'nz, 15, (11 boats) (Fall Series only — best 4 out of 5 races) Benicia YC Thursday Nights DIV. A— 1) Three Ring Circus, Oison 25, Dave McMurtry, 44 points; 2) Freestyle, C&C 33, Dave Jones, 52.75; 3) Mischief, Soverel 33, Bill Moore, 67. (8 boats) DIV. B—l) Noble Prize, Newport 30 Mk. II, Noble Griswold, 27 points; 2) Illusions. Merit 25, Chris TringaJi, 31.5; 3) Alte Liebe, Ballad 30, Jerry Martin, 58. (5 boats) DIV. C — 1) Scat, Santana 22, Steve Gilliland & Dick Williams, 31 points; 2) Jenna Lou, Hunter 27, Darryl Kruscke, 67.5; 3) Shanti, Columbia 10.7, Walt Lew, 74.5. (8 boats) (24 races; 6 throwouts)

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Berkeley YC Friday Nights LITTLE (under 8,000 lbs) — 1) Team Mallard, Dan Acland, Cal SC Ensign, 7 wins; 2) (tie) Color Blind, J/24, J. Stysliages & E. Lewis; Derf, Soling, Pete Rowland; Raif-to-Rall, J/24, Thom Henneberger; Or. Who, Merit 25, John Drewery; Zilia, B-25, Brent Draney, 2 wins each. (20 boats) BIG (over 8.000 lbs) — j) Blue Max, Dehler 34, Jim & Diana Freeland, 13 wins; 2) Boogie Woogie, Ranger 33, Michael Yovino-Young, 3 wins; 3) (tie) Euridice, Catalina 30, Ken O’Donnell, and Wide Load, Santana 35, Bruce Wilcox & Lucie Van Breen, 2 wins each. (10 boats) (24 races — 'horse race' style scoring, i.e. only first place counts) ,

Corinthian YC Friday Nights DIV. I (spin. < 120) — 1) Limelight, J/1 05, Harry Blake, 35.75 points; 2) Navigator, Soverel 33, Bill Melbostad, 32.25; 3) Good & Plenty, Soverel 33, Justis Fennell, 32.25; 4) Re-Quest, Express 37, Glenn Isaacson, 29; 5) Blue Chip, Mumm-36, Walt Logan, 23.25. (13 boats)

Eric Arndt and a Japanese client (Aoba Express) will take delivery of hull #31. Meanwhile, rumor has it that Jim Archer (Jobe) is on the fence, as is another promi¬ nent Bay Area big boat owner. "Don't forget the other West Coast 40footer!" Jeff Trask reminds us. That would be the J/120, which hasn't sold well in the Bay Area (Jim Cascinos Eos is the only one so far), but is a smash hit in other areas. 'We've sold 13 in Southern California now; as well as six in Acapulco and five in Seattle," said Trask. 'We've got a full schedule lined up for next summer, hopefully including a one design start in the Big Boat Series." Eight J/120s just competed in the Bahia Corinthian YChosted J/Fest Regatta (see Box Scores). Lonely people: French superstar Isa¬ belle Autissier is the 14th solo sailor to sign up for the still-sponsorless Around Alone Race (formerly the BOC Challenge), a 27,000-mile marathon beginning from Charlestown, SC, on September 26, 1998. Autissier, who stunned the sailing world in the last BOC Race by finishing Leg One Jive days ahead of the fleet (and subse¬ quently abandoned her boat in Leg Two), will sail PRB against an estimated 25 com¬ petitors. Headliners at the moment in¬ clude the colorful Italian Giovanni Soldini, South African Neal Peterson and Robin Davie, a British citizen currently living in Charlestown. SoCal's Brad van Liew and Oregonite Bill Kelley, who bought True Blue, are still on the entry list, but both are being very quiet with under a year 'til showtime. Bay Area sailors get a chance to see Isabelle's boat (and maybe some others in the Around Alone fleet) when the inaugural Gold Race ends here this spring. That race, to refresh your memory, is a crewed record attempt from New York that starts in January. Out and about: SoCal multihull guru Pete Melvin, sailing one of his new de¬ signs, won the A-Class Worlds at Alamitos Bay YC over 48 of these high-tech little catamarans in late September. The AClass rules dictate length (18 feet max), beam (7.5 feet), sail area (150 sq. ft.) and weight (165 lbs. minimum) — materials and design ideas are wide open. . . Sadly, a car crash in Punta Ala, Italy, claimed the life of 26-year-old John Merricks, one of England's most popular and promis¬ ing sailing stars. Merricks won the 470 silver medal at the '96 Olympics and seemed destined for even greater things. He was leading the European Melges championship at the time of his demise (the regatta was abandoned). Hot, hot, hot: Heatwave, steered by Chris Larson with Jim Brady and Ken Read alternating as tacticians, won the

SHEET Corel 45 Atlantic Coast Championship in Newport, RI, over a five-boat fleet. Titan (Terry Hutchinson and John Kostecki) fin¬ ished two points back; Rush (Peter Holmberg and John Cutler) was third. The main event — the Corel 45 Worlds — will be held November 19-22 in Fort Lauder¬ dale. with 13 boats from seven countries expected to compete. Sealing the deal; Steve Seal, carrying the banner of Richmond YC, steered his WylieCat 30 Sylkie to victory in the Wallace Cup Perpetual Trophy on Sep¬ tember 28, topping a 13-boat fleet. The Cup, a South Bay challenge race between East Bay clubs, was first won by a boat called Whirlwind in 1897 — 100 years ago! Ixxis, Ed Durbin's Olson 911-S, was sec¬ ond, followed by Emile Carles' Tartan 30 Lelo Too ... In case anyone was wonder¬ ing, the Nimitz Regatta (a PHRF team race) and the Regatta in Paradise (a women-only Melgi regatta) were both can¬ celled this year due to lack of interest. The Jessica Cup, an annual Master Mari¬ ners race, was called off due to no wind. Back to the big leagues; In what was surely a 'stay of execution' for some syn¬ dicates, the October 1 deadline for Amer-

with the 92-foot cat Royal Sun Alliance (ex-ENZA). They tore up the 155 miles from Cowes to St. Malo in 6 hours, 49 minutes — a 22.72-knot average! The previous record, set earlier this year by the 60-footer Primigaz, was 7 hours, 34 minutes. Edwards is hoping to break Lakota's Round Britain record next. Peter Gilmour and his Nippon Chal¬ lenge crew defeated Russell Coutts 3-0 in the finals of the Bermuda Gold Cup match race series, claiming $ 17,000 of the $60,000 purse. Gilmour also received a $7,000 Omega watch, which he immedi¬ ately raffled off among his crew — what a cool thing to do! Peter Holmberg was third in the regatta; Murray Jones fourth. Based on his Gold Cup performance, Gilmour also displaced Coutts as the #1 ranked match racer on the Omega World Match Race list (see Box Scores), a feat which earned him an additional $15,000. Ghost in the machine: The results of the Big Boat Series in last month's issue contained an error in the One Design 48 class. Roy Pat Disney's and JJ Isler's Northland Furniture actually finished second, not fourth — and vice versa for Windquest. Apologies all around.

Lookin' good —Ed Penn's elegant Swan 431 'Balaena' en route to a second in class in the Teak Deck Regatta.

ica's Cup challengers to post their $250,000 non-refundable performance bond was extended until January 31, 1998.. . Tracy Edwards and an all-women crew just broke the Cross Channel record

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With reports this month on hurricane Nora’s impact on Turtle Bay; from First Light in French Polynesia; from Wandrin' Star on the 'hidden secret' of Panama; from Seawlnd II on the inconsistency of law enforcement in Mexico; from Day by Day on the trouble with going too far north into the Sea of Cortez; from Pilgrim on the fun and facilities of Darwin; from Renu’s Brian and Joann Soland on the loss of their beloved boat; and Cruise Notes.

Turtle Bay After Nora Rob Wallace Although I’m a sailor — I’ve done 10.1 TransPacs (dismasted after 180 miles this year) and sometimes skipper Alaska Eagle for Orange Coast College — I arrived in Turtle Bay on October 1 as part of the delivery crew aboard a Mediterranean 38 twin diesel sportfisher. Our trip south had been in flat calm conditions. It hadn’t been like that four days earlier when hurricane Nora T-boned Turtle Bay. Freddy and the gang there came out to tell me that they’d been hit by 100 knot winds between 0100 and 0300, but fortunately nobody had been hurt. The only visible damage in town were the many broken or toppled trees and a few power poles that had been blown over. The big old trees that always stood in front of Gordo’s house crashed down and are now stacked in little pieces. But the beaten and battered old fuel pier wasn't even fazed. The locals report that it was harrowing the night Nora came through, for not only was there tremendous wind, but huge amounts of rain. As everyone The pier at Turtle Bay may be battered and full of holes, but somehow it managed to withstand the force of 'Nora's' 100-knot winds. jL •r |

knows from the hurricane that hit Acapulco, it’s the unbelievable amount of resulting mud that is really destructive. The road from Turtle Bay to Guererro Negro, which was never very good, washed out in many places. So the only supplies Turtle Bay could get came by DC-3 from Ensenada. The town went without water for five days and without fuel — and therefore without electricity — for six days. The only other casualty was Geronimo, a 60-ft catamaran from Puerto Vallarta. She ended up high and dry on a beach across the bay. Her anchor dragged during the height of the storm and so there was nothing the crew could do to keep from going on the beach. The Mexican Army, however, was camped with them and helping dig them out. It looked like a difficult situation for them, but they assured me that with the help of a bulldozer — expected shortly — they'd be back in the water. Locals told me that the village of Asuncion, a little to the south, was hit much harder. And when I anchored at Hipolito a couple of days later, we observed tremendous beach erosion to the south of the airoyo — apparently it had been caused by huge waves. By the way, half the slips were empty when I got to Cabo — but I'm sure they’ll be filled soon. The water temperature was 88°. — rob 10/10/97 First Light —J/44’ Andy & Jill Rothman French Polynesia (Sausalito/Tiburon) As with most cruisers, Bora Bora is our last stop in French Polynesia. Leaving here will mean goodbye to fresh baguettes and croissants but hello once again — hopefully — to countries with people who speak English. Not that the language has been a huge problem in French Polynesia. The helpful attitude of most of the people we’ve met, the occasional English-speaker, and Jill's rudimentary French have gotten us through. As for Andy, he smiled a lot and managed bonjour, combien?, merci and

au revoir.

Our original landfall in French Polynesia — nearly three months ago — was Hiva Oa in the Marquesas. After the long passage from the Galapagos Islands, it was very exciting to watch the indistinct outline of the island resolve itself into jagged peaks and narrow, green valleys. We spent several days in a secluded bay resting, swimming, snorkeling and cleaning the outside of the hull — big parts of which had turned brown from marine growth. We then bashed eight miles to weather back to the town of Atuona on Hiva Oa to check in with the authorities and reacquaint ourselves with civilization. The gendarme was pretty casual about check-in. We chose to buy our 90-day visas at Hiva Oa rather than at Tahiti, and all that was required to post bond was to show airline tickets to Los Angeles — tickets we later canceled. The harbor at Atuona is small and subject to swells, but Hiva Oa is a beautiful island — and did have some fresh food that we’d been eager to find. We hiked up to visit Paul Gauguin’s grave, which is , i

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located at a carefully tended cemetery on a beautiful hillside overlooking the sea. We spent almost a month in the remote and rugged Marquesas, exploring anchorages on four different islands. A highlight was our week in the capital of Taiohae during the Bastille Day celebration — which is the French equivalent of our Fourth of July. The Polynesians have turned Bastille Day into a festival that has absolutely nothing to do with France. In the Marquesas, the celebration goes on for two weeks — while in Tahiti it spans an entire month! No matter where it happens, there’s always lots of Marquesan and Tahitian singing and dancing, and it’s fueled by exotic foods — such as goat stew and pizza — and much drinking of Hinano beer. We visited the sites of abandoned pae paes, which are ancient rock foundations of past dwellings, and numerous maraes. where rituals — including beheadings — were once * ■

performed. Many of the pae paes and maraes are adorned with an occasional stone tiki or petroglyph. Most of the sites haven’t been excavated and probably never will be. Although many of the anchorages in the Marquesas are deep and roily, the scenery is stunning, the people friendly, and tourists almost non-existent. It's easy to get stuck' in the Marquesas, but we finally decided it was time to move on and set sail for the coral atolls of the Tuamotus. With more than eight feet of draft, we were a little nervous about entering the passes into some of the atolls. The passes can be tricky, with coral heads, currents of up to eight knots, and occasionally waves that break across the channel entrance. But with a little planning and a lot of luck, we timed slack water at Ahe correctly and entered with little current and no waves. Then Jill, outfitted with a walkie-talkie headset, talked us in over the shoal and around the coral heads. We motored five miles across the lagoon, weaving around coral heads before anchoring off a small village with several other yachts. We snorkeled, saw our first

shark, quit snorkeling, explored the village, and went shelling on the outer reef at low tide. Because the black pearl industry is really taking off, Ahe's population has grown from 200 to 600 in just the past few years. But it’s still remote, with no public phone or air strip. We managed to trade for a few black pearls, but later found out they were of poor quality. When the time came to lift our anchor, we discovered the chain had wrapped around a coral head — 50 feet down. A French cruiser anchored nearby came to our assistance with his scuba gear, but the experience convinced us that scuba-capability was a must. So after an overnight sail to Rangiroa, the huge atoll that is the capital of the Tuamotus, Andy spent the following four days getting a crash course in scuba certification. Jill spent the hours snorkeling — which was outstanding as the water was very clear and there were lots of fish. The diving was also excellent, as the abundant sea life included rays, sea turtles and numerous sharks. What a place to learn to dive! Andy’s new expertise was soon put to use, however, as our anchor chain again wrapped around coral heads, this time in 55 feet of water. While Andy had to borrow scuba equipment, he nonetheless got the chain unwrapped. ,Since it’s only 190 miles from Rangiroa to Tahiti, we figured the trip would be a piece of cake. That’ll teach In sharp contrast to the jagged and steep Marquesas are the pancake flat atolls of the nearby Tuamotus, where the diving is great.

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us! For the first time Since we left the Galapagos, we had two days and nights of virtually zero wind. Not a problem, we thought to ourselves, we'll just motor. Welllll, maybe not. Through a combination of an inaccurate fuel gauge, higher-than-usual fuel consumption and complacency, we soon found ourselves down to our last 10 gallon^! Deciding to save that for our approach to Tahiti, we crept along at between .01 and 2.0 knots for over 24 agonizing hours. Reaching 1 knot was often cause for excitement! Finally, we managed to flag down a fisherman who sold us 10 gallons of diesel. We gave him $90, a few beers and some Pringles — and still thought we got a 'deal ! Nonetheless, we once again ran very low just short of Papeete and had to sail the last six or seven miles in very light air. Eventually the wind came up, and although we were able to sail, we were forced to enter a strange harbor with a surrounding reef at night, This is not only our least favorite thing, it’s also fodder for divorce! Fortunately, Papeete’s pass is wide, deep, and well-marked by navigation lights. With some assistance from friends who came out in their dinghy to show us the anchorage, we were safely anchored by 2200. In the small world' department, while enroute to Tahiti we passed within two boatlengths of a friend of Jill’s — Berkeley’s Frank Robbens aboard Kialoa II. He was taking guests ovdr to the Tuamotus. Two weeks in Papeete gave us the opportunity to catch up with cruising friends, take care of a long list of maintenance items, and overdose on chocolate croissants. We’d been looking ahead with trepidation to the high cost of Tahiti — but were pleasantly surprised to find that prices weren't nearly as outrageous as we had feared. Perhaps it's because the dollar is strong against the Polynesian franc ($1 = CFP 107 in September), but we found that dinners out were only 10-15% more than back home. Cokes were less than $1 in vending machines and hamburgers were generally $3.50 to $4 — but jrites were extra. Five dollars bought enough swordfish at the Central Market for several dinners, and baguettes, which are subsidized, were only 40-cents. The larger grocery stores were well stocked with pretty much anything one would Page 192 • L&uUcl8 • November, 1997

want at varying prices, not all outrageous. Of course, you have to be careful what you buy. A tube of Lewmar winch grease will set you back $12, and a bottle of Jack Daniels nearly $50! We spent a few days at Moorea, which is just 12 rifles away. It’s a stunning island but has lots of tourists. While there we ran into another friend of Jill's, Freya 39 boatbuilder Tom Vance aboard Vanessa. Also there was the S&S designed Alembic, another Sausalito boat. An overnight reach in 10 to 12 knots of wind brought us to the beautiful and peaceful island of Huahine. Together we rented a car to do a land circum¬ navigation. Then Andy went for a hike in the hills to visit ancient marae sites while Jill snorkeled. Here we also caught up with ex-Whitbread Maxi The Card, on its way to Australia to be a charter boat for backpackers. They invited a dozen or so cruisers onboard for a daysail — spinnaker and all. Raiatea and Tahaa — two islands that share a common lagoon — were only a daysail away. There is spectacular

The quai and church make the Papeete water¬ front look tranquil. A short visit will con vince you that appearances can be deceiving.

sailing within the lagoon, and The Moorings and several other charter companies have bases at Raiatea. The Moorings staff is 'cruiser-friendly' and do what they can to help — including receiving mail and faxes. While there we ran into a large charter group from the Bay Area-based Spinnaker Sailing. We also patronized Latitude -advertiser Raiatea Carenage, where Frederic and manager Dominic helped us install a new windlass that had been shipped out from the U. S. Although our old windlass was still under warranty, it just wasn’t up to the demands of anchoring in the South Pacific. We belatedly learned to buy beefier gear than we normally would have chosen — and which had been recommended — for the boat. This Moorings subsidiary is a good operation and they, along with neighboring Chantier Naval, have become the preferred spots in French Polynesia to have work done or to leave boats on the hard during returns to the States. Bora Bora was only another daysail

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Samoa and the Marshall Islands. We bumped into still another San Francisco boat on the other side of the island when Kevin Gamier anchored Wildjlower — named Tropic Bird when Randy Pauling raced her in the Pacific Cup — next to us in the lagoon. Kevin and partner Andy Merrill, pals since they were at Cal Maritime together, are taking turns working the boat around the world. Now we’ve got to hustle on westward, as eveiyone is talking about the weird weather that may accompany El Nino. Weather permitting, we’ll stop at the Cook Islands and Niue. After that, we plan on a month or so in Tonga. We should arrive in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands in time for the annual cruisers' Thanksgiving bash — well before the start of hurricane season in December. Then we’ll return home to the States for a visit — probably in January for a month or so. When we return to New Zealand, we’ll haul the boat and hopefully buy a car yachtie style’ — at the car auctions. After land travelling until April, we’ll set off for Fiji. — andy & jill 9/97

away. The island is often said to be "one of the most beautiful in the world" — and it certainly does have dramatic scenery — but it’s quite expensive and is a major tourist destination. Thanks to the detonation of some strategically placed dynamite several years ago, it’s now possible to practically circle the island within the lagoon. In addition to some excellent sand anchorages in less than 30 feet, the lagoon also has the clearest water we’ve ever seen. Here, as elsewhere, the French have done an excellent job with navigation markers. Nonetheless, it helps to score one of The Moorings fine charts of the area when in Raiatea. It’s possible to see manta rays and sharks within Bora Bora's lagoon, and the snorkeling is some of the best in the Society Islands. Bora Bora YC still welcomes cruisers and you can use their moorings free if you patronize the restaurant — but it’s primarily a restaurant and hotel. We'felt right at home there after we spotted a Richmond YC burgee among the dozens of flags hanging from the ceiling. We also ran into Richmond YC members Debbie and A1 Farner aboard their Valiant 40 Different Worlds. They were bound for

Wan4rin' Star — Tayana 37 Ann Murphy Hidden Secret Of Panama (Scappoose, Oregon) My husband and I are currently cruising Panama and just received the August Latitude with our latest mail packet. After reading about the huge number of boats in the upcoming Ha-Ha, we wanted to take a moment to alert southbound cruisers to one of the hidden secrets of northern Panama. We’re referring to Marina de Pedregal, which is located in Puerto Pedregal, David —which is in the Chiriqui region. The marina and area are outstanding places to spend time. The marina is located up the Pedregal River, so it provides a very protected anchorage. It’s also unbelievably inexpensive. The folks at the marina are terrific and provide a wealth of information on all subjects. The marina has a restaurant as well as many other services cruisers may need or want. We enjoy the homespun hospitality of the locals, and find the cool temperatures in the nearby mountains — Panama is only 60 miles wide at this

point — to be a welcome relief from the tropical heat of Central America. In addition, Pedregal provides an excellent base for reprovisioning when cruising the Pacific Islands of Panama where, incidentally, we enjoyed some of the best diving in the last several years. Because of Pedregal's proximity to David — Panama’s second largest city — you have access to shopping, movies and the farming community of Volcan, where we found the freshest vegetables since leaving the States. David also has an Immigration office where you can check into Panama for the first time. For those folks heading to the Panama Canal, this area can provide a much-needed rest and provisioning spot between Golfito, Costa Rica, and the Canal Zone. Further, there are no currency exchange problems as Panama uses U.S. dollars. So for you folks headed south, have a safe trip and may the winds be at your back. If anyone wants additional information on Panama, let Latitude know and we’ll send more. — arm 9/25 Ann — At the risk of making a sweeping generalization, based on the letters we’ve received from other cruisers and our own limited experience, Costa Rica tends to be over-hyped while Panama remains curiously unapprec¬ iated. Over and over again cruisers complain that they either didn't realize all The housing stock in the Chiriqui region can be pretty basic, which is one of the reasons that everything can be so inexpensive.

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that Panama had to ojfer or didn't allot sufficient time to appreciate it. Although about 40% of the size of Baja, Panama has incredible variety: the Canal, the Pedro Miguel YC, Panama City, the Perlas Islands, the Bocas de Toro, the San Bias Islands, the Chiriqui region, and the Darien with its impenetrable jungle. It would be foolish for cruisers to miss any part of Panama. As for the Chiriqui — meaning 'Valley of the Moon' — region, here are a couple of quotes from the fine Ulysess Travel Guide: "With the Baru volcano and Parque Internacional La Amistad, the Chiriqui region is not only the highest in the country, but also the one with the most varied landscape. Chiriqui has vistas to suit every taste, from verdant mountains and white sandy beaches to trails bordered with wild flowers. With an excellent climate — which usually remains within a 20' degree range — agriculture is a major' and diverse activity. For example, at the higher altitudes you can enjoy the province's cheeses, its excellent coffee, and its oranges. While in the lower regions, banana groves and sugar cane fields offer an ideal treat for anyone craving more exoticflavors. The main attraction of this province is still hiking, however, as the cool climate is perfect for a climb to the top of Volcan Baru, an expedition in the tropicalforest in search of tfxe quetzal, or a simple walk across flowered valleys If you're looking fora genuine wilderness expe¬ rience, check out northern Panama before con¬ tinuing on to the Canal.

along little streams." • Looking for something more adventurous in the Chiriqui? The Parque de Amistad is so wild that visitors without wilderness experience are strongly advised not to enter without a guide. Even so, the park is home to many dangerous animals. There’s also the Rio Monte Ecological Tour through the rainforest of the Colorgrama, home to many quetzals, toucans and other exotic birds. "During thefive-hour excursion, you will also have the chance to spot small mammals as well as an incredible nurhber of plants and flowers — especially orchids." The region is also said to be nice for bike riding. If we had unlimited time, we'd toss the surfboard and mountain bike on the boat, then head to Panama for a good six months. But one question about the Chiriqui, Ann. What’s the situation with navigating the Pedregal River? We’ve heard conflicting reports on depths and hazards. Seawind II — Flicka Bob & Georgi Samuelson It's Different In Mexico (Gold Country YC) In mid-May, we made arrangements to leave our boat in the water at Marina Vallarta for hurricane season. At $350/month, it's quite expensive compared to the previous summer's dry storage rate of $75/month at Marina San Carlos. In addition, we hired a local gringo deliveiy captain to watch and air the boat out, keep the bottom clean, and periodically start the engine. That runs $100/month. Bob then took the overnight bus to San Carlos to retrieve our camper from storage — and had the trip from hell. For those who haven’t ridden Mexican buses, the relief driver sleeps in the luggage compartment! The bus was supposed to have a bathroom, but didn’t. This turned out not to be a problem, however, as the bus was stopped and searched many times by armed patrols. Bob retrieved our camper without any problems, but had trouble when he got to the border between the states of Sonora and Sinaloa. The guard, who spoke no English, saw the expired ’Sonora Only’ sticker and insisted that Bob "regresso a Nogales" — which would

have meant a round trip of 1,000 miles! This despite the fact that Bob showed him his FM-3 card and a copy of the law stating that our car was allowed to go anywhere in Mexico! The guard wasn’t convinced. He only glanced at the FM-3 document and didn’t — most likely couldn’t — read the law. After several hours and a 200 peso attempt at bribery — which the guard refused — Bob pretended to return to Nogales. Instead, he drove along a donkey trail through fields that were being irrigated — which required the four-wheel drive — to get around the guard. He eventually got back on the highway just a little south of the guard. Seeing a motel that offered "8-hour rates", he decided to stop. However, he told the officina that he wanted to sleep the entire night. He was quoted a higher rate. Bob finally got a clue’ when he saw that the bed was extra king-size, that the walls were mirrored, and the programming on the TV was X-rated. He was so tired it didn’t matter. We left Puerto Vallarta for the drive

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Spread; Punta Penasco, where the marina is suited to shrimpers and small powerboats. In¬ set; members of the Women's Maritime Net.

home on May 27 and got to San Diego eight days later — after we were searched by automatic weapon toting authorities searching for drugs. — bob & georgi 6/97 Readers — If you’re cruising to Mexico for the first time, you’ll need to get used to the fact that laws aren’t uniformly interpreted or enforced. If an official detects a real or imagined problem, it’s critical that you be incredibly patient and uncomplaining. Never challenge the official’s authority or let anger get the best of you. Rather, keep smiling and pretending like you have all the time in the world. The sooner you realize that the Mexican culture is entirely different from ours, the fewer problems you’ll have. • Day By Day — Spindrift 43 Bart & Deby Day Northern Sea Of Cortez (Long Beach)

Although we didn't make the start of the Baja Ha-Ha last year as planned, we did catch up enough to attend the great party at Cabo. Since then we have sailed — well, mostly motored — south to Ztown and then back up the coast to spend the summer in the Sea of Cortez. We’ve had a great time meeting all the cruisers and enjoying one potluck and dinghy raft-up after another. Life has ben great! This summer we ended up anchoring at Refugio, which is about as far north as cruisers ever get in the Sea. It’s hard to leave, because although it’s very hot, it’s also very beautiful. Unfortunately, we weighed anchor and headed further north to Puerto Penasco. Why did we go? I keep asking myself the same question! I think Bart’s curiosity got the best of him and he liked the idea of our boat only being 65 miles from the border when we returned home in September. We’d heard Punta Penasco had a marina where we could leave our 43 foot boat, and the Mexican Coast Guard and a couple of fishermen assured us that Penasco could handle a boat our size. We were also told to come in during high

tide because the tide range is as much as 26 feet! So after one of our wonderful potlucks in Refugio, we headed north to Penasco. When we finally found the entrance to Puerto Penasco, we headed in only to see hundreds of shrimp boats rafted to each other. As we rounded the bend, I noticed a dock and was praying that what I was seeing wasn’t the so-called marina’. Alas, it was! The marina consisted of one dock with about 10 slips on each side — slips that were built for 20-foot trailerable boats. We yelled to some Mexicans on the dock and they helped guide us into a slip big enough for less than half our boat! It was late and we were tired from sailing all night, so we decided to stay and see what the tides actually did. When we headed to shore to have some dinner — accompanied by two boys we’d met — our boat was almost at street level. Upon our return from dinner several hours later, we could barely see the top of our boat’s mast. I became a little hysterical, and ran down the street thinking our boat must have gone aground while tied to the dock. Getting overly excited before I have all the info is a bad habit of mine, but Day By Day is my only home and I’m a little over protective of her! The good news was there was still six feet of water below her, so no harm had been done. Unfort¬ unately. when the tide goes out you're The tidal range in the northern Sea is tremen¬ dous. At low tide it can be like trying to scale Mt. Everest.

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left to bake in a huge'basin without any breeze! Bart, who can sleep through anything, dreamed away, but 1 didn’t get much sleep. The next morning a local offered to drive us around to do our errands. The Port Captain informed us that we had to go through^n agent. We questioned him about it, as this hadn’t been the case anywhere else in Mexico. But he was adamant. The only agent in town charged us $30 U.S.; I think the agent and the Port Captain are brothers. A guy who oversees the one dock marina went with me to question the agent about the necessity of his services. We didn’t get anywhere, but I appreciated the attempt. We finally completed our errands, and left Penasco 48 hours after we arrived. The people of Penasco are the most kind and helpful you'll meet anywhere in the world, but you don’t want to sail there. If you feel you really need to visit the place, take a bus — they’re cheap in Mexico. By the way, a bunch of us crazy females got together and started a women’s ham net called the Women’s Maritime Net. It’s very exciting. We discuss female cruising topics rather than antennas, dipoles and all that. We meet’ weekdays on 3.968 Mhz at 2300 zulu, so get those ham licenses, ladies! — debbie 10/5/97 Pilgrim — Panda 38 v Sue Angus & Steve Whitmore Darwin, Australia (Pier 39, San Francisco) We departed Brisbane, Australia, in the middle of May and finally arrived in Darwin on Sunday, August 10th. We’d heard lots of reports of other cruisers having had windy, rainy and cold trips up the East Coast of Australia, but we always assumed they’d just had bad luck with the weather. It turned out that luck didn’t have anything to do with it! The Queensland coast always has windy, rainy and cold weather at that time of year. The 10 to 15 knot winds and the 80-90° sunny days reported in the cruising guides happen once every 10 days or so. Otherwise, you can expect 25 to 40 knot winds, 70-80° weather, and isolated showers. The good news is the wind is almost always from behind, and inside the Great Barrier Reef the seas are small and manageable. So the Page 196 • Uc&uM. 3? • November, 1997

passages are fast. There are lots of anchorages in mainland bays .and tucked behind islands, so we dnly did overnight passages when we wanted to get some miles behind us. Most of the islands inside the Great Barrier Reef are uninhabited, and the few inhabited ones added a little variety. The reef itself is lovely and the islands are numerous, however the weather wasn’t conducive to either swimming or snorkeling. We’d anticipated a leisurely few months of cruising up Australia’s East Coast, but the distances in this country are staggering. At 20 to 60 miles a day, it takes a long time to travel the 2517.8 miles — according to the log on Pat and Natasha’s Marita Shan — from Brisbane to Darwin. In less than three months, we had 38 travel days that' included two nights across the Gulf of Carpenteria, one night from Hole in the Wall to South Goulbum Island, and one night from Port Essington to Darwin.

Steve and Sue were smiling when they got to Cabo and they're still smiling now. Darwin's Cullen Bay Marina and Marine Slipway.

The cities along Australia’s East Coast are great: Gladstone, Townsville, Cairns, Gove, and Darwin. We got doses of civilization by going to the movies, eating in restaurants, and provisioning in the well-stocked stores. We enjoyed a couple of interesting land-based tours, heading inland in rented vans with friends at Brisbane, Townsville, and Cairns. No one expects much from Darwin, just a place to do a few boat projects, top off the tanks, obtain Indonesian visas, check out with Customs and depart Australia. But in reality, Darwin is a great place! Although a small city of 70,000, it has tourist and medical services and you can get almost anything done to and for your boat. Our two week stay was pleasant and productive. The new Cullen Bay Marina was a convenient and comfortable — ahhhh, the luxury of dockside living — base

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during our stay. The marina is inside a lock, so it’s not subject to the tremendous — 20 to 25 foot — tides outside the lock. The marina management allows transient boats with liveaboards for up to one month — after which you have to submit a written request for liveaboard rights. Slip fees include going in/out through the lock as often as you wish — between 0600 and 0900 — but only on the hour. On the seaward side of the lock is a floating dock — called a pontoon' in Oz — where you can fill out the obligatory paperwork and check out of the lock. The marina requires insurance. If you don’t have any, they can provide it for $2/day Aussie while you’re in the marina. It’s pretty much a non-event. The fuel dock sells gas/petrol as well as diesel, and is also located just outsfde the lock. The marina office will hold mail for you — if you have a reservation. We arrived in Darwin a couple of weeks after the Darwin-Ambon Race /Rally departed, and there was lots of space available in the manna. The

rates are $130 Aussie for a 12 meter slip and $150 Aussie for a 15 meter slip. Liveaboards pay an additional $25/week Aussie for living aboard. There’s a laundromat just a few steps from the dock, and propane — called gas' in this part of the world — can be had at the marina. Several restaurants — from deli casual to upscale — line a wharf overlooking the marina. A City Shuttle van leaves the marina at irregular intervals, or you can call for a pickup — $2/person Aussie to town. There are plenty of taxis which will take you to town for $5.50 Aussie. Darwin has a large Woolworth’s grocery store, a five screen theater complex, bookstores, an American Express office for mail, ATM’s and banks, film processing, pharmacies, and a Thomas Cook office at which you can get Indonesian currency. A butcher in town will vacuum pack — called cryovac' — any cut and quantity of meat you desire. Planet OZ is a fabulous travel bookstore, with more Lonely Planet guidebooks than we’ve ever seen. On our way to Darwin, we’d gotten too clos^e to the north side of the entrance to Escape River, causing Pilgrim to kiss a submerged rock. We decided we needed to haul our boat and check her bottom before continuing on to Indonesia, so we employed the services of Cullen Bay Marine’s slipway. This was the first time we’d used a marine rail, and we found it to be easy, safe, efficient and — because they can only haul one boat at a time — expensive. Up to 12 meters is $180/day Aussie — but 25% off when the boat is back in the water in two hours. We patched the moderately deep scratch on the bottom of the keel, painted it, and glided back into the water the next day. Greg Larkin, manager at Cullen Bay Marine Services, provided the names, phone numbers, and a brief description of all the boat service vendors in Darwin for our reference. But Steve did the work himself — with the help of Swedish friends Sylvia and Egon from Magnum Bonum. While at Darwin, we visited the immensely popular Thursday night Sunset Market at Mindil Beach. There were many food vendors, arts and crafts, and entertainment. A young man with a cockatoo sitting contentedly on his hat ■

played a guitar, a didgeridoo and — when the tune called for it — cymbals. The diverse clientele was the best part of the whole event, and reminded us of the Sausalito Arts Festival. Almost every imaginable boat service is available in Darwin. Anyone who has sailed to Darwin and everyone who is sailing from Darwin works on boat projects here. There are lots of discussions on the dock about where to buy engine oil (Repco Auto Parts on Stuart Highway) that will be delivered. Finding fuel filters and harbor charts for Kupang, Timor and Benoa, Bali becomes a group effort. When one person finds replacement batteries, shackles, water hoses and attachments, it seems like everyone decides they need to have one more spare. We had repairs done on our Avon dinghy by an authorized dealer, Nautical Supplies, and a minor sail repair by The Yacht Shop, which picks up and delivers at the laundry. Fin’s Engine Room was even able to replace a worn key for our prop. There are Travelifts at Spot on Marine and Sadgroves Quay. We never made it to the Darwin Sailing Club (sponsors of the Darwin Ambon Race), or the Dinah Beach Cruising Yacht Association (sponsors of a casual monthly rally from Darwin to Kupang) but phone numbers are listed below. While we were in Australia we found an excellent flag maker - Bob Brayshaw Greg Larkin pushes the buttons at Cullen Bay Marina slipway to bring 'Pilgrim' out of the wa¬ ter for work on her slightly damaged keel.

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in Townsville. He uses polyester fabric and paints the flag. The quality is excellent, they stand up well, and they are far less expensive than any others we have seen. This year he is charging $15 for 12" x 24" and $20 for 24” x 36". He will do your boat logo, or any flag you want done.' He usually has the normal size courtesy flags (12" x 24”) on hand; he will make larger ones on request. He shipped the ones that weren't ready while we were in Townsville to us in Gove. There are many tours that originate from Darwin. Kurt and P.L. Mondloch from Osprey took a 20-hour bus ride to. Alice Springs and a five-day camping trek in the Ayers Rock/Alice Springs outback. They climbed Ayers Rock, visited an Aboriginal center, and got a small sample of the outback. Tammy and Steve Guay from Skybird went on a four-hour camel ride. Laurie, Carole, and Ryan Pane from Dolphin Spirit rented a car for four days and drove to the Kakadu National Park and Katherine Gorge. We each spent a few indulgent hours in the spa adjacent to the marina. You have to check in with Customs when you arrive at Darwin and then make an appointment to check out a few days before you leave. They gave us a duty-free form for the products — fuel and liquor — that we wanted to buy. The duty-free stores don’t have much variety of wines, so most cruisers buy their wine from a bottle shop. The tax on wine isn't A uniformed'sheila'checks 'Pilgrim's'paperwork upon entry to Darwin. As in most English-speak¬ ing nations, Aussie officials are pretty straight.

that great anyway. The tax saving qn liquor is significant, however. Vodka, gin, and scotch that would cost $30 to $40 Aussie at a bottle shop was less than $10 Aussie at duty free. Indonesia doesn’t seem to care how much liquor you bring into their country. The folks at Copytime can help you figure out the visa requirements and make sure you have the right number of copies of your official documents for cruising in Indonesia. We already had our cruising permit for Indonesia when we arrived in Darwin, and it just took another day to get our extendable visas. If you want to stay longer than two months in Indonesia, you need to get a two-month visa before arriving. Then you can get an extension when you get to Bali or any big city. Cruisers not planning to stay in Indonesia for more than two months can get a Visitor’s Permit upon arrival in Indonesia — but that permit can’t be extended. Darwin, a young city with a lot of energy, certainly had the best weather we saw in Australia. Darwin also has a lot of tourists, even during 'the Dry’. Darwin is pretty far from the rest of the inhabited parts of Australia, so it seems to be unaffected by the rest of the country. It’s part of the Northern Territory which, unlike Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, is not a state. Maybe that gives it the feel of a diverse, remote, and even rugged country. If you’re going to cruise here, our advice is to allow time to enjoy the place, and not just for boat projects! — sue & steve 10/1/97 Renu — Columbia 36 Brian & Joann Soland The Loss Of Our Boat (Eatonville, Washington) Having lost the addresses of many cruising friends — for reasons that will soon become obvious — we’d like to let eveiyone who hasn't heard know what’s happened to us. We're fine, but while off the coast of Honduras on April 28, we had to abandon our boat and literally hop on a ship. Here’s the story: Like many of you who ‘dare to dream' and 'go where the wind blows', in '94 we set out to sail from the Pacific to the Caribbean. Cruising during the winter months and working during the summer months gave us the opportunity of a lifetime — and we are truly thankful for

every moment, every discovery, and eveiy acquaintance. There is no way to express the loss of our always exciting lifestyle — other than to say that cruising was eveiything we dreamed it might be and more. For two years we enjoyed 'honeymoon cruising' in the Sea of Cortez, and then headed down the coast of mainland Mexico. We actually wish we’d stayed in Mexico for several more seasons, as the cruising was relatively easy — and so much fun! We liked the fact that the destinations are close together, that most ports have everything you could possibly want or need — and that there are lots of other cruisers in Mexico. Yes, some people go cruising seeking solitude, but that’s not us. We loved joining other cruisers for potlucks, provisioning, cruise planning, snorkeling, and everything else. Although cruising was still a joy south of Huatulco, Mexico, it did get harder. It became more of a struggle to find fuel and provisions and, rather than have others help you with repairs, you

Spread; Canal pilots sometimes forget that small yoats are relatively brittle. Inset; Brian and Joann lad to abandon ship.

had to do it yourself using manuals and perhaps some advice over the radio. And once beyond Mexico, the comfortable anchorages seemed fewer and further between. There were, however, some good things beyond Mexico. For one thing, we were catching fish every day! And lobster and other shellfish seemed suddenly to be in abundance. In addition, the sea seemed to be teeming with turtles, sailfish, dolphins and other sea life. We also saw hundreds of miles of untouched tropical beaches — and thousands of people who hadn’t really been touched by the modern world. We agree with most other cruisers that Costa Rica is a disappointment. We moved through it as quickly as possible — although the Gulf of Nicoya was'a treasure. Ironically, others told us to bypass this area, but we had to put in because of electrical problems. Fortunately, we happened to stop at Isla

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Gitana, where we enjoyed great dinners and met wonderful people. Passing through northern Panama was a bit more perilous than we’d been led to believe. Just as we hadn’t been warned about papagayos further north, nobody cautioned us about the nasty weather and currents to be found around Punta Mala. We heard that several boats were lost and know that many more had a great deal of difficulty in this area. Punta Mala — which means 'bad' or ’dangerous’ point — can be challenging in the best of conditions. We suffered a serious misfortune in February while transiting the Panama Canal: our Columbia 36 was crushed between a Canal tug and a Canal pilot boat, and the damage to Renu was extensive. We had family vacationing with us at the time, and naturally the crushing washed out their trip. We ended up sending them to Isla Grande, and because of our crippled state, they eventually returned home early. This was very hard on us, as they’d planned for so long to ’do the Canal1 and visit the San Bias Islands with us. A survey on Renu indicated that the

repairs could be made in Panama — but that they would cost more than the boat was worth! So after two months of talking to other cruisers and trying to decide what to do, we decided to make temporaiy repairs and try to limp up to Florida. Some cruisers think that it was foolish of us to have even tried to make it to Florida. But anyone who has been to Panama knows why we left: there aren’t any repair facilities and the yacht club costs $300+ per month. Besides, the Canal Zone is dirty and full of poverty and crime. We must admit, however, that we had a pleasant stay in Panama,1 but that was because of the company we had. So after the repairs and a trial run to the San Bias Islands and back to PortoLello, we set out for Providencia and Ho: duras’ Bay of Islands. We’d read in Latitude that the Caribbean was "boisterous" — and it certainly is! For the first time in three years we were able to really sail: three days non-stop to Providencia and then four days toward the Bay of Islands. It was great to be able to sail like that! Renu kept shattering more and more in the brisk conditions, but after her crushing that was only to be expected. The problem was that the fiberglass had delaminated in many places, and the main webbing had separated from the hull.'We did the best we could with the repairs, but we really couldn’t do a very good job. And if it hadn’t been for the help of Mark of Harmonia, we wouldn’t even have been able to attempt to leave Panama. Tens hours short of Roatan in the A successful trial run to the San Bias Islands led Brian and Joann to believe that their dam¬ aged boat might be able to make it to Florida.

