Sally Lindsey Palo Alto “I want a Cal 40 to cruise around the world, but I don’t want it yet. Tell Santa to wait until 1987. Externally, the boat would be basic vanilla. I want it to be nondescript so it can be left in foreign ports without attract¬ ing any attention. The topsides would be all chalky and ugly, but it would be perfect down below. “The plan is to work for a couple of mon¬ ths and go off and cruise for a couple of months. I’d leave it in Singapore, Australia and various other places. “But I’d also take a new Larry Tuttle 505 rigged exactly the way I wanted.”
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p at the North Pole, Santa has been surprised by the number of letters he has received from Bay Area sailors asking for new sailboats. What’s on the Wish list for this Christmas? Here’s a sample of what boats lo¬ cal sailors would like to find stuffed in their stocking and why.
Colin Gilboy Sausalito “I have a Cal 20 and I’d like to move up to something a little bit bigger — an Express 27 or maybe a J/27, which is a pretty similar boat.”
Peter Hogg Stinson Beach A 60-ft proa. That’s an asymmetrical tri-ijj maran with the center hull offset. Basically, it has the benefits of both the catamaran ^nd the trimaran — optimizing both. You have the main hull to step the mast. The cross¬ beams, don’t have to carry all those loads, like you do on a catamaran. I’d like mini¬ mum accommodations and maximum speed. I’d use it for racing. I’d like to act as a catalyst for a singlehanded race from San Francisco to Sydney.”
Steve Taft Alameda “I’d like a 150-ft motor yacht. Maybe that’s too big; it would be hard to get around. How about 85-ft with a helicopter on it. It doesn’t need to be a big helicopter. It should be in some warm location such as the Med or the South Pacific. It wouldn’t have any sails and wouldn’t have a telephone. It would have to have a couple, of windsurfers and a waterski boat. If I had that I think I’d be real happy. I could probably stay there permanently.”
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