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Excerpts from the voyage of the Diadreen. The Passport 42 owned

by Norm and Jackie Michaud

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t must be time to invade your physical universe again.

I can tell from the ration of skