VOLUME 558 December 2023
A Lively 29th Baja Ha-Ha Season Champions Part 1 The Sinking of Boat Bum Gal Max Ebb: Roll Your Own Water Trail
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CONTENTS subscriptions
6
calendar
10
letters
16
loose lips
37
sightings
38
a lively 29th baja ha-ha
48
season champions part 1
56
the sinking of boat bum gal
62
max ebb: roll your own water trail 68 racing sheet
72
world of charter
80
changes in latitudes
84
classy classifieds
94
advertisers index
104
brokerage
106
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Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica ........ext. 105 Rac ng Ed o Ch ne Wea e ch @ a ude38 com e 103 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Publisher/Editor ...................John Arndt .....................john@latitude38.com .............ext. 108 by Racor by David 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 Filter Element Publisher/Editor ...................John Arndt .....................john@latitude38.com .............ext. 108 Publisher/Editor ...................John Arndt .....................john@latitude38.com .............ext. 108 Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ............ext. 103 Pub he Ed o John A nd ohn@ a...........chris@latitude38.com ude38 com ex 108 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits 'Lectronic Latitude Editor 1.2 miles to Chase Center 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits by Racor by David John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits 1.2 miles to Chase Center Publisher/Editor ...................John Arndt .....................john@latitude38.com .............ext. 108 Rac ng Ed o Ch s ne Weave ch s@ a ude38 com ex 103 Publisher/Editor ...................John Arndt .....................john@latitude38.com .............ext. 108 Filter Element Publisher/Editor ...................John Arndt .....................john@latitude38.com .............ext. 108 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 Casual and Fine Dining Nearby Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 103 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 1.2 miles to Chase Center 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 Casual and Fine Dining Nearby John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Publisher/Editor ...................John Arndt .....................john@latitude38.com .............ext. 108 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits by Racor by Dav d 1.2 miles to Chase Center Filter Element ...................John Arndt .....................john@latitude38.com .............ext. 108 105 'Lectronic Editor Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 PubPublisher/Editor he Ed A....Monica nd ohn@ a Tibbits ude38 e Kamen, 108 Racing .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 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'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 Lec cContributing La ude o Mon ca G an mon ca@ ude38 com103 ex 105 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Paul Kamen, Lec on coEd ude Ed oTim Mon ca G an mon ca@ aude38 com eex 105 Contributing Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 103 Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 103 Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 103 ng Ed oLa Ch ne Wea ch @ as@ com Contributing Editors: Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Contributing Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, 'Lectronic Latitude ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 103 Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 103 Lec on cCon La ude Ed oEditor Mon ca G an mon ca@ aKamen, ude38 com103 ex 105 Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 103 Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 105 Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 103 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com John John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Rac ng Ed o Ch ne Wea e ch @ a ude38 com e 103 Racing Editor .......................Christine Weaver ...........chris@latitude38.com ............ext. 103 Contributing Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com bu ng Ed o T m Hen L a Ho Pau 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Rac ng EdEditor-at-Large oEditor-at-Large Ch ne Wea eContributing ch @ aRiise, ude38 com emon 103 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Rac ng Ed oEd Ch ne Wea eEd ch @ ach ude38 com eTibbits 103 Con bu ng oRoving T m Hen LLisa aRiise, Ho ch Pau Kamen Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. Lec on cEditors: La ude Ed oRiise, Mon ca G an ca@ aKamen ude38 com ex 105 Con bu ng Ed o T m Hen L a Lisa Ho ch Pau Kamen John Riise, John Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Con bu ng o s T m Hen y L sa Ho chk ss Pau Kamen John John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Reporter ..................Donna Andre 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 Lec on c La ude Ed o Mon ca G an mon ca@ a ude38 com ex 105 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 John Riise, John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits John John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre 'LectronicRoving Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Con bu ng Ed o sR T mcom Hen y...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com L sa ude38 Ho chk ssTibbits Pau Kamen Reporter ..................Donna Andre John Riise, John Richard Spindler, Ross John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com ........ext. 105 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Lec on c La ude Ed o Mon ca G an mon ca@ com e 105 'Lectronic Latitude Editor ....Monica Grant.................monica@latitude38.com 105 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits John Riise, Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin Reporter ..................Donna Andre ohn R e S o a cha d Sp nd Ro T bb John John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Reporter ..................Donna Andre Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Lec on cRoving LaRoving ude Ed o Mon ca GJohn an mon ca@ aeSkoriak, ude38 ea 105 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Kamen, John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Lec on cRoving La ude Ed o Mon ca G an mon ca@ ae ude38 com e........ext. 105 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com ohn R eEditor-at-Large ohn S o aAndre R cha dohn Sp nd Ro T bb John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Reporter ..................Donna ohn R eRiise, ohn S aHen R cha d Sp nd e..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. Ro T bb Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Con bu ng Ed oT som T mTurpin Hen y...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com sa Ho chk ss Pau Kamen Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Editor-at-Large ....................Andy ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com John John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross John RRiise, se John Sko ak R cha d Sp nd ePaul Ross TTibbits bb s Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila 102 Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, $299 99 Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Con bu ng Ed oEditors: LLisa aL Ho chk Pau Kamen Editor-at-Large Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Handles up to 1000 cu. ft. Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Short Shank Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Handles up to991000 1000 cu. ft. Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits 99 Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com John R se John Sko ak R cha d pSp nd e Ross T bb 107 s Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Short Shank Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 107 Con bu ng o T m Hen L a Ho ch Pau Kamen 99 99 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Contributing Editors: Tim Henry, Lisa Hotchkiss, Paul Kamen, Handles up to cu. ft. 99 Ed o a La And Tu p n and u na a ge@gma com Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Starting Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Con bu ng Ed o T ge m Hen LEd aR Ho ch Pau Kamen Short Shank Start ng @ Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Con bu ng Ed o T m Hen L a Ho ch Pau Kamen Handles up to 1000 cu. ft. Ed o a La ge And Tu p n and u p na ge@gma com John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits 99 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Ed o a La ge And Tu p n and u p na a ge@gma com SFilter o S a Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107com 99 Riise, Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Tibbits John se John Sko ak R cha d Sp nd e Ross T bb s John John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits 99 Roving Reporter Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre #861074 ..................Donna Andre Filter Element Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Safe for marine use. Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits John R e John Sko ak R cha d Sp nd e Ro T bb John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Ed o a La ge Andy Tu p n andy u p na a ge@gma Roving Reporter 99 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Filter Unit: List $299.99 ..................Donna Andre Element Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Safe for marine use. John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 99 John Riise, John Skoriak, Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Filter Unit: List $299.99 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Filter$12 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Safeforformarine marine use. ohn R e S o a R cha d Sp nd e Ro T Riise, John Richard Spindler, Ross Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 102 Ed o .........Soren a La ge Andy Tu pTibbits nHemmila andy u p102 na a102 ge@gma com Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre John Riise, John Richard Spindler, Ross Tibbits Filter Unit:List List$299.99 $299.99 Ro ng Repo e Donna And e EElement mFilter n Unit: Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Production Hemmila Safe use. ohn R Supervisor eEditor-at-Large ohn oSkoriak, R cha dohn Sp nd eSkoriak, RoTurpin bb Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Supervisor ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Production .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 ohn R e ohn S o..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. a.........Soren R cha d Sp nd e Ro Tubb bb Ro Repo eJohn Donna And eSupervisor 99 ....................Andy ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. Ro ng Repo ea Donna And e...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 99 99 Filters: Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Ed aSProduction La ge Andy pT nHemmila andy pana a ge@gma com Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Production Supervisor .........Soren 99 99ng Supervisor .........Soren ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Filters: 99 Ed oProduction aoProduction La ge And Tu pTu nHemmila and u p na ge@gma com109 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Production Supervisor Handles up 1000 cu. ft.Editor-at-Large Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Rov ng Repo e...........Mitch Donna And e Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com #255424: 99 99 99 Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 Handles up to to 1000 cu. ft. Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 101 Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. Filters: Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com #255424: Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 99 99 Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Supervisor .........Soren ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 e 99 Advertising Manager Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 Ed o a La ge And Tu p n and u p na a ge@gma com Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. Handles up to 1000 cu. ft. Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre P oduc on Supe o So en Hemm a o en@ a ude38 com e 102 Start ng @ Rov ng Repo e Donna And e Editor-at-Large ....................Andy Turpin ...................andyturpinatlarge@gmail.com #255424: 99 Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 Handles up to cu. ft. Ed o a La ge And Tu p n and u p na a ge@gma com Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Hand p o 1000 Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 Ed o a La ge And Tu p n and u p na a ge@gma com NOW $259 Now $69 #255424: Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Ad e ng Manage M ch Pe n m ch@ a ude38 com e 107 Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com 109 Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 99 Flares Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Ad eRoving ng Manage M......Nicki ch Pe n Bennett m ch@ a ude38 com e ............ext. 107 ............ext. Marketing Administrator Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 109 Replacement Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Reporter ..................Donna Andre 99 #82010, 10MC H gh pe o man e U e hame wood oa ng Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Rov ng Repo e Donna And e #14666 ..................Donna Andre #82010, 10MC Sales Manager .....................Nicki Sales Manager .....................Nicki .................nicki@latitude38.com 99 Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Ro ng Repo e Donna And e Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Safe for marine use. Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 R p aFilter m Unit: aList Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 99 Filter Unit: List$299.99 $299.99 Safefor for marine use. 99 RoRoving #82010, 10MC Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 PProduction oduc on Supe v..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. so So.................nicki@latitude38.com en Hemm a@ so en@ a101 ude38 com 109 ex 102 .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 109 Filter Unit: List $299.99 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre #82010 10MC Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Roving Reporter ..................Donna Andre Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila 102 Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. Bookkeeping .......................Penny ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Ro ng Repo e Donna e Safe for marine use. Production .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett ............ext. Safe marine Reporter ..................Donna Andre Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 Sa e Manage N cAnd Benne n a..........ext. ude38 e $12 Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Filter Unit: List $299.99 Sa ma n use. Reporter ..................Donna Andre ng Repo e Bookkeeping Donna eSupervisor P oduc on Supe vClayton so So en Hemm a ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. en@ acom ude38 com ex 101 102 Production .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Bookkeeping Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. Un $299 99 Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Ro Roving ng Repo eAnd Donna And een@ P oduc on Supe o .......................Penny So en Hemm a.......................Penny o aa ude38 com 102com 99 Bookkeeping Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 101 Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com 101 P oduc on Supe oSupervisor So en Hemm oc en@ aeso ude38 e ..........ext. 102 Shank Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 4-pack, #21450 Long Shank 20MC Hook Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 99 K#82011, noup de a Acu. &99 Bft. ft.9999 Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila 102 #82011, 20MC 99 9999 Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. P oduc on Supe so So en 1976. Hemm a................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. so en@ aa107 ude38 com ex 101 102 Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Bookkeeping P oduc on Supe ov...........Mitch So en Hemm a................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. ofrom en@ a @ ude38 com ex 102 Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 4Long pag SShank .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 Handles up to 1000 cu. oLong a#21450 Bookkeeping #82011, 20MC Hoo Bookkeeping Penn C a on penn ude38 com ex 101 99 .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 107 Handles to 1000 #82011 20MC #255424: Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins ................mitch@latitude38.com...........ext. 99 Advertising Manager ...........Mitch Perkins 107 Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 #255424: Production Supervisor .........Soren Hemmila ..............soren@latitude38.com...........ext. 102 Founded Published 1977-2016 by Richard Spindler. Advertising Manager Perkins 107 Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Sales Manager .....................Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Sa es Manage N ck Benne n ck @ a ude38 com ex 109 Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 Marketing Administrator ......Nicki Bennett .................nicki@latitude38.com ............ext. 109 P oduc on Supe o So en Hemm a o en@ a ude38 com e 102 Founded 1976. Published from 1977-2016 by Richard Spindler. Bookkeeping .......................Penny Clayton ...............penny@latitude38.com ..........ext. 101 Handles up to 1000 cu. ft. 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W W W. R U B I C O N YAC H TS .C O M
R U B I C O N Y A C H T S EMERY COVE • ALAMEDA • SAN RAFAEL
(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020CRUISING - $115,000YACHTS ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347 FEATURED
55’ Waterline Pilothouse Cutter, 2000
$495,000
48’ Tayana Center Cockpit Cutter, 2018
$599,000
Thoughtfully designed and beautifully finished inside and out, the Aqua Lodge features fiberglass pontoons, a wood-beamed lofted ceiling, a fully appointed galley, and a full bath with residential-sized fixtures. The main salon is open and bright, while the master stateroom features a panoramic water view and a private deck. With the cost of building on the waterfront ever increasing, the Aqua Lodge is an affordable alternative. We currently have three (3) identical Floating Cottages available at $115,000. each. These are new houseboats that have never been used. With the acquisition of all three one could start a unique Air B&B type business in a nice location. NOTE: There is no propulsion included. An outboard engine could be installed on the bracket but, these boats are not equipped with any propulsion. They would need to be towed or trucked to their destination.
33’ Mason 33, 1985
RUBICON YACHTS
EMERY COVE • 3300 POWELL ST, #105 • EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 • (510) 601-5010 ALAMEDA • 1150 BALLENA BLVD., SUITE 121 • ALAMEDA, CA 94501 • (510) 838-1800 EMERY COVE 3300 POWELL STREET, SUITE 105 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 (510) 601-5010 SAN RAFAEL • 25 THIRD STREET • SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 • (415) 453-4770 ALAMEDA 1150 BALLENA BLVD., SUITE 121, ALAMEDA, CA 94501 (510) 838-1800 San Rafael 25 Third Street San Rafael, CA 94901 (415) 453-4770
$74,000
W W W. R U B I C O N YAC H TS .C O M
R U B I C O N Y A C H T S EMERY COVE • ALAMEDA • SAN RAFAEL
(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020 - $115,000 ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347
67’ Devenport Challenge 67, 1992 $199,000 San Rafael (415) 235-7447
64’ Bruce Roberts Ketch, 2000 $220,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
55’ Waterline Steel Pilothouse, 2000 $495000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
48’ C&C Landfall, 1982 $144,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
45’ Hunter Deck Salon, 2008 $224,000 Newport Beach (949) 386-6149
42’ Contest Ketch, 1982 $49,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
40’ Elan 40, 2004 $120,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
38’ Norman Cross Trimaran, 1991 $44,000 San Rafael (415) 453-4770
36’ Freedom 36 $49,500 San Rafael (415) 453-4770
Thoughtfully designed and beautifully finished inside and out, the Aqua Lodge features fiberglass pontoons, a wood-beamed lofted ceiling, a fully appointed galley, and a full bath with residential-sized fixtures. The main salon is open and bright, while the master stateroom features a panoramic water view and a private deck. With the cost of building on the waterfront ever increasing, the Aqua Lodge is an affordable alternative. We currently have three (3) identical Floating Cottages available at $115,000. each. These are new houseboats that have never been used. With the acquisition of all three one could start a unique Air B&B type business in a nice location. NOTE: There is no propulsion An outboard engine32’ could be installed are not equipped any 33’ Pearson Vanguard, included. 1966 Fuji 32, 1976on the bracket but, these boats 32’ Beneteau 321,with 2000 $30,000 propulsion. They would need to be towed or trucked to their destination. $27,500 $85,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
RUBICON YACHTS San Francisco (415) 867-8056
Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
EMERY COVE • 3300 POWELL ST, #105 • EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 • (510) 601-5010 ALAMEDA • 1150 BALLENA BLVD., SUITE 121 • ALAMEDA, CA 94501 • (510) 838-1800 3300 POWELL STREET, SUITE 105 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 (510) 601-5010 EMERY SAN COVE RAFAEL • 25 THIRD STREET • SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 • (415) 453-4770 ALAMEDA 1150 BALLENA BLVD., SUITE 121, ALAMEDA, CA 94501 (510) 838-1800 San Rafael 25 Third Street San Rafael, CA 94901 (415) 453-4770
W W W. R U B I C O N YAC H TS .C O M
R U B I C O N Y A C H T S EMERY COVE • ALAMEDA • SAN RAFAEL
(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020 - $115,000 ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347
53’ Bruce Roberts Pilothouse, 2002 $99,900 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
48’ Roger Hill Cutter, 2000 $449,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
48’ Tayana Center Cockpit Cutter, 2018 $599,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
42’ Tayana Center Cockpit, 1990 $115,000 San Rafael (415) 453-4770
40’ Norseman 400, 1987 $149,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
40’ Salar 40, 1975 $115,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
35’ Freedom 35, 1995 $119,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
34’ Beneteau 343, 2006 $109,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
33’ Mason 33, 1985 $74,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010
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Midwinter Series BENICIA YC — Frostbite Series: 12/9, 1/13, 2/10 (Sweethearts Race), 3/9. Steve, beniciayachtclubracing@gmail.com. BERKELEY YC — Separate Saturday & Sunday Midwinter Series: 12/9-10, 1/13-1/14, 2/10-11; Champion of Champions: 2/25. Chowder Series: Every Sunday through March except when it conflicts with the Midwinters. Info, www. berkeleyyc.org or www.jibeset.net. CAL SAILING CLUB — Year-round Sunday morning dinghy races, intraclub only. Info, www.cal-sailing.org. CORINTHIAN YC — Midwinters: 1/20-21, 2/17-18. Info, www.cyc.org. COYOTE POINT YC — Winter Races: 1/14, 1/28, 2/11, 2/25, 3/10, 3/24. Info, www.cpyc.com. ENCINAL YC — Jack Frost Series: 12/2, 1/6, 2/3, 3/2 (makeup). Info, www.encinal.org or www.jibeset.net. GOLDEN GATE YC — Seaweed Soup Regatta: 12/2, 1/6, 2/3, 3/2. Info, www.ggyc.org or www.jibeset.net. ISLAND YC — Island Days: 12/10, 1/14, 2/11, 3/10. Info, www.iyc.org or www.jibeset.net. KONOCTI BAY SC — OSIRs (Old Salts in Retirement) every Wednesday, year round. Info, www.kbsail.org. LAKE MERRITT SC — Robinson Memorial Midwinters: 12/9, 1/14, 2/10, 3/10. Denis, (707) 338-6955. MONTEREY PENINSULA YC — Perry Cup for Mercurys: 12/2, 1/6, 2/3. Info, www.mercury-sail.com. OAKLAND YC — Sunday Brunch Series: 1/7, 1/21, 2/4, 2/18, 3/3, 3/17, 4/7. Info, www.oaklandyachtclub.net. RICHMOND YC — Small Boat Midwinters: 12/3, 1/7, 2/4, 3/3. Info, www.richmondyc.org. SANTA CRUZ YC — Midwinter Series: 12/16, 1/20, 2/17, 3/16. Info, www.scyc.org. SAUSALITO YC — Chili Midwinter Series: 12/3, 1/7, 2/4, 3/3. RegattaPRO Winter One Design: 12/9, 1/13, 2/10. Info, www.sausalitoyachtclub.org. SEQUOIA YC — Winter Series: 12/2, 1/6, 2/3, 3/2. Redwood Cup pursuit race series: 12/16, 1/20, 2/10, 3/16. Info, www.sequoiayc.org or www.jibeset.net. SOUTH BEACH YC — Midwinters: 12/16, 1/20, 2/17, 3/17. Info, www.southbeachyachtclub.org. TIBURON YC — Bob & Esther Mott Midwinters: 2/11, 3/10. Info, www.tyc.org or www.jibeset.net. VALLEJO YC — Tiny Robbins Midwinters: 12/2, 1/6, 2/3, 3/2. Info, www.vyc.org or www.jibeset.net.
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time/ht. HIGH 0410/4.7 0458/4.7 LOW 0147/2.3 0228/2.6 HIGH 0252/4.9 0339/5.0 LOW 0132/2.3 0225/2.8 0317/3.0 HIGH 0238/4.8 0313/4.8 0344/4.8
time/ht. LOW 0840/3.5 0955/3.4 HIGH 0819/5.9 0850/6.2 LOW 0708/3.3 0817/3.1 HIGH 0805/6.6 0846/6.7 0926/6.7 LOW 0709/3.2 0800/3.1 0858/2.9
time/ht. HIGH 1354/5.2 1449/4.7 LOW 1510/0.2 1546/-0.3 HIGH 1307/6.2 1406/5.7 LOW 1507/-0.5 1552/-0.9 1634/-1.0 HIGH 1244/5.6 1326/5.2 1413/4.6
December Weekend Currents
time/ht. LOW 2106/0.0 2157/0.4 HIGH 2200/4.2 2253/4.4 LOW 2007/-1.0 2058/-0.6 HIGH 2207/4.5 2304/4.7 2354/4.9 LOW 1943/-0.3 2017/0.1 2054/0.6
NOAA Predictions for .88 NM NE of the Golden Gate Bridge date/day slack max slack max 12/02Sat 0200/2.5F 0548 0748/0.9E 1012 1254/1.5F 1548 1854/1.5E 2248 12/03Sun 0248/2.3F 0636 0836/0.9E 1112 1348/1.3F 1654 1948/1.3E 2336 12/09Sat 0030/0.6E 0248 0630/2.1F 0942 1230/1.7E 1642 2006/1.8F 2342 12/10Sun 0124/0.6E 0336 0712/2.2F 1012 1306/1.9E 1718 2048/2.0F 12/16Sat 0024/2.8F 0430 0624/0.9E 0842 1148/2.1F 1430 1742/2.4E 2136 12/17Sun 0112/2.9F 0518 0718/1.0E 0942 1248/2.0F 1530 1842/2.2E 2230 12/23Sat 0018/0.9E 0254 0618/2.6F 0936 1230/2.1E 1648 2000/2.5F 2324 12/24Sun 0124/0.9E 0348 0712/2.6F 1018 1318/2.1E 1736 2054/2.7F 12/25Mon 0018 0224/1.0E 0442 0800/2.6F 1100 1400/2.2E 1824 2142/2.8F 12/30Sat 0036/2.7F 0418 0630/1.1E 0854 1142/1.9F 1436 1742/1.8E 2136 12/31Sun 0112/2.6F 0506 0706/1.0E 0936 1230/1.7F 1524 1830/1.6E 2206 1/01Mon 0142/2.3F 0536 0742/1.0E 1030 1318/1.4F 1624 1918/1.3E 2230 Source: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
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LETTERS ⇑⇓ As heard on the Webb Google alerts me at no charge when my name appears on the internet. It's not completely accurate, but for free, I am not going to complain. I got two alerts. One showed a heading: "First Man To Give Birth." Naturally, I was surprised. My memory is not as good as once it was, but surely I would have remembered that. I clicked on the link and inexplicably found photos from my website interspersed with an absurd article. Almost instantly, I received warnings about possible malware threats, and will not share this amusement with you. The other was the Letters section of the most recent issue [October 2022] of Latitude 38. The letters were in response to the article in their [August 31, 2022] 'Lectronic Latitude about me, which I have written about here before. The article was about what I am to do after leading an epic life. One of the letters suggested that I take up farming. Now I am glad there are farmers. We all should be or we would be spending most of our lives hunting and gathering for ourselves, and with my eyesight, hunting is not likely to be productive. However, to suggest that I turn from sailing to farming perhaps reflects a lack of understanding of Webb Chiles. Some know my name. Some have even read my words. But few give me more than a passing thought. So this man sailed for a while and then became a farmer. I suggest that perhaps sailing was and is a more essential part of my life than it was of his. I take people who claim to be sailors at face value until proven otherwise, as often happens with unseemly celerity. I have never said I am giving up sailing.
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I have said that the second part of my life which I have called 'being' ended with my reaching San Diego at the end of my sixth circumnavigation, and this, the third part, is 'dying'. Now three years on, I think I may have been mistaken. I have made little progress toward dying. I wrote on the very first passage of Gannet's circumnavigation, "Use yourself up, old man. Use yourself up." I don't seem to be deteriorating very rapidly. Maybe I am not used up. I miss the monastery of the sea. I am uncertain how to re-enter it without a destination or a belief in meaning. I am tying to understand. Maybe this is not 'dying', but 'being.2'. I am not going to become a farmer. It has taken me two hours to write this. I started with a small glass of Laphroaig at hand. The glass is empty and
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LETTERS my throat is dry. I am writing at my seat by the bedroom window. Only a few lights in the marina reflecting on Skull Creek. I think I deserve to refill my glass. L'Chaim. Webb Chiles Hilton Head, South Carolina This letter was copied and pasted from Webb Chiles' website, www.inthepresentsea.com. Webb — It was great to hear from you last year, and then again recently after a short film about you was published online. (Check out the October 4 'Lectronic Latitude: A Short Film About Webb Chiles, With a Few Corrections, to see that video.) We trust that all is well with you? Latitude — I am in Hilton Head which is mostly wonderful, but too damn hot in the summer. Usually that extreme combination of heat and humidity breaks this month [in September] and maybe it has. Almost 6 p.m. here and I'm on our screened porch sipping a martini — 80F. A breeze. And the overhead fan on. It is totally quiet except for some wavelets slopping at the shore of Skull Creek maybe 20 yards away and three stories down and quite pleasant. I will be here until about March 1 next year. Carol retires that month, so I will fly back and help her close down her apartment and ride with her back here, leaving the Midwest, where I was born and never belonged, perhaps behind for the last time. I am remarkably well for a soon-to-be 82 year old, other than my blindness in one eye and my skin being a garden for skin cancer. I have a growth to be removed next Monday. One of my lines is that life is the process of turning baby smooth skin into scar tissue. I have not had baby smooth skin for almost 80 years and soon may have nothing but scar tissue. Those who regularly read my online journal know that I am well into my third five-year plan. The first culminated on November 2, 1974, when I pushed Egregious away from her slip at San Diego's Harbor Island Marina for my first attempt at Cape Horn. The second, around Memorial Day 2001, when Carol and I sailed from Boston to continue my exceedingly slow fourth circumnavigation. Both those were about getting the money together. My third is not. When I turned 80, I decided that if time and chance have not killed or diminished me too much, when I am 85 I will embark on another endeavor. One might ask why wait. One reason is to enjoy the present for a few years with Carol and surrounded by the beauty amidst I live here. Another is that if I did what I plan and succeed, I would be faced with the same problem I have found since completing my sixth circumnavigation: I would be without a goal, and I need a goal. I have told only Carol and a couple of close personal friends what I plan. I think Carol secretly hopes I become just enough diminished not to be able to make the attempt. I will not say more because time and chance may not permit it, and because I like to talk not about what I may do, but about what I am doing or have done Webb Chiles ⇑⇓ tWo hurricAnes in MeXico WreAked hAvoc in october, And rAise A feW eXistentiAl Questions La Paz was hit hard by Hurricane Norma. It was the waves that had a greater effect than the winds, which were sustained in the 40s for many hours and gusted to the high 50s. There was tons of rain, too.
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⇑⇓ insult to injury As a cruiser (2018 Baja Ha-Ha), thinking of Norma's damage makes two concerns worse: finding slips and summer storage in the Sea of Cortez, and rising boat insurance rates in Mexico. Our heart goes out to all of those impacted. Laura Bridle Swartz ⇑⇓ speaking of past hurricanes … And who can forget Hurricane Odile in 2014? That Cat 5 blasted Cabo and La Paz. If Norma had been that big, the damage would have been much worse. El Jay Jay — I do remember Odile. We were on the hard in Marina San Carlos across the Sea, and there was lots of destruction in the La Paz area. I agree with the comments that being at anchor there in a hurricane, or even a lesser blow, is an invitation to disaster. Conni Livsey ⇑⇓ Speaking of a future hurricane … Yesterday [in late-October], a Fox News posting about Norma said the following: "Meanwhile, a second tropical disturbance further south continues to show signs of development in what could eventually form a one-two punch to the Mexican coast, with a high chance of becoming a tropical depression in the next seven days." Has anyone heard more about this second tropical depression which if true could affect the Baja Ha-Ha boats? Jim Immer ⇑⇓ hurricane OTIS Devastated the Acapulco Waterfront The extremely rapid intensification of Hurricane Otis (winds increasing over 110 mph in 24 hours) far surpassed any tropical storm event ever experienced in Mexico. As a comparison, the standard definition of rapid intensification is wind speeds increasing by 35 mph in 24 hours.
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I lived aboard her for the first seven years. The old gasoline motor didn't run, and I didn't know much about motors at the time. With coaching from Peter at Peninsula Marine Services, I rebuilt the motor in my mother's garage. Much to the surprise of friends, the night I installed it, the old motor started right up and ran great, providing several more years of service until Joann loaned me the money to purchase a new diesel. Now, it was time to learn how to sail a 35-ft boat. Motoring turned out to be more difficult than sailing! One of the journeyman electricians I was working with, Steve Goldie, said he knew how to sail and would be happy to go out with Joann and I; it turns out Steve had sailed once before, but he knew what lines to pull, and pretty much knew what he was doing. Mostly, Joann and I learned by trial and error — mostly error, lots and lots of errors. We never had any lesson
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except the one from my journeyman Steve Goldie. Peter from Peninsula Marine Services told me that my job rebuilding the motor, which included learning how to fiberglass, was the best "homeowner installation" he had ever seen. He asked if I was interested in installing anther motor for a customer of his. That led to my first business: Phil MacFarlane Marine Services. I installed nine motors, several transmissions, many fuel systems and lots of boat electrical work. Mostly all through Peter's referrals. I made so many friends through sailing Sail a Vie. Bob Tracey got me into racing. John Roemer hired me to help him out at his radiant heating/plumbing business, but more importantly, taught me how to run a successful small-contracting business. He eventually made me his business partner, and later signed for me to get my electrical contracting state license. My first time ever in the ocean was with Bob in the 1993 Doublehanded Farallones Race. My first time ever on the ocean overnight was singlehanded in the 1999 Singlehanded LongPac race, a 400-mile course out the Golden Gate to a point well offshore. My first time ever in Mexico was when Joann and I sailed to La Paz from Redwood City — just the two of us with no autopilot, in1999.My first time ever to Hawaii was when I raced there in the 2000 Singlehanded Transpacific Race, again with no electric autopilot, just a windvane steering system. Owning Sail a Vie is a story of good people helping me, teaching me and giving me a chance. Not only is she a great boat, but she has made my life through all these relationships and adventures who I am. If I had lost her, I could not replace her. For a while, when I started seeing the first videos come out of La Paz, I was pretty sure I had lost her. The thing I felt most emotional about was that I had left her alone and in harm's way. I had let her down and she had been lost because of my failure to protect her. I am wiping away tears and blowing my nose as I write this. I know it may sound silly to some that I could be so emotional about a non-living object, but as I have explained, she is a living part of my life. Who would I be if I never found her? Experiences and relationships that only came from owning her have made my life what it has been, and made me who I am. So to further this line of thought I again express my great gratitude to all of you who have helped me over the years, taught me what I know, and appreciated how I feel about a silly 52-year-old plastic boat. Much love to you all. Thank you. Phil MacFarlane Sail a Vie, Ericson 35 Mk II Sea of Cortez ⇑⇓ BOn VOYaGe to the 29th bAjA hA-hA The Baja Ha-Ha is one of my wonderful memories sailing with my friends on S/Y Solar Planet from San Francisco all the way to Puerto Vallarta. I thank We bid farewell to cruisers heading south Richard of Latitude 38 for with the Baja Ha-Ha. putting on such a great venue. I have required myself to do it one more time after having sailed all over the world for over
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⇑⇓ The Loss of the Schooner Raindancer I just got back from Lunenburg [Nova Scotia, Canada] with my spouse, whose family owned Raindancer before the last owners. I have some great photos of the boat and a great story of it navigating around a hurricane in the Atlantic. I can imagine how great this boat must have been. Douglas Shepherd Douglas was commenting on the March 2013 'Lectronic with the same name as this letter. ⇑⇓ should we be worried about spade rudders? Reading about Lucky Dog's dilemma in Latitude 38
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LETTERS brought up the core reason why she was almost abandoned in the first place: the loss of her spade rudder. OK, this will rile most of the sailing community, but it's time someone piped up about unsupported spade rudders. Yes, they're cheaper to build and great for around-the-buoys racing. They're faster, can turn on a dime, and maneuver easily in reverse. But when it comes to bluewater cruising, spade rudders (without a proper skeg) are devil spawn waiting for the next basking whale, log, or drifting ship container to ruin your day. I say this from decades of deep-salt experience, much of it singlehanding my Falmouth Cutter 22 (sail# 001). So, I know there are going to be times when your best attempt at deck watch is often less than adequate. Crewed or not. Day or night. Fair or foul. Shit happens. It's bad enough that a typical fin-keel, spaderudder hull aperture has minimal protection to keep the now fully exposed prop from getting ensnarled in fishing lines and nets. I would imagine many of these skippers eventually become fairly adept at clearing We're reprinting this photo of the this particular problem. Catalina 470 'Lucky Dog', which lost Though at night in a seaits rudder in the spring, then replaced way, watch out. it with the appendage seen above. Propeller snarls are one Reader Mike Latta brought up an old debate about the safety of spade thing, however. When a multirudders on bluewater cruising boats. ton boat slams into one of the above-mentioned multi-ton floating objects, the spade rudder not only loses out, but often takes a big chunk of the fiberglass bottom with it. I spent a dozen years wandering the Sea of Cortez and Mexican Riviera and heard of two near-sinkings from fully crewed boats hitting whales minding their own business. And both yachts had spade rudders. All my boats, starting with a wood Tahiti ketch, have been full-keeled, barn-door-rudder cruisers designed by the likes of Atkins, Alberg, and Hess. I might have reached Hiva Oa a few days later than some back in '84, but who cares? We got there without a qualm in our wooden Atkins sloop despite having to trail warps for a night and day during Hurricane Simon along the way. Ultimately, it was a fabulous and safe crossing. A great experience. However, I wouldn't have dared do it aboard today's typical fin-keeled, spade-rudder boat. I'd be interested if anyone has researched this conundrum. Or is this just my experience? Mike Latta Narwhal, 22-ft Falmouth Channel Cutter Latitude Nation ⇑⇓ spAde rudders Are fine. it's the MAteriAls you need to be concerned About I have owned, sailed and designed many dozens of boats, each with two spade rudders. Typically they are protected by some type of fixed fin so are not the deepest part of the boat. Over 30 years and more than a million sailing miles, I only know of two problems, both caused by rocks. These rudders typically use solid shafts made from Aquamet (prop shaft alloy) or titanium and sometimes carbon. All will take a very
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LETTERS healthy impact. Rudders that are the deepest part and use stainless steel pipe with weldments for a post are the most vulnerable ones. A spade rudder can be the best solution if done well. Don't rule it out. Chris White Atlantic 57 Catamaran ⇑⇓ this COnversation again? I thought this was settled 30 years ago. Spades, properly built, are fine. Any rudder poorly built is terrible. Schooner Mayan Our Cal 40 never had an issue.
