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Sept. 1-16 — Expired Marine Flare Collection, East Contra Costa County, 2550 Pittsburg-Antioch Highway, Pittsburg; and West Contra Costa County, 101 Pittsburg Ave., Richmond. Proof of residence or berthing is required.
Sept. 2 — Free Fishing Day, state of California. Info, https://wildlife.ca.gov/Licensing/Fishing/Free-Fishing-Days
Sept. 2-30 — Small Boat Sailing, South Beach Harbor, San Francisco, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays, weather permitting; RSVP in advance. Free. BAADS, www.baads.org/sailing
Sept. 2-30 — Rock the Dock Concert Series, Port of Redwood City, every Saturday through November, 4:30-7 p.m. Info, www.redwoodcityport.com/rockthedock
Sept. 3, 17, Oct. 1, 15 — Sunday Sailing on Santa Monica Bay, Burton Chace Park Clubhouse, Marina del Rey, 10 a.m.4 p.m. $15 includes light brunch and post-sail dock party. Info, www.marinasundaysailors.org.
Sept. 3, Oct. 1 — Open House, Cal Sailing Club, Berkeley Marina, 1-3 p.m. Introductory sails. Info, www.cal-sailing.org.
Sept. 4 — Labor Day.
Sept. 5-26 — Tuna Tuesdays, Alameda Marina, every Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. Island YC, tunatuesdays@iyc.org.
Sept. 6-27 — Wednesday Yachting Luncheon, via YouTube, noon. StFYC, www.stfyc.com/wyl
Sept. 7 — Mexico Cruising Seminar, Spaulding Marine Center, Sausalito, 4-5:30 p.m. $10 admission/free for registered skippers & first mates of the 2023 Baja Ha-Ha. Info, www.latitude38.com
Sept. 7 — Baja Ha-Ha/Latitude 38 Fall Crew Party, Spaulding Marine Center, Sausalito, 6-9 p.m., with shipboard tours of the Matthew Turner, 3-5 p.m. The Casablanca food truck will return. $10 admission/free for registered skippers & first mates of the 2023 Baja Ha-Ha. Info, www.latitude38.com.
Sept. 8 — R2AK Blazer Party, Northwest Maritime Center, Port Townsend, WA, 6-8 p.m. Snacks, drinks, awards. $30. Info, www.r2ak.com
Sept. 8-10 — Wooden Boat Festival, Port Townsend, WA. Info, www.woodenboat.org.
Sept. 8-10 — Women's Sailing Seminar, run by Island YC at Oakland YC & Encinal YC, Alameda. Classroom & on-thewater instruction. IYC, www.womenssailingseminar.com
Sept. 9 — Sausalito Community Boating Center Oyster Celebration and Sausalito Cruising Club Kid's Day, Dunphy Park, Sausalito, noon-3 p.m. Learn about SCBC and local ecology. Free admission, food and drinks. Nick, (415) 9921234 or www.sausalitoboatingcommunity.org.
Sept. 9 — Sea Chantey Sing, Maritime Museum, S.F., 6-9 p.m. RSVP to peterkasin5@gmail.com.
Sept. 9 — Expired Marine Flare Collection, 1850 Harbor Dr. N., Oceanside, 8 a.m.-noon; Cabrillo Way Marina, San Pedro, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Proof of residence or berthing is required.
Sept. 13 —Svendsen's Dealer Show, Alameda, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Geared toward marine industry professionals. Exhibitors, demos, lunch. Info, www.svendsens.com/dealershow.
Sept. 14, Oct. 12 — Single Sailors Association Mixers, OYC, Alameda, 6:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, www.singlesailors.org.
Sept. 14-17 —Boats Afloat Show, South Lake Union, Seattle, WA. Info, www.boatsafloatshow.com
Sept. 16 — Alameda Island-Wide Open House, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Visit eight yacht clubs for food, drinks, activities, prizes. RSVP by 9/14 at https://tinyurl.com/bp7znwcf.
Sept. 16 — Expired Marine Flare Collection, 1700 State St., Crescent City, 8 a.m.-noon. Proof of residence or berthing in Del Norte or Humboldt County is required.
Sept. 16-17 — Pre-Masters Laser Clinigatta, Alameda
Community Sailing Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $100/day. Julian, www.mindbodyboat.com
Sept. 17 — 10th Anniversary Celebration, Alameda Community Sailing Center, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sailing & BBQ. Free. RSVP, https://tinyurl.com/2ad3nz7a.
Sept. 17 — Expired Marine Flare Collection, Clipper Yacht Harbor, Sausalito, 8 a.m.-noon. Proof of residence or berthing in Marin County is required.
Sept. 17 — Expired Marine Flare Collection, Oakland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Proof of residence or berthing in Alameda County is required. By appointment only, www.stopwaste.org/aboutstopwaste/events/marine-flare-collection-event-2023-09-17
Sept. 17 — California Coastal Cleanup, Marina Village/ OYC, Alameda. Clean up the Estuary by boat.
Sept. 17 — Hausmann Quartet, Maritime Museum of San Diego, 2:30 p.m. $12-$60. Info, www.sdmaritime.org.
Sept. 22 — Autumnal Equinox, 11:50 p.m. PDT.
Sept. 23 — California Coastal Cleanup Day. Info, www. coastalcleanupday.org
Sept. 24 — Nautical Flea Market, Oakland YC, Alameda, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sellers rent a space for $20; reserve yours by 9/20 at marketing@oaklandyachtclub.com
Sept. 29 — Harvest Moon on a Friday.
Sept. 29-Oct. 1 — NorCal Westsail Rendezvous, Vallejo YC. Register in advance at www.westsail.org/event-5185638 Reserve dock space at likeabikemike@gmail.com.
Oct. 2-10 — Fleet Week, San Francisco, air show starring the Blue Angels, ship tours, parade, concerts, K9 heroes, humanitarian assistance village, more. Info, www.fleetweeksf.org.
Oct. 7 — PortFest, Redwood City, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Harbor tours, live music, kids' zone, food trucks, vendor booths, open house at Sequoia YC. Info, www.redwoodcityport.com/portfest.
Oct. 10 — San Francisco's Titanic: the loss of SS City of Rio de Janeiro and other shipwrecks, Maritime Museum, San Francisco, 6-9 p.m. Presentation by maritime archaeologist James Delgado. $40-$45. Info, www.nps.gov/safr
Oct. 13-15 — Sausalito Boat Show, Clipper Yacht Harbor. Family friendly, sail, power & trailerable boats, nautical nonprofits, food, music. Info, www.sausalitoboatshow.com
Oct. 30-Nov. 11 — Baja Ha-Ha XXIX Rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, with stops in Turtle Bay and Bahia Santa Maria. Info, www.baja-haha.com.
Sept. 2 — Jazz Cup run to Benicia. SBYC/BenYC, www. southbeachyachtclub.org
Sept. 2 — North Bay Series. VYC, www.vyc.org.
Sept. 2-3 — Redwood Regatta on Big Lagoon. Humboldt YC, www.humboldtyachtclub.org
Sept. 6-10 — J/24 Corinthian Nationals West in San Diego. SWYC, www.southwesternyc.org
Sept. 8-10 — George Hinman Trophy/US Team Racing Championship at Mission Bay YC in San Diego. US Sailing, www.ussailing.org/competition/championships
Sept. 8-10 — RS Tera North Americans at Sail Park City, UT. Info, www.rsterana.org
Sept. 9 — Offshore Series RC's Choice. YRA, www.yra.org
Sept. 9 — South Bay Bridge (InterClub) Series. Info, www. jibeset.net
Sept. 9 — Big Windward/Leeward. BYC, www.berkeleyyc.org
Sept. 9 — Singlehanded/Doublehanded Half Moon Bay Race. SSS, www.sfbaysss.org
Sept. 9 — Shorthanded Races. TYC, www.tyc.org.
Sept. 9 — Wosser Cup. SFYC, www.sfyc.org
Sept. 9, Oct. 7 — Fall Races. SSC, www.stocktonsc.org
Sept. 9, Oct. 14 — LMSC Summer/Fall Series, Lake Merritt, Oakland. Denis, (707) 338-6955.
Sept. 9-10 — Knarr SF Bay Championship. SFYC, www. sfyc.org
Sept. 9-10 — Multihull Invite. RYC, www.richmondyc.org.
Sept. 9-10 — Melges CA Cup. SCYC, www.scyc.org
Sept. 9-10 — Tahoe ILCA Fleet Championships. Tahoe YC, www.tahoeyc.com.
Sept. 9-10 — Finn PCCs. SDYC, www.sdyc.org
Sept. 10 — PHRF Fall 1-4. MPYC, www.mpyc.org .
Sept. 10 — Shorthanded Sunday Series concludes. YRA, www.yra.org
Sept. 10 — Single/Doublehanded Series. SeqYC, www. sequoiayc.org
Sept. 10 — Cal Cup Windfurfers. BYC, www.berkeleyyc.org
Sept. 10 — Commodore's Cup. EYC, www.encinal.org.
Sept. 10 — Baxter-Judson Series concludes. PresYC, www.presidioyachtclub.org.
Sept. 10 — Fannette Island. SLTWYC, www.sltwyc.com
Sept. 10, 17, 24 — Governor's Cup. FLYC, www.flyc.org
Sept. 10, Oct. 15 — Club Series. CYC, www.cyc.org.
Sept. 13-17 — StFYC Rolex Big Boat Series. Invited classes are J/105, J/88 and Express 37 one designs, monohulls ≥30ft LOA, and classic boats built before 1955 ≥48-ft LOA and a current ORRez rating certificate. Other one designs will be considered. Info, www.rolexbigboatseries.com.
Sept. 16 — Bart's Bash. CPYC, www.cpyc.com
Sept. 16 — Fall One Design. SCYC, www.scyc.org
Sept. 16 — Steele Cup/Dinghy Regatta, Rancho Seco. FLYC, www.flyc.org
Sept. 16-17 — Beneteau Cup. SDYC, www.sdyc.org
Sept. 17, Oct. 15 — Fall Series #2 & #3. FSC, www. fremontsailingclub.org
Sept. 23 — Red Bra Regatta for all-female skippers and crews. SBYC, www.southbeachyachtclub.org
Sept. 23 — Jack & Jill. SCYC, www.scyc.org
Sept. 23 — Tornberg Regatta. TYC, www.tyc.org.
Sept. 23 — Auxiliary Cup. SFYC, www.sfyc.org
Sept. 23 — Vice Commodore's Regatta. HMBYC, www. hmbyc.org.
Sept. 23 — Dolphin Cup. MPYC, www.mpyc.org
Sept. 23-24 — High School NorCal Regatta. RYC, www. richmondyc.org
Sept. 23-Oct. 1 — 5O5 Worlds. StFYC, www.stfyc.com
Sept. 24 — Fall SCORE #2. SCYC, www.scyc.org.
Sept. 24 — Jack & Jill Race. MPYC, www.mpyc.org
Sept. 24-29 — San Francisco Folkboat International Regatta at CYC in Tiburon. Info, www.sfbayfolkboats.org
Sept. 29-Oct. 1 — Mercury PCCs. LAYC, www.layc.org
Sept. 30 — Totally Dinghy. RYC, www.richmondyc.org.
Sept. 30 — Moonlight Marathon, Redwood City to TI & return. SeqYC, www.sequoiayc.org
Sept. 30 — Champions Race on Carquinez Strait. BenYC, www.beniciayachtclub.org
Sept. 30, Oct. 14 — Fall Series. CYC, www.cyc.org.
Sept. 30-Oct. 1 — Knarr Championship. SFYC, www.sfyc.org
Sept. 30-Oct. 1 — BAYS Jr. Regatta. SCYC, www.scyc.org
Sept. 30-Oct. 1 — PCISA Keelboat Qualifier. SDYC, www. sdyc.org
Oct. 1 — David Duncan Memorial Race. MPYC, www. mpyc.org.
Oct. 1, 8, 15 — Chowder Series. BYC, www.berkeleyyc.org
Oct. 7 — Twin Island. SYC, www.sausalitoyachtclub.org.
Oct. 7 — San Francisco Pelican Races, HMBYC. Fleet 1, www.sfpelicanfleet1.com.
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Eric Kownacki has sailed at Huntington Lake a dozen times, and Tom Jenkins probably 50-100 times. It's one of our favorite places, and I'm so glad to be there with the lake full again! It also brings folks together after racing rather than scattering to their homes, hotels or bars so you get closer to folks, just what the Moore fleet is built on.
It was at Eric's first High Sierra about 25 years ago that Tom and Eric met. We were both racing Lido 14s at the time. We've remained so very close, and most folks think we are brothers. We are brothers from another mother, and when you have time to hear the whole story you will know why. Tom was racing with his girlfriend (now wife) and me with my 7-year-old daughter, Alexa Kownacki. We were all the closest of friends.
The 2023 Moore Nationals was our first Moore one-design regatta since purchasing the boat. We've only had the chance so far to race the boat once, in the 2022 Delta Ditch Run. Hopefully 2023 and 2024 are our breakout year to do more Moore stuff! We are happy with our first outing, and we'll be back for MOORE!
Over the last 25 years, Tom Jenkins and his family and Eric Kownacki and Alexa Kownacki have raced together and been the "family" boat.
Over the years we have sailed together on various boats. Tom's Express 27 Witchy Woman, my Santana 20 (multiyear National champs), the J/70 DFZ that we owned together and campaigned all over for eight years, Tom's Elliott 770 Errant Belle, and now this Moore 24, the new DFZ.
Tom Jenkins DFZ, Moore 24 Morro Bay Yacht ClubReaders — Tom was commenting on the story we ran in the August Racing Sheet about the Moore 24 Nationals, hosted by Santa Cruz YC on Huntington Lake June 30-July 2. DFZ placed fifth in the 21-boat fleet. (By the way, DFZ stands for "Drama Free Zone.")
The Snipe Class held their Nationals on Lake Dillon, Colorado, a few years ago. Everyone thought it was a great venue.
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Vince Casalaina Snipe Sailor, Canal CruiserVince was commenting on the July 21 'Lectronic Latitude with the same name as this letter.
In the middle of an ocean (maybe not so middle, too) a lifejacket will not save you. (Motorcycle helmets are only good to about 25 mph, by the way.) Being tired or overheated or even uncomfortable just might kill you though. I remember very clearly watching a young man with a bulletproof helmet on, and shorts. If you want to be safe, stay home, pad your walls and probably pray, because even a home is not safe for some people.
But don't complain if you can't get your kids to wear a lifejacket when you don't. Kids are people, not pets.
Len OLen was commenting on the July 14 'Lectronic: Sometimes, Sailors Don't Wear Lifejackets.
Some will find fault in just about everything. Personally, I don't care to wear a life preserver, except when the weather dictates it. It's all personal preference. Next thing you know, there will be a demand to wear a helmet while sailing. Let those who enjoy their sport deal with it — it's really nobody else's business.
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Though there were plenty of people out there who admitted to not always wearing a PFD, there seemed to be universal agreement that kids must be lifejacketed up at all times. The easiest way to accomplish this is for parents to set the PFE (Personal Flotation Example.) But how old does a kid have to be before they can shed their PFD?
The issue for me was that there was a 13-year-old child. [Sara is referring to a video we'd posted on our Facebook page of a young man at the helm of a Santa Cruz 50 during this year's Transpac.] He cannot completely understand all of the risk involved with not wearing a PFD while ripping along 250 miles offshore, especially with a nice open transom behind him.
Does he have a greater chance of being recovered alive
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with or without a PFD? For a child, it should be a no-brainer to have him wear one. I'm all for grown adults being able to choose for themselves what they're comfortable with. I'm not for excessive regulations or any form of nanny state at all. To each their own.
Sara Montgomery Slainte, Cal 20Sara had commented in the August issue's Letters about lifejackets. That thread was sparked by the video of the 13-year-old in question. (P.S. — Apologies, Sara, we somehow misspelled your last name in last month's Letters.)
We have new PFDs on board, but we never use them. I know what I would try to do if my skipper fell overboard. But honestly if we were in rough waters — which would probably be the case if you fell overboard — it terrifies me to think about it. I guess it comes down to this: If you fall overboard, you probably die. But if you fall off a cliff, same same! And if I'm thinking about all that, I wouldn't have any fun. And isn't that what it's all about?
Be safe. Hold on, and have fun!
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Stephanie ZaborowskiHonestly, I didn't even think about lifejackets during the sailing scenes in Top Gun: Maverick, but I cringed when Tom Cruise was zipping around with no helmet on the motorcycle. Lol. I never wore lifejackets until we had kids. Now we adults have to set the example.
For what it's worth, there was a story in Latitude years ago about a guy who fell off his boat off Costa Rica and watched the boat (on autopilot) putt-putt over the horizon. He was 12 miles offshore, 68 years old, naked, and not wearing a lifejacket. It took him all day and night, but he swam to shore and lived to tell the tale.
John Riise Changes In Latitudes EditorIt's no one else's business. Don't be a nanny!
Mitch RansonThe lifejacket policy on board is the captain's decision, and I'm OK with that. However, I do think that the growing genre of YouTube vloggers who have left it all behind to sail the seven seas are, rightly or wrongly, becoming "influencers" in our society and thereby have a greater responsibility to be seen taking all the appropriate safety measures, including wearing lifejackets. While some vloggers seem to
do this well, I can't say that all the channels we watch are consistently good role models. In aggregate, we're talking of hundreds of thousands of aspiring sailors viewing these channels.
Terry Rugg Pajarito, Cabo Rico 40 Redwood City
Terry — We definitely think it's for worse that someone is in a position of de facto "influence" just by virtue of being on the screen. We reject the premise, not that someone is considered to have influence, but that the viewer would be influenced by them to the point that they would mindlessly make poor decisions. We're not saying it doesn't happen, we're saying it's awful that it does. We don't think the onus is on amateur sailors on the internet to protect the woefully foolish from themselves.
It's not a matter of reprimanding people for not wearing lifejackets. How people care for themselves on their boat is their business, as long as it doesn't endanger others. What matters is that we shouldn't be celebrating irresponsibility or carelessness.
Steve Hajnal Sugar Magnolia, Kalik 33 Bay AreaSteve — The idea of "celebrating" (and irresponsibility/ carelessness) is pretty subjective. Are we celebrating someone by posting a photo of them lifejacket-less on a boat?
Latitude — Right, no balloons, cake and confetti. It was more a figure of speech. Most of my sailing is done singlehanded. I dislike PFDs but I would dislike more treading in cold water as I watch my boat sail away. Even if I put out a trailing line behind my boat, I doubt I could grab it and claw my way back to the boat even if the boat was only doing five knots. And I'd be interested in knowing how many sailors actually know the proper recovery maneuvers in an MOB scenario.
Steve HajnalON HOOKING IN
It occurred to me that 10 miles off the Baja coast, or 250 miles away from Oahu, I would rather be attached to the boat than bobbing in the open ocean. In a shipping lane, you might be rescued, but you might also be run down. At sea in a small boat — and usually alone at night in the cockpit — we always wore a parachute harness with large D-rings attached to a heavy-hooked tether, in all conditions
In 2015, 'Practical Boat Owner' practiced recovering a life-sized dummy tethered to the boat, producing "sobering" (but what should not be unexpected) results. If you fall overboard and are tethered to the boat, you're going to be dragged; you can drown, even if you're wearing a PFD. (Some sailors use a quick release on their tethers.) "You need to reduce your speed to below two knots within one minute to give a tethered casualty a chance of survival," 'PBO' said. As always, the emphasis is on the crew, and their quick thinking and maneuvers, which will probably make the difference between life and death.
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preferring not to find ourselves in the drink! However, we did swim off the boat, unattached, at the equator, but one at a time.
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Singlehanding with a windvane brings in new considerations. It reminds me of Olivier Huin's statement in his Breskell documentary. "Falling overboard is not allowed."
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Joshua was commenting on the August 9 'LL: The Protections and Perils of Tethering Yourself Into a Sailboat.
When I tether, I try to clip in a way that I can't go over the lifelines — or if I do, I'm not going into the water. That's usually done by clipping in along the centerline or as close as possible. I singlehand mostly, so there isn't anyone to do MOB maneuvers if I go over. Gotta be able to self-rescue quickly and efficiently.
If I'm using jacklines, I try to get them as tight as possible; wetting them first before tying them off helps. And I run them inboard of the shrouds.
So far, I haven't had to test my system.
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His third letter this Letters
Singlehander Tristan Jones, who used a self-steering device, did not use a tether on passages. Instead, he towed a 100-foot steering trip line. His intent was to get to the line and trip the steering so the boat would round up and he could reboard. Don't know if he ever actually had to use it — but it seems like a good idea.
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One of that unique class of sailors from the '60s that epitomized the era, which includes Skip Allan, Dave Wahle, Doug Peterson, Ron Holland and many more. I worked with Tom on several projects and it was always a fun and rewarding experience. A gentle and talented man.
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A genius who can communicate with us normals, like Steve Jobs in a different skin, who came, changed our world, and left. Thank God we still have Tom's magic!
Cinde Delmas Another Girl, Alerion 38I was surprised to read about trailering a Catalina 30. Other than the people I knew in Fresno in the 1970s, this is the first time reading about anyone else doing it. The folks I knew had built their own trailers and used them when launching or recovering from the launch ramps on the local lakes — no hoists! From time to time, they would take the boats to Stockton and travel the San Joaquin River to S.F. Bay. I did the same with my Catalina 27, also a fixed keel.
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I made a seven-day round trip from Amsterdam in a 30-footer on the canals in 1998.
It was a fascinating trip.
I loved the bridge tenders holding out their wooden shoe at the end of a fishing pole for tips. I was amazed at all the large commercial traffic in some sections. The scariest part was sharing a lock with a 700-footer, and having the lock master yelling at me in Dutch to move up to the front of the lock to make room. Half a dozen office workers eating their lunch on top of the lock got a lot of enjoyment watching us fumble our way forward in the lock. We nicknamed the boat "pig boat" as that's how it steered!
Great scenery, nice people, Good memories.
Steve YorkSteve was commenting on the August 2 'Lectronic: Wooden Boats and Canal Boating with Vince Casalaina.
We've loved sailing and cruising in Maine, and thoroughly endorse recommending doing so too. Lifetime Bay Area sailors and residents, we've been lucky enough to spend five summers living aboard and cruising in Maine. Our nowadult daughters call it "home away from home." Far too
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David was commenting on the August 7 'LL: Unplugging With Mellow Maine.
It was smooth, beautiful sailing in Maine this summer. Latitude's sailing roots run deep in the foggy, craggy shores of Maine. We also noticed signifcant changes. The water was frighteningly warm. The Gulf of Maine, which stretches from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, has been warming three and a half times faster than the global average, according to WBUR public radio. This summer, however, as the oceans have seen record-breaking warming, the Gulf of Maine was actually cooler than the average. Also this summer: Parts of New England and much of the Northeast were blanketed with wildfre smoke from Canada for days at a time.
Looks like San Diego foul weather gear.
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Dan LawlerAt this very moment we are on a small island — a longtime family place — in the New Meadows, a mile or two upriver from Cundys [Harbor, Maine].
We aren't sailing from this spot, but did manage a week aboard a 45-ft charter out of Belfast in late July, with the great weather you described. Completely agree about the great sailing vibe in Maine, and particularly love the availability and accessibility of mooring.
Meg Arnold
Considering what a great sailing/powerboating venue we have in the Bay I've always been disappointed with the relatively few available destinations (considering the large geographical area) to hop off and fool around. In many areas, the tide is of primary consideration. At other places, it's visitor dock space, or lack of. Even good, comfortable anchorages are relatively few. Seems that with a Bay this large, and with I don't know how many thousands of boats berthed here, the surrounding shoreline communities would be more welcoming and accommodating to boaters.
The proposed bridge across the Estuary shows me how boaters are really thought of around here.
Steve Hajnal
Steve (on his fourth letter) was commenting on the July 28 'Lectronic Latitude: Cruise-In Chad Shares the Ins and Outs of Sailing and Docking on S.F. Bay.
To be clear, it was a Wingsurfer, not a windsurfer who was rescued. [Jeffrey is commenting on the August 7 'Lectronic Latitude: Sailor Reported Missing, Windsurfer Rescued, and Boat Beached at Stinson.] That was an error in reporting by the CG public information office.
It was a newbie who got in over his head — smart person making bad decisions. Here is the San Francisco Boardsailing advisory: "Late-season wind pattern — around midAugust, the wind pattern starts to change. The wind gets smooth late in the season, but the wind line moves abruptly offshore without warning.
"The bubble or light wind by the beach increases, it is more likely to be side-offshore by the launch, and the wind has a tendency to shut off abruptly by the shore while you are on the other side of the Bay.
"Do not get ebbed out."
Jeffrey Finn
I took a free dive class, and got into spearfishing during COVID. Once a month, we had a competition with the club I was in. My fishing was not great. So I stopped. Now I just free dive and look for cool shells or treasure.
My swimming area is Los Angeles, but scuba is also on my list to do. I did take a introduction through Sport Chalet, a long time ago — it was wonderful.
Nicolas Vanhove SoCal
Nicolas was commenting on the July 24 'Lectronic Latitude: Highlights From the 2023 Long Beach Scuba Show.
I met Steve and Margo in Port Moresby, just before independence from Australia. We were sitting in the boozer at the yacht club when we saw what we first thought was a local
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'No Name', seen above at Gashouse Cove some 50 years ago, was a Piver-designed Nugget trimaran sloop built in the mid-'60s. She was 24-ft by 24-ft with an 18-inch draft. "'No Name' proved to be an excellent and seaworthy craft, accomplishing some remarkable passages," Stephen Wolf wrote. "It was a fast and stable boat, and comfortable in most conditions; also a very forgiving boat. Through the '70s, 'No Name' carried us on an improbable journey, logging some 40,000 miles."
craft meandering in. Turned out to be No Name.
We went aboard one afternoon to play cards. With four people aboard, there was six feet of freeboard. I was sailing on a bright-yellow 36-ft sloop with Captain Hotlips and his girlfriend Teddy Bear. We made our separate ways to Bali (a paradise in the early '70s) via conventional Torres Strait.
It was harrowing because of strong currents and narrow channels. And it's remote. Steve/Margo couldn't point, so they sailed through the four-foot-deep shallows to get to the Arafura Sea. Then they spent five days, as I recall, drifting in, then away from Bali with the currents.
What an adventure they had!
Dave RothenbergDave was commenting on the April 14 'Lectronic: Trimaran No Name — One Thing Leads to Another. Stephen Wolf, the skipper of No Name, was the author.
This is amazing story on such a small boat. His story of S.F. to Mexico to Hawaii is another great tale. Now that the laws have changed, maybe he'll tell it.
Chris McKayHAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE 1956-BUILT, NEWPORT BEACH-BASED, PHIL RHODES 90-FT MOTORSAILOR SEA DIAMOND LATELY?
We remember when David Gates, frontman of the band Bread, bought (or tried out) Sea Diamond in the early '70s. That boat made our 55-ft ketch seem tiny. Gates and his bandmates came down to check it out; they wore white fur coats in the warm fall sun. I watched him repeatedly attempt to get the boat back in the slip at Ardell's.
Beautiful boat.
Brian BerdanBrian was commenting on the January 2011 'LL: Cita and Sea Diamond
MYSTERY POWERBOAT TURNS UP THE WRONG WAY AT SAUSALITO BOAT RAMP
I have used that ramp quite a bit. It's a miracle that most people's boats don't look like this. There's the homeless guy sleeping at the bottom of the ramp in the dark, the lack
of lights, the fact that you can't use the ramp at low tide due to runout and assorted potholes — plus the fact that it has very little clearance at low tide — and the fact that it drops off on the Bay side.