CHANCES Bay of Islands, we ran into a storm. There were 50-knot winds and seas that appeared to be 30 feet high. In these rough conditions, our rudder broke free and jammed into our prop shaft. We know this sounds backwards, but the Columbia 36’s rudder is in front of the prop shaft. At the time of the accident, we — this included our son, who had come along to tiy and help us make it — hadn’t seen or heard from a ship in three days. We'd been sailing with friends on Valiant Lady, but they'd had to slow down because of autopilot problems. Normally we’d have stayed closer to them, but with a delaminating boat, we had to press on. After diving on Renu to determine whether repairs could be made at sea, we decided it would be far to risky for the conditions. Even peeking at the damage was very frightening, as we were still moving at three knots and the sea condition was extreme. We had Brian Sr. double-strapped in when we had to take the seas broadside. Finally we issued a 'Pan' call to determine what options we had.

Working every radio channel possible, after only three hours we got a response from Horncloud, a 500-ft freighter. When we traded GPS positions, we discovered the numbers almost matched, We were" only a couple of miles away! We explained our situation to the Horncloud’s captain, who passed it along to the Coast Guard in Puerto Rico. The Coasties said it would be 10 hours before help could reach us. That’s when I popped the question — would the Horncloud be willing to take us off if we abandoned our boat? Aft6r I explained what had happened to Renu in the Canal, the Horncloud’s captain didn't want to leave us in those seas. So with 45 minutes of daylight lefj., the three of us aboard Renu and the captain of the Horncloud got ready for our first rescue attempt at sea. The captain of the Horncloud circled us several times while we gathered our passports and grabbed a few belongings — all of which would ultimately end up

in the ocean. Naturally, we’d also lose all our photos — which is why we’d be happy to pay for anybody who might have some of us and Renu. Finally Horncloud approached almost head on. Realizing that we’d have to jump — in the huge seas — from our broken boat to the short rope ladder hanging from a 50-foot steel 'wall', we wondered if it was such a good idea. If any of us fell, we’d be crushed between the two vessels, so there could be no mistakes. The freighter looked like a skyscraper lying on its side as it came toward us. The Horncloud's captain later told us that he couldn’t even see us! No, the ship didn’t have double thrusters, and yes, our boat was truly bobbing around like a Coke can in the surf! Truly the hand of God guided the ship next to us! Once Renu provided us with a lee, it was calm. As we climbed the rope ladder on the side of the ship, however, Renu’s spreaders threatened to stab us! But the three of us made it safely on the ship. Leaving Renu was the very most painful thing we’ve ever experienced. She was not only our friend who took us where

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CHANGES boat are required to have a fishing license if you so much as have a fish hook aboard. In addition, it’s not just illegal to 'harvest' shellfish, you can’t even have it in your possession — except on your dinner plate in a restaurant. Some will counter that taking shellfish in the Sea of Cortez is not more illegal than it is for Mexicans to sneak across the border into California — which is done about a million times a day. So here's the cruisers’ ethical dilemma of,the month: Should cruisers: 1) Tell it like it is, and admit that the majority have probably 'poached' and still poach. 2) Keep harvesting shellfish like always, but just don’t admit it. Or, 3) Report each violation to Mexican authorities for prosecution. We'd love to get some responses. For what it's worth, it it were only cruisers nipping at the 'bounty' in the Sea of Cortez, the supply of seafood would remain unlimited. The real problem is overfishing by commercial interests us¬ ing 'curtains of death.' Nonetheless, there's a rage for lobster, but it's mostly hype. Most fish prepared vera cruz style tastes much better. But if you do come

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PLYWOOD DINGHY. Sweet rowing, prof. made. 7 ft pram (bow), fiberglass sheathed bottom, oars & wood mounting chocks (boat to deck). Newly painted (white), 2 part epoxy. $375. Stainless steel exhaust waterlift. $35. (415) 377-6539.

EL TORO. Wood, pointed blue w/natural wood trim. Good condition. Comes w/2 oars, seat, spar fly, paddle, spars, blades & sail, all in good condi¬ tion. Carpeted launch platform. Asking$700. Tom, (510) 223-^796.

LIGHTNING 19-FT SAILBOAT. #12337 Lippincott. Aluminum mast& boom, stainless cen¬ terboard, 2 sets of sails, stiff hull. Good cond. w/ trailer. $3,000. Contact Elissa, (510) 522-6834 or elissahall@aol.com

BANSHEE SAILBOATS. Two new, complete, with sail. $2,695 each. One used, $1,500, race rigged. Additional rigs, parts & sails available. North Coast Yachts, 2100 Clement Ave, Alameda. (510) 523-8330.

LIGHTNING 19-FT SAILBOAT. #13869 Nickels. Aluminum mast & boom, stainless centerboard, 2 sets of sails, mast & traveling cover. Great condi¬ tion. With new trailer. $4,500, Contact Elissa, (510) 522-6834 or elissahall@aol.com

505, US 7608. Good condition w/sail inventory (includes Kevlarset), galvanized trailerw/launcher & weight jacket. $1,200 obo. Contact James, (415) 563-7594,

LASER II 4 TRAILER. 1984 Laser II, great cond. Includes main, jib, spinnaker, trapeze & telescop¬ ing tiller extension. $1,700. (209) 848-2447.

21-FT FIBERGLASS SLOOP, 1969. Swing keel, outboard, trailer. Excellent hull. Needs TLC. $1,250. Great Bay sailer. Call (800) 367-8637 or (707)449-1260.

12-FT SNARK SUNCHASER II SAILBOAT. Brand new, in the box. Has never been sailed. Ideal fun & relaxation for adults & kids. $2,199 obo. Call (510) 536-2666.

SANTANA 22. Main, 90%jib, 150% genoa. PFD's. docklines, safety gear, etc. Fresh bottom paint. Great boat. Great price, $1,200. Contact Dave, (415) 543-7333,

CAL 2-24. Hyperactive teen forces sale. 9 hp Johnson runs good. Sloop needs TLC like: leaky window, head won’t let water in, polish, Dottom due. Sails great & dry. Never raced. $2,300 or $2,750 & I do bottom. (707) 642-8636. MERIT22,1984. VHF, battery, Nissan 9.9, all less than 1 yr old. Pop-top with tent, great interior, custom trailer, Porta-Potti, sleeps 4, retracting keel, tip up rudder, fast & solid. $3,750 or trade for larger boat. (209) 527-2898. BEAR BOAT23, HULL#34, SILVER BEAR. Built 1947. A classic woody in great condition. Anchor, lights, compass, VHF, DS, 2 mains, 2 jibs, 2 spinnakers. 6 hp longshaft Seagull. Berthed Moss Landing. $3,800. (805) 348-0129. SANTANA 22, PHOENIX. Best Santana 22 avail¬ able. Four time National Champ, ready to win '98 Nationals on the Bay. Overhauled in '93. Large sail inventory. Trailer, '95 3.5 hp Nissan o/b, extra equipment including KVH sailcomp. $4,700. Call (510) 758-5265. 24-FT WYLIE WABBIT performance sloop, hull #62. Near perfect shape, very fast, all new sails, installed-compass. VC-17 bottom paint, many racing accessories, custom trailer w/mounted spare, easily car towable, fresh water only, in Denver. $6,000 obo. (303) 837-8252,

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CATALINA 22,1987. Fixed keel, pop-top w/new

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enclosure. 4.5 hp Mercury. 110%, 90%, VHF, KM, DS, potti, boomvang, adj backstay, 4 Lewmars! Interior like new, exc condition. Prime Coyote Pt slip. $4,700 obo. (415) 592-6395.

SANTANA 27. Great Bay & Della boat for family

hull #58. Relatively new Ullman sails, nice trailer, many go-fast upgrades. Great little boat for the Lake Circuit. Asking $4,700 obo. Contact Jim at (714) 974-7372 or Rob at (415) 383-8200 ext 109.

CAL 2-27, 1979. Inboard diesel, new 90% jib,

130%, main, new mainsail cover. Mast pulled & repainted 8/96, new bilge pump. Excellent condi¬ tion. $12,500. Rich, (650) 363-1390.

RANGER 23,1972. Good condition. Prime Ber¬ keley berth. 8 hp Johnson, new bottom 12/96. Sails excellent condition: two 90%, two 125%, one 150% & two spinnakers. All lines led aft, 5 winches. Ready to race or cruise. $3,250 obo. Call George, (510) 758-0134 dys or (510) 223-4233 eves.

15-FT WEST WIGHT POTTER, 1981. Pocket sailing yacht w/cabin, v-berth, trailer (tows with a tiny car). $1,200 obo. (510) 923-1454.

(sleeps 6) or singlehand (all lines led to cockpit). Very roomy interior. Completely refinished & cus¬ tomized. 110%jib&main (3yrsold), 130%, 180% genoas, spinn, new rigging, holding tank. AP, DS, KM, VHF, compass,stereo. 9.9 Evinrude w/elect start, generator overhauled 12/96. Bottom painted 4/96. Well maint. $7,900. (415) 454-6527 Iv msg.

TANZER 22. Fun pocket cruiser built to sail. Nice

interior w/sink, stove. Sleeps 4. 6 hp Johnson, new battery, fresh bottom, main, jib & genoa. Anchor & rode. 1st $2,500 takes it. Call Dave, (415) 543-7333. J/24,1980. North main, 150%, 100%, spinnaker,

spinnaker pole, new running rigging, new winches, new LPU decks. Mast pulled & painted 6/96, o/b motor, all safety gear, good condition. $4,000. Rich, (650) 363-1390. 18-1/2 FT ALACRITY. Twin keeled sloop. Nice

condition. Fiberglass with varnished mahogany trim. Bottom just painted. 3 bunks in cabin. Roller reefing. New Johnson 4 hp o/b. Side tie berth at Coyote Point, gate 13. Disassembled trailer in¬ cluded. $2,250. (650) 327-6811. MONTGOMERY 23, Lyle Hess design. 6 ft head-

room, tandem axle trailer, 1 of 20 made, North sails, quality offshore capabilities. Similar to a North Sea 27 & 1/2 the trailerable weight. Video available. $16,500 obo. (619) 979-7421. 24-FT GLADIATOR. Exc Bay boat. Sleeps 4-6.

Honda 15 hp 4 stroke, VHS, custom dodger & cockpit covers, selftacKing jib, 135%, 155%, spinn, Porta-Potti, AC charger, 2 batteries, cockpit tent. Berthed Emeryville. $3,500 obo. (510) 606-9770. COLUMBIA22,1968. Excellent condition & ready for new owner. Top & bottom paint 9/97. New windows, cleats, winches, running & standing rig. 6 hp Johnson, main & 2 jibs, sink, head, VHF, compass. Moored Marshall Boatworks, Tomales Bay. $4,500. Richard, (707) 878-2938.

CAL 20. Great Bay boat. Refinished interior &

cushions. Head. Main, jib, storm jib, main cover, motor bracket. Hauled 10/96. Pulpit, side rails, windvane. Motor optional. Richmond Marina Bay. $1,000 obo. (209)432-6346. J/24,1982. Excellent condition. Faired keel & hull.

3 sets of sails. New standing & running rigging, lots of go fast equipment. Ready to race or cruise. $10,000 obo. J/24 sails for sale. New, used once, $3,500. Call (510) 236-1977. RANGER 23,1977.3 mains, 2 jibs, 2 spinnakers. 5 Barients including 2 sp primaries, lines led aft, VHF,DS,KM,AP.‘886hpo/bjust serviced. Great dodger, very clean boat! Richmond berth. $5,195. (916) 971-0950, email: LBiNSAG@AOL.COM or page (916)810-5198.

1994. New rigging, new halyards, new bottom, new LPU on mast 7/97. No blisters. 2 excellent mains, good Mylar & Dacron jibs, good spinnaker. Achilles dinghy, VHF. $2,800. (510) 215-2485. C & C 24,1977. Exc condition, well maintained,

hauled '96. New standing rigging, reliable Evinrude 8 hp, 6 sails, 2 new batteries, autocharger, Navico AP, lines led aft, roomy interior, sink, stove, head. Moving. $5,600 obo. (415) 260-1777. Sausalito berth. FREEDOM 21,1984. Carpon fiber stayless mast, fixed keel, full batten main, gun mount spinnaker, VHF, compass, depthsounder. Great singlehand Bay boat. $6,250 obo. EZ loader trailer & 6 hp Johnson motor available. (510) 631-0447 eves or (510) 631-9788 dys.

25TO 28 FEET Launched in late '96, Buzz Lightyear is custom yacht builder's own boat. Includes 12 sails, all Harken gear, rod rigging, Vangmaster, latest de¬ sign keel & rudder, trailer, autopilot & o/b. $23,900 obo. (714) 722-9602.

LANCER 25,1982. Seaworthy, needs some cos¬ metic work. Very stable cruiser, sleeps 6. Shoal keel. Quiet, reliable Honda 75 outboard. With trailer. $5,500. (916) 441-4371. SANTA CRUZ 27. Lots of trophies '95-'97, includ¬

ing 1st Crew of 2 Around Catalina. Rigged really well, all Spectra, Technora & Harken, new stand¬ ing rigging. $9,500. http://www.ics.uci.edu/ -truesdel/DeathMobile.html or (714) 824-4952. CAT ALIN A 27,1976. T all rig, outboard. Upgraded

running rigging, Harken traveler over main hatch, lines led aft. Recently rerigged. New VHF, PortaPotti, compass, depth, knotmeter, safety gear. Sleeps 5. Santa Cruz sublet through at least Feb. $10,000 obo. Randy, (408) 464-2549. CONTEST 27. Classic fiberglass half-tonner. Solid & fast. Mahogany, teak & holly below. 5 good sails, newly serviced outboard, documented ves¬ sel. Loran, Porta-Potti, stove. Everythingyou need to sail the Bay in style & speed. $8,500. Fred, (707) 965-9165. CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27,1968. New Sutter

main, 100% jib, Yanmar GM 10, Loran, radio, Autohelm. Good cond. $12,500. (415) 332-6285. LANCER 25, 1980. Needs some repair. Very spacious, standing room in galley. Honda out¬ board. Dry docked in Alameda. $2,000 obo. Call (510) 531-9104 or (510) 482-4700. COLUMBIA 26. 2 mains, 3 jibs, 150%, 120%,

95%. 6 hp outboard. New ‘97: standing rigging, mainsheet & halyard, tiller, stereo, topsides. New ‘96: stove, pressure water, teak cabinets, cabin lights, Lewmar hatches, head & more. $6,000 obo. Doug, (415)331-1187.

PETERSEN 25. Almost new mast, standing &

running rigging. Recent 6 hp Sailmastero/b. Ex¬ cellent bottom & interior just redone. Berkeley Marina. $4,250 obo. Call Dale at (707) 447-5250 eves or (510) 638-3200 dys.

CATALINA 22,1976. Pop-top, swing keel, trailer,

5 hp Evinrude. Fresh water use only. Extensive inventory, like new, 4 bags of sails. Call for details. Sacramento. $4,200. (916) 386-1953.

new in '93. Sleeps4,6 ft headroom, DS, KM, VHF, propane stove, ground tackle, Porta-Potti, etc. Great condition. $8,500. (415) 456-8856.

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CATALINA 22, 1971. Swing keel, rebuilt 6 hp

Johnson, VHF, Porta-Potti, boomvang, sliding galley & water tank. New cushion covers, solar vent, EZ rigging trailer, interior teak, all lines aft, alcohol stove. $4,000. (209) 599-4747.

TARTAN 26,1973. Good sails. Yanmar 10 hp,

CAL 20. New stainless keelbolts, new hull paint

CATALINA 22. Clean & well maintained. Retract¬

able keel, lifelines, swim ladder, jib pole, 5.5 hp o/ o, 3 sails, vang, ancnor. Galley, Porta-Potti, com¬ pass, depthsounder, knotmeter, VHF, am/fm cas¬ sette, trailer w/extending tongue. Ready to sail. $2,850. Call (415) 467-5492.

PEARSON 26. Fast Bay boat. 2 jibs, main, spin. Older 15 hp Johnson, runs great. 2 burner Origo stove, radio, knotmeter, lifevests, Autohelm 400, loran. $6,500 obo. Call Mike at (415) 961-2125.

NOR’SEA 27,1990. Beautiful aft cockpit cruising sloop. Many extras. Please call for detail sheet. $51,000. Pat, (408) 744-0498.

28-FT TRITON, #248. Yanmar diesel, new teak

trimmed interior, improved structural mast sup¬ port, 133 cubic feet of underwater volume, gener¬ ous freeboard. Liveaboard headroom, 4 berths, 2 speed winches, main & jib, dodger, new boom & cushions for $1.41/lb. Stainless water tank. Call Myron Spaulding. (415) 332-3721.

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exc condition. Roomy, fast, seakindly. Rebuilt gas engine, variable pitch prop, dodger, propane sys¬ tem, much ground tackle, new interior, much more. Looks sharp. $8,500. (805) 650-3268. SWEDISH BUILT FOLKBOAT. 26ftsloop, sleeps 4, 7 sails, bristol condition. A true sailors dream. Survey 9/97. Call for spec sheet. $12,900 ortrade. Fax: (360) 928-3172 or phone: (360) 928-9454. PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25. Full keel pocket cruiser in good condition. Yanmar diesel, knotmeter, depthsounder, VHF, Loran. New bottom paint (no blisters), batteries, exhaust system. Very sturdy Bay & ocean boat. $11,000. (408) 683-2170. CATALINA 27,1978. Sails & runs. Needs TLC.

Interior stripped for remodeling. Atomic 4,2 jibs, main & spinnaker/pole. Martinez berth. San Jose job leaves no time for fun. Will show on weekends. $2,500. (408) 398-5897 after 7 pm. 25- FT FOLKBOAT, BRANDT-MOLLER, Den¬

mark, 1958. Wooden classic, very sound. Race or cruise. 3 sets of sails, engine mount. Sleeps 2. Due for haul-out, routine refinishing. Must sell. $3,000 obo. Ed, (510) 933-5222. ISLANDER 28, 1979 MODEL. Original owner. Volvo diesel, autopilot, recently replaced rigging & jib. Lots of extras. Exc condition. $14,950 obo. Andy, (415) 873-4353 dys or (415) 348-3747 eves. 26- FT PEARSON. Great Bay boat. Main, 2 jibs,

clean. My captain wants a bigger boat, so I am looking for a new captain. Will you be my captain? Only $6,250. (408) 865-1405. Safe sailing. MacGREGOR 25,1984. Swing xeel, 8 sails (3 newer), mid-boom traveler, 4 winches, lines aft, VHF, stereo, compass, depthsounder, KM, AP, Porta-Potti, sink, Loran, 7.5 Honda w/generator, extending trailer, new rigging & cushions, sleeps 5, pop-top. Dry sailed. $5,250. (916) 272-9380. TRITON #256, 1961. 28 ft, full keel, fiberglass

sloop. Good condition. 25 hrs on rebuilt Atomic 4. 5 sails, 5 winches. 4 berths, full headroom. See in Pt San Pablo Harbor (call 1st). $6,000. Contact (707) 247-3327. 25-FT BRISTOL, 1969. 9.9 o/b, tandem axle

trailer, 0 hrs on o/b low end rebuild. The boat must go. I can save $2,500 on my taxes if I donate it or you can have it for that. (707) 824-1829. CATALINA 27. Great for family or singlehanding.

Gd sails, new standing rigging, new bottom paint 10/97, WP, WS, KM, DS, compass, ground tackle, Mercury 8 hp o/b, VHF, CD stereo, all lines led aft. Must sell soon. $7,800/offer. (415) 593-9231.

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MacGREGOR 25. Swing keel, main, 75% jib,

150% genoa. new dodger, new bottom paint, VHF, Porta-Potti. sink, alcohol stove, 5-1/2 LS Johnson. Trailer, sleeps 4-5, great Bay sailer. $3,500 obo. (408) 265-3854. ERICSON 27,1974. New in '92- 94: standing &

running rigging, FB mainsail, RF ST jib, electrical, propane stove, AP, dodger, 13 lines led aft. all Harken equip, much more. Atomic 4, runs great. $10,500. (510)536-9378. CATALINA 27,1971. Hauled & bottom painted 6/ 97,6 hp I/s outboard, new sail & tiller, lee covers, head, KM, stove/oven, dinette, compass, battery. Standing headroom, sleeps 5, good main, almost new jib. Very clean. $3,950. (415) 255-0957 or (650) 593-1218.

ISLANDER 28, 1976. Volvo diesel, very good structural condition, good cosmetics, extensive work done over the last 2 yrs. Marina Village berth (gate 8, slip F6). Call for details. $14,000 obo. (408) 241-2725. CATALINA 250 WB, 1995.8 hp Honda 4-stroke w/altemator. Furling headsail. k/u rudder, coaming cmpt, Porta-Potti, canvas pkg, pop-top, two tone deck, A/F bottom paint. Trailer, cockpit cushions, carpeting, butane stove. Fresh water boat. Asking $20,500. Excellent condition. (702) 746-1367.

WHITE SATIN, 1982. Fully loaded race & cruise, winning record, everything included. New bottom ‘97 w/warranty, exc condition inside & out. Full Pineapple inventory, 15 hp o/b w/ electric start & remote controls. $15,000 obo. Steve, (408) 278-8056. CATALINA27,

CAPE DORY 25-D, 1982. Classy cruiser. Stand¬

ing headroom, Yanmar diesel, full head, Navico Corns multi instrument w/KM, DS, Sum log Trip log, timer, etc. VHF, main, jib, genny. On Tahoe all its life. Extremely clean, lightly used. $15,900. (916)542-1691.

cruise Baja or San Juans. Ray Richards design. Ocean capable. 1984 major refit, diesel, sails, rudder, teak interior, Harken traveler, etc. Headroom, trailer avail. $9,900. (415) 331-7576.

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enlarged headroom. 6 hp Johnson o/b, lifejackets, compass, anchor, good hardware, lines. $2,550 obo. (415) 491-0116 or (415) 472-4090.

OLSON 30,1978. Dry sailed, 7th 1996 Nationals,

RANGER 26,1969. Good condition, lots of sails

double spreader, 2 motors, dinghy, 15 sails, GPS, Sailcomp, refurb. trailer. $20,000. (805) 581-9220.

S2, 8.0M, 1981. Exc condition. Great Bay boat.

Sharp looking, nice interior, new roller furling, rebuilt inboard, North sails. Upwind Berkeley slip. $10,500 obo. (916) 366-9625. ERICSON 26,1969. Crealockdesigned. Evinrude

9.9 electric start-charger. Knot, depth, Loran, VHF, compass, holding tank, 2 sinks. Dual battferies, 1 lOv AC. Beautiful interior, custom cabinetry. Sails great. Sleeps 5,4 winches, main, 2 speed, extensive upgrading. $5,050. Call (415) 731 -8194.

CAL 31. Excellent condition. New main, jib & roller

furling jib. Delta cover. Rigged for shorlhanded sailing, wheel, VHF wired for stereo, gas stove w/ oven, pressure water, Volvo diesel, Signet SmartPac electronics, haul, new paint. $24,000. Call (510) 829-8676. CATALINA 30, 1989. Very clean. Boat cover,

new dodger & awning. 25 hp Universal freshwater cooled. Hot & cold pressure water, propane stove & oven. Adler Barbour refrig. Knot/depthmeter. 135% roller furling, rigid vang, CD stereo w/4 speakers, electric windlass, VHF. $41,000. Leave msg at (510) 736-5418. J/29 WITH ALL THE GOODIES. Yanmar diesel,

CATALINA 25,1984. Exc boat, fresh water, tradi¬

tional cabin. 2 axle trailer, new Hood 120% furling jib w/cover, 9.9 Honda, depth, compass, anchors. All factory canvas,extras. Asking $10,500, Den¬ nis, (415) 641-8715 dys or (707) 745-2148 eves. 26-FT RIENELL. Clean & spacious, inboard.

$5,100 all offers considered. Also, MacWester 22. Inboard, 3 jibs, standing headroom, full galley, nice sailer. $2,300 offer. Also, 28 ft Columbian, Good shape Atomic 4 inboard. $5,700 offer. Call (510) 536-6850 or pager (510) 729-1475.

fractional rig, Spectra halyards & sheets, QuickVang, Autohelm, faired hull, immaculately maintained. Great Bay boat & excellent value. $24,500. (415) 435-6822 eves & wkends. CATALINA 30,1987. Univ M-25 diesel, Harken furling, wheel, knot, depth, stove, oven, BBQ, propane, refrig, stereo, h/c pressure water, macerator, dodger, bimini, located Sausalito. $35,000. Contact (916) 375-0370. COLUMBIA 29,1968. $6,000. Must sell! Phone:

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great. 1 main & 3 jibs. Spinnaker pole & tackle. New varnish, paint, upholstery. Depth, speed & VHF. Alcohol stove, 30 gal water & 15 gal diesel tanks. Recent survey. Great Bay sailer or pocket cruiser. Must sell, reduced to $7,900 cash. Seri¬ ous inquiries only. (510) 366-0585. ETCHELLS USA 283. Race ready, good shape.

Full boat cover. Located at Richmond. Priced to sell at $5,000. Pis contact (650) 940-6158 wk or (650) 323-3935 hm. COLUMBIA 29, SPARKMAN STEVENS design. Great Bay &, coast boat. Natv main, 2 jibs, one selftending. Atomic 4, new head, valves. Custom interior. New depthsounder, compass, Loran. Must sell. $7,900. (408) 738-2948.

OLSON 30,1982. Hull #170. Full sail inventory including new North 110% & 90% jibs. Immacu¬ late condition. New berth cushions below & cock¬ pit cushions. New Autohelm ST50 wind & speed instruments. Pis call for details. $17,900 offers. (619)447-6992. MOORE 30. One of five built, #2500 speedster, trailer, sails, etc. $32,000. (916) 583-9420.

MUSTANG SALLY, WYLIECAT 30 prototype for sale. Ready to race & available for October deliv¬ ery in San Francisco. Carbon fiber wishbone, 2 Hodges sails, dodger, 9 np Yanmar diesel in¬ board, Autohelm speed & depth instruments. Custom, galv four wheel trailer. Boat is immacu¬ late, lovingly equipped & maintained. Owner moving to larger craft. $75,000. Call Warwick Tompkins, (415) 383-0949.

CATALINA 30,1984. Excellent cond. New bot¬ HAIDA 26. BEAT THE EL NINO. Safely trailer

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(10), VHF, compass, depthsounder. KM, windspeed, 6 hp o/b, 6 winches. Berthed Alameda. Asking $4,500. (408) 377-6192 Iv msg if no an¬ swer.

29-FT ROYAL CRUISER. Volvo MD1 diesel, runs

tom paint 5/97, 250 hrs on 3 cyl diesel, wheel, selftailing winches, VHF, Loran, depth/knotmeters, CNG stove/oven, h/c water pressure. Dinghy & motor. Well maintained by original owner. $24,900. (619) 224-2785. ETCHELLS 22. Tillitson-Pearson built, #170. Mast & sails one season old, reconditioned hull. In¬ cludes trailer. Race ready. $11,000 obo. Call (415) 332-5757 or (415) 332-4205. SAN JUAN 30 SAILBOAT. Volvo diesel, wheel steering; KVH computer (wind, speed), Harken 2 speed selftailing winches. Loran, VHF, all safety equipment, 2 anchors, 3 sails (main, jib & 130% genoa). Beautifully maintained. Must see. South Beach Harbor. Call Manuel, (415) 563-5613. CAPE DORY 30, 1978. Maintained to highest standards. Harken roller furling jib, modified staysail, drifter, full batten main, dodger, wheel steering, AP, Volvo diesel, log-speed, sounder, VHF, Loran C. Upgraded 110/12 v wiring, Newmar charger, standing rigging new ‘93. $31,000. Must sell. (805) 639-0500.

WARPATH, HULL #198. Very clean & well maint. Large Larsen sail inventory. Double axle Tandem trailer. 7 hp Evinrude o/b. $17,500. (408) 534-2938 dys or (408) 475-9762 eves. OLSON 30,

C&C 30,1971. Racer/cruiser with expensive stuff

like 10 bags of very good sails, Harken selftailing winches, hydraulic backstay, wheel steering. This boat is very clean. Reduced to $14,950 obo. Must v sell now. (510)938-9616. COLUMBIA 8.7,1977. Great family cruiser de¬

signed by Alan Payne. Atomic, VHF, depth, Avon, '*■ sleeps 5, many extras. Injury prevents further involvement. Needs TLC, priced to sell. $7,950/ offers. Call Dan, (415) 454-1362.

RAWSON 30. Ocean cruiser. Recommissioned

1995: new 29 hp diesel, new rig, new sails, new wiring, new interior. Propane stove, refrig, GPS, FF, compass. Hell, everything is new. Serious only, possible owner finance, $24,500. Pis call (510) 330-2692 or (415) 331-5899, CAL 2-29,1974.12 hp diesel rebuilt '96. wneel, fin

keel, full batten main. 150%, 110%, spinnaker, standing rigging new ‘94 (Staylock fittings). Lines to cockpit, speed, depth, VHF, Autohelm, wind¬ lass, bow roller, documented, pressure water, sleeps 6, propane stove, oven, heater. Very sea¬ worthy, easy to handle. Moving up to bigger boat. $13,900 obo. (510) 522-4489 or (510) 447-4126. ISLANDER 30 MKII. Tiller w/all parts for Eoson wheel available. Palmer gas engine w/spare work¬ ing engine & parts. New cushions, recent rigging & sail upgrades. No blisters! Great Bay boat looking for new skipper. $11,500 obo. Contact (510) 653-8820 ordeedee@ccnet.com HUNTER 29.5,1996. Moored in Brookings, OR.

Fast boat, fully commissioned, ready to sail. All lines to cockpit. Roller furling jib, full batten main, wheel, Yanmar diesel. Dodger, Lazy jack, 3 bat¬ teries, battery charger, marine stereo w/4 speak¬ ers. VHF, GPS, 16 mile Raytheon radar, Raychart/ Seatalk/C-Map, AP, wind, knot & depth. Refrig, 2 burner propane stove w/oven. Teak interior, h & c pressure water. Many other extras. $59,500 obo. (541) 469-6812.

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BOMBAY CUPPER 31,1979. Good pocket cruiser & Bay boat. Yanmar diesel, good sails, dodger, basic electronics, roller furling, sound hull, wheel steering. Sleeps 5, standing headroom. $25,000 obo. Must sell, have 2 boats. (510) 522-1566.

ERICSON 32,1977. Bay boat fully commissioned.

CAL 34-2. Diesel, radar, GPS, dodger, autopilot,

Rebuilt Atomic 4,10 ft inflatable tender, 5 hp o/b, trailer. Prime Coyote Pt slip, yacht club sponsor¬ ship. Turn-key yachting opportunity. All or part. $25,000 or offer. Call for info. (415) 969-8561.

Dickinson heat & cook stove, two 45 lb anchors, 150 chain, lots more. $26,000. (541) 410-4155.

LANCER 30,1981. Roller furling, Yanmar engine,

DEHLER 34,1985, BLUE MAX. Fast, comfort¬

pressure water, dodger, cockpit cushions, 2 burner stove. Great Bay boat, C&C design. Contact Bruce, (510)521-8191.

able German cruiser. New Ballenger mast, boom & Hall quick vang. Rebuilt Yanmar diesel. Exc sails. Stereo, propane stove, GPS, Autohelm. $45,000. Berkeley Marina. For complete list,call (510) 658-6687 or max40153@aol.com

32 TO 35 FEET ALBERG 35, 1963. Excellent example of Carl

Alberg's graceful design. Recent: standing rig¬ ging, mast step, pulpit, custom bow roller, teak caprails, dodger/wind curtains, salon portlights, cushions & more. Spring ‘97: barrier coat/paint, healthy survey. Oct ‘97 Cruising World/Ocean Navigator. $29,500. (805) 965-3040.

SWEDISH SLOOP, LAUREN 32, 1964. Fiber¬ glass, full keel, strong ocean cruiser, great liveaboard. Volvo MD2B, 6 sails, windlass, 6 winches, new rig, VHF. Full working galley, oven, heater, head, holding tank. Sleeps 5. Fast, ready to sail. $20,000 obo. (415) 332-0704.

PEARSON 32,1982. New 23 hp dsl. Roller furl¬

ing, new main, h/c pressure water, shower, dodger, Loran, VHF, new batteries & windlass. Strong/fast cruiser. Light Bay usage. Brickyard Cove Marina. Very good cond. $32,000. (707) 939-7022.

RANGER 33, 1976. Classic racer/cruiser/ 35-FT PEARSON. Alberg design, completely re¬

done inside & out. Professional custom interior, many sails. Beautiful, bullet proof sailer/cruiser in rare condition. $36,500. Chris, (310) 548-1449. 32 RHODESTRAVELER. Bluewatercutter. Hood

roller furling, AP, Aries, GPS, LPG, 1500 watt inverter, ref rig. Well outfitted for long range cruise. Hauled & surveyed 7/97. $35,000. Pis contact (650) 851-8053.

J/33,1990. Thoroughly maintained, impressively

clean, low hrs, Ockam instruments, depthfinder plotter, CD player, 12v outlet, main sheeting fine tune, 3 newsails in '96. Inventory incl: 5 oz, .75 oz, 1 oz, reach spinn. $47,000. (562) 494-3201.

SANTANA 35,1981. Great combination racer/ cruiser with rod rigging, Autohelm, rebuilt keel, dual headfoil, many sails, located in South Beach Harbor. $25,500. (408) 738-1100.

SANTANA 35,1979, HULL #6. Excellent condi¬

35-FT FANTASIA, 1979. Hull #59. Strong ocean

cover, selftending, spinnaker. $21,500. Contact (510) 933-0853.

tion. Many extras, fresh Yanmar, rebuilt keel, faired epoxy bottom, new interior, cushions, gal¬ ley, etc. Many sails, full electronics. Hull, bottom, rigging, interior, all in exc condition. Must see. In Sausalito. $31,000. (415) 440-6553.

cruiser, center cockpit, aft cabin, 6’6” headroom, workshop, 215 gal water, 135 diesel, radar, GPS, solar, wind generator. $68,000 obo. Call for equip¬ ment list. (408) 672-5663.

RUBY 33, 1988. Steel cruising cutter, sailed

CATALINA 34,1989. FWC diesel w/200 hrs. 4

Mexico, Hawaii, Marquises & Alaska. 7 sails, new 30 hp Perkins, Monitorwindvane. 11 ’2" beam, two chine heavy displacement full keel. Insulated with sprayed foam. USCG documented. $36,000. Call (503) 234-6791.

headsails & cruising spinnaker, knot w/log, DS, WSA/VP, refrig, Autohelm 4000, AM/FM stereo w/ cass. New batteries, Furlex, lazy jacks, Martec, cockpit cushions. $58,500. David, (415) 383-4510.

OLSON 34, 1988. Racer/cruiser, tiller, Harken split drum roller furler, spinnaker & gear, 2 mains, 150%, 90%, 86% & 90% for furler. GPS, Loran, VHF, set-up for short handed sailing. Asking $50,000. Contact Joe, (916) 635-9590 7 am-5 pm or (916) 722-9750 6-9 pm.

COLUMBIA 34,1970. Good liveaboard or coastal

32-FT STEEL CUTTER, 1991. Stove, refer, pot

sailor, 6’6" headroom in roomy cabin, sleeps 6, head w/20 gal holding tank, 30 gal gas, 40 gal water. Adler Barbour cold mach 12v refer/freezer in large box, 3 burner stove w/oven, all interior wood refinished, AM/FM, VHF, depthsounoer. Good running Palmer P60 engine, main w/jiffy reef (3 yrs old), genoa, lapper & dodger. At slip in Oyster Cove. Asking $16,000. All reasonable of¬ fers considered. Call Joel at (650) 763-3830.

belly stove, windlass, diesel. Just hauled. Docu¬ mented. Serious inq only. $25,000. Pis contact (415)986-1049.

34 CAL/JENSEN SLOOP, HU LL #134. No osmo¬

sis, Isuzu 25 hp & Hurth 30 hrs, La Feill mast, roller, new rig, 3 sails 70%, pilot, parts. Needs cosmetics & cabin wiring. Receipts for engine, trans, tank, shaft, over $10,000. Near airport. $13,000. (619) 297-5607. ARIES 32,1974.4 cylinder diesel, dinghy, canvas

CATALINA 34, 1988. Bristol, comfortable, fast

boat. Lots of MKII features. Full batten main, 110% jib on Profurl, new asymmetrical spinnaker. Lewmar S/T winches. Lines led to cockpit clutches. Teak cockpit grating & table. Universal 25XP diesel. Dodger, AC/DC refrig, LPG stove/oven & Force 10 heater. H/c pressure water w/shower. KM, DS, VHF, GPS, lOOw CD player w/custom fitted interior & cockpit speakers. Beautiful teak interior, teak & holly cabin sole. Sevylor dinghy. Surveyed '95. $57,500 obo. Tim, (650) 329-8929. SOVEREL 33, GRAND JETE. Olson built, mint

condition, custom rigging, race proven & ready. New sails, main, #1,2,3,4,5, 3 spinnakers, elec¬ tronics, lying Monterey. $39,000. None cleaner. (408)626-6617. SANTANA 35,1979. Fully equipped for racing &

cruising. Good condition. So Cal boat. $29,500. Ray, (714) 894-1172.

WESTSAIL 32. Ready to sail to Mexico this year.

The perfect escape vehicle. Volvo diesel, 120 gal water, 80 gal dsl, 7 gal propane, 13 gal kerosene, 15 gal holding, 60#, 45# & 35# CQR's. Hard dinghy, 3 hp motor, Aries vane, Autohelm, GPS, fath, VHF, Sailor multi-band radio, 9 bags sails, watermaker, rigged oversized ‘91. Extra lead in keel, extra roving in hull, many spares, masthead tri-color, radar reflector, Shipmate stove, Chummy heater. Price reduced to $52,500. Call 10am-5pm (510) 754-6663 or (510) 754-2628 eves & wkends.

ERICSON 35,1976. Classic lines, great perfor¬ mance, exc condition. Lots of upgrades: wiring, standing rigging, head, upholstery, press, water. Loaded w/equipment: Harken furling, Autohelm 4000, WS/WP, KS, depth, VHF, plotter, spinn w/ gear, jibs (110%, Mylar 135%), large selftailing winches. Atomic4. Motivated, $28,500 obo. Rob¬ ert, (415) 307-3416.

ERICSON 35,1975. Well maintained, exc condi¬ tion, fully equipped, racing, cruising, diesel. Corinthian Yacht Club, berth B-3. $28,000. Call Joe (415) 394-6000 dys or (415) 456-6909 eves. KENDALL 32. Owner had twins & a radical change of plans. Sturdy, safe & shipshape ocean going vessel located in Phuket, Thailand is ready for the I.O., Red Sea & Med. Newsails, newsolar panels, AP, watermaker, dinghy, etc. For more info fax John at (616) 343-2788.

liveaboard. Teak interior. Thousands in recent upgrades. Harken furler, traveler, windlass/plow, new gennaker, 2 mains, 3 jibs, SS propane stove, wheel steering, new cushions, compass, ST Barient 27's. Lines to cockpit, exc condition. $22,900.(415)331-7576. CATALINA 32, 1996. Fast racer/cruiser, fully equipped. B&G instruments, GPS, VHF, electric fridge, h/c shower in cockpit, 300 ft ground tackle bow & stem, full battened main w/single reefing system w/Dutchman. 30% more room than a C30 & priced below market at $66,000. Pis contact (805) 962-2826 or email: anchor@sbsailctr.com

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1979. Fiberglass hull, 40 hp Pisces. Great cruiser/ liveaboard. Radar, GPS, watermaker, 1500w in¬ verter, HAM/SSB, 2-75 watt solar panels, new VHF, fishfinder, 8 sails & much more. Full specs available. $59,000. (714) 362-5533. OFFSHORE PEDIGREE. Ideal for the knowl¬

edgeable offshore sailor who wants a wood boat designed by the legendary Aage Nielsen (WB 133) & built by Paul Luke (WB 125). Eventide (exbirection) has recent sails, winches, power & electronics. Built in 1966with laminated oak frames, double planked mahogany & bronze. 39’6” keel/ centerboard sloop. Asking $59,000. Located Pa¬ cific Northwest. Jim Payne, (207) 236-2383 or fax (207)236-2711. HUNTER 376, 1997. Under full warranty, out¬ standing condition. Perfect for liveaboard. Garmin 210 GPS plotter, VHF, wind/speed/depthfinder, inverter, Yanmar 38 hp w/less than 75 engine hrs. CD/stereo, refrig, 3 burner stove/oven, dodger, seat cushions. $150,000. Call (619) 442-SAIL or (800) 232-2332 ext 336. CATALINA 36,1984. Immaculate. Epoxy bottom,

dodger, canvas, f/b main w/lazy jacks, 110% & 155% jibs, 6:1 Garhauer traveler, roller furling, electric frig, microwave. CNG, h/c pressure water, BBQ, depth & depth warning, KM, VHF, radar, Loran, autopilot, GPS, portable Powerplant, Zo¬ diac with outboard. Vallejo Marina. $55,000. Call (707) 448-6716.

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ISLAND PACKET 38, 1991. Proven bluewater

ISLANDER 36,1977. Beautiful royal blue hull, no

racer/cruiser. #1 In Div A '96 PacCup, cruised Baja '93. Cutter rig, sailed doublehanded. SSB, VHF, radar, watermaker, 110 & engine refer, 12v wind¬ lass, stereo, GPS. Autohelm 7000, Seatalk instru¬ ments above & below deck, serious house bank with battery monitor, high output alternator, pro¬ pane stove & heater, HOmicrowave. Radar arch with removable davits. Excellent condition inside & out. Cruise or race ready. $172,000. Call Dave, (408) 996-1461 Iv msg or davejones@hp.com

blisters. Perkins 4-108 diesel, 7 Barient (3 self tailing) winches, Navtec hydraulic backstay, full batten main w/Dutchman furl system, Hood roller lurling, new cruising headsail, 2 spinnakers, new rigging in ‘92. Dodger, refrig, h/c water, CNG stove, AP, teak& holly floor, shorepower & charger. New upholstery, propeller & complete engine over¬ haul in '97. Many extras & improvements. $38,000. Contact David, (415) 435-6743.

DOWNEASTER 38. Beautiful fiberglass offshore

cutter. Equipped w/diesel engine (exceondition), 5 sails (like new), spinnaker & gear, windvane, autopilot, boom gallows, mast steps, generator, refrig, freezer, windlass, lots of ground tackle, etc. Boat has just been rewired, replumbed, interior painted & varnished, etc. Needs exterior LP, cush¬ ions reupholstered, new stove,misc minor up¬ grades to make boat like new. A steal at $34,950 or trade for? Located Ventura. (805) 546-1108. PEARSON 365, 1980. Sloop 36’5” LOA, 11’6” beam, 4'6" draft. Exc liveaboard/cruiser, all lines lead aft, 40 hp diesel, electric windlass, roller furling, 5 batteries, generator. Full electronics & nav equipment including radar, GPS, AP, VHF, weatherstation. LPG stove/oven, refrig & freezer, microwave, h/c pressure including stand up shower. Zodiac survival raft & Zodiac inflatable dinghy w/5 hp engine. Too much equipment & accessories to list. $45,000. (510) 654-9295.

BEST CASCADE 36. Fully equipped 1980 cruiser/ liveaboard, many upgrades. Refrigeration, radar, SSB/HAM, DS, watermaker, roller, solar, Paloma, VHF, Aries, GPS, wind, heater, bimini, EPIRB, liferaft, propane stove/oven, hard dodger, 7 sails, spares & more. $49,500. (503) 706-9590. VAGABOND-WESTWIND 38, 1987. Great

liveaboard/cruiser. Very roomy & beautifully main¬ tained. Teak interior, Yanmar diesel. Fully loaded & ready to go. Might consider trade for smaller boat or R.E. (619) 807-8000 for info. CATALINA 36,1995. Fast & spacious MKII hull.

B&G instruments, electric windlass, GPS, VHF, microwave, electric fridge, h/c shower in cockpit, full battened main w/single line reefing system w/ Dutchman. Below market at $79,000. Pis contact (805) 962-2826 or email: anchor@sbsailctr.com

40 TO 50 FEET

36-FT CATALINA, 1985. Great condition. New 16

SPINDRIFT 46, 1985. A quality center cockpit

mile radar, GPS, VHF, wind, speed & depth instru¬ ments. Also new interior cushions, stereo CD changer, TV, VCR. Outside canvas, spare main & inflatable. $49,000. Pis call (619) 634-4995 or (760) 739-5168 pgr.

cutter designed & equipped for exceptional per¬ formance & comfort. Extensive equipment inven¬ tory. Well maintained by original owner. An out¬ standing bluewater cruising yacht. $149,500. Call (562) 431-6291 for recent insurance survey, pho¬ tos & inventory.

MORGAN 38, 1978. World class sailing sloop

designed by Ted Brewer. Easy to sail. Harken furling jib, main traveler, jiffy reefing. Roomy inte¬ rior with VHF, Loran, stereo, stove, refrig. Extra sails. Exc condition. Price reduced to $52,000. Call or fax (650) 328-2408.

TRANSPAC49 KETCH, 1981.100%cruise ready.

EXCITING MEXICAN OPPORTUNITY. Excellent turn key cruiser, lying Mazatlan. 1983 Ericson 35 completely outfitted. Latest equipment including 2 GPS, 1 w/chart plotter, radar, HAM/SSB, 10 Zo¬ diac w/8 hp, AP, more. Easily maintained. Ready to go sailing. Call Kris, (970) 453-2463.

CRUISE FAST, RACE COMPETITIVELY. The

Santa Cruz 40 Gandy Dancer is ready. Profes¬ sionally maintained, dry stored, completely equipped, lots of custom extras. $84,500. Extra racing sails & ocean equipment available. Gary, (510) 522-7053.

36-FT LOA, 35-FT LWL. Excellent yacht, custom

42-FT PASSPORT PILOTHOUSE, 1984. Cutter.

cutter rigged. Great liveaboard for Bay & coastal cruising. Aft cabin w/new box spring mattress. Spacious forward living area. 2 forward berths & 1 V couch/berth. New electric head & shower. Perkins diesel. $33,000. (415) 339-1368 eves.

Great bluewater cruiser. Full batten main, roller furling, windlass, teak decks, Perkins 4-108, AP, radar, GPS, Espar heater, B&G instruments, teak ' interior. Excellent condition, great liveaboard. $160,000. (818) 985-2854.

Center cockpit, all teak interior, 3 cabin layout, walk-in engine room, stand-up shower, all furling sails. This boat is loaded & is in excellent condi¬ tion. $220,000. (702) 825-6415.

BENETEAU 40,1984. Ready to go & half way there. 6 years offshore cruising proves her strong & capable. Fast is fun. Monitor vane, AP, fully battened main, roller reefing, 9 sails, spinnaker, storm sails. Radar, SSB, inverter, 650 AH gel cell batteries. 4 solar panels, wind generator, watermaker, liferaft, Avon, 15 hp o/b. 3 double cabins, TV/VCR, CD changer. Foredeck, cockpit awnings, dodger. Cockpit table, cushions, BBQ. Electric windlass, all chain, 3 anchors. Just add food. Featured in popular video Sailing In Heavy Weather. In Florida. Choose cruising the Med or enjoy the Caribbean before South Pacific. Get anywhere fast with exc downwind & weather per¬ formance. $78,000. Reimburse plane fare for buyer. (813) 864-6854.

CHEOY LEE CLIPPER 42, 1971. Fiberglass staysail schooner. South Pacific, Alaska veteran. Extensive upgrades, 6/97 survey, hard dodger, hot pressure water, 100 gal dsl, hydraulic steering & anchor windlass. Exc liveaboard, sublet Wash¬ ington slip for 1 yr. $75,000. (360) 647-2107.

HANS CHRISTIAN 43 CUTTER, 1988. Telestar bottom w/lead keel, epoxy coat & new bottom paint, Yanmar 66 hp diesel, 120 gal fuel, 200 gal water, PUR watermaker, B&G instruments, Heart 2kw inverter, SS propane 3 burner stove/broiler oven. Balmar wall heat/Espar forced air heat, GPS, radar, VHF, Alpha AP, windlass, full cover& all canvas, dodger. Our plans have changed. Call to see this excellent condition boat. $190,000. (360)i85-6578oremail:Townsend@olypen.com

41-FT VAN DE STADT, 1980. Fiberglass hull &

HANS CHRISTIAN 43T, PREMIERE. 200 hrs on this 1989vessel. Handlaid teak in the finest quality & workmanship. 2 private double staterooms. 2 headsjl separate stall shower. Custom beveled mirrors throughout. A large dinette comfortably seats 6 in the main salon. The upholstery fabric is a forest green w/marble countertops in the galley. Truly an elegant & custom look throughout. Im¬ maculate. Original owner. Turbo Yanmar engine, Vetus bow thruster, Maxwell 3000 24v windlass w/cockpit remote (dual direction), 12v & 24v elec¬ trical system, 12v banks total of 6 gel cell batter¬ ies, more. Electronics & new equipment. Furuno 24 mile radar. Trimble chart, map Loran, B&G Helmstar 740 AP (repeaters at helm & nav sta¬ tion). $239,000 buys this vessel. Call Colleen, (800) 528-1818 ext 03#.

STEEL 40. Custom made in New Zealand, very fair hull. Experienced cruiser, fin keel, AP, sails well all conditions, lots of equipt including 3 spin¬ nakers & scuba compressor. Call for complete list. $129,000. Lying Mazatlan. (415) 948-6424.

42-FT ALDEN KETCH. Just in from a hard trip

from Hawaii, I am too tired to cherry her out for sale. Lots of sails, 271 Detroit diesel, boat com¬ pletely rebuilt 3 yrs ago, 1-7/16 planking, every¬ thing new except cabintop. Decks, cockpit, mast& booms, rebuilding done by Kurt Ashworth (master shipwright), rigging is new. Documented. Located in Alameda. Photo on request. $85,000. Contact (941)766-7108.

deck, cutter rigged sloop. 30 hp Ferryman diesel, less than 500 hrs. Well equipped, strong, fast, clean & well maintained. 5 sails, spinnaker & fully battened main. $45,000. (408) 266-0486 or sfkamen@aol.com or http://members.aol.com/ sfkamen TAYANA VANCOUVER 42,1987. Cutter, aft cock¬

pit, canoe stern, f/g decks, Perkins 4-108, solid teak interior. Long fin keel w/skegged rudder. Ex¬ tensively outfitted with top quality equipment: Al¬ pha AP, Profurl, SSB/HAM, GPS, radar, depth/ speed/wind, 12 CD changer, solar panels, wind gen, windlass, 9 ST winches, watermaker, cold plate refrig. Comfortable 2 stateroom layout, huge galley, salon & head with separate shower. Tanks: diesel 120 gai, water 150 gal. 3 pg list of details. Proven offshore cruiser properly maintained & ready to go. $169,000. Contact (408) 684-8263. Santa Cruz. 44-FT LOA CUSTOM CENTER COCKPIT. Fiber¬

glass cutter, MasGusto. Launched 1982, one proud owner, continuous upgrades, extensively equipped. Ready for long range cruising. Lying San Francisco Bay, ready for Mexico & beyond. $66,000. Contact Gus, (909) 984-5248. KETTENBURG 41. Glass hull. Extensive work done. Complete exterior LPU, ceramic tile, oak sole, new AC/DC wiring, refrig/freezer & A/C. New cushions, custom bookshelves & storage plus much more. Truly a beautiful boat. $59,500. An¬ napolis, MD. (410) 269-5207.

42-FT TANTON PERFORMANCE CRUISER.

New Yanmar diesel 4JH2E (0 hrs, 5 yr warranty). 10 sails, new Harken roller furling, Monitor v windvane, solar panels, wind generator, AP, new electronics, EPIRB 406, Avon liferaft, Technautics refrig. Mahogany interior, propane stove & heater. Some assembly required. Lots of spares & extras. Must sell. $60,000 cash. Serious inquiries only. . (510) 366-0585.

48-FT CHEOY LEE CENTER COCKPIT cut-

ter.1981 Perry designed performance offshore cruiser with Cheoy Lee traditional quality teak joinery below. Exceptionally beautiful & well built yacht. Just completed major refit including: new epoxy bottom, new LP topsides, rebuilt engine & transmission, new running rigging, new uphol¬ stery & more. 6/97 survey available. Berthed in San Diego. $165,000. (619) 226-4013.

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Learn About the REAL World of Ocean Cruising Benefit from John Neal & Whitbread veteran Amanda Swan's 250,000 miles of experience while you master storm sailing techniques, navigation, weather analysis & avoidance. Explore the SOUTH PACIFIC on a 2-3 wk ocean passage aboard their 1997 Hallberg-Rassy 46. MAHINA EXPEDITIONS: Box 1596, Friday Harbor, WA. 98250 Call: (360) 378-6131 or Fax: (360) 378-6331 or www.mahina.com

MARINE SURVEYOR

Serving the Bay and Delta Areas JOHN HALLANDER, P.E. - Sail and Power - Fiberglass, wood, metal - 40 years experience - Free phone consultation - No travel charge - 24-hr service available Pt. Richmond (510) 237-8412 Bethel Island (510) 684-3454

Experienced • Licensed • References Bill Carber* 415-332-7609

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BOAT REPAIR Renew your brightwork & decks. Build-in seats, bunks & cabinets. Experienced woodworker will restore your boat to like-new condition or remodel it to suit your cruising lifestyle. Call John Shinnick at (415) 824-1278

- TWO WATERFRONT CONDOS Both with boat slips. Large 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath & 1 bedroom, 1 bath (new carpet & paint). $179,000 & $139,000. Small gated, security complex, fireplaces. Call (415) 457-2455 or (415) 456-1016 ext. 163 for more information. F.H. Allen Realtors

BY LAND OR BY SEA YACHT DELIVERY & MAINTENANCE

QUEST 7 BOAT GRAPHICS

23 years experience Michael D. Commins (510) 382-6956

High quality vinyl boat names, graphics, striping, reg. #s & home ports. More than a decade of marine experience. We also do Installations with no trip charge to most locations. (800) 982-7779 for more information or free brochure!

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ISLAND TRADER 43 KETCH. Equipped for cruis¬

ing, documented. Located in Baja. Designed by Garden. Great liveaboard, teak interior/decks, roller furling, electric windlass, liferaft, windvane, VHF, loran, stereo/CD, hot/cold pressure, extras. $49,000. Contact (760) 788-0511 or Gail at fax (760) 788-7105 or email: bturf@cts.com 50-FT COLUMBIA. Professionally built hull &

deck, 80% complete. Mast, diesel engine, winches, sails, hatches, many misc parts. $25,000 obo. Do not want to part out. Located Santa Cruz. Call (408) 688-1580. 40-FT CAROF STEEL CUTTER. French

built 1982,6 ft draft, long fin, skeg rudder, epoxy inside, insulated, new paint, sturdy mast/rigging, 2 state¬ rooms, lots of storage. '94 radar, GPS, SSB, etc. PermanentslipnexttoSan Juan Islands.$59,995. '(360) 671-2767 eves. 1978 HARDIN KETCH, BOUNTY. Loaded, for details see Sept issue plus full boat cover, new transmission, prop shaft, SS fuel tank, dinghy, OBM. $92,500. Berthed at Bay Island Yacht Sales basin, Alameda. Don't disturb broker, call my son at (408) 253-1821. I’m abroad, back 1/1/98.

46-FT COLD-MOLDED ALDEN KETCH. 75 lb

57- FT ROBERTS YAWL. Cold mold construc¬

CQR w/300 ft of chain, 2 navy 50 lb Danforths & 300 ft nylon rode. 6 bags of new sails, main & mizzen in perfect shape. Aluminum spars, new Force 10 oven, new water pumps, new plumbing fixtures. 15 cu ft freezer/refrig, new Schaeffer traveler & bridge, 70 hp Ford diesel, 10 kw engine driven generator, new VHF radio, dephsounder, knotmeter, & TV ant. Exterior teak in great shape. Boat needs painting & interior work. $40,000 obo (510) 535-2134.

42-FT STEVENS TRI CABIN, 1951. Twin 318’s,

tion. Loaded w/lots of gear. Needs work but was built for cruising. Must sell now! A real bargain at $49,500 obo. Will consider part trade. Pis contact (206) 378-0038.

one running, the other missing carb & manifold, galley, salon, fireplace, 2 staterooms, 2 heads & sinks, 1 shower. Needs work. $9,000. Contact Mike, (510)210-3031.

ILLINGWORTH, 497”, (Axel Heyst), laminated

members & hull, British built to Lloyds, A-1 stan¬ dards 1967. Newer Ballenger spars & Volvo 3 cyl (saildrive). Performance cruiser similar to Swede 55, capable of out-performing newer designs by hours at sea. Cutter rig wiih full sail inventory ideal for shorthanded sailing. Product of Illingworth, Angus Primrose, Camper-Nicholson, which re¬ sulted in the perfected version of Chichester's (Gypsy Moth IV). $62,000 or trade. Call owner, (415) 907-9803 pager or (415) 332-2060.

51 FEET & OVER 55-FT VALEO, GENOA KETCH MOTORSAILER

45-FT CENTER COCKPIT CUTTER. Dutch de¬

sign & built, fiberglass, fast cruiser/liveaboard. Perkins aux, shower, 2 heads. Possible owner finance. $79,000. (415) 331-2946. Photo & specs on request, 45-FT GARDEN PORPOISE, 1968. 52 ft LOA, very unique classic wood ketch, Pacific Northwest craftsmanship including totem carvings, eagle's head prow, beautiful teak interior, teak decks, etc. Newly restored head, stateroom. There's no other like this one. $49,900. (019) 977-9764. BEAUTIFUL MULL NZ 45,1981. Pathfinder die¬

sel, rod rigging. Awesome teak interior w/queen bed. Great cruiser, liveaboard, club racer. Cruised SF to HI, 12-1/2 days. SSB, teak decks, roller furl¬ ing, just hauled & painted, new instruments. Sausalito. $125,000 obo. (415) 331-0715.

by Crealock. Over $100,000 in upgrades, from dinghy on davits to washer/dryer. Perfect for local, long range or liveaboard. 200 hp turbo charged Volvo. 9 knots at approx 2 gal per hr. 800 gal fuel. 12-1/2 & 6 kw generators. Roller furled genoa & main. Singlehandable. Remote controlled center¬ board, stainless rigging, air conditioned, gourmet galley, ice maker, wet bar, 3 showers, bath tub. Located Marin County. Reduced to $199,000. (415) 453-6127.

58- FT EDSON SCHOCK CLASSIC CUTTER.

Originally built 1935 Long Beach for actor Dana Andrews. Extensively restored to new in '91. Worldwide, only one. She’s beautiful, fast, strong & rich in history. Her sleek, eye catching lines made her a successful race & boat show winner. Full electronics & nav equipped. Her 13 ft beam, 7’6‘ draft, 20 tons make her a seaworthy world cruiser. Charter/liveaboard ready. Rich mahogany interior & brightwork. Sleeps 7+ in her 3 private double berths. 2 heads w/showers, large galley, all extras. Meticulously maintained. In Alameda, by owner. Illness forces dramatic reduction to $199,000 make offer. (510) 522-8231. Must sell. 55-FT (LOD) SAMSON FERRO. Professionally

built, 85 hp Perkins diesel 0 hrs. Lots of new equipmenl, 2 heads, h/c pressure water, separate shower, new cushions, new batteries, many ex¬ tras. Needs paints assembly. $25,000 obo. Trades considered, MO, AZor NVIand, Harley Davidson, truck, etc. Lets deal.(510) 254-7562 or email: KCACTUS952@AOL.COM

MULTIHULLS 3200 GEMINI, 1993. Fun & easy to handle. Yanmar

diesel, 2000 watt inverter, diesel heater, propane 5 cu. ft refrig, Paloma water heater, 18 inches draft with centerboards up, 3 double berths. Offshore/ liveaboard. $89,000. Telephone for details. Dwight, (503)285-4186. CORSAIR F-31. Launched 1996. Aft cockpit,

trailer, Yamaha 9.9 electricstart, DS, speed, VHF, SSB, GPS, AP, wind generator, solar, pressure water, Mylar main & genoa, Dacron jib, asym¬ metrical spinnaker. Very complete equipment list. $105,000. (541)488-0919. 32-FT PIVER TRI. Rebuilt in '96. Offshore ready,

in Sea of Cortez. Lots of extras. Up to $5,000 in trade. $25,000 U.S. For more information, send a self-addressed envelope to: Thomas Millard, Lista de Correos, Mulege, BCS, Mexico orfax number: 011-52-115-30190.

HARDIN GLASS KETCH (51' LOD, 60’ LOA).

FARRIER F25C KIT, PARTIALLY COMPLETE.

Outstanding liveaboard cruiser, singlehandable, 2 stations, all furling, Costa Rica vet. 3 state¬ rooms, work area, double salon. Top construction & design, heavy glass hull. Generator, watermaker & inverter. Many extras, upgrades & spares. Some trades/financing possible (boat/RE). $129,000 obo. Roger Perry, (415) 331-5251.

Includes trailer, hulls, arms, manufactured parts, materials. Boat in Oregon. $34,000 invested, look¬ ing for offers. Email: rhepler@kkz-cma.com for details. Or call (787) 782-5530 (7am-6pm Eastern Time).

FORCE FIFTY, 51-FT KETCH, 1977. Cutter

55-FT PALMER JOHNSON. Well built aluminum

rigged, stow away main & mizzen, furling jib, club footed jib. Low engine hrs, replaced water, fuel tanks, fireplace, washer/dryer, trash masher, 2 heads, stall shower, Avon dinghy davits, 25 hp Suzuki. 17 yr owner will sell 1/2 interest or whole boat. Professionally maintained. Never gone fur¬ ther than Catalina. Excellent condition. San Di¬ ego. $149,000. (408) 625-2916.

performance offshore cruiser by Gary Mull. Bow thruster, electric winches, recent electronics, Bat Cars, genset, loaded & ready to take you any¬ where in safety! A bargain at $169,000. Located in San Diego. (205) 985-1784.

5 6-FT MEKADO BY CNSO, 198^. Center cockpit

40-FT ALDEN YAWL, 1956. Mahogany, oak,

ketch w/hard dodger. Proven world cruiser. Great liveaboard. 3 staterooms, 2 bath, 2 showers, generator, inverter, VHF, SSB, GPS, autopilot, dive platform. Easy to singlehand. Located Santa Barbara. $160,000. (805) 689-5716.

bronze, lead, 1-1/8” teak decks, beautiful fair hull. Everything new 95/96: rigging, diesel/watertanks, cockpit, galley, etc. Lived aboard/cruised Carib¬ bean/West Coast. Comes with 1500 hr diesel, 3 anchors, windlass, GPS, 9 sails. $52,000. Call (619) 793-3565.

FARRIER F9-A FOAM, CARBON & honeycomb

racer/cruiser. Tall rig, Smythe Technora sails. 8 hp outboard, trailer & more. Interior partly fin¬ ished. Boat in Oregon. Asking $80,000/offers. Email: rhepler@kkz-cma.com for details. Or phone: (787) 782-5530 (7am-6pm Eastern Time). 31-FT SEARUNNER A-FRAME. Lying Puerto

Vallarta. Cruise equipped, cruise ready. Startyour cruise in Mexico. $16,000. (805) 995-3885 or Email: pktmiller@aol.com

CLASSICS

CAL 40. Race or cruise. BMW D50 diesel. New

epoxy barrier coat & bottom paint. Wind, DS, speed, VHF. Monitor windvane, propane stove, AC/DC refrig, diesel & kerosene heaters, wind¬ lass, new rigging, 13 sails. $50,000. Pis contact (707) 829-9671, eves only. CATALINA 42,1996. Spacious 3 stateroom, new design. B&G instruments, roller furling, full bat¬ tened main w/single line reefing system w/Dutchman. Electric windlass with all chain rode, GPS, CD, radar, microwave, electric fridge, h/c shower in cockpit, etc. Below market at $125,000. Call (805) 962-2826 or email: anchor@sbsailctr.com

31-FT BROWN SEARUNNER, A-arm trimaran.

WILL TRADE HANDSOME 60-FT OFFSHORE

sailing vessel for home in Orinda, Moraga, Lafayette, Walnut Creek, Alamo or Danville. May also consider Marin or Sonoma location. This beautiful boat can take you anywhere in the world in style. $339,000. (510) 864-9182.

OHLSON 36. A classic CCA cruiser/racer built in

1964 in Sweden. Mahogany on oak, teak decks, mahogany cabin, spruce mast. Perennial Master Mariner competitor, '95 Mil winner. $20,000 obo. For more info call Jim at (415) 927-2288.

Bruce Farr performance cruiser equipped for cruising by one knowledgeable owner. Generator, watermaker. Beautiful teak decks. Cruise the world in comfort, style & safety. Asking $299,000 Contact Southwestern Yacht Sales for further details

Mail, Messages and discount Marine Supplies featuring ‘Cruiser's Home Port Service™1 from Income-Tax free Florida. Write or call, we can sign you up over the phone in minutes. SBI, Inc., 60 Canterbury Court, Orange Park, FL32065, (800) 544-2132, (904) 269-2171 orfax (904) 269-4803

BOATS FOR SALE !* All Makes & Models

Priced To Sell! (510) 464-4617 Pager: (510) 382-6961

MULTIHULL BUILDER IN LA PAZ LOOKING FOR PROJECT Low, low labor cost. Easy access to supplies. F-9A completed last year. This year two more. If you want a custom boat.... (011) 52 112 50 759, call after 6 pm

YACHT REPAIR Fibergiass & Complete Blister Repair - Rigging - Deck Repair - Paint & Brightwork Discount on all materials Neat & on time - 20 yrs experience (415) 331-9850

In storage & needs love. Famet mast & boom, 2 cutter rig jibs & main, 2 outboards & trailer. Con¬ tinued Soquel storage available. $5,000 obo. Moore Sailboats, (408) 763-0196.

JEANNEAU 51 SUN ODYSSEY, 1992, VA PENSIERO

MAIL SERVICE & MORE

F-9A, 31-FT, 1995. Enlarged cockpit, alt cabin, tall rig, big roach Kevlar main, jib, screecher on 8 ft bow pole with furling & asym spinnaker. Also Dacron main, jib. Best of equip. VHF, DS, GPS, compass, 2 burner stove, 30 gal water, 9.9 Yamaha. Best offer. (011) 52-1125-0759, Mexico.

(619) 224-7784

Repair, Restoration & New

Fred Andersen Boat &r Woodworks

Construction

(510)522-2 705

In Harbor Electric Installation, Service of Boating Equipment Batteries, Charging Systems, Custom Design

510 236 5419 Alt. Phone 510 684 2965

NOR-CAL COMPASS ADJUSTING Magneuto™ System Exclusively 1. Boat Remains in Berth 2. Eliminates Deviation Authorized Compass Repair - All Major Brands Hal McCormack • Dick Loomis (415) 892-7177 days or eves. November, 1997 • UHUM12 • Page 211

PRINDLE16 CATAMARAN, 1979. Excellent con¬ dition. New rigging & trampoline. Trailer included. Great speed! $900. (916) 791-5277.

24-FT FIBERFORM CUDDY CABIN CRUISER.

Perfect for weekend relaxing. 260 Volvo Penta, low hours. Full Delta canvas, aft cabin sleeper, vberth, head, galley, DS, VHF, many extras. Owner bought another boat, wife says this one must go. $10,500. (510) 487-0908 orjtrap@tdl.com

48-FT PIVER TRIMARAN. Cruise ready, proven,

exc condition. Ketch, cockpit pilothouse, 35 hp diesel. Rehauled/painted. Many extras, electron¬ ics, refer, GPS, radar, 406 EPIRB, windlass, watermaker, generator, 14 ft Achilles w/25 hp, dive compressor, etc. Exc Marina berth. Must see! Steal at $79,000. (707) 253-7231.

TRADE FOR SAILBOAT. 3 beautiful lots: 3 acres CRUISING BLUEWATER SAILBOAT. 38-42 ft

Lloyds & Wooden Boat registration. Maiden voy¬ age featured in Yachts & Yachting. Double hull, diagonal Honduras mahogany. Many original fit¬ tings, kept covered berth. Hauled 12/96. Needs some work. $50,000. (415) 412-9423.

each, river frontage on Cottonwood Creek, $39,500 each. Redding, CA. Also 80 acres. Beautiful land w/small lake, year round creek, pasture for horses & stock. View of Mt Lassen, small mobile home. Property appraised in '94 for$175,000. All proper¬ ties are free & clear. Total value: $295,000. Will trade for 60 ft ketch or schooner 1980 or newer. Call, (916) 365-6711 or (916) 347-9505.

44-FT TRAWLER, 1972. Honduras mahogany w/

TRADE JAPANESE SAMU&AI SWORDS worth

CRUISING GEAR. S/S boarding ladder, $75.

teak decks. Twin diesels, 12 kw Onan genset, air conditioning, Pellet cabin heater, h/c pressure water, shower, refrig, stove, rich wood interior. Ideal office/liveaboard located in Sausalito. $35,000. (415) 331-8858.

$15,000 plus for bluewater sloop, ketch, cutter, 30-39 ft. Fiberglass, carvel wood, diesel, good sails a plus. Swords are museum quality, so give me a call. Pager: (415) 256-0314.

Pilot/navigation training VHS system, $50. Micro Mariner Nav System w/35 floppy disks & 1 CD from SF thru Mexico $ Panama Canal, $250. Yachtsman Chartbook, Mexico to Panama, $75.6 diesel jerry cans, 6 gal each w/green Sunbrella covers, $75. P-Sea Mail Software Communica¬ tion Systems, $75. Baja filter, large, $100. 6” marine speakers, $60/pair. Newmar deck horn, $15. Muir Cheetah Gypsy for 3/8” hi-test anchor chain, $95. Jerry, (415) 454-5725 weekdys.

50-FT HILYARD ADMIRALTY WW2 LAUNCH.

35-FT TRIMARAN. Ketch rig, 5 sails^ cruise vet.

TRADE

FILM RESEARCHER SEEKS OLD FILMS shot by sailors, cruisers, voyagers. 35mm, 16mm, 8mm. Free restoration. Free video transfer. Call Steve. (310) 656-9400 or steve® anchoredit.com

range, fin keel, good condition, well equipped. In $100,000 range or will trade for thriving florai business. Fax specs to (916) 428-6927 or mail to: P.O. Box 22607, Sacramento, CA 95822.

USED GEAR

$5,000.(916)292-1733. SEARUNNER 37. One of the nicest on CA coast.

Epoxy, new diesel, LPU. Sailing dinghy. Doctor lived aboard 8 yrs. Great cruiser. $42,000. Will trade down for boat, car, van, motorhome, trailer, property, but need $20,000 cash. (408) 479-8281 hm or (408) 462-6400 wk.

TRADE 28-FT DIESEL TRAWLER, 160 turbo

PARTNERSHIPS

F-27 TRIMARAN, HULL #104. New nets & stand¬

ing rigging, head, solar panel, AP, double water tanks, epoxied hull, trailer, many extras. Set-up forcruising, well maintained, documented. Randy, (408) 353-2242 or <randall@alink.net>

A GREAT DEAL...CAL20 FOR$400! 33% equity share in Cal 20 valued at $1,200.1963, hull #38. Good condition. Main, 2 jibs, 2.5 hp o/b, new rigging. Berthed at Richmond Yacht Club. Call Alyce, (415) 441 -8447 or Susan, (510) 482-2971.

ADOPT OUR DREAM. 38 ft Brown Offsoundings

trimaran. Predecessor to the Searunner. Sound hull & rig, diesel power, head, sleeps 6, aft cabin. Basic electronics. Asking $20,000, last sun/eyed at $40,000 value. Renny, (650) 369-9050 Iv msg.

BALTIC 64. Like new. Operates 6 months Bay Area, 6 months Mexico with capt & cook. Looking for 4-6 partners. Sailors only. One year trial, all funds fully refundable. Contact E. Van Asperen, (707) 963-4726.

POWER & HOUSEBOATS

Isuzu, radar, toilet, etc. for a class A motorhome. (415) 563-4361.

WANTED

SAILS FROM ERICSON 37. North Sails, been BOOKS & CHARTS NEEDED! Orange Coast

College is building a new public nautical library. We need nautical books, charts, guides, instru¬ ments. All subjects & areas needed by our stu¬ dents^ 5,000 annually. Your gifts are tax deduct¬ ible through the OCC Foundation. Call us to ar¬ range pick up & receipt. (714) 645-9412.

270 FT 5/16” HIGH TEST CHAIN, new, $600. SAILBOAT CHARTER OR YACHT time-share in

COLUMBIA 36 IN CLIPPER YACHT HARBOR, 40-FT MOTORBOAT/HOUSEBOAT. Fiberglass. Twin diesel, low hrs. Very roomy, h/c pressure water, shower & tub, propane heater, 2 navigation stations, Autohelm, VHF, depth, new carpet. Look great price $33,000. Call eves, (415) 460-0349.

Sausalito. Must sell 1/3 partnership, $7,000. Part¬ ners rarely use, but want help w/maintenance & share expenses. Rent share $95/month. Sleeps 6, diesel, sloop, genoa, spinnaker. Sail the Bay. (415) 382-7725 eves.

PUGET 37-FT TRAWLER, 1980. Forward & aft cabin layout with aft cabin centerline queen berth. 2 heads with shower, tub aft. Single Ford-Lehman 120 hp. Radar, Loran, GPS, 2 depthsounders, 2 VHF radios, AP. 400 gal fuel, 200 gal water. $69,000. (707) 644-2923.

LOOKING FOR 2 NON-EQUITY PARTNERS for open ocean races on Contessa 35, a beautiful & high performance IOR1 ton class. Peterson de¬ sign, J. Rogers (England) built boat. Fulfinventory of racing sails, many extras. Boat is docked at Brisbane Marina (Sierra Point). For details call Michael, (415) 324-1433.

42-FT CALIFORNIAN TRAWLER. Turn key for

fun cruising. Twin 3208NS Cats, radar, GPS, 2 VHF radios, watermaker, 7.5 kw Onan genset. Imported into Mexico, slipped in La Paz. Contact US tax number: (760) 942-4951 or Mexico fax/ phone: 011-52-114-10308.

1/4 PARTNERSHIP in 1978 Catalina 30. Rebuilt Atomic 4, furling jib, wheel. Stable, conservative partnership. Jack London Square Oakland. $4,500 equity+$60/month expenses. Also selling Catalina 22. $3,000 obo. Dave, (415) 244-6262 ext 381, Iv msg.

UNFINISHED TRI-HULL HOUSEBOAT. 27' x^

16'. Large superstructure, no engine, needs inte¬ rior. $1,000 as is. Must sell. At yard in Alameda. (510) 523-8330.

stored for20yrs in dry environment. 1=48, J=15.25, 165% jib, $475. Spinnakers: 1.5 oz TriRadiai, $800. .75 oz & .5 oz radial head, $700 each. TallSpin staysail, $575. Genoa staysail, $475. 27.4 luff x 16.7 ft. Fits most 36-40 ft boats. Wayne, (415) 421-6542.

La Paz or Cabo. Feb 10-25,1998.2 couples need a break from the northwest winter, seeking a 35 to 45 ft sailing yacht. Call Chris, (360) 734-0928 eves or email: fairbank@Cascadesinc.com

Ideal electric windlass, vertical gypsy, $700. Onan 3 kw diesei generator. FWC, electric start, runs good, needs rings, $900. Will trade any one for good running 15 hp o/b. Eric, (510) 482-5635. GROUND TACKLE, $250. #1 ancnor. A 20 lb 3-

WANTED: CENTER COCKPIT KETCH, 40-50 ft.

Aluminum, steel or fiberglass. Raised salon. No wooden dbcks or spars. No iron tanks. Minimum external wood. Send details to Dick, 1801 Parkwood Dr, San Mateo, CA 94403. TR Al LER ABLE SAILBOAT WANTED. 15 to 18 ft

with cabin. Considering Capri, Compact, Mont- gomery, WW Potter, etc. Must be exc condition w/ outboard motor, sails, trailer, extras. Preferrigged for singlehandling. Email: Gerard123@aol.com or Gerard. (408) 423-8143.

piece Swarbrick Yachtsman, c/w 15 ft ot chain, 75 ft of 3/4 in nylon 3-ply spliced into 100 ft of 5/8 in nylon 3-ply; #2 & #3 anchors. Both 10 lb 2-piece Yachtsman & both c/w chain & 180 ft of 1/2 in nylon 3-ply rode. A14 lb Rode Roller solid bronze sentinel. Oil burning anchor & nav lights, $125. 3 Den Haan brass lamps for sale. Anchor, port & starboard. Seagull QB Curlew o/b, $400. Engine complete w/manual, tool kit & emergency spares. Email: francis@stanford.edu or call voicemail: (650) 723-9390. 21-FT ZODIAC HURRICANE. No drivetrain or

WANT LIVEABOARD POWERBOAT RENTAL. 1

Very responsible, married couple looking for liveaboard to rent in SF, Marin or Oakland. Call (415)440-9938. WANT 10 HP DIESEL ENGINE for boat almost complete. If you have oneybu don’t need.it runs & costs next to nothing, call Tom at (916) 343-5722.

trailer, former USCG boat, $2,500. PUR 35 watermaker, new, never on a boat, $800 obo. Two 12 gal fuel lanks for outboard, $40 for both. Call (415) 898-2435. AD21 ALBIN DIESEL 22.5 HP. 300 nrs since

rebuilt, freshwater cooled, extra parts & manuals. $1,500 obo. (818)917-1286.

NAPA VALLEY • Vacant lot on Napa River, 6/10th acre • Water • Sewer & electric in •

CREW ON THE ACTIVE SEA EXPLORERS MARIN

• 40 x 15 deep-water dock • Sensational views • $103,000 Make Offer Coidwell Banker (707) 258-5223

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MARITIME ATTORNEY Specializing in boat related matters including: Purchase Contracts, Taxes, Liens, Importation, Accidents and other areas. Experienced Sailor. Shawn M. Throwe, 2236 Mariner Square Drive, Alameda • (510) 522-0426 Fax (510) 522-2062

Learn Expert Sailing.

Private Lessons: Basic thni Offshore. You, your family; companions. Your boat or My boat/s. Save time, money Earn THE BEST, THE ONLY CERTIFICATION YOU'LL EVER NEED USCG licensed Captain/lnstructor since 1973. Cal Deyoung (S10) 522 -7403 Page 212 • UtCUJiZS • November, 1997

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MARINE RADIO FOR SALE S.S.B/HAM Marine Radio SGC, 150 watts, 5 year factory warranty, new (factory fresh). Radio has remote head, 644 preprogrammed frequencies, 100 user programable, Telex, WeFax, Outstanding/Best Buy from Practical Sailor. $1,395. Matching tuner also available. (425) 451-7413 phone/fax

SAILOMAT Self-Steering /

Professional assistance.

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CHART SAVINGS OF 70% & MORE! Current Edition Charts reproduced on the Heaviest-Weight Paper in the Industry! So. Pac., Mex,, N.Z., Aust., USA, Carib, Med., Worldwide. Free Index. Sample Chart $2. DMA & NOS Originals @ 20% Off! (25 chart min.) 21 Years Quality Sen/ice. Bellingham Chart Printers Division, TIDES END LTD, P.O. Box 1728L, Friday Harbor, WA98250 Ph: (800) 643-3900 • Fax: (360) 468-3939 • Email:bcp@tidesend.com • Web:www,tidesend.com

SELLING 200 FT 3/8" ABI HIGH TEST CHAIN.

Bought '90, galvanized twice, last galv March ‘95, not used afterward. Proofs of purchase & galvani¬ zation available. Asking $325. Also selling Honda 75 outboard engine. Rosalia, (510) 237-4013 or email: paviar@aol.com RARITAN MARINE CHARGER, model R3012 B3,30 amps, 3 battery banks, fully automatic, solid state. New condition, with manual. $225 obo. Bob (415) 922-4059.

PAUL LUKE 3 BLADE feathering propeller. 16" diameter, RH, 1-1/4” shaft. New, in box. $2,050 list, sell for $1,740. Steve, (415) 331-9822. ISUZU PISCES 40 HP DIESEL. New exhaust

manifold, heat exchanger, top end. Bottom end needs work. Complete w/transmission, $1,500/ offer. Mariner 8 hp outboard, $650/trade for new 3 or 3.4 hp, Cheoy Lee winches, Martec folding prop. Scott, (408) 496-5656. ONAN15 KW DIESEL GENERATOR with sound

NEW LEE SAILS. Ketch. 44' x 21' x 48', 37' x 14'

x 39’, 52' x 18' x 42', 41' x 14' x 36’. Call for price, all or sold separate. (760) 731-2907. NEW HARKEN ROLLER FURLER. Mark II Unit

O model (tor boats to 29 ft). Already assembled. Cost $1,400, sell $800 obo. (510) 527-3942 eves or (510) 548-2027 dys.

shield. 1.400 hrs. Heat exchanger cooled. Excel¬ lent condition. $4,000. Dave, (360) 371-5700 dys. WANTED: VOLVO MD6 OR MD7 PARTS. Injec¬ tors. injector tubes, injector clamps, water pump, transmission or complete engine. Any condition considered. (408) 684-0602orhope@cruzio.com STANDARD HANDHELD VHF, $100. Autohelm

WATERMAKER. PUR Powersurvivor 35 w/2 pre¬

filters, biocide chemicals, rebuild kit, etc. Hardly used last season to Mexico. $750. (408) 529-3831 or (408) 997-1954. SHIPMATE KEROSENE STOVE. 2 burners with oven. All stainless steel, gimbaled. Includes pres¬ sure tank & spare parts. All in great shape. $225 obo. (916)878-1672. SPINNAKERS, 1-1/2 oz, Radial, 46x27', red,

excellent condition. 6 oz, radial, multi colored, 41 x21', used one race, $400 each, Engine room insulation, 4-16sq ft sheets, new $200. Spiendide washer/dryer combo, new $500. Deep, aouple, stainless sink, new$150. Powerwinch, Powermate anchor windlass, new $400. Towing generator, Hamilton Ferris $400. (707) 553-1660. /

handbearing compass, $75. Anchor line, $50. Handheld wind indicator, $50. Polaris Fujinon binoculars with compass, $450. Avon Redcrest dinghy, $700. Miscellanous marine gear and books. All gear in near new condition. Please call (650) 259-9124 eves. HOOD ROLLER FURLING MAINMAST, alumi¬

num, 40’6" luff. No boom. $2,500. 50 ft of 6”xl0” aluminum mast blank. Virgin condition. $800. I need 15 ft of 6"x10” LeFiell mainmast section. (415) ^57-8616, ask for Paco.

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SAIL-SERVICE-SOCIALIZE. San Francisco Bay Oceanic Crew Group invites skippers, crew 8 apprentices to join one of SF Bay's most active sailing groups. Participate in service, skill-improve¬ ment sails 8 fun sails. For more information call (415) 979-4866.

box sect to Herreshoff specs. 44'x7"Wx9"L. Boom also available. Includes some hardware. $1,200 obo. (415) 332-2500. TOW VEHICLE, 1974 FORD PICKUP. 32,000

miles on rebuilt 360, automatic. 10,000 lb hitch, brake controller, oversize radiator, gauges for engine temperature, water temp, transmission temp, oil pressure. Tie downs, deep cycle battery 8 wiring for camper. $2,000. (408) 986-7562.

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bership. It doesn't get any better, reciprocal yacht club privileges. Modern fleet berthed in Alameda 8 Sausalito. Complete sailing instruction 8 social events. $4,425 value for $3,100. Contact Ken, (707) 745-7824.

REWRITERS WANTED! For rewriting translated texts. Subject - sailing. Our requirements: experi¬ ence, reliability, enthusiasm. Word processing is a must. Published works a plus. Please send brief resume to: Urbania, P.O. Box 37-1090, Montara. CA 94037 USA.

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bership. $3,700. Save $725. Outstanding sailing instruction, seminars, full certification and social events all included. ASA sailing school of the year. Modern fleet berthed in Alameda and Sausalito. Includes membership in Ballena Bay YC. Call (408) 257-4325.

CORINTHIAN MIDWINTERS. Save the dates: January 17-18 & Feb 21-22. Strange but fun race courses, two great Saturday night parties, some free beer, daily & overall trophies. “Best midwinter series on the Bay,” claims rockstar Alfredo (“You can call me Al”) Nino. Race applications will go out on Nov 15. Call CYC at (415) 435-4771 to get on the list, or call Rob Moore at (415) 383-8200, ext. 109 for the whole story.

NON-PROFIT IRS TAX DEDUCTION. WE NEED YOUR HELP.

By donating your boat in any condition, you help homeless children and their families. Get full book value. Running or not. Call now for more info. (800) 414-HAUL (4285).

MERCEDES 309 DIESEL BUS, 1978.20 ft fully SWITLIK 4-MAN, CG4TSD. Custom to Steve

Callahan-Survivor specs. The ultimate survival ratt, new in crate. Volvo/Perkins MD2030, 3 cyi, FWC, 30 hp diesel, new in crate, complete w/all extras. Perfect repiacement for Atomic 4. New Aqua-Drive CVA coupling. (415) 540-0824.

CRUISING GEAR. Sharp Celesticomp 5 nav com¬

puter (like new), $150. Para Tech 15 ft sea anchor (never used), $350. CQR 25 lb anchor, $150. Plow anchor, like CQR. 45 lb, $200. Kenwood TS450S HAM-SSB, SGC auto tuner antenna, Time Wave auto filter. MFJ memory keyer, all in like new condition, $1,500. Heart Freedom 10 inverter (new in box), $550. Heart Link 2000R monitor (new in box), $450. 2 Siemems M75 (48 watt) solar panels, $250 each. Windbugger wind generator (like new), $800. Magellan Meridian handheld GPS w/mounting kit 8 external antenna kit, S200. 125 amp alternator, dual foot (new in box), S300. Balmar A.R.S, 2 regulator (new in box), SI 00. Charts, lots of them. (408) 445-1199.

brakes, H.D. jack 8 caster, 6 square pads, keel pan & guide, high winch stand brace. Designed for 24-28 ft, deep keel sailboat, excellent condition. $3,500. (510)778-6785.

RACING SAILS. New Uliman API Mylar genoa

CARBON FIBER SPINNAKER POLE, with

(52.8’ luff, 52.2' leech, 26.1 ’ foot) and excellent allradial cut 3/4 oz. North spinnaker (55’ luff, 30' girth). Win with new sails at half cost: genny $2,000, spinnaker $2,200. Tom, (619) 226-1133.

Sparcraft end fittings, weight is approx 35 lbs, length 21 ft, LP painted white. Lightly used. $1,495. Greg, (415)645-5305.

COMPLETE SET OF CUSHIONS, for Catalina

34. Never used. Pattern: Somerset. Color: buff. Will deliver. $650. (805) 686-0012. TRAIL-RITE BOAT TRAILER, 1996. Surge

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hp. One engine in good condition. $6,000. One engine in fair condition, $3,800. Call Caren at (650) 851-8488.

renovated to RV camper by shipbuilder. Hard¬ wood interior, insulated, sleeps 2, amazing stor¬ age. Mechanically rebuilt, new Michelin tires, auto trans, overdrive unit, 16 mpg. Simple but elegant. $16,500.(415) 479-5656.

PACIFIC CRUISING ASSOCIATION, PO Box 280, Port Hueneme, CA 93044. Voice: (805) 5250064, fax: (805) 933-2108. We offer camaraderie, monthly news publication, reciprocal privileges, mail forwarding 8 much more for the cruiser.

BOAT SEWING SPACE AVAILABLE NOW. In¬ dustrial machine & table within a canvas shop. Sew your own. $80/weekly or S275/monthly. Call (510) 235-3530.

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Sailors, offers safe, exciting recreational oppor¬ tunities on San Francisco Bay for the physically disabled sailors 8 able-bodied volunteers. No sailing experience necessary, adaptive equip¬ ment available. Cash 8 other tax deductible dona¬ tions welcomed. (415) 281-0212.

PLATH SEXTANT, CIRCA 1880. As new! Is in original dovetailed box. Best offer. Contact Larry, (650) 652-7899. BUSINESS LIQUIDATION SALE: Trailers, cradles, tools, compressors, spray equipment, wood 8 fiberglass supplies, rigging 8 boat parts. Saturday, Nov 22, 1997, 9 am-4 pm. Public 8 trade welcome, North Coast Yachts, 2100'Clement Ave, Alameda.

BARBARY COAST BOATING CLUB, Northern California's gay 8 lesbian club. Open to owners 8 enthusiasts of sail 8 powerboats, kayaks, canoes 8 PWCs. Monthly meetings 8 lots of events. Call our hotline, (415) 905-6267. CAL 20, 1967. Good condition, $1,200. 1963

Flare Blue 25 (wooden sloop by Yakamoto Bros), with spinnaker, neeas work, $5,000. Cal 27, gooa condition with o/b, $5,000. 1988 Arima 45 hp powerboat w/cabin, $5,000. (415) 956-5700 dys or (415) 739-6477 eves.

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SAILBOATS AND POWERBOATS FOR SALE. All makes and models. Priced to sell. Call now. (510) 464-4617. LAKE TAHOE JUNIOR SAILING/RACING pro¬ gram. A 501 (c) (3) non-profit club needs your racing boat (any size). You get IRS tax deduction, we teach kids to sail & race. For more info please call Glenn, (916) 577-4028. HELP KEEP US AFLOAT. Donate your boat & marine equipment to the Gold Country Yacht Club Junior Sailing Program. We're non-profit &need your help. Call Lynn (916) 272-6105 or call Tish (916) 273-7819 eves &wkends. SUMIKIII, A L. FRANCIS HERRESHOFF de¬ signed. 36 ft Nereia ketch. Completely renovated, 7 sails, rebuilt Perkins, digital interfaced radar, DS, speed log, GPS,2 self-steerers. A real clas¬ sic. $29,500.(619) 422-7376 or (619) 687-1300. Proceeds benefit St Vincent de Paul Village.

BERTHS & SLIPS 40-FT SLIP AT SAN FRANCISCO, PIER 39. Great location. $20,000 buys 37 years remaining on 50year lease. Long term lease costs much less than rent. Call (415) 969-1680 for details. SAN FRANCISCO PIER 39. Boat slip available, 40 ft, excellent location on D-dock. $280/month. Phone: (425) 643-0614 (in Washington). FOR RENT, 40-FT X 13.5-FT UPWIND (E-44) berth in Emery Cove Yacht Harbor, Emeryville. $200 per month. (510) 284-7686. SAN FRANCISCO, PIER 39. 50 ft slip lor sale. $30,000 or lease $350 per month, plus utilities. For information, please phone (415) 956-7422 or (510) 769-0337. ' N

CREW LIKE TO MEET FEMALE, 40'S, attractive, for sailing & companionship. Enjoy sailboat charter¬ ing & cruising, scuba diving, hiking, etc. Consider¬ ing cruising lifestyle. Divorced male, professional, attractive, 6T, fit, 54. Let's exchange letter & photo. Joe, P.O. Box 894, Saratoga, CA 95071. FEMALE FIRST MATE WANTED. Luxury sailing yacht with nice looking 49 yr old lie captain, in St. Thomas, USVI, in need of NS, fit, female 1 st mate (will train if nec) for winter season. Send photo/ ** phone to: Yacht Jet Lag, 6501 Red Hook Plaza, Suite 201, St. Thomas, USVI 00802-1306oremail: PJPILOT@AOL.COM (before Nov 1st, contact (206) 859-2680).

WE SAILED OUR 53-FT KETCH to Mexico 4 times & then to French Polynesia. I lost my mate & best friend (for 28 years) 7 yrs ago. 5 yrs ago I sold Harmony & purchased Rhapsody (60 ft trawler) in New York. We cruised down through the Panama Canal & this summer explored south¬ east Alaska. Cruising with friends & family has been great. I miss sharing the passion for each other & the cruising life with the woman I love. If you are curious about what lies over the horizon & have the couiage to take the first step, please write to: Lee, 6708 Road 26, Madera, CA 93637 or my web page: www.dovraisins.com HEAR YE, HEAR YE, ALL YOU SINGLE sailors, skippers, mates, crew (advanced or novice), come join us at our social & meeting to be held at Oakland Yacht Club in Alameda on the second Thursday of each month. Social starts at 7 PM. For details contact Single Sailors Assoc (SSA). (510) 273-9763. CHRISTIAN SINGLES. Sailing, kayaking & flying club for those who love adventure & want to share it with others who have like values. Please call (805) 962-5955. ATTRACTIVE, FIT, INTELLIGENT WOMAN, 36, seeks crew position to Mexico (beyond?). Baja Ha-Ha, Channel Islands & coastal experience. I'm responsible, caring, fun-loving, good cook, fair Spanish, great attitude. Will pay my own ex¬ penses. Voicemail: (805) 672-9290. CRUISING MERMAID, underwater photographer. Attractive, athletic, fun, published, dive master loves travel, adventure, sailboats, diving. 5'4" slim brunette seeks to fulfill dream of cruising warm waters worldwide (preferably with soulmate, age 42-50ish, fit, NS). P.O. Box 4136, Laguna Beach, CA. 92652. COSTA RICA, ACAPULCO, CABO SAN LUCAS, Sea of Cortez, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco. Hylas 47 departing Costa Rica midDecember. 2 berths open. Full trip or segments available. Daily cost: $35. M/F, various skill levels. For details, (510) 516-1805. BAY SAILOR (40) W/SOME OFFSHORE experi¬ ence seeks to cruise Mexico, Central America, Caribbean. Available mid-Nov for indefinite pe¬ riod. Dependable, responsible. Prepared for the responsibilities & the adventures. Contact Steve, (707) 449-8486 or smahaley@yahoo.com 17-FT MOBJACK SAILING DINGHY SEEKS sailor(s) for daysails on SF Bay, Tomales Bay, Clear Lake, Must be agile & enthusiastic with free weekends. I'll provide lifevests & some spray gear, you provide half the ballast & adrenaline. Call Richard, (510) 243-8747.

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CREW APPRECIATED. Tahoe skipper, new to Bay, seeks crew for selected mid-winter races & some daysailing on my Marlin 242. Emphasis on fun. If you like to yell & win at any cost - don't call. Mike, (916) 544-4014 or mgrimm@juno.com CHRISTIAN BOATERS wishing to have a Sun¬ day morning worship on the Bay and enjoy fellow¬ ship befqre sailing, please contact Bruce at phone: (510) 521-8191.

JOBS WANTED OVER 25,000 OFFSHORE delivery miles with 16 yrs in yacht maintenance. Position sought from boat builder or private owner for land based work, interior preferred due to ultraviolet concerns, health is excellent. Full time position wanted, west coast USA preferred, willing to relocate. Strong suit is troubleshooting, commissioning, rigging & off¬ shore preparation. Vast product knowledge w/ good communication skills & computer friendly. 12 hr days not uncommon. Complete dedication an expectation. Resumes upon request. Contact (818) 789-7288 orjohnchalled@earthlink.net

JOB OPPORTUNITIES MEN & WOMEN SAILORS! Join our team of 27 professionals at OCSC. SF Bay. Best teaching & sailing location located on the Olympic Circle, large & extremely well maintained fleet, flexible schedule, well organized syllabuses & curricu¬ lum, great shoreside facility. There are only 3 students per class & certification standards that make you proud to be an instructor. It's exciting work w/motivated students & a great team atmo¬ sphere w/top pay & liberal boat use privileges. If you have great communication skills, an interest ., in teaching, exc sailing & seamanship skills, we would like to talk to you. We will help with CG licensing & US Sailing Instructor Cert. Call Rich at (510) 843-4200.