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I remember a spade rudder being put on a Kettenburg 40 in the early '60s, which tremendously improved the boat's downwind performance and did nothing to hurt it upwind. After all these years of successful use, what is there to discuss? John Foy
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⇑⇓ There is no "right" answer I have sailed many bluewater miles with almost all of the different configurations. I happen to prefer a balance (19% ±) and a tiller controlling a carbon spade rudder. Why? I like the "feel" of the boat, its balance, trim, and when off the wind, the nuanced control when catching a wave and hooting. The reason I like it so much is because I have experienced the opposite, or very little control. I remember trying to sail downwind on an Alden 65 and it felt like driving a VW bus with four flat tires. The keel-supported rudder was almost like having no rudder at all. The actual sailing experience was diminished and less enjoyable. If you like the feel of a sailboat, then get the rudder that allows you that visceral experience. If you want a sail-driven transport vessel and care less about the feel of the boat, then hang a barn door off the keel or skeg and forget about it. A full-keel rudder might offer more proSpade rudders come tection from floating detritus, but there's in various ways: Proa trade-off: you lose a little speed and duction-boat spade rudoff-the-wind performance. ders are usually heavy, poorly made, subject to failure due to poor welds and asymmetrical, and have poor bearings. Well-built carbon rudders can take a beating. My carbon rudder was designed to be as strong as a solid stainless steel shaft! And it weighed 25 pounds as opposed to 250 pounds. So there is no right answer. It all depends on what kind of sailing experience you want. I hit a whale doing 14 knots on an Express 27 — the whale's tail hit the rudder and knocked me flat, then I got covered with all this stinky chum out of the blowhole (so I know it was a whale). We kept the kite up
LETTERS and looked around for damage — nothing — so kept sailing. But I lost a stock rudder with a stainless-steel shaft because it snapped at a weld point that was under water. Apparently when you weld stainless, you can evaporate the chromium and you no longer have stainless steel, and that is exactly where it broke. There is simply no right answer. Jonathan Livingston S/V Punk Dolphin, Wylie 38 Latitude Nation
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Jonathan — You make several very good points as to the quality and strength of a well-designed and built spade rudder. However, as you mention, not all (90%?) of these rudders are built today to your great specs. And there lies my point: unless there’s a strong skeg forward of a spade rudder that can take the brunt of a heavy collision, most of them will not only bend, but maybe take a chunk of hull with it. Ouch. Mike Latta ⇑⇓ lots of choices, lots of pluses And Minuses As a longtime sailor, and engineer, I have owned/sailed mostly fin-keel, spade-rudder racing sailboats. I love the responsiveness of a spade rudder, and it was certainly part of the equation for most racing boats. I now own — and have been cruising for three years — a 36-ft Ted Brewer -designed moderate displacement, cutaway forefoot with skegged rudder that includes an aperture for the prop. It is ideal for cruising anywhere there are fishing longlines and/or lobster traps, which are certainly encountered much more often than hitting whales — but in that rare instance, I like my chances better with this set up as well. As it turns Keels and rudders can get as exposed and/ or out, my partner and duplicated as you want. Is this Pogo 40 more I just sailed up from vulnerable to collisions and entanglements Puerto Vallarta to with fishing gear than a sailboat with a full Mazatlan, and we had keel? Are the trade-offs worth it? the "good" fortune to come across an epic longline early the second morning. We decided to motorsail parallel to the longline to try and find the end. We finally gave up after four miles and just sailed over it. The bottom line is that I like my racing boats with long spade rudders and keels, and my cruising boats with skegged rudders — plus the prop in an aperture. There is no wrong answer, just lots of choices with pluses/minuses, and must admit I felt a little bit envious of the guy cruising a Pogo 40 we met here in Mexico. Joseph Howard DiMatteo ⇑⇓ spAde rudders And the gibrAltAr orcAs While making a passage to Hawaii in 2004 on our Dreadnought 32 — a shakedown cruise for our planned four-year cruise two years in the future — we encountered a pod of about seven or eight orcas mid-Pacific. We were headed west and they, about 200 yards south of us, were
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LETTERS intently headed East. As we passed each other, one of the orcas peeled off and swam over and started trailing us beneath the surface about 30 feet behind. One of the items that we were testing was a pendulum servo steering system of my design that had aft swept F/G servo blade. At the time I wondered, "Was this a tempting appendage attracting attention?" With the recent attacks on spade rudders, these "fins" might excite the orcas. Happily, our orca didn't attack us and instead peeled off and rejoined its pod. Tom Carr
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⇑⇓ shockingly shAlloW This is great information, very much appreciated! Hitting a shallow spot of ~2.8 feet on a 1.4-ft tide is worse than I thought. A 4-ft high tide would be only 5.4 feet deep in the shallow spot of the channel, and one could walk across the channel on a negative tide if they were willing to get their shoes wet. It's a lovely spot. I wonder if there is a prospect of getting a little dredge action there. Makana Seriously, that is a very cool video, and helpful. Really hope we can get some dredging in there sometime soon. Dan Ancona Page 32 • Latitude 38 • December, 2023
LETTERS formerly Kappas Marina Dan and Makana — According to the Treasure Island Devlopment Authority (TIDA), there are plans to dredge Clipper Cove in the next few years. ⇑⇓ We're reprinting this letter froM lAst Month coMMenting on donAld lAng's neAr yeAr At seA I am puzzled by "348 days, about 16,000 miles nonstop." I'm not judging, just curious about the intent of nearly a year nonstop averaging just under two knots. [Lang had said he "slowed the boat to three knots and the schools of fish stay with me for weeks at that speed."] Again, seriously not judging, but what fraction of the time were sails up? What was the lat/lon extent of the round-trip track? I'm glad he had fun. Rick Drain Rick was commenting on the October 2 'Lectronic: Donald Lang and Ishi Return to Port Safely After 348 Days at Sea.
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We are happy your master plan is "considering maintaining and enhancing a boater-friendly atmosphere," however, this master plan statement needs to say: "Considering maintaining and enhancing a boater-friendly atmosphere by installing an accessible sailboat launch facility." Small-boat sailing is enjoyed by all ages, including the diasabled community, and is a great learning experience for our young children. Again, more than 40% of your Port's fiscal yearly revenues come from San Luis Obispo County property taxes. The Port's master plan needs to include these monies, plus additional grants, in a way to equally spread costs across customer-serving facilities to include the small-sailboat launch facility along with maintaining and improving the existing fishing boat launches. Note: The sailboat launch facility could also double as a small public-boat launch as well. Doug Morris Local Sailor, Architect, and Retired SLO County Assistant Building Official ⇑⇓ i'M surprised thAt Anchoring hAs ever been AlloWed in sAntA bArbArA Sixty-three years ago, I worked for the Santa Barbara County Department of Public Works engineering and design department. That was when we designed the first storm water discharge pipeline in the area of the anchorage to be abandoned. Since then, more infrastructure has been installed, and it's obviously necessary to prohibit anchorage in that zone. I'm surprised that its ever been allowed. Denis Hazlewood Lake Merritt ⇑⇓ Who is MAking the cAse? Are any of the decision makers in Santa Barbara boaters? Perhaps Santa Barbara Yacht Club could educate our elected officials to anchor-out's viewpoints? Ken Brinkley
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SIGHTINGS around the world at latitude 38 The crew of Cetacea, a 30-ft electric Baba 30 cutter, made an amazing (although obvious, in hindsight) discovery between Bermuda and the Azores: The 38th parallel is totally awesome for sailing all over the world! My partner Dena and I — I'm James — started living aboard Cetacea in her home port in Orcas Island, Washington, in 1999. We wasted no time heading south, and spent five years happily sailing the San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento River Delta, and the coast as far south as Monterey in the early 2000s. When we left for Hawaii in October/November 2006, we didn't spend a whole lot of time at 38° N. We went out to the Farallones and took a left-ish turn until we hit the trades. All the weather pushes you to Hawaii, and that's where we ended up 20 days later, at latitude 18° N. It was hot, the sun was intense, and we ultimately discovered we were about 20-degrees of latitude out of our comfort zone. The Northern Hemisphere's 38th parallel is a Goldilocks zone for older sailing dudes like myself who don't want to be cold, but lack the proper amount of melanin for sailing in an open cockpit closer to the equator without our local star causing epidermal damage. Besides, latitude 38° N gets the kind of sun and rain that encourages delicious fruits, veggies, fishes and little critters to support various communities James Lane, right, and Dena at latitude 38 in the around the globe. Azores in September. We had just completed a miserable winter and spring too far south in the Florida 20°s, while jettisoning our old 20hp Yanmar 3GM diesel in favor of a 10kW Electric Yacht QuietTorque motor. The project was made painful by the late-spring heat, and it was promising to be a terrifyingly hot summer. Garbed in lightweight but still sweaty long-sleeved shirts and long-flowing pants, we bolted for better circumstances and arrived in Bermuda, situated very nicely on latitude 32° N, after 13 days of sailing. Better, but not quite there. We left Bermuda, bolted up to latitude 38° N, and took a right on our favorite parallel. On leg two of our global circumnavigation, we spent 29 days sailing to Ilha do Faial in the Azores archipelago. It was, of course, like all offshore adventures, absolutely incredible in every way imaginable, and an opportunity to muse on what exactly we liked so much about where we were and where we wanted to be in the world. We chose the longer lubber-line route along latitude 38° because we were hoping for some of that West Coast 38° N consistency just above the Azores High. What we did get was changeable, like January in Raccoon Strait: no more than two days of steady weather for almost the entire 29-day passage. When the weather did steady up, a stiff nor'easter directly on the bow made it take almost 72 hours for the last 175 miles. But hey, the island peaks were beautiful, I wasn't cold, I wasn't hot, and sun wasn't torturing me. On the Atlantic Seaboard, where we've traveled the past 12 years, 38° N passes right above Smith Island in Tangiers Sound, then crashes into Crisfield, "The Seafood Capital of the World," on Maryland's eastern shore. It then continues offshore just north of Chincoteague, Virginia. The sailing between Smith Island and the eastern shore of Mayland is almost perfect year round. In the Azores, latitude 38° N passes right between the islands of Pico and São Miguel, about 15 miles from where we're anchored right now on Ilha de São Jorge. It feels like a beautiful sailing day under the Golden Gate in September. From the Azores, 38° N kisses the European landmass in the Setubal District of Portugal (where we plan to go next) and doesn't hit the Mediterranean until the eastern Andalusian coast. From there, latitude 38° N is jam-packed with world-renowned cruising continued on outside column of next sightings page Page 38 • Latitude 38 • December, 2023
it's trophy season! Hey, Latitude 38 won an award! Well, I did — John Arndt here, Latitude's publisher — and it feels a bit awkward to write about myself. I was completely surprised and honored to discover that I had received the 2023 Pacific Interclub Yachting Association's Douglas Boswell Perpetual Yachtsman of the Year Trophy. The fall is the traditional time of year for yacht clubs and organizations like the YRA, PICYA and US Sailing to hand out awards for success on the water, and to recognize the many volunteers and groups who work to support sailing. With so many people contributing so much to sailing, it's a daunting task for those in charge to make their choices.
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As described in the PICYA Yachting Yearbook, the trophy recognizes a person for outstanding, distinguished service to yachting. What the heck? Me? I wondered why and was fortunate to find out when I attended the PICYA awards banquet at Oakland Yacht Club in Alameda. Bill Gargan, VP for RBOC (Recreational Boaters of California), explained that the honor was for my efforts to promote sailing, in all its forms, with Summer Sailstice. As I hope all Latitude 38 readers know, Summer Sailstice is a celebration of sailing held annually on the weekend closest to the summer solstice. It's one day a year for all boats to hoist sails 'together', wherever they are,
grounds like Marettimo and the Strait of Messina. Reggio Calabria is a welcome bolthole and one of the most beautiful cities you could ever imagine approaching from the sea. From Italy, 38° N takes off through the Aegean Sea, and yes, there are so many great sailing adventures written and retold about this incredible part of the world that it is best you just sail there and see it all for yourself. The winds are steady throughout the year and the water is so clear and blue that it almost hurts to look at! Latitude 38° N passes right through the northern suburbs of Athens (Greece, not Georgia), and then just north of Andros, the northernmost island in the Greek Cyclades Archipelago. I have it on good authority that Andros is a must for anchoring people like us, so we're definitely pointing the boat in that direction. My favorite global parallel doesn't make landfall again until Izmir, Turkey, before taking off through the Asian continent, which doesn't really concern cruising sailors like us. Yeah sure, it splashes into the Caspian Sea for a little while and then goes through some truly amazing parts of
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Clockwise from top left: The Baba 30 cutter 'Cetacea' sits at anchor a ways below latitude 38° in Vero Beach, Florida; 'Cetacea' (center, second boat from top) at anchor in Horta, Ilha Faial (Faial Island), Azores, Portugal, this time right at latitude 38° north; the author, James Lane, rowing into the city of Praia da Vitoria in the Azores; approaching Ilha do Faial; Dena rows the electric-powered 'Cetacea's human-powered dinghy in the blue waters of Bermuda, latitude 32°.
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the world like Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and China, but good luck getting your cruising sailboat through any of those customs offices in this political climate. No, really, good luck — let us know how it went, because we would love to sail there someday. Our dear 38° N goes through China's inland Yellow Sea, and I hear the cruising there is all the wow. I think the fact that 38° N bisects North and South Korea is kind of bizarre, but hey, I didn't draw that chart. They each have a coast on latitude 38°, which says something about the great sailing weather, I'm sure. When 38° N enters open water again from the west, that ocean starts to get that familiar chill. Make no mistake, the Sea of Japan is another worldrenowned sailor's paradise that I can't wait to discover for myself. From the Miyagi Prefecture in Japan, latitude 38° north plows an unincumbered 4,575-mile stretch of Pacific Ocean that lands us back at the Golden Gate. Though we can't wait to sail east to our next port of call on our electric circumnavigation, it's not because we want to get off this parallel. I really can't say where we'll go next, but I know for a fact that we'll stay as close to latitude 38° North as we can. I mean, just for the sailing. — james lane
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trophy season to connect us all in a collective tribute to sailing while bringing positive publicity to the sailing lifestyle. I have to admit my out-of-balance enthusiasm for sailing continues to motivate me in many ways to try to share sailing with others. I have tremendous gratitude for having the opportunity to sail and all it's brought to my life. I truly think the world would be a better place if more people sailed. It's an amazing community of people, it provides an unrivaled connection to Mother Nature, and it is endlessly intriguing, challenging, and intellectually and spiritually rewarding. And it's a ton of fun. Summer Sailstice 2024 will be held on the weekend of June 22. This gives you about six months to join me and the whole
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world sailing. Don't wait, though. It's one day out of 365 days a year that we can go sailing. Make sure you go on the 22nd, and all year long. Trophy season comes during a season of gratitude. When I do attend these award events, it's always a reminder of the people, clubs and organizations that make it possible for all of us to keep sailing. Whether it's Summer Sailstice, a weekend regatta, teaching youth sailing, or advocating to keep our waterways accessible and sailing affordable, it reminds me that we can't take our sailing privilege for granted. Summer Sailstice and sailing happen because so many people contribute on so many levels. I want to thank the members and board
After many years at the top of the world in women's kitesurfing, the Bay Area's Daniela Moroz reflected on a challenging World Championship in August in The Hague, Netherlands. Moroz qualified to become the women's kiteboarding representative for the US at the 2024 Olympics in France — the first year kiteboarding will be in the Olympics — and followed that up with a gold medal at the Pan American Games in Algarrobo, Chile. Daniela describes the ups and downs of an event where she was competing in her seventh world championship at age 22.
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Clockwise from top left: Daniela Moroz displays some hardware from the world championships in 2022; Moroz qualifying for the Olympics in The Hague; Daniela won gold at the Pan Am Games in Algarrobo, Chile (and was photographed by her mom Linda, who is also a kitesurfer); Moroz had put in many, many hours on the foil in her 22 years; Daniela at Crissy Field in 2014.
In August, I competed in the Sailing World Championships in the Netherlands. It was my seventh world championship competing in the Formula Kite Class, and it was one of the hardest regattas of my life. Still, I accomplished my goal of qualifying for the Olympics. I arrived in The Hague about 10 days before racing began. After a few training sessions, I realized I was mentally drained and exhausted from such an intense and high-pressure year of racing; it felt like I was just going on the water to check the boxes required to qualify for the Olympics, rather than because I loved the process. The fire I once had felt like it had completely sputtered out, but I still had to race at the World Championships in order to qualify for the Olympics as the six-time defending world champion. But I was not in the headspace to deliver a winning performance. I am very lucky to have a team who understood what I was going through. We had meetings to establish some nonperformance-related goals for the event, while also deciding that all I needed to do at the regatta was to qualify as a top-eight country to secure my spot for the Olympics. This took some pressure off and eased my expectations. My first day of racing went surprisingly well, and I think it had to do with having zero expectations. I let myself race for the fun of it and felt surprisingly fast. My starts were great, and my racing strategy execution was the best it had been all year. The next couple days of the qualifying series did not go as well — I couldn't get into the flow and felt like I was just surviving every race. I dropped down to eighth place. In the final series, I had some solid racing and a consistent scoreline — enough for me to move up to fourth place. But the hardest part was the medal series. After an incredibly frustrating semifinals, I didn't make it into the finals and ended up dropping down to fifth place. It was heartbreaking, but, at the end of the day, I was relieved to have officially qualified for the Olympics. It's something I've dreamed of my whole life, and it's crazy to think it's officially happening. I'm going to be an Olympian! I will take some time off from formal on-water training in order to properly recover from this year and have a mental reset to feel prepared and fired up for next year. I competed in the Pan Am Games at the end of October, after which I'll focus on other activities that make me happy and improve my mental health. I truly believe that following this path will still put out net gains for my Olympic sailing because it will reignite my fire for the sport. My mission is clear: The goal is gold, and I'm ready to do everything I can to deliver a winning performance at the 2024 Olympic Games. It is an extremely exciting time on this journey. If you would like to hear more about the road to Paris, please visit my website at www.danielamoroz.com. — daniela moroz December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 41
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trophy season of the Pacific Interclub Yachting Association for all the work they do and for the honor of receiving the Perpetual Yachtsman of the Year Trophy. One of Our Favorite Sailors Was Also Recognized During the PICYA ceremony, I was happy to be standing next to Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer, who accepted the Admiral Chester W. Nimitz U.S.N. Perpetual Trophy for the exceptional work done by the Peninsula Youth Sailing Foundation (PYSF).
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the sea calls for a young sailor When Dilan Lovato was 4 years old, holding his stepmom's hand, he walked from El Salvador across the US-Mexican border. His dad, who he did not remember clearly, was already in the US waiting for them. The memories of that journey are on quick-recall for Lovato, now 12 years old. "It was scary when the border patrol grabbed us and it was cold in the detention center; they just gave us aluminum foil for blankets," the youngster said. "We stayed there for two days. I didn't recognize my dad at first until he said my name. It had been a long time — he left before I was 2." A handsome young man with a great smile and sense of humor, Lovato is well-adjusted to life in Marin these days: he's a sixth grader at Davidson Middle School in San Rafael, his favorite activity at school is volleyball, he loves camps and anything to do with being on the water. His dad, Adrian, has a steady job working for Luiz Martinez, co-founder/owner with his wife Alison Healy of Bay Area Marine Services in Sausalito. One day, Martinez took the young Lovato sailing for the first time. "I got to steer," Lovato grinned. "It was a bit challenging as the wind wants to take you a different direction!" That one experience plotted a course for Lovato that set sailing firmly on his agenda. He couldn't go sailing, however, without Healy, who has known the Lovato family for three years. She helps by ferrying the young Lovato, a typical latchkey kid, to and from after-school activities. Healy couldn't help but notice the big smile on Lovato's face when they returned to the dock after that first sailing experience: He was captivated by seeing so many boats on the water. She asked Lovato if he'd like to go sailing again, and he replied that he'd first like to learn to kayak to be sure he wasn't afraid of the water. Healy took Lovato to the kayak center in Sausalito by the Bay Model Visitor Center, which is where Lovato got his first sighting of the tall ship Matthew Turner and Seaward, both owned and operated by the not-forprofit Call of the Sea (COS). "I saw those big boats and asked Alison about them," Lovato said. "I just stared at the Matthew Turner and thought, 'That's a big boat!' When I got home, I researched the boat online and learned about it." Over the past two summers, Lovato has enjoyed two weeks of summer camp with COS, and a day at Aloft camp, for a total of 11 days on the Matthew Turner and Seaward. "I get to coil lines, wrap lines around the pins, do the bow watch, and I like all the maritime words that are used," Lovato said. "We went out under the Golden Gate Bridge one day and suddenly I heard the crew telling us to look over the starboard side at the dolphins. I didn't know which side was port or starboard, so I asked one of the crew and they started teaching us right/left port/starboard." Lovato continued, "I also like the captain giving us instructions and telling us what needs to be done. I learned that you don't make your own decisions when you are on a tall ship because you are part of a crew." Lovato receives a partial scholarship, which Healy facilitated on his behalf, to attend the COS programs. He also received a 100% scholarship to attend sailing camp for two summers at the Sausalito Yacht Club (SYC), where the program focused on learning to sail and captain small boats. "His dad contributes, but a high percentage of it is a scholarship, without which unequivocally he would not be able to participate," Healy noted. "He would also not be able to participate if I was not helping to drive and pick him up. Our dollars make a difference at COS: If Dilan were not in sailing camp, he would be home alone all day." Fluent in Spanish, Healy has dedicated much of her career working in executive positions for nonprofits including Sail San Francisco and Smile Alliance: She's simply driven to help, and Lovato's situation is no exception. "His culture in general does not know about camps, and it would be too complicated to figure out rides, lunch, payments etc.," Healy explained. "It is typically not something they have navigated before and often outside of their comfort and awareness zone. I'm sure so many kids like Dilan would like to be mentored for sailing!"
Spread: 'Matthew Turner' has been a tremendous resource for young, under-represented sailors who wouldn't normally get a chance to be out on the water. Inset, left: That's Dilan Lovato on the left. Inset, right: Dilan with the amazing Alison Healy.
SIGHTINGS — continued Over the past 20 years PYSF has grown from a small base in Redwood City to an outsanding youth training center with over 300 kids going through the program in 2023. An Olympic veteran, Vandemoer has been a steadfast leader at PYSF for decades. The 2023 National Sailing Hall of Fame Inductees The National Sailing Hall of Fame took this year's induction ceremony on the road to the Balboa Yacht Club in Newport Beach,
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call of the sea — continued After a day at sailing camp, Lovato is proud of his accomplishments and the way they make him feel. "I'm proud of myself because what I see in me is my happiness," he shared. "I like being around the water. I live across the road from the water and when I am frustrated, it helps if I go stand by the water and hear the wind hitting my face." This summer, Lovato is hoping to do a week-long program on the Matthew Turner and stay out overnight on the boat. He'd also like to continue to sail on small boats like those he's been sailing out of the SYC. "What I like about sailing by yourself is that you can make your own decisions like when to tack and when to sheet in, how to hike out," he smiled. "I learned that when you're going to capsize, you must always let the sheet out!" — michelle slade
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SIGHTINGS a speed of light renovation "This thing is basically dominating my whole life!" Gilles Combrisson is talking about his renovation of Lightspeed, his beloved Wylie 39. "In English we use the pronoun 'she.' As a French person, we have gendered objects: A window is female, a dock is male, and the whole world has been gendered. English doesn't do this except for boats," Gilles explains. "We have given boats some sort of greater quality than being an object; they aren't inanimate — it's somewhere in between. They have an aura. All the people they've seen, places they've gone, the insane amount of money that people have sunk into them." For those of us who dote on sailboats, we wonder: How many hours has Combrisson spent eating, sleeping, and dreaming of the Lightspeed reincarnation? "Oh my God." He laughs, and we're laughing, because it's incalculable. Gilles put hundreds of hours in on the recessed windows alone. Combrisson runs his own small business out of his shop in Richmond, GC continued on outside column of next sightings page
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Left: The Wylie 39 'Lightspeed' lookin' good out on the Bay. Top right: Gilles Combrisson in the midst of his incalculable hours spent working on 'Lightspeed'. Bottom right: Gilles' son has put in some time on the boat as well.
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trophy season California. Several of this year's class — who join the 114 current inductees — hail from the West Coast, including the Bay Area's Sally Honey, Tim Hogan from Los Angeles, who is the designer of the Cal line of boats, and William Lapworth and designer Robert Perry from the Pacific Northwest. Other inductees include Elwood 'Skip' Etchells from New York, Peter Holmberg from the USVI, John Kolius from Texas, John Marshal from New England, Charles Morgan from Florida and Richard Stearns III from Illinois.
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SIGHTINGS — continued another step on the long trail to the Olympics. Four-time Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year and six-time Formula kiteboarding world champion Daniela Moroz — who is featured in this very Sightings! — qualified as the US representative for the 2024 Olympics in France, and also won the Gold Medal at the Pan Am Games in Algarrobo, Chile. David Liebenberg of Richmond has been working hard for an Olympic berth with skipper Sarah Newberry Moore in the Nacra 17 class. The US has secured a berth to compete in the class in 2024, though the US selection trials will be held next year. David and Sarah continued their competitive campaign by taking a silver medal for the US in
lightspeed — continued Rigging and Composites, so it's not like he has lots of free time. It's been two years of using every spare moment to keep momentum up on the project. It will be Gilles 1, boat 0; he swears he will win this. After everything, it's his visions of boat camping and cruising with his partner and son that keep him going. Combrisson had met Lightspeed prior to buying her on the Fourth of July in 2021. Gilles had already decided the Wylie 39 was a stiff, strong, boat capable of cruising and racing. He whipped up some gadgets (as one does) for Lightspeed and her previous owner, Rick Elkins. She was designed by local naval architect Tom Wylie, who has designed and continues to design many beautiful, graceful vessels. Combrisson said it was the best marriage of comfort and efficiency he had ever seen. "That marriage is really my guiding light." At the same time, he wants to make sure she's a comfy ride — having a head? Such luxury! Especially coming from the world of Moore 24s. Lightspeed has a head to hang foulies or take a sponge bath, and Combrisson could one day install a shower, but she's already far more comfortable than he's used to, and sailing her on the Bay was a thrill and sheer joy. The interior is cozy and set up for storage, so it's good for cruising. "I'm doing partial fairing, puttying, and finishing the inside to pretty it up. I wanna keep it no-fuss and definitely not chi-chi," Gilles says. "The boat had been racing hard and put away wet so there was dry rot in the bulkheads, wet core in the deck, lots of stuff like that going on." She's in boat-mod heaven, so no worries — with his shop and his team of local professionals, they can do nearly anything. Actually, perhaps some worries have touched Combrisson in those hundreds of hours cajoling, convincing, and contending with the vessel to give her another reincarnation out on the S.F. Bay. "There was a day when I had to do some laminate. I was coring the windows, so I glued a long length of Corecell foam that had to be laminated. I had a 10-foot-long rectangle of fiberglass that had to be done with a negative angle, where gravity wants to pull it all down," he says. "That was a bad day when I thought I had it all set, but I went to grab something and the whole 10-foot length fell on me. I had a whole poncho of freshly laid, wet fiberglass on me." What we can all learn is that if you aren't set up for vacuum bagging, there may be too many air leaks, especially if gravity is working against you. You've gotta pull out your bag o' tricks like Gilles did to make sure the resin can stick and cure despite warm weather and negative gravitational influences. "That was a dark moment when it fell off on top of me; I uttered some not-so-nice words not so quietly that got my clients nearby pretty interested in what had just happened." Combrisson has tackled some big projects: adding recessed windows, recoring the cabin top for improved insulation, redesigning the rig and crafting a new sail plan with Doug Frolich, modifying interior bulkheads, replacing chainplates and building new structures to mount the new carbon-fiber chainplates, replacing the mast and boom, and legion repairs to the interior, including gutting the whole bow. It was the fall of 2022 when Gilles took the mast out and really committed to fully transforming Lightspeed into his vision for the perfect highperformance Bay cruiser. "The desire to sail is so great, I don't know if I can stand to wait until it's 'done!'" laughs Combrisson. It's not gonna end suddenly, he says; more than likely it's gonna peter out. "The way I'm doing the interior leaves the door open to future modifications." Every boat project has good moments and bad moments. "I have worked on hundreds and hundreds of boats at this point. Some boats seem to almost like to be worked on. And some boats don't," he says. "There's boats that fight back when you try to work on them, but this boat has been really easy to work with. I really, really enjoy working on the boat, such that I wake up early, excited to go running to the boat. I'm gonna win this thing." — heather breaux December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 45
SIGHTINGS holiday book reviews We're happy to present to the sailors of Latitude 38 several books for the gift-giving season, and to remind Latitude Nation of all the great books recommended by our Good Jibes podcast guests, which we have available at the Latitude 38 bookstore on our website. Or make a sailor happy by giving a gift subscription to Latitude 38. (See page 6.) Happy Holidays! Windward Passage — A Maxi Yacht In Her Sixth Decade (Randall Peffer, $75) — If a hall of fame is ever created for boats, it would be a travesty not to make Windward Passage the first inductee. It would be yet another milestone for a boat that, at 55 years old, still turns heads at the dock and inspires awe on the water. Designed by Alan Gurney and cold molded of spruce near Freeport in the Bahamas, when launched in 1968, the 73-ft Passage was the first "maximum rater" under the CCA rule (and where the sailing world got the word 'maxi'). And for much of the next decade, the boat — then a ketch — was practically unbeatable. It took a new rule (IOR) and newer, bigger, much more expensive boats to finally tame 'the whale.' This fabulous book (a 'maxi' itself in size and weight) traces the origin, heyday and comfortable retirement of one of the greatest boats ever built, with chapters on each of her five owners and the cast of thousands who have worked and sailed aboard. Among those were longtime crewman John 'Gargle' McClure, who describes the finish of one of the boat's several Transpacs: "Running down the Molokai Channel, you could hear the wire afterguys loading up — and then woosh, she exhaled and took off surfing, with a roostertail. There's never been a boat like her." A Whaler at Twilight (Alexander R. Brash and Robert W. Armstrong, $34.95) — Just when you think there's no new sailing subject under the sun, you get a book like this. The first surprise is that "co-author" Robert Armstrong left a promising career to go to sea on a whaling ship in 1849. He wrote a journal along the way, which ended up residing in an old trunk in an attic for several generations until it was passed down to grandson Alex Brash. The "collaboration" that resulted in this book is that the first half is Robert's self-told story. The second half is Brash's follow-up, including bits about the whaling industry then and now, and a pilgrimage to some of the South Seas places visited by his ancestor. Both trips are fascinating, but we were particularly enthralled with Armstrong's account of what life was really like on the old whaling ships. Sailing Intermezzo — The Voyage (Stephen Cox, $25) — If you've ever thought about assembling your separate blog entries into a readable whole (which is how this book started out, by request of Cox's mother), this is what it would look like. It traces the author's journeys — both interpersonal and on his Leopard 39 catamaran — from Petaluma to Mexico and back, and then south again, through Panama and up the East Coast to New York. Honestly, at 513 pages, it was a challenge to maintain interest in this tome. Photos would have helped a lot — just to know what he, the boat and all the other characters looked like — but there aren't any in the paperback version. (The deluxe, $95 edition apparently does have photos.) It's worth noting that this is a self-published work, and according to the website, www.blog.sailingintermezzo.com, all proceeds in excess of production costs will be donated to charity. All Hands on Deck — A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World (Will Sofrin, $28) — When Hollywood decided to make a movie based on the Patrick O'Brian series of novels about the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars, the studio decided that the perfect ship to play HMS Surprise was HMS Rose, a 180-ft replica of a sixth-rate warship built in Nova Scotia in 1970. The only problem was, the ship was in Rhode Island and the filming was in Southern California. This book is the story of how a ragtag group of sailors, boatbuilders, and tall ship aficionados got her there, tapping into all the elements of a good sea story along the way — storms, breakdowns, disagreements, backbreaking work, a dismasting, and even a love story — written by a guy who lived it. Life and Death at Cape Disappointment (Christopher J. D'Amelio with Reid Maruyama, $19.95) — Right up front, we'll tell you this book continued on outside column of next sightings page Page 46 • Latitude 38 • December, 2023
pan am games the Pan Am Games. Hans Henken has been campaigning with skipper Ian Barrows for an Olympic berth in the 49er class in 2024. Henken grew up sailing in San Diego, though he's recently moved to the Bay Area to be with his fiancée Helena Scutt, who represented the US in the 49erFX in Rio in 2016 with Hans' sister Paris. He's also been racing with the US SailGP team, and suffered a concussion in Taranto, Italy, at the end of September. Henken and Barrows also took a gold at the Pan Am Games, and remain strong contenders to represent the US in 2024, though they will also have to win the US selection trials in the new year. Sail to Shelter, Barry Spanier and Others Provide Relief Shade to Lahaina In the June 2022 issue of Latitude 38, we profiled Southern California sailor Angela Abshier, who has been recycling old sails to provide shelter to those in need. She's recently teamed up with 40-year Maui resident, founder of MauiSails and master sailmaker Barry Spanier to provide relief shelter to residents of Lahaina devastated by the August wildfires. "Not only has Barry lent his peerless
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understanding of sail material and how to maximize its functionality on Maui, but he has also contributed Juki sewing machines and talented sailmakers, trained by him, now victims of the fire," said Angela. Angela and Barry also credit North, Doyle, CO Architects, Ocean Voyages Institute, DogHouse Canvas and Sail to Shelter — a nonprofit committed to creating a global circular economy for retired Grand Prix and elite racing sails — with helping to prepare material from around the world for Maui, where it can be transformed into vital, long-lasting shade for years to come. As an addendum, Barry and Samantha Spanier, who were featured in the November issue of Latitude, finally left the Bay Area to go cruising in their Jim Antrimdesigned and Berkeley Marine Center-built scow-bowed, junk-rigged, 42-ft cruising boat Rosie G. They report the first passage of 350 miles from San Francisco to Santa Barbara with their electric auxiliary was a complete success. Please see this month's Letters for a dispatch from Barry. Here's an excerpt: "We averaged 5.5 knots, saw dead calm, with many hours of under 10 knots, and had long periods of surfing." — latitude / john
has nothing to do with sailing. But it is a worthy read anyway, as it gives a glimpse into the lives of Coast Guardsmen who go out in the worst conditions to save souls at sea — and the physical and mental toll it takes. It's told through the eyes of Chris D'Amelio, a surfman who is assigned to the notorious Cape Disappointment in Washington. Operating on the often brutal Columbia River Bar, its area of responsibility is referred to as the 'Graveyard of the Pacific,' and for good reason. A number of boats (mostly commercial fishing boats) and people join that graveyard during the author's seven-year tenure, including a few of his fellow Coasties. Unmoored — Coming of Age in Troubled Waters (J.R. Roessl, $32.95) — One day in late 1969, a 44-ft gaff-rigged Gloucester schooner named Heritage sailed out the Golden Gate and turned left. Aboard were the owner-builder, two of his teenage daughters, and two hired crew. It was the start of what the author (one of the daughters) and most of her family thought would be a Peter Pan-like adventure — "Second star to the right and straight on till morning." As you slowly learn that the father, Jim, had never sailed before; had chosen the East Coast fishing schooner design more for its jaunty profile than its suitability for cruising; and that 44-ft was a tad on the crowded side for the rest of the family — Mom and two more daughters — it's not hard to foresee the series of setbacks, breakdowns and minor mutinies that plague the voyage for the whole two-plus years it takes to get to Panama and into the Caribbean. Through it all, the author weaves her own coming-of-age story, and her eventual break from a father perpetually predisposed to barking criticism and capable of only fleeting affection. Such a personal memoir would have benefited greatly from, at the very least, a photo of the boat and one of the author's family as they were then. Alas, not a single photo graces Unmoored's pages. – jr
Season's Greetings from the staff of
Top left: Artist William Gilpin's charcoal drawing of 'Windward Passage' winning the Barn Door Trophy in the 1971 Transpac. Bottom left: Looking for holiday gift ideas? Check out the Latitude 38 bookstore. Right: Jim Quanci sailed off the Antarctic Peninsula aboard 'Pelagic Australis' in January 2017. And, oh yeah: Happy Holidays!
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BAJA HA-HA XXIX H
aving had boats of mine in Mexico for almost every one of the last 40 winters, it was the most miraculous thing I've ever seen. I speak of long-time San Carlos, Baja California Sur Immigration Officer Ricardo Martinez sitting in the cockpit of the Ha-Ha mothership Profligate at anchor in Bahia Santa Maria at 7 p.m. on a Monday, carefully hand-stamping the passports of the crews of 66 Ha-Ha boats. He was joined by Captain Aviation Pilot Jose Juan Castro Zamudio. The two were accompanied by Bob Hoyt of Mag Bay Outfitters, who was the architect of the novel checking-in process, and who was taking care of checking the boats, as opposed to people, into Mexico online. Each boat owner would receive their ship's clearance electronically while en route to Cabo San Lucas. All three had made a very rough three-hour small-boat trip, the last half in the pitch black, from San Carlos to Bahia Santa Maria just to stamp the passports. The only reason there was a 2023 Ha-Ha is because of Ricardo and Bob's efforts. I won't go into the details, but without their help, the Ha-Ha would have been a logistical impossibility. The actual passport-stamping process was an assembly line that would have made Henry Ford grin. By VHF the Poobah had summoned boat skippers, with crew passports, division by division to come to the transom of Profligate. They were greeted there by crew Chris, who handed the passports to crew runner Lynn, who handed them for pre-processing to Assistant Poobah Patsy Verhoeven, who handed them to Doña de Mallorca, who opened each passport to a blank page so Ricardo didn't have to waste time searching for one. After Ricardo had affixed his signature and stamped the passports,
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they were handed to crew Kris for poststamping review, and then back to runner Lynn for return to the boat skipper. A real machine. It was an only-in-Mexico kind of thing, where well over 250 people were processed by immigration in less than two hours. It was quicker, easier, and less expensive than any other way. "The check-in at Bahia Santa Maria was fantastic," reported Jamie Gull of the CT 44 Jambo. "The easiest checkin ever," agreed Kim Eddy of the Island Packet 440 Amazing Grace III. "It was surreal," recalls Ha-Ha recidivist Joe Heinzmann of the Swan 55 Swan Fun, "as all the skippers were in dinghies with passports at night behind Profligate. The ease of check-in alone may be reason enough to do a Ha-Ha in the future." It turned out that the boats that had started in San Diego, but stopped in Ensenada to check into Mexico there because they weren't confident that the Bahia Santa Maria scheme would work, had wasted nearly a day, spent more money, and missed the world-famous bazeball game in Turtle Bay. To be honest, even the Poobah harbored considerable doubts about the process until the moment the official's boat appeared out of the dark to raft up against the big cat. Had it not worked, the entire process, and Ha-Ha, would have logistically and fiscally blown up in the Poobah's face. After six months of doubts, it was as though the weight of the world had been lifted. As for the Ha-Ha itself, it was a classic in that all Ha-Ha's are the same but at the same time are very different. As you'll learn, a couple of this year's differences were striking. After the Last Cheeseburger in Paradise Costume and Kick-Off Party at
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Porpoises and Scott and Jill Stephan's Catana 47 'L'Avventura' basks in classic southbound mode.
West Marine on sunny Sunday, October 30, the fleet got a 10 a.m. Monday parade sendoff from a spewing San Diego fireboat, then headed to the south of Zuniga Jetty for an 11 a.m. start. As there was no wind, the Poobah instigated the Ha-Ha's unique "rolling start" protocol. After all, there is nothing more depressing than starting a long passage by wallowing in place with no wind. The Poobah won't have that. The rolling start hardly proved necessary, for 15 minutes later Providence smiled down on the fleet with a warm breeze that soon had boats sliding toward the border at close to hull speed. It was such a pretty sight that several drones were launched from the fleet to capture the action under sunny skies. Filming moving objects from a moving object is tricky, so before it was over the drone from Colin Taylor and Christa Goddard’s Barnett 42 Shoofly went for a fatal swim. The waters of the world are littered with fallen drones. The yacht leading the way south was the most unusual one in the fleet, West
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weren't working or had broken. Normal Ha-Ha stuff. Thanks to considerable motoring, the first quarter of the fleet arrived at the Turtle Bay first stop late in the afternoon of the third day, with about half the fleet arriving by the next morning. Everybody received the usual warm Turtle Bay welcome, where makeshift bars and restaurants had been set up for the occasion. The arrival of the Ha-Ha fleet is the biggest day of the year for the lovable, dusty village, and the locals turned out to watch and mingle. They love the HaHa, as it's like Christmas, New Year's, and Day of the Dead wrapped up in one. Fuel, ice, water, and garbage pickup were all available by panga. The town had also built a grand new ladder up to the pier, made with the finest untreated wood and with the nuts on some fasteners hanging on by just half a turn. OSHA inspectors would have fainted. The marquee event of the first full day in Turtle Bay was the bazeball game at beautiful Ha-Ha Stadium, the artificially turfed pride of Turtle Bay. About half the cruisers arrived in time for the game, and as always every boy, then girls, and then the mothers with infants turned out. It was an epic, fast-paced game, featuring as many as 50 people in the field at one time and 150 in the on-deck "circle." Nothing like the snoozefests that are Major League Baseball. While the crowd was down slightly from some previous years because of light leg one winds, the enthusiasm was high.
Bahia Santa Maria is normally a huge, empty bay, but not when the Baja Ha-Ha's fleet, immigration and rock 'n' roll band show up.
Joe Cowan's Catalina 36 Rocinante would hook the biggest fish, though, a 120-pound marlin just two miles from the Cabo finish line. Just weeks before, serious fishermen had been battling in the same waters for $12.5 million prize money in the Bisbee Marlin Tournament. As night fell on the first leg, the 95boat fleet, up 18% from last year, had spread out from a rhumb-line course to sailing so far offshore that one cat was in danger of T-boning Guadelupe Island. By the middle of the night, the wind had fallen spotty. Some boats had a decent breeze for a while, and some had nothing. Spotty conditions continued throughout the next day, with some boats reporting fine sailing for some periods, and others motoring most of the time. By now participants were well into the routine of trying to fly spinnakers, cooking at sea, missing sleep, enjoying the sea life, and discovering things that
The fishing was good. Anne Thomas aboard Mark Howe's Santa Cruz 50 'Adrenalin' shows off the "catch of the day."
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Marine founder Randy Repass and wife Sally-Christine's Wylie 65 cat ketch Convergence. Along with Michael and Barbara Lawler on the North Wind 47 Traveler, Randy and Sally-Christine were the only couples in this year's fleet who had already completed a circumnavigation. Fish on! Boats started catching fish almost immediately. Kirk Lance, Dean Sutherland, and Joe Tanner's Ocean Alexander 46 Lightning, one of a record six motor yachts in the Ha-Ha, caught 11 fish on the first leg and lost four lures. "We didn't fish on the third leg because there was no more room in the freezer," the three reported. As always, the best fishing would be on the second leg. For instance, Profligate landed six mahi in five minutes, a record even for one-time commercial fisherman Chuck Skewes. The last mahi struck just 15 feet from the transom as the lines were being taken in.
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Top: Brian Downing's Beneteau 49 'Dark Horse' powers down the coast of Baja. Above: Soul sailor Patsy Verhoeven maximizes sailing time in every Ha-Ha.
Left: Coral, Sierra, and Aurora Miller. Ages 6, 9, and 6. Above: The miracle of mid-Ha-Ha, 3Dprinted winch parts.
Have you seen a video of migrants storming the southern border of the United States? It looked something like that after the game as Poobah tried to hold back the swarm of kids who wanted the first crack at picking from the tens of thousands of dollars' worth of donated equipment. Among those who arrived too late for the bazeball game was Assistant Poobah Patsy Verhoeven of the Gulfstar 50 Talion, who values sailing above all else. Not many sailors are happy when the mainsail flops and the speedo reads double zeros, but Patsy finds joy in such conditions. Did we mention she cooks all the meals, too? Her Talion was the only boat to sail the entire first leg. The morning in-port VHF nets are active at each Ha-Ha stop, with much of the time taken by skippers looking for assistance with diesels, Starlink, watermakers, sails, dinghy outboards, and every other boat-related system or thing. The most sought-after items this year were belts for Raymarine autopilots. Several spares were located in the fleet. Profligate had one of the more curious needs. Just before the Ha-Ha, her
McCormack the Person in Charge of Sandra Barnes' Nicholson 38 Boat Bum Gal, the boat hit a rock while cutting the northwest corner of Turtle Bay too close. Thanks to modern tracking capabilities, at least one person not in the Ha-Ha was able to "watch" electronically as it happened. Even though the entrance to Turtle Bay is almost 20% wider than the entrance to San Francisco Bay, the HaHa does its best to keep participants out of danger while on approach. First, the "finish line" is purposely located 15 miles north and 15 miles west of the entrance. Second, there is a written warning about the entrance in the Rally Instructions. Third, a verbal warning is given at the Skipper's Meeting. Boat Bum Gal was the third of 3,000 or so boats to have been lost in the 29 Ha-Ha's to date. The others were the J/120 sunk by a whale with all crew saved in a textbook Coast Guard rescue, and a Newport 41 driven ashore in benign conditions where the crew admitted, "We fucked up." The next day was beach-party day at unpopulated eastern Turtle Bay at the edge of the ruggedly beautiful Baja
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cockpit winches had been reassembled by a novice technician, and three of the four were put back together without the tiny but critical plastic part that peels the line off the self-tailer mechanism. This was a semi-disaster, as the winches could only be used in manual mode, which required at least half the 12-person crew on deck during a jibe, the Poobah's most beloved sailing maneuver. Fortunately, the Poobah had written the bios for every Ha-Ha entry and recalled that Brian Downing on the Beneteau 49 Dark Horse had mentioned that he loved tinkering with boats and even had a 3D printer on board. Was it possible he could fabricate the small plastic part? The next day Downing had made three of them in two sizes. They not only fit perfectly, but the tiny new plastic pieces were bright orange, giving a stunning contrast to the black-andchrome Harken winches. Late that night there was a Ha-Ha anomaly — a boat lost. With Coast Guard 200-ton-licensed skipper Ray
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Clockwise from top left: The annual Ha-Ha visit to Turtle Bay creates the largest on-deck line to bat in the bazeball game; Kim and Lena Eddy on the Island Packet 'Amazing Grace' met on the Latitude 38 Crew List and got married on July 1; Another Mexico miracle, immigration was handled by Ricardo and the crew aboard 'Profligate' in Bahia Santa Maria; Katie from the Express 37 'OneEyed Jack' says the Ha-Ha was the best time of her whole life.
badlands. What a stunning venue! It was a mellow afternoon, with locals having set up more food, drink, and trinket concessions than ever before. The Poobah hot dog concession raised about $600 for lunches for underserved Mexican school children. At least one person chipped in $100 but declined the dog. That's surprising, as these weren't just any hot dogs, but imported dogs all the way from Smart & Final in the United States. There is so much to remember in any given Ha-Ha, so it wasn't totally surprising that somebody forgot the volleyball net. The more sporty sailors compensated with free-form beach soccer. They had a great time, but for the rest of the Ha-Ha, you could hear the older participants moan about sore muscles. The Battle of the Sexes Tug o' War battle, always a crowd pleaser, featured about 125 participants. For the 17th year in a row, the women proved they were not the weaker sex. A few of the men groused that the Poobah had allowed 100 women to tug against 25 men. "Restorative justice" was the explanation.
Every Ha-Ha fleet has a different personality. This year's group was eager to participate in all the activities, and markedly non-aggressive. For example, with five minutes to go to the start of the second leg, 80% of the boats were still raising their anchors two miles from the starting line. The Ha-Ha is about safety and pleasure, not serious competition, so it was simpatico. A typical Ha-Ha second-leg breeze doesn't come up until about 2 p.m., but this year it started early and filled in nicely. The sailing was excellent under sunny skies, with colorful spinnakers framed against a brown mountain backdrop. Alas, for less experienced sailors the wind built to higher than they preferred. By evening a few boats were reporting 30+ knots of wind and 15-foot seas, leaving some veteran ocean sailors to wonder when the last time the instruments on some boats had been calibrated. Judging the height of the seas is always subjective. But noted offshore racer Chuck Skewes offered a rule of thumb. "If you're in the trough of 15foot seas, you wouldn't be able to see
the masthead of a boat right next to you." Most of the fleet reported winds in the low 20s, with veteran ocean sailors and folks from Hawaii and the South Pacific calling the conditions "normal" and reveling in them. Suzie Grubler and her female crew with a couple of "token males," from Lahaina, raved about the conditions they enjoyed with her Express 37 One-Eyed Jack. "We hit 17.9 knots, baby!" she said with justifiable pride. "We also had an awesome round-down with the pole in the water, but nobody was hurt and nothing broke. It was awesome." This after her "best-ever birthday party" the night before aboard Andy Kopetsky's Columbia 57 Angelique. Steve Green on the Corsair 31 trimaran Mamacita described the conditions on the first evening of the second leg to be "fantastic and grueling." No wonder, as his 3,500-lb tri weighs less than the keels of many of the boats in the fleet. The Coloradan reported "sailing at 17 knots 150 miles offshore in 10-foot seas. It was wet and wild, and we loved it!" Conditions can seem different depending on the size boat a person is on and their experience. Farther inshore, lifelong ocean sailor Patsy Verhoeven figured her winds topped out at under 25 knots and the seas at eight feet. Because she was at the head of the pack, Profligate might have seen slightly lesser conditions than other boats, as in 20 knots of wind and perhaps five-foot seas. Nonetheless, the loaded-down gal with a crew of 12 in full cargo-carrying mode was often in the mid-teens and once hit 20.4 knots under reefed main and spinnaker. Waterline helps. The stronger winds resulted in some torn sails, so it was a good thing that part of the Ha-Ha entry fee includes free sail repair service on Profligate by Ullman Sails in San Diego and the Pacific Northwest. Chuck repaired something like a dozen sails. What helped is that sewing machine repairs have been mostly replaced by repairs made with incredibly strong tape. Moderately strong conditions mean there were boat problems besides torn sails. David and Jennifer Lane on the Catalina 36 Grace reported, "We discovered a major oil spill that was the result of a broken alternator bracket that somehow managed to unscrew the oil filter." Necessity being the mother of invention, they "hacked up an iPad stand and made splint reinforcements for the bracket to get it back on the engine." It lasted all the way to Cabo. December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 51
BAJA HA-HA XXIX As often happens, the wind died on the second leg. But then something happened that never happens on Baja. Arriving first at spectacular Bahia Santa Maria, Profligate found typically lovely conditions with sunny skies and unusually warm water. But just a few hours later ominous clouds began to form to the west and northwest. Starting at dusk, lightning arrived. Lightning?! As one delivery skipper with 70 Baja transits to his credit reported, he's never seen lightning along Baja. But there it was, hundreds upon hundreds of strikes during the next eight hours in a band between the second-leg finish and the anchorage — although there were some strikes in the anchorage, too. Vertical strikes, horizontal strikes, scary strikes, each one documented on lightning-tracking apps. The other odd thing is that there wasn't any other lightning within 1,000 miles. Clearly, it was the work of Providence's evil twin messing with the fleet. Most boats elected to hold back for hours and not cross the band to get to the anchorage. Vet of a dozen Ha-Ha's Myron Eisenzimmer, of the Swan 44 Mykonos, finally got tired of waiting. So
MY LIGHTENING TRACKER
The lightning show was a Baja Ha-Ha first!
he drove right through the heart of the strikes to the anchorage. As soon as he did, he remembered that the "herd" followed. Luckily, no boats were hit. But many sailors reported sphincters had puck, puck, puckered. Lightning, particularly in heavy doses, is a very scary thing. During roll call the next day, it was learned that only one boat had sailed the entire second leg: Patsy Verhoeven's 50-ft 47-year-old Talion with an old roller-furling main and a handme-down spinnaker. For the next two days, the weather at pristine Bahia Santa Maria was typically ideal. The first day was for R&R-ing and the Kids’ Diving Olympics off the back of Profligate. And that evening marked the arrival of Ricardo and Bob, saviors of the Ha-Ha. The second day at BSM was the alwayssurreal party on the bluff with the live rock 'n’ roll band that had traveled 10 hours to get there from La Paz. If you've never been to a Bluff Party at stunningly pristine and unique Bahia Santa Maria, you've missed something really great. It was on the bluff that Katie of OneEyed Jack, who had just retired, spent several minutes convincing the Poobah that she was having not just a great time, but "the best time of my entire life." "Me, too!" said the fellow behind her. The one thing you can always count on in a Ha-Ha is that the third leg will feature light to moderate winds from astern and flat seas. But didn't we say this year was different? The HaHa gods reached deep into their bag of tricks for the 175-mile last leg, so when the fleet was awoken at 0600 for the slated 0700 start, it was overcast and the wind was blowing the dogs off their chains on boats anchored farther out. Some were reporting winds in the 30s and even gusts to the 40s. And rain? Yes, rain! Since safety is the Ha-Ha priority
'Profligate' showing the sunny, southbound sailing that is just one feature of the Ha-Ha.
and forecasts called for the winds to die, the Poobah delayed the official start until 0800, and then again until 1100. Nonetheless, some of the more intrepid skippers started at 0700 and later called back to report sporty conditions. About half the fleet still remained at anchor at 11 a.m. when Profligate and a second group took off. Two hours later the wind, as forecast, was down to as little as five knots and the seas had rapidly become benign. Based on the new reports, almost everyone left Bahia Santa Maria and headed for Cabo. Because of a late start and "thirdleg" slow conditions, less than half the fleet was on hand for the Cheated Death Dance Party at Squid Roe. But it was an enthusiastic group. It's great fun to see a couple of hundred normally serious and responsible people letting their hair down and acting silly for a couple of hours to celebrate what, for many of them, was their longest sail and first international trip. Even 80-year-old
WRAP-UP Randy Repass, the oldest sailor in the fleet, was seen on the dance floor. The next day's festivities included the "beach party" at Mango Deck's Terrace, overlooking the fleet in Medano Bay. The afternoon concluded with the Here to Eternity Kissing Contest, with excellent participation. There wasn't much surf, but there was a lot of enthusiasm. The Ha-Ha ended the following evening with the awards ceremony hosted by the Cabo San Lucas Marina, which provided plenty of cold beer. Every participating boat got a "trophy," and there were special joke awards to round out the evening. Judging from the comments of participants, it was a hugely successful Ha-Ha, and for a variety of reasons. Dreamer, Catalina 36, with some crew from France: "The Ha-Ha exceeded the expectations of our international crew. The spirit of camaraderie filled us with joy, and the adventures of being in calms and storms will stay with us forever. Thank you for making our dream a reality."
Bear North, Hans Christian 48 — "It was the first major offshore sail for our wives. Being part of the Ha-Ha rally helped them and gave us guys hope for future adventures across the Pacific." Ara, X Yacht 46 — "Woe was us. Our jib halyard chafed through the first afternoon and had to do the rest of the Ha-Ha bald-headed. We still loved the whole event." (Shame on you! Members of the Ha-Ha fleet would have been happy to work with you.) Shoofly, Barnett 42 — "Not only did we lose a drone at the start, our spinny blew up, we dragged in Turtle Bay when not aboard, our windlass stopped working, and our engine kept surging, so we currently have rigged a jerry can for fuel. Nonetheless, our boat loved the windy conditions, and we loved the adventure, the participants, and the locals." Perhaps the crew of the Hunter Legend 375 Fantasy summed it up most concisely. "It was an epic adventure. Friends were made, and stories will be told for the rest of our lives." Thanks in large part to Ricardo and
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Classics Gaff — Brigadoon 1924 50-ft Herreshoff schooner Terry & Lindsey Klaus, StFYC Terry Klaus attributes Brigadoon's success to "Good crew, practice, a clean bottom and good sails." Of the three regattas, he says, "All three races are completely different; I would have to say I like them all." He adds that, "Good racing is planning ahead so you don't have any hairy/scary moments." The regular crew joining Terry aboard Page 56 • Latitude 38 • December, 2023
Brigadoon were his daughter Lindsey (second generation), Drew Guay, Joe Ording, Josh Roper, Kristian Hanelt (second generation), Robbie Fouts, Bruce Lindsey, Peter English, Bob Rogers and Lucas Roper (third generation).
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e kick off our annual Season Champions features by highlighting the new (old) kids on the block. This year, organizers at the Master Mariners Benevolent Association, San Francisco Yacht Club and St. Francis YC banded together to create a San Francisco Bay Classics Championship Series. Three regattas counted in the series: MMBA's Master Mariners Regatta in May, SFYC's Great SF Schooner Cup and Belvedere Classic in July, and StFYC's Jessica Cup in October. Each regatta has a different class structure; the boat totals in the results below are our own unofficial guesstimate. "I very much appreciate your inclusion of the SF Bay Classics Series in the Latitude 38 Season Champs feature," says Neil Gibbs of MMBA. "These old wooden battle wagons need all the exposure they can get!"
'Oriole' leads the way in the Jessica Cup.
Terry & Lindsey Klaus
Marconi 1 — Kay of Göteborg 1978 52-ft S&S yawl Neil Gibbs, MMBA/SYC "Kay of Göteborg was designed by Sparkman & Stephens and built by Arne Walstead in Denmark in 1977," says Neil Gibbs. "Designed for high-latitude sailing, she is very heavily constructed of teak and oak and she sports a cast-iron coal-burning stove (which definitely does not make her faster but looks cool and keeps her warm).
Marconi 2 — Oriole, 1929 Bird Boat Jock MacLean, SFYC The pretty yellow Oriole was built in 1929 in San Francisco by United Ship Repair. She has mostly sailed out of Belvedere. "I have sailed on her off and on since 1974," says her current caretaker, Jock MacLean. She has been in the MacLean family three times over the past 50 years and rebuilt to some degree each time, starting with Jock's dad. Jock himself is a manager at KKMI, so that doesn't hurt. Jock says his secrets to success include "Good crew, a great boat, keeping her in good shape, and sailing her every week to keep the cobwebs off." Regular crew this year were Jock MacLean Jock's son Lachlan and daughter Katie, plus Troy Johnson, Shane Holt and Jamie Hauer. SF BAY CLASSICS (4r, 0t) GAFF — 1) Brigadoon, 4 points; 2) Makani Kai, 1970 40-ft Angelman Sea Spirit ketch, Ken & Kristine Inouye, MMBA, 7; 3) Aïda, 1962 55-ft
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"I found her lying in San Diego in pretty rough condition in 2018. After trucking her up to Sausalito, I have personally been restoring Kay using skills learned while helping build the Matthew Turner. Neil Gibbs "We started entering Kay in the classic wooden boat regattas several years ago. Her newer sails and a clean bottom certainly help, but our success is primarily due to our skilled and dedicated crew. We sail most Tuesday evenings from spring through autumn, which gives everyone plenty of practice." Sylvia and Barry Stompe, Charles Bronson, Steve Hoffman, Mattia Cosmi, Andy Eggler, Tommy Finnegan, Jimmie Marquez, Don Lindsey, Doug Finley and Bob Higgins are regulars aboard Kay.
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BAMA Cup — Ma's Rover, F-31R John Donovan, BAMA The Bay Area Multihull Association awarded their BAMA Cup to Ma's Rover
John Hope, John Donovan, Rhim Fleischman
in November. Skipper John Donovan says that he and Mark Eastham have a great yet weird partnership. John previously sailed Millennium Falcon, but that Cross 27 trimaran needed repair and John didn't have time to fix it. Mark had moved back to the East Coast, and Ma's Rover was sitting in his yard on Cape Cod. He offered her to John. So John drove her back to Paradise Cay from Massachusetts to sail her on San Francisco Bay, but she's still in Mark's name. John gave Falcon away and fixed up Ma's Rover. Mark sails with John whenever he can, including in the SSS Three Bridge Fiasco and BAMA Doublehanded Farallones this year. John's favorite races are the Three Bridge, the DHF and the Delta Ditch Run. "It's been a relatively light-wind year," he says, "so no sketchy moments. I didn't win a single race, but came in second a lot." In addition to Mark, crew this year were Rhim Fleischman, John Hope and Zan Drejes. BAMA CUP (10r, 3t) 1) Ma's Rover, 33.6 points; 2) Greyhound, F-22, Evan McDonald, BYC, 33.2; 3) Bottle
Rocket, SeaCart 30, David Schumann, SFYC, 27.4. (22 boats) More info at www.sfbama.org
Mercury Travel Trophy — Jade Mike Burch, Cabrillo Beach YC The 18-ft Mercury keelboat was designed by Ernest Nunes and first built in 1939. The class is still going strong, with a series that travels up and down California, with the champion winning the Paxton Davis Travel Trophy. "The Mercury class has some of the best venues for both on and off the water," writes repeat champion Mike Burch. "We missed the Midwinters this year down in Los Angeles at Cabrillo Beach YC due to a knee replacement. The second was up at Huntington Lake with Kyle." Kyle is Mike's son. "It is only a three-race regatta, but it is usually the highest-attended regatta of the year. After the first race, everyone goes ashore and has lunch with family and friends. Then you go out and sail the afternoon race. We only have one race on Sunday. The lake sailing is challenging but really fun. The fleet socializing is great. "Next up was Stillwater YC's annual Labor Day Regatta, the 72nd year that the Mercury fleet has raced. My daughter
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Colvin gaff schooner, Andy & Melissa Flick, PtSPYC/MMBA, 9. (8 boats) MARCONI 1 — 1) Kay of Göteborg, 4 points; 2) Water Witch, 1928 56-ft P Class cutter, John Egleston, SFYC, 9; 3) Gold Star, 1960 47-ft schooner, Jim Cullen, PtSPYC/MMBA, 12. (9 boats) MARCONI 2 — 1) Oriole, 4 points; 2) Cuckoo, Bird, Bill Claussen, RYC, 5; 3) Neja, Dasher 32, Jim Borger, MMBA, 6. (13 boats)
Kyle Burch, Kristen Wilson, Mike Burch
Kristen sailed with me on that one. Saturday we left the string line a little early and sailed out looking for sea otters. We ended up seeing three of them, which made Kristen's trip completely worth it. Sailing was a little light but very competitive. Sunday we had some breeze and some bump in which we had our hands full. The hospitality is second to none. "The PCCs were down in Los Angeles. Kristen sailed with me. The competition was really tough. Saturday breeze was
up with some rain squalls. The fourth race of the day was canceled due to breeze and radar showing more to come." Sunday had lighter breeze. "Nationals at SFYC had some of the toughest conditions — shifty and puffy. PRO Forrest Gay and his crews did an unbelievable job on the water. I have to thank Randy Smith for putting on the event, and hosting Kyle and myself at his place. The regatta came down to the last leeward leg. We were tied with Randy, bow to stern going around the top mark. We found a little puff down the middle that he didn't get. It was a very special weekend with Kyle." MERCURY PAXTON DAVIS TRAVEL TROPHY (5 regattas) 1) Jade, 17; 2) Space Invader, Dave West, RYC, 12; 3) Frenzy Too, Chris Messano, CBYC, 9. (31 boats) More info at www.mercury-sail.com
Nordic Folkboat — Freja Tom Reed, StFYC As in the Mercury fleet, the 2023 Folkboat champs are repeat winners. Tom Reed and crew have sailed to another victory in a 25-ft design that dates back to 1941. "Dave Kresgi, who has crewed for us for the last four years, and my son Tommy sailed with me all year this year," said Tom Reed. "We won our fourth consecutive season championship, which makes a total of 11 Folkboat season championships now." Tom Reed
NORDIC FOLKBOAT (30r, 6t) 1) Freja, 29 points; 2) Polperro, Peter Jeal, BVBC, 42; 3) Thea, Chris Herrmann, SFYC, 71. (10 boats) More info at www.sfbayfolkboats.org
J/105 — Blackhawk Ryan Simmons, SFYC "Thank you for the attention and recognition to the J/105 fleet," writes Ryan Simmons, skipper of Blackhawk. "We are proud to be part of the largest and one of the most competitive one-design fleets on the Bay — standing atop the leaderboard for the 2023 championship season is an honor!" R yan and his cr ew ar e r epeat December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 57
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winners, plus they won the J/105 Fleet 1 championship in 2017, 2015 and 2014. "The key to our success this year was consistency," says Ryan. "For the season championship scoring, we throw out the worst 25% of our finishes. In 2023, we were the only boat to finish all of the races, which meant all throwouts were for our worst races and were not burned on a DNS or DNF." Rolex Big Boat Series is among his favorite regattas. "Crossing the finish line to win a Rolex watch has got to be the top of every sailor's list. Winning our third Rolex watch in the last four years is a memory that will stick with our c r e w f o r e v e r. We also brought back Encinal YC as a host regatta. Racing from Alcatraz down the Estuary was a great new adRyan Simmons dition to the fleet schedule, as well as the J/105 women's skipper event, when Kristin, my wife, and I get to switch positions on the boat. "Luckily it was a pretty tame year on Blackhawk, which was a big key to our success in 2023 — avoiding any major breakdowns or issues. "We are so blessed to have a consistent crew, for our fourth consecutive season. The main crew consisted of Brent Draney, Nico Colomb, Kristin Simmons, Jon Rosen, Collette Zaro and Lindsay Browne. We also had contributions from Katie Carter, Nathan de Vries, Matt Clark, Betsy Weiler and Ryan Barnett." J/105 (52r, 13t) 1) Blackhawk, 90 points; 2) Godot 2.0, Phillip Laby, SSC, 154. 3) Akula, Doug Bailey, SSS, 159. (37 boats) More info at www.sfj105.org
West Coast Sailing Grand Prix ILCA 7 (Laser) Chris Simenstad, RYC "The District 24 Grand Prix has varied venues," says Chris Simenstad, a first-time champion in this regional series. "I really enjoyed sailing in all the regattas, but the Nor Cals in Santa Cruz, Lake Yosemite in Merced, and the Tahoe Fleet Championships in the Sierra near Truckee were my favorites. "I'm fairly new to Laser racing. The regattas are competitive on the water, and the camaraderie and good times Page 58 • Latitude 38 • December, 2023
surrounding the events round out the whole experience. I'm hooked!" This year, the fleet lowered the number of regattas required to qualify for the podium from five to three (five seemed to set the bar too high).
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ILCA 6 (Laser Radial) Toshinari Takayanagi, RYC "I am thrilled about winning the West Coast District 24 ILCA 6 Grand Prix this year," writes Toshi Takayanagi. "We had eight regattas in various venues (bay, ocean, lake) and under diverse conditions (strong/moderate/light winds, with/without current, etc.), with more than 60 sailors participating in total, making it a fantastic season. "I participated in all the eight regattas, which was a key factor in securing my victory in the series. While all of them were Toshi Takayanagi enjoyable, the most memorable events were the High Sierra Regatta and Tahoe Laser Champs, featuring fantastic sailing conditions, joyful lakeside camps, and intense competitions.
"A notable highlight of this season was the emergence of young talents: Cooper, Isabella, Nicolas, and Taylor each claimed victory in their respective regattas with impressive performance. Competing with them and witnessing their excellent boat-handling skills were quite enjoyable. I hope to see them participate in more Grand Prix regattas next year." Toshi also had remarkable racing experiences outside the Grand Prix series. Particularly noteworthy were the Masters Worlds in Pattaya, Thailand, where he finished 10th, and the US Masters Nationals in Alameda, which he won (see Racing Sheet on pages 73-74 in this issue). "I could feel my sailing skills improving slowly but steadily, and I am looking forward to another great sailing season." ILCA 7 (11 regattas) 1) Chris Simenstad, 44 points; 2) Julian Soto, Charcuterie YC, 40; 3) Tom Burden, RYC, 32. (53 boats/33 qualifiers) ILCA 6 (8 regattas) 1) Toshi Takayanagi, 58 points; 2) Courtney Clamp, RYC, 13; 3) Alberto Rivera, StFYC, 11. (40 boats/4 qualifiers) More info at https://laser.org/district24
Moore 24 Roadmaster Series Firefly Joel Turmel, RYC Joel Turmel believes that campaigning Firefly relentlessly for the past few years has led him and his crew to secure the season championship this year. "We were never off the podium this year, and that's what it takes in this fleet," he says. "As far as I'm concerned, the Moore 24 fleet does it right in terms of competing all over the West Coast to hone different skills. We are lucky
Marcos McGee, Rob Dubuc, Joel Turmel, Chris Weis
enough to compete against some of the best sailors on the West Coast. "Top events from memory are the Huntington Nationals and the Gorge PCCs. Huntington was particularly shifty and tactical this year. The Gorge, on the other hand, was just straight savage wind-wise! "For Firefly, above all, none of this gets done without my two solid mates (on and off the water), Chris Weis and Rob Dubuc! They are fantastic yachtsmen. "We regularly race together on different platforms, such as the Cape 31, which makes trust and communication second nature for us. Filling out the team this year was a mix between Noah Berrangos and Marcos McGee, two very solid sailors as well. "We feel very fortunate to be part of not only a top-tier fleet, but also an amazing Moore family."
high-placing finishes all season," says Peter Schoen. His favorite race of the season was the Doublehanded Lightship. "The Moore is a lot of fun when the wind picks up, and we are able to surf on swells. The DHL offers the downwind fun factor without the long upwind required for longer offshore races." Like others we asked, Peter found the conditions this year to be pretty manageable. Roe Patterson is Peter's boat partner and usual doublehanded co-skipper, but Tom Paulling joined Peter for the Delta Ditch Run and John Kernot for the SSS Round the Rocks this year. Regarding the tie for points in the Shorthanded Series, Peter, who is also the 2023 president of the Moore 24 class, explains that "Suerte wins the tiebreak due to having a higher best finish than Gruntled (second vs. third, respectively)." MOORE 24 ROADMASTER SERIES (19 regattas) 1) Firefly, 1143 points; 2) Mooretician, Peter Schoen/Roe Patterson, TYC, 991; 3) Safety Third, Kurt Lahr, RYC, 938. (56 boats) MOORE 24 SHORTHANDED SERIES (6 regattas) 1) Mooretician, 370 points; 2) Suerte, Nick Dugdale/Nico Colomb, SFYC, 255; 3) Gruntled, Nick Diel/Steve McCarthy, SSS, 255. (57 boats) More info at www.moore24.org
Peter Schoen and Roe Patterson
Moore 24 Doublehanded Series Mooretician Peter Schoen/Roe Patterson, TYC "Success is all about consistency. Aside from our Three Bridge Fiasco finish, we were able to string together
Olson 25 — O'mar David Scott, BYC "Due to many circumstances, the Olson 25 Bay Championship had low turnout this year, both in event registrations and attendance in individual races," reports David Scott. "So, O'mar's success, in part, must be attributed to
OLSON 25 (13r, 3t) 1) O'mar, 13 points; 2) Synchronicity, Steve Smith, HMBYC, 16; 3) Sketch, David Gruver, SFYC, 26. (5 boats)
Wylie Wabbit Season Series and Wylie Wabbit Travel Series — Kwazy Colin Moore, RYC "Our fleet had a good year, with signs of regrowth with new teams showing up and lots of really close finishes," writes Colin Moore. Colin attributes Kwazy's success to per severance (i.e., showing up) and solid, steady crew work by Rachel Fogel, Alex Hanford, Guillaume Canivet and Ben Costello. "We gained at the corners. For Kwazy, unlike some others, it was a pretty clean year." Colin Moore Colin's favorite races included the Wiver Wun in August December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 59
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'Firefly' splashing up the gnarly Columbia River Gorge in the Moore 24 PCCs.
participating in all of the season counters. "Throughout the season, we enjoyed some exciting and close competition with Synchronicity in particular. Whether windward/leeward buoy courses, fixedmark courses, or a distance race, we were often neck and neck throughout the course with some very close roundings and finishes. "Having a steady, reliable and fun crew has added a lot to good performance. So thanks to JP Camille, Marco Falcioni, Joanna Karraker and Matt Kelly. "Several Olson 25s have recently changed owner ship, and at least two of these boats will be enthusiastically joining the racing fleet for 2024. We have just written a new season calendar for 2024 and are David Scott looking forward to some great racing in the coming year. Next season seems promising." The 2024 schedule includes a few different regattas than in the past, but as we were going to press with this issue, the fleet was still hashing out the final version.
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SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART I and the Nationals hosted by RYC in October. "The Wiver Wun, which now goes to Rio Vista past all the foilers and windmills, has some of the best strongwind, flat-water sailing one could ask for. Wabbits really light up. It didn't hurt that the finish had three boats inside 30 seconds after 50 miles; we came in second. The Nationals had a real sense of enthusiasm with new faces, interesting courses, and tight racing. Not our best, but still a lot of fun." WYLIE WABBIT SEASON SERIES (11 regattas, 2t) 1) Kwazy, 25 points; 2) Mr. MacGregor, Kim Desenberg/John Groen, RYC, 26; 3) Bad Hare Day, Erik Menzel, RYC, 31. (17 boats) WYLIE WABBIT TRAVEL SERIES (5 regattas, 2t) 1) Kwazy, 5 points; 2) Weckless, Tim Russell, SFYC, 6; 3) Bad Hare Day, 6. (8 boats) More info at www.wyliewabbit.org
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Islander 36 Charles Ormand Cup Windwalker Richard & Tom Schoenhair, BYC "The Charles Ormand Cup for the Spinnaker Division Season's Championship went to Windwalker," writes Rick Van Mell of Vanishing Animal. "The Buster Hammond Trophy for the Non-Spinnaker Division Championship went to Kapai and the I-36 commodore, Rick Egan." Richard and Tom Schoenhair have been a very successful father -and-son team over the years on WindRichard Schoenhair walker. "Both of us raced the boat this year individually on some races and together on the others — a family affair," says Richard. "The 2023 Islander 36 season had a great variety of venues, starting with the doublehanded Three Bridge Fiasco. There were destination races to Vallejo and Westpoint, round-the-buoy races in the South Bay, and the Encinal race out to Point Bonita. The only issue we had was when we were protested by a freighter in the South Bay!" Crew were Randy Hinz, Bill DeMeulenaere, Hal Chapman, Philippe Lamy, Ryan Hornung, Tom Shoenhair, Donna Domino and Jonathan Bach. "The Islander 36 is a great spinnaker or non-spinnaker boat. We really enjoy the companionship of the other boat owners and the events organized by the Islander 36 Association."
Islander 36 Buster Hammond Trophy — Kapai Richard Egan, SSS "For Kapai, what was most important was consistency," says the Islander 36 commodore, Rick Egan. "Woody Allen said 99% of life is just showing up, and we did. We only Bryce Egan and his dad Rick at the Islander 36 awards party, held at Coyote missed one of our Point YC in San Mateo on November 18. scheduled races. "Our crew really enjoyed the Weste plan to feature the Yacht Racpoint Regatta." That's a YRA distance ing Association in Season Champions race with a start near Treasure Island, Part 2, coming up in the January issue a long run down the Bay to Redwood of Latitude 38. We'll also include more City, and a party at Westpoint Harbor. one-design fleets. If we haven't yet been Rick said it was very well organized, with in touch with your Bay Area fleet, please breezy conditions at the start and nice email us at racing@latitude38.com. food at the finish. Some active local one-design classes Kapai's regular crew this year inthat won't be declaring a season chamcluded Kathy Egan, Bryce Egan, Reanne pionship this year include the J/88s, Wong Egan and Mike Lynch. "Kathy is Santa Cruz 27s, Etchells, Bear Boats my wife; Bryce is my son; Reanne is and Melges 24s. Bryce's wife and our daughter-in-law." Hans Hansen, who chairs the San Richard pointed out that "Islander Francisco Bay Bear Boat Association 36s are the Swiss Army knives of Bay and sails Bear #69 Velerosa, wrote, "We Area sailing: Cruise, race, daysail, or did not have any class races this year, simply spend the night at the harbor. It only some participation in the Master checks all the boxes for a boat from the Mariners Regatta. Tim Maloney on Magic '70s." continues to be our reigning champion. "Another event that has proved popu"We had a great year for boat restoralar is our Summer Sailstice Rally," adds tion though, with more Bears getting in Rick Van Mell. "During the COVID lockshape this year than in the past decade, downs in 2020, when no one was runso hopefully we can get them out on ning races, we created a family-focused the Bay for racing next year. Bears that event that maintained social distancing had significant work done in 2023 are: and followed the COVID rules. Panda #9, Sugarfoot #13, Trigger #20, "It was also unique in that it featured Renegade #35, Chance #47, Magic #65, both a starting line and finish line that Kodiak #68 and Velerosa #69. you could actually see! We used the "We have two Bears on the hard shadow of the Bay Bridge for the starting looking (desperately) for caretakers and line, then rallied around Angel Island to restoration: Huck Finn #17 and Bongo finish across the shadow of the bridge #64 — both are currently owned by the east of Treasure Island. Here's a link Cass Gidley Marina/Sausalito Comto that event: http://islander36.org/ munity Boating Center." Learn more at sailstice23/sailstice23.html. There's even https://groups.io/g/bearboats. some fun video thanks to Bella Luna Don McIlwraith of the Melges 24 class skipper Bob Daprato." likewise has hopes for 2024. "Next year, the Melges 24 Worlds will come to San ISLANDER 36 (8r, 2t) Francisco Bay in August. And there will SPINNAKER — 1) Windwalker, 6 points; 2) be a series to report on top of that." Luna Sea, Dan Knox, SBYC, 12; 3) Renaissance The Singlehanded Sailing Society will of Tahoe Vista, Stephen Douglass, NoYC, 21. (3 celebrate their season winners at RYC on boats) Sunday, December 10, from 3:30 to 5:30 NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Kapai, 6 points; 2) p.m. We'll include the SSS in either the Bella Luna, Robert Daprato, PresYC, 15; 3) CasJanuary or February issue. siopeia, Kit Wiegman, IYC, 18. (3 boats) — latitude/chris More info at http://islander36.org
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f we hit an iceberg," joked Sandra Barnes when referring to her Nicholson 38 sailboat, Boat Bum Gal, "it's the iceberg that is going down!" Seemingly indestructible, the NIC 38 is a heavy masthead sloop designed by John Alden with a two-inch-thick fiberglass hull that boasts an excellent righting capability if capsized. But when the fateful day came to put her iceberg theory to the test, it was Boat Bum Gal that lost, and Barnes had no choice but to watch her slip under the surface of the sea. It was November 3, and Barnes and her crew of three were nearing the end of Leg 1 of the Baja Ha-Ha cruiser's rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Boat Bum Gal was Sandra's home. She was using the popular cruising rally as a gateway to her move to La Paz, Mexico, where she planned to live after the Ha-Ha, which takes around two weeks to complete. It was around 1 a.m., and Ray McCormack, a USCG-certified 200-ton captain from Vancouver, Washington, was at the helm. Despite warnings, McCormack approached Turtle Bay near the rocky coastline, and it came as no surprise to many that Boat Bum Gal ended up on the rocks. According to Barnes, she hit the rocks four times before coming to a dead stop. The sound of her impact was excruciatingly loud from inside the cabin, where Barnes was just coming out of the head. Chaos ensued on board as McCormack reportedly shouted profanities and yelled orders at the third crew member, Bryan Hall. Just minutes following the fourth impact, the cupboards in the galley imploded, and the water started pouring in. Barnes, who was barefoot at the time, remembers frantically looking for her shoes while she watched in horror as gear, food, and galley supplies began floating all around her as the cabin took on water. Due to her back and neck injuries that required surgery a few years back, Barnes suffers with severe joint issues, and knew that if she was going to be doing any walking on the rocks, or anywhere for that matter, she needed to be wearing shoes. Things got real as Barnes overheard Hall make a mayday call on the radio. She remembered thinking how surprising it was that her crew wasn't giving her any instructions at all. Despite having a six-person survival raft on board, McCormack asked Hall to lower the dinghy, which required a 4-hp motor stored in
'Boat Bum Gal' was in Avalon, Catalina, on October 17 before her trip down to San Diego, and a fateful Leg 1 of the Baja Ha-Ha to Turtle Bay, Baja California, in early November.
the aft cabin. It was clear that time was of the essence, and they eventually got the dinghy free and the motor attached, and both crew got on board while Barnes continued her search. She remembers the water felt warm as she took in the scary, surreal scene that unfolded around her. But soon it became clear that she had run out of time and needed to get out. Boat Bum Gal was going under, it had been less than five minutes from the last impact, and there was nothing to do to save her now. With bare feet and a heavy heart, Barnes made her way onto the dinghy, where her crew were waiting. Holding the only item she grabbed — a small fanny pack — she took her place in the dinghy and just watched in disbelief as her boat, her home, her baby, sank. Oh Captain, My Captain
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his was Sandra Barnes' first Baja Ha-Ha, and though she had done some
cruising, she describes herself as a "Newbie Sailor." Sailing, and particularly Boat Bum Gal, was her happy place. She was ecstatic when McCormack reached out to her on Facebook after seeing her post that she was participating in the event. McCormack has over 5,000 Facebook followers and oftentimes picks up jobs by searching his newsfeed. Reaching her through Facebook Messenger, he told her he had experience with the event, and he'd like to join Barnes' crew and help take her boat safely to Mexico, and he'd do this if she agreed to cover all of his expenses. Not knowing who McCormack was, Barnes did her due diligence and ran a background check, looked at his posts, read comments from his fans from previous deliveries and work, and recognized that he had a lot of ocean, navigation, and cruising experience. Another big bonus: McCormack carried his own charts on his personal laptop. Barnes used Navionics on her iPad, but defaulted
AND THE CAPTAIN AT THE HELM
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and we were finally off and running at 5:49 p.m., exiting Point Loma. I have the greatest crew ever!" The crew set up three-hour watch schedules for the nights but agreed to be more flexible during the day and just take turns based on how everyone felt. As they cruised into the second day on board, the crew noticed that the batteries weren't charging properly, and they were drawing more electrical power than they'd planned for. Consequently, all the unnecessary gadgets were turned off to conserve energy. This included the autopilot, as McCormack was using his own chartplotter, and the autopilot was deemed not necessary. The crew continued to make their way to the finish of the first leg of the Baja Ha-Ha: Bahia Tortuga (aka Turtle Bay) in Mexico. The Poobah Gave Warnings
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'Boat Bum Gal' sank in relatively shallow water near the entrance to Turtle Bay.
to McCormack, who had plotted the route in advance. She was really happy to know that someone with his level of experience would be on board, and she'd get to learn some new things from him along the way. Ray made it clear that if he didn't feel the boat was safe, they were not going. This was comforting to Barnes, who agreed to all of Ray's conditions, and was confident that her boat would meet his expectations. Green Lights
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cCormack met the crew in San Diego, and spent the better part of a day on board Boat Bum Gal looking at her systems and safety equipment. Prior to his arrival, Barnes had the boat checked out by many mechanics and riggers, and was looking forward to the adventure. It
was around 7 p.m. on the evening of October 30 that McCormack gave the green light, and Boat Bum Gal cast her lines and was off to sea. The crew was eager to catch up with the rest of the Baja HaHa fleet that had shoved off at 11 a.m. that same morning. Unfortunately, only an hour after their departure, they were forced to head back to the marina due to an electrical issue on the boat. They spent an overnight back at Point Loma for repairs, and by the next day (October 31) Boat Bum Gal was back out to sea. Sandra took to Facebook to share this post: "A little late starting, but we are finally off on our adventure. Due to a last-minute crew change, we left San Diego, Monday at 7 p.m. (We were supposed to leave at 11 a.m. with the rest of the fleet). By 8 p.m., we had electrical issues and returned to port. My crew worked diligently throughout Tuesday
s the organizing authority of the Baja Ha-Ha, Richard Spindler, who is affectionately called the Grand Poobah, set the finish of Leg 1 to be 15 miles north and 15 miles west of Turtle Bay, well offshore to avoid the notoriously dangerous shoreline at the entrance. He includes this warning in the event's published sailing instructions, and also addressed the warning at the skipper's meeting prior to the start of the rally. The message was simple: Entering unfamiliar anchorages at night can be extremely dangerous, and Turtle Bay is top of the list for extreme danger if a boat enters too close to shore. The safe passage entrance into Turtle Bay is well over a mile long, and it is not a problem at all provided that those at the helm give a wide berth, and are not tempted to cut the corners near shore. Despite all these advance warnings and instructions to avoid the rocky and irregular coastline of Turtle Bay, Boat Bum Gal's tracker clearly shows that she took a course close to shore.
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t was around 1 a.m. the night of November 3, when Boat Bum Gal was coming in under power; the sails were down. Several officials, including the nightwatchman at Turtle Bay, heard the mayday call and were quick to respond. The crew got to shore, and with the help of strangers, were provided a place to stay in Turtle Bay. The time was around 3 a.m. when Barnes, who was without shoes, was December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 63
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These images show 'Boat Bum Gal's track approaching the entrance to Turtle Bay around 1 a.m. on November 3. "Should we not have been that close to shore?" captain Ray McCormack wrote in a social media post on November 8.
given a pair by the family that took the crew in. The next day, Barnes was questioned by the Mexican navy and spoke on behalf of the crew. Navy officials cleared the crew after asking questions about who was at the helm: Had they fallen asleep, were they drinking alcohol, or taking drugs? It was established that McCormack was at the helm, and there were no drugs or alcohol involved. As organizing authority of the Ha-Ha, Richard Spindler also questioned Barnes and McCormack about the events that led up to the sinking of Boat Bum Gal. He Said, She Said
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e said Sandra sought him out to be captain of Boat Bum Gal; she said he reached out to her after seeing her post on Facebook. He said he had done the Baja Ha-Ha four times; she said it was just one. He said the boat went down because of a problem with the autopilot; she said the autopilot was turned off and he was using his own chartplotter. He said it was blowing 22 knots offshore and too windy for the boat to cruise out there; she said her boat is a beast and performs really well in big breezes. He said the sails and rigging were aged; she said they were all functioning fine. He said that the boat had less-thanoptimal maintenance; she said she had mechanics on board before departure and the boat had been maintained. He said the disrepair of her boat caused the disaster; she said that he did. Barnes said she has nothing to lose by telling Page 64 • Latitude 38 • December, 2023
the truth, because in her words, "I have already lost everything." To her astonishment, McCormack has not reached out to Barnes to discuss the incident. She expected some kind of apology, or at the very least, a crew debrief to create an incident report that could be released to the public. McCormack took to Facebook immediately upon his return to tell his side of the story, inciting hundreds of positive and negative comments from his Facebook followers, many who are USCG captains themselves. McCormack referred to those who chimed in with shock or concern as 'naysayers' and warned that they would be blocked from his Facebook account if they continued with their negativity. Many people were blocked as a result.
move to La Paz will have to go back over to the 'someday' column. Due to the dangers and costs involved with diving the wreckage, Barnes made the difficult decision to sign salvage rights over to the Mexican government, as she is on fixed income and can't afford to pull her up. Someday, she says, she may get another boat. But for now, her plans are to hunker down with family in California, while she explores her legal options. The unfortunate fate of Boat Bum Gal is a reminder that before cruisers hire a captain or take on new crew, it's critically important to check out references, investigate captain's histories and ask to see physical copies of their licenses, read the event SIs, and always make sure there are shoes nearby in the event of an emergency. — schelleen rathkopf
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veryone wants to know if there will be an official investigation. McCormack addressed this question on his Facebook page, writing, "I doubt it. The Mexican military cleared us for leaving, doubt there will be a US Investigation as it was in international Mexican waters with no comprehensive insurance involved." Sandra carried liability insurance only on Boat Bum Gal, as she found that finding insurance on a boat over 50 years old was very challenging. She lost everything: her home, her belongings, a special ring that was a family heirloom, a beautifully framed picture of her daughter. Her plans to
Schelleen Rathkopf is the producer and owner of Race Week Anacortes, and resides in Seattle, Washington. As the former editor of Northwest Yachting magazine, she is drawn to stories that impact the sport of sailboat racing and cruising. A friend of Sandra Barnes set up a GoFund me for her: www.gofundme. com/f/sailor-who-lost-her-boat-duringthe-bajahaha? What Happened on Boat Bum Gal, as told by Ray McCormack Readers — The following text was taken from the aforementioned November 8 Facebook post by Ray McCormack.
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AND THE CAPTAIN AT THE HELM
Left: 'Boat Bum Gal' in the Port of Los Angeles in January. Center: Before the Ha-Ha, 'Boat Bum Gal' was at anchor off Coronado, in San Diego, awaiting the start of the rally. Right: 'Boat Bum Gal' at an unknown location in 2016.
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n October 29, I was contacted by the owner of Boat Bum Gal to help sail her boat from San Diego to La Paz while joining the Baja Ha-Ha fleet. We mutually agreed that I would not be paid, but that she would pay for my expenses. We also discussed about the condition of the boat, and my position on the boat as being the most experienced individual on board out of the three of us. Flew down to the boat on Monday morning October 30, after arriving to the boat I could see that this late 1970's boat had marginal maintenance. Just as an example the tricolor light was wired into the running lights, the LED deck lights [were] wired into the steaming light, and the AC charger on board had a 110 male plug that was plugged into a 110 plug box and was not on any breaker. I figured that with traveling the Baja Ha-Ha fleet there is safety in numbers. So we departed later that day around dusk, about 9 p.m. we saw the house bank run down to 10.5 volts, so turned the boat around and we went back into port. Next morning, we investigated batteries, regulator, and alternator. Found the charging post on the alternator was severely corroded and the main feed line terminal had basically fallen apart. After re-crimping the cable, cleaning all terminals and post on the alternator, we reassembled and finally got over
Also, my coastal explorer stopped 14 volt charging at the batteries while showing tracks for reference of the direcengine was running. We tried departtion of the boat. I had a ticket out with ing again around 5 p.m. on October 31. rose point to try and address this, but As we headed down the coast, we this laptop is now in 40 feet of salt water. saw that the autopilot would make 30 At around 1 a.m. we noted the batdegree turns with out notification, this tery voltage was dropping off again, so was a sign that the battery voltage was we started the generator but then the compromised. We proceeded to get out 110 breakers at the panel were tripping. the portable generator and hook it up We dragged out the extension cords to shore power for charging batteries. Also, we found that when putting the autopilot in standby mode On the deck of 'Boat Bum Gal' while she was anchored in Avalon Bay, Catalina. the hydraulic pump would not release the helm for 20 seconds. Around 10 p.m. on November 2 I awoke to the boat healing over from wind. Got up and found that we had an offshore breeze blowing about 22 knots. Eased the sails and made the decision to turn inland a bit to mitigate the wind conditions the boat was seeing. The sails and rigging on this boat were quite aged. The boom vang had already broke off the mast. Our route had us going into the center of the entrance of Turtle Bay as noted by cruising guides, and this is what I have done over my last four times into Turtle Bay. The new plan was to run the 10 meter depth or 30 feet to get close to land allowing us to take the sails down. Usually when I deviate from my planned route I will drag my weigh points [waypoints] over to the new intended route. I did not do this which means I had no reference to the boat changing direction.
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THE SINKING OF BOAT BUM GAL to make it so the generator would be directly connected to the AC charger via that 110 male plug mentioned earlier. There was quite a bit of activity in the cockpit while this was going on and I suspect this is when the autopilot made a turn, and I did not know about it. Suddenly the crew up on the rail says he sees rocks, and just then I see the breaking water on rocks. Immediately I tried putting auto pilot in standby, but it would not disengage. So I reached for the gear shifter to slam it in reverse, but just as I touched it we slammed into a rock. She popped over the rock and laid over on her port side. Each swell that came by flipped her over to the other side as she moved farther up onto the rocks. Eventually we ended up on the port side again, and that is when I saw cabinetry moving down below and copious amounts of water coming in. Bryan got on the radio and started brisbane-hh-04-23 brisbane-hh-06-23
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he bar won't make much money on this cruise-in," I said to the volunteer bartender. It was no surprise that this was not a group of drinkers. Most of them had come by kayak, with a few small sailboats and traditional pulling boats in the mix. They were on a week-long tour of the Bay, and had arranged to camp out on our club's guest dock for the night. "We're doing a brisk trade in hot chocolate and tea," said the bartender. "But the margins are small, and they know I'm a volunteer so they're not even tipping. This crowd knows that only paid bartenders are entitled to tips, so I changed the tip jar sign to read 'support our Junior sailing program,' and that seems to work." One of the kayakers, an older woman who seemed to be more or less in charge of the expedition, hove up to the bar. "Thanks again for hosting our group on your guest dock overnight," she said. "Camping out on the dock is probably against marina rules, but we didn't exactly try hard to find where it is written …" "No problem," I said. "The marina rules don't apply to our club guest dock; at least, I don't think so. Anyway, it's easy to keep this under the radar since you arrived on Saturday after the marina office closed and plan to be gone long before Monday morning when the office opens." "Whatever happened to the S.F. Bay Water Trail?" asked the bartender. "Isn't there supposed to be a network of sites that accommodate legal overnight camping by very small boats?" "That was our dream," sighed the kayaker. "We got legislation passed creating the Water Trail, we got funding, we had all the organizational infrastructure in place. Then the project was hijacked by people whose main interest was to make sure that a kayak would never disturb a bird." "Audubon shoots themselves in the foot every time they oppose a kayak access point," added a rower joining the conversation. He was the owner of a genuine Whitehall pulling boat, complete with three sets of sliding seats. "I can't think of a single kayaker or rower who isn't also a birder. I'm a case in point: never had the slightest interest in birding till I got my first kayak, and discovered, to my great surprise, that I was not going anywhere without my pocket binoculars and my bird identification card." Page 68 • Latitude 38 • December, 2023
"So then, what happened to the Water Trail for overnight stops?" I asked. "Oh, they designated plenty of 'Trail Heads,'" said the kayaker-in-charge. "But they did next to nothing to improve access." "Then what was the point?" I asked. "Each trailhead is certified not to let small boat activity interfere with wildlife," she responded, "which does have some value. Plus a bunch of 'green marina' items to check off. And most sites have an ADA-compliant 80-ft gangway and a low-freeboard float. But no onsite storage, so they're only useful as put-in sites for people with a garage or backyard to store their own boat, and a car to transport it. Once you have that, you have many launch options, 'trailhead' designation or otherwise." "But with on-site storage…" I prompted.
"The first requirement for a Water Trail 'trailhead' is a secure and legal place to leave a car for a week." "Then you don't need the car or the garage space. And with on-site storage for group-owned small craft, especially when run by a nonprofit, volunteerbased club, you don't even need the boat. That's when access really starts to improve for the masses." "Take my dragon boat club," added the rower. "Along with the dragon boats, we have a collection of kayaks and small outriggers. For a hundred bucks a year, you get unlimited access to this fleet, and the boats are stored right down on the marina floats so there's no schlepping from your garage. You can't rent a comparable boat for even three hours from a commercial operator for that little money." "The first requirement for a Water Trail 'trailhead' is a secure and legal place to leave a car for a week," added another older paddler who, it turned out, had been part of the original Water Trail advocacy group. "None of the trailheads have this, which sort of proves that the people designating these sites probably never engaged in the activity that the Water Trail was originally intended to support." Meanwhile, one of the kayak paddlers
was carried in on a wheelchair. She had arranged for a loaner chair from the club, and there were plenty of willing hands to help her out of the boat and carry her and the chair up the steep ramp from the guest dock and across our non-ADA-compliant front entrance. "Proving once again that social architecture is at least as important as physical architecture to make group activities truly accessible," remarked one of the helpers after the disabled paddler was placed with a group by the fireplace and a warm drink put in her hands. "Stragglers in sight!" came the call from a bar window with a view of the open Bay. There were two 8-ft El Toros and one 7-ft Opti, approaching slowly in the fading seabreeze. "I can go out and offer them a tow," suggested the rower. His boat had seating and oarlocks for three-up, so he had enough power to provide a fast tow for the last quarter mile in the light air. "They'll be in before dark," confirmed the observer with the binoculars, his voice showing some relief that all boats were now accounted for. The sailors also checked in by VHF, and I was surprised to hear Lee Helm's voice over the radio. She was sailing a borrowed El Toro. "Welcome to our marina, Lee," I answered over the bar's VHF. I'll meet you on the guest dock with a lei and a mai tai." "That's like, just for Transpac," she insisted. "But you can have a double hot chocolate ready, no marshmallows." A half hour later, Lee was in the bar discussing the recent history of the Water Trail that never was. "That was all before I started my graduate work at the university," she said, "but like, I wish I had been around for that fight. What we needed from the Water Trail, and what we still need, is a network of sites where anyone can pull up in a kayak, with no advance reservations, and camp for the night without risk of getting arrested." "That's the gold standard," the Paddler-in-Charge agreed. "But there were too many obstacles." "The obstacles were imaginary," Lee insisted. "They missed the low-hanging Water Trail fruit." "Well, we still have Angel Island Kayak Camp, although it requires reservations long in advance. And the Point Pinole group campsite, which is a little easier to book."
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Top row, l to r: Even an 8-ft El Toro can cruise the Delta. But note the reef point; Tinsley Island is a great overnight stop, if you have connections; An outrigger and a dragon boat approach the 'Red Oak Victory' for breakfast. Center row, l to r: Make sure you have an easy way to get from the water to the ship; Don’t forget to check out Sea Scout options when planning overnight stops; Lunch stop on the way to Stockton. Bottom row, l to r: Lee's borrowed 'Toro in cruising trim, with about 50 pounds of added deadweight; 'Balclutha', part of the S.F. Maritime Museum on the Cityfront; If all else fails, find a yacht club guest dock to camp on.
"Two words: historical ships," said Lee. "You mean, for overnighting?" "For sure. Most of those ships are already in the business of hosting camp or scout groups overnight. They have staff, bathrooms, nearby restaurants; everything an overnighting kayaker needs." "Still have to schedule far in advance, I'll bet," added another paddler. "And you need a way to get from the kayak to the ship," said a kayak paddler. "I once kayaked to the Red Oak Victory for their Sunday morning pancake event — then discovered that there was no way to get onto the pier or onto the ship from the water. After some discussion, they lowered the pilot ladder down
the side of the ship, and I had the scare of my life about halfway up, when it occurred to me that this thing probably hadn't been out of its locker since the Second Punic War…" "That's the sort of barrier that a Coastal Conservancy or Boating and Waterways grant could fix," suggested the rower. "Nice physical result to show, and makes a high-value programmatic expansion feasible." "Are there enough ships to make this useful?" "Like, count 'em!" said Lee. "There's the Jeremiah O'Brien, the Red Oak Victory…" "Don't forget the aircraft carrier Hornet," someone added. "They even serve dinner and breakfast."
"Does the Potomac do overnights?" I asked. "Probably not, but it doesn't hurt to check it out." "Maybe even the Matthew Turner in Sausalito," another paddler suggested. "Kind of small, but I think they do sailing charters, so I'm sure something could be worked out." "Three more words," the other 'Toro sailor added. "Sea Scout ships! I sailed my kid's boat to Stockton a few years ago, to get the boat to Sail Camp. Seemed silly to drive 65 miles downwind with a perfectly good boat on the roof. A few kayaks came with me, and we discovered that you can sleep on any Sea Scout boat: Just write a generous check for diesel fuel…" "What were your other stops?" Lee December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 69
MAX EBB asked. "Were there any, like, official Water Trail sites?" "Just the group campsite at Point Pinole. Otherwise it was a 'roll your own' kind of water trail sojourn: Second night was at Martinez with the Sea Scouts, third night camped on the guest dock of Bridge Marina Yacht Club in Antioch, and fourth night at Tinsley." "Tinsley Island? You must have had connections…" "Right, but Eden Isle is available just down the river if you don't know anyone at St. Fancy," he reminded us. "Point is, you don't need a Water Trail to have an adventure in small boat cruising." "What do water trails look like in other parts of the county?" someone asked. "Seems like a trail should be linear, like a river trail. But here in the Central Bay, we have more of a network topology." "You're right, they are usually set up in rivers or along long lake shorelines," confirmed the Paddler-in-Charge. "Every few miles, corresponding to a short day's paddle, there's a platform big enough for a few tents and a portable head."
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"Yeah, having to put a head on each platform could be a deal-breaker as far as cost to maintain the trail is concerned," the rower surmised.
The 'Hornet' is set up for overnight guests, including dinner and breakfast. More expensive than camping, but cheaper than a hotel.
"Back in the day," explained another older paddler, "back East, there was a great sailing magazine called The Skipper. This was when just about all of Long Island Sound was about to become a 'no discharge' zone. Suddenly we all had to have holding tanks on our
cruising sailboats. The Skipper was opposed, and their article arguing against the new rules was titled 'To Diaper a Seagull.' They were wrong, of course. The marine sanitation rules had to apply everywhere if they were going to be enforceable, even in waters where it seemed silly. But I still think of that article, and especially the title, every time I find myself required to use a holding tank or find a porta-potty when I'm the only human for many miles around." "Fortunately we don't all take those rules literally," added another paddler. "I'm in a group that does evening paddles to a nearby beach for an illegal campfire and dinner every Thursday. We pee in the bushes. I figure that when we are well beyond the long arm of the poop police, we're also far enough away from human density for a little coliform left here and there to be OK as part of the natural ecosystem." "Self-serving rationalization!" Lee called him out. "But like, actually I think you're right." — max ebb
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THE RACING This issue highlights the change of seasons. We intersperse fall regattas (RYC Great Pumpkin, International Masters, SDYC Lipton Cup, DRYC Halloween Regatta) with national championships (ILCA Masters, Islander 36, Mercury) and winter races (RegattaPRO Winter One Design, GGYC Seaweed Soup, BYC Midwinters). Box Scores reflect the crossover of seasons too.
with any seriousness. First of all, this is a pursuit race, with the slowest-rated boats starting first. Second, although everyone must round Angel Island and Alcatraz, each skipper can decide which direction to round the marks. Third, before the race, volunteers on RIBs toss bags of candy into cockpits. Fourth, the RIBs then sow pumpkins along the race course. Fifth, competitors also compete in a trivia contest using pencil and paper. (No internet searches allowed!) Throughout the weekend, everyone can shop at the RYC Foundation's annual yard sale. This year, Saturday's racing was mostly successful despite a northeasterly in the morning. The first two races were sailed in mostly northerly breeze, with a small shift in direction between Races 1 and 2. For the third race, a typical San Francisco Bay westerly filled in with fall, not summer, wind speeds — fun rather than gnarly. One unfortunate incident, a collision between two competitors, sent one boat back to shore with a hole in her hull. The theme for the Halloween party Racing on the Deep Water Course in the Great Pumpkin Regatta.
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Much Fun at Great Pumpkin Richmond Yacht Club's founding motto is, "This club was built for fun." Each year, on the final weekend in October, RYC puts on a two-part regatta heavy on the fun, but with some serious racing too. The weekend starts on Friday evening with a pumpkin carving for the kids. Saturday is the serious-racing day, with three buoy races in three different areas (Southampton Shoal, Olympic Circle, and, farther south, the Deep Water Course for bigger, deeper-keel boats). For many one-design fleets, Saturday's races are season-championship counters, often the final set of races in the season. Even so, Halloween costumes aren't unheard of on Saturday. Following a couple of kegs of free beer back at the dock, the Halloween festivities really kick in, with a costume party, a buffet dinner and dancing to the tunes of Shark Sandwich. Sunday's racing is not so serious, although some fleets (including the Bay Area Multihull Association) include it as a season counter. Many factors compete
was Monster Mash, but the costume contest winner was dressed as an orange RYC inflatable mark — an homage to all the marks required to run Saturday's races. Sunday's pursuit race started on time without a hitch. A strong flood current kept over-earlies at bay. Surprisingly, most boats started in a mild westerly. But then the breeze softened and switched directions. Spinnakers blossomed, then mostly drooped. Sailors peeled off layers in the hot sun, and reapplied sunscreen. Out came fishing nets (for retrieval of the 15 pumpkins floating around the race course) and trivia quizzes. The very strong flood switched to a relentless ebb. With up to 5 knots of current and only 0-4 knots of breeze, the race was doomed. No one finished by the time limit of 5 p.m. But there was plenty of winning to be had nonetheless. Many boats were able to present their captured pumpkins for pumpkin pie and whipped cream (plus they got to keep the pumpkins). Trivia quizmaster Gordie Nash said that the responses ranged from 3 out of 12 correct to 3 out of 12 incorrect. The five-person crew of Grant Kiba's Olson 911 Take Five More won the trivia contest. For photos from the Halloween party, see November 1's 'Lectronic Latitude at www.latitude38.com. — latitude / chris RYC GREAT PUMPKIN REGATTA, 10/28 (3r, 0t) PHRF A — 1) Zamazaan, Farr 52, Greg Mullins, 3 points; 2) Bacchanal, J/133, Ron Epstein, 6; 3) Bodacious+, 1D48, John Clauser, 11. (4 boats) PHRF B — 1) M2, Cape 31, Hartwell Jordan, 3.5 points; 2) Gentoo, Soto 30, Paul Dorsey, 7.5; 3) Nuckelavee, Melges 32, Mark Kennedy/Pearl Prisco, 8. (5 boats) PHRF C — 1) Speedwell, J/88, Tom Thayer/ Robert Milligan, 4.5 points; 2) 'io, Antrim 27C, Buzz Blackett, 5.5; 3) Abracadabra, Antrim 27, Ian Chamberlain, 10. (7 boats) PHRF D — 1) Jeannette, Frers 40, Bob novy, 8.5 points; 2) Jubilant, J/112e, Ross Werner/Kevin Wilkinson, 10; 3) Reverie, J/109, John Arens, 12. (9 boats) PHRF E — 1) Arcadia, Mod. Santana 27, Gordie nash, 5 points; 2) Vera Cruz, Jeanneau 349, Michael Johnson, 9; 3) Double Down, Schumacher 30, David Crone/Dave Keefe, 11.5. (11 boats) PHRF F — 1) Free, S&S 30, Bilafer family, 5
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points; 2) Synchronicity, Olson 25, Steve Smith/ Terri Lahey, 8; 3) O'mar, Olson 25, David Scott, 10. (8 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Abigail Morgan, Ron & Oliver Kell, 6 points; 2) Under the Radar, Gregory Felton, 12; 3) Light N Up, Chris White, 14. (11 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) À Demain, Sebastien Laleau, 3 points; 2) Committed, Sallie Lang/Don McIlraith, 7; 3) Chop Chop, Matt Hamilton, 9. (5 boats) J/24 — 1) Evil Octopus, Jasper Van Vliet, 3 points; 2) Flight, Rosanne Scholl, 8; 3) Downtown Uproar, Darren Cumming, 10. (5 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Paramour, Rowan Fennell, 5 points; 2) The Flying Tiger, Vaughn Seifers, 10; 3) Safety Third, Kurt Lahr/Joe Grieser, 12; 4) For Sale, Rufus Sjoberg, 14. (18 boats) WYLIE WABBIT — 1) FAFO, Marcos McGee, 5 points; 2) Hare Today Gone Tomowwo, Erik Menzel, 6; 3) Weckless, Tim Russell, 7. (4 boats) SAnTAnA 22 — 1) Albacore, Jan Grygier, 5 points; 2) Anemone, Hank Lindemann, 6; 3) Zingaro, Jennifer McKenna, 7. (4 boats) ULTIMATE 20 — 1) Uhoo!, Mike Josselyn, 4 points; 2) Peabody, Donna Womble, 5; 3) Cinderella Story, John & Jennifer Andrew, 10. (6 boats) Full results at www.richmondyc.org
ILCA Masters Nationals The ILCA Masters US Championship was held at Alameda Community Sailing Center on October 13-15. ACSC is a nonprofit organization focusing on getting the local community out sailing. They fit nearly 50 ILCA sailors into their site and their ongoing operations. The day before the regatta, registration showed 13 ILCA 6s and 33 ILCA 7s. Those numbers were sufficient to start separate fleets, but based on the lightwind forecast, a substantial number of ILCA 6 sailors jumped ship for the ILCA
7 fleet. After a few injury- and travelrelated no-shows, the ILCA 7 fleet was at 36 boats, and the ILCA 6 fleet was a cozy five boats. A clinic offered by Julian Soto of MindBodyBoat at ACSC on Thursday gave around 17 sailors a chance to warm up and get used to the local conditions. Many thanks to ILCA North America for providing the funding needed to make this a free clinic. Racing just offshore on south San Francisco Bay was delightful — warm days, westerly breeze of 5-10 knots, and a fairly strong ebb, making for short upwind legs and long downwinds. On Friday, PRO Gerard Sheridan and his great team of volunteers got off three races. The strong ebb resulted in a few general recalls, and quite a few OCS scores in the ILCA 7s. After racing, the fleet retired to a nearby venue, The Rake Pub at Admiral Maltings, for dinner. Onshore postponements on Saturday and Sunday waiting for the afternoon breeze gave everyone a bit more time to catch up with old friends and make new ones. Some sailors had been competing
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against each other since the 1970s. On Saturday, the postponement was short, and the RC team once again got off three races, in 7-9 knots. On Saturday evening, Mediterranean food was provided for the regatta dinner at ACSC. Tasty wine was generously provided by one of the competitors, Emilio Castelli of Castelli Vineyards, and homebrewed beer was provided by local sailor John Collins. The postponement on Sunday was a bit longer. Everyone watched the Bay for signs of a wind line. A few sailors went out, providing onlookers some clues as to the relative strength of the wind (weak) to the current (strong). Finally, the PRO decided it was worth a try, and one final race started shortly before the 3 p.m. time limit. For the ILCA 7 fleet, the dreaded U flag was raised, claiming at least one victim over early, well before the start. The once-around course took more than an hour in wind as light as 3 knots. The long downwind slog against the current favored downwind specialists. Toshi Takayanagi (who sails out of Richmond) proved uncatchable in the ILCA 6 fleet. François Hebert (out of Whistler, BC) claimed the ILCA 7 championship with only first through third finishes after a throw out fifth, although Tony Martin was close on his heels after age-related handicap points were factored in. Women take note: The title of ILCA Masters Woman Champion went unclaimed this year — we hope this will be rectified next year! Trophies went to winners in each age class as well. Drew Carlson won an award for traveling the farthest (from Chatham, MA) — his strongest competition for that title came from Mike December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 73
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Great Pumpkin Regatta, clockwise from top left: Saturday buoy racing on the Southampton course; Sunday pursuit in costume aboard the Moore 24s 'Immoral' and 'Nobody's Girl'; bow crew on the Olson 30 'WYSIWYG' keep an eye on the Alerion 33 'Another Girl'.
Colbert (Vienna, VA) and Andrew Bates (Kaneohe, HI). The Tony Dahlman Memorial Trophy was awarded to Bill Pagel. Tony Dahlman was an ILCA sailor who passed away tragically at the 2009 Masters Nationals in Monterey. Tony was an enthusiastic and optimistic Master sailor, and the award in his honor is presented to the sailor who finishes in the exact middle of the largest fleet at Nationals. This trophy sums up much of what is great about Masters racing: friendly competition and camaraderie. — laird henkel, al sargent, mike bishop ILCA MASTERS NATIONALS, ACSC, 10/13-15 (7r, 1t) ILCA 7 — 1) François Hebert, Apprentice, Whistler Sailing Association, 35 points; 2) Tony Martin, Great Grand Master, Jericho Sailing Centre, 37; 3) Julian Soto, Apprentice, Charcuterie YC, 47; 4) Dave Leuck, Grand Master, MBYC, 53; 5) Elliot Drake, Apprentice, CFYC, 57. (36 boats) ILCA 6 — 1) Toshi Takayanagi, Grand Master, RYC, 18 points; 2) Walt Spevak, Great Grand Master, StFYC/Okoboji YC, 21; 3) Steven Smith, Great Grand Master, ABYC, 26. (5 boats) Full results at https://theclubspot.com
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series kicked off the first-of-four series on Saturday, November 11. Fleet counts are up, with J, Melges and Moore boats of 24 feet, plus Express 27, J/88, J/70 and J/105 fleets hitting the line. PRO Jeff Zarwell has garnered 57 sign-ups so far. Plans are to deliver a minimum of two races each Saturday — despite fickle winter winds. "It's always a crapshoot if the breeze will hold, shift or die," says Zarwell. "There are times when an entire day is spent waiting for conditions to get perfect, but you have to remember sailors want to sail. Sometimes the product isn't perfect, but the customers are still out on the water." The Express 27 fleet had a solid turnout with 10 crews. "It was a beautiful day that had enough wind to keep us sailing without any parking lots," says Dan Pruzan of Wile E Coyote. Out for the day with his regular crew, the skipper lauds mates for a job well executed in sail handling and tactics. "Race 1 we had a good battle with Salty Hotel and managed to slip past them for a win just before the finish. In Race 2, we had a bad start but managed to work our way back into the game, eventually getting within sight of Rebecca Hinden's Bombora during the second downwind leg. They sailed well
and took a fleet first ahead of us in the second race." This series runs hot-dog loops with slightly longer laps for the faster boats. On this course was Brice Dunwoodie, keeping Ravenette in front of the J/88 fleet, often first to reach the windward mark. He says the day brought "Quintessential San Francisco champagne sailing conditions with oscillating northwest winds in the 7- to 10-knot range, full sun, and present, but not overwhelming, currents." Competition is increasing now that there are more than 10 local J/88s. Per Dunwoodie, starts are more fun, closecrossing counts are up, and energetic roundings are more frequent. "The 88 is a blast in light air, being highly responsive to crew weight placement and careful heel management. We kept bodies moving, while staying tuned to the oscillations. The crew decided in advance to run with only five on board to keep nimble. Things paid off with double J/88 bullets and respectable placement in the back third of the J/105 fleet." Regarding mixing with J/105 racers, Eric Patterson's Kestrel placed top of the charts in the 12-boat J/105 fleet. Jasper Van Vliet's J/24 Evil Octopus stretched to claim 1,1. The J/70 Son of a Son took David Fried and friends for 1,2 victory rides. Matt Hamilton held the reins of the Melges 24 Chop Chop en route to 1,1;
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RegattaPRO Winter One Design on November 11, clockwise from left: Express 27s at the offset in light wind; the Moore 24 'Foamy' carried their spinnaker to the mark, en route to the offset, then after rounding the offset for the run to the finish line; 'Wild Thing' in the final race; a J/105 rounding.
Animal started setting up the race deck. The fleet's treasurer, Mike Patterson of Green Flash, and Bob DaPrato and friends from Bella Luna joined them. The team tied flags to halyards, set their watches to the exact time, and readied radios and clipboards. The fleet's commodore, Richard Egan, took his Kapai out to sample the wind west of the starting line. The racers checked in by radio before the scheduled 11:30 warning. "In the light air, we all agreed that a short course just along the Cityfront would keep us in the light breeze and avoid the calm to the north," reports Rick Van Mell. "The windward/leewar d Course 2 (marks to port) was only 3.4 miles and would do the trick. That runs from the starting line at GGYC west to Blackaller Buoy near the South Tower of
the Golden Gate Bridge, then east to Mark 6 off Fort Mason, and returns to the finish line. We started at 11:35. "Cassiopeia led at the start with Renaissance, Windwalker and Kapai close behind. It was slow but steady progress beating toward the Golden Gate against the last of the flood. Cassiopeia rounded Blackaller first. Downwind, the challenge was whether to stay a bit north with stronger current but lighter wind, A start of the Islander 36 Nationals on October 14, as seen from GGYC.
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and Joel Turmel lit up the course on his Moore 24 Firefly, earning 1,1. The RegattaPRO Winter One Design series began in 2001 when the Farr 40 fleet hired Zarwell to develop a winter practice series. The next year, the J/120 fleet (at the time attracting 10 to 11 boats) joined. By year three the J/105s were signing on, while the Farr 40 fleet started to wane. "The high point was about six or seven years ago when roughly 69 entries signed up; and aside from the first three years, our lowest was 45," says Zarwell. Interested skippers may still sign up for the series. See www.sausalitoyachtclub.org. — martha blanchfield
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or closer to the shore with more wind but less current." Cassiopeia led around the Fort Mason leeward mark too, then finished first. "With wind predicted to increase shortly, we waited 15 minutes and aimed for a 1 p.m. warning for the second race. We debated using Course 7, with a triangle from Blackaller to Harding Rock, then Mark 6, but there was still stronger wind along the Cityfront than up at Harding Rock. So we opted for Course 6, Blackaller, StFYC's starting line A buoy, back to Blackaller, then down to Mark 6 and finish, a 5.4 double windward/ leeward course. It was a busy day on the Bay, with several races going on at once, and they were also communicating on VHF Channel 71. When we heard another countdown for a 1 p.m. start, we postponed five more minutes. With more breeze, our Islanders were charging along. We had two boats over early at the gun, and their angles made it hard to read sail numbers. Though we raised the X individual recall flag and announced two boats were over early, by the time we were able to sort out who was who, we felt it was unfair to call them back and declared a General Recall, bringing everyone back to start over. We got a clean start off for the second race at 1:20. "The sequence off the starting line was Highlighter, Windwalker and Cassiopeia. If that sequence had held through the race, we would have had a three-way tie for first place, and thus would need a third and deciding race for the series. But by the time the fleet reached Mark 6, Cassiopeia had gained the lead and it was clear a third race wouldn't be needed. However, by Highlighter taking second and Windwalker third, they were now tied for second place, and with Renaissance finishing ahead of Kapai, they were now tied for fourth place! SOYC OKTOBERFEST RACE 1, 10/21 SPINNAKER <111 — 1) Humble Vandal, J/92, Rhett Smith; 2) Flying Fish, Olson 30, Michael Berndt; 3) Twelve Bar Blues, J/105, Hugh Westermeyer. (7 boats) SPINNAKER ≥114 — 1) Double Agent, Merit 25, Scott Ollivier; 2) Dream Catcher, J/24, Steven Bayles; 3) Bandido, Merit 25, George Gurrola. (6 boats) NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Roxanne, Tartan 4100, Michael Mitchell; 2) Scrimshaw, Alerion 28, Michael Maurier; 3) Boogie Woogie, Ranger 33, John Ratto. (6 boats) OYC OKTOBERFEST RACE 2, 10/21 SPINNAKER <111 — 1) Humble Vandal; 2) Flying Fish; 3) Twelve Bar Blues. (7 boats) SPINNAKER ≥114 — 1) Double Agent; 2) Anemone, Santana 22, Hank Lindemann; 3) Dream Catcher. (6 boats) Page 76 • Latitude 38 • December, 2023
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The Wyliecat 30 'Uno' prepares to start Golden Gate YC's Seaweed Soup race on November 4.
"Most of the fleet gathered ashore at GGYC to enjoy our nibbles and celebration feast. We shared stories of the day and congratulated Cassiopeia on her victory. Our thanks again to Golden Gate YC for their warm hospitality." — latitude / chris ISLANDER 36 NATIONALS, 10/14 (2r, 0t) 1) Cassiopeia, Kit Wiegman, 2 points; 2) Highlighter, William Hackel, 5; 3) Windwalker, Tom Shoenhair, 5. (5 boats) Full results at www.islander36.org
Seaweed Soup at Golden Gate The midwinter season kicked off in fine style on the Cityfront with sunny skies and a moderate westerly on November 4, when Golden Gate YC ran one race for three PHRF divisions and two one-design classes (Knarrs and Folkboats). Unlike during the previous weekend, the currents were mild, with a fading ebb influencing strategy. The race committee chose courses for the PHRF divisions ranging from 7.4
BOX SCORES NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Roxanne; 2) Scrimshaw; 3) Boogie Woogie. (6 boats) Full results at www.jibeset.net STFYC FALL DINGHY, 10/21-22 (6r, 1t) 5O5 — 1) Eric Anderson/Nic Baird, 10 points; 2) Howard Hamlin/Reeve Dunne, 11; 3) Mike Martin/Adam Lowry, 12; 4) Adam Wolnikowski/Telis Athanasopoulos Yogo, 18. (16 boats) I-14 — 1) Michael Pacholski/Patrick Wilkinson, 6 points; 2) John Clark/Hoel Menard, 8; 3) James Clarkson/Mehmet Gunay, 14. (7 boats) 29ER — 1) Anton Schmid/Ian Nyenhuis, 7 points; 2) Holland Vierling/Kevin Cason, 7; 3) Olympia & Maribelle Barelli, 23. (13 boats) C420 — 1) Kyle Nguyen/Chase Carson, 10
to 8.9 miles. The non-spinnaker onedesigns went on 5.5- to 6.1-mile courses, all around fixed marks, with an upwind finish back at the clubhouse. In the nice breeze, 35 starters made short work of the race. As usual, a complimentary continental breakfast and hot lunch bracketed the sailing. The next race in this series will be on December 2. Check the standings or register at www.jibeset.net. — latitude / chris International Masters Regatta On October 22, a fleet of borrowed J/105s headed into the last of three days of racing in the International Masters Regatta. San Diego YC was hosting the regatta for 12 teams from as far away as New York, Acapulco and Vancouver. "Everyone had tasted moments of victory, and they all were salivating for more," reported Casey Coffin, communications manager for SDYC, on that Sunday. "There were several teams that had the potential to seize the title but points; 2) Emilia Puertas/Mikela Ziegler, 12; 3) James Franzone/Miles White, 20. (17 boats) I420 — 1) Lyuba Ngongoseke/Gavin Murphy, 5 points; 2) Sawyer Bastian/Naomi Lowenthal, 12; 3) Ian & Ava Adamson, 16. (8 boats) RS FEVA — 1) Nolan Balocki/Larson McMonigle, 10 points; 2) Petra Bender/Ryland Pugh, 10; 3) Will Robbins/Jackson Kurtowicz, 15. (8 boats) RS TERA — 1) Kai Hislop, 5 points; 2) Skylar Dubuc, 14; 3) Zachary Diamond, 17. (9 boats) ILCA 6 — 1) Tyler Yang, 8 points; 2) Toshinari Takayanagi, 11; 3) Peter Phelan, 13. (10 boats) OPTIMIST CHAMPIONSHIP — 1) Alexander Montagu, 8 points; 2) Beckett Kern, 8; 3) Harrison Doyle, 19; 4) Leon Blaine, 22. (22 boats) OPTIMIST GREEN — 1) Hudson Deane, 5 points; 2) Jack Wilmes, 13; 3) Quillin Moran, 14. (8 boats) Full results at www.stfyc.com
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San Diego sailors competed in the three-part Hot Rum I on November 4. See www.sdyc.org.
no one was more determined than this year's overall winner, Scott Harris. "The third day of racing saw major shake-ups from one mark rounding to the next while skippers moved wildly through the standings. Tad Lacey, Cory Sertl and Gary Jobson were not about to go down without a fight. "A one-hour postponement at the onset of the day only heightened the anticipation of racing. Race 11 showed just how eager the skippers were with a general recall at the first attempted start. "Everything hinged on the last race of the day. Harris had held onto his lead, but Lacey and Sertl were hot on his heels. Lacey rounded the first weather mark in second and Harris was bringing up the rear in 10th. Harris dominated the downwind leg, and by the time he returned for the second weather mark rounding he had gained seven boats. It was clear at that point that Harris's tenacity was enough to secure him the championship if he could just maintain his position.
"As Harris crossed the finish line he was met with horns blasting and spectators cheering. It was a hard-fought win, down to the very last race for Harris and his team, Chuck Sinks, Peter VanWaay, Justin Bingham, John Rogers and Seth Miller." — latitude / chris
FYC RS21 YOUTH INVITATIONAL, 10/28-30 (4r, 0t) 1) Mark Xu, 5 points; 2) Henry Scalise, 8; 3) Kern Beckett, 12. (6 boats) Full results at www.sfyc.org
BOX SCORES
MPYC SUNSET SERIES (28r, 5t) PHRF A — 1) Maverick, J/80, Jean du Preez, 32; 2) Loca Motion, Express 37, Mark Chaffey/ Heidi Hall, 46; 3) Colibri, J/70, Sherry Sybertz, 60. (4 boats) PHRF B — 1) Soggy Dollar, Olson 911, Todd Muck, 36; 2) Dreamer, Olson 25, Patrick Tregenza/Jon Dean, 50.5; 3) Calphurnia, Schumacher 28, Jefferson Kise, 55.5. (6 boats) SHIELDS — 1) Stillwater, Garth Hobson, 48 points; 2) Fireball7, Ron Baxter, 49; 3) Charlotte, Scott Brubaker, 67. (10 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Cnidarian, Kate & Mary
SDYC INTERNATIONAL MASTERS REGATTA, 10/20-22, (12r, 0t) J/105 — 1) Scott Harris, Coronado YC, 54 points; 2) Tad Lacey, SFYC, 61; 3) Cory Sertl, NYYC, 64. (12 boats) Full results at www.sdyc.org
108th San Diego Lipton Cup On the very next weekend, October 27-29, SDYC used the J/105s again to host the Lipton Cup, a 12-race competition for 12 teams. "San Diego YC has won the 108th Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup," reports Casey Coffin. "The defending champs were determined to hold tight to the cup, and they did just that in the final moments of the regatta."
Conway, 36; 2) Ecaroh, Meryle Sachs/Jeffrey Carder, 55; 3) Feisty, Allen Robinson, 62. (6 boats) Full results at www.regattanetwork.com CYC FALL SERIES (3r, 0t) PHRF 1 — 1) Flight Risk, T650, Blake Davis, 6 points; 2) Kuai, Melges 32, Daniel Thielman, 12; 3) Kuda Wuda, SR33, Craig Page, 13. (9 boats) PHRF 2 — 1) #53 Grandad, Catalina 34 MkII, Toby Marion, 7 points; 2) Impulse, Ranger 26, Steve Hocking, 8; 3) Narcissus, Knarr, John Jenkins, 14. (4 boats) NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Freedom, Worth 40, Jib Martens, 4 points; 2) Jarlen, J/35, Gregory
This was the sixth win for skipper Tyler Sinks. His crew included Adam Roberts, Jake La Dow, Brad Rodi, Lucy Wallace, Max Hutcheson and Nick Kaschak. Heading into the final day of racing, Newport Harbor YC led by 3 points. "SDYC and NHYC knew that all eyes were on them, and they had moments of the day that felt like they were match-racing each other, not the rest of the fleet. Over the past nine years, the Lipton Cup has traded hands between these two clubs four times. "We had seen upsets far greater than 3 points in days past. It all hinged on the last race of the day." While SDYC and NHYC duked it out for first and second, Coronado YC and NYYC battled for third place. "Coronado YC had a tough last start, and NYYC didn't miss the opportunity to earn the 5 points they needed to claim third overall." — latitude / chris SDYC LIPTON CUP, 10/27-29 (12r, 0t) J/105 — 1) Tyler Sinks, SDYC, 42 points; 2) Justin Law, NHYC, 52; 3) Peter Levesque, NYYC, 64. (12 boats) Full results at www.sdyc.org
Berkeley Midwinters & Bobbi Tosse This year marks the first in decades that the Berkeley Midwinters is not being run by Bobbi Tosse. As most of you know, Bobbi left us last February. As the midwinters have always been run on the Olympic Circle, the XOC buoy, which marks the center of the circle, has now been renamed the Bobbi Tosse Buoy by the YRA. The renaming ceremony took place just before the start of the 2023-24 Midwinters on November 11, with many in attendance just for the ceremony. BYC Commodore Mary Garfein presided over the ceremony on Winters, 8; 3) Q, Schumacher 40, Glenn Isaacson, 11. (4 boats) J/88 — 1) Butcher, Dave Corbin, 8 points; 2) Hijinks, Logan Ashcraft, 8; 3) Speedwell, Thomas Thayer, 9. (6 boats) Full results at www.cyc.org CPYC REGATTA SERIES (10r, 3t) SPINNAKER — 1) Paradigm, J/32, Luther Izmirian, 7 points; 2) Ventus, Tartan 3700, Ian Davison, 13; 3) Sweet Grapes, Ericson 36, Mark Green, 25. (5 boats) NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Moonstars, J/100, Mark Ramsbey, 10 points; 2) Will o' the Wind, Hunter 27, Charlie Weidanz, 11; 3) Zingara, Islander 36, Steve & Jocelyn Swanson, 25. (3 boats) Full results at www.jibeset.net
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BYC Midwinters on November 11-12, clockwise from top left: Grant Kiba's Olson 911 'Take Five More' douses at the leeward mark; Kathleen Cornetta's Express 27 'Freaks on a Leash'; the newly rechristened Bobbi Tosse Buoy; Richard Stockdale's colorful J/24 'Froglips' on light-air Sunday.
the radio. A Coors Light salute spray and toast followed. After a short postponement to reanchor the committee boat, the starting sequence was initiated. Twenty-three boats in five divisions stuck around for the racing on one of the nicest days you could hope for in a midwinters. The wind was out of the WNW at 290° at about 8 knots, with clear blue skies and temperatures in the high 60s. The 4-mile course would take the racers on a windward/leeward trip around drop marks with an upwind finish at the committee boat. All starts were clean with the exception of one over-early that quickly ducked back below the start line. The wind held steady and the boats made their way around the course with efficiency. Buzz Blacket piloted his Antrim 27C 'io to first place in the You Can't Afford It (PHRF <85) Division. In the Still Pretty Fast (87-112) Division, Balineau, Charlie Brochard's Olson 34, crossed the line first. In the Upper Middle Class (114-156) Division, Andy Newell's Santana 35 Ahi got the gun. In the More Competitive Than You Think (PHRF ≥ 159) Division, John Gulliford's J/24 Phantom took first place. Finally, in the Follow Sketch Olson 25 One Design DiPage 78 • Latitude 38 • December, 2023
vision it was Sketch, skippered by David Gruver, winning the day. Sunday's weather was similar, with sunshine and warm temperatures, but the wind was lighter and more shifty. Thirty-seven boats started in seven divisions, including two one-design divisions and two shorthanded divisions. At the start, the wind was very light, around 4.5 knots out of the WNW. As we made our way through the seven starts, the wind continued to lighten, but the racers pressed on toward the windward mark. By the time the boats were about halfway around the course the wind started to freshen and shift west. This made for a broad reach to the leeward mark and a close reach to the finish at the committee boat. It also made for some close finishes, as will happen when the wind freshens late in the race. In the Fast for Sunday (PHRF <126) Division, Andy and Kat Dippel's J/70 Spirit crossed the finish line in first place. In the J/24 But Not a One Design (129-169) Division, Jasper Van Vliet's Evil Octopus crossed the line first. In the Been Racing Forever (PHRF ≥171) Division, Larry Telford's Islander 30-II Antares won the day. In the 10-boat I Don't Have Time to Find Crew Double-
handed Division, Krysia Poll piloted the Express 27 Young Betty to victory. In the All By Myself Singlehanded Division Greg Nelson on the Azzura 310 Outsider celebrated by himself as he crossed the line first. Notably, Jackie Philpott took second place on her Cal 2-27, Dura Mater, with brand-new sails. In the Ever-Present Express 27 Division, Greg Felton quietly took first on Under the Radar. In the Classic and Beautiful Alerion 28 Division it was once again Fred Paxton and Arnie Quan winning the race on Zenaida. Overall, the first weekend was a smashing success with almost no complaining. The formula that makes it work is all Bobbi. She is missed. — mark bird Mercury Nationals at SFYC San Francisco YC hosted the 19-boat Mercury Nationals on October 19-20. Randy Smith filed this report: "Two sailing areas were set up for this regatta: west of Knox and on Richardson Bay. The race committee chose to use the Richardson Bay venue for all of the races due to the wind conditions. "Race 1: After a short postponement, the wind started to fill in at 8-10 knots from 240°. John Ravizza and John Buerstad jumped ahead of the fleet and led to the first mark." They extended their lead and won the race. Mike Burch, John
SHEET Hansen, Shaum Sinaw and Randy Smith crossed the finish line overlapped in a very close race for second. "Race 2: The breeze remained the same but became shiftier and puffier. The courses had short legs. So, the race committee used a triple-sausage race with a downwind finish. Chris Raab and Kenny Dair got an early lead and led the whole race. "Race 3: There was a slight delay as the RC changed the course to the new wind direction. The wind increased to 10-12. Mike Burch got off to a quick start and led the entire race. At the end of the first day, John Hansen was leading with 7 points. "Race 4: The sailing conditions were the same as on Day 1 with 6-8 knots and shifty conditions. Mike Burch led the way around a triple-sausage course. The RC changed the location of the weather mark to keep the course square with the wind. "Race 5: Randy Smith was ahead of Mike Burch by one point. The last race was a triple sausage. Chris Raab and Kenny Dair took an early lead and extended away from the pack. At the final
weather mark, Chris was launched, followed by Mike Burch and Randy Smith bow to stern. The final finish was Chris Raab first, followed by Erik Menzel with Bren Meyers." — latitude / chris SFYC, MERCURY NATIONALS, 10/20-21 (5r, 0t) GOLD — 1) Jade, Mike & Kyle Burch, CBYC, 16 points; 2) Fast Break, Randy Smith/John Verdoia, SFYC, 18; 3) Magic, John Hansen/Tony Basso, EYC, 24. (14 boats) SILVER — 1) Skirt Worker, Peter & Drake Baldwin, Huntington Lake BC, 50 points; 2) Miss Behavin', Thomas Priest/Damon Guizot, Musket Cove YC, 50; 3) Makani, Chris Davis, EYC, 58. (6 boats) Full results at www.sfyc.org
Halloween Regatta in MDR Saturday, October 21, featured Del Rey YC's Halloween Regatta. The event was known for years as the Monster Mash Regatta, with a party including dinner and costumes. This year the Monster Mash moniker would have been appropriate considering the winds, 4- to 5-ft rollers and lumpy seas in the land
of no wind. Sixteen boats signed up and 14 competed in the race that saw sunshine, Santa Ana winds and temps in the 70s and low 80s. Santa Anas are a crapshoot: Either there is no wind or the winds can reach the 30s and better. This one had winds of 5-7 at the 1 p.m. inverted start time, and they quickly built to 23+ knots off Santa Monica by 2 p.m. Longtime SoCal racer Kathy St. Amant suffered not one, but two knockdowns aboard Rascal, her Hunter 37. "Don't touch anything; it'll come back," she told the crew. They survived and managed a second place in the Cruising Division. Paul Hofer's Jeanneau 50 Scarlet Fever sailed the 10-miler in an hour and 26 minutes for first in Cruising, and Neil Fraser took first in Performance with his 1D35 Mexican Divorce. The short course made for a quick race, but the competitors were grateful to get into the harbor and show off costumes in the post-race party [see November 1's 'Lectronic Latitude at www. latitude38.com]. For results, see www. dryc.org/racing. — andy kopetzky
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WORLD This month we hear from Elisa Williams of Alameda on chartering in the Ionian Isles in the company of nine others on two Bavaria 44s.
An Ionian Odyssey In perhaps the oldest and best known of all seafaring tales, Odysseus, king of the Ionian island of Ithaka, takes 10 years to get home from the Trojan Wars. Along the way, he struggles against Cyclopes, high winds, lotus-eaters, sacred cows, and sea monsters. What perils might 10 modern sailors face getting to Odysseus' homeland in the Ionian Isles? To find out, I joined a merry band of eight Aussies and a Brit who were chartering two Bavaria 44s for two weeks in September. These companions ticked all the boxes for what you want in flotilla partners: experienced sailors, veteran charterers, and companionable people who get along well. They've known each other for years, competing in races hosted by the Melbourne Trailable Yacht Club and meeting for various travel and shore adventures. I was invited along after sailing with the folks on my friend Andrew's boat in Sydney in April. The weather in Sydney was often chilly, and crew chatter referenced their upcoming trip. "Oh, it won't be like this in Greece," said Adrian, who skippered our Ionian trip. "Can't wait to swim off the back of the boat!" said his partner Vikki. "No sharks to worry about there!" said Deb. "Ready to put my underwater camera to the test," said Steve. FOMO was just too intense — after initially saying no, I came to my senses and accepted. OK, Where Are We Going? As this was all Greek to me, here are some basics on the Ionian Isles: Located to the west of mainland Greece and north of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, these islands were ruled by the Venetians for centuries. The Ionian Isles stretch from Corfu (Kerkyra in Greek) and Paxos (Paxi) in the north to Zante (Zakynthos) in the south, with Lefkas (Lefkada), Cefalonia (Kefalonia) and Ithaka (Ithaki) in the middle. The winds are gentle, the harbors
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The Med is famous for the Med mooring, with your stern pulled right up to a taverna.
historical, and the waters warm. The landscape is a verdant green, unlike the iconic photos of Santorini and Kos. Sunsail, Moorings and smaller local charter companies have bases in Corfu, and Sunsail and smaller local charter companies are in Lefkas. The Ionian Sea is rated easy sailing because of the sheltered waters and less crowded anchorages. I flew down from London a few days early to explore Lefkas, which has a terrific, extremely accessible archaeology museum and a monastery with such lovely views it makes being a monk look appealing. Sunsail has a large base at the central Lefkas marina, where there are also several local companies. We picked up our boats with a charter company based in Nydri, about 30 minutes south. The company provided a local guide/fixer with a van to take the provisioning committee to a local supermarket and others to run a few pesky errands. He even gave us his phone number in case we had any logistical questions about local transport. And then the island-hopping began. One of our first swims was off Jackie Kennedy beach, on Skorpios. (Once owned by Aristotle Onassis, it's now owned by a Russian oligarch who is turning it into a VIP resort said to be "James Bond style." Or perhaps Glass Onion?) That night, we did the Med-mooring backup into the harbor at Meganisi Island's Vathy (Vathy means "deep port," which is why the name pops up on various islands), throwing our lines to a neighboring boat's crew to help tie us up. We looked around. Where was the harbormaster's representative coming to take our euros? No payment needed. This turned out to be a pattern — we spent more on ice than on harbor fees throughout the trip. (Fuel and water were charged separately.) We headed out — walking the plank from boat to stone harbor wall — to a lovely local taverna and strolling through the charming town. From Meganisi, we set off in search of a beach for some swimming. We ended up on the island of Arkoudi, with a population limited to five goats, three cows, and (maybe?) a donkey. We anchored for lunch but liked it so much we spent the night. The water was a deep turquoise blue. Our friends in the other boat were a quick swim or dinghy ride away.
"Arkoudi" means bear in Greek. We didn't see any bears, but the sparring goats with giant horns were enough to keep me off the beach, watching the action safely from the water nearby. And from there, it continued, our hours alternating between charming harbor towns and idyllic anchorages. Shore amenities included tasty tavernas, ice for happy-hour ouzos, and the occasional shop for jewelry or T-shirts to remember the trip. Museums offered fascinating history. Grocery stores were well stocked with fresh produce, meats, cheeses, snacks and drinks. The bakeries were dangerously plentiful, with a mix of European favorites and local specialties. We got picky about ice cream flavors; the group separated to select shops based on favorite specialty scoops. (Andrew liked mastiha, a local liqueur with a pine flavor.) Dinner prices were definitely affordable by California standards — maybe 40% less — and lower even for beers, wine and ouzo, a happy-hour favorite on ice before heading out to dinner. And then there were the beaches. Using ratings from the app Savvy Navvy, I'd suggest options to the skipper: sandy bottoms, sheltered coves and easy snorkeling. Try a 3.5 star? Why risk it when there was a 4.5 nearby? There were multiple options for exploring the famous blue caves — sun reflects the turquoise water — by swimming or dinghy. We didn't have a set passage plan but we had a goal of hitting some spots in Zante/Zakynthos that kept us on the move. And since we were going in a specific direction with light winds rarely in the favorable direction, this meant the motor was on most of the time. The Ionian Sea is known for gentle breezes. (Frankly, if you're looking to brave strong winds, you might as well just stay in San Francisco.) The islands were so close by that there was always a view of majestic cliffs or historical houses. After exploring Zakynthos, it was back up to Kefalonia, this time to Argostolion. I peeled off to stay ashore for a day and then flew from the nearby airport through Athens to a Greek wedding
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California is nice but you don't see water like this. Greek island water is beautiful.
in Cyprus. The rest of the group went up to Fiskardo, nicknamed "the Chelsea of Greece." Some of the cynical Aussies expected it to be too touristy, but I'm told it was the favorite spot of the trip. Yes, that resulted in some pangs of FOMO for me. But the solution was easy: Just plan to come back.
Old Boat Versus New Boat First, let's talk money. I won't attempt a euro/Australian dollar/US dollar conversion on what we paid in September 2023. I can tell you that a week on our 2004 boat chartered from a
ALL PHOTOS ELISA WILLIAMS
Mandatory Certifications If you're an experienced skipper, bareboat charters are as easy as showing a sailing résumé and demonstrating your docking techniques when you pick up the boat. Not so in Europe these days. European law requires all skippers chartering boats to have a European Certificate of Competency or the US equivalent, the International Proficiency Certificate. No certificate, no boarding the yacht. You can qualify with The Royal Yacht Association's Day Skipper (two parts — theory and practical), American Sailing Association's 101, 103 and 104 courses, and US Sailing classes up to Bareboat Cruising. You have to be a member of the organization that issued it, and have the card with you. (A digital version or photocopy isn't sufficient.) I
local company in Lefkas would cost about $35 per day per person for a group of six. Are youth hostels that cheap? The Sunsail website currently offers a fourberth boat of similar size under a year old for $6,400. I didn't check the fine print, but you get the idea. Why are Moorings and Sunsail pricier? "Much like other popular sailing destinations, there is no shortage of local, or privately operated charter yachts to choose from in Greece — many of which are absolutely amazing in their own right," Ian Pedersen, senior marketing manager for Moorings and Sunsail, said diplomatically. "However, the appeal of The Moorings [and Sunsail] is that we are a known, reliable brand with a consistent track record of quality service and well-maintained yachts worldwide." Nearly 20 years old, our boats had lost that new-boat smell. It was the end of a busy summer season, and while they were very clean, there were issues.
Issues at the start and issues underway. Our very experienced skippers videoed the checkout on their phones for reference later. They were on top of communicating with the base when something broke. Sometimes, this meant the repair crew coming out in a dinghy; sometimes, it meant our pulling into a harbor where they had arrangements with locals to fix it after waiting for the part to arrive. And other times, it meant just dealing with the light being out in one of the heads. Several of the clutches were not functioning. The pump in the floor of the shower was not working. Even if things were fixed quickly, it was inconvenient. So, Here's My Quiz For Whether You Can Afford To Go Cheap Or Should Fork Out The Big Bucks • Are there people on your boat familiar enough with boats of this type to diagnose and fix problems? • Is your schedule flexible enough
Below left to right: Warm, aqua blue water and uncrowded anchorages made for idyllic swimming and snorkeling; The whole crew with author and Alameda resident Elisa Williams on the right; You know what they're drinking? Mixing it up for happy hour.
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Left: Shipwreck on the beach. Right: Resort and the large, uncrowded Rouda Bay.
(and your crew/guests patient enough) to be OK with delays or detours that might last half a day or more? • Are you planning to stay close enough to the base that they can get to you or you can get back to them? • Would a much higher price perhaps discourage you from doing the trip? If you can't answer yes to all of these,
you'd probably be better off chartering with a more established company on a newer boat. A last note: If you're in a flotilla with other boats, discuss ahead of time whether you plan to stay together if things break, or if you can go off and meet up later. — elisa willams
Readers: Elisa lives in Alameda. Read her World of Chartering report on Australia's Whitsunday Islands in the archives in Latitude 38's December 2015 issue.
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with a hurricane; Geja's summer cruising the Med; and some notable, quotable Cruise Notes.
Tom and Barb have had 'Ellie' for almost 20 years now. The first 10 involved an extensive restoration of the boat in a tent in their backyard.
at sea. We flew to Bellingham, Washington, at the end of May this year to rejoin our 1967 Ericson 30, Ellie. She had been stored on the hard in a boatyard for eight months and thankfully was in excellent condition for our planned trip to Alaska. We left almost immediately in the company of two other boats: Gypsy Woman, another Ericson 30 skippered by John McDowell, a very experienced sailor from Port Townsend who was embarking on his 10th trip to Alaska; and Sockeye, a beautiful 45-ft wooden trawler built in 1942. The trip to Ketchikan was long and about 80% motoring. John planned our days, telling us when to leave in the morning and where we would anchor in the afternoon. Barb and I felt like little ducklings trailing behind the mother, but 'Ellie' made it to within about half a mile of Sawyer Glacier before the ice got so thick that Tom had to turn around.
he never led us astray, playing the tides and currents masterfully. With currents running an average of 5 knots, that is critical. Day after day, and the farther north we got, the fewer and fewer signs of people we saw, and the scenery became more and more majestic. In fact, in places, the thick foliage grew right down to the water's edge at high tide, which made hiking nearly impossible in many of the remote areas. So I spent a lot of time rowing around for exercise. Barb left from Ketchikan after five weeks together, and I was joined by my sister Nan, from Taos, New Mexico. She's fit as a fiddle, 80 years old, totally fun, and up for anything. We had a wonderful experience checking out Sawyer Glacier at Tracy Arm. We got within about a half mile of the glacier, but the ice became so thick (and I had no interest in damaging Ellie) that we turned around. About a mile from there, we headed for a small bay with a waterfall cascading into the fjord — the idea was to hang out there, have lunch, and wait for the tide to change before we headed 25 miles back to the bay where everybody anchors to access Tracy Arm. The depth right in front of the waterfall, 50 feet from shore, was 65 feet, so we threw out a couple hundred feet of chain and relaxed for lunch as the outflow from the waterfall kept us from swinging onto the beach. The books all say that you can't anchor anywhere up there because it's too deep and the risk of icebergs is too great. They may be right overall, but we felt pretty good that day — so good that we spent the night there, all alone in one of the most beautiful places you can imagine. I was alone for the next thoroughly enjoyable few weeks. One day, sailing wing and wing down the passage on the east coast of Baranof Island, I didn't see a single other boat or structure for eight hours! To me, that is Alaska. About a week after that, I pulled into a bay with a very gently sloping shore, the exact opposite of Tracy Arm. From the anchorage, I spotted what ELLIE
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Ellie — Ericson 30 Tom and Barbara Dilworth Northern Exposure Escondido Seasonal cruising has turned out to be a wonderful way to enjoy our grandkids at home and still live a life of adventure
Sisterships 'Ellie' (left) and 'Gypsy Woman' rafted together. Above: 'Ellie' anchored off a waterfall. Center: A hammock is still strung between two trees at "the house of broken dreams." Right: Among fellow cruisers met along the way were Weston and Becca, Colorado residents cruising Alaska on 'Meadowlark' — a Ranger 23!
looked to be a crumbling and abandoned homestead. In the late afternoon, I rowed ashore to check it out. The house, with many furnishings still intact, had peeling wallpaper and a missing exterior wall. There was a rusty lawnmower out back, along with a moss-covered hammock strung between two trees. The scene brought tears to my eyes as I thought that this place was somebody's shattered dream. I don't know when the homestead was abandoned, but I suspect a number
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of years ago. Yet there was no vandalism or graffiti, just nature at work slowly reclaiming what was once completely hers. But this, too, is Alaska, and there's a lot of that up there. After my three solo weeks, I returned to Ketchikan to pick up my friend Randy. We had met in Brookings, Oregon, on my trip up that coast the previous summer. He and his wife took the ferry from Bellingham, sleeping on deck, and spent some time exploring the area before he
joined me. His wife, also named Randy, flew home from there. We had a little more than two weeks to get to Campbell River, B.C., where he would leave and I'd be joined by two more friends, Tim and Leah. So Randy and I had to move along. We reached the point where we were nearing Johnstone Strait right when very windy weather was predicted for the area. So we decided early one morning to poke our bow into the Strait to test the waters, so to speak. It wasn't
too horrible, maybe 25 knots, but we'd be sailing downwind, so out we went. A couple of hours later, it was blowing a steady 30 with gusts to 40, and we went from a double-reefed main and a sliver of rolled-out jib to no sail at all — the dodger was plenty. That was one of my best sailing days ever, because to me there's nothing like windy downwind sailing on a good boat that's properly set up. My wife rejoined me in Bellingham and we hung out in Port Townsend with friends for the Wooden Boat Festival, as well as enjoying the beautiful San Juan Islands for a couple of weeks. Then I decommissioned Ellie again for another winter on the hard. We've been home for a while now, but I can't get last summer out of my mind, especially the Alaska part. I saw hordes of people off cruise ships getting just a taste of how beautiful the place is, and a surprising number of very large yachts, also having a good time, I'm sure. But these boats, because of their sheer size, wouldn't be able to spend the night at the upper reaches of Tracy Arm or negotiate the shallow bay with the abandoned homestead, two of my favorite places of the summer. Next summer could go either of two ways. One is to enjoy Alaska again and sail back to San Francisco Bay at the end of the season — via the outside route. The other is to enjoy Alaska's beauty for an additional year, but keep Ellie on the hard up there in Wrangell or Petersburg, avoiding the "commute." Time will tell. — Tom 10/26/23 Sail A Vie — Ericson 35 Phil and Joann MacFarlane Dodged Another Bullet San Francisco Every owner who has to leave a boat for a few days, weeks — or even a whole season — worries at least a little bit whether she'll be OK until they get back. The worry doubles in foreign countries, and perhaps redoubles in places subject to hurricanes — like Mexico. Hurricanes Lidia, Norma and Otis (and Tropical Storm Max) all hit Mexico hard in October, causing extensive damage both ashore and in marinas, and pegging the worry-meter for many absentee owners. Among them was Phil MacFarlane, a Bay-based sailor who has owned, raced and cruised his 1971 Ericson December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 85
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Phil and Joann learned to sail 'Sail a Vie' by trial "and lots and lots of errors."
of hurricane territory for the summer — and La Paz got hit hard by Norma. The thing I felt most emotional about was that I had left her alone and in harm's way. I had let her down and she had been lost because of my failure to protect her. We drove down five days after Norma, expecting the worst. What a relief to arrive at Marina de La Paz and find the boat as safe and sound as I'd left her! Only a few hundred yards away, the boats and docks at Marina Cortez suffered major damage. But there was the old gal, with hardly a scuff on her. It was almost like going to a funeral and seeing the dearly departed sit up and grin at the joke they'd played. Those of you who know me know how much this boat means to me. She was the first home I ever bought. I was a windsurfer at the time and didn't even know how to sail a boat. I was an apprentice electrician making $7 an hour. I had no money to put down. The seller, whom I 'Sail a Vie' as found in Marina de La Paz after the hurricane. "One fender was missing and there were signs of a few deck leaks, but no real damage," says Phil.
didn't know before looking at the boat, carried the loan for me for three years to make the purchase even possible. Then a family friend, Carol, took out a loan at her credit union so I could pay the seller off. I then made the payment to Carol's credit union until I had the boat paid off. I lived aboard her for the first seven years. The old gasoline motor, an Atomic 4, didn't run when I bought her and I didn't know much about engines at the time. With coaching from Peter at Peninsula Marine Services, I rebuilt the motor in my mother's garage. Much to the surprise of friends, the night I finished installing it back in the boat, it started right up and ran great, providing several more years of service until Joann loaned me the money to purchase a new diesel. After I got the old "Anemic 4" running, it was time to learn how to sail, as well as motor, a 35-ft boat. Motoring turned out to be more difficult than sailing! One of the journeyman electricians I was working with, Steve Goldie, said he knew how to sail and would be happy to go out with Joann and me to show us how. So we did. It turns out he had sailed only once before, but he knew what lines to pull and what they did, and pretty much knew what he was doing. After that, Joann and I learned on our own by trial and mostly error — lots and lots of errors. We never had any lessons except the one from my journeyman Steve. To install the new motor, I had to do quite a bit of fiberglass work, another thing I knew nothing about. With guidance from a marina neighbor, "Big John" Babcock, I learned to do fiberglass work. I did all of the prep work for the new motor, put together the fuel and exhaust systems, and even made my own muffler. Peter from Peninsula Marine Services, the dealer who sold me the new Yanmar diesel, had to inspect the installation "before startup" to fulfill the warranty. He came to the boat and spent quite a bit of time looking at my work. Then he turned to me and asked, "Well, how does she run?" Remember, it supposedly had not been started. I replied, "She runs great!" LOL. He said, "Good, let's start her up." We did, she ran great, and he signed off on the warranty card. He told me it was the best "owner installation" he had ever seen. Shortly afterward, SAIL A VIE
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35 Sail A Vie for going on 35 years. . . For a while, when I first started seeing the videos coming out of La Paz, I was pretty sure I had lost her. It was the first time in four years I hadn't moved her out
he called and asked if I might be interested in installing another motor for a customer of his. That led to my first business: Phil MacFarlane Marine Services. I installed nine motors, several transmissions, many fuel systems, and lots of boat electrical work, almost all through Peter's referrals. Another friend, John Roemer, who sailed the Cascade 42 Spirit, hired me to help him out at his radiant heating/ plumbing business. He taught me that trade, but more importantly, he taught
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Above: One of the best ways to view any boat. Top left: Phil with Dink the cat, who lived aboard, did Farallones races and crewed on several Mexico trips. Top center: Double-reefed, 'Sail a Vie' heads out the Golden Gate to Hawaii in the 2000 Singlehanded Transpacific Race — the first of three solo transpacific races Phil did with the boat. Right: 'Sail a Vie' cuts a rug in the South Bay.
me how to run a successful small contracting business. He eventually made me his business partner, and later signed for me to get my electrical contracting state license. The most important thing John taught me was not to work for someone you don't like. Living and operating my contracting business by that rule and others (like the golden one) for the past
25 years has allowed me to make a comfortable living and live my life the way I choose. I made so many friends through owning and sailing Sail a Vie. Another of them, Bob Tracey, who owned many boats over the years, got me into racing. My first time ever in the ocean with Sail a Vie was with Bob in the 1993
Doublehanded Farallones Race. My first time ever on the ocean overnight was sailing solo in the 1999 Singlehanded LongPac, a 400-mile round trip out the Golden Gate, "around" a waypoint, and back in again. (This event still serves as a qualifier for the Singlehanded Transpacific Race to Hawaii.) My first time ever to Mexico was when Joann and I sailed to La Paz from Redwood City — just the two of us with no autopilot — in the 1999 Baja Ha-Ha. (We've since done two more Ha-Ha's on Sail a Vie, and five more on other boats.) My first time to Hawaii was when I raced there in the 2000 Singlehanded Transpacific Race, again with no electric autopilot, just a windvane steering system. So owning Sail a Vie is a story of good people helping me, teaching me and giving me a chance. Not only is she a great boat, but the experiences and relationships that came from owning her have made my life what it has been, and made me who I am. If I had lost her, I could not replace her. And the thought that I might have let her down and she might have been lost because of my failure to protect her — I am wiping away tears and blowing my nose as I write this. I know it may sound silly to some that I could be so emotional about a non-living object, but as I have explained, she is much more than a thing; she is a living part of my life. Who would I be if I'd never found her? — Phil 10/27/23 December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 87
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In Malta, the old "Popeye" movie set has been turned into a tourist attraction.
the east coast of Sicily. Anchorages are sparse there, but the towns of Catania and Siracusa are very lively and worth a couple of days of exploration. The latter even has free berthing on its bustling town quay for up to five days. Just two years ago, Siracusa set the all-time European heat record with a high of 120°F. But this early in the year, it was rainy and cool. These would be the last raindrops I would feel. From a rare anchorage on Sicily's southern tip, it was just 60 miles down to the tiny island nation of Malta. We first pulled into the anchorage called Dwejra Bay, one of the most stunning I'd ever visited, with its steep cliffs and near-360-degree protection (a rarity outside of Croatia). We eventually sailed into Valletta, a massive nautical hub surrounding a most impressive old town and fortress. I swapped crew in Malta, and was happy that the new crew was up for a taxi ride across the island to the Popeye village. Somehow they've maintained the rickety, cartoonish film set from the 1980 Robin Williams movie (his first as lead actor) and made it a tourist attraction. He's such a Bay Area legend, and I was beyond stoked to explore the set. Valletta was a great stop. It's a compact town and easy to get around. The chandleries are the best I've seen in Europe and the prices are similar to those at online retailers in the US. The fortified old town in the center of it all is yet another Mediterranean UNESCO site, and its gridlike streets and bay windows reminded me a lot of San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood. In contrast, much of the rest of Malta's Grand Harbour is lined by Miami-style high-rises. Malta is so far south in the Med that the African country of Tunisia lies directly to the west. So due west we sailed! Our first waypoint was the small Italian island of Linosa, almost halfway to the Tunisian port of Monastir. We pondered a pit stop in Linosa, but deemed the tiny port unequipped to host passing sailboats — until a local waved us over, instructing us to drop anchor and come stern-to at the quay. This worked well enough despite the building cross breeze, until I went for a swim and found the anchor wedged between a bunch of boulders. Plenty of holding power, but retrieval looked unlikely. This proved to be the most stressful predicament I'd ever encountered in the Med. If we were to release the stern lines and then struggle to pick up the GEJA
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Geja — 1976 Islander 36 Andrew Vik Around Sicily… and Africa?! San Francisco As I'd done every year since buying Geja sight unseen through the pages of Latitude 38 in 2008, I flew from SFO to Europe this past summer for my annual eight-week Mediterranean cruise. Instead of flying to Geja's longtime home base in Croatia though, my flight was Andrew is expanding his to the southern cruising to other coun- Italian island tries, but says he still of Sicily, where misses Croatia. I'd left Geja the previous summer. I found her still afloat and in good shape upon arrival in Riposto, a stone's throw from Taormina and the White Lotus Hotel. In the shadow of ever-spewing Mount Etna, there's always a chance of volcanic matter covering the boats, but the off-season eruptions sent their discharge south to the town of Catania instead. Maintaining and improving a 47-yearold boat is part of the fun (to an extent, anyway). Modifying Geja's transom to completely fold down like those on newer production boats seemed ambitious, so during setup week, I added a more modest teak boarding platform to her stern. In marinas and town quays in the Med, it's most common to moor stern-to, and the addition of the platform was a gamechanger. With the intent of concluding the voyage before the August heat and crowds, I set sail on June 1 with my first crew down
anchor, the cross breeze would push Geja's stern right into the rocky breakwater. Such a tight spot it was! We managed to pull the boat halfway around the sketchy quay and secure her alongside with just inches below the keel. That allowed us to release the tension on the anchor rode, and a local diver came later to muscle the anchor out of the rocks. Finally free from Linosa, we pointed Geja's bow west again toward Tunisia … sort of. The Windy app called for the wind to clock around and smack us on the nose by the time we reached Monastir, so we arced 20 miles north of the 100-mile rhumbline to soften the blow. We sailed beautifully through the night, but started to take a beating after sunrise, exactly as
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Above: 'Geja' in the Egadi Islands, off the northwest coast of Sicily. Top left: The tuk tuks of Siracusa are great for navigating traffic and narrow streets. Top center: Leg 5 crew (l to r) Vanessa, Danielle and Valerie. (Out of a total of 11 summer crew, seven were male.) Top right: The unusual anchorage at Malta's Dwejra Bay offers nearly 360-degree protection. Right: Roman amphitheater at El Jem in Tunisia looks a lot like that other one in Rome.
Windy had predicted. Bearing off toward Libya seemed like a worse option, so we just had to grit our teeth. I'm so happy that I replaced the standing rigging two year ago. Just 10 miles from Monastir is a reefstrewn island whose ominous centerpiece is the shipwreck of a 600-ft tanker. We tried heaving to behind the island, but Geja drifted fairly quickly out of its lee. With faith in Navionics and a spotter on the bow, we navigated through the reefs
and pounded the remaining miles into Monastir. I can't say I wasn't apprehensive about including Tunisia on the itinerary. I'd never been in Africa, or even in a Muslim country aside from Turkey. But plenty of cruisers winter over in various Tunisian ports, so I figured it couldn't be too bad. The check-in process was — as I'd been warned — cumbersome. Bribes can speed things up, I'm told, and are sometimes
requested. But after 30 minutes of sifting through luggage and cabinets, the customs guy succumbed to the midday cabin heat and concluded the inspection with no money exchanged. Still, the uneasy feeling that we were no longer in the West was clear. On the positive side, a berth with water, power, and showers cost just $17/night. It typically costs four times that in the rest of the Med. We made three more stops along the Tunisian coast, at El Kantaoui, Hammamet, and Kelibia, enjoying excellent sailing breezes. Most stops offered comfortable, full-service berths within attractive and secure marina developments. We rented a car once (actually twice — the first one ran out of fuel after a mile) and toured inland to the stunning Roman amphitheater of El Jem, rivaling the one in Rome in size and state of preservation. Roadside stands offered grilled lamb, with the remains of the slaughter still hanging on hooks, and live sheep waiting their turn. Talk about farm to table! At anchor in Kelibia on the morning that we checked out, two teenage boys swam 1,000 feet from shore to say hi. I invited them to take a break on the swim platform. I doubt they wanted a ride to Italy, as they readily swam away when we announced we were hoisting anchor. Otherwise we had no incidents or sightings of any migrant activity. From Kelibia, it's just a 40-mile sail to the small Italian island of Pantelleria, only 8 miles across and an increasingly popular holiday destination among the posh of Milan. We stayed three nights, touring most of the nooks and crannies of this volcanic, geological wonder. Another 60 miles of excellent sailing brought us back to "mainland" Sicily, and soon after to the remarkable Egadi Islands off Sicily's west coast. Marettimo is as charming as islands come, with just one village on a chunk of land 4 miles in length. Favignana is the main island of the group, and it's hard to find a more beautiful anchorage than Cala Rossa, swell permitting. It's the first place I ever tried Geja's spare anchor, deployed astern successfully to minimize rolling. But with 300 miles of fetch up the Tyrrhenian Sea, flat calm can seldom be expected. — Andrew 11/3/23 In Part 2 next month, Geja explores December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 89
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Cruise Notes • "I had not intended to do the HaHa again so soon after bashing back in April," says Bill Leone of the San Diegobased Beneteau 423 Sequester. "However, three Colorado sailors, all former commodores of the Lake Pueblo Sailing Club, asked if I would be willing to go again. The Ha-Ha had been a bucket Bill and Cheryl: maklist item for them for ing cruising bucket many years. Cheryl lists come true. and I agreed and here we are." Highlights of '23 included an unprecedented lightning storm over Bahia Santa Maria; daylong duels with nearby boats in heavy wind and waves; passing through a half dozen gray whales when leaving
Santa Maria — and just watchand compare notes with the ing their new-to-ocean-sailing owners. But what are the odds crew. "Watching their reacthat the owners of two '60stions to everything, and exciteera Ericson 30s would end up ment at every dolphin sightcruising Alaska together? If ing, reminded me not to take Cindy and Michael are you've read Tom Dilworth's arfor granted the grandeur and living their own cruising ticle earlier in Changes, you'll privilege we enjoy in this, our story in Mexico. know that's just what hapchosen hobby," says Bill. pened with his Ellie and John • Many cruisers are inspired by those McDowell's Gypsy Woman. We asked who have gone before: Lin and Larry, Tom for the backstory. Tristan, the Hiscocks, the Roths … Mi"John McDowell is one of those guys chael Reese got interested in sailing as a who really uses his boat," says Tom. "The teenager after meeting Robin Lee Graham first time that I randomly bumped into and reading his book Dove, about sailing him was around 2005 in Long Beach when around the world alone as a teenager in Ellie was new to me. John and I talked for the '60s. Lo, these many years later, Mi- a few minutes chael and Cindy did the 2022 Ha-Ha, and and exchanged are living their own cruising dream on contact inforFirst Light, their Portland-based Island mation. Then Packet 380. At this writing, Michael was about five years in PV sailing with a couple of friends. "I later, when I love sailing in Banderas Bay and this part was helping my of Mexico," he says. First Light will con- nephew deliver Birds of a feather 'Ellie' and tinue to cruise Mexico until April, when his new boat 'Gypsy Woman' in Alaska. Michael and Cindy plan to head south- from Seattle west on the 2024 Pacific Puddle Jump. to Alameda, I saw Gypsy Woman in Port • It's always fun to run into sisterships Townsend. John wasn't aboard, but we ELLIE
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IN LATITUDES kept getting in the way," says Robert Feld, a Montanan sailing the Fairweather Mariner 38 Rachel Lynn. After many disappointments, in 2022, Robert decided he was going no matter what. When some health issues were discovered early that year, "I told one of my crew who was a doctor that we were going even if he had to administer IV treatments on the way!" The good news is that Rachel Lynn and crew made it to Cabo After years of just fine. The boat is frustrating delays, currently in La Paz, Robert was prepared to endure and Robert has been heroic measures traveling back and to do the Ha-Ha. forth to enjoy her as time permits. "I plan to explore more of the Sea of Cortez this fall and spring and then maybe head over to mainland Mexico," he says. • Like many Ha-Ha veterans, Pierre Blouin and Marie-Josée Dion of Viva, a RACHEL LYNN
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talked briefly on the phone. and a bimini — all The next time, after another in just two months five years, I saw him at the in San Diego in San Diego Harbor Police 2021," says Peter dock — like I said, he gets Lane of the Benearound. By then he'd been teau 50 Resolute. summering in Alaska, an After they completidea that intrigued me, so he ed the Ha-Ha that was an inspiration to see for year, he and Nicky myself what it was like up Lecher spent the Left to right: Peter, Ingrid, Jim and there. winter commuting "By the way, his career Nicky. Peter and Nicky are owners of back and forth was master electrician in 'Resolute'. Ingrid and Jim were crew on from their home Las Vegas, a stressful job, the recent Ha-Ha. in Newport, Rhode he said. So he had Gypsy Woman on Lake Island, to the boat in La Paz, averaging Mead for years, and every Friday he'd go about a week of cruising every six weeks. up there and hang out, often with his "We were in heaven and loved every minbuddy Carl, the owner of Sockeye, who ute," says Peter. In May this year, Resolute also accompanied us to Alaska. The hail- bashed back to San Diego, for insurance ing port on Gypsy Woman's transom is reasons and to get a bit more work done, Lake Mead." then joined this year's Ha-Ha, again "hav• Some folks plan for years or even ing another great time meeting people, decades before casting off the lines to go playing baseball, dancing, and having a cruising. Some get things together a bit very up-close-and- personal encounter more quickly. "After a whirlwind retrofit with orcas." Look for an expanded reof a club cruiser that had never even had port from Resolute in the January issue. its stove used, we added a watermaker, • "It was a 10-year goal of mine to parsolar, batteries, an inverter, AC, a dodger ticipate in the Baja Ha-Ha, but life events
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Portland-based Amel Super Maramu 52, have decided to spend another season in Mexico instead of venturing farther. "After the 2022 Ha-Ha, we spent an amazing six months cruising Mexico and deeply soaking in the adventure, the culture, the people, the food — and of course enjoying nature and anchorage-hopping," says Pierre. They spent time exploring Mazatlán, discovering amazing taquerias, experiencing its carnival and almost sinking when the party boat they were on hit a reef in front of the malecon during the fireworks show. Pierre and Marie continued making their way down the coast, eventually landing in La Cruz, where, says Peter, "We almost got the bug to cross to the South
'Viva' in repose. Inset: Pierre and Marie are looking forward to another year of cruising Mexico.
Pacific." But as with many other cruisers with long-range plans, the charms of ma analand were too alluring. They decided to spend one more year in Mexico. So last spring, they headed back into the Sea, "dodging Northers, kayaking the beautiful bays, and hiking up all those hills around the anchorages." Viva ended her first season in Puerto Peñasco in May, hauling out at the Cabrales boatyard while Pierre and Marie visited family and friends in Quebec over the summer. At this writing, Pierre reports: "Season 2 has just started. After a month of grueling yard projects, we splashed Viva on October 20. Plans for this upcoming
season are to spend more time exploring the Sea of Cortez, then mainland Mexico south of Banderas Bay — and possibly departing for the big jump to the South Pacific in April 2024." • As another year comes to a close, we're reminded that there's nothing like spending the holidays at home with family and friends. We're also reminded that many of you will spend holidays in places far from where the home fires burn. If you are among the latter group, we hope you will consider sharing those experiences — past or present — with our readers. In the bigger picture, we hope those of you sailing "out there" will share some of your experiences in 2024 with us "in here." Countless people have told us that Latitude 38 inspired them to finally cast off the docklines and head out. If you're among them, here is your chance to pay it forward! Submissions or queries can be made to editorial@latitude38.com. And just so you know, 99% of submissions made to Changes are published as articles or Cruise Notes. Have a great year!
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Questions? (415) 383-8200 or class@latitude38.com Dinghies, Liferafts & Rowboats Catalina 12.5 Wanted. Looking for boat and sail in good shape, with trailer or not. San Diego to Portland rothdavd5@gmail.com (503) 975-2543 16 FT RS Venture SE 2020. Weighted centerboard for more stability. Electric motor. Comes with spinnaker kit (not used). Bottom paint — can be stored in the water. $15,000 OBO. Alameda, CA augustz@augustz.com (415) 359-7334
7.75 FT McLaughlin Optimist 2004. We’ve owned this Opti for about 10 years and used maybe 10 times. It’s in very good shape, foils are pristine. Come and get it and get your kids out on the water! $2,000 OBO. Marin County rddublu@gmail.com (415) 302-8776
24 Feet & Under Sailboats 24 FT J/24 1980. J/24s and Santana 25s with trailers $2500-$3500 all bare interiors, all with good working sails — sold as is. These are from sailing school closeout, Bay Area. Photos available $2,500. Valley Springs, CA bonnielopezunr@gmail.com (209) 772-9695
24 FT Ranger 24 1975. Full fiberglass hull with encapsulated keel. 8 hp Nissan, 5 hp Nissan spare. 2 sets of sails. Spinnaker pole. Large, comfortable, roomy interior. A complete boat with many extras. Recent new charging cord, battery, charger and nonskid applied to deck. More pics available. Bottom is clean and could use paint as well as some areas of the interior. $4,250. Sausalito (415) 757-7863
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20 FT Ranger 1973. New electrical system, two deep-cell marine batteries with solar panel. Three sets of sails in excellent condition (mainsail, jib, storm sails, genoa, spinnaker and pole). New deck fittings, new mast top fitting. All new running and anchor lights. EZ Loader trailer: newly licensed, new bearings, new tires, new spare tire, new trailer lights. Shoal draft keel with centerboard. Various receipts available. Equipment: anchor, life jackets, seat cushions (will need to be recovered eventually), builtin manual bilge pump. Engine: Tohatsu 5hp propane long shaft outboard, approx 2017 unused, stored inside. From Marine Outboards Co. in Sausalito. Bought for $1750 and plan on keeping it unless you want to add. $5,000. Santa Rosa, CA www.tinyurl.com/mt5aufhv (707) 758-3359
22 FT Catalina Capri 22 1988. Shoal draft keel, draws 2ft 8in. Includes TrailRite extending tongue trailer (with newer tires, spare, and e-brakes) and newer 5hp Nissan 4-stroke, long shaft. Freshwater sailed last 25+ years. The Capri 22 is a great daysailer with long cockpit seats for crew, yet sleeps up to 4. Includes all interior (fabric) and cockpit (vinyl) cushions, in excellent condition. Includes 3 headsails, 1 main. Features: Boomkicker, portable head, teak trim, stern ladder, VHF wiring, knot meter, internal lighting, 12V power panel, Mast-Up system, anchor, tiller extension, and many other accessories. Bottom paint is in good condition. Click the URL to see more pictures of the boat, trailer, motor and more. Thanks for visiting. $8,900. Sonora, CA camcom2012-capri22@yahoo.com www.tinyurl.com/4w8axedf
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25 – 28 Feet Sailboats
15 FT West Wight Potter 1980. Equipped with new Honda 2.3 hp motor, oars, new interior and exterior cushions, jib and mainsails and trailer. Needs a new centerboard, but otherwise in great condition. $2,200. Oroville, CA songbird_44@hotmail.com (916) 3354440
22 FT Catalina 1987. Wife bought this swing keel for my birthday in 2020. Have had a blast on it but I need to sell it. Promised I would not make her a boat widow if she didn’t take to sailing. Also some recent injuries have made it really hard to try to take a sailboat out. New anti-fouling and inspection on both the bottom and swing keel locker. Got a new-to-her CDI roller furler, all of the safety equipment you could want, new marine battery, 3-gal external tank with a 6hp long shaft Tohatsu, starts first pull every time. Docked now but have trailer and all stepping equipment in storage. Well maintained boat, ready to sail. $5,000. Bay Area markpdinthecity@gmail.com
24 FT Ultimate 24 2002. Hull, mast, boom, sprit pole, keel and deck in excellent condition and race ready. New standing rigging. New Raymarine electronics (masthead transducer, triducer through hull, lTC-5 interface, -i70S). New battery. New jib sheets, new compass. Road-ready trailer, three new tires. New bottom paint. 2.5hp Suzuki outboard, like new. All Ulman sails: two mains, laminate and Dacron. Three laminate jibs and spinnaker. See URL for boat description. $24,900. Berkeley, CA timsalz@sbcglobal.net www.tinyurl. com/2m89dhvj
26.6 FT CAL 2-27 1975. Includes: Sails, 180 jib, Inflatable with outboard, barbecue, inverter, VHF, GPS/Chart, speed, compass. Engine needs work, used as liveaboard. Email me for pics or questions. $5,000. Sausalito promedsf@gmail.com (415) 846-3133 www.promedsf@gmail.com
27 FT Nor-Sea Aft Cabin 1977. Hull #19. Purchased in 2021 to be my next cruising boat, and all outdated cruising gear was stripped. Rigging, head, etc. replaced the following year. Boat needs a little interior cosmetic elbow grease but it’s in good shape for being nearly 45 years old. Exterior is in good shape as well, but could use some varnish. Ready for her next owner to take her sailing. Medical issue forced sale. $24,000 OBO. Berkeley, CA natasha1353@gmail.com 26 FT Chrysler 26 1977. Excellent trailerable FRESHWATER sloop. Topsides/hull Imron. Trailer — tandem/ disc brakes. Swing keel — draft 6 ft/2.5 ft. Four headsails: spinnaker/150/110/ storm, double reef points. Halyards/ reef lines run aft. 10hp remote-control Yamaha electric start. GPS chartplotter, depthsounder. Anchors: Delta 22 on roller; Danforth 25, 12; Northill. 22gal water. Alcohol stove. Enclosed head — 18gal holding. Solar charging, two Group 31 batteries. Bilge pump. VHF. Compass. SOS light. Salon and berth cushions recovered — like new. Standing headroom. Bug screens. Photos at link. Delivery considered. $9,000. Walnut Creek, CA trisailor@outlook.com (925) 852-4804 www.1drv.ms/f/s!Ai2psz1c1oxekZUqqD AKKBgQtgAIUg?e=u2xaad
27 FT Cal 2-27 1978. ‘Aniela’ was refit in 2021 and 2022, restored and upgraded for performance and safety. Reluctantly selling this wonderful boat to focus on offshore sailing. Visit website for details. $18,500. Sausalito dmjacks@gmail.com (415) 407-0730 www.svaniela.info
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26 FT Bruce King Zap 1988. As I am getting older (now 65) and also disabled (25 years in a wheelchair), I have made the decision to sell (must sell). Almost everything on board has been replaced. New mast and rigging in 2015. Main traveler Harken windward sheeting car. Ullman FiberPath main, #1, #2 and .6 AIRX sym spin. 3hp 4 stroke Merc long shaft. Olson 30 double-axle trailer w/elec brakes. Trailer has some rust. Cleaned and recoated the bilge and keel bolts. Most recent: new Harken 3:1/6:1 endless mainsheet system and new mainsheet. SS lifelines and stanchions w/aft. New main and winch covers. $10,000 OBO. Ventura Yacht Club dave@webbdawg.com (805) 469-3520
26 FT Custom Cold Molded Mahogany Sloop 1979. ‘Cinnamon Girl’ — lovingly maintained racer/daysailer designed by Leif Beiley. Main, lazy jacks, 3 headsails, roller furling, full cover to protect her lovely finish, Torqeedo outboard, re-fitted in 2014. Fully loaded in excellent condition. $29,000. Paradise Cay sea-hi@pacbell.net
25 FT Olson 25 1986. Hull #102, Santa Cruz-built. We have enjoyed Tahoe sailing but it is time to move on. The trailer is in good condition, fully roadworthy. The sail inventory is in good condition: two 100% Mylar jibs, two newer 3/4-oz chutes, brand-new Kevlar 155%. The boat is race ready. Will need a new bottom if going into saltwater. Can deliver to the S.F. Bay Area. $13,500. Lake Tahoe ralphkirberg@gmail.com (415) 971-3527
25 FT Merit 1982. Excellent condition, sailed regularly and well maintained. New 2023 Dacron tri-radial main and 120% genoa. Good 90% jib. Good spare main. 4 spinnakers with all spinnaker gear. New 2022 Harken roller furler. Mainsheet system with 6:1 Harken blocks and new (2023) mainsheet. New 2023 Ocean #30 aluminum self-tailing 2 speed winches. New 2022 rigid Garhauer boom vang. All lines led back to cockpit. Raymarine i40 depth/speed/water temp instrument, Ritchie compass, Velocitek GPS Speedpuck. Tohatshu 6hp long shaft outboard with generator and high quality SS mounting bracket. Electrical system and nav lights. High-quality interior cushions like new. Sunbrella sail covers. Contact seller for fuller description. $8,000. Benicia jswesterman1@hotmail.com www. s f b a y. c r a i g s l i s t . o r g / e b y / b o a / d / port-costa-merit-25/7675835676.html
25 FT Schock Harbor 25 2008. Beautiful. A blast to sail and easy to care for. For more details or photos, please call. $42,500. Sausalito, CA (415) 322-8764
26 FT Classic 26 1999. Well-equipped and maintained; one-owner. Made by Classic Yachts, Chanute, Kansas. Relocating to a marina-less area. 1GM10 Yanmar/SD20, Edson pedestal. Encapsulated ~3-ft 6-in reef keel, fresh standing rigging and North 3D sails. HDPE NACA-foil rudder. New: Icom 510AIS, Raymarine I70 Tridata and wind instruments. Marine head, dual AGM batteries, solar panel, Truecharge and PROsine inverter. A superb lake sailboat. Galvanized trailer. $15,000. Folsom Lake ms6peters@yahoo.com (916) 597-0951
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29 – 31 feet saiLboats
26 Ft MaCgRegOR 26M 2006. Great lake and coastal pocket cruiser with lots of factory features. Mast raising system, roller furling, easy access cooler, trailer with brakes 60 hp outboard, new head, Garmin map/depth, sail covers Call for details. $19,995. Penn Valley, CA chrisfrank3@gmail.com (530) 902-4832
27 Ft eRiCsOn 1971. After years of wooden boat caretaking, it’s been a great freedom to own such a low-maintenance sailboat since 2013. I’m moving out of the area now and it’s time for a new owner. Fresh brightwork. Fiberglass hull, freshly painted 2/23. Brand-new batteries, charger, prop seal. Yamaha 9.9hp outboard (new in 2018) – electric start – 50 hrs. Inboard engine nonfunctioning. Mainsail and 3 foresails (80/100/120) good condition. V-berth/2 settee berths/quarter berth. All cushions recovered 2013, still great condition. Two full-length cockpit cushions. Electrical rewired 2013. New wind/depth/ speed instrument installed 2020. New head 2013. All portholes reseated 2017. New tiller 2022. New sail covers 2021. $7,000 PRICE REDUCED. Sausalito, CA jfa@skyseastone.com (970) 261-1611
26 Ft yaMaha 1984. PHRF racer and comfortable cruiser. Interior and exterior maintained in excellent condition by meticulous owner. Yanmar 1gm10 diesel with very low hrs. Garmin chartplotter, Raymarine VHF radio, emergency beacon and many other items. $10,000. Alameda Jnovie@aol.com (415) 271-3441
30 Ft islandeR 30 MK ii 1974. Very well-equipped one-owner boat. Yanmar 2GM20F, Lewmar electric winches, Schaefer furling, new inflatable. Doyle sails GREAT condition. Hauled, inspected 3 weeks ago: Sail today! Comfortable liveaboard. Transferable Alameda slip. $12,750 OBO. Alameda, CA lazystar@aol.com (650) 701-6452
30 Ft WylieCat 30 2007. Hull #18. Significant improvements made since 2020. 6hp outboard, Ullman (Hodges) square-head sail, VHF/AIS with wireless remote mic, Velocitek ProStart, Raymarine speed/depth, and ST2000 autopilot. Excellent condition. Fast, and really fun to sail. $79,500. Pt. Richmond, CA tpatterson888@gmail.com (510) 3810802
29.9 Ft bRistOl 29.9 1977 . Sloop, cruise-equipped. Two chartplotters, VHF with GPS and AIS. Radar, wheel pilot, 200W solar, three AGM batteries (one start, two bank). 2qm20 Yanmar diesel, tricolor mast light, asymmetrical spinnaker. $10,000. Puerto Escondido, BCS, MX jeffreyallenberry@gmail.com (530) 3860361
30 Ft bOdega 30 1977. Designed to cruise, sails beautifully, good base for simple adventure. Fatty Knees 7-ft tender, Nature’s Head, Force 10 stove, three new sails, one owner. $15,000. Point Richmond lee@awarecare.com (707) 738-9387
30 Ft Catalina 30 1980. This boat is LOADED! Comes with: Harken furling, self-tacking jib, dodger, radar, Autohelm, GPS, air conditioning, Force 10 heater, Force 10 3-burner stove and oven. The Universal diesel was rebuilt 200 hours ago. Sails are in excellent shape. Can reef it from the cockpit. Has many extras. This boat is priced to sell. $14,500 OBO. Richmond, CA billsmarine@volcano.net (510) 708-9391
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30 Ft islandeR bahaMa slOOp 1981. Two jibs, five spinnakers and new rigging. USCG documented. Diesel, with folding propeller. New batteries, seat cushion covering, cabin windows, stove, radio and toilet. Bottom paint two coats 2023. Fun boat to race! $15,000. Richmond Yacht Club, D-9 Carl.L.Werder@gmail.com (916) 479-6582 www.Carl.L.Werder@gmail.com
30 Ft OlsOn 30 1986. In good condition. More information at link. $7,500. Oakland, CA javier@indalollc.com (201) 4861700 www.javier1596.wixsite.com/ olson30forsale
30 Ft lanCeR 30 1986. We had our second daughter so now it’s time to sell my baby. Very low hours on the motor, well taken care of and FAST! Please contact me for more images and a survey. $8,000. Oyster Point Marina bpedersen@farm0.org (707) 934-0050
29 Ft Cal 29 1970. ‘Kon Tiki’ is a fantastic boat. She’s spent the last 20 yrs putting smiles on our families’ faces and needs a new caretaker. She is currently on her trailer in Vallejo CA, I’m happy to help deliver to new destination. Asking price DOES NOT INCLUDE THE TRAILER. Yanmar diesel, roller furling, spinnaker, new bottom Jan 23, ready to sail. Text first. Cheers, David $6,500 OBO. Vallejo, CA dbookpg@gmail.com (831) 402-4695
30 Ft neWpORt 30 MK ii 1979 . A well-equipped offshore sailing vessel that has undergone several upgrades and much maintenance work in recent years. It has participated in five Pacific Cup campaigns, achieving first overall in 1998, and third in class in 2012. This boat is a turnkey budget racer capable of offshore sailing, coastal cruising, and daysailing. New boom 2014. Rebuilt mast 2014. Rebuilt rudder 2023. New cutlass bearing 2023. Bottom paint 2023. Monitor windvane. M-Rud emergency rudder. Two spinnaker poles. Three headsails: 130; 110; storm sail. Three spinnakers. New mainsail 2012. New twin headsails 2014. New fuel tank and electronic fuel gauge 2014. Yanmar 2GM. USCG Documented vessel. Garmin navigation suite. $14,495. Redwood City, CA captmaddog@gmail.com (650) 533-7732 www.tinyurl.com/5cwdjfze
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31 Ft Wylie geMini tWin 1976. ‘Encore’ is a beauty. Recent out-of-water survey. Check out Wooden Boat issue 12 for more build info. I would prefer that both boats go to the same buyer, but they have been apart before. By far the fastest boat I have ever sailed. Mylar main and jib, spare Mylar jib and a #3 Dacron jib. 2 spinnakers. $20,000. Treasure Island, CA sawinery2004@yahoo.com (925) 2192279
32 Ft Westsail 32 1974. Aft cockpit cutter-rigged sailboat. Above-average condition. Have appraisal. Boat was not lived in. Very rare and wellkept sailboat. Serious buyers only. Email only. Will send more photos and appraisal to serious buyers through email. $55,000. Coyote Point, CA marisamiah@gmail.com (707) 317-8073
31 Ft Wylie geMini tWin 1976 . ‘Legacy’ is a beauiful racing boat, and so is ‘Encore’. Want to own a pair of dueling pistols? Check out Wooden Boat issue 12 for all the details. Recent survey out of water. Send an email and I will forward it to you. $20,000. Treasure Island, CA sha32015@outlook.com (925) 219-2279
35 Ft hallbeRg-Rassy RasMus 1972. Great deal on a rare bluewater legend. Engine is dead but all other core systems in good shape. Fitted out for local cruising, for now. New canvas, winches, batteries. Sails great. $7,500. Berkeley D Dock dfa2063@gmail.com (415) 373-8972
30 Ft Catalina 30 slOOp 1983. Very nice, with only 600 hrs on Universal diesel. Since 2021, mast painted, bottom painted, new standing rigging, windows rebedded, new bimini 2022, new exhaust hose, fuel polished, new electric head 2023, many extras. Good ground tackle, engine serviced August 2023, great Delta/Bay boat ready to go. Serious folk only, please. $17,500 OBO. Stockton www49olds@sbcglobal.net (559) 816-8461
32 – 35 feet saiLboats
32 Ft islandeR 32 MK V 1976. 24hp 3cyl Perkins. StackPack main, Profurl jib. Large bow anchor bracket, anchors. Solar, inverter, 12V reefer. Diesel heater, bulkhead-mounted wood stove, Force 10 three-burner gimbaled propane oven. Holding tank, new water heater not installed. Simrad chartplotter, GPS, AIS, integrated VHF. Autohelm, wheel steering, compass on pedestal. Recent new 4 main cabin windows. LED running lights and glow plugs. Bottom is clean and could use a repaint. Great coastal cruiser and liveaboard with 6-ft 2-in headroom and lots of fine teak woodwork. More pictures available upon request. $18,500. Sausalito captaindougduane@gmail.com (415) 757-7863
32 Ft Jeanneau attalia 1985 . Beautiful Jeanneau. New sails, rigging, and painted hull in 2021. Engine serviced regularly, divers every 2 months. All lines run to cockpit. Sails great on the bay — these boats have been sailed worldwide. Working galley. $21,000. Emery Cove Marina, Emeryville jjb@koger-black.com (510) 725-1825
32 Ft MORgan 1976. REDUCED! This is a great little sailboat. Former owner made it electric; his schematics drawings on board. Outboard, but old (can get a new one for better/higher offer), Survey in last 2 years, valued at up to $13,750 per survey, I will consider reasonable offers close. It is at Blu Harbor in Redwood City (old Pete’s Harbor inner harbor). Contact Al or Blu Harbormaster. $5,200 OBO. Redwood City, CA almadd64@gmail.com (650) 270-0066
34 Ft tiCOn 1986. ‘Ghost’ is for sale. Huge interior. I’ve been told it has the interior of a 50-ft. Three-cylinder Volvo Penta. Folding prop. Good bones but needs a good amount of TLC. Can be seen at the Stockton Sailing Club, “D” dock, #26 $9,500 OBO. Stockton, CA C107r@comcast.net (209) 564-2958
34 Ft expRess/alsbeRg 1987. “Boat of the Year” Sailing World Magazine, 1987. One of Carl Schumacher’s finest designs. One of only 28 built. Threeburner stove, hot water, almost-new North main and lightly used North jib on Harken roller furler. Sails to a 99 rating. Many bags of sails, fully equipped for racing. $49,000 OBO. Richmond Yacht Club karlengdahl10@gmail.com (925) 6835929
32 Ft FReedOM 1984. Cat sloop with freestanding carbon fiber mast. Same owner since 1999. Yanmar FWC diesel, wheel steering, radar, chartplotter, DS. EPIRB, VHF with AIS receiver, manual windlass, 3 anchors, autopilot, offshore dodger with side and aft handrails, mainsail catcher, bimini. Includes bedding, galley gear, personal safety gear, foul weather gear, charts, and navigation tools. Dinghy with outboard. ‘Satori’ is fast, roomy and capable. Great interior, aft head and roomy aft cabin. Retiring from sailing. Please email for lots of pictures and complete inventory, or call (916) 955 4301 $17,950. Marina Village, Alameda Satori4Sale@gmail.com (916) 955 4301 32 Ft eRiCsOn 32-2 1975. Re-rig in 2017 including: Seldén boom, Quantum sails, mainsail track, Garhauer traveler, vang, AIS chartplotter. Well maintained Atomic Four with recommended upgrades. Upsized elliptical rudder. Owned since 2006. Channel Islands vet. Many extras. Clean boat! $12,900 OBO pata_grande@yahoo.com (415) 225-2720
33 Ft sWallOW CRaFt sWiFt 33 1978. Absolutely beautiful from all angles, inside and out, Bristol. Volvo 30 hp diesel with only 200 hrs. 100 gal water tank, 30 gal fuel, new electronics, refrigeration, autopilot, new mainsail, all new standing rigging, new Awlgrip paint 2022, threeburner stove with oven, spacious teak interior, new Restoration Hardware/Sunbrella upholstery, large cockpit, shower with new head and hot water, tons of storage. Great sailing boat: an unforgettable must-see. $65,000. Richmond, CA glasner1@comcast.net (707) 484-7071
34 Ft hunteR 34 1984. If you are looking for an inexpensive cruising/racing sailboat that is NOT a fixer-upper then this 1984 Hunter 34 might be the one. We have owned ‘Maybe Baby’ for 10 years and have sailed her all over S.F. Bay and down the coast and up the Delta. We have raced her in the Great Vallejo and numerous beer can races. She has been the perfect Bay boat. During that time we have made many, many improvements to make her both more comfortable on the hook and more fun to sail. Some of our improvements include: Bottom job and faired the keel — July 2023; new standing rigging — 2019. LED running lights, propane stove, refrigeration, new tri-radial headsail. $21,500. Berkeley markwbird@yahoo.com (214) 801-7387
35 Ft santana 35 1979. Fair condition, needs TLC, sails complete. As is. Role: Racer/Cruiser. Waterline length: 26.50 ft. Beam: 11.92 ft. Draft: 6.25 ft. Displacement: 8,500 lb. Ballast: 3,300 lb. Engine: Volvo Penta MD7A 13 hp diesel — good condition. Please text. $4,500. Richmond Slighmj2@sbcglobal.net (415) 819-4515 34 Ft VindO 45 1984. Vindo 45 model refers to the 45 sq meters of sail. Featured in Ferenc Máté’s book World’s Best Sailboats and John Neal’s list of cruising boats to consider. Very special boat, only a few in California. $34,950 ed.witts@gmail.com (925) 948-5613 www.tinyurl.com/3wea6a62
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34 FT CT-34 1977. Beautiful double-ender, new sails, Volvo Penta MD11 in great condition. Sails like a dream. $23,000 REDUCED!. Tiburon sailingfearless@gmail.com
33 FT Pacific Seacraft Mariah 31 1978. Stout boat of legendary strength and seaworthiness. Highly sought-after for bluewater sailing. She is in excellent condition, spartan appointments and in original condition with no modifications. Newer standing rig, crisp sails, fresh bottom job. $47,000. Alameda sailingfearless@gmail.com
34 FT Cal 34 Mk III 1978. A wonderful bay and coastal cruiser in great condition. New bottom paint, seacocks, and packing gland June 2023. Professionally maintained W30 diesel. Looks much newer than her age. Dinghy and outboard included. $26,500 OBO. Alameda, CA shofmeyer@gmail.com www.tinyurl.com/ yc69p8dx
33 FT C&#038;C 33 1976. Classic high-performance racer/cruiser. Yanmar diesel. Extensive working sail and spinnaker inventory. Six Barient winches, dual-track headstay, hydraulic backstay, rod rigging, recent bottom paint. Working CNG range/oven, galley, head. Sleeps six crew. $25,000. Paradise Cay richard_selmeier@comcast.net (415) 706-7373 33 FT Columbia Bermuda 1963. Fullmasted sloop. Bronze ports. Seven sails. New 9 oz. main. Wilcox Crittenden head. 40hp Westerbeke diesel. Two-axle fiveton trailer. 1999 Ford 350 dually diesel. 30 years ownership. Spinal cord injury prevents refitting boat. $15,000. Martinez, CA retallic@pacific.net (707) 391-8605
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33 FT Ranger 1970. Actively sailed and raced boat. New Yanmar diesel (115 hrs), 2022 chainplates removed, inspected, and rebedded. Roller-furling jib, main with lazy jacks, spinnaker. Tiller steering with autopilot. Priced for quick sale due to partner’s health. $16,000. Berkeley Marina vroom704@gmail.com (510) 708-5581
38 FT Ingrid Ketch 1969. ‘Donna Marie’, designed by William Atkin, built by Don Pitblado, launched in 1969. Second owner! Replaced kerosene lights w/ LEDs and brought much else into the current century. 2 1/2 prepaid buoy on Vashon. Sails fantastically Martin Adams $45,000. Vashon Island, WA catgilliam@gmail.com (206) 713-1170 or (206) 228-6884
33 FT Cal 33 1971. Classic olderstyle sloop with modified scoop stern. Strong Volvo diesel 487 hrs. Harken roller furling. Tiller, older sails. Relocating and priced to sell. $5,900 O B O . E m e r y C o v e Ya c h t H a r b o r ngolifeart@gmail.com (747) 286-8311
38 FT Carrera 38 1987. Imported by Sven Svendsen. 2023, mast removed with new standing rigging installed, two new batteries, two new compasses, new bottom paint, new zincs, new service of the outdrive/prop, hydraulic outhaul, vang and mast bend, two-cylinder Volvo recently serviced with oil change/pump/filters, all work done by Svendsen. Two mainsails, two spinnakers, genoa and two roller jibs, spinnaker pole, Ballenger mast and boom. $22,500. Pt. Richmond Marina, CA franzsteinerarchitect@comcast.net (510) 914-1289
36 – 39 Feet Sailboats
36 FT Pearson 365 Ketch 1977. One owner. New: sails, upholstery, fuel tanks, VHF. Updated standing rigging. Good canvas. Dodger. Davits. Westerbeke 40 runs great. 150gal water, 40 fuel. Max-Prop and PYI shaft seal. Profurl and Dutchman. 110, 135, 150, cruising spinnaker. Forespar spinnaker pole. Electronics: old but working, with spares. Interior as new. Lewmar 44STs. 45 lb CQR and Bruce on custom sprit. Well-cared-for for 45 years. Comfortable, safe, capable for cruising. Text only. Principals only. $45,000. Tiburon, CA andrew.murr@ucsf.edu (415) 608-0757
36 FT Islander 1984. Excellent condition. Yanmar 3HMF diesel engine in great shape. Recent oil and coolant change. Recent fuel filter change. Transmission shifts smoothly. Hull has no structural defects, no damage or previous repairs. No leaks. Perfect liveaboard. Brand-new Force 10 three-burner stove, Frigoboat refrigeration unit, latex mattress topper in V-berth, marine toilet system, Quantum mainsail, and more! Great condition jib. Beautiful woodwork inside. I put a lot of work into this boat over the last few years and she is in great condition. Give me a call or text if you are interested. Her name is ‘Blaze’. Cheers! $27,000. Richmond, CA sailblaze84@gmail.com (510) 507-3998
36 FT Farr 36 1977. ‘Sweet Okole’ – Bruce Farr-designed, 36-ft with cold-molded construction. 2017 Southern carbon spar and boom plus full set of Ullman sails from Dave Hodges. Raft and safety gear for more crossings. We have done 15 crossings: first overall in ’81 Transpac, second overall in ’85 Transpac, first in class in ’19 Transpac, second in class in ’23 Transpac, multiple class wins in Pac Cup. Would consider sailing with the buyer to Hawaii on 2024 Pac Cup. $75,000. Richmond Yacht Club ldeantreadway@gmail.com (510) 604-1990
36 FT Farr 36 OD 2004. A carbon fiber sport boat built for speed and awarded as Sailing World’s 2004 performance boat of the year. Features include a large open cockpit, 59-ft-tall keel-stepped carbon mast, light pole. The lightweight and tall mast makes for one of the fastest race boats for its size. Formerly owned Farr 36s Wicked, USA 5, and War Pony, USA 2. Google “Farr 36 Wicked Sister” for more information on performance, race results and photos. $79,000. Lake Tahoe CA rccc12345@aol.com (530) 320-1656
39 FT Fast Passage 39 1978. Proven bluewater cruiser equipped and ready for circumnavigation. Cutter rig, newer main, Monitor vane, Technautics reefer, freezer. Low-hr Perkins diesel, watermaker, sailing dinghy, custom hard dodger, solar panels, wind generator, many extras. $69,000. Vancouver, WA buzzthomsen@gmail.com (360) 605-6789
36 FT Cascade 1977. Bluewater-ready turnkey sailboat. 55 hrs on new Yanmar 30 hp, navigation autopilot, leather interior hand-carved wood. Dickinson diesel heater, full head with hot shower, full galley and more. Great liveaboard with large V-berth, comes with transferable slip! $25,000 OBO. Newport, OR sureshanjie@yahoo.com Suresh(510) 459-8018or Dustin 808 756 1389
Tayana 37 MK 2 Cutter. Bluewater cruiser, plenty of head room and storage. She is sound but is a project boat. Needs work on motor and some electrical. Batteries in good shape, all new thru hull fittings. New standing rigging, electrical wiring and LED lights, VHF antenna of this past year. Brought overland from East Coast so lifelines, stanchions and bow sprit were removed and need to be reinstalled (all included). Stainless frames for dodger and Bimini but no canvas. Sails and covers in fair condition. Interior cushions in good condition. Nice interior layout. Priced to reflect engine and other work to be completed. $25,000. Sausalito jaygrant11383@gmail.com (415) 4136707
40 – 50 Feet Sailboats
41 FT Gulfstar CC Ketch 1975. I have owned and sailed ‘Someday’ for 40 years. Always maintained till last 2 yrs (since my old age set in). Systems in good functioning order, approx 3000 hrs since Perkins 4-108 professional rebuild. Rigging inspected annually. Sails (main, jib, 160 and 120 genoas) in excellent condition. Sails well. Comfortable liveaboard. Inflatable Avon tender with low-hrs Merc outboard, 5 anchors, 3/8in chain rode, 500W solar. Appearance needs attention. Hauled with new fiveyear Pettit bottom paint Feb. 2023. Enjoy living aboard free at anchor in Mexico or beautiful bays of Central America, or anywhere. Contact Bill Nokes for more information. $34,900. Puerto Vallarta, MX captnbarbara@gmail.com (541) 587-4490 or cell (541) 361-0239
42 FT Cascade 42 1971. I spent a decade lovingly preparing this sturdy bluewater center cockpit sloop for cruising. I have moved to Italy, can’t move the boat. Excellent condition. A lotta boat for the money. $35,000 OBO. Napa Valley Marina Danhuntsinger@yahoo.com (505) 5775851 www.tinyurl.com/5eckaspn 44 FT Gulfstar Sloop 1979. Raymarine electronics — hi-def radar, autopilot, E7, depthsounder, fish finder, navigation. AIS send/receive, new Beta 4 diesel 2017. Newly painted, 5 coats Awlgrip. 4 Kyocera solar panels, wind generator. New 3-burner Force 10 stove, new Raritan Elegance toilet system. New Dodger, upholstery and drapes This vessel is ready to go cruising. $150,000. Northern California Fcgmc@lmi.net (707) 330-7712
47 FT Vagabond 1979. Bluewater Yachts Vagabond ketch. The true image of an offshore cruising yacht, the classic, beautiful William Garden center cockpit ketch is a proven bluewater cruiser. Contact for links with photos, full description. 2022 AIS, watermaker, wind/solar, $129,000 OBO. La Paz, MX art@artcanoes.com (360) 220-7739
40 FT Hunter 40 1986. Great condition. A rare find on the market. All varnished interior. Two staterooms, two heads w/ showers, aft centerline queen, one AC refrigerator, large ice box, cabin heater, hidden TV, CD player, 44hp Yanmar 4-cylinder diesel, dodger, instruments, newer Autohelm 4000 w/wireless remote, roller furling, nine winches, 16-mile radar, lazy jacks, newer $5000 headsail, two mains, spinnakers, ridged vang, upgraded holding tank, many more amenities. Text Lynn 209-603-1766 $55,000. Stockton, CA bmxlynn@aol.com (209) 603-1766
48 FT Metalu Jade 1978. Aluminum cutter-ketch lying in French Polynesia and awaiting your offshore adventure – Cooks, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Antarctica! Built by one of France’s most renowned yards, and launched in 1978, ‘Athanor’ was fully refitted in Seattle in 2015: new engine, sails, rigging, electronics, coatings, watermaker, etc. Light use since arriving in Polynesia (COVID lockdowns). Meticulously upgraded and maintained, she’s truly ready to splash and sail whichever direction you want to go! Safety, comfort, and speed. Import tax paid, with a hardstand in place, making the logistics of taking ownership simple. View details at website or email for more information. $130,000. French Polynesia (Raiatea) sv.athanor@gmail.com www.tinyurl.com/ ym5mfsd6 48 FT Suncoast 1980. Type of vessel: ketch. Estimated speed: 10 kt power, 6-8 kt sail. Built Netherlands 1980. Time of lay-up: fall 2012. Hull: length 48-ft, beam 15-ft, draft 7-ft. Frames: varied dimensional steel. Topsides single skin steel plate, 1/4″ thick estimated; bottom single skin steel plate, 1/4″ thick estimated; deck and bulkheads steel plate. Hull layout: V-berth, forward head, forward triple berth, settee/berth, chart station, galley, captain’s berth, engine/machinery/ maintenance room, after master bath, after head, straight inboard diesel engine auxiliary powered. New bow thruster (2010), electronics, autopilot, forward underwater sonar. Six-cyl Leyland diesel, midline, 350 gal water, 250 gal fuel. Pictures at website. $54,900. Cleveland, OH maudeij@yahoo.com.au (954) 235-2527 www.guapasailboat.com
43 FT Custom Schock Ketch 1973. Professionally built of mahogany over oak, ‘Debonair’ has been lovingly maintained and extensively upgraded. A seaworthy passagemaker, ‘Debonair’ recently completed a 16,000nm Pacific tour. From rig to sails, systems to safety, ‘Debonair’s voyage-ready. $74,900. Port Hadlock, WA ketchdebonair@gmail.com www.tinyurl.com/2s36wtce
54 FT Jeanneau 54 DS 2009. Fully loaded in mint condition — This boat was truly loved on! She is ready to take you anywhere in the world with safety, class and style. Please call for extensive inventory list. Must see her! $425,000. Alameda, CA lrtravioli@hotmail.com (559) 269-7669
Classic Boats
49 FT Custom Choate Peterson Sloop 1988. Solid performance racer/ cruiser. Spacious headroom, storage, large galley and main saloon, with roomy aft cabin and separate head. Rod rigging, great winches and running rigging layout. $70,000 OBO or Trade. Sausalito, CA libertyshipmarina@comcast.net (415) 6133665
46 FT Steel Yawl, Full Refit 2005. ‘Endeavor’ is a strong, sea-kindly vessel, designed by Henk Tingen and built in Holland in 1958. Purchased 1987 and brought back from near-extinction. We had 13 years cruising about the world; maybe now it’s your turn. Fall in love with your dream boat. Lots of good kit included, can be ready to sail to Norway in 2023! Contact C. Masters for complete list. $100,000. Ipswich, Suffolk, UK svendeavor1958@gmail.com (206) 960-3793
73 FT Grand Banks Schooner 1997. Gaff-rigged schooner built by Capt. John Maher, Master Shipwright Mike Winterburn. Built to cruise the Inside Passage and Alaska. Turbo John Deere 6068 TFM engine. 34-inch Max-Prop. Watermaker. New Webasto diesel heater system. Abovedeck galley with Sigmar diesel cookstove. 12V refrigerator. Outback inverter electrical system. Belowdeck bathroom with shower, sink and toilet. Aft sleeping cabin and forward sleeping cabin. Main hold sleeps seven. Full set of Force 10 sails. Can be seen in Port Townsend, WA. $500,000. Port Townsend, WA maher@sailmycia.com (808) 283-2461
51 & Over Sailboats
60 FT Hartog Schooner 2000. Attention wood boat enthusiast! Schooner ‘Latitude’ is for sale. Custom-built wood schooner designed by Joe Hartog. Coldmolded mahogany hull. Plank deck over marine plywood. For more information, call or visit our website! Partial trade considered for small trailerable fishing boat. $52,000 OBO. Richmond, CA jimegeorge@gmail.com (408) 406-3884 www.schoonerlatitude.com
38 FT Kettenburg 1955. Mahoghanyplanked on oak frames. Needs varnish and paint, engine work if you must. Now berthed in Berkeley, she wants to wants to get her sails wet! I am nearly 80 and she is only 68 and needs a stiff breeze! No leaks. Decent old sails ready to sail today. Bottom refastened with hundreds of bronze screws, then corked and painted. Will instruct in sailing, varnishing, Cetol application, and bottom caulking/painting. New carburetor included! $999 OBO. Berkeley Marina I Dock Richard@newmed.com (510) 527-3600
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Power & Houseboats
30 FT Malcolm Cabin Cruiser 1936. Under roof in San Rafael. Beautiful interior, sleeps 5. Four-cylinder diesel. All new Renogy electric system. New cushions and curtains by Marcia of San Rafael. We use her all the time on the Bay. $50,000. San Rafael Yacht Harbor melco@mcn.org (707) 884-4836
35-FT WARNER YAWL, 1939. Low hrs Yanmar diesel. NEW: worm drive steering, SS fuel tanks, solar panels, air head, Simrad plotter and more. Completed extensive boatyard overhaul. Master Mariner race winner, Transpac vet. $11,000. Owl Harbor sagieber@gmail.com (206) 384-1175
Partnerships Racer-Cruiser at South Beach Harbor. 1986 Dehler 34, racer-cruiser, tiller, Yanmar. Non-equity sailing partnership. Semi-annual maintenance contribution of $500 is required. Monthly: $300 for two pre-assigned weekend days and four weekdays. Fuel, electricity, parking, insurance. Call/text. $500. South Beach Harbor valtaft@gmail.com (650) 670-5300 Looking for Boat Partnership. Looking for partnership on 30-50-ft sailboat, preferably East Bay. Equity and non-equity considered. Have 20+ years of experience sailing on the Bay and chartering internationally. I have partnered successfully on a 31-ft Beneteau for five years. Now I have a small sailing dog that I want to sail with me and the others are allergic. Looking for a clean boat in good condition that is sailed regularly, and responsible, nice sail partners. Berkeley ddodgesf@gmail.com
Multihulls
25 FT F-25C 2000. Farrier carbon trimaran. Light and fast. This is a rare opportunity to own a very responsive multihull. Doubleaxle trailer. $25,000 OBO. Los Angeles, CA (310) 310-4914
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44 FT Chris White Explorer 44 2000. Hate motoring? This is your boat. Fast. Strong. Safe. Fun! Been cruising Pacific Mexico six years. Start cruising in Banderas Bay. Can sail over wind speed with main and jib in light wind. $260,000. Puerto Vallarta, MX k9bonzer@yahoo.com (805) 794-1603
26 FT Custom Catamaran 2000. ‘PAJA’ is a custom-designed and -built 26-ft catamaran. She is a solid boat, fun to sail, and has been in the fresh waters of the Delta for all her 23 years. The boat’s core is Corecell, with aluminum crossbeams. In June 2023, the bottom was sanded down and a new barrier/ bottom paint applied. She has new running rigging completed this year. $20,000 OBO. Hidden Harbor, Rio Vista, CA PETER@THEALLENSITE.COM (916) 538-1530
36 FT Chris Craft Cavalier 1967. Potential liveaboard. Restoration in process. Hull — extensive restoration in 2018. Hull totally stripped, re-caulked, epoxied, Tropikote bottom paint. Hull above water totally stripped, sanded, primered, and painted. All new Trudesign composite seacocks and thru-hulls installed. Powertrain — Twin 327 Chevy engines. All new hoses and flush system added, exhaust system rebuilt. Shaft logs epoxied, re-bolted, and new shaft seals and bearings. New prop shafts and props. ProMariner ProNautic 1230P charging and monitoring system rewired to current ABYC standards. Interior — Current condition sitting/tarped, exterior needs touchup, interior rough, needs work. $10,000 OBO. Berkeley Marina mootsmadness@msn.com (650) 438-0896 www.tinyurl.com/27rmdykk
27.5 FT Luhrs Sport Fisher 1978. Gas-powered 350s with V-drives. Closed-in flybridge with nice interior and some fishing equipment. She’s been in covered slip most of her life. $11,000. Alameda Marina Stanriverhouse@gmail.com (510) 205-1695
Berths & Slips
46 FT Custom 2000. Catamaran project, fiberglass hulls, Most gear to finish, mast, boom, sails, engine, 20+ new Lewmar ports and hatches, container, pulpits, stanchions, lifelines. Temp. yard to finish, easy move. Must sell! $45,000 OBO. Santa Rosa, CA john@windtoys.net (707) 696-3334
31 FT Corsair/Farrier F-31R 2002. A dry-sailed, US-fabricated and assembled racing/cruising folding trimaran (and trailer), designed by Ian Farrier and customized by Mike Leneman of Multi Marine. This is one of the lightest and fastest boats on the West Coast. $72,500. Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, CA uncllou@gmail.com (310) 770-1103
Pier 39 36-FT Slip for Rent. 36ft x 13-ft double-finger slip available. Berth can be rented for only $374/ month directly from the owner (cheapest advertised 36-ft slip is $452) or owner will pay all fees for transfer of lease (which runs until 2034) to new owner. Pier 39 offers $4/12 hours parking to dock users. Map of the marina and slip policies available at website. For details, contact owner D. Patrick. $374. Pier 39 Marina, San Francisco, CA dpatrickdesigns@gmail.com (415) 8192870 www.pier39marina.com/slips/ full-time-berthing/ Slip for Sale. Emery Cove Yacht Harbor, 36-ft x 13-ft and is a double-finger berth. The slips at Emery Cove are real property (not a 99-year lease). Great location, upwind, ~10 slips from the gate, excellent facilities. $35,900. Emery Cove Marina TeamFCAR@yahoo.com Redwood City Marina Slips Available. Slips 30′-75′ at great rates! Amenities: parking, bathrooms, laundry, pumpout, free wi-fi, keyless entry. Guest berths also available. Call for availability. 451 Seaport Court, Redwood City, CA 94063 crevay@redwoodcityport.com (650) 3064150 www.redwoodcityport.com/marina
Property for Sale or Rent
Floating Office / Houseboat. A rare opportunity to have a unique waterfront (literally ON the water) building. The structure is built on a 16′ x 40′ concrete barge produced by the renowned Aquamaison in Sausalito, the premier builder of most of the houseboats that populate Sausalito and Alameda. The interior space currently consists of one large front office space (reception, lounge, office or?), a back office or conference room, a large storage area/ kitchenette, and expansive ‘basement’ storage with two access hatches. Use this ‘as-is’ for an office, studio, workshop, or? Or convert to a one bedroom, one bath home, add a roof deck, lots of potential! Currently berthed in Marina Village, Alameda. $195,000. Alameda, CA wayne@sailing-jworld.com 415-606-2634
Maine Coast Cottage For Rent. Enjoy breathtaking sunsets from this lovely 3BR, 1BA home perched above the gentle shore of Beal’s Cove, perfect for kayaking adventures, watching wildlife, and relaxing by the sea as the afternoon light floods the windows. You’ll love exploring all the islands have to offer during the day and retreating to the cottage in the evenings to catch the gorgeous pink, purple and orange hues of a Harpswell sunset. marcia@homesandharbors.com 866-8350500 www.tinyurl.com/43475rkj
Dramatic Waterfront Alameda Townhome. Dramatic waterfront Alameda 3BR/2.5 BA townhome with a private 44-ft deep-water slip attached to the property. An impressive 2,054 sq ft with multiple living spaces all designed to overlook the glistening Ballena Bay. $1,249,000 leah@leahtounger.com (510) 701-6497 www.tinyurl.com/3wdmepyu December, 2023 • Latitude 38 • Page 100
Business Opportunities
Spinnaker Sailing S.F. for Sale. It’s been a REALLY great ride. I started Spinnaker 43 years ago but it’s time to retire from the dayto-day. This is a profitable turnkey business with a dedicated staff who’s staying on, and I am willing to stay on as long as needed. We control all the super-prime frontage slips from C-1 through A-1 at South Beach and all the space in between those berths. We also lease 100 ft of the guest dock at the very front of it, adjacent to our 1350 sq ft office. 15 boats including a USCG 23 pax Santa Cruz 50 (fully restored in 2023), J/105, Beneteau 37, Mainship 30 pilothouse motoryacht, Andrews 21 and J/80. $975,000. South Beach Harbor, San Francisco s p i n n a k e r. s a i l i n g @ y a h o o . c o m www.tinyurl.com/3znw7bh8
Job Opportunities
Yacht Broker Wanted in Sausalito Office. Oceanic Yacht Sales has an available position in brokerage power and sailboat sales at our Northern California premier waterfront office location, which includes a high-visibility sales dock. Established in 1991, Oceanic has been in the same Sausalito location at Clipper Yacht Harbor for 32 years. Join our team of experienced salespeople and enjoy strong management support and excellent marketing tools, as well as Oceanic’s outstanding name-brand awareness and reputation. Sausalito, CA johnbaier@oceanicyachts.com (415) 3770866 www.oceanicyachts.com JOIN OUR TEAM OF INSTRUCTORS!. Spinnaker Sailing in Redwood City is looking for ASA-certified sailing instructors to teach out of our Redwood City Marina location. Part-time, flexible schedules, midweek and/or weekends. Please contact Rich or Bob by phone or email. Redwood City Marina office@spinnakersailing.com (650) 3631390 www.spinnakersailing.com
Want to become a Marine Service Technician? Applications for the Boatworks 101 Apprenticeship Program at Spaulding Marine Center is a 12-month, paid educational career training program in the Marine Service Industry.At our Sausalito boatyard, you’ll learn from professional craftsmen how to service and maintain traditional and modern power and sail boats. Paid $20/hr full-time, Monday-Friday. No experience required - just a great attitude! Applications open in Spring 2024. Visit our website at www. spauldingcenter.org or email education@ spauldingcenter.org for questions.
Deputy Harbormaster for the Richardson Bay Regional Agency. Are you someone who is skilled in boating and interested in providing patrol and public support to maintain safety on the Richardson Bay waters? Are you a self-starter who excels at working with others to provide excellent customer service to the general public? Are you looking for a workplace with flexibility and a range of career opportunities? Regional Government Services (RGS) is seeking a skilled Technical Advisor to fulfill our commitment and provide services of 20 hours per week to Richardson Bay Regional Agency as a Deputy Harbormaster. Apply at link. $30. Marin C o u n t y, C A r e c a d s @ r g s . c a . g o v www.tinyurl.com/ykkbafvd
Hiring Sailing Instructors. Modern Sailing School and Club is looking for sailing instructors to join our growing team! USCG OUPV License is required, though if you are interested in getting your captain’s license we can help there too. We have opportunities to teach aboard both tiller-steered sportboats and wheelsteered cruising vessels ranging from 24- to 50-ft. We focus on the education of adults in a fun, welcoming and safetyoriented environment. With locations in Sausalito and Berkeley we are just minutes from the best sailing grounds on San Francisco Bay! Do you enjoy racing? Our performance program is going strong and we need racing- and spinnaker-experienced captains as well. US Sailing and ASA Instructors welcome! Competitive pay! Free boat use! . Sausalito & Berkeley careers@modernsailing.com (415) 3318250 www.tinyurl.com/y7xb3tww
Membership Sales Representative. Club Nautique is a US Sailing certified sailing and powerboating school, club, and the Northern California dealer for Jeanneau. We’ve been around for over 40 years and our mission is to inspire joy through boating. We’re seeking an Alameda Membership Sales Representative to join the fun and share your love of boating with others. We offer competitive compensation ($70,000– $90,000+) and full benefits. Apply today! stephanie@clubnautique.net www.clubnautique.net Marine Canvas Makers Wanted. Custom canvas business ISO sewers! More sewing/making experience the better and willing to train for the right can-do attitude! Quickly growing company looking for another great fit in our team. Great benefits and culture. PT/FT . Point Richmond david@compass-canvas.com (415) 2993415 www.compass-canvas.com
Two Harbors Harbor Patrol Positions Available. Positions available for 2023 season! Two Harbors Harbor Department, on the west end of Catalina Island. Looking for experienced boat operators for seasonal harbor patrol positions (March–October). Harbor patrol assigns and facilitates the use of 700+ moorings on the west end of Catalina Island and assists with transporting passengers to and from shore. USCG license required for passenger transport, seasonal mooring included for patrol personnel with liveaboard vessels. Rates from $18-$21/hr. Two Harbors, Catalina Jrconner@scico.com (310) 510-4201
LICENSED CAPTAIN WANTED. Wanted: Licensed Captain with towing endorsement for TowBoatUS./Vessel Assist on the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Preferred if you live by SF waterfront, Alameda or Bethel Island areas. towboatus.bay.delta@gmail.com (925) 382-4422 www.towboatusdelta.co
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MisCeLLaneoUs hull MOlds — business OppORtunity. Wm. Atkin’s 25-ft Eric Jr. professionally made hull and molds for sale due to health. Includes plans, bronze castings and lead ballast. $5,000. Mendocino, CA ndv@mcn.org (707) 964-3598
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tors. $28-$35 depending on experience. schooldirector@clubnautique.net (510) 865-4700 x313 www.clubnautique.net Fittings FOR laKe uniOn dReaMbOat. ISO owner of a Lake Union slO sail and CanVas is hiRing — Multiple pOsitiOns. SLO Sail and Canvas is hiring for multiple positions in our busy sail loft in beautiful San Luis Obispo, California. We specialize in building boat covers, trampolines, and sails for sailing dinghies, one-designs, and beach catamarans. The following job opportunities are open for immediate fulfillment: Sailmaking Department Manager, Manufacturing Assistant — Industrial Department, Production Sewing & Prep — Trampoline or Boat Cover Department, and Office Assistant. To learn more about each job opening, visit website. erik@slosailandcanvas.com (805) 4796122 ext.9 www.tinyurl.com/fpdkrmt
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gaRMin eChOMap uhd 93sV + tRansduCeR. New in box. Nine-in. display. 800x480px. 5Hz GPS. Sunlight readable. Touchscreen with keyed assist. Quick-disconnect bail mount. GT56UHD-TM transducer included. Ultra-high-definition ClearVu and SideVu scanning sonars. $650. San Rafael greg.burgess@gmail.com (415) 384-1536 neaR-neW leWMaR anChOR . Lightly used 35lb DTX stainless steel anchor in excellent condition. Very shiny!! $444. Santa Cruz deconant@yahoo.com (408) 391-7747 www.tinyurl.com/seck3psj
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