It's always a crapshoot. I think a city with such wealth would provide a halfway decent rap.
Oh, I forgot to mention: To compound the issue, there is absolutely no place to park your trailer while you're out.
Lawrence LaBiancaLawrence was commenting on the July 5 'Lectronic Latitude with the same name as this letter.
Someone tried to launch, retrieve, or steal [this boat] while using the ramp next to Salitios, which has a nasty dropoff at low tide. I'm surprised a vehicle isn't under it.
Jim BrownThe Sausalito public dock is joke. The city should be ashamed of this dangerous issue.
Doug Tiffany
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Jere VisalliIN JULY, A MAN AND HIS DOG WERE RESCUED AFTER DRIFTING FOR THREE MONTHS IN THE PACIFIC
I built that boat, and I'm happy he's OK.
Besides being overloaded, she looks fine and worthy in rescue footage. It breaks my heart to think she was abandoned. So he lost his electronics; there are two compasses on the boat. You can sail easily 700 miles in a week. Why, after three months, was he only 1,200 miles off? Even if you were just drifting, you would be farther off than that. I wonder who sold this boat to the inexperienced sailor. Very irresponsible! (By the way, I built the boat, but not the ugly bridge deck cabin.)
My best hope is the boat drifts up on an atoll somewhere
Though there was no explanation for this boat's unfortunate fate on the ffth of July, some have speculated (or think it's obvious) that someone was trying to steal the vessel.A N DY K URTS
and doesn't get destroyed and the locals there turn it into good use. How many perfectly good boats get abandoned every year because of lack of preparation and experience?
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Matt is commenting on the July 19 'Lectronic: Australian Sailor Rescued After Being Spotted Adrift in the Pacific. Timothy Shaddock, 54, who is originally from Sydney, Australia, left La Paz in May headed for French Polynesia aboard his Aloha Toa. He was rescued in mid-July.
Sea Nymph come to mind. [The Morgan 45 that was reportedly adrift for five months after leaving Hawaii in 2017.] Only until they took a tow from a fishing boat did they ever feel the need to be rescued.
A more important question is: Why are there so many collisions with whales? I fear that, and underwater debris Malama Hawaii
I am baffled by the comment that someone doesn't want to be rescued by the USCG because "it will create more regulations." Coast Guard rescuers are heroes and take pride in their rescues. Thankfully, the Coast Guard also takes a dim view of unprepared people setting sail in unseaworthy craft. We are lucky to have them at our side. They are counselors and allies, not something to be avoided.
Neal HolmlundNeal was commenting on the July 21 'LL with the same name as this letter. In March, the Coast Guard began a search for the 55-ft sloop Ishi, which reportedly had four people on board: Donald Lang, an adult female and her two children. The vessel was believed to be traveling through the Hawaiian Islands and on to the Pacific Northwest.
Here's the letter where someone said that Mr. Lang reportedly didn't want the Coast Guard involved:
Don's boat is a Hatfield 48, but when it was being built, they added an extra two feet to the middle of it, making it a 50-ft boat. I'm not sure what the year was, but this boat has actually been featured in Latitude 38 while it was sailing around the South Pacific for many years.
Don has over 60,000 bluewater nautical miles. He's a more capable sailor than 99% of the people reading Latitude; [Ishi] is over-built. Don has any and every sort of part or supply known to man. He has three GPSs and an EPIRB on board. They wrote a book about him called The Water In Between.
Don does not use social media or talk to a lot of people. He has sailed from Vancouver Island, Canada, to Hawaii and back multiple times, once in a 20-ft plywood boat with a wristwatch, a sextant, a compass, a bucket for a toilet, and a wind vane made out of 2x4s nailed together.
Don had to leave the harbor in Waikiki because his temporary four months was up. The U-joint in his V-drive was in need of repair, so he couldn't motor the boat around and
The apparently reclusive Donald Lang is said to be a superior mariner with extensive experience. His vessel 'Ishi' is said to be well-found, though there were a number of comments bemoaning the visual state of the boat, and commenting on an apparent list that might have been attributed to yet-to-be-balanced freshwater tanks. As of this writing, there is no news about 'Ishi' or her crew.
was unable to make it into any of the other harbors on the island without an engine. It was mid-October when his time ran out and he was forced to leave the harbor. He wanted to head west once the transmission was fixed; it would have been a way harder thing to get parts and fix it somewhere in the South Pacific compared to here on Oahu.
I talked to him when he got towed out of the harbor in the early morning — he was right by Diamond Head. That was the last time I talked to him, but he didn't have a plan where he was going. He said he most likely was going to float out in the ocean for a couple of months till January 1 and then he would be coming back to the harbor on Oahu.
I don't know who reported him to the Coast Guard, but he would not be happy about it. We talked about this many times, and [Don] always said if he went missing, never call the Coast Guard on him because all that does is create more regulations for boaters.
If he doesn't want to be found, that's his choice.
Brian
Ishi was built by my father and brother at Pete's Harbor, Redwood City, in the 1980s. She's a strong, overbuilt vessel and has circumnavigated the globe, as well as made dozens of crossings from San Francisco to Hawaii to Australia and back. I hope to read that the current owner shows up, unaware friends are worried about him and his family/crew.
Maybe they're simply in an unreachable location. Has anyone checked Palmyra?
Jeanne Taylor
`We met Aaron Carotta in Bahia Asuncion in October 2021. Back then he was the kind of "mariner" I normally have little sympathy for, one who is grossly underprepared. But Aaron has that rare quality that you just can't help but like him: lots of humility and charisma. We, and another sailor, helped him as best we could. We even became Patreon sponsors. To his credit, Aaron took advice and acted on it, gradually got better prepped, and kept defying the odds.
But I still gave him little chance of making it past Mexico, let alone around the world. [Aaron was attempting the first-ever "human-powered circumnavigation."] In the final
analysis, he showed great perseverance and attitude. So, we were very sorry to hear his odyssey on Smiles has come to an end, but are greatly relieved he is alive and well.
Looking forward to buying him a beer again someday — he is truly one of a kind.
Joseph DiMatteoReaders — In June, as the US Coast Guard was searching for another vessel, Aaron Carotta was found adrift in his liferaft more than 500 miles east of the Marquesas. Carotta was forced to abandon his 23-ft offshore rowboat Smiles, and was losing the ability to communicate with his support team ashore. That other boat in question, the 45-ft Island Trader Yasukole, eventually arrived in American Samoa with David Wysopal and his son Zachary aboard. You can read about it in the June 21 'Lectronic Latitude: A Serendipitous Bluewater Rescue — Pacific Puddle Jump Ocean Rescue Up-
THE SEARCH FOR CAPTAIN DONALD LAWSON, WHOSE BOAT WAS FOUND OFF ACAPULCO, WAS SUSPENDED IN EARLY AUGUST
Donald and [his wife] Tori spent a month or so anchored off Half Moon Bay Yacht Club. We offered them the use of our facilities, which they accepted. So I had the opportunity to get to know them better. Very decent folks, and his sailing résumé is exemplary. I also had the opportunity to sail on Mighty Merloe when she was in S.F. Bay, which was an awesome experience. We hit 26.5 kts of boat speed in about 18 kts of wind with a reefed main and a J3 up.
It is very sad for the sailing world, and for me personally, that Donald is missing at sea. We can only still hope against all odds that he is alive in the liferaft.
Joe Rockmore Half Moon BayReaders — On July 23, a Mexican search plane spotted the ORMA 60 Defiant (formerly Mighty Merloe) capsized 275 miles off the coast of Acapulco. Due to the sea conditions, no one was able to reach the boat until July 27. A search concluded that no one was aboard the trimaran, and that the boat's liferaft was nowhere to be seen.
We met the Lawsons Christmas Day and provided them dinner and items for their trip through the Panama Canal the next day. They messaged us three days into their trip that their engine died, and they wanted to stay with the boat to get help with the engine. But we didn't hear from them for a month when they got to Acapulco.
Such a loss. We remain hopeful that he survived and that he may still be floating.
Pat Brogan SoCalWRENCHING
Sailing with Donald on Ocean Planet back in 2005-2006 was an incredibly bonding experience. His warmth, kindness, and sense of humor will be remembered. This tragedy is heart wrenching.
Helen BeA NEW PARK WILL BE BUILT AT INDIA BASIN
I'm not sure if it's accurate, but the chart shows depths of five-plus feet about 600 feet out at India Basin [a slice of
waterfront near the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhoods in San Franciso.]
Given how protected it is there, it might serve as an anchorage on any plus tide, and I would think/ hope that they welcome dinghies in there. Speakeasy Ales & Lagers is just a few blocks up the street and maybe worth a day trip!
Joshua
M WilliamsJoshua was commenting on the July 19 'Lectronic: New India Basin Park Reclaims a Slice of San Francisco's Industrial Shoreline.
This is great news! The people in the area need a place to connect with the Bay, relax and play. Parks and planting trees provide a sense of calm.
Tina Lundh
As a teen, I visited a friend working at Allemand Shipyard nearby. I was given instructions about taking cover from gunshots before I entered the property.
Kit StycketThey can build [India Basin Park] in three years, but they can't replace the public dock at Pier 40 in 10 years? (Does anyone know the status?)
Barry DemakBarry — We haven't heard anything about plans for the public dock at Pier 40.
A few weeks ago, I tried to stop at Pier 1-1/2 and it had a big "CLOSED" sign on it. Does anyone know the current status?
Steve Berl
Boaters take note — Pier 1 1/2 is closed as of July 2023, and the Port of S.F. reports it will not be reopened until at least 2024. It may be possible to tie up, but on my last visit, the gangway had been removed, so shoreside access is not possible.
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Thanks for the update on Pier 1 1/2.
That's unfortunate, especially insofar as South Beach has been — not to exaggerate — extremely unfriendly (to say the least) to folks dropping off, picking up, or even using the pumpout dock. I think restricting waterfront access to boaters is another unfriendly front in the expansion of profitbased consolidation of Bay Area accessibility to tax-paying boat owners.
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Thank you for writing an article on, and calling attention to, the proposed West Harbor Marina expansion in San Francisco. I appreciate the manner in which you navigate the many points of view regarding the Rec & Park/PG&E project, and would like to add mine.
I would first like to comment on Bruce Stone's speaking for berth holders as vice president of the Marina Harbor Association. I am a member of the Harbor Association and have a boat in West Harbor. A vote or discussion on the merits of the marina expansion was never conducted with the full membership, so the implication that he speaks for all berth holders is inaccurate. In fact, from the sampling of boat owners I have spoken with, many are against the project, if not a majority. To say more boats and docks would not obstruct the view from the seawall walkway is partially true, however, "greatly diminish" would be a better description of such an outcome.
We know the fne print is diffcult to read, but this is the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department's current set of options for relocating boats from East Harbor, the square on the right of the photo, to West Harbor, the rectangle on the left-hand side.
To occupy the historically important, City defining, open water viewscape from the Marina Green with boat hulls and masts would be a travesty. All maritime activity that the public currently enjoys from the water's edge, including SailGP, weekly boat racing, the immediacy of the wave action against the seawall, etc., would be pushed out a quarter mile further into the Bay. Masts would interrupt the full enjoyment of the Fourth of July fireworks that burst low to avoid the hovering fog layer, let alone daytime vistas.
This was not the intention of the Marina Green and waterfront designers. They had balance in mind between boat harbors and viewscape when planning the proportions of the waterfront component of the Panama Pacific International Exhibition of 1915. Creating a landscape stage to view air shows, maritime events, the natural beauty of the Bay, etc., was the kind of public access the architects had in mind, the success of which proven by how tens of thousands of visitors each year choose the same experience of the waterfront today. To cordon off the open water with the varying densities of boat hulls, an extended breakwater, sailboat masts, clanging halyards, boat engine noise, nighttime marina lighting, reserved marina parking, etc., would alter the Marina Green Park experience immeasurably.
Trading the iconic Marina Green viewscape for only 15% removal of the toxics buried in East Harbor by PG&E, the promise of public wonderfulness in the backwater of the southern half of East Harbor, and reconfiguration of the Marina Green triangle seems like a risky deal for a historic site that has worked just fine for boaters and visitors alike.
If Rec and Park can find all kinds of money to build In-
dia Basin Waterfront Park, Francisco Park, and a myriad of other projects, why wouldn't they find the funding to restore their crown jewel?
Bill Clarke West Harbor, San Francisco Marina
A couple years ago, we sold our Westsail 42 Cornelia to a wonderful couple who poured in more love, time, and money to have her ready to head south in a couple months. Sadly, just like all the boats in the harbor, she was lost in the flames. Another harbor friend said the wind was hurricane-strength and the fire came so fast they were forced to get into the water as everything began to explode and burn. Flaming diesel in the water, boats broken loose as the docklines burned, then blowing down the harbor. Apparently
there were boats on moorings in the roadstead that burned like torches.
Lahaina was all about history. Now, like the Cornelia, Noa, Sara, Jayhawk and many others, these boats are now just history. When the cleanup is done, there will be a pretty clean slate, but never again Lahaina as anyone knew it. Our sail loft survived, but there is no one there to serve anymore.
My son, who runs the loft, got out of his home with a backpack and his bike and nothing else. He is alive, thank God for that, but now has nothing. I think breathing is going to be special for him for some time.
My heart aches for the loss of such an iconic place.
Barry Spanier
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Having been born and raised in Hawaii, and having family residences north of Lahaina, this was painful to watch. Knowing how slowly the wheels turn in the Islands, the cleanup, building permit process, obtaining building materials, and finding skilled tradesmen will take years.
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August's Caption Contest(!) stirred up some fun ribbing at the expense of the Aussies, including our winner (see below). Maybe they know something we don't? "Skipper is using the Aussie method: Just fly the kite, and she'll be right, Mate." — Dave Peterson. However it happened, we agree with Kent Carter: "The only dignified way out sometimes is to fully own it!." And more than one reader saw the sense in the configuration. Michael Johnson, owner of the boat pictured below, wrote, "I am hoping that my bowman is not on the 'Lectronic Latitude email list." Before commenting, "All good sailors know that there is more wind aloft." Thanks for all the great captions. Below, you'll find our favorites, along with an inspired idea …
"Looking up from the deck, it looks perfect!" — Travis Lund.
"Why reinvent the wheel when you can reinvent the spinnaker?" — @jack_kisling.
"It's a bloopiker!" — @sailtowery.
"See! I told you the view would be better this way!" — Greg Thornton.
"Skipper said I'm tired of the foot getting wet; rig it so it won't get wet; sure…" — Steve Rienhart.
"Jeez, guys, we are just drying the chute. What's the big deal?" — Marc Carleton Lesko.
"Flattop main, flattop kite. 20% discount when purchased together." — Jeff Bruton.
"It was a normal day until the Hawkins National Laboratory boat showed up … then, Things got Stranger." — Jeff Deuel.
"I haven't got a clew!" — D Baker.
"Hey, at least I put it up!" — @tim.dick.
Is this the future of sailing? "Was going to make fun, but now I'm wondering if this might be the next big thing in sailing. The beer cans will have A, B, Non-spin and Upsidedown-spin fleets." — @jordan197911.
Did you know participation and sailboat manufacturing in the US peaked around 1979? Just two years after Latitude 38 was founded, sailing started a long, slow decline. The impact of this has been the steady erosion of resources along the shoreline to support sailing, and the reduced visibility, recognition and support amongst local communities.
Parallel to this downward spiral is reduced number of Bay Area and California businesses and organizations dedicated to sailing. The population and local economy has grown yet, relatively speaking, sailing is a much less significant activity. When a new waterfront development or a pedestrian bridge is proposed, the last thing on the minds of inland based bureaucrats and city supervisors is the impact on boating.
Back in 1979 there were almost 45 boatyards or marine railways capable of hauling boats. That equated to 45 voices ready to speak up for the sailing community. That number is now greatly reduced, along with the numbers of marine chandleries, sailmakers, nautical bookstores (what's that?), electronics shops and others that can speak up to help preserve public access to the Bay.
In June 1979 we wrote about the reducing number of Southern California boat builders. Columbia Yachts was shutting its doors, Challenger Yachts had been sold to a Taiwanese company, Islander Yachts had declared bankruptcy, and Ericson Yachts was struggling. California was once the global epicenter of boat building.
Where are the voices to speak up for sailing now? Primarily it's you, the individual sailor who has grown up sailing the Bay or whose kids are currently exploring sailing. Organizations such as the RBOC (Recreational Boaters of California), MRA (Marina Recreation Association), PICYA (Pacific Interclub Yachting Association) and individual clubs, organizations and businesses are speaking up on their own.
At Latitude 38 we spend most of our time highlighting the fun and adventure of sailing. However, it's just as important to cover the political issues that continue to whittle away at everyone's ability to spend time on the water.
Housing does not need to be built right on the shoreline; that’s the obvious place for marine businesses. You may not live in Alameda, but if you sail the Bay, the businesses, marinas and yacht clubs that reside there are still important to your ability to sail. Each time a marine business yacht club closes its doors, there are fewer voices to speak up when sailing's infrastructure needs repair.
If you sail, we implore you to use your voice to support access to sailing for all future generations.
There used to be a magical door tucked in among the souvenir shops that lined the water in the seaside town of Lahaina. Front Street stretched from the famous banyan tree that marked the harbor all the way to where the sidewalk ended at the north end of town. This one doorway was inconspicuous, but opened into the extraordinary world that was Lahaina Yacht Club. If you were a sailor and were headed to the former "Sandwich Isles," this was your destination. Burgees from sailing destinations the world over hung from the ceiling and the blue Pacific lapped up between the floorboards when the weather got lively. The people of Maui — the real reason that this place is so special — gathered here.
And now it is gone.
Miraculously, rumor has it that there is hope the iconic 50-year-old banyan tree will survive. This tree has offered shelter to sailors and their loved ones visiting the placid roadstead and tiny harbor since whaling was still popular in those waters. Fires are not unknown on remote islands. History tells us that if Darwin had landed in the Galapagos 20 years earlier, he may have encountered twice as many peculiar creatures. Sadly fires, likely set by whaling crews cooking these same creatures for dinner, often got out of control, and the devastation on Maui today is an example of the destruction.
I first sailed to Lahaina in the 1982 Victoria to Maui race. Four Santa Cruz 50s battled for the lead — Scotch Mist II eventually won, and then became the leading sail charter from Lahaina Harbor. Unfortunately, for
mer longtime Maui resident Barry Spanier spoke of vessels in the harbor burning like torches until their moorings failed and the boats piled up and sank. Barry's son survived by evacuating his house on his bike with a backpack.
All the rest was lost to the flames.
I moved to Molokai, the island just west of Maui and famous for the leper colony on the Kalaupapa Peninsula, in 1993. My girlfriend and I would fly to Maui and then catch a small boat from the harbor that would transfer us to the ferry to Molokai just offshore. Whales would be cavorting around us just in front of the Lahaina Yacht Club, and we listened to the slack-key tunes drifting along on the fragrant plumeria breeze wafting over the blue Pacific. I ended up marrying that girl.
But she is gone, Lahaina is gone, the lepers are gone, and the whales are doing better than ever. I bet they wonder what ever happened to all the whale-watching boats that used to pester them every day. Maybe they know.
If you have been to Lahaina, you know there is only one street in and out of town. The disaster preparedness drills for tsunamis, where folks practiced heading up the iconic valleys to high ground, would have been useless when those same valleys were choked with smoke and flames.
The people of Maui are a special breed. Many have been there for generations; others have chosen intentionally to make Maui, the "Valley Isle," their home or second home. They have been there for many a sailor in distress. A young Ronnie Simpson lost his rig on April Fool's Day 2014 and caught a bus to the Lahaina Yacht Club. He soon had a place to stay and a new mast under construction, and as his life and career wound through the South Pacific, a growing circle of friends to come "home" to for holiday gatherings.
Now, the people of Maui need the sailing community to support them. Everyone can give something. Everything is needed. When Hawaiians get together for their famous luaus, everyone is welcome. Old folks (Kapunas), children (Keiki) and everyone in between are invited — dogs too. In modern Hawaiian culture, a child's first birthday and the day they graduate from high school are some of the biggest and best luaus of the year. Event facilities, especially seaside parks, are reserved and sold out years in advance.
Now they are gone, too.
Get out your checkbook or wallet or purse. Go through your closet or garage or attic. Send money, send household goods, send items folks need in tough times. Make this the day you do what needs to be done. Yes, they
The 29th Baja Ha-Ha is shaping up to be a good one. The deadline for registration will fall just eight days after this issue comes out. It appears as if the fleet will be a bit smaller, but still, a very fun group of intrepid cruisers looking to cruise in company as they head south. As we write, there are 102 boats signed up ranging from 30-ft, such as Kendall and Matt Watson's Catalina 30 MerSea from Santa Cruz, to the Azimut 85 Anejo, with crew Tim Jenkins and John and Nicole Cleary from Roche Harbor, Washington — one of five powerboats in this year's Ha-Ha. There are also 20 multihulls in this year's event, comprising 20% of the fleet!
maui memories: and now it's gone
Just a week after this issue hits the street, the Latitude 38 Baja Ha-Ha Crew Party and Mexico Cruising Seminar will be held at Spaulding Marine Center in Sausalito. It's a great place for Mexicobound sailors to connect, or to make connections for local sailing and racing.
Patsy Verhoeven, veteran of 14 Baja HaHa's, will lead the informative seminar with insights on the trip south, as well as share her experience from many seasons of cruising Mexico. Even if you're planning to do the Baja Ha-Ha in 2024, you'll find the seminar valuable in making your plans, and you'll find an enjoyable mix of sailors at the party.
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are Lahaina strong. Still they need our help. The Hawaiian Islands are some of the most remote places on Earth. They don't have to feel that way today, and with your help they won't. The spirit of aloha permeates these islands and attracts sailors like tropical music and icy-cold Mai Tais. Check out these websites to start with, or contribute to your favorite Red Cross, animal charity, religious organization, healthcare fund, first responder or any reputable outfit that is lending a hand.
www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong www.mauiunitedway.org/disasterrelief
— andy schwenk
Readers — Latitude 38 extends its deepest condolences to the people of Lahaina and Maui. We can't imagine what you're going though. After watching the Camp Fire take 85 lives in the town of Paradise in 2019, we didn't think we'd see something even more horrific in our lifetimes, let alone four years later.
This summer, we gathered on our J/122 Resolute in the morning for a Long Beach Yacht Club race to Catalina Island's Ship Rock. The starting line was by the jetty at Alamitos Bay in Long Beach, which meant that we needed to allow an hour to motor to the start. Two of the crew of eight couldn't make the race, but we decided that the six remaining would be adequate. The crew included myself, my son Sam, Dixie Yeck, Russell Grant, Peter McMahon, and Wayne Powell. Both Russell and Wayne have been involved in many offshore races over the years and were a welcome addition to the crew for the two-day race.
Wayne is a retired L.A. County paramedic and has a lot of foredeck experience. Little did he — or any of us — know what we were in for that day.
We decided to bring the two bow dock lines with us just in case they were needed over at the Isthmus. As we were backing out of the slip, Wayne and Sam were on the bow to retrieve the dock lines from the cleats when Wayne slumped over with a groaning sound. Sam thought he had a cramp in his leg, and didn't think much of the groan.
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We recently celebrated the first 100 episodes of our Good Jibes podcast, telling the stories of an amazing collection of West Coast sailors. Two recent podcasts about exceptional sailors are not to be missed: Molly Vandemoer (#102) and Bruce Schwab (#103). Molly grew up sailing in San Diego and went on to collegiate and Olympic sailing before running the Peninsula Youth Sailing Foundation for the past decade. Bruce highlighted some of his sailing adventures with his dad before coming to be a rigger for Sven Svendsen, rebuilding the 30 Square Meter Rumbleseat, then becoming the first American to finish the Vendée Globe in his Wylie 60 Ocean Planet. — latitude
The Rolex Big Boat Series — hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club — has been run on San Francisco Bay since 1964. Since its inception, the RBBS has been the largest and most competitive big-boat regatta on the Bay. Seventy-eight boats are currently signed up to race off the San Francisco Cityfront from September 13-17. There will be three one-design fleets, including 31 J/105s, as well as another 26 boats racing in the ORC handicap divisions. There will also be a classics division featuring some of the Bay's most beautiful wooden boats sailing on "dynamic racecourses managed by a world-class race committee, and memorable post-racing parties," the RBBS said.
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Suddenly, though, Wayne fell over the lifelines and into the channel, and was sinking head first to the bottom.
Seeing Wayne go over the side, Sam quickly removed his shoes and pants and jumped in after him. Hearing the rapid splashing off the bow, I called out, "Man Overboard!" to alert the crew of the emergency. I looked off the bow and saw no one, but then Wayne surfaced, unconscious, as Sam pushed him from underneath.
Sam grabbed Wayne around the chest, holding his head out of the water as he swam to the dock. People on the dock heard the man-overboard call and quickly ran over to assist in lifting Wayne out of the water. A call to 911 was made as the crew on the dock turned Wayne over to his side to discharge some water from his lungs. He had a heartbeat and appeared to be breathing, but they were advised to initiate chest compressions. L.A. County paramedics and L.A. Port police soon arrived and initiated treatment.
The paramedics and diver credited Sam's physical condition, training, and swimming ability for his quick reaction to a potential drowning. As Sam was drying off, he said to me, "My 4-H Lifeguard training came in handy today!" Wayne was taken to the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center emergency room. (It's still unclear what caused him to collapse.)
I asked the crew if they still wanted to race. With a resounding "Yes!" we notified the LBYC race committee of our emergency and they agreed to wait for us to start. We were just 21 minutes late to the starting line, but for a good reason.
— w. scott wildmanLaunched on April 17, 1941, Trigger is hull #20 of the esteemed Bear Boat fleet, the first sloop class designed and built on San Francisco Bay. Following her Nunes Brothers Boat and Ways Company build in Sausalito, owner Art Farlow of St. Francis Yacht Club immediately put her in the sloth (or sleuth — pick which you prefer), participating aside other Bears in many races. "Within the fleet, she is one of the most memorable. Her owners seem to have always raced her," says Karl Joost, who has been painstakingly bringing Trigger back from the edge. "There is something about Trigger and the competitive esprit de corps with Bear owners that continues to draw over the years. When I learned she was in rough shape, I just could not let her languish."
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Joost recalls his wife Louise's reaction when he said, "We have to keep her sailing, honey." Mrs. Joost replied with a disbelieving gaze; was her countenance influenced by the fact that their house was, at that moment, completely torn up amid an interior remodel? Or was Louise thinking she had seen her last Bear after the duo owned Panda (#9) from 1972 to 1981?
Trigger was quite a project. After 18 months of work at Napa Valley Marina, Joost splashed the boat into the river in 2019. Karl says, "This restoration would not have happened without the skilled work of Dave Meyer, shipwright at Napa Valley Marina. Also, a thousand questions
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answered at all hours by Graham Wheelock, Russel Katz, and many others who have restored Bears and give freely of their knowledge and skills."
Trigger wasn't yet ready to sail, but the heavy lifting had been completed. Breaking down efforts, nearly 50% of restoration time went to the hull, removing and replacing (or sistering) 15 starboard frames, then swapping five starboard planks; for this, Karl used 1 1/4 inch (5/4) clear Douglas fir. Bear Boats are only 23-ft in length, but photos show Joost had plenty of peg pushing. He cut several hundred wooden bungs; it took two days to bung 'em into place. He was able to refurb the mast, but had to replace all rigging. Joost also rebuilt and installed the interior. "Karl's work on Trigger is wonderful," enthused Hans Hansen, co-owner of Bear Boat Velerosa (#69) and president of the San Francisco Bay Bear Boat Association. Hansen senses there's a bit of a post-pandemic resurgence to restore Bears, Trigger being just one example. "She is famous in our fleet, having raced through the 1960s, '70s and '80s by Scotty Cauchois out of San Francisco Yacht Club. He won more races and trophies than almost anyone."
Joost said: "I absolutely love the Bear and I'm so thrilled to breathe new life into Trigger." Along with crew, Joost took a revitalized gal on her first glide in August 2022. These days, she's on the prowl nearly every fortnight. "I sail with Loren Cooper, a friend from the Napa Valley Marina. He helped us learn parts of the North Bay waterway. Margie Siegal is with us now too; she's been racing Bears competitively for years, often aboard Huck Finn." Joost says he will join the Master Mariners with the goal to win a trophy at the 2024 Annual Memorial Day regatta.
Also grinning because he's Bearing it is Hans Hansen. He and husband Mark Harris have owned Velerosa (#69) for 20 years. Another pandemicera project, Velerosa was fully restored by his father, Bill Hansen. She is the last Bear built by Bud Weathall — one of the creators of the El Toro — of Richmond Yacht Club. "Our two families go way back. It has been our honor to care for the boat. When I was 6 years old, I witnessed her being built in the Berkeley hills, then launched in Richmond." That cute little red Renegade (#35), sailed by Russell and Christine Katz, also underwent a bit of recent spiffing up and is ready to hit the start line again. And lest we forget the saving of Chance (see Latitude 38, May 2022), with KC Crawell's memorable rescue from the Oakland Estuary. Locally, 10 Bears see regular time on the water; three skippers have open calls (at info@bearboats. com) for crew — namely on Sugarfoot (#13), Puff (#59), and Smokey (#29). At the difficult end of the spectrum, Huck Finn (#17) and Bongo (#64) are on the hard and in the care of Sausalito Community Boating Center (SCBC), a nonprofit planning to put volunteers to work restoring them. Unfortunately, five to seven Bears were broken up during the pandemic while vessels languished in yards and marinas. The good news is that the Bear Boat Association states there are 19 vessels still in use:
1 Merry Bear, 1932 San Francisco
8 Pola, 1939 Moss Landing
9 Panda, 1939 Sausalito
13 Sugarfoot, 1940 San Mateo
17 Huck Finn, 1940 San Rafael
20 Trigger, 1941 Napa
29 Smokey, 1946 Sausalito
32 Little Dipper, 1946 Berkeley
34 Nip, 1946 Monterey
35 Renegade, 1946 Sausalito
47 Chance, 1949 Berkeley
54 Pooh Bear, 1950 Point Richmond
57 Camembert, 1953 Sausalito
59 Puff, 1956 Sausalito
60 Unbearable, 1956 San Rafael
64 Bongo, 1958 Sausalito
65 Magic, 1961 Sausalito
68 Kodiak, 1975 Berkeley
69 Velerosa, 1976 Sausalito
The Sausalito Community Boating Center will be holding their "Oyster Festival" on Saturday, September 9, at noon in Dunphy Park, Sausalito. The festival, which organizers hope to make an annual event, is free to the public. "Enjoy a day on the waterfront filled with baked and raw oysters along with other tasty food and beverages. Learn more about the Sausalito Community Boating Center and local ecology." Right next door, the Sausalito Cruising Club will also be hosting Kid's Day on September 9. Have fun, eat well, and support local sailing!
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In mid-August, dinghies were being stolen from Alameda marinas on an almost daily basis, sometimes in broad daylight. Liveaboards in Alameda were stunned by the audacity of the thieves, who are often seen returning to flotillas of anchored-out boats — with their spoils visible — on the Oakland side of the Estuary. There was also at least one report of an intruder aboard a liveaboard's vessel.
"It's gotten kind of scary, the brazenness of it all," said one resident. "It's bad. It's really bad. I mean, these guys come by night-
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In 2009, a group of Bear Boat owners began to revive interest in the fleet. For 2023, six are competing in events that include the St. Francis Woodies Regatta and Sausalito Yacht Club Classic Invitational; four competed in the Master Mariners Regatta. The San Francisco Bay Bear Boat Association will mark 100 years for the fleet in 2032. The Bear sloop is a native of San Francisco Bay, conceived by Ernest Nunes and Marty Martinson. The first keel was laid late in 1931 by the Nunes Boat and Ways Company in Sausalito.
By the late 1950s, the Bears had become the largest one-design class on San Francisco Bay. Highly competitive racing continued through the 1960s, with as many as 65 boats in the fleet on starting lines throughout the Bay. The Bear was truly homegrown, with new boats being crafted by both professional and amateur builders.
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Clockwise from top right: A before shot of the Bear Boat 'Trigger's cockpit arl and ouise Joost putting the fnishing touches on 'Trigger' included adding the Nunes pla ue the Bears were a large, active fleet for decades on the Bay, and are en oying a post-pandemic resurgence the Joosts bring 'Trigger' back from the North Bay last summer there was plenty of peg pushing to be done during the restoration of Bear Boat hull 20.
"The first rule is to stay on the boat. The second rule is that the boat wants to kill you," said Steve Gann of the Cal 40 Boomer. He was referring to a sister ship Cal 40, Michael Polkabla's Monterey-based Solstice
On June 25, Solstice sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge on her way to Hanalei Bay in the Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race. The swift Solstice, which we're sure was not harboring murderous thoughts about her solo skipper, kept her skin together to finish the race third (second overall on corrected time) during the night of July 7 in the 2,100-mile-plus Pacific crossing.
But when Michael departed Hanalei Bay, on Kauai's north shore, to sail around the Garden Isle to Nawiliwili Harbor on the southeast coast — not an easy passage — Solstice hit a wave that lacerated her 60-year-old hull. "The damage happened during the delivery to Nawiliwili, which was probably fortunate (in the big picture) since it did not happen 1,000 miles from continued on outside column of next sightings page
ly," one liveaboard told us. "They're coming in here, whereas they usually don't," said another liveaboard. "The theft is absolutely increasing at an increasing rate," said a longtime sailor who works on the Estuary.
Residents of marinas told Latitude 38 that they're basically on their own. "We need a marina neighborhood watch program," said one liveaboard who had an intruder on their boat in late August who was presumably attempting to steal the dinghy, but was chased away. "We need to do something. All up and down the Estuary, we are now exchanging our names and phone numbers. We're worrying about our self-defense in
eft The Cal 0 'Solstice' looked sleek and unblemished sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge on June 25 at the start of the Singlehanded Transpacifc Race. Right, from top 'Solstice's delamination was right at the waterline awaiian priestess Pua Mana blessed 'Solstice' ahead of her departure for California Michael Polkabla, right, and fellow competitor Ale ander Benderskii in analei Pavilion Park, auai. nset Michael Polkabla at at the S TP awards in July.
In mid-August, five of Alameda Community Sailing Center's eight RIBS were stolen from Ballena Isle Marina. Three washed up around various parts of town, but were "trashed and inoperable." Thieves immediately strip the boats, and often knife inflatables. "I can only presume they're trying to get them to sink," said one liveaboard. "There's no reason to do that — just take the motor and go."
Who has jurisdiction over the Estuary? It's not clear. If someone steals a boat in Alameda, then crosses the Estuary to
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shore, where things would have been rather dicey," recounted Michael on July 20.
"The experts say that it was a delaminating issue on the hull that occurred when Solstice slammed off a big wave in some pretty challenging conditions during the delivery. The boat shuddered, but I did not notice the damage until the next day when a neighbor in the next slip asked how I had sustained the hull damage.
"It was not a total breach, but the fiberglass was literally blown off down to the roving material. It will require some emergency attention prior to making the journey back to the Mainland for final repairs. The boat is heeled over in her slip to dry out the damaged area and is awaiting grinding and fiberglass work on the interior and exterior to install reinforcement and an exterior patch. Unfortunately, limited resources are available on Kauai to lift a Cal 40, so the work needs to be performed in the water, which presents its own challenges. I am working with a local fiberglass expert who has a number of charter vessels on the island, and he will be assisting me to make the needed repairs. I'm waiting for this weather to pass so we can get it started though." The remnants of Hurricane Calvin in July caused some concern for SHTP sailors planning deliveries to the Mainland or to Honolulu.
"Hopefully I can make progress soon so I can return to the Mainland safely with my crew." A day later, on July 21, Michael sent this update: "Good news, as repairs were made yesterday to Solstice's hull. Lots of grinding and fiberglassing was performed from a dinghy while Solstice was heeled over in her slip in Nawiliwili Harbor. Not an easy task doing all this from a dinghy floating alongside the boat. Kevin Millet of Holo Holo Charters did the professional work while I handed him tools."
Following repairs, Solstice received a traditional Hawaiian blessing in Nawiliwili. "It was an amazing and powerful ceremony performed by a local Hawaiian priestess who described the sacred Kaua'ian ritual and tradition used to bless and send their mariners safely to sea. The ceremony included the weaving of beautiful tileaf leis that were draped through the bow pulpit, a blessing of equipment and crew with a solution of sacred Salt Pond Beach salt, and an offering of Hawaiian poi to the sea (to be cast upon departure). It was comforting to know that the ancient Hawaiian gods were with us on our voyage."
Solstice left Nawiliwili on July 25. Like other boats making their way back to Northern California, she sailed pretty much due north for several days before taking a right turn to head due east toward home. She arrived on August 11 after a 17-day delivery. "The voyage went without incident with her doublehanded crew, including close friend Austin Book, who flew back to Kauai to assist just days following his second Pacific transit of the season delivering the MOD 70 Orion to the same destination, the Sugar Dock in Point Richmond. The emergency repairs performed in Nawiliwili proved to be solid and performed extremely well even in the 35-knot-plus winds we experienced on a number of days during the delivery. The Cal 40 was in her element, with double-reefed mainsail and genoa staysail in the heavier, spirited conditions during our return. After gaining latitude north of the Pacific High, we even had the opportunity to fly the A3 and A4 spinnakers heading east toward the Mainland. Final repairs will be made at KKMI in Point Richmond in preparation for sailing to her homeport of Monterey."
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In October 1992, we published a letter from Gene Barrett from Oregon, inquiring about Jim and Lorraine Roessl. Jim had spent two and a half years building Heritage, a 40-ft schooner, in an old barn near Livermore, here in the Bay Area, with the plan of taking his wife and daughters sailing around the world. The boat was launched in April 1963.
The following year, Gene received a letter from the Roessls saying "they were still refitting her." That was the last he heard from his friends. So he turned to Latitude 38 for help: "If anyone knows their whereabouts, I would be most anxious to get in touch with them."
Latitude readers responded, and while Gene personally received two letters, a third response came via Al Fricke, whose sister-in-law, Pamela Roessl Fricke, was one of the daughters who had sailed aboard Heritage Pamela's response, published in the January 1993 issue, summarized what had happened to her family: After finally setting off from San Diego in May 1970, they faced engine breakdowns, leaking bilges, stormy seas, chronic seasickness and dragging anchors while making their way along the Mexican coast and into the Caribbean. In June 1972, in the Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Heritage met an unfortunate end when she was dropped from the crane that had hauled her out for a bottom job.
The Roessl family's world cruise was over. Jim and Lorraine's original plans had already been paused once by the arrival of their youngest child, Nancy, in 1965, and it wasn't until Nancy turned 4 that her parents were ready to cast off. Thus, when Heritage met her untimely end, she had been cruising for less than three years.
Regardless, the memories created during those years on the water were to be etched permanently in the minds of the four daughters who had traded life ashore for the lessons of the sea. Decades later, the second eldest of the Roessl siblings, known as J.R., has revisited the journey she made as a 16-year-old and committed her memories to paper, along with her candid reflections on the life she was cast into at the whim of her parents, in her memoir Unmoored: Coming of Age in Troubled Waters
"Sailing taught me, at a young age, that when we find ourselves managing the confined microcosm of onboard living along with negotiating the vast oceanic macrocosm surrounding us, both worlds carry equal weight and importance," Roessl wrote when we asked about her more recent experiences.
Up until the age of 18, Roessl lived in various Bay Area towns, from the East Bay to the northern parts of Marin County. "All places I loved and never imagined I'd leave." But she did leave and attended college, followed by a modeling career that took her across the globe. Later, after a stint as a Hudson Valley farmer, and a period of sun and sand in Florida, she settled in Pittsburgh, far from the Bay Area and her brief but indelible cruising life — a life that had taught her about self-reliance, intuition, and her own "indomitable spirit."
"As Heritage battles storms, fire, and near disasters, the girl's family slowly fractures, and she must decide on a course of action that may alter her dreams forever." This excerpt from Roessl's webpage alludes to her journey of adventure, revelation, and ultimately redemption, as the daughters are shunted from port to port under the guidance of their father — who doesn't know how to sail, "failed his celestial navigation course" and, like the rest of the family, doesn't know how to swim.
Despite her travels, Roessl has retained her ties with California and with sailing. Two of her sisters live in the Bay Area, giving her opportunities to "revisit the places that deeply impacted my life," and sometimes sail with Al Fricke aboard his Cal 36, Jubilee. Independent of her sisters, she has sailed the US West and East coasts as well as the Caribbean, and has even sailed with British yachtsman Tony Bullimore during a commercial
Oakland, who's responsible for enforcing the law, or for taking a report?
It's probably a moot point — there is no full-time marine patrol on the Estuary. The Alameda Police Department's boat is not in the water, though it may be soon. After reportedly being on the hard for several months, the Oakland Police Department's marine patrol was spotted in Tiburon in late August. One witness said that OPD officers have tagged a few derelict vessels from land, presumably under Oakland's new Nuisance Vessel Ordinance, which was passed earlier this year.
Otherwise, police have said there's little they can do to prevent or prosecute thefts. An Alameda police officer told one liveaboard that they were sorry; "She was being very sympathetic," the liveaboard said of the officer. To be fair, people on shore complain about brazen theft of cars, break-ins, etc., and about police who are overwhelmed and often slow to respond.
"If the mantra is 'see something, say something,' what comes of it?" an Oakland sailor asked. "Do we get lights; do we pay for security? I don't know. Maybe law enforcement can help us help ourselves."
— latitude / tim henryshoot. It all adds to the repertoire of on-the-water experiences that enabled Roessl to create a story that is ultimately "an inspiration for those who have dared to dream and thought they failed.
"While Unmoored is a travel memoir," Roessl explains, "it is also a story of family and how we all, individually, navigate through life."
Though it wasn't all challenging. While learning about life aboard Heritage, the Roessl crew befriended and buddy-boated with other cruisers, shared encounters with Lin and Larry Pardey, and even spent time with David Crosby aboard Mayan. "I marvel at how effortless (and incredibly safe!) it is to sail armed with today's sophisticated electronic devices, roller furling systems, solar panels, satellite beacons, GPS, and survival gear, but I'm not sure I'd trade it for what I learned aboard Heritage. While pure grit and determination may not have been the smartest way to chart a course, it has served me well in life."
latitude / monica grant
Clockwise from top left ' eritage' at Aeolian acht Club in Alameda ' eritage' and two buddy boats at an unknown anchorage somewhere on the Seven Seas the 0-ft schooner ' eritage' was built in an old barn in ivermore ' eritage' makes her way to the ocean matriarch orraine Roessl at the helm Pamela Roessl, some years ago. nset J.R. Roessl is the author of the memoir about the short, diffcult travels of ' eritage'.
Ihave fond childhood memories of dangling my legs over the rail as I sailed with my best friend's family to the Channel Islands. I was only 8, and we did not have active roles on those trips, but as saltwater sprayed in our faces, the sailing seed was firmly planted.
But the dream got packed away and life took other directions. After growing up in the Sierra foothills, I spent nearly a decade on the East Coast before returning to Northern California in 2017. I was determined to sail again. I met a guy who bought a boat, got a part-time (now fulltime) job at Latitude 38, and eventually bought my own boat, the Ericson 32-2 Sospiro. I took on big projects, brought Sospiro to the Delta, and stripped her down in preparation for a major refit. But life took another direction again. In the summer of 2022, I built out a campervan to chase snow in the winter, fulfilling another lifelong dream, but sidetracking me, yet again, from sailing. I had built my entire life around sailing, but I was not sailing. I felt like a fraud.
In my short tenure at Latitude 38, I have interviewed some of the most inspiring sailors on the planet, which is both humbling and intimidating. I first met Brady Trautman and Alex Blue, the proprietors of Cruisers Academy, when I interviewed them for Latitude's Good Jibes podcast on Zoom in February 2022. Brady and Blue had long tenures aboard SV Delos, sailing around the world while producing videos for one of the most popular YouTube sailing channels. (Delos reportedly has more views than the US Navy and a few America's Cup teams' YouTube channels.)
of sailing were put on hold, atitude's Nicki Bennett took to ake Tahoe for a four-day class to reignite an old passion.
By the time the spring of 2023 arrived, I was ready to sail, but the boat was still mid-refit. One day, while I was scrolling on Instagram, a post popped up from Cruisers Academy about their CA-1 class on Lake Tahoe. It was a lightbulb moment. The crystal-clear blue waters of Tahoe have been my favorite escape since I was a child — I grew up just down the hill — and the value of continuing education, and sailing on Lake Tahoe for the first time, was appealing. It would also allow me to have a mountain adventure in my van. I had found the perfect opportunity.
I had watched Delos on and off for years, and found myself intrigued by Brady and Blue's individual parts of the story. Perhaps it was because they'd branched off to do something different, the fact that they moved to my home mountains to start a sailing school, or that they created beautiful films about their adventures. Even though they'd sailed around the world and had more incredible adventures than I could dream, there is also something in their story I relate to.
Years later, the dream was kept alive first by sailing books, followed by a mild obsession with sailing blogs, and then the advent of YouTube sailors. Watching the big sailing channels in their infancy, I saw people learning the life and lifestyle as they went. Sailing felt attainable. The school's mini-fleet of Catalina 22s loads up in Tahoma, West ake Tahoe.
Sign me up!
As I walked into the classroom in Tahoe City in late June, I was equally nervous and excited. I relaxed when I was greeted with a hug and warm smile from Brady and Austin, one of the instructors. We started with introductions and got to know the instructors and seven other sailors we would be spending the next four days with. Many students were back for a second round for a multitude of reasons: Some wanted to take the class again, some had gotten sick, and there were a slew of fall cancellations due to heavy wildfire smoke in the Tahoe Basin the previous season.
The structure of the course included a few hours of classroom time followed by an afternoon of sailing. The school's fleet of boats currently reside on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe in Tahoma. Despite being a holiday weekend, parking was abundant and the area was noticeably not crowded. The class was split into two groups that would each spend the four days learning on one boat, with rotating instructors. Within our four-person group, we were split into two-person teams, which allowed us to get comfortable learning with each other while creating a supportive environment. Our group would spend the course on the Catalina 22 Bluebird, while the other group was on the Catalina 22 Ashley Banks. Both boats are identical, aside from some minor rigging differences.
The Bluebird crew consisted of me, Samantha from Reno, and the fatherdaughter team of Ryan and Megan, who flew all the way from Pittsburgh to join the class. Samantha and I both own boats, and were looking to gain confidence in our sailing skills. Ryan was hoping to add a boat to his future life, and the class was the beginning of that journey.
There wasn't even a smidgen of breeze on Day One, but as the boats approached the public dock on the glassy, blue water, you couldn't help but marvel at what a perfect day it was. The on-the-water portion of the course kicked off with a dip in Tahoe's famously icy waters. It was brisk and refreshing. Bobbing in the water and surrounded by snow-capped mountains is truly an experience to be had.
The windless day gave our crew an opportunity to practice raising and dousing sails, using the outboard, and walking through maneuvers in a forgiving environment. It also allowed everyone to get comfortable and work on communication. The wind built every day, giving us the ideal conditions for the course. As our confidence built, so did the breeze. With the rotating instructors, you get to learn from different teachers while remaining on the same vessel.
Our crew got extra lucky, because we got not two but three instructors over the course of our four days. The Bluebird crew started with Brady for two days, then Austin for one day, and finished up with Blue for our last day on the lake. As someone who owns a boat and had sailing experience, I found this part of the course to be really helpful. Learning concepts from the viewpoints of three different, very experienced captains helped me understand things more distinctly than I had before. Going back to the foundation of sailing helped me to see what I already knew, but also where I could use improvement and practice.
For the two years prior to buying my own boat, my former partner and I sailed his 1977 Newport 27 Penelope out of the Berkeley Marina every chance we got. I also sailed in beer can races and jumped on the boat of any neighbor looking for a crew. It wasn't the romantic notion of sailing I had formed in my head — it was something else entirely. It was raw, uncomfortable, and scary at times. It pushed me to the edge of my comfort zone, and I was hooked. It was the beginning of a sailing journey that was a lifetime in the making. I learned a lot
during those first few years, but most was learned from people who were also learning and fairly inexperienced. That meant that mistakes were made, and sometimes we learned the hard way.
As a result, I highly value safety and communication in sailing. One thing I had a lot of trepidation about is the jibe, so I've perfected the art of the chicken jibe. I was nearly thrown off a boat due to an accidental jibe, and almost knocked out by a boom because a skipper was not paying attention. Both of these experiences left lasting
impressions, and I am now very particular about who I get on a boat with. In the future, I aspire to be a skipper who people feel very comfortable sailing with.
I shared this with the instructors, and we practiced jibing, one after another, over and over again, in a slow, methodical way. We practiced every maneuver from every position on the boat, including the helm, main and jib sheets. The teachers not only covered everything in their syllabus, they made sure that individually, we got to focus on the aspects that were important to us. By the end of four
ake Tahoe offers outstanding sailing in a magnifcent, snow-capped setting.
days, we all took turns singlehanding the 22-footers. This crowning graduation moment reminded me that I am ready to sail my boat. Far greater than feeling my own confidence return was watching it build amongst our crew. Watching three other sailors go from trepidation to confidence was very special, especially Megan, who is 14, and learning to sail a boat before driving a car.
During the four-day course, I also learned that sailing and running a business on Lake Tahoe is a challenging feat, and the scramble for moorings is an annual battle. Given the pressure of development facing waterfronts along the West Coast, it is not surprising. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is responsible for managing the waterfront in Tahoe, which includes moorings and waterfront access. In an attempt to clear out illegal
moorings and add more oversight to waterfront access, TRPA has been removing what they consider to be 'illegal' moorings, some of which have been in the lake since the 1970s. Decreasing supply has only increased costs, with some mooring owners price gouging and asking obscene amounts of money for the short summer season. This leaves businesses like Cruisers Academy in a vulnerable position, scrambling to find places to keep their boats every year. While Latitude understands that the preservation of Lake Tahoe is an incredibly important task, the goal of TRPA is also to support waterbased recreation and access. To us, teaching people how to sail and enjoy the lake under sail is an activity that should rank high on the list of supported activities. Powerboat rentals undoubtedly bring in more revenue, but also create a larger environmental impact. We might be biased, but we believe that having more sailors and sailing schools on Lake Tahoe is a good thing.
Like most sailing schools, Cruisers Academy also offers cruising courses. Brady and Blue take students aboard their Passport 42 Lintika, which is currently on the hard in the Sea of Cortez. Students learn everything from
provisioning, weather routing, passage making and more. Learning to sail with people who have done all the wild adventures you daydream about is incredible. It shows you unequivocally that whatever you want to do on the water is possible. It is also inspiring to see two intrepid adventurers build a business around teaching others to sail, passing the passion and vision of exploring the world under sail on to new people. There is no doubt that a vibrant sailing community has formed around Cruisers Academy, with many alumni going on to buy boats and taking crew positions around the world.
My whole life is built around promoting sailing, supporting sailing businesses, and telling the stories of sailors who go out and do the thing. It felt good to get out there and remember that I am a sailor with goals and dreams, too. Whatever your goals in sailing, I think it is positive to always remain humble to learning. After all, the best sailors in the world had to start somewhere. And if you are an armchair sailor with big dreams packed away, what are you waiting for? There are so many amazing schools and teachers waiting to show you the magic of life powered by the wind. Who knows? We might be reading about your sailing experience in the pages of Latitude 38 someday.
— latitude / nicki
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The Baja Ha-Ha is the 750-mile cruisers' rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, with R&R stops along the way at funky Turtle Bay and spectacular Bahia Santa Maria.
Over 3,000 boats and 10,000 sailors have done a Ha-Ha. Most participants are long-time sailors but first-timers to Mexico. Fleets are also sprinkled with repeat offenders. Several skippers have done 10 or more.
Boats from 27 to 100' can enter the Ha-Ha, though historically the average has been 42 feet. The average number of crew is four, although couples are not unusual. At least one member of the crew has to have offshore experience.
The goal of every Ha-Ha is for everyone to have a great time sailing and meeting other cruisers while making a safe passage down the coast of Baja. If you have a boat and a hunger for adventure, think about signing up for this year's 29th running. Visit www.bajahaha.com.
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October 30, 10 a.m. Monday – Baja Ha-Ha Kick-Off Parade.
October 30, 11 a.m. Monday – Start of Leg One for all boats off Coronado Road
November 2, 2 p.m. – Daytime – BHH baseball game at Turtle Bay.
November 2, Evening: Restaurant hopping, such as it is, in Turtle Bay
November 3, Noon-ish. Friday – Famous Turtle Bay Beach Picnic Party until sundown
November 4, 9 a.m. Saturday – Start of Leg Two to Bahia Santa Maria.
November 6, Monday – Bahia Santa Maria Day; a layday for relaxing and exploring.
November 7, 7:30 a.m. Wednesday – Start of Leg Three from Bahia Santa Maria to Cabo San Lucas.
November 9, 7:30 p.m. Thursday – Dance Party at Squid Roe.
November 10, noon. Friday – Cabo San Lucas Beach Party
November 11 – 6 p.m. Saturday – Awards presentations hosted by Cabo Marina.
November 19, 4-7 p.m. – La Paz Beach Party at La Costa Restaurant.
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Allen Gross took over the helm of Folly in 1976, when she was almost 90 years old and had seen many lives at the hands of previous skippers. When a vessel has been on the water as long as Folly has, there is a lot to tell. Allen Gross narrates what he has learned of her history over his 47 years of research.
In1976, it was time to buy a boat. Having been taught to sail by Cass Gidley in 1967, I had sailed once on the Tia Mia, a Friendship-style sloop, that Cass sold to David Coy in order to buy the Yo Ho Ho (a 54-ft Alden cutter). That sail changed my life. I knew then that I wanted a wooden boat. The hunt began.
I narrowed the field down to a Folkboat, a Farallone Clipper and a Spaulding 33. Then, Doug Ackerson, a sailmaker in Alameda, told me about a friend who had this old wooden cutter he was selling. Doug was insistent that I sail the old boat before I bought anything else. He was right!
Dave Lenschmidt was her owner, chafing at the bit to buy a bigger "woodie" for cruising. She bore the name Tarus. There were several unsubstantiated stories about her origins: that she was built in 1888 to resemble the very fast Bristol Channel pilot cutters of the day; that she was built on Nob Hill; or in England; or arrived on San Francisco Bay carrying an Englishman who sailed her 'round the Horn.
On my test sail, it was evident that Tarus was at home on the Bay. She passed easily through the water, handled a stiff afternoon breeze, and was fast. Dave had sailed her in several Master Mariners Regattas in the early '70s and finished well. Thus began my (to date) 47 years as the caretaker of a vessel that, I would come to learn, was one of the most consequential yachts in these waters.
While perusing WoodenBoat magazine in 2010, I came across an obituary for John Ely Marsland, who passed away at the age of 104 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Marsland had been a docent at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) for more than 30 years. The Marsland name was familiar, as one of the stories about Tarus was that she was the subject of a book written in 1953, I Married a Boat, by John's wife, Anitra Marsland.
Anitra's book related the history of their boat, which they renamed Nereid (from Griffin) when they bought her in 1937 from a worker at the Nunes Brothers' yard in Sausalito. When they were sailing, old timers would hail them saying, "She looks like the old Folly." Anitra had done her research and would reply, "It certainly is!"
The night I read the obituary, I called a friend with whom I had spent time building wooden crab boats on Tangier Island. He had connections at the CBMM. The following morning I called Peter Lesher, CBMM's chief curator.
He had known John well and was able to provide an email address for the Marslands' eldest son. I immediately reached out and indicated that I might own the boat Anitra had written about and that if he ever had time, I would like to talk to him. Within the hour, he and his brother called. I asked if they had any photos of the boat. They thought they might, but would have to dig around. The next morning, to my great delight, I found in my inbox six pages of their mother's scrapbook, including pictures of the boat out of the water. There was absolutely no doubt that she was the same boat. Now it was time to start filling in the blanks. UC Riverside had begun to digitize the early California newspapers in a searchable format. Searching for Folly, my wife Mary Beth got immediate hits. In the late 19th century, there were only a few organized sports regularly covered in the newspapers: horse racing, boxing, bicycle racing, rowing, shooting, and sailing. Every week, local race results were published, which usually included Folly (and the Bay Area's Freda).
Even before she was launched in 1889, Folly caught the attention of waterfront reporters. Articles appeared discussing her unique design, which incorporated, for the first time on S.F. Bay, externally mounted lead ballast. Articles enumerated her dimensions, discussed her rig, and pondered how she would perform racing. We learned from these that she also was of great interest because of her connection to one of the foremost families in San Francisco, the Davidsons, and to the greatest yacht designer of the era, Edward Burgess of Boston.
At the time, Professor George Davidson was the preeminent scientist on the
LYON OMOHUNDROSince our frst discovery about 'Folly's history, we have been pursuing, perusing and organizing all of the historical material that we can discover.
US West Coast. Among his incredible accomplishments, Professor Davidson was head of the West Coast US Geodetic Survey Office from 1855 to 1895 and is credited with surveying the entire West Coast and Alaska, placing the lighthouses, and compiling and releasing the first Coast Pilots of the Western United States and Alaska. He surveyed and calculated the exact location of the 122° meridian, was the founder and first president of the California Academy of Sciences, and, together with his friend James Lick, he built the first observatory west of the Mississippi, in what is now Lafayette Park in San Francisco. He was the first professor of seismology at UC and a member of the Board of Regents. He was also one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences.
Professor Davidson's two sons, George F. and Thomas D., attended Harvard in the early 1880s. All three were members of the San Francisco Yacht Club, which was then in Sausalito. The brothers, who had no experience
building a boat, wanted to build their own when they returned to San Francisco from Boston.
Edward Burgess hailed from a family of prominent shipbuilders in Boston, but went his own way to study entomology. He served as the secretary of the Boston Society for Natural History and taught entomology at Harvard from 1879 to 1883. It was during this period that Burgess started designing boats for his own use based on the fast and seaworthy Bristol Channel pilot cutters he had seen while in England. In 1883, he left teaching to focus on designing yachts. He designed the three consecutive America's Cup defenders: Puritan, 1885; Mayflower, 1886; and Volunteer, 1887. In 1887, he also designed the Papoose, one of the early New York 40s. Folly, the only Burgess design built on the West Coast, is a scaled-down version of Papoose and is believed to be the only one of his original designs still in existence.
Charles G. Yale, one of the earliest yachtsmen on San Francisco Bay, and
a competitor in the first Bay Yacht Club (SFYC)-sponsored race in 1869, is credited with putting the Davidson brothers in contact with Edward Burgess (although there are reports that Burgess and Professor Davidson knew each other as members of the National Academy of Sciences). Burgess designed a race boat for the brothers, which, with the help of Harry Cookson, they built on Mason Street at the head of Meiggs Wharf in North Beach, San Francisco. The boat was originally designed as a yawl, but the local San Francisco Yacht Club sailors, including Charlie Yale, sensed that with the Bay winds, she would fare better as a cutter, and she became the first racing cutter on the Bay. According to an August 26, 1889, report in the San Francisco Chronicle, it was the Davidsons' mother who, skeptical of the project, chalked the name Folly on her stern. Launched in late fall 1889, she is the only Burgess design ever built on the West Coast.
Folly started racing out of the SFYC in 1890. On September 13, skippered
by Charley Pew, she won her division in the Native Sons of the Golden West California. She was the first externally ballasted (non-centerboard) racer, and she beat shipwright Matthew Turner in his own race boat, the Molly Woggin, which had been the fastest boat in the fleet up to that point. Thus began Folly's 130 years of successful racing on San Francisco Bay.
Folly is listed in Lloyd's Register of American Yachts 1903 and Lloyd's Register of American Yachts 1906. Her owner at that time was George D. Campbell. It is noted that in addition to Burgess, her designer, and the Davidson brothers, her builders, Simpson and Fisher (which ceased operation on the Embarcadero in the mid-1980s) were her sailmakers. She is listed in 1906 as being LOD 32-ft 0-in, WL 26-ft 2-in, Beam
8-ft 7-in, and Draft 6-ft 3-in. There is an earlier account of her draft being just under 6 feet.
In 1914, she was renamed Jewel by her then-owner, J.E. Woodward, in honor of the Panama Pacific International Exposition. In 1915, Woodward sailed her to a division win in the Exposition Regatta.
During World War I, the US experienced a lead shortage, exacerbated by Pancho Villa's rebellion, as almost all of the lead mines in the Southwest and Mexico were under siege. Folly's original lead keel was thus replaced with ironfilled concrete. She was back on the water in time for the 1917 Lightship Race.
There is a gap in her history from 1919 to 1936, during which time she was (with her deep draft and 30-in freeboard) rumored to be a "rum runner"
along the coast. It was probably about this time that she was fitted with an engine. Also sometime during this period, she was outfitted with her current Marconi rig, which is attributed to the Nunes Brothers of Sausalito. The gooseneck fitting, mast thumbs, and mast and boom proportions are incredibly consistent with the Nunes-built Bird boats.
In 1936, Folly resurfaced as the Griffin, owned by Harry Birch, a member of SFYC. In 1937, she was acquired by John and Anitra Marsland and renamed Nereid. The Marslands joined the Aeolian Yacht Club, where they raced and cruised the boat until early 1941. During that time, Nereid cruised to the Channel Islands and, in 1940, took second place in the Lightship Race. In 1953, Anitra Marsland wrote her book, I Married
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a Boat, detailing the family's adventures and definitively identifying their Nereid as originally, the Folly. The boat was sold in 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and there is another gap in her history.
In the mid- to late 1960s, Frazier Jeffrey acquired the boat and renamed her the Tarus, as he was a Taurus and her bilges were filled with tar. In the early 1970s, Jeffrey sold the boat to David Lenschmidt (also a Taurus) of Alameda, who raced her in Encinal and Aeolian Yacht Club races. With Lenschmidt at the helm, Tarus started participating in the Master Mariners Regattas. Then, in 1976, I took over the stewardship of Tarus. As a member of the Bay View Boat Club, I raced her in numerous MMBA Regattas, winning Marconi Division III in 1988. During the 1980s and 1990s, Tarus was a consistent winner of her division in the BVBC race series.
From 1976 until 2006 she remained Tarus — until I hauled her out to address a "few" issues …
The keel bolts had been cast into the concrete when the ballast was attached. The story, which at this point was all word of mouth, was that the lead ballast had been pulled off during World War II. We learned later that the lead was scavenged about the time of World War I … the embedded horseshoes and streetcar tracks were the giveaway. It became
apparent that the only way to save the boat was to replace the ballast, floors, a substantial number of planks, and much, much more. What was supposed to be four months on the hard turned into eight years. (Big thanks to S.F. Boatworks for letting me stay so long.)
On May 10, 2014, with her original name rediscovered, a substantially refurbished Folly was relaunched to continue sailing and racing on the Bay.
In 2019, the 130th year since she was originally launched and the 129th year of her racing career on San Francisco Bay, Folly won the Marconi III division of the Master Mariners Regatta. Since our first discovery about Folly's history, we have been pursuing, perusing and organizing all of the historical material that we can discover. 2024 will be Folly's 134th year of racing on San Francisco Bay. We are still finding race results and tidbits of her story … — allen gross
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TheGreat Lakes are more like oceans than lakes, but without salt or sharks. They can present dangerous and challenging conditions like the oceans, hurling towering swells, hurricane-strength winds, and freezing sleet and snow, as well as hour after hour of easy downwind runs and gorgeous pink and Tiffany-blue sunrises and sunsets.
The Great Lakes sailing community takes full advantage of the conditions on these inland seas. In addition to the expected spread of beer can races and regattas, marquee long-distance races are run on each of the lakes. The Chicago to Mackinac Race is the sibling of the Port Huron to Mackinac Race, taking place along the length of Lake Michigan. The Trans Superior is run from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in the east to Duluth, Minnesota, in the west. The Lake Ontario Challenge is a single- or doublehanded race around its namesake. Lake Erie sees an Interclub Cruise series of races and regattas around its perimeter and a Solo Challenge along its length.
The Bayview Yacht Club's annual Port Huron to Mac Race across Lake Huron has run every year since 1925. One of the world's longest and longest-running freshwater yacht races, it draws competitors from across the country and around the world, and is one worth putting on a racing sailor's bucket list.
Originally from Detroit, I had the privilege to race it three times before moving to California almost 20 years ago. Since most crews want to compete as wellhoned teams to get the most from their boats for more than 200 nautical miles, I didn't think I would get a chance to give it another go. But this year, the 99th running of the race — its Gretzky year, it could be said, in this area of the continent where hockey is another integral part of the sporting culture — the Great One's advice proved true for me: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
We return to Detroit every year for a visit, making sure our children get a chance to know their extended family. Last year, like many sailors looking for a boat to crew on, I looked up the message board for the Detroit Regional Yacht Racing Association. I sent emails to skippers looking for crew, asking if they had room for me to join a beer can race while I was in town. I had an embarrassment of riches, with several skippers inviting me aboard. One of them was Brendan Cotter, skipper of the Catalina 27 Windfall, and at the time, commodore of the Grosse Pointe Sail Club. He was short-handed that week and needed a main trimmer. I was in, and although we didn't win or
place that night, we had fun and I was invited back whenever I was in town.
When we were getting ready for our trip this summer, I reached back out to my new Detroit skipper. Brendan had room for me again on another beer can race — this time as a spinnaker trimmer. We didn't win, but after the race, he mentioned that they were unexpectedly short-handed for the upcoming Mac race on a different boat that he was crew on: The owner had undergone surgery and was still recovering.
For the 200mile race, we would have a crew of seven. The skipper preferred eight, but a family tragedy prevented another of the crew from making the trip. As it turned out, I would be even more welcome and needed.
That night and the next day, I worked on the logistical puzzle. A changed airline ticket, an extended stay with the in-laws, a laptop to telecommute until the race, the agreement of the boat owner, and the love and support of my wife and her family fell into place and I had a spot with the crew and a place to stay!
The boat is Ben Jammin, a fractionalrig Santana 35 built in 1980, owned by Jim Rapelje, and berthed at the Great Lakes Yacht Club in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. The other crew besides Brendan were David Maschke, Jim Homan, Bob Niederoest, and Tom Conley from Michigan, and Sam
We were excited for the serious sailing at the end, proud to have fnished, and delivered Bob his 50th.Pippin Brehler on the way to the starting line, with Jim Homan at the helm and Brendan Cotter in the cockpit.
Gen from Connecticut. They were well seasoned, with only Tom not ever having done the race before but having solid experience nonetheless. At the other end of the spectrum, Bob was a near legend in the community. He was starting the race for the 54th time and aiming to finish for the 50th, to reach Grand Ram status under the race rules. His record included a first overall, another first in class, and other podium finishes. In his honor, our crew shirts for the race congratulated Bob on this milestone and noted that none of us was Bob — except Bob.
I met most of the crew for the first time at a final boat work day. After the work day, some of the team sailed the boat about 45 miles north, across Lake St. Clair (itself much bigger in area than San Francisco Bay or Lake Tahoe) and up the St. Clair River to Port Huron to be ready for the start. Tom and I slept aboard the night before the race and fortified ourselves in the morning with a
hearty breakfast on race day. The skies were overcast, with sporadic rain and moderate winds from the south. Sailors don't mind the rain, and we were excited for a spinnaker start.
We crossed the line in a good position, about fourth in our class of 12. For the first day, we sailed northward as a pack, surfing on following seas and pushed along by about 10 knots of true wind, flying our kites. Over the day, some boats moved westward closer to shore, others east toward the middle of Lake Huron. We stayed about 15 miles offshore. As Saturday turned to Sunday, we were close to the lead. We were making good headway under the Milky Way and many more constellations than I usually get to see on land. I do love night sailing.
And then the wind turned off for us. A cold front was coming down from the northeast, a warm front was coming eastward from the northwest, and another cold front was approaching from the
south. We saw a storm moving in from the northwest from these fronts and hoped that its eastern edge, farther out into the lake, would suck in the air and give us wind. We were wrong. We sailed slowly for the next eight hours or so, sometimes speeding up to five or six knots, but just as often slowing to a couple. We played the kite to keep as much momentum as possible and slowly moved closer to the finish line. At one point, a cedar waxwing landed on our boat to rest while it made its way across Lake Huron. We considered it good luck.
Conditions began to improve on Sunday evening. The wind picked up from the west and we reached for hours as the wind clocked to come from the northwest and built to about 12 knots. We put up the jib as we moved north and rounded the upper end of Michigan's mitten. The wind continued building. Through the night and into dawn on Monday, it reached 16 knots on the beam, pushing
five-foot waves. We were pounding through at seven knots. By that time, we had reduced sail to a reefed main and the #3 jib, making the helm light.
Several boats were not handling it as well as we did. Channel 16 crackled regularly from the US Coast Guard responding to "Sécurité" and "Pan Pan" calls from worried racers. One caller was
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Thefinal approach to the finish at the Straits of Mackinac was glorious. The wind slacked to about 10 knots, and we tacked several times for the last two hours or so. The diminishing conditions allowed us to check the fleet, and we learned that the decision to move into the lake to catch the storm had cost us the
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Somehow, though, that didn't matter much. We were excited for the serious sailing at the end, proud to have finished and delivered Bob his 50th. We were
looking forward to the raucous party on the Island the next day after the chance to dry out and catch up on sleep. Everyone also agreed that we would be back next year for the 100th race to Mackinac!
— pippin brehlerRick Marvin recalls stories of diving and sailing with David Crosby aboard 'Mayan' in the Channel Islands.
My wife Amy and I owned a charter sailing business, Bluewater Sailing, on the island of Kauai from 1983 until 2005. We had a Pearson 424 ketch rig that we sailed from Hanalei Bay in the summers, and spent the winter sailing from Point Allen on Kauai's southwestern shore. David and Jan Crosby, Graham and Susan Nash, and many of their friends sailed with us often on Lady Leanne II. Needless to say, we had a ton of fun in the trade winds, and a great boat to enjoy the excellent sailing conditions.
About nine months after Croz (David Crosby) had his liver transplant (1994), we were invited to sail with him on Mayan to the Channel Islands, for some sailing and diving adventures. Amy and I lived on a very isolated beach on Kauai at Pila'a, completely off the grid, where we raised our five children aged 2 to 14. We would be away for two weeks, and our dear friend Jan Smith said she could handle the children. She would take on the whole crew. OMG! And off we go, sailing on Mayan
I had grown up in Newport Beach, where, for a few years, my parents owned a small boatyard just a few doors south of Minney's Yacht Surplus. My family owned a 38-ft schooner, Lady Leanne, which we would sail in the annual Ancient Mariner Regatta to Ship Rock on Catalina Island, joined by the Minney brothers sailing Kelpie, Landfall, Shearwater and many other old, classic yachts. So you can imagine how fortunate Amy and I felt about sailing on Mayan.
Arriving in Santa Barbara, our preparations were going smoothly until David and Jan's very young son, Django, locked himself in the Chevy Suburban, sitting in his car seat. Everybody was upset, and Graham Nash (left) and David aboard Rick and Amy's 'Lady Leanne II', weathering a nasty squall in Kauai.
I put my face to the window and calmly told the lad to unlock the door. He did. Problem solved, and off we went to the Channel Islands. It was just the three of us on board — Croz, Amy, and me — and we had perfect 15- to 18-knot west winds. The view from forward of the headsail, looking back on Mayan under full sail with Croz smiling ear to ear, is something etched in my brain forever.
The first night was spent at anchor off Santa Cruz Island. All was good except for the centerboard slamming in the trunk, as we were broadside to a small swell. At first light Croz, tapped his lovely temple bell and off we went to Catalina Island for a planned dive at Ship Rock, near the
Isthmus. Light morning winds filled in through the day to about 20 knots westerly. I had Amy pinch me to be certain I was actually having this amazing sailing experience.
We arrived at the anchorage in the late afternoon and picked up a mooring in the mostly deserted Isthmus Cove. I got to work tidying up the deck and Amy went below to filet a small tuna we had caught and make a fish chowder. David was on a very strict diet, and fresh fish chowder, veggies and salad worked well.
It was evening time in the cool air. I dropped from the deck into the cabin to the smell of chowder, the kerosene lamps glowing, and David Crosby freestyling on his Martin acoustic guitar, singing his favorites on the large settee. Mayan's cabin was warm and so cozy, heavenly. Croz had his cabin on the starboard side midships, and Amy and I had a narrow berth on the port side.
The next morning at first light, the lovely temple bell rang and Croz was yelling, "Send me the cabin boy and give me a fist full of lard!" I looked out the companionway, and fortunately no other soul had heard him. Next,
we started to get ready for our first dive at Ship Rock. We launched the inflatable dinghy with a 10-hp Johnson outboard. I had rented a much thicker wetsuit than I am accustomed to and had about 18 lbs of weight on my belt. We anchored near Ship Rock in about 20 feet of water, and we had The Talk. I explained to David, who was as excited as a kid on Christmas morning, "Wait for me at the anchor, no deeper than 40 feet on our dive. Remember, you had a liver transplant nine months ago. This is your first dive; let's be safe and smart!"
I was concerned I might need more weight, and Amy had some ready if it was needed. Again, I told Croz to meet at the anchor, and away he went. I followed, and yes, I needed about six more pounds of lead. I put it in my BC pocket and followed, down the anchor line. I got to the anchor on the bottom and he wasn't there. The current was mild NW and I started to do circles in the very clear water, looking for his bubbles. Nothing. Panic was not allowed, but I was not having fun.
I went back to the surface and Amy was laughing, as David was in the distance treading water. He had leveled off at the anchor and his weight belt had slipped off his hips. Up he went. I got back into the dinghy, put a buoy on the anchor line, and motored about 200 ft and picked him up. I may have dropped an F-bomb in relief. We rigged him some suspenders out of webbing that was miraculously in the rubber boat. Now let's try this again: "Remember David, 40 feet MAX!"
I followed him in gently descending, clearing my ears, and he took off into the deep like a hooked ahi. I caught up to him at 80 feet and grabbed the top of his regulator to stop him. I looked him in the eyes, slashed my hand across my throat, and
David, looking rapt in thought on 'Mayan'. "It was such a privilege to be there. Croz, Amy and I talked about that and I think it was shared by everyone who sailed on her," Rick said.Then the harbormaster came up on our stern and a whole lot of F-bombs were ying everywhere from ' ayan's helm.
with my other hand signaled 40 feet. He looked at me with puppy eyes and started to ascend. We had a beautiful dive along the grotto and headed back to the dinghy. Once back in the boat, we wiggled out of our gear and I asked him, "What were you thinking, going so deep!?" His reply: "I was just trying to get narced, man" — as in narcosis of the deep. I totally dropped a big WTF?!
The rest of the day we enjoyed the Isthmus ashore, and popped in quarters to keep the showers warm. On the following day, Saturday, David and the band had a festival gig somewhere up north and the shore boat was picking him up at 0800. He had a charter plane coming in, and then he'd be back on Sunday. We watched as a small Jeep picked him up, and off they went in a cloud of dust. We looked at each other: Dad's gone and the wild thing is going down. Then we heard a small boat and feet on the deck. Croz had forgotten his rose-colored shades and came back to get them. All good. Amy passed them up to him and off he charged again.
Monday morning we departed and headed to Pyramid Rock on San Clemente Island. It was beautiful sailing again and we got to the anchorage late afternoon, dropped the hook in 30 feet with all-chain rode, and I jumped in to check the anchor and bottom. There were unexploded bombs, rockets and ordnance everywhere. I surfaced to let Croz know and his reply was, "No problem; I have anchored here lots of times." Back on the boat, we looked along the hillside at bomb craters everywhere and some missiles sticking into the denuded cliff face. Amy made another great dinner, and we enjoyed a beautiful
sunset and an exceptionally calm, starry night in Pyramid Cove.
First light, we woke to the temple bell alarm and I turned on the VHF for the weather forecast. Before I could turn from channel 16, a broadcast warning came on. You guessed it. "Any vessels in the
area of Pyramid Cove, bombing runs and small-arms fire commence at 0700." We quickly hauled the anchor on board and headed back to Catalina Island and into a very thick fog bank. Amy was on bow watch and sometimes we could almost see her.
We took our time heading for Avalon Harbor to pick up David's friend Dana Africa, Spike's daughter. As we got off the entrance to Avalon, I was below with my eyes on the radar screen and it looked as if we were going to pass directly between two large cities. As I poked my head out of the companionway, I could see the top of the stacks on two very large cruise ships at anchor on either side of our entry to Avalon.
Croz was at the helm as the fog rapidly cleared and we entered Avalon Bay. Our trusty captain began to turn to port and to the dock where the Catalina Express boats dock. I raced for fenders as he proceeded to block off their access. One of their captains raced down the gangway, very heated, yelling that we couldn't park and tie off there. Then the harbormaster came up on our stern and a whole lot of F-bombs were flying everywhere from Mayan's helm.
Then this sweet little lady came running past the pissed-off guy from the Express boat, leapt aboard, and away we went, back to the safety of the open sea.
Dana had come to dive with us, and we headed back to the mooring at the deserted Isthmus anchorage. As we motored back there, Bev Morgan arrived in his 24-ft classic runabout to join us for more great diving. Bev Morgan is the real rock star when it comes to watermen.
There's always more to every story, but this seems like a good spot to end this one. Good sailing, all. Mahalo ke Akua Rest in love, light and a fresh breeze, Mr. Crosby!
Editor's note: Race editor Chris Weaver just ran into Rick, who was helping finish the Transpac Race in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
— rick marvin
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well eight feet every eight seconds," said the synthesized voice over the radio, tuned to the VHF weather for the offshore wind and wave report.
"Square waves!" I repeated with some alarm. "Isn't that a dangerous condition?"
Lee made a quick calculation: "Eightsecond waves have a crest-to-crest wavelength of 328 feet," she announced. "Divide by trough-to-crest wave height of eight feet, and it's about… let's see… 40-to-1 length to height. Nothing to worry about; waves don't usually break unless the wavelength-to-height ratio is 20-to-1 or less."
"But that wave height is just the significant wave height," another one of my crew, newly arrived, added as he lowered himself down the companionway into the cabin. "Significant height is the average of the one-third highest waves, and usually corresponds to what an experienced observer would estimate as wave height. Keep in mind that for a typical waveheight distribution, one out of every thousand waves will be 86% higher than the significant wave height, so today they will be almost steep enough to break, and if we're out for a few hours, statistically speaking, we'll probably encounter at least one that really gets us wet."
"Wonder if they'll give us the in-theBay course option," I said after hearing the offshore forecast for wind gusting to 30 knots.
"Novice observers usually estimate
higher than significant height," remarked Lee. "My theory is that it's partly because the local gravity on a wave surface is always at right angles to the surface — it's a required boundary condition. That means that, like, if you're on the back side of a big swell looking up at the crest of the next swell, it will seem like you're looking up at a steeper angle than you really are, and you'll think the next wave is a lot higher than it really is."
"On the other hand, us surfers tend to estimate wave height too low," said the new crew. "It's part of the surfing culture. Also, surfers are dealing with shallow-water waves that can be isolated monotones. Surfers don't get the distorted sense of where 'up' is because they are not observing from the back of the previous wave. Shore-break waves can be widely separated, with no visible trough between them. Very different from a deep-water wave, which is always losing energy to the next wave right behind it, so the waves always propagate in groups. I had to forget most of what I learned on a surfboard to catch deepwater waves on a sailboat."
Our new crew was a surfer and an oceanography major, brought on by Lee to fill out the roster for the ocean race.
"I've heard about that 1-in-20 rule for risk of breaking waves," I said, "But Lee, where did you get that formula for wavelength when all you have is the wave period and the wave height?"
"It's just T-squared times gravitational acceleration over two pi," the oceanography student answered for her. "Here, I made a crib sheet for use on open-book exams," he explained as he handed me a laminated card. "It's a matrix that relates all the wave parameters to each other. Look at the row for L, under the column for T, and you get L = T-squared times g over two pi."
"But I remember it as 5.121 Tsquared," Lee added, showing me a similar matrix on her tablet. "That is, for units of feet and seconds. Here's my version of the same crib sheet, all numerical. That's like, the difference between a scientist and an engineer."
"Does it apply for all wave periods?" I asked.
"In deep water, for sure," Lee replied. "And like, this 'square wave' hazard thing only makes sense at the low end. Take a long swell with a 15-second period, for example. You get a wavelength of… about 1,150 feet. The wave height is 15, only 1/77 of the wavelength. Nothing 'square' about it."
"Then why do people worry about square waves?"
"Look at the short end. If the period is four seconds, that's… 82-foot wavelength and a four-foot wave height, about 1/20, so there will be breaking whitecaps all over the Bay."
"The interesting thing," added the surfer, "is that you also know the speed
of the wave just from the wavelength and period relationship: It's going 82 feet in four seconds, or 20.5 feet per second. What's that in knots?"
Lee jumped in with the fact that a knot is 1.6878 feet per second, so the wave speed is 12.1 knots. "Perfect for catching a ride if your boat is already going eight or nine knots downwind," she said.
"Could I go faster if I found a wave with a longer wavelength?" I asked.
"Maybe. But you can't catch a wave at all unless your speed is a reasonable portion of the wave speed. The longer the wave is, the faster you need to go to catch it. That's why those crazies need a jet ski
Top right: When centrifugal acceleration from the circular motion of water in a wave is added to gravity, local apparent gravity is always at right angles to the water surface. An observer looking at an approaching wave crest, when the horizon reference is obscured, will think they are looking up at a steeper angle than the actual angle to the ne t crest, and estimate a much higher wave height.
Bottom Because the local apparent gravity is always at right angles to the water surface, there is no surfing propulsion on a stationary floating ob ect. But if the ob ect boat or dolphin is moving with the wave, then gravity for the moving ob ect is straight down, while buoyancy, opposite to apparent gravity, is inclined forward, propelling the ob ect forward.
tow-in to catch humongous waves. They go too fast for paddling."
"It's that local-gravity distortion again," explained the oceanography student. "If you're not moving at all, even a giant wave will not push you forward, because gravity always seems to be at right angles to the surface. Buoyancy force is equal and opposite to this localapparent-gravity vector. Nothing left for forward thrust. But if you're moving forward in a straight line through the water… no circular motion for your board, no centrifugal force to distort gravity, so that's when your gravity goes straight down. But that buoyance force is still
tipped forward, because it's opposite to apparent gravity acting on the water in the wave, so there's net forward thrust, so off you go."
He drew a quick sketch of a block of wood floating on a big wave, with gravity and buoyancy equal and opposite. Then he added a dophin moving with the wave, with the gravity on the dolphin going straight down, leaving a net forward thrust.
"That doesn't jibe with my experience," I said, remembering my misspent youth when I dabbled in surfing. "I can remember, as a novice surfer, just floating there on the board when a wave came, and I got propelled right into the beach."
"Because the wave had already broken," Lee and her friend answered almost simultaneously. "
"True, I was in white water," I admitted.
"Big round waves in deep water are harmless," the oceanographer explained. "But those breaking crests, that's when the broken water can be thought of as surfing along with the wave, very much faster than the orbital velocity of the water in an unbroken wave."
"It's totally not the wave height," added Lee, "even though everyone always
asks, 'How big were the waves?' when I tell my friends about an ocean trip. The sharp corner on the top of the wave is what will get you."
"It's interesting that you said that a deep-water wave is always losing energy to the wave behind it," I noted. "That explains how I catch waves: I look ahead of the boat, never look astern, and put the bow right behind the steepest wave I can find. Then the wave in front seems to shrink while the wave behind the boat grows, and off we go."
"You can observe the difference between group velocity and wave velocity whenever a powerboat wake is approaching in smooth water," suggested Lee. "It always seems like it takes too long for the waves in the wake to reach you, because we estimate arrival by the speed of those wave crests, and perform, like, an unconscious intuitive time-speed-distance calculation in our heads. But the wave train, or the
group of waves, is only going half that speed. Fooled by our intuition."
"Or just throw a pebble in a duck pond," said the oceanography student. "Follow a single wave crest near the back of the wave group. It will grow as it migrates to the center of the group, then fade out when it reaches the front of the group of waves."
As the day turned out, they did send us on the ocean course, but the ocean did not live up to the forecast. The wind went light, and it was slow going till we were back at Point Bonita. The leftover swells were a challenge, and some of my crew could not keep the tide from rising in their stomachs.
"The run from Bonita to the finish was the best part," according to our new crew. "Wind was up, and we still had some surfing action."
"Those eight-second waves out there today will be going 24 knots," Lee reminded us. "But there should be shorter and slower waves mixed in for us to catch. If we're sailing at, like, a fast hull speed of nine knots, then a five-second wave 128 feet long going 15 knots should be easy to catch and give us a good ride."
"If you like that part of the course," I said, "you'll love our next race, the 'Big WL.' Berkeley Marina to the Bonita buoy and back. Billed as the longest windward-leeward course on the Bay, and they 'guarantee' no wind holes and no parking lots."
"Sign me up," the oceanography student said with enthusiasm. "I'll only have to be seasick for a quarter of a mile."
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El Toro North Americans and Santana 22 Nationals, the YRA Encinal Regatta with a crew-overboard recovery, victory at Cowes Race Week for a Sausalito team, a challenging Drake's Bay Race, the Mercury Huntington Lake Regatta and the Shaw Island Race are the stories covered here. Plus we report a personnel change at the YRA and spew forth abundant Race Notes and Box Scores
Sallie DeWitt was remembering one of her late husband's mottos: "Jim always said you can never win by just following the others." With that spirit in mind, the El Toro Class sailed a different kind of North American Championships at Huntington Lake on July 27-30.
The regatta included real frame-ready Jim DeWitt art for the awards, the same classic Huntington Lake image on the clothing, a selection of unique courses, parties, drama, crystal-pure water and the famous Huntington breeze. The race courses came with names; Huntingtonthemed (B24 Liberator, Mono, Tradition, Grand Tour) and Jim DeWitt-themed (Spreaders, Mallory Cup, Trapeze, Lake Merritt, DeWitt Dinghy, Flower Pot, 216). The seventh race of the eight-race, onethrowout series included three islands to port as turning marks. It was named Fiasco.
A youth movement went down in the
17-boat Senior Fleet, with six under40-year-olds. The kids ruled, the Hawaiians showed up, and the fleet included five women.
Haydon Stapleton (Richmond Yacht Club) and Leah Ford (Kaneohe YC, of Oahu) were sailing at a different level from the others, but Stapleton's consistency and overall excellence overcame Ford's bursts of blinding pure speed. Tom Tillotson, from West Sacramento's Lake Washington Sailing Club, finished third and won the final race. Patrick
Race Officer). Pam DeWitt provided her dad's art for awards and shirts, and competed in the Senior Fleet. Susan Burden shot her usual great photos, giving each sailor their Ansel Adams moment rounding rocky islets. Dan Irwin led a Fresno YC team, and Linda of Lakeshore Lodge took care of the Saturday event dinner. — tom burden
JIM DEWITT MEMORIAL EL TORO NORTH AMERICANS, FRESNO YC, 7/27-30 (8r, 1t)
SENIOR — 1) No Name, Haydon Stapleton, RYC, 9 points; 2) Joshua, Leah Ford, Kaneohe YC, 13; 3) Samara, Tom Tillotson, Lake Washington SC, 26. (17 boats)
JUNIOR — 1) Ferdinand, Mackenzie Millan, RYC, 12. (1 boat)
Full results at www.regattanetwork.com
Santana 22 Nationals
Friday, July 21, was a practice race day when the Santana 22 fleet checked out a new race venue on the Emeryville Flats. The area pleased the racers with sufficient water depth, an easy mile distance for each leg, some shelter from the afternoon breezes, and only a small current running along the south shore.
Day 1 of official racing, Saturday, July 22, consisted of two windward/leeward races in a 10-knot breeze. The day's final race started with a windward leg, then a run down the Estuary with its notorious holes and areas of breeze to finish at Encinal YC. By the end of the day, Albacore was the leader in total points, followed by Zingaro, Maybe and Alegre.
Chris Klein was not optimistic about his chances of winning the series. With a 4-4-3 scoreline in the first three races, Alegre was six points out of first. "Dockside wags seemed to think he really needed a newfangled carbon-fiber jib," commented a fellow RYC member.
Mackenzie Millan (RYC) was our Junior Champion, braving a crash jibe/ turtle/DNF capsize at Mark 8 in Race 1 to achieve her goal of completing the Fiasco Islands Race.
Fresno YC provided the infrastructure. Sallie DeWitt took down scores and raised flags with her loyal bichon frisé Little Bit performing duties as PRO (Pup
Jan Grygier had posted 3-1-1 on Saturday. His bullet in the third race came from getting the northerly shift right as they raced down the Estuary for the finish at EYC. Jennifer McKenna (1-3-2) was having a great regatta, as was Phil Vandenberg (2-2-4) with his Santa Cruz crew.
Day 2 shook things up. Alegre snagged first in both races, giving her 13 points total and the overall win. Other leaders did not fare so well, dropping down in points. Alegre's skipper and crew have sailed together on various boats for 40+ years, teaming up on the Santana
Tara from Santa Cruz edged Richmond's Gordie Nash for fourth.22 for the last 10 years. This was the third time Chris Klein has won the Santana 22 Nationals. He sailed this year's championship with crew John Paulling and Dan McDuff.
Additional trophies were given for youngest skipper, Giuseppe Lavelle on Three Fisted Rat Boy; oldest skipper, Lloyd Richey on Catch the Wind; and oldest hull still racing, Phil Vandenberg's Maybe.
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— margaret fago & latitude / chris
SANTANA 22 NATIONALS, EYC, 7/22-23 (5r, 0t)
1) Alegre, Chris Klein, 13 points; 2) Maybe, Phil Vandenberg, 14; 3) Albacore, Jan Grygier, 15. (14 boats)
Full results at www.jibeset.net
MOB
Ian Matthew sailed the 22-mile YRA Encinal Regatta on July 29 on his Tiburon YC-based C&C 29-1 Siento el Viento. As the crew were running down past Alcatraz in the Slot, bound for the Estuary from the Golden Gate, they had a real-life crew-overboard drill. Skipper Ian and his crewmember Greg Clausen tell the tale:
"Our race started as usual with a good breeze up to almost the turning mark [Point Bonita Buoy], then light winds as we rounded, set the spinnaker, and headed back into the Bay. As usual, the wind built up as we approached the Golden Gate Bridge," recalls Ian.
"We headed back hugging the Marin Headlands to stay in the wind and out of the shipping lanes," added Greg. "We approached the bridge, which now became completely covered in fog, with
the foghorns blasting away.
"We had stayed to the north side to give ourselves plenty of room going under the bridge," continued Ian. "As we were passing under the bridge, the wind was now gusting 16-18 knots (as normal), and we were having fun sailing right on the edge.
"Ron (my bowman) took over handling the spinnaker, as it was proving a little too much for Vee, who normally works the spinnaker sheet. We were accompanied by two harbor tour boats, and our working hard keeping the boat upright was giving the tourists some great camera shots. We were sailing at 8 knots through the water.
"We continued on running almost dead downwind with the spinnaker, sailing right on the edge, when a huge container ship came into play by Alcatraz. Having to give way to this monster restricted how much course deviation I could make to keep the boat upright. Along with this, the wind had now increased to 25+ — we were flying but unstable. We were doing over 10 knots
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through the water when a gust hit us that was just too much, the boat rolling, windward side down in the water, boom up in the air — not good. Yes, we broached violently, and I saw a shape get rocketed from the boat into the water — man overboard!"
"All of a sudden we got hit with a huge gust of maybe 28-30 knots, and we totally lost control with a sudden violent round-down to port," explains Greg. "The boat was on its side with the spinnaker pole dragging through the water before it broke completely off the mast attachment. At that time the main came across and hit a crewmember who was at the shrouds trying to stay clear of everything. He went head first over the lifelines into the water, where he had to swim up to the surface as his PFD slowly inflated. He was behind the boat because we were still moving as the boat slowly righted. The sails were violently flogging in the wind and the spin pole was swinging around still attached at the guy. Another problem was that we were now moving into the path of the very close cargo ship and we were not able to turn and move out of the way till the sails were down."
"Fortunately, the knowledge of my crew stepped in immediately," continued Ian. "Elizabeth focused on Robert (the man overboard) while the rest of the crew released the spinnaker halyard and got the spinnaker down below. All this was happening with the container ship only 100 yards off our bow. Next, the main was taken down, the motor started (after making sure there were no lines in the water), and we turned to go get Robert."
All of this happened calmly, with no unnecessary yelling. The MOB also remained calm and patient.
"The recovery was a typical textbook recovery with the Lifesling deployed, Robert encircled by the line and then hauled to the boat."
"We pulled him to the lee side of the boat right below the lifeline gate and used a spare halyard to attach to his PFD rings and winch him up," said Greg. "He had double rings, and it took a bit of time to get both rings in a position where the halyard could thread through them both. I lifted him up with the cabin-top winch while the other crewmembers helped get his arms and legs in. We laid him below deck and got him out of his wet gear before using a space blanket to help keep him warm."
All this in 25+ winds!
"We retired from the race and headed home," said Ian. "Robert recovered while we were motoring home, and he informed me afterward that he was fine except for a few aches and pains.
"My crew, Vee Hoff, Elizabeth Bishop, Greg Clausen, Ron Dillehay, Jeff Allen and of course Robert Clark, behaved incredibly calmly and acted professionally to execute the recovery. Robert was back in the boat seven minutes after being ejected." Because of the speed of
recovery, Robert was not to too affected by the cold 58°F water.
"All of the crew are very experienced sailors with many years and thousands of miles at sea," commented Greg. "Most of us have done either the Pacific Cup or Transpacific races with Safety at Sea certifications. Everyone wore inflatable PFDs with lifting rings.
"A 'man overboard' is probably the most scary and dangerous thing that can happen to someone on a boat and the reason we wear a lifejacket. The number one rule on any boat is 'stay on the boat'." Ian strongly recommends that boat owners carry a space blanket.
"One hell of an Encinal Regatta!" concludes Ian. "I hope to do it again next year without the drama. Sorry I don't have any pictures. Too much going on!"
— latitude / chris
YRA ENCINAL REGATTA, 7/29
PHRF 1 — 1) Zamazaan, Farr 52, Greg Mullins; 2) WildCard, SC37, Nicholas Grebe; 3) Saoirse, Tripp 41, Russell Huebschle. (6 boats)
PHRF 2 — 1) Reverie, J/109, John Arens;
2) Basic Instinct, Elliott 1050, Memo Gidley;
PHRF
PHRF 4 — 1) Heart of Gold, Olson 911S, Joan Byrne; 2) Sea Star, Cal 39, Bob Walden; 3) Duende Cal 40 ilip avelle 5 boats
PHRF 5 — 1) Cookie Monster, SC27, Zach Shapiro; 2) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair/Bernard Price; 3) O'Mar lson 5 David Scott 7 boats)
PHRF 6 — 1) Neja Das er 3 im & i e Borger; 2) Zeehond, Newport 30 MkII, Donn Guay; 3) Gypsy Lady, Cal 34 MkI, Val Clayton. (4 boats)
SPORTY 1 — 1) JetStream, JS9000, Dan Alvare Nuckelavee, Melges 32, Mark Kennedy. (2 boats)
SPORTY 2 — 1) Rooster, Melges 20, John Oldham; 2) Minimax, Melges 20, Lance Kim; 3) For Pete's Sake, Ultimate 24, Peter Cook. (3 boats)
NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Warpath, Olson 30, Karissa Peth/Stephanie Wilson. (1 boat)
EXPRESS 37 — 1) Snowy Owl, Jens Jensen; 2) Pazzo Express avin Corn 3 Golden Moon, Michael Laport. (4 boats)
EXPRESS 27 — 1) Wile E Coyote, Dan Pruzan; 2) Bombora, Rebecca Hinden; 3) High Five, Paul Gamache. (6 boats)
MULTIHULL — 1) Greyhound F van McDonald/Ross Stein. (1 boat)
Full results at www.jibeset.net
Sausalito Team Wins at Cowes Week
"In celebration of our win, Chris and Neil threw me into the cold Solent, a long-standing tradition for Cowes Week racers," said skipper Jennifer Hinkel, a
member of Sausalito YC, Royal Ocean Racing Club and the Master Mariners Benevolent Association. On July 27-August 2, she led California Luffin' to a first-place overall trophy against seven other Jeanneau Sun Odyssey charter vessels modified for one-design racing. Also crewing were SYC members Lindsay Guetschow, Chris Perry, Neil Gibbs, Nick Sands, James Shannon and Lisa Levin, plus brother and sister David and Jo Sandry. Hinkel's fourth time at Cowes Week was her second at the helm, having organized a trip for SYC racers in 2022. The crew earned three bullets from five races for an overall score of 10, 3 points more than the second-to-finish boat.
"Sailing in the Solent can be surprisingly similar to sailing in S.F. Bay conditions-wise, but often with more extremes for currents and sea state," said Hinkel. "We had a couple of days with 25-knot-plus gusts and fairly big sea states depending on tide direction. We also had one or two mild days where fleets were challenged to make roundings in light air against currents of three knots or more."
Within the Sunsail 41 class, aroundthe-buoys courses ranged in length from 8 to 18 miles. Most included four to five legs with several spinnaker opportunities; some races started on a downwind run.
On Day 4, the California cowboys
convoyed with 50+ boats in close quarters — all seeking to finish with kites up at the Royal Yacht Squadron lawn. Another highlight of the week was an impressive windward douse to reset the kite from a starboard reach to a port reach at a rounding mark in 3 knots of current and light air. This maneuver launched California Luffin' to a lead over four competitors at the rounding.
"Deloitte was the defending champion and Don't Panik also had a strong team — the three of us were often neck and neck trading places around the course."
California Luffin' was greatly aided this year by Pete Walters, "whose tactical genius and intimate knowledge of the Solent helped tremendously, especially as we climbed to the top of the fleet from behind on several occasions. After assessing 2022's Cowes Week effort, we realized a lack of local knowledge was a deficit for us. Walters served as our tactician and was a pleasure to sail with."
Outside of race action, a most memorable experience was receiving trophies and attending a ball at the Royal London Yacht Club. "We also exchanged several Sausalito region and Tahoe YC burgees,
sharing these with Island Sailing Club, regarded as having the world's secondlargest burgee collection," added Hinkel. Cowes Week trophies and flags will be on display at Sausalito YC, including the large silver perpetual trophy in its special case that Hinkel hand-carried back to the States.
One of the UK's longest-running sporting events, Cowes Week has been held every year since 1826, with the exception of years during the two world wars, plus 2020 (due to COVID-19). Roughly 5,000 competitors join — from Olympic contenders and world-class yachtsmen to weekend sailors. It is classics alongside modern vessels sailing ocean courses, with a view of more than 500 boats in up to 40 different handicap, one-design and multihull classes. During seven days, more than 60,000 visitors flock to Cowes on the Isle of Wight off the southwestern coast of England. See www.cowesweek.co.uk. — martha
Challenging Drake's Bay Race
You know conditions are pretty bad when diehard, competitive racers the likes of Gordie Nash (Arcadia)
Greg
was singlehander Paul Sutchek's Slainte, actually arriving at the Golden Gate Bridge at 1:22 a.m. on Sunday morning. Slainte was transmitting AIS, so the race committee was able to keep track of the little Cal 20.
SYC team at Cowes, left to right: Jennifer Hinkel, James Shannon, Neil Gibbs, Lindsay Guetschow, Jo Sandry, Nick Sands, Lisa Levine, David Sandry and Pete Walters (Chris Perry not shown). "We will be displaying the trophies and flags at Sausalito YC including the large silver perpetual trophy, which I have in a carrying case to bring back across the Atlantic Ocean!" said Jennifer.
Nelsen (Outsider) turn around and head home. You might have guessed something was up when more than half the skippers registered made one last check of the weather forecast and declined to even show up to the start line. Such was the case with the YRA/SSS Drake's Bay Race on August 5-6.
The doublehanded and singlehanded boats started last, and the slowest of
VENTURA YC J/FEST, 7/15-16 (8r, 1t)
J/24 WESTERN REGIONALS — 1) Jaded, Deke Klatt, Ventura YC, 16 points; 2) Ghostface Killah, Philip Brzytwa, Corinthian YC Seattle, 22;
3) No Name, Paul Bogataj, Corinthian YC Seattle, 23. (15 boats)
J/70 — 1) DJ, Ryan Cox, 10 points; 2) 3 Big Dogs, Pat Toole, 15; 3) Nimbus, Bruce Cooper, 15. (7 boats)
Full results at www.venturayachtclub.org
SDYC DUTCH SHOE MARATHON, 7/21
OVERALL — 1) Tyler Sinks, Senior; 2) Chuck aton Senior 3 Calvin Sc mid Senior 4 C c Sinks, Senior; 5) Eric Heim, Senior; 6) Loki Barrett, Fleet A; 7) Randy Lake, Senior; 8) Parker Shinn, Senior; 9) Frank Tybor, Senior; 10) Peter & ames sc Senior 1 0 boats
Full results at www.sdyc.org
BVBC PLASTIC CLASSIC 7/22
PHRF <100 — 1) Swell Patrol Soverel 33 Zachary Maricondia; 2) Osprey, SC40, Michael Bender; 3) Streaker, J/105, Greg Arkus. (7 boats)
PHRF 100-160 — 1) O'Mar lson 5 David Scott; 2) Gig, HB30, Gilbert Sloan; 3) Stratocaster, J/32, Lewis Lanier. (9 boats)
PHRF 160-190 — 1) Fulvia, Alerion 28, Andrea Cabito/Andrew Kobylinski; 2) Dona Mae, Olson 25, Hunter Cutting; 3) Avalon, Catalina 30, John Ford. (9 boats)
PHRF >190 — 1) Surprise!, Ranger 23, John iffmeyer 3 boats
TRITON — 1) Bolero, Ely Gilliam; 2)
them got caught in a building flood with little breeze to compensate. That was until the forecast of 30 knots was fulfilled in the late afternoon. Several boats dropped out of the race and returned home, while others motored on up to Point Reyes to anchor out and hope for better conditions on Sunday.
The last boat to safely return to San Francisco Bay on Saturday night
Sanctuary, Ian Elliot. (3 boats) Full results at www.bvbc.org
SANTA BARBARA YC/KHYC KING HARBOR RACE, 7/28-29
PHRF-A — 1) Amadeus, IMX40, Robert Walker; 2) Uhambo Fast 4 David C ase Carlos Brea; 3) Cheeky, J/122, Mark Stratton. (7 boats)
PHRF-B — 1) Triggerfsh V, Beneteau First 40.7, Andrew Beggs; 2) No Compromise, J/105, David orney 3 Renegade, Beneteau First 10R, Denny Browne. (9 boats)
PHRF-C — 1) Limitless, Express 37, Shawn vie Armida, J/105, Thomas Bollay; 3) Esprit de Corps, Express 37, Schopp/Clark/Shoemaker. (9 boats)
PHRF-D — 1) Blues Traveler, SC33, Erik vale Dreamline David ewland 3 Epic, Laser 28, Vance Newell. (9 boats)
ULDB-A — 1) Bribon, TP52, Mark Surber; 2) Zephyrus, R/P 77, Damon Guizot. (6 boats)
ULDB-B — 1) Javelin, J/125, Daniel Murphy; 2) Argo 4, J/125, Kenny Kieding/John Vincent; 3) Brigadoon, Tripp 56, Dan Gribble. (8 boats)
ULDB-C — 1) Full Send, Cape 31, Dirk Freeland; 2) Picosa 111 Do g & ac orgensen 3) Obsidian 111 o n Staff 13 boats
ULDB-D — 1) Mexican Divorce, 1D35, Neil
"It was rough for us," commented Express 27 sailor Lori Tewksbury. "I was doublehanding Hang 20. On Saturday, we got stuck in a hole for quite a while, and when it filled in, it really filled in! We saw wind in the 20s and pretty big seas. About halfway to Drake's, we tried to put in a second reef and our main pulled out of the track. After getting it onboard, we tried again to no avail, tied it to the boom and sailed the rest of the race with jib only. Maneuverability was a little dicey with just the jib, so we opted to go straight to Sea Star instead of trying to go up to the finish line and then thread through the already-anchored boats at 9:30 p.m.
"On Sunday we broke the boom vang
Fraser; 2) Loki Col mbia 3 a l alve 3 Flying Dutchman, Hobie 33, Jason Herring. (6 boats)
ORCA — 1) Stormtrooper, F-24 MkI, Tomas Smalley. (7 boats)
CRUISING — 1) Wind Rose, Cabo Rico 40, Walter Simmons; 2) Zuzu, Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 490, Yehuda Elmakias; 3) Scarlet Fever eannea S n dyssey 50 a l Hofer boats)
Full results at www.regattanetwork.com
HOOD RIVER YC HR1D REGATTA, 7/29-30 (7r, 1t)
MOORE 24 PCC — 1) Firefy, Weis Dubuc, 14 points; 2) Paramour, Rowan Fennell, 14; 3) Bruzer eif Ha ge 17 13 boats
Full results at https://hryc.clubexpress.com
EYC/IYC/OYC ESTUARY EXTRAVAGANZA, 7/30 (3r, 1t)
PHRF 1 — 1) JetStream S 000 Dan lvarez, 2 points; 2) Quixote, Elan 40, Dan Hogan, 4. (2 boats)
PHRF 2 — 1) Good & Plenty Soverel 33 Justis Fennell, 2 points; 2) Swell Patrol Soverel 33, Zac Maricondia, 4; 3) Flying Fish, Olson 30, Michael Berndt, 5. (3 boats)
PHRF 3 — 1) 24K, Wylie Wabbit, Greg Byrne, 2 points; 2) Minimax, Melges 20, Lance Kim, 3; 3) Ahi, Santana 35, Andy Newell, 5. (5 boats)
PHRF 4 — 1) Loose Cannon, J/22, Jens Jensen, 2 points; 2) Ursa Minor, Santana 525, Richard Standridge, 3; 3) Loki, Santana 525, Shih/
before we were out of Drake's Bay proper, tied the boom down, and had a lovely spinnaker run down the coast. When we got under the Gate, we were slammed with big breeze and no good way to let out the main (because of the makeshift boom vang), so we rounded up a bunch but did finish. We ended up going back to RYC through Raccoon Strait, came out, ran out of wind and had to scull and paddle a bit as the engine wouldn't start."
Bob Walden, skipper of the aforementioned Sea Star, a Cal 39, had a better weekend. "Sea Star got lucky Saturday.
We believed the GRIBs and went west to meet the new breeze, so we only floated around for an hour vs. everyone else who got stuck for two-plus hours. It was fun to break out of the fog line and see nobody in front. We finished pretty early, and saw the biggest wind of the day on the finish line. We went waaay northeast to the middle of the bay to find a good spot to anchor out of the wind, and set NyQuil (the big anchor's name) plus a stern anchor to avoid getting swung around. After a while we had Ahi [Andy Newell's Santana 35] and Hang 20 for company overnight. Many games, much
booze and chow were had.
"On Sunday we had a good start and hoisted the shy kite expecting biggish wind, and we got it right off the tip of the Point. We muffed a jibe, had to douse, and went with flat sails while we licked our wounds. After re-hoisting the shy, we stayed west expecting the breeze to fill, but it never really did, so most of the fleet got away from us. We finished with the usual exhilarating run from Diablo to the finish at StFYC."
YRA DRAKE'S BAY 1, 8/5
PHRO 1 — 1) Jubilant 11 e evin Wil inson; 2) Reverie, J/109, John Arens; 3) Bullet, Express 37, Larry Baskin. (4 boats)
PHRO 2 — 1) Sea Star, Cal 39, Bob Walden; 2) Ahi, Santana 35, Andy Newell; 3) Shaman, Cal 40, Bart Hackworth. (5 boats)
SHS o finis ers 1 boat
MULTIHULL — 1) Round Midnight, Explorer 44 tri, Rick Waltonsmith. (2 boats)
YRA DRAKE'S BAY 2, 8/6
PHRO 1 — 1) Reverie; 2) Bullet; 3) WildCard, SC37, Nicholas Grebe. (4 boats)
PHRO 2 — 1) Shaman; 2) Ahi; 3) Sea Star. (4 boats)
SHS — 1) Hang 20, Express 27, Lori Tewksb ry dam Savit y 1 boat
MULTIHULL — 1) Round Midnight. (1 boat)
SSS DRAKE'S BAY, 8/5-6
SINGLEHANDED MONOHULL — 1) Freedom, Cross/Molins, 5. (8 boats)
PHRF 5 — 1) Osituki, Cal 28, Rodney Pimentel, 2 points; 2) Obsession, Harbor 20 Kame Richards, 4; 3) Puff Mommy, Harbor 20, Lisa Rohr, 7. (5 boats)
COLUMBIA 5.5 — 1) Rogue Nation, Pete Mitchell, 2 points; 2) Maverick, Ken Bodiley, 3; 3) Attestup, Wade Duckworth, 6. (3 boats)
Full results at www.jibeset.net
HRYC DOUBLE DAMNED, 8/5
PHRF — 1) Lift Ticket 70 at ie affitte 2) Spitfre, J/70, Tyler Karaszewski; 3) Covfefe, Moore 24, Michael Lazzaro. (16 boats)
Full results at https://hryc.clubexpress.com
SFYC WARM, WET & WINDY REGATTA (SUMMER KEEL), 8/5-6 (5r, 0t)
EXPRESS 37 — 1) Expeditious, Bartz Schneider, 7 points; 2) Elan, Jack Peurach, 15; 3) pHat Jack, Robert Lugliani, 16. (5 boats)
J/105 — 1) Mojo eff ittfin 1 points Akula, Doug Bailey, 21; 3) Blackhawk, Ryan Simmons, 24; 4) Maverick, Ian Charles, 28; 5) Beast of Burden eoff cDonald Harrison Turner, 29. (22 boats)
Full results at www.sfyc.org
SEQYC SOUTH BAY CHAMPIONSHIP (4r, 0t)
PHRF — 1) Daredevil, Melges 24, William Larsen, 5 points; 2) Allons-Y 70 Davis ing 10.5; 3) Osprey Sabre 3 eff Stine 1 5 5 boats)
OPEN 5.70 — 1) Bigair, Andrew Rist, 5 points;
2) Partner in Crime, Jean Margail, 14; 3) Granuaile, Andrew Lesslie, 15. (7 boats) Full results at www.jibeset.net
US OPEN SAILING SERIES, RYC/StFYC, 8/1213 (8r, 1t) er 1 evin Cason Holland Wilder ierling 7 points lian & nt ony S errett 3 Aaron Toy-Lim/Parker Stacy, 13. (10 boats)
ILCA 7 — 1) Malcolm Lamphere, 5 points; 2) Andrew Puopolo, 13; 3) Rob Crane, 15. (6 boats)
ILCA 6 — 1) Nicholas Mueller, 10 points; 2) Audry Foley, 10; 3) Oscar Parzen, 17; 4) Al Sargent, 17. (10 boats)
OPEN KITE FOIL — 1) Mike Martin, 16 points; dam owry 1 3 ladimir e ibovs y 3 (9 boards)
FORMULA KITE — 1) Neil Marcellini, 7 points; eif iven 15 3 at an earce 3 7 boards
FORMULA KITE WOMEN — 1) Martyna Dakowicz, 8 points. (1 board)
WING FOIL — 1) Joey Pasquali, 8 points; 2) John Subranni, 13; 3) Kai Mirel, 20; 4) Henry Vare, 30. (9 boards)
Full results at www.ussailing.org
EYC GRACIE & GEORGE, 8/13
SPINNAKER — 1) Anemone, Santana 22,
Shelli Rohrer/Hank Lindemann; 2) Obsession, Harbor 0 Sally & ame ic ards 3 Bewitched, erit 5 Dawn C esney & ar Salmon 11 boats)
NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Slice, Wilderness 21, Heidi & aron Stagg Mas Que Nada, Harbor 0 aryann & ob Hinden 3 Rapid Transit, Olson 5 Candice & T adde s Wo nia 4 boats
Full results at www.jibeset.net
SCYC LASER NORCAL/DISTRICT 24 CHAMPIONSHIP, 8/12-13 (7r, 1t)
ILCA 6 — 1) Toshinari Takayanagi, RYC, 6 points; 2) Jon Andron, StFYC, 16; 3) Chris Boome, StFYC, 17. (7 boats)
ILCA 7 — 1) Tracy Usher, StFYC, 12 points; 2) J Denton, RYYC, 13; 3) Chris Simenstad, RYC, 16. (6 boats)
Full results at www.scyc.org
SEQYC SUMMER SERIES (5r, 1t)
PHRF — 1) Osprey Sabre 3 eff Stine 5 points; 2) Frequent Flyer, Farr 30, Stan Phillips, 10; 3) Hijinks, J/92, Tom Borgstrom, 12. (9 boats) OPEN 5.70 — 1) Hummingbird, Andrew Lesslie, 8 points; 2) Spirit, Marton Neher, 11; 3) 570, Maggie Heilman, 13. (3 boats)
Full results at www.jibeset.net
SCYC FRIDAY EVENING ILCA SERIES (5r, 1t) C 7 1 van Diola points C ris Simenstad, 8; 3) Dominique Bertrand, 11. (8 boats)
Full results at www.scyc.org
the coolest thing to see my dad's name [Bryan Colwell] on the multihull trophy," said Ben. "I remember thinking to myself as a kid, 'Someday my name will be on that trophy.'" He was right. Ben has placed first in the multihull division 11 times since 2006.
Richardson added, "It was a great honor to lose to the team who introduced me to this fine event 23 years ago, Gil Lund and family on Interface," a Dash 34 skippered by Mark Bunker and firstplace finisher in the PHRF-A division.
Worth 40, Jib Martens, 2 points; 2) White Rose, Sabre 426, Tim Sowerby, 18. (5 boats)
DOUBLEHANDED MONOHULL — 1) Zaff, J/92, Tim Roche/Sergi Molins, 2 points; 2) Bombora, Express 27, Rebecca Hinden/Ashley Hobson, 4. (4 boats)
SINGLEHANDED MULTIHULL — No finis ers 1 boat
Full results at www.jibeset.net
Sixteen Mercurys arrived at Huntington Lake for two great days of sailing on July 22-23. Conditions at the lake were still affected by the fire, and by extreme snowfall earlier this year. Bear Cove is still closed and Lakeshore Resort still going through renovation, so there was no dinner Saturday night. Some campgrounds were still closed, and some campground reservations were canceled at the last minute. Unfortunately the Lanzafame family was forced to stay home, having their campsites canceled. Park Densmore had his condo canceled last minute due to a tree falling into the chimney, but he was able to find other accommodations.
With all that, spirits were high, and everyone had a good time. After racing on Saturday we all gathered on the beach at Lakeshore. Tom Priest provided his famous mai tais. The Fresno fleet brought the beer, with chips and homemade salsa supplied by Melissa Usquiano.
Worth noting, nine of the 16 boats were sailed by family members. Jim and Kathy Bradley introduced us to their new granddaughter Ella. Steve and Lynn Kraft were present with their young granddaughter. Jack Henry made his crewing debut with grandpa Don Whelan. Steve Sherry was back sailing #459 with his grandson.
Randy Hecht fit this regatta in his schedule only a few days before leaving for Europe to sail in the International
Knarr Championship.
— don whelan
MERCURY HUNTINGTON LAKE REGATTA
7/22-23 (3r, 0t)
1 im & at y radley points i e & Kyle Burch, 9; 3) Don Whelan/Jack Henry, 11; 4) o n avi a C ris oome 1 boats
53rd Shaw Island Classic Race
Sunshine, blue skies, fluky winds and a flood current set the stage for the Shaw Island Classic hosted by San Juan Island YC on August 12. Shaw Island is the only mark and can be rounded in either direction. It is only a 13-mile course, but shifting winds, variable currents, narrow rocky channels, and ferry traffic often turn it into a nautical chess game.
Most of the fleet of 33 boats took a counterclockwise course, betting there was enough wind at the start to overcome the flood current in the San Juan Channel. Theoretically, this course would allow riding the flood through the notoriously windless Wasp Passage. The bet paid off, with nearly all counterclockwise boats finishing the race.
With boats ranging from a Formula 18 multihull to a Concordia 50 monohull, the racing advantage can shift quickly. "This year's race was especially taxing, battling it out with Hydra [a King 40] in light winds, conditions that do not favor us," said Ben Colwell, skipper of the F18 cat Rum Line, first place in the multihull division and first on elapsed time. "We eventually caught Rum Line," said Sam Richardson, skipper of Hydra and third place in the PHRF-A division, "but it didn't last as they sailed impressively through the last third of the race with good speed and tactics."
Shaw Island racers know their competition, as most have entered this race for many years, and, in some cases, over multiple generations. "I thought it was
RIFF, a J/70 doublehanded by Boris Luchterhand and tactician Ryan Forbes, placed first in PHRF-B division and first overall on corrected time. "Ryan made the bold decision to hoist a kite at the start — that got us away quickly," said Luchterhand, "We love this race and had fun every moment just like every year!"
Spirits were high and spirits were enjoyed as racers once again gathered at the lovely SJIYC clubhouse overlooking the Friday Harbor marina for post-race banter and a hearty lasagna dinner.
The Perseverance Award, in honor of Wally Lum, who skippered Marquita in the first Shaw and has competed in every race since, goes to the last boat to finish before the deadline. This year's winner was Paul Von Stubbe's Juans2B, a San Juan 21, one of only two clockwise boats to finish the race. "Crossing the San Juan Channel to the finish line, we were battling currents and the 6 p.m. cutoff. Luckily, we finished with time to spare. Now all we needed was a bottle of champagne to celebrate — little did we know that was the prize for being last to finish!"
Complete results and photos are posted at the club's website at www. sjiyc.com/shaw
So, what happened to the 51st and 52nd Shaw races? Those were the pandemic races, with a timed start, no race committee boats and no awards dinner; they were designated as the 49½ and 49¾ Un-Shaw races. After celebrating the blowout 50th Shaw race last year, the race committee decided to skip over those lost pandemic years and get back on schedule.
In early August, Joe Rockmore alerted us that Don Ahrens had resigned as chair of the Yacht Racing Association. "After seven years at the helm, he felt he had done his duty and wanted to pass it on to someone else. A big thank-you for
his years of service to the racing community of S.F. Bay.
"Also, the YRA has adopted new bylaws. As called for in them, we appointed three directors at large: Bill Claussen, Andy Newell and Bob Walden. These three have been part of the YRA operational committee for years, and this formalizes their roles. The new board has appointed me as chair (I was formerly secretary of the board)." The YRA is seeking a new secretary and a new treasurer (Bobbi Tosse was the longtime treasurer of the YRA, but she passed away on February 1). Anyone interested in either board position can email info@yra.org.
We offer our personal thank-you to Don for his leadership in the YRA, and to Joe for filling his shoes going forward. Don sails the Farr 36 Red Cloud out of Encinal YC. Joe has crewed aboard the Farr 38 Mintaka 4 and Gerry Brown's previous boats for decades. He also owns a C&C 40, Föhn, and serves as a PRO for the HMBYC and the YRA and a race committee volunteer for StFYC.
— latitude / chris
"Bay View Boat Club held its 38th Plastic Classic Regatta on July 22," reports race committee volunteer Barbara Attard. "It was a gorgeous day on the water. The wind cooperated after an hour's delay of the start." The breeze picked up nicely by 2 p.m. "There were 36 entries in five starts. Following tradition, boaters were cheered on by beautiful women at the T Mark. BVBC hosted dinner with an amazing spread, and Steady Eddie and the Shakers rocked the house until the wee hours." See Box Scores for top finishers, and also see www.bvbc.org.
Jeffrey Petersen joins the elite group of young sailors who have won the Governor's Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship twice. Petersen and crew Max Brennan and Enzo Menditto sailed for the host club, Balboa YC in Corona del Mar, on July 24-29. In the final match, the locals fended off their
rival, Cole Tapper of Australia. Governor Ronald Reagan granted the Deed of Gift for the Governor's Cup to Balboa YC in 1967. The Grade 3 event is raced by sailors 22 years old and younger in Governor's Cup 21 keelboats. For more info, see www.govcupracing.com
Defending champions West Coast Best Coast, from Newport Beach, bested the CJ Buckley Regatta on July 31-August 1 in Warwick, RI. Chase Decker, Cam Spriggs, Blake Behrens, Violet Martin, Elizabeth Struve and Reade Decker made up the team. The regatta serves as the Club 420 Association Team Racing Championship. For details, see www. cjbuckleyregatta.net
The King Harbor Race is a 90-mile run down the SoCal coast from Santa Barbara to King Harbor. On July 2829, winds died overnight and light air lingered into the morning. More than 30 boats of the 85 entered retired. For the top finishers who stuck it out, see Box Scores.
Kudos to SFYC's Sarah Young, who topped the ILCA 6 fleet at the Hyannis Yacht Club Regatta in Massachusetts on July 29-30. Sarah had only first- and second-place finishes in seven races. She also received Hyannis YC's Frank B. Bearse trophy in recognition of her sportsmanship and excellence in singlehanded sailing.
A StFYC team led by Jon Perkins won the 53rd International Knarr Championship , topping a mostly Scandinavian 19-
boat fleet in Bergen, Norway, on July 29-August 5. See https://ikc2023.com
After three days of close racing, Makani Andrews, Noelani Velasco, Bryce Huntoon and Jaxon Hottinger from Kaneohe YC (on the east coast of Oahu) overcame a slow start in Sunday's Gold Fleet racing to claim their second consecutive Sears Cup. Competitors at the Chubb US Youth Triplehanded Championship saw a wide range of conditions on Texas's Clear Lake, with lighter conditions in the morning building to a 15- to 18-knot sea breeze from the Gulf of Mexico in the afternoon. Racing took place August 11-13 in Lakewood YC's fleet of RS21s.
"Winning a second year in a row with the same crew is an indescribable feeling," said Kaneohe YC trimmer Bryce Huntoon. "Being able to train and compete with a consistent crew is massive. We're all good friends at home; many of us are training partners, so it's just pure fun racing with this team."
Second place went down to the last race; the San Francisco YC team of Hailey Thompson, Rhett Krawitt, Julian Levash and Mark Xu were able to best the Austin YC team on the final leg.
California YC's Team BAAM (Allie Blecher, Katja Sertl, Beka Schiff, Ali Blumenthal) overtook Chicago YC's Bow Down Racing with two straight wins in the finals to claim their third US Women's Match Racing Championship on Chesapeake Bay. Annapolis YC hosted the regatta in J/22s on August 18-20.
"It feels great to be back-to-back
champions," said Allie Blecher. "Mental toughness was key to our success." Five of the eight teams represented yacht clubs from California.
Following August's Sailing World Championships in The Hague, The Netherlands, USA has qualified for the 2024 Olympics in the following classes:
49er, Andrew Mollerus/Ian MacDiarmid and Ian Barrows/Hans Henken
49er FX, Steph Roble/Maggie Shea Women's Formula Kite, Daniela Moroz
ILCA 6, Charlotte Rose and Erika Reineke
The next opportunity to qualify in the remaining classes is the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, on October 28-November 5.
The Vic-Maui Race starts in British Columbia and sails to Lahaina in evennumbered years. Following the wildfire that destroyed Lahaina, we received this statement: "All of us at Royal Vancouver YC and on the Vic-Maui team are deeply saddened by the news of the LahainaMaui wildfires. We have reached out to
our contacts in Lahaina, including the commodore of the Lahaina YC and members of the Vic-Maui team, to offer our support and condolences. … Our focus and our hearts are with our friends in Lahaina during this incredibly difficult time, and our community stands ready in support of the people of Maui.
Dave Schubert, commodore of Lahaina YC, responded to RVYC's message. "I write this with pure sorrow. Our beloved Lahaina Yacht Club and Lahaina Town has been devastated. The entire town of Lahaina and our home is gone and now just ash and rubble. What you are seeing in the news is probably accurate but just a small part of our reality. No power, water, etc. We are an amazing community, and the people here are resilient. I have received many emails from reciprocal clubs across the country offering support, and I want to assure that we will strive to rebuild, rebound, and come back better. We love and appreciate all the heartfelt sentiments and support across the country. To those amazing
commodores sharing such respect and support I will absolutely share those caring messages after I get my/our lack of housing in check. To date, quite a few of us commodores, past commodores and board members are now without homes. I do ultimately believe it will take all of us to be involved in rebuilding, and all will commit to our future commitment to LYC. Without hesitation, I am far more afraid for our membership and the entire community's well-being. This town has so many amazing people. We are Lahaina Strong, and most importantly we need to look out for the health and well-being of our families, friends and membership and all those we love. I hope this all makes sense. I am shedding tears as I write this. At Lahaina Yacht Club, our strength has always been our family approach. Our strength is at its finest."
For more about Lahaina and the yacht club, please see August 21's 'Lectronic Latitude at www.latitude38.com , and Sightings in this issue.
— latitude / chris
With reports this month on Convergence's most memorable moments in their seven-year cruise through the Med; Shindig's owners' unexpected detour to Vanuatu; Thursday's Child's PPJ and ongoing South Seas adventure; Raven's rewarding exploration of the Marquesas islands; and a helping of Cruise Notes
Mediterranean Memories
Santa Cruz
Strange and confused, stippled white foam rises into cresting waves and breaks over the boat. In troughs, we wallow, our mainsail useless in the windless tunnels. We look out into nothing but blue. Holding on, we rise up and slide down the next face or at times are dropped — hard! On the edge of control, we are both exhilarated and terrified. This is sailing in the Mediterranean.
With the Meltemi in summer and the Bora in winter, no wonder Homer called it The Odyssey.
Convergence arrived in the Med via the Suez Canal and had the good fortune to explore many of her historical features, rich cultures and welcoming people.
Unlike the South Pacific, where it's all about coral reefs, tradewind clouds, and sunsets, the Mediterranean is all about the land.
Tracing the routes that traders, conquerors and pilgrims have followed for
centuries, we became a notch in a historical timeline, one that defines all human migration — curiosity. We added our own impressions to the collective observations of the eons and noted that not much has changed this timeless view. We are just one more set of picturesque sails superimposed upon this ancient backdrop.
Sprawling under a Crusades-era castle, Marmaris makes a great jumping-off spot for cruising the Turkish Riviera. Boasting two marinas, Netsel and Marmaris Yacht Marina, the waterfront village offers boatyards, marine supplies, groceries, plenty of Efes beer and the ubiquitous licoriceflavored, throat-burning liquor, raki.
While Islamic conservatism has swept through Turkey, international clientele still pack seaside restaurants and bars. The Turkish coast is a treasure trove of coves and inlets, tantalizing blue water, layers of history and fabulous food.
To the west, the stacked sugar-cube Greek architecture, contrasted by classic blue doors, dots the otherwise barren landscapes that drop into the crystalline seas of the Cyclades, Dodecanese, Aegean, Saronic, and Sporades archipelagos. While in the Ionian Islands, spears of cypress define mountain villages tangled with climbing roses, fig, honeysuckle, olive and citrus. Belled goats orchestrate the terraced landscape, and solid old women dressed in black climb the steep inclines, hinting at the stamina of their people.
Golfo di Venezia, in the Adriatic, hosts the island of Torcello, known for its Byzantine mosaics. Burano, renowned for colorful buildings and lace, vies for attention with the blown-glass fame of Murano, and Lido's film festival creates the remaining island backdrop to the lagoon home of the city of Venice. We docked near the rather forlorn Il Morro di Venezia, the '92 Italian America's Cup boat skippered by Paul Cayard, where we were joined by dear friends and world-renowned navigator Stan Honey and two-time Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Sally Lindsay, to sail from Venice to Croatia.
Med memories (clockwise from here) — 'Convergence' anchored off Rhodes; climate change has shopkeepers concerned; daredevil takes a plunge off the big waterfall on Croatia's Krka River; 'Convergence' at Old Town Trogir in Croatia; Sally and Stan Honey were among the guests aboard for 'Convergence's Med adventure; Cyclades ferry takes the full brunt of a Meltemi; the Citadelle above Bonifacio Harbor comes alive at night with a rainbow light show; topless sunbathing remains popular throughout the Mediterranean; (center) the picturesque port of Viz on the Dalmatian Coast.
the Straits of Messina in 35 knots, at night. In the western archipelago, the ever-present plume of Stromboli lured us through the Aeolian Islands. Awestruck, we surfed down waves off the dramatic headlands of the north coast and explored the three islands of the eastern Egadi: Favignana, Levanzo, and Marettimo. Phoenician, Roman and Arab ships plied these peacock waters, and relics of shipwrecks are commonplace. This was home to the mattanza, a bloodbath sport where tonnaroti (tuna fishers) herded 600-lb fish into the càmira dâ morti ("death chamber") net to be gaffed and muscled aboard small, open boats. Overfishing has left nothing but a museum of a fishery that once fed Roman legions and invented canned tuna. The picturesque southwest Harbor of Siracusa, which sheltered ancient Greek fleets, became "home" as we explored the interior of the island.
We were captivated by Malta's fascinating history, which spans megalithic remains, to the courage of the Knights of St. John defending Valletta against the Turks, through the resilience of the Maltese, who endured the heaviest sustained bombing in World War II. Palaces, embassies, and fortresses look down on Grand and Valletta harbors where haulout, liferaft repack, and major marine services can be found.
Across the Tyrrhenian Sea, we cruised 170-mile-long Sardinia. Costa Smeralda, once sleepy fishing villages, was transformed in 1960 into the nerve center for A-Listers and megayachts. Yet we found myriad quiet anchorages, and charming villages for exploration.
If your family has not resided in Corsica for 10 generations, you are a tourist. Within the protected Bonifacio harbor, we happily tourist-tasted delectable breads, cheeses, and wine, while searching for nautical antiques in the warren beneath the citadel, which glows at night with rainbow light shows.
One cannot see all of the 1,000 isles of the Dalmatian Coast, but for us, Vis, Korcula, Prvic and Cres were all, in a word, spectacular. Croatia's coastline is rich with mountains, monasteries, waterfalls and windswept beaches. At Trogir, the harbormaster took us to his one-table restaurant housed in a building that has belonged to his family for 500 years. We watched the international "Battle of Nations," a brutal competition of medieval hand-to-hand combat, and cheered as national flags waved over giant screens showing the World Cup in the plaza at Split.
The keyhole entrance of Montenegro, with views of the long-disputed Balkans, is breathtaking. Attempting to be the next Monte Carlo, a new marina and boutiques await monied megayachts. Climbing ancient stairs to the ruins of Kotor kept our well-fed crew in shape.
Another way to leave the Schengen countries and extend your EU stay beyond the 90-day limit is a visit to Albania. A stroll down the waterfront promenade reveals a population longing for acceptance and economic revitalization.
We circumnavigated Sicily. Under the looming glow of Mt. Etna, we navigated
A UNESCO biosphere with diverse landscapes, 60 endemic plants, and more than 200 species of birds, and boasting one of the largest natural harbors, Mahon, Menorca, with its hidden beaches, historical centers, and ancient festivals, offered a rich taste of Balearic Islands life.
Of course, to encapsulate the charm, history, and gastronomy of cruising the Med is impossible. If you don't want to sail there, charter. Don't wait. Just go!
— Sally-Christine 7/15/23
Readers — Randy and Sally-Christine are rapidly approaching the 20-year mark of their ongoing circumnavigation. They departed Santa Cruz way back in 2004 and
have been heading slowly westabout ever since. There have been numerous delays in their progress (COVID was a big one), and for the past few years, they've been sailing Convergence for a few months, leaving the boat, and flying back home for the summers. At this writing, they were up in British Columbia sailing the Salish Sea on their 15-ft Marshall catboat, Marguerite. They'll be returning to Convergence soon.
Rob and Nancy Novak
An Unexpected Visit
Sausalito
One of the highlights of cruising is the unplanned surprises that present themselves. During this start-up phase of our cruising season, we were eyeing the nearby country of Vanuatu as a possible destination to celebrate my milestone birthday. I had gladly accepted the present, once I clarified that it was just a two-hour flight each way, not sailing several days on Shindig. There appeared to be numerous resort opportunities, and perhaps a chance to visit a little of this more undeveloped island chain. The country of Vanuatu had never been on our cruising plan, so I hadn't given it any further thought as a possible destination.
Then our sailing friends, Dawn and Alon, on Zao, a fast, 50-ft custom Discovery catamaran, sweetened the offer; Why not sail with them on their planned passage to Vanuatu? We'd be helping them out, be able to spend time together before their continued travels east — and visit a volcano! We could be dropped off at a resort, then fly back to Shindig. Sounded intriguing!
We agreed on a target departure, June 20, give or take several days based on weather window, catamaran readiness and other unknowns. Shindig was secured safely in her slip at Vuda Marina, and after spending a long afternoon provisioning for a week of supplies, we officially checked out of Fiji and motored out toward Vanuatu on the afternoon tides on June 20. As we passed the famous surfing breaks near Namotu Island, there were more than a half dozen kite-boarders playing in the waves. By sunset, we had cleared the reef, and were heading due west. Our destination was 460 miles away, to the island of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Overall, the passage was good. Their catamaran is a fast boat, and equipped with the finest specs by the previous owner, the CEO of Discovery Yachts. But there are always things to fix and systems to fine-tune, as well as flying spinnakers. Rob and Alon made a good team troubleshooting along the way, and had a healthy list of "we did it" fixed items by the time we arrived. The passage had been planned for three days and nights, in order to arrive by the morning of Day 4.
This was the first time I'd been on a catamaran passage. The spaciousness of the catamaran is a huge luxury. Our hull berth and separate head with shower (plus heated towel racks that we did not use) were private and beautiful.
That said, I was very surprised how noisy a catamaran is, especially with the 20-knot winds on the beam. In our cabin, I even recorded a voice memo on my iPhone to remind myself later. Compared with our monohull, it was a completely different sailing experience.
After a boisterous first 24 hours of the passage, the sea state settled down as predicted. On our final day during lunch, we had such calm seas that a full table of various dishes could be served out on the back salon area. I noted that the decorative items, bowls of shells, glass figurines, and other special mementoes remained firmly planted on their shelves to enjoy during the whole passage. There were few marine life sightings, except for a small whale that emerged on the starboard side and crossed our bow during my watch. Three Chinese longline fishing boats showed up on radar at night. There was no other boat traffic, nor radio chatter. On the morning of Day 4, as predicted, it was "land-ho!"
Tanna Island has a large and protected
anchorage called Port Resolution, named after Captain Cook's Resolution which also landed there in the 1700s. There were no visible developments ashore, just several silent fishermen in outriggers drifting around us as we anchored amid two or three other cruising boats. By that night, we had made friends with the other boats, and had gone ashore to try to meet the local man, Stanley, who was the chief, at Port Resolution harbor. Our goal was to secure a ride to the base of the active volcano, Mount Yasur.
The volcano adventure started late the next afternoon. We joined three other boats and met ashore to scramble into two 4WD trucks to set out through the jungle road toward the volcano. The hour trip was an adventure itself as we went
SHINDIG SHINDIG 'Shindig' in Bora Bora. The boat is currently in Savusavu, Fiji. Rob and Nancy have been cruising for 20 years, the last 10 of which have been on 'Shindig'.slowly past local villages, through lush foliage and up sometimes paved, other times, river bed-like rocky passageways, to the volcano center. There was a quick liability form to sign, and then on to the base.
The volcano is monitored daily by an agency that gives it a Level 1-4 rating based on conditions. As we were at Level 2, we would be allowed to access several different lookout points.
We had read very little on the volcano in advance, other than hearing it had been active for at least the past 800 years. Access to the top was via a zigzag path resembling the starkness of a lunar landscape. At the top, there was an occasional, thin wooden railing with a downward slope right into the open dropoff
into the volcano. As the sun went down, the night skies filled with not just a glow of the volcano, but active explosions and embers being blown up from the center. It was an eerie setting, and along with some families with young kids, we stayed clear of those groups who wanted to get really close. I was one of the more cautious admirers, fearing that if I got too close to the edge, a vertigo type of sensation might overcome me!
The guides were locals who had been told that the tour ended at 6 p.m. So at 6, they turned around in the dark and went down the hill. We lost track of time as some of us stumbled behind them on the unlit paths, thankful we had brought our own torches (flashlights). The sounds of the volcano convulsing behind us
continued. Others remained on the ridge long afterward, and we were the last two trucks to leave the area. The trip back to our anchorage seemed faster, as we all reveled in the experience. Along the unlit road, several locals were walking home, and we stopped to pick up and drop off others, who joined most of the guys in the back of our open-bed truck. Once we were safely back in our sailboats, we were still in wonder of what we had just experienced.
We had heard through Stanley that a local village was having a celebration that we were welcome to observe. There was no set starting time, but 10 a.m. was suggested as a time to come ashore. The gathering was to honor a young man's rite of passage to manhood. He had spent three weeks in the jungle with his grandfather, and had been circumcised during that time. By the time we walked through the village roads, festively painted and clothed children were wandering by. We were overwhelmed by a visual feast of bright colors on clothing, faces, and mats. When we reached the clearing, there were at least five dozen villagers milling around, calmly and quietly, as women unearthed cooked roots and chicken from a central fire. As we showed interest in their food, we were touched when the women offered me one of the first servings wrapped in a piece of banana leaf. I graciously declined, and used the universal thank you prayer with my hands and a big smile. What a kind offer, as there clearly was not enough food for all who were there.
We saw the man of honor surrounded by his family, with a colorful unicornlike tassel protruding from his forehead. Everywhere we looked, the explosion of colors was intoxicating! No words were exchanged, as most of the villagers were speaking in a local language. Later, we learned there are at least five major languages and perhaps as many as two dozen dialects. Some of the village families may choose whether their children attend an English or French school on the islands. As my French is passable, it was enough to communicate with a few kids on the beach the next day. As we walked back through some of the village pathways, peeking at the very simple metal or grass huts, we knew this was one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
On to Port Vila, the biggest town and capital of Vanuatu. We sailed overnight 120 miles to arrive on the island of Efate into Port Village. It was a bustling little town, with a surprising mix of locals and a few Australian tourists walking among the shoreside streets to
shop and eat. The fresh produce at their local open-air market was filled with beautiful vegetables, and the cabbages, green onions and root vegetables were super-sized compared with Fiji's. The Vanuatu kava production is robust, and there were many kava markets — and bars to enjoy this prized local drink. Too bad I couldn't buy much as we were off to our next adventure in our resort hotel.
The Havannah Hotel was our destination for my birthday. The air-conditioned hotel van picked us up at our designated meeting spot, gave us our chilled, lemongrass-scented, rolled hand towels and water, and whisked us away to the northeast side of the island. The hotel was a beautiful, quiet resort, adults only, with a dozen villa rooms on the shore of a very large, protected bay. We eyed all the unused resort toys, and in a few hours, were out on the bay on their 14-ft Hobie Cat. Over the next three days, we tried to enjoy all the hotel amenities, water toys, tennis courts, beach cruisers, and some fun off-premises tours. The highlight of the stay was the restaurant and bar. All our meals were included, and each menu offered three to four courses for both lunch and dinner. We felt compelled to remain active in order to balance out these gastronomical offerings! My birthday dinner was served under a palapa on the dock, lit by LED tea lights. The servers ended our meal with an unexpected birthday song and dance, and a giant cake for more than two, which we thoroughly enjoyed.
After three nights, we flew back via Air Vanuata to the now familiar airport in Nadi, Fiji. Our taxi-driver friend, Sunil, was waiting for us as we landed. It was a perfectly unplanned visit to Vanuatu, and an adventure birthday trip I will always remember!
— Nancy 7/7/23Thursday's Child — Outbound 46
Ray and Debbie Torok
Faster and Cushier
San Francisco
Greetings from Mo'orea!
Our adventure started back in 2018 with the Baja Ha-Ha, with our son and daughter as crew on our previous boat, a 39-year-old Catalina 38. Had a great time, but when we got back to San Francisco, Debbie announced that if we were to do another Ha-Ha, it would be on a larger boat with some serious amenity upgrades. Four years later, after meeting Debbie's demands with an Outbound 46, we did the 2022 Ha-Ha with Dana, our
now 31-year-old daughter. It was faster and cushier, and again big fun.
In fact, this trial run was so successful that we decided cruising was to be our lifestyle. We took the boat from Cabo to La Cruz de Huana-
caxtle in Banderas Bay, parked her there, flew back to San Francisco, rented our house out, and applied for long-stay visas for French Polynesia. Debbie retired and we flew back to La Cruz to set sail.
Once back in Mexico, we completed final preparations, waited for our crew (Dana and longtime friend Maria) to arrive, and then waited for a good weather window to head for the Marquesas. We checked out of Nueva Vallarta on April 3, along with a buddy-boat — Scott and Joanne on Fundango. Our first stop was Clarion Island, about 550 miles out,
where we delivered fuel to Travis on Niniwahuni, the Westsail 43 that had been dismasted several days earlier (shoutout to Mike and DeeDee of the Pacific Voyager group in La Cruz for coordinating support for Travis). Then off to Hiva Oa, reaching, running and motoring, with a stop at the equator to honor Neptune. We always remained within VHF range of Fundango, checking in a couple of times a day for discussions on weather updates, equipment issues, course changes and so on.
During the trip down, we stayed pretty busy with watches, sail changes and such. But on arrival in Hiva Oa after a 22day passage, it all became more real — or maybe surreal. Who would have thought a year ago we would be living on a boat in the middle of the South Pacific?
The Marquesas look just like the pictures you've seen of mountains rising out of the sea, only bigger and more scenic in person. We checked into French Polynesia at Hiva Oa, and went on to several
anchorages throughout the Marquesas. In June we reached the Tuamotus, which were totally different — lagoons surrounded by coral reefs that offer protection from the waves, and passes/entrances that need to be taken seriously.
We're now in Tahiti, debating options for the upcoming cyclone season. Do we go back to the Marquesas or on to New Zealand to take care of some boat upgrades? Hmmmm.
Overall, the experience has been very positive. Buddy-boating with Scott and Joanne has been great: safer passages; learning from their cruising experiences; extra hands and tools for boat projects; game nights in anchorages — you name it. We have also met and socialized with cruisers from all over the world, some starting out, some completing circumnavigations, singlehanders, couples, and couples with young children. It's a great community and we are looking forward to many more years of adventure aboard Thursday's Child.
— Ray 8/4/23Memorable Marquesas
Seacliff, CA
We are a couple of sailors from California who picked up our Leopard 45 catamaran Raven in Florida. We bounced around the Caribbean for a while, but our goal was always to find ourselves in the South Pacific. We learned to sail out in Monterey Bay, where you can look far into the horizon and see nothing but blue sea and dream of sailing to Hawaii, or other islands in the Pacific.
Well, this past May, we pushed off from Panama and found ourselves in the middle of that vast blue ocean for about 27 days. We had a relatively trouble-free passage that allowed some time for reading. What better time to read the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy? And while most of us are familiar with Herman Melville's MobyDick, prior to that he wrote Typee, which I also read along the way. This is a fictional/autobiographical tale of two young men from a whaleboat who jump ship onto the island of Nuku Hiva — which is where we made our landfall. Almost 200 years later, Nuku Hiva still looks a lot like the people and the land Melville wrote of, just much less populated now.
The Marquesas Islands are a lush and
green group of islands filled with history, archaeological sites, palm trees, and rugged terrain along the coasts. It's not overrun with large hotels and tourists. There were a few sailors here and there, but by August, many had already arrived and left, lured by the more famous areas of the Society Islands and the Tuamotos.
For us, it has been such a treat to slow down and have more time to enjoy the many bays in the Marquesas with their turquoise waters and friendly people. The waters are full of fish, small reef sharks, turtles and rays. Once a couple of dolphins joined us in Daniels Bay. A lot of these small bays have "restaurants," which are really more like someone cooking
you a great meal out of their home, while you have your toes in the sand and a cold beer in your hand, and are able to enjoy a delicious meal. Most of these meals include freshly cooked breadfruit (which, as you'll recall, was the mission of the Bounty before the mutiny).
With friends, we've taken several hikes to local farms where the farmers pick you papaya, pamplemousse, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant and bananas while you stand there. The islands also seem to be the land of limes and mangoes aplenty.
We enjoyed a sail over to the small island of Ua Pou, where we experienced the perfect waterfall in paradise straight out of a tourism magazine. We were the only ones there. Afterward, we walked up to the "chocolate man," a farmer who grows cacao on his property and makes chocolate bars out of his outdoor kitchen. One week
we took a ferry over to the island of Ua Huka and stayed a few days on an island with more wild horses than people.
When one envisions a quiet island in paradise, I think we are all dreaming of the Marquesas — we just might not have realized it.
— Eileen 8/3/23Cruise Notes
ated Yacht Transport maneuvered a 60ft racing sailboat, in disrepair and with no mast, into our backyard. They lowered it onto a clean, blue tarp, and drove off, leaving us with the boat project of our lifetimes." So writes Janneke Petersen of Duracell, the Rodger Martin-designed Open 60 that she and boatbuilder husband Matt Steverson have been transforming into a cruising boat in their backyard on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
The boat was built in the 1980s by legendary solo racer Mike Plant, and raced in the first Globe Challenge in 1989. (It later sailed crewed races out of Washington as Northwest Spirit.) "How Duracell went from a moment of fame in the '80s
to our backyard in 2021 is a long story," says Janneke. "Suffice it to say that I've never seen my husband, Matt, so full of energy as he was on that day (well, I like
to think our wedding day), and two years later, he still starts out his workdays on the boat with a bounce in his step and a twinkle in his eye."
When they started, the boat had a long way to go to get back to the ocean: A mid-ocean collision in the early '90s
left it with no mast and a damaged bow, and it was filled with outdated equipment. After emptying out the boat and removing all old equipment and hardware, the first major project was building a large, airy pilothouse. That was followed by a stern extension, turning the severely sloped transom into a sugar scoop-style open transom with a swim step, and in the process extending the cockpit aft. Last winter, Matt started building the interior. "We now have a stateroom, a head, and a workbench in the forward part of the boat," says Janneke. "We also found a reasonably priced used mast through a social media contact."
The boat still has a long way to go. (The goal is to splash on Matt's 40th birthday. He's 38½ now.) But much has been accomplished — with the help of many and the encouragement of a social media audience who cheer them on. (www.theduracellproject.com)
ren Hodsdon of the Seattle-based Camper Nicholson 35 Griffin started their trip with a big right turn up and around Canada's Vancouver island back in July 2022, and just celebrated one year of cruising together in Bora Bora. They crossed the Pacific from Cabo in late March this year, arriving 20 days later in Hiva Oa. Their crossing caught the attention of other Puddle Jumpers when the PPJ Iridium tracker page reported Griffin was running at 15 knots — "causing confusion and questions of hydrofoil viability on a 37-year-old boat," says Lauren. Brian claimed Lauren was likely on watch — "She's the surfer."
"In reality, the tracker likely caught a surf down a big wave, but we did average 7 knots!" says Lauren.
"It's been a year of sailing together and we're still the new kids around the anchorage. We're learning a lot about the cruising lifestyle. We often remind ourselves that cruising isn't a vacation; it's an adventure with highs and lows, lots of hard work, and unexpected turns. Today, we find ourselves in American Samoa after having always planned on visiting Tonga. Our windlass broke back in the Marquesas, leading to three months of hauling up the anchor by hand. We learned that American Samoa was the best place to receive our replacement, and so a new island was added to the float plan. Not everything is in your control on your adventure, but oftentimes there's something else you were meant to discover. Maybe that something is reconnecting with friends on a boat you haven't seen since Mexico, or maybe it's the fisherman you meet on the dock who offers you aluminum and a grinder for a new windlass backing plate and shares stories
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of the racing canoes he built in the '90s. There's so much to discover, so much beauty to explore in the Pacific, that no matter how your plans change, you're bound to find something exciting, something that always makes you ask, 'I wonder what's next …'"
Brian and Lauren plan to sail to Australia in October to store Griffin for the hurricane season. Their plan is to spend time exploring New Zealand and Australia by land for a few months, but are open to where life leads them during the next sailing season. You can follow their adventure on Instagram @Sailing_to_sunshine
Beach-based Brewer 44 Sea Bella made it to Tahiti to enjoy Heiva Festival, fine French wines, "and the huge variety of specialty cheeses," notes Kathy. "We reflect back to our first landfall in the friendly and lush tropical mountains of Marquesas. Mangoes and delicious pamplemousse were abundant there. But we were simply awestruck with the Tuamotu Archipelago! Sea Bella sailed us to five stunning motus — each with unique, friendly locals, crystal-clear water and
easily navigable inner lagoons. By the way, we could not have done half of this without obtaining long-stay visas. We are lucky to stay an entire year in this vast island country, the size of Europe.
"Our favorite spot so far is Fakarava. Daily diving or snorkeling with hundreds of gray sharks in the famous South Pass was a life-defining event for us. Glad we planned to anchor there for mid-June to mid-July, as that's when 18,000 marbled grouper spawn. A spectacular sight. As a sidebar, we love the serenity, beauty, peace, windsports, sunsets and solitude of this spot."
The Erwins are aiming for three more months in the Tuamotus. This October, they'll be looking at weather windows to travel back to Nuku Hiva. "New tattoos and the cyclone season await us!" says Kathy. (sv-sea-bella.com)
thought was the most "significant" cruise in modern history. The usual suspects came to mind — the Hiscocks, Roths, Pardeys and others. In the big picture, who knows? Take your pick. But on a personal level, it was a no-brainer: Kon-Tiki was a balsa-wood raft built and sailed by Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and a five-man crew. They departed Callao, Peru, on April 28, 1947, and landed 101 days and 4,300 miles later (on August 7) on Raroia Atoll in the Tuamotus.
The crossing showed that South American people could have reached Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. But the science paled in comparison to the furor that resulted. Heyerdahl became world famous almost overnight, and his 1948 book became a bestseller (the first printing sold out in two weeks) that was eventually translated into 65 languages. Kon-Tiki was the first book we devoured as kids. It got us hooked on reading, and gave us the dream of also sailing over far horizons someday. You can't get more significant than that.
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Honda 8hp electric start, trailer double-axle, furling jib, Owner’s manual. Mast spar pole, Bimini top, SaniPottie, ice chest, tables, cushions interior+exterior. (Bow window crack). Clean! PICTURES available on request. $5,100. South Lake Tahoe, CA pete20077@msn.com (530) 318-3939 pete20077@msn.com
Ian Proctor designed this wooden cruising dinghy class (1957). This boat built in England, obtained and restored in California (1988) by experienced wooden boat builder/ owner. Structurally sound w/Proctor aluminum mast, boom and pole. Fully rigged w/main, jib and spinnaker, “Elvstrom” bailers, oars, anchor and rode, dock lines, and jute fenders. Sears steel trailer (licensed) included. This registered centerboard sailboat for lake, bay and coastal use has been family used and stored under cover. $5,000 OBO. Orangevale, CA graniteoak@yahoo.com (916) 420-2461
Daysailer. Perfect sailboat for the strong winds in San Francisco Bay. Very solid fiberglass hull with full keel, three-foot draft. 1200 lbs of lead in the keel. Boat will not flip under strong winds. Can tack upwind in 40 knots. Jiffy reefing in main and reef in jib. Newer main, working jib, genoa, Tri-Radial spinnaker (full gear).
Newer (15 hrs) Tohatsu 6 hp Sailmaster, extra long shaft, will not lift out of water during heavy seas. Large seven-ft cockpit made with solid mahogany and teak sole. Rigged for singlehanded sailing. Very comfortable daysailer. Very well maintained, beautiful boat. Berthed in South Beach Harbor. Free sailing lessons for beginners. $3,500 OBO. San Francisco larrrywarshaw@gmail.com (415) 7154666
Complete rebuild with new sails and new engine. New paint — British racing green. New bottom paint and boot stripe. Varnished spars, varnished rub rail. Access hatch in bow for replacing foam. New teak oarlock beds. New oarlocks. New oars. New stainless steel mainsheet horse. New engine mount with stainless steel bolts and eyes. New 4-stroke/4hp Yamaha longshaft with 1 hr on engine. Storage boat cover. Tent. New keel rub rail for beaching. Existing sails in usable shape. Brand-new roller furling jib, main, and mizzen. Galvanized trailer, lights. $10,000. Portland, OR davidbolton11@yahoo.com (530) 414-1485
Bay/
inland daysailer with four bunks. Standard mast with fixed wing keel, 2-ft 8-in draft. Includes newer Nissan 4-stroke, 5hp long-shaft outboard, and Trail-Rite trailer plus spare. Includes main, genoa and jibs. About 3500 lbs incl trailer. Boomkicker, swim ladder, porta-head. and several upgrades. Visit Catalina Yachts for main specs. All registrations up to date. $9,500. Sonora, CA camcom2012-capri22@yahoo.com www.tinyurl.com/35frc98a
Solid boat. Clean interior, excellent cushions, woodwork. Two-burner stove converted to propane canister; sink, icebox, four-person dinette. Two-person V-berth, two quarter berths. Enclosed head with sink. Paddles, extra lines. VHF, depth gauge, compass. Universal 5411 diesel, runs great. New running rigging. Standing rigging upgraded 10 years ago. Santa Cruz Sails 120% genoa; roller furling, battened main, spinnaker. Recent bottom paint, new zinc, cutlass bearing. Sublet Santa Cruz slip for 1–2 months. $9,000. Santa Cruz Harbor dan.degrassi@baymoon.com
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owners. Nice condition/freshwater Tahoe. Stored indoors 8 mths/year. Trailer. Westerbeke inboard motor 303 hrs. Wing keel. Standard equipment/features plus: 135% furling genoa, multicolor poleless cruising spinnaker, white vinyl cockpit cushions. $27,000 OBO. North Lake Tahoe lpsevison@sbcglobal.net (530) 386-0562
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comfortable and well-built pocket cruiser. With a 9-ft 10-in beam, it has the feel and function of a larger boat. Sails include a well maintained main with lazy jacks and a Sunbrella cover. Three furling genoas (110, 135 and 150) with Harken roller furling, and an asymmetrical spinnaker. Winches are self-tailing Lewmar. Auxiliary power is a Universal M2-12 (11hp) inboard diesel. Instruments include wind, depth, and compass. Also equipped with marineband VHF radio, Raymarine Autohelm and Perko dual-battery and control panel system. Includes a dodger. Visit website for more details. $11,000. South Lake Tahoe randalltahoe@gmail.com (916) 718-6829 https://capri26.weebly.com/
‘Ditch Witch’ is for sale! Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20. She’s a solid boat, great for cruising around the Bay, up the Delta, you name it. Sails include 2 jibs and a cruising main. Inboard motor, original YSM8. Low hrs — starts on the first go. In the last 2 years, we’ve done the following: painted the bottom at Berkeley Marine Center; replaced belts, fuel filter, hoses, and motor mounts; replaced lifelines; new 2-blade propeller, hatch boards, aft portlights, tiller cover and winch covers, and new running rigging. $22,000. Berkeley Marina kimbo.flicka@gmail.com (510) 394-2552 www.photos.app.goo.gl/Ek4fR9Ui9ePBcj558
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Beautiful. A blast to sail and easy to care for. For more details or photos, please call. $42,500. Sausalito, CA (415) 322-8764
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ceptional condition: Quantum sails, QT 10.0 electric motor, 48V Lifeline AGM battery bank, new topsides, new bottom paint, Raymarine autopilot, depth, and knotmeters, VHF radio, roller furler. Mast and rigging upgrade 2008. $12,000. Berkeley Marina callen5052427@gmail.com (650) 2224570
100% refitted, rerigged in 2021, new sails in 2023. Self-steering. New winches, new 9.9 Mercury outboard with fuel tanks, remote engine controls. New electronics, full navigational system. new anchor windlass. Boat ready for coastal cruising. $8,400. Loch Lomond Harbor, San Rafael dpeck@peckstanton.com (415) 720-9594
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Hull #102, Santa Cruz-built. I’ve been sailing the boat on Lake Tahoe for the last two years. 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, brandnew Kevlar 155%. Can deliver to the S.F. Bay Area. $14,000. Lake Tahoe ralphkirberg@gmail.com (415) 971-3527
Original owner. Lapworth-designed fin keel with encapsulated ballast. In 2008, bottom peeled, dried out, and replaced with 2001E Epoxy. Hull, mast, boom and aircraft alloy spreaders Epoxy painted. New oversize rigging in 2009. Freshwater flushed, well maintained original Atomic Four with valve job in 1987 runs great. (about 650 hours total). Newer main, and bay blaster jib and three other older sails. Clean inside and out, spacious cabin, standard galley, two VHF radios, one with GPS. Working depth sounder and knot meter. Marine head and holding tank. Stowed below 10 Zodiac inflatable with blowfirm floor (pumps and hoses included) Will be happy to send interior photos and answer all questions if interested. $11,500 OBO. Loch Lomond Marina, San Rafael 2webspin@comcast.net (415) 453-2700
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
Extreme ultralight displ boat. The finished displ 3500lbs making the D/L 58. Constructed exclusively with high-end carbon fiber and epoxy 90% complete mast, boom, bowsprit, Volvo Penta saildrive and much more included. $35,000. Seattle, WA santacruzjack@yahoo.com (510) 8278918
Lovingly maintained classic 28.5-ft Pearson Triton, fiberglass racer/cruiser sailboat designed by Swedish naval architect Carl Alberg. Perfect for the San Francisco Bay, ready for the ocean. Mainsail with reef option, standard+genoa jib, spinnaker rigging. Teak handrails, companionway, interior trim. Inboard Beta Marine diesel engine, automatic bilge pump. Comfortably sleeps four. Flipper water pump, sink, ice locker, storage and hanging locker. Recently replaced: rigging, windows, lifelines, etc. Bottom repainted 2022. Boat in excellent condition and ready to sail! $12,500 OBO. San Francisco Marina dr.janicecheng@gmail.com (650) 868-1888
Built by Edey & Duff boatyard in Massachusetts. Fiberglass hull, Full ballasted keel. Five kW regenerative electric propulsion. Roller jib, self-tending staysail. Comfortable weekend cabin including V-berth, seating, wood stove and pump sink. Vessel is in excellent working and esthetic condition. Stone Horse is safe and simplistic by nature. The electric conversion has greatly improved the experience onboard. $30,000. Alameda RykerUvila@yahoo.com (360) 626-3668
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 non-functioning. 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. $10,000 OBO. Sausalito, CA jfa@skyseastone.com (970) 261-1611
For immediate sale. She has a Universal 25 engine, new batteries, bunks for six, fairly new head, winter canvas cover for the entire topside, recently re-done brightwork, all sails in good condition, CNG for stove and BBQ, and all documentation since she was new. She can be all yours for this low price. $25,000. San Rafael 2jim.curtis@gmail.com (415) 559-3212 https://tinyurl.com/2mw74vkm
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. $19,000. Folsom Lake ms6peters@yahoo.com (916) 597-0951
Wonderful boat in search of younger owner. Blue with original sails and no racing electronics. Maintenance at KKMI. $60,000. Point Richmond ptuxen8@gmail.com (209) 403-8861
Probably needs a bottom paint job. New Mercury 6hp motor 2/21. Serviced 2/23. Has old main and jib. Added a furling rig 2022, a new 151% genoa in 2022. Bought a new mainsail early 2023. Bought all new salon and berth cushions, and cockpit cushions 2022. Replaced rudder bearing 2021. Had deck painted by Berkeley Marine 2021. Two new Lewmar 16 jib winches 2022. Rigging in good shape. $13,000. Richmond Yacht Club meatss89@yahoo.com (916) 765-2372
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
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
Well-kept, fresh water only 1985 Ericson 30+. Comes equipped with an M18 Universal marine diesel motor with around 500 miles on it. Easy boat to singlehand with autopilot and everything run to the cockpit. Rigging in great condition, mainsail is a three-year-old North sail, and a decent headsail. The boat has been kept up and maintained every season. Comes with a solar system that charges the two house battery banks: plenty of battery power! A lot of extras on this boat; please contact me for full details. Also, comes with a winter cover and supports for winter storage. $22,000. Homewood, CA trevorlarkins@gmail.com (530) 412-1909
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. $19,950. Redwood City, CA captmaddog@gmail.com (650) 533-7732 https://tinyurl.com/5cwdjfze
1976 30 ft
Santana. MUST SELL-Moving out of area! Scarcely used since purchase 12-2019 when surveyed and appraised for $12,500. Fresh water until Fall of 2022, now at Marina Village in Alameda. Consider any offer over $7000! Great boat with redone electrical & 2000 Yanmar diesel engine plus much more! fjmiii@sbcglobal.net; 925-260-6429
$10,500 OBO. Marina Village, Alameda f.j.marshall@sbcglobal.net (925) 2606429
Etchells USA #1091 ‘Dinner Roll’. excellent condition, Speed shopped hull, spare spinnaker pole, tiller and rudder. Factory recessed traveler, spinnaker and deck hardware. Four Brolga turmbuckles, bungee tensioned running rigging, Proctor mast, Burtek single-axle trailer 2 sail boxes, new bearings, tires and spare. Three mains, five jibs, 10 spinnakers. Many more extras. Call Bill. $7,500. Stockton, CA wccanepa@comcast.net (209) 570-0501 http://wccanepa@comcast.net
Beautiful double-ender, new sails, Volvo Penta MD11 in great condition. Sails like a dream. $36,000. Tiburon sailingfearless@gmail.com
Hand-laid fiberglass hull, engine well with Yamaha 9.9 outboard, new main and sail cover, all lines led aft including anchor. Electric water and bilge pumps, autopilot, fishfinder, radio. $6,500. Alameda mitchk830@gmail.com (510) 506-6324
‘Hot Betty’, Bay Area beauty. Hot race sails, practice sails, original gel bottom. Clean inside and out. Trailer with electric brakes, new tires. Excellent race history, 3 Nationals, 3 trophies! Six-time Vallejo 1st, etc. $16,000. Pt. Richmond bluecanyondave@gmail.com
‘En-
core’ 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
Ron Holland-designed fractional-rigged racer/ cruiser. Quantum main and furling jib, spinnaker, Barient winches, Universal 21hp diesel, electric head, CNG stove/ range, water heater, 18-year owner, well maintained and ready to go. Contact for photos. $22,000. Brickyard Cove Marina djfarnstrom@gmail.com (925) 354-3017
‘Kon Tiki’ is a fantastic coastal cruiser, Bay, and lake 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, ready to go. Asking price does not include the trailer. Trailer is available if interested. Yanmar diesel, roller furling, new bottom Jan 23, turnkey boat, not a project. Text first. Cheers, David $9,500. Vallejo, CA dbookpg@gmail.com (831) 402-4695
Well maintained, sturdy cruiser that races well to its PHRF rating. Perfect for the upcoming sailing season. Very easy to singlehand: all lines led to the cockpit, genoa on a roller furler, and lazy jacks for the main. Repowered in 2005 with sail, winch, and vang upgrades in 2015. Bottom job completed Sept ’22 with new dripless shaft seal and 2 new batteries. Ready to sail! Text for more info. $13,000 OBO. South Beach Marina, San Francisco ericeli57@gmail.com (813) 451-9058
‘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
Stout boat of legendary strength and seaworthiness. Highly soughtafter for bluewater sailing. She is in excellent condition, spartan appointments and in original condition with no modifications. $47,000. Alameda sailingfearless@gmail.com
Spacious, well built, Barient winches, four sails, roller furling, perfect for liveaboard, Bay, coastal, or bluewater sailing. All new ignition, water, fuel and carb overhauled. Call Ed. $6,450. Alameda capt.edpayne@att.net (510) 521-2000
Consistently sailed and maintained by current owner for 16 years. New bottom paint, seacocks, and packing gland June 2023. Professionally maintained W30 diesel. Looks much newer than her age. Dinghy and outboard included. $29,500 OBO. Alameda, CA shofmeyer@gmail.com https://tinyurl. com/yc69p8dx
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. ed.witts@gmail.com (925) 948-5613 https://tinyurl.com/3wea6a62
Beautiful. Clean, comfortable teak cabin with two private comfortable berths. Recent full engine and transmission service, five new batteries. Sails are in good condition. New aluminum frame and dodger with detachable bimini. Winches serviced and bearings replaced, new propeller, ignition and starter. Full galley, outdoor cushions, new head and holding tank. New exhaust heat riser, fuel pump/ separator, and fuel lines . $34,500. Benicia Marina, CA shanaknott@me.com (916) 316-8920
Racing or cruising, the Beneteau First Class 10 has outstanding performance. Designed by Jean-Marie Finot and Jacques Fauroux. Full complement of recent racing sails and upgraded electronics. A quick, affordable sailboat. $23,500. Redwood City dropbeer14@gmail.com https://tinyurl. com/5ykvscns
Beautiful, strong cruising cutter Herreshoff designed, bowsprit and boomkin, cedar cold-molded hull, full lead keel, spruce spars, sails in great condition (mainsail with 3 reefs; stays’l, jib; 120% Dacron; 120% 1.5 oz. nylon; storm sail; trys’l); Aries wind vane self-steering; 10-ft fiberglass dinghy; sails beautifully; no engine; sail into and out of upwind Berkeley berth or use 16 ft oar; 4 anchors (45# 35# 25# CQR, fisherman); windlass. Sail this beauty around the world. $34,500. Berkeley kennoble40@gmail.com (925) 786-7878
Classic olderstyle sloop with modified scoop stern. Strong Volvo diesel 487 hrs. Harken roller furling. Tiller, older sails. Relocating and priced to sell. $9,750 OBO. Emery Cove Yacht Harbor ngolifeart@gmail.com (747) 286-8311
Center cockpit. Proven ocean cruising. Aft cabin, hard dodger, windshield, strong Perkins diesel. Mast, rigging, canvaswork, thru-hulls updated. Maxwell windlass, autopilot, interior updated, some newer electronics, Harken furler, KiwiGrip coatings, self-tailing winches. Cushions, recent survey, partnership possible. $25,900. Sausalito, CA ecoearthyacht@gmail.com (415) 7136876 http://www//ecoearthyacht
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. Selling due to partner’s health. Open to partnership. $21,000. Berkeley Marina vroom704@gmail.com (510) 708-5581
‘Querida’ is a unique A35. She is an oldschool cruiser with some professional and tasteful improvements. Included are: a custom light dinghy/dodger, New Found Metals opening stainless portlights, Monitor windvane, narrowboat heater, composting head, sitz tub-style shower, stainless bowsprit/anchor roller, propane stovetop, and more. Sails include a full-batten main, 120 genoa, asymmetrical with sock, spinnaker, drifter, storm tri and storm jib. Westerbeke diesel with low hrs and more. REDUCED FROM $33,000! $29,900. L.A. Harbor bvbolton@gmail.com (541) 912-0211
‘Olivia’ has three jibs, two spinnakers, wheel with autopilot, radar, depthsounder, two anchors, and various foul weathe gear. Serious offers will be considered. $14,500. Fortman Marina, Alameda, CA yelrocs@aol.com (951) 795-5699
Classic highperformance racer/cruiser. Yanmar diesel. Extensive working sail and spinnaker inventory. Six Barient winches, dualtrack 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)
Not your average J/100. Highly optimized for both crewed and shorthanded racing, ‘8-Ball’ can win and has won it all. No other boat has two distinct configurations depending on what type of racing you want to do. This boat has all the right stuff: B&G H-5000, all-new North 3DI sails, electric winches, electric hydraulics, and carbon accessories. The mainsheet, jib sheet, and spinnaker sheets are all controlled by electric winching systems. These are all operated by remote controls worn by the helmsman or a second remote worn by a crew member. The Easom Rigging Company has handled all optimizations of this boat. Call to get a full brochure. $220,000. Pt Richmond seasom@sbcglobal.net (415) 686-9330
A Westsail-like boat, 11-ft beam, 5.3-ft draft, 41.3-ft LOA, 20,000+lb dis, Volvo MD3B frozen — needs replacing, sails old, dodger newer, very stout boat, polyester resin/fiberglass hull, wood deck 1.5-in thick. $7,000 OBO ghenry1102@yahoo.com (510) 501-4927
Full-
masted 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
‘Donna
Marie’, designed by William Atkin, built by Don Pitblado, launched in 1969. Only the second owner! Replaced kerosene lights with LEDs and brought much else into the current century. Sails fantastically Martin Adams 206/7131170 $45,000. Vashon Island, WA catgilliam@gmail.com (206) 713-1170 or
Ready to cruise, easy singlehander. Recent survey. Raymarine Pilot, Radar, Plotter, Speed, Depth, Lewmar Windlass, Cruisair air-conditioning, beautiful Pineapple sail, Isotherm Refrigeration. Solar panels. Power sheet and halyard winches. Unique layout includes separate stall shower. $79,950. San Diego mlarchplastics@yahoo.com https:// tinyurl.com/2829b4tc
Big brother of the J/24 and J/30. This fractional-rigged boat sails well under the modern 7/8 rig. Cruise with two or race with five. The small jib and large mainsail are the key. Has 10 bags of sails, Yanmar diesel, new oven, Raymarine instruments, Martec folding prop. Engine mounted over the keel gives brilliant balance. Two boat covers. $30,000. Stockton Sailing Club bonnielopezunr@gmail.com (209) 7729695
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
Beat the heat in this easy sailer, perfect for cruising and overnight excursions on the Bay. Ideal live-aboard situation, in an excellent slip located in Berkeley Marina for multiple highway access. Two roomy cabins (one a queen-size bunk). Two heads. Spacious salon. Plenty of room for a couple or family looking for a new recreational pursuit. Beefy winches. New canvas, so you can enjoy the cockpit. New upholstery in the V-berth and salon. Swim ladder. New electronics board. Engine runs great. Comes with a spare engine (for spare parts). Like all older boats, there is some work to be done. Contact me for more details and to schedule a showing. $14,900 OBO. Berkeley, CA Johnfryer@gmail.com (510) 682-4908
‘DaddyO’ is a fantastic sailboat with an outstanding track record for heavy-wind ocean sailing with your friends, with upgraded version of the interior for comfort with the family while on the Bay or anchoring in Sausalito. We will miss ‘DaddyO’, But our kids are bigger now so we just upgraded to a bigger boat. Vessel has a solid engine and rigging, with lots of upgrades: inverter, autopilot, furler, travelers, jib cars and blocks, 2-reef mainsail, rigid vang, and more. Sails include 110 & 135 jibs, 150 genoa, a tri-radial spinnaker with pole on the deck. BBQ, dinghy and more. More details and pics and videos can be found on website. $29,000 OBO. Emeryville, CA daddyosf81@gmail.com https://tinyurl. com/3sb5zpay
New sails: main w/3 reefs, 130 genoa, asymmetrical w/ sock. Volvo MD11C: rebuilt cylinder heads. Lots of new equipment. Teak deck needs replacement or fiberglass. Quote is available. $29,950. Moss Landing, CA Kainui@copper.net
An elegant racer/cruiser. Builder: Cantiere del Pardo, Crespellano, Italy. Engine: Volvo Penta MD11-D, 750 hrs. Fin keel. Seven sleeping berths in total. Two cabins with doors. Loved and sailed throughout the Bay area for many years. Selling as purchased our next boat, a 46 ocean cruiser. Ready to sail to further waters. $42,000. Richmond Point, Richmond, CA jandr@streamengine.com (707) 206-5609
Well maintained, beautiful vessel is turnkey, ready for a new owner to explore the beauty of SE Alaska. Currently located in Petersburg. The pilothouse motorsailer design is the ideal boat to explore Alaska and the PNW. Length: 39-ft. Draft: 6-ft. Beam: 11-ft. Displacement: 12 tons. Engine make: Ford Lehman SP90 (4 cyl. 90hp, dsl). Fuel capacity: 150 gal. Electronics: Furuno GPS/chartplotter, depthsounder, radar, and AIS (new in 2019). Freshwater capacity: 105 gal. Heads: two. $98,000 OBO. Petersburg, AK SierraSailor18@gmail.com
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lent condition and maintained. Updated, ready to cruise, 450W solar panels, new paint and wax, new electronics, dodger, bimini, life raft, EPIRB, radar, AIS, autopilot, all LED. Engine 550hrs, Remote VHF at helm, fridge/freezer, Maxwell windlass 100 ft chain, 250 ft rope 5/8-in 3-strand. S100 spade anchor — 44lbs, Danforth 16. Lots of light and easy to sail. Walk-through transom. Two cabins with doors, large head w/shower. Cockpit shower. TV. More photos and information. $79,000. San Francisco, CA Fastrackmom@rocketmail.com (510) 8478994 http://tinyurl.com/5bzftcx4
Double-ended cutter. Bob Perry design, one-owner boat, in lovingly maintained condition. Super-capable bluewater world cruiser, ready to sail. Autopilot, radar, Monitor windvane, chartplotter, Ford Lehman 4D-46 diesel engine: 46hp, 962hrs with 100 gal tank. Beautiful teak, solid teak interior, Pullman double berth. Included with diesel heater, SSB/HF/VHF. Full dodger/bimini combo with quality Sunbrella material and cushions. Beautiful interior. $99,000. Richmond Yacht Club glasner1@comcast.net (707) 484-7071
Sailboat with brand-new bottom end job, 55hp Perkins diesel, teak wood deck, four batteries and AC inverter, two jibs, West Marine dinghy and 2hp outboard gasoline engine, new bilge pump, and clean survey as of July 2022. Price dropped Summer 2023. $15,000 OBO. Oyster Point Marina, San Francisco, CA Flynhighaf23@gmail.com (505) 480-4025
One-ton racer
era. Diesel aux and diesel DC generator. Redundant belowdeck autopilots with rate gyro, radar, R/T/AIS, SSB, GPS chart readers. Great sail inventory: spin 3/4 and 1.5 new, jibs #2 and 3 new, 1 and 4 OK, storm jib and trysail like new. Aluminum hull good; ply and glass deck needs help. Four-time Hawaii vet, SSS winner, PHRF rating 108. Contact Carl. $9,000. Richmond, Marina Bay (415) 259-9484
‘Nimbus’ is an excellent racing and cruising family sailboat for San Francisco Bay. Fiberglass hull and deck, varnished mahogany interior with teak and holly sole. Accommodations: Large “V” berth forward with head to port. Hanging lockers to starboard. Main salon: two settee berths, center table stows out of the way. Double quarter berth to port aft of the navigation station. Galley: Stainless steel sink, icebox, stove/oven. Mast and boom aluminum with stainless steel rigging. Manual jib furling system. Mainsail with two reefs. Jib and spinnaker. Engine: Westerbeke 38. Nimbus sits in a 40-ft slip in the West Basin of the San Francisco Marina. Slip rights available, additional cost. $20,000. West Basin, San Francisco Marina daphnej@pacbell.net (415) 385-4157
New boat arrived — priced to sell!!! Built in Santa Cruz, CA, in 1985, ‘Upside’ is a true club racer and cruiser. She was built to handle amazingly well in light-air conditions, which makes her perfect for the San Diego racing scene, a true fuel saver. She can be used for racing with a team of eight or operated singlehanded when utilizing her autopilot and lazy jack system. ‘Upside’ is in great condition, the deck nonskid and superstructure gelcoat just got repainted, the engine and electrical are well cared for, she’s got a 2000W inverter/ charger, and she is even solar-ready, a true turnkey. $49,950. San Diego, CA nadav59@gmail.com (949) 554-9841 https://tinyurl.com/3y246v8z
Strong, comfortable, bluewater cruiser. Spacious interior, solid fiberglass hull. Working Perkins 4-108. Solar arch, davits, StackPack, Hydrovane, autopilot, stainless/fiberglass hard dodger, plus many recent upgrades. Ready to cross oceans. Email for survey. $99,000 OBO. Hanalei Bay, (Kauai), HI alex1springer@gmail.com (310) 989-2490
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. $89,500. Port Hadlock, WA ketchdebonair@gmail.com https://tinyurl. com/2s36wtce
‘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
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
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. *Vessel delivery to Seattle, San Francisco or NZ is an option for the right buyer. $163,000. French Polynesia (Raiatea) sv.athanor@gmail.com https://tinyurl. com/ym5mfsd6
Custom-built racer from Long Beach: Dencho Marine Inc. by Robert Vaughn. Best offer or will trade for classic vehicle. Call or email. $79,000 OBO or Trade. Sausalito, CA libertyshipmarina@comcast.net (415) 613-3665
Lovely ocean-sailing vessel. Needs TLC. Excellent deal as a fixer project. Now in Emeryville, CA. Three cabins, two baths. Complete details and photos on website. All serious offers considered. $49,000 OBO make offer. Emeryville, CA gmeader@gmail.com (415) 987-3948 http://maxfx.biz
Immaculately maintained, upgraded with ALL cruising gear. New (2021): sails, watermaker, solar, batteries, running rigging, dodger/canvas, bottom paint, saildrive, prop, rudder bearing, B&G radar, upholstery, holding tank, head, smart plug, dinghy, outboard, waxed, etc. Turnkey! $239,500. San Diego, CA nashun.rob@gmail.com (706) 414-5195 https://tinyurl.com/zz7bzkaf
Beautiful sailboat for sale that sleeps six. This boat is perfect for a family or group of friends who want to enjoy the open water. It has a spacious interior with plenty of room to relax and sleep. The boat is in excellent condition and has been well maintained. It comes with all the necessary equipment and is ready to sail. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to own a beautiful sailboat that will provide you with years of enjoyment! Mainsail inmast furling. Genoa and jib sails included. Stern gangplank, 53hp Yanmar diesel, two heads, and much more. See URL for additional photos. $135,000 All offers entertained. Marina Bay, Richmond, CA efhale@msn.com (831) 818-0199 https:// photos.app.goo.gl/JUhgy2n8L8wZNHfV8
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DUCED: Center cockpit, ketch, 80hp Ford Lehman diesel 3800hrs. Aft queen w/windows, sails good. Yanmar 90amp genset. Spruce main, aluminum mizzen, lower deck teak removed, bath tub, PEX plumbing, no rot. $73,000. Berkeley tcparfitt@yahoo.com (707) 861-2954
Extensive refit in 2000 — LeFiell mast, standing rigging, Yanmar 50hp, custom hard dodger, new fuel tanks, LP water heater, BBQ, windlass, roller-furling main and jib, MPS, etc. Winner best maintained at SGYC four years. New house and start batteries, dinghy. Carefully maintained. Strong cruising boat and great liveaboard ready to go. Call Ron. $99,000. San Diego ron@griffinformation.com (619) 226-6071
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 http://guapasailboat.com
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
‘Leda’ is L-36 #71, the last and strongest one built. This is a Bill Lapworth-designed classic strip plank wood boat but with modernized sails, running rigging, engine etc. She has won more or less every race on the West Coast and is also a great cruising boat. She has a brand-new tapered aluminum Ballenger spar ready to be stepped. . Sausalito david_james@stanfordalumni.org (415) 272-2704 http://l-36.com
Mahoghany-planked on oak frames. Needs varnish and paint, engine work if you must. Now dry in her Berkeley berth, wants to get wet! I am nearly 80 and she is only 68 and needs a stiff breeze! $999 OBO. Berkeley Marina I Dock Richard@newmed.com (510) 527-3600
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
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. $75,000. Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, CA uncllou@gmail.com (310) 770-1103
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sought-after 55 Light. Ideal for passagemaking and enjoying remote anchorages. Well maintained by the original owner. Never chartered or raced. Four-cabin arrangement. Continuously upgraded and maintained. Contact for details $385,000. Newport Beach, CA midocean.cb@gmail.com
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
‘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
Stunning ‘Snabben’; lovingly restored in 1996 by Michael Johnson. Needs some TLC. Beautifully detailed cabin, full galley, water for cruising, self-bailing cockpit, sleeps three, looking for loving home; must see to believe! Truly priceless! $9,500 OBO. Near Rio Vista, CA snabbenjb@gmail.com (530) 906-2159
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mance cruising catamaran, well sorted and ready to race or cruise. Sleeps 6 comfortably. 2 heads, galley etc. Easily powers at 10 knots economically. Many pictures and a detailed summary of amenities are at the link below, as well as contact information $425,000. San Diego h.33.sdyc@gmail.com https://tinyurl.com/ aawbudju
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
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
A rare opportunity to have a unique waterfront (literally ON the water) building. The structure is built on a 16-ft x 40-ft 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) 6062634 33 FT Luhrs Sport Fisher 1969. Great boat for weekend getaways, living aboard, and boat for cruising the Delta. Survey dated 4/6/23 available! Fiberglass hull. New V-berth foam cushions. New AC service panel and outlets. Twin Perkins turbo diesels. New starter solenoid and fuel pump on the starboard engine. New alternators. New batteries. New battery charger. New bilge pump. New black water macerator. Dove three times in the last six months, replaced all the zincs, and waxed the hull. Must see to appreciate! It’s a remarkably spacious and comfortable boat with a roomy cabin, a large aft deck and a flybridge. $13,000. Emery Cove greg_john_son@yahoo.com (415) 3108610 https://tinyurl.com/r2nbh3bt
Pristine condition brandnew Sun Odyssey available for non-equity partnership, located in highly desirable Sausalito Yacht Harbor. Self-furling headsail and main with autopilot for ease of use. Well-appointed inside and out. This is a plug-and-play opportunity for the non-equity partner with all expenses included in the $500 monthly fee, i.e. fuel, insurance, maintenance etc. The partnership will be open for only two non-equity partners and will offer a flex schedule with both “reserve ahead” options and “on-demand” booking when available. You can call or text me to discuss further. Thank you for your interest! $500. Sausalito ezra@ezraproctor.com (415) 342-5245
Seeking nonequity partner to join our experienced sailing partnership. Experienced and newer sailors welcome. Well maintained Lapworth design, spacious and comfortable interior. $2000/yr. . Sausalito bill.martorano@sbcglobal.net
Dehler’34, 1986, racer-cruiser, tiller, Yanmar. Established non-equity sailing partnership in SF: $300/month includes fuel, insurance, flex schedule with two pre-assigned weekend days, and four weekdays per month. Maintenance fee $1000/year. For details, call/text (650)6705300. $1,000. South Beach Harbor valtaft@gmail.com (650) 670-5300
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
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. $42,000. Emery Cove Marina TeamFCAR@yahoo.com
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) 306-4150 http://www.redwoodcityport. com/marina
Lease rights to G-24, a 50- x 18-ft double-finger slip with incredible unobstructed views of S.F. Bay and Golden Gate Bridge. This is one of the best slips in the marina, midway down G-dock and right behind the breakwater, where it is sheltered from surge (and tourists). Slip includes corner NOMAR bumpers. Map of the marina and slip-owner policies can be found at website. $35,000. Pier 39, Dock G ereuman+pier39@gmail.com https:// tinyurl.com/vn4esudn
I no longer need my 36-ft slip (#B28) at Pier 39. The slip has about 10 years left. Pay XFER fee ($1,200) and it’s yours. No text, just call or email. $1,200. Pier 39 S.F., CA rwnicho@hotmail.com (415) 648-7960
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 https://tinyurl.com/3wdmepyu
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 https://tinyurl.com/43475rkj
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quals: USCG OUPV, ASA Instructor or equivalent of any other sailing instructor accreditation, strong on-the-water skills, and experience or ability to administer sailing education programs. This is a role encompassing both on-the-water instruction and administrative/project management responsibility. The school program responsibility will consist primarily of: 1) Ongoing maintenance of on-the-water and classroom programs.
2) New program development. 3) New instructor onboarding and ongoing instructor team support. This is a full-time salary position with at least 1 working weekend day every week. The job may require presence at both or either Sausalito or Berkeley Modern Sailing locations. PTO and health benefits offered, salary $58.5k-$75.5k. To learn more, visit website. . Sausalito and Berkeley careers@modernsailing.com (415) 3318250 https://tinyurl.com/ywmr35p6
for Sale. It’s been a REALLY great ride. I started Spinnaker 43 years ago but it’s time to retire from the day- to-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 spinnaker.sailing@yahoo.com https:// tinyurl.com/3znw7bh8
Due to a family move out of the area we are reluctantly selling our well-established industrial sewing business. Bullseye Canvas has been operating out of the Santa Cruz harbor since 2006. Our market is mostly in the custom manufacturing of marine covers, dodgers, biminis, enclosures and upholstery. In addition to the marine market, we also manufacture architectural covers and shade structures. 420sq.ft. harborside shop. Loyal customer base. The market demand is high and this business could easily grow by 4X to support that demand. Enjoy growing this thriving business in Santa Cruz while having the flexibility to make your own schedule. Training or apprenticeship available. $75,000. Santa Cruz paul@bullseyecanvas.com (831) 2953330 http://www.bullseyecanvas.com
Unique floating home for sale (www.pspharbor. com; S.F. Bay Area). Built in 1986; new engineered Aquamaison concrete hull added in 2012. Approximately 1,400 sq ft of living space on three levels: 3+ bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 living areas. Wraparound deck and rooftop deck with amazing, 360-degree views. Amenities include: efficient wood burner, spa bath, outdoor firepit, generator (used once), washer/dryer, furnishings, gas hot water and cooking. Two parking spaces. Cash buyer; no subletting. Sale subject to landlord approval. Monthly slip fees are $1,045. (Utilities are extra.). The property is in good condition and is sold AS IS. Full disclosures and marine survey available for serious buyers. Offers over $400,000. $400,000. Point San Pablo Harbor rongenad@aol.com (510) 435-3811
Includes all classes and certifications for sailing and powerboating, plus other benefits. Please see full description at website. $14,000. Sausalito & Alameda Caribou24@me.com (415) 407-5830 https://tinyurl.com/bdzksyc3
Would you like to connect with Bay Area LGBTQ+ and ally boaters? Barbary Coast Boating Club invites you to check out BCBC.net to discover our fun and friendly group of sailors. BCBC is the premier LGBTQ boating club in S.F. Bay and Delta since 1982. We host monthly meetings and social raft-ups/cruise-ins in the S.F. Bay and CA Delta. BCBC is a proud member of PICYA.org, connecting yacht clubs throughout the Pacific Coast of the US. info@bcbc.net
He, extensive Southern California and Mexican racing experience ranging from Cal 20s to Maxis and a few Pacific crossings. She, lives on a boat and has four years of local and coastal sailing. We’re fit, hard-working and have the “game on, let’s be safe but have fun” personalities. Contact Wally by email or phone. . Baja Ha-Ha go2wallyworld@hotmail.com (805) 8968926
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 https://tinyurl.com/y7xb3tww
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
I have some ocean experience, some racing experience and some Spanish. I can help with expenses, sail changes, driving, and cooking. Thanks, Michael. . S.F. Bay michael.s.121@att.net (707) 354-4326
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 http://compass-canvas.com
NANCE We are looking for a motivated individual who can join our team and assist on maintaining our beautiful marina and buildings. Hours are flexible and it can be full- or permanent part-time work. This could be ideal for a retired military person. We prefer that the individual has skills/ experience with construction, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting, mechanical equipment and machinery, welding, diving, etc. These are not requirements, but a willingness to learn and a strong work ethic are essential. We offer training with most of these skills. Liveaboard moorage is available in our marina at a discounted rate. If you have interest please email your résumé. . Sausalito, CA mikerainey331@gmail.com
F. Bay. Are you equally at home managing sailing instructors and organizing and marketing sailing programs as owning a budget? Our Club was “built for fun!” Please help us keep that going. To learn more: https://tinyurl.com/RYCWFD2023 manager@richmondyc.org (510) 2372821 https://www.richmondyc.org/
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 https://tinyurl.com/fpdkrmt
Spinnaker Sailing in Redwood City is looking for someone to assist in the maintenance and repair of our fleet of 30 sailboats. Should be familiar with sailboat rigging, ship’s systems, outboard motors, light electrical, plumbing and diesel engine service. Consider either part time or full time. Pay rate commensurate to experience. Call or email Rich. . Redwood City, CA rich@spinnakersailing.com (650) 3631390 http://Spinnakersailing.com
At the gorgeous Cielo Y Mar condos. Located in Punta Mita, 35 minutes from Puerto Vallarta, available to rent from private owner. On the beach, 10 feet from the water, they offer spectacular views of ocean and mountains, the biggest infinity pool in the area, an endless beach, great surf breaks, great fishing, tremendous views of whales, bird life and the islands. To reserve, call or email Dona de Mallorca. puntamitabeachfrontcondos@gmail.com (415) 269-5165
. Apply today for our 12-month, paid educational career training program in the Marine Service Industry at Spaulding Marine Center. At our Sausalito boatyard, you’ll learn from professional craftsmen how to service and maintain traditional and modern power and sailboats. Paid $20/hr full-time, Monday–Friday. No experience required – just a great attitude! Apply on our website. . Sausalito education@spauldingcenter.org (415) 332-3179 https://tinyurl.com/5n7n85pb
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 http://www.spinnakersailing.com
To operate 28-ft passenger vessel ‘Bay Voyager’ at Pier 39. Four hr minimum. Second language, former USCG, a plus but not required. Paid training. Six pack, 50-/100-ton lic. OK. Full-/parttime available. . Pier 39, San Francisco charles@bayvoyager.com (510) 612-1251 https://bayvoyager.com
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
The Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors strives to make sailing accessible to people with disabilities. BAADS is always on the lookout for donated boats to support its mission. Help an all-volunteer organization while receiving a charitable tax deduction. boatdonations@baads.org (415) 532-9831
Watermaker, 40 gal per day, 12V or manual. Windlass, hand-operated. Lectra/San marine sanitation device. Raytheon radar unit. Brass hanging oil lamps. Survival suit. Storm para anchor. Stand up paddle board. And more. Call for prices, photos. $1. San Rafael, CA robert@houseboatrepair.com (415) 531-5146
Volunteer docents wanted to staff educational science exhibitions. Volunteer or contract graphic designer wanted. Photographers and photography wanted. Ask about other volunteer positions. info@sailingscience.org (510) 390-5727 https://www.sailingscience.org/
Club Nautique is an Alameda Membership Sales Representative. Come 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 http://clubnautique.net
Join the captains at Club Nautique and start teaching US Sailing’s most comprehensive curriculum of sail and power courses, both offshore and inshore, in the nation. We have openings now for USCG-licensed captains who exhibit exceptional communication and boating skills, and the willingness to train and work in a professional environment. All instructors are classified as employees, not independent contractors. $28-$35 depending on experience. schooldirector@clubnautique.net (510) 865-4700 x313 www.clubnautique.net
Rolly Tasker cruising spinnaker for Catalina 36 standard rig. Like new, used only 3 times. Includes running rigging: sheets, Schaefer blocks and ATN snuffer/sleeve. Also ATN Topclimber never used — $340 OBO. $2,950. Santa Cruz pettyd@comcast.net
ISO owner of a Lake Union Dreamboat bought at auction from Oyster Point Marina after she sank. I have fittings that I want to return. . Peninsula Sheilaholmes@mac.com
Yachts is seeking a professional yacht broker/salesperson for its new Alameda, CA office. Yacht sales experience required, must be a self-starter, membership in CYBA is a plus. Contact owner/broker Mark Miner. . Alameda, CA mark@rubiconyachts.com http://rubiconyachts.com
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.com
Mexican stone “casita” & 3 out buildings on close to 4 acres with 300 beachfront in Rincon. New certified survey available, 24/7 Guard. Corporation owned and approved for marine businesses, etc. See video, Fiesta del Mar: https://tinyurl.com/yc7eks5c. $300,000. Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja MX capnernie1@aol.com
Looking for Flying Dutchman, any year. Prefer wood deck but fiberglass hull. Any reconditionable condition. Call or email. $5,000. Sausalito ctboats@gmail.com (916) 715-1234
More than 3,000 boats and 10,000 sailors have done the 750-mile cruisers rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. Here are some of the main reasons. 1) It’s really, really fun. 2) Superb safety record. 3) You get a Ha-Ha backpack filled with swag at the Halloween costume kick-off party. 4) To a great extent there is safety and shared knowledge in numbers. 5) Daily roll call, professional weather forecast, and net.
6) Six social events in which to make lifelong cruising friends. 7) You’ll be featured in the Ha-Ha bio book. 8) Experienced leadership. Collectively, the three event leaders have transited the Baja coast more than 80 times. 9) Ha-Ha discounts can easily exceed the entry fee. 10) It gives you compelling deadline to leave the dock. And Bonus Reason #11, most cited by past participants, all the new cruising friends you’ll make.
Rob: 619-552-6943
Barney: 510-541-1963
Bill: 510-410-5401
Michael: 831-236-5905
David: 781-526-8469