HELP WANTED. Experienced sailmaker. Fulitime, permanent, benefits. Call Bob for an appt, (408) 476-3009. SAILING INSTRUCTORS. Spinnaker Sailing is looking for qualified sailing instructors to teach both keelboat & small boat sailing classes. Parttime & full-time. Teaching locations include Moun¬ tain View, Redwood City. Contact Rich or Bob at (650) 363-1390. SKILLED SAILBOAT REPAIR PERSON needed at Spinnaker Sailing in SF. Full or part-time. Flex¬ ible hours. Pay based on experience. Fax resume to: (415) 543-7405 or contact Charles Barnard at (415),.543-7333. GLACIER BAY, INC., the marine industry's pre¬ mier refrigeration system manufacturer located in San Mateo, seeks a qualified Product Manager. The ideal candidate will possess exc mecnanicai aptitude & written/verbal communication skills. You'll become the major contact point for our OEM, dealers & customer-directsales. You shouid Know sailboats & understand long-distance cruis¬ ing. To quote & analyze system requirements you will also need to understand refrigeration & DC systems & know now to drive a computer (Word Perfect, Windows '95 - Autocad a plus). Travel to marine trade shows will also be required. Inter¬ ested parties should respond by tax w/cover let¬ ter, resume & salary history to Attn: Product Man¬ ager, (650) 578-0912. CERTIFIED WELDER/MECHANIC NEEDED at San Francisco Boat Works. Great place to work with good wages and benefits. Fax resume to: (415) 626-1662.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES PROFITABLE LARGE SAILING SCHOOL, re¬ sort boat rental & yacht charier business, 49 passenger sailing catamaran & sailing club avail¬ able in beautiful, warm Santa Barbara, CA. Part or all of this 31 year successful business available. (805) 966-9317 or email: anchor@sbsailctr.com

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SAILING EDUCATION ADVENTURES, a com¬ munity based non-profit sailing organization, seeks a motivated & talented Program Director. This part-time position combines administrative respon¬ sibilities, sailing experience & communications skills into a challenging opportunity. SEA oper¬ ates outstandingadult&juniorprograms requiring coordination, community involvement & member¬ ship liaison, Mail resume to: Sailing Education Adventures, Fort Mason Bldg E, San Francisco, CA 94123.

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Baja Naval. 140 Ballena Bay Yacht Brokers 38,39 Ballenger Spars. 161 Barnett Yacnt Insurance.65 Bay Island Yachts.7 Bay Riggers.61 Bay Ship & Yacht Co.53 Bay Wind Yacht Sales.229 Bay Yacht Service.42 Baykeeper & Deltakeeper. 16 Beckwith, Craig, Yacht Sales .,.228 Beneteau.5 Berkeley Marina.215

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Berkeley Marine Center. 155 Birnberg & Assoc. Attorney . 217 Blue Water Sailing. 164 Boeshield T-9 .154 Bottom Siders. 10 Boy Scouts - Pacific Harbor.. 226 Boy Scouts - Pacific Skyline .. 205 Boy Scouts - San Francisco .. 224 British Marine. 127 Brisbane Marina.85 Brookes & Gatehouse. 161 Cabrillo Isle Marina.57 Cabrillo Yacht Sales.226 Cal Adventures (Berkeley).... 221 Cal-Marine Electronics.83 California Custom Canvas.71

California Maritime Academy. 10 Cameron International .41 Cass' Marina .74 Celestaire Navigation . 151 Chula Vista Marina.200 City Yachts. 19 Club Nautique.62,63 Club Nautico Cartegena . 174 Coast Marine. 18 Coldwell Banker .217 Community Mattress .217 Conch Charters . 176, Cover Craft .20' Coyote Point Marina.81 Crisis At Home Intervention Center .79

Cruising Cats USA.6 Cruising Specialists.50,51 Custom Yachts.21 Dashew Offshore. 147 Data Rescue Services .86 DBC Marine.60 Defender Industries . 126 Desolation Sound Yacht Charters . 178 Detco. 144 DeWitt Studio.218 Diesel Fuel Filtering. 154 Discovery Yacht Charters. 178 Downwind Marine.202 Dutchman . 142 Edgewater Yacht Sales.226 Edinger Marine Service.41

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40’ PEARSON SLOOP Centerboard cruiser/racer, finely finished inside, built to last outside. New to market, only $69,000.

tiful custom interior, long list of quality gear incl. 11' Avon w/OB, dodger, Ar¬ ies vane, ham radio. Cruise/liveaboard.

Asking $115,000.

50' ENGLISH CTR High performance

35' SANTANA This racer/cruiser

ocean cruiser. Camper-Nicholson built to Lloyd's A-l standards, new Volvo dsl, rebuilt interior. $62,000.

is in beautiful condition. Low hours, new diesel. Loaded w/upgraded gear. Asking $32,000.

44' PETERSON Center cockpit cruising cutter.

68' 64* 60’ 60' 52’ 50’ 48’ 47’

FORMOSA PH, $365,000 SCHOONER, 1938 TEAK SCHOONER, ready to go STEEL 3-MASTED SCHOONER COLVIN, 1986, in Mexico KETTENBURG, pristine sloop EDSON-SCHOCK, only $42,500 RHODES PH, $59,500

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32 3T 48 52 55 65 '

46' 44' 42' 40' 38' 34' 23'

CAL BAmESHIP, fixer, S79.900 CSY, ctrckpl, newlayoul, S99,900 TAYANA, ctr dipt, ready for cruise CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE, S49.900 CHEOY LEE, reblt engine, Inquire O'DAY, new to market, S39.900 C0MPAC.1993, w/trfr, SI 8,000

Spacious inter. Loaded with cruising gear incl. new dodger, roller furling, AP, GPS.

$105,000.

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built in Holland. Performance cruiser. Dsl, Avon, full cover. At our docks.

new main, roller furling, dodger, clean and well maintained.

Asking $29,500/0ffers.

Asking $33,700.

35' CAL, '83 Cruise loaded incl. Monitorvane, ProFurl, radar, GPS, Ham radio, weatherfax & more. At our docks. Asking $60,000.

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32'WESTSAIL Factory built, strong hand-laid F/G teak decks. Excel¬ lent condition.

Asking $44,000.

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Bay/coasta cruiser. Volvo diesel aux. Rea clean and well equipped. At our docks. Asking $14,900.

27' LANCER POWERSAILER Yamaha 115 hp, aux. power/sail combination, roomy interior. At our docks. Only $12,500.

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63' CHEOY LEE IVIS, ‘83

Classic S&S design, commissioned in

Built at Baltic Yachts' custom yard for a

Twin Cat 3208s, 2 generators, 4

1978 & consistently updated. Complete

well known yachtman, no expense

staterooms, fully enclosed pilothouse,

current race/cruise inventory. All new

spared. Incredible equipment list &

many recent updates. Hood Stoway™

elects. Most beautiful 65' afloat.

inventories. Custom features throughout

electric furling. Great long range vessel

This is an outstanding example of this

Proven Sparkman & Stephens design

Popular S&S design consistently updated

quality performance cruiser,

and quality Nautor construction,

including 9 sails, comprehensive

3 staterooms including 2 doubles,

consistently updated including new sails

electronics, all new hatches, always

many recent updates.

and refurbished decks.

maintained throughout.

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42' LA COSTE, '85

45'MULL CUSTOM,'81

Performance cruiser, 3 S/Rs, race & cruise sail inventories, major recent upgrades incl. new Yanmar, refurbished decks, canvas & electronics.

Outstanding performance cruiser, spacious teak interior including aft cabin queen S/R, 9 sails, offshore equipped, quality NZ built.

39' PEARSON CUTTER, 72 ” 38' ISLAND PACKET, '91

Center cockpit, large aft cabin, always well maintained, quality built. Ideal liveaboard or cruiser, great value.

44' HANS CHRISTIAN PH, '81

French built performance cruiser, 2 spacious staterooms with ensuite heads. Extensive sail inventory and equipment list.

28' ISLANDER, '85

44'CUSTOM YORKTOWN

This quality yacht is cruise equipped including autopilot, radar, GPS, watermaker, custom davits, cutter rigged with furling headsails & staysail.

New diesel, new generator, recent North sail inventory, strong, comfortable offshore cruiser, a tremendous value.

Built in 1S88 by her present owner, sjie has a full teak interior & all cruising amenities. Center cockpit, custom hard dodger. Ready for extensive cruising.

One of the nicest Islander 28s on the Bay! Great performance boat in excellent condition throughout.

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44' PETERSON, 76. Without teak decks. Perkins

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master slrm. DRASTICALLY REDUCED to $109,000.

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SAIL LOO BUILDER.. YR 60' SCHOONER.'95 OCEAN.'81 51' PASSPORT.‘84 56 CAMPER NICOLSON‘67 50' FORCE...73 481 MAPLE LEAF S. Cal. 72 481 CELESTIAL.'85 43' YOUNG SUN.FL78 4V MORGAN ....;. 40 c&c...:....31 39' CAVALIER...'80 39’ WESTSAIL. 39' LAPWORTH.'58 38' CATALINA...79 381 MORGANS.2 tram 37 ENDEAVOUR.79 37 IRWIN CC.'80 37 HUNTER.'88 361 SWAIN steal.37 36' CHEOY LEE clipper ketch 36' ISLANDER.'80 36 S211 METER.35 35' SANTANA.79 35' CHALLENGER.74 35' NIAGARA. 31

37' IRWIN, '80. Great liveaboord. Autopilot; radar on leveling mount. Great liveaboord and cruiser. Reduced to $59,000.

FORCE 50, 77. Main & mizzen Stowaway system, RF jib, low engine hours, washer/dryer, 2 staterooms. Asking $169,000. Also 1973 asking $129,000.

PRICE $385,000 $375,000 $275,000 $62,000 $129,000 $133,000 $139,900 $129,000 $61,500 $69,500 $75,000 $115,000 $23,000 $38,000 $56,000 $55,000 $59,000 Inquire $89,000 $29,000 $58,000 $62,000 $36,000 $33,900 $67,000

LOD BUILDER...YR 35' ERICSON.72 34' SABRE.'87 34' ERICSON.'89 34' C&C.'80 34' CATALINA.S. Cal,'90 34' HUNTER *.'86 33' TARTAN TEN.79 331 BRISTOL.'69 331 GURNEY HUISMAN . '68 33 PETERSON. 33' CHEOY LEE clipper.. 75 38 MARINER KETCH.70 32' CONTESSA..'81 38 ERICSON..:. 70 30' HUNTER.'93 30' BABA.'83 30' CAPE DORY M/S.V 36 RAWSON.'65 36 PEARSON.'80 36 RAWSON.‘61 30' ISLANDER.79 29.5'IHUNTER, loaded.'96 28' HERESHOFF.'66 26 CAL.70 26 RANGER...

PRICE $31,000 $77,777 $69,000 $41,000 $69,500 $39,800 $19,500 $26,500 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $19,999 $34,000 $18,999 $60,000 $59,000 $89,000 $26,500 $18,000 $15,000 $19,500 $64,000 $13,000 $13,000 $19,800

LOD BUILDER_YR 28 COLUMBIA.'77 28 ISLANDER.79 27 CORONADO.72 27 CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27 NORSEA.. '90 26 HAIDA...'69 25'’YAMAHA.79 POWER 56' FELLOW&STEWART '27 52' STERNWHEELER .... 83 49' HYUNDAI. 46 CHRIS CRAFT. 48 MATTHEWS. 48 CHRIS CRAFT. 36 CROWN CUSTOM .... 31' TUNGHWATrawler.. 36 TOLLYCRAFT.72 26 BAYLINER.... 27 SEA RAY. 270/290 SEA RAY....'90 24' FOUR WINNS 24' SEA RAY. 24' BAYLINER. 22' BAYLINER.'93 16 BOSTON WHALER ...'89

PRICE $12,000

$15,000 $11,900 $14,000 $59,900 $11,950 $12,500

MORGAN 38s. One asking S56K the other S69K. $59,900 $69,000 $210,000 $68,000 $55,000 $60,000 $48,500 $45,000 $26,000 $26,500 $38,000 $42,900 $17,000 $13,500 $19,500 $15,000 $17,850

Ideal cruisers. The S69K was set to go to the Baja HaHa but owner unable to go. Real nice sail inventory!

SABRE 34, 1986. The classic layout is spacious. North full batten, Harken roller furling, 150% & 110%, oversized winches. Asking $77,777.

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ISLANDER 36, 79. Diesel. New Autohelm. New

refrig. Inverter. 1979 was one the best years for Islander. New to the market.

Asking $39,900.

30' HUNTER, 1993/29' HUNTER, 1996. Both exceptionally nice boats. Both advertised in the low $60,000s.

37' ENDEAVOUR, 79. Perkins 4-108, liferoft, dodger, windvone, solar panels, SSB, Ham, CB, autopi¬

sure. Electric windlass. Roller furling. ST winches. Aulo-

lot, radar, +++.

pilot. 2 separate staterooms. Asking $55,000.

Asking $55,000.

CATALINA 3i, 1983. Complete dodger and enclo¬

42' GARDEN PORPOISE, '67. One of the original Hong Kong buih Garden Porpoises. Many recent im■ provements. Clear teak hull. Volvo Penta. Asking $75,000.

GARY MULL 45, 1981 Cruiser or PHRF racer with comfort. SF-Hawaii 12 days in 1995. Let's go again! Asking $127,000. Page 230 • UtUUt.Vi • October. 1997

PEARSON 365 KETCH, 78. Recent houlout and engine survey, Westerbeke diesel, comfortable cruiser and liveaboord, roller furling.

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30' GILLMER CUTTER. Dsl, roller reef, stays' I spinn, beautiful varnish, VHF, etc., nice.

Asking $20,000.

45’ CHRIS CRAFT CONSTELLATION. 3T60V8 Cat diesels, 7.5kw Onan, radar, etc. This vessel is in top condition & loaded! Asking $64,000.

41 SAMPSON CUTTER. Diesel, wheel, hill galley, shower, VHF, radar, pilot, etc., canister liferon, fire¬ place & more. Asking $40,000.

45 xl3.5 ALUM. IOR sloop Cadenza. Famous racer

32' TARGA Slaop. Finland built. Diesel, dodger, new large sail inventory, roller furl., teak decks, center cockpit, wheel, vane and lots more. Asking $39,500.

designed & built by Carl Eichenloub, dsl, strong, high perf. vessel. Ideal for cruising conversion. $42,000/0ifer. SAIL 64' S&S, alum sloop. Asking 380,000 62'MTRSAIL, Gardener, dsl ...225,000 50'CAMPER NICHOLSON perl, cruiser, outstanding condition. Ask 62,000 47'30 SQUARE METER Sloop.9,900 38' CHANNEL CUTTER Sip, dsl .. 22,500 34'HANS CHRISTIAN HANSA.... 84,500 34'COLUMBIA Sip, dsl, dean!... 33,000 33'RHODES WINDWARD, nice . 29,000 33TRADEWINDS M/S, teak, dsl AK/Hawaii vet.Try 19,500 32' ROYAL Cruiser, l/B, classic.. 9,500 32'WESTSAIl, dsl, dinghy, +... 39,500 31' DUFOUR sip, dsl, wheel. 26,900 31' BROWN Searunner tri, 0/B. 7,000 31 PEARSON sloop, l/B ... Ask 30,000 30’CATALINA, dsl, clean ...Ask 24,500 30' BIRD sip, rebuilt classic race 8,500 30' RAWSON cutter, dsl.13,900 30'KNARR, rare GLASS.18,500 30'NEWPORT, l/B, ready to go 11,500 30 C8.C MEGA 30 . 12,900 30’ KNARR, 0/B, good inventory. 9,900 30'SEABIRD Yawl.7,500 30'GARDEN classic dbl-end sip 10,500 29'CAE 229, very clean.17,000 28'PEARSON TRITON sip, l/B .... 7,000

28'FELLOWS S STEWART Gaff ketch, .. dsl, clean. 20,000 28'HERRESH0FE R0ZINANTE... 23,000 27'CATALINA, dsl, loaded.10,500 27’CATALINA, 9.9 hp 0/B perfect starter boot.7,400 27'NEWPORT S, l/B.12,500 26' CLIPPER Mkllw/trlr, 0/B ....2,500 24' C&C Sip, 0/B.Reduced 5,500 24 SEAFARER Sip 0.8.4,500 24'J/BOATS w/0/Bs. 5,000-6,500 22'TANZER Sip. 4,250/offer 20'CAL Sloop.:.1,200 POWER 70 IAN1AII M/Y. 149,500 65'CHARTER YACHT. 275,000/ofr 65'WHEELER M/Y, '31 . 95,000/oft 55'CLASSIC/Character. dsl.7,500 52' STERNWHEELER, Ivbrd. 76,000 46'CHRIS CONNIE, dsl, loaded 69,000 43' STEPHENS, '31, raiseddeck, tri-cabin, plumb bow, perfect, twins Ask $65,000 43’MATTHEWS F/B.35,000/offers 42’ TROJAN, loaded. 42,500 41'CHRIS CONNIE, twin V8 27,500/ofr 40 5ALMON Trwlr w/comm’l license, rebuilt 671 diesel.2,400 39'MEDITERRANEAN Sf,'92, twin dsl,

os new...Asking $185,000 39'STEPHENSSdn, '39, classic 28,500 38' LAGUNA F8 Sf, twin Cummins dsls, gen, dean, loaded.. Ask $110,000 38'CHRIS Sdn Dlx, perfect. 39,000 38'CHRIS CRAFT SF, twins.20,000 34'JEFFRIES EXPRESS, twins ....32,500 33' PACEMAKER, twins, genset... 6,500 33' CRUISERS Inc., twn, Ik new 48,500 33'CHRIS CRAR CAVALIER.5,800 32'STEPHENS, '47. sed. cruise 15,000 30'TOLLYCRAFT F/B, twins, fg 24,000 30’ COMMERCIAL, excellent gear S cond. n/srmmnmn try 45,000 30'CHRIS CAVALIER, exc cond. 17,500 28'HUNTER Sdn, nice.6,500 27'REGAL Classic 233 w/trlr... 45,000 26'CHRIS CRAFT Cutlass, twin V8.. 7,500 25'GUSTRON w/trlr. l/B, HT ... 5,250 24' OWENS Cruise, Irlr, V8 5,500/offer 24' SEA RAY w/troiler. 8,000/offer 24'BELI BUOY, I/O, nice.9,750 24' SEA RAY, exd condition....... 8,000 22’SEARAY overnighter w/trlr.. 8,500 22’FORMULA 3LS, 1/0.15,000 20'SEA RAY AMBERJACK w/trlr. 8,500 fflfSf i MORE AE OUR BOCKS tllStWHlKl

35' SPARKMAN & STEPHENS. Canoe stern sloop by Hodgdon of Maine. Dsl, 5 bags sails, fast & close winded. Asailor'ssailboat. Excellent. Asking $39,500.

38' CHRIS CRAFT CONSTELLATION. Full Delta canvas, twin 350 V8s, 6.5k genset, VHF, depth, etc. Full galley, microwave. Exclt. cond. Asking only $34,500.

47' O.D. GARDEN PORPOISE KETCH. Rare ah stateroom model. Dsl, all teak, fireplace. Good cruiser with charm. Asking $75,000.

TONDELAYO 35' LOD GARDEN KETCH by Fellows & Stewart, diesel, wheel, roller furl, VHF, pilot, depth & more.

Reduced to $20,500.

32' LOD CHANNEL CUTTER by Bud McIntosh. This beauty has all new gear from AP & full elect to watermaker & dodger. Ready to cruise now. $29,500.

47' JOHN G. ALDEN OCEAN CRUISING KETCH (Design 777-E) esel. This design is the culmination of the famous Malabar series. A unique opportunity to own a world-class cruiser. Asking $83,000.

43' STEEL DUTCH-BUILT PH ketch. Dual helm, rblt dsl, just replated & re-rigged; now finishing int. Strong cruiser by Vclentin-Zonen. Asking $79,000.

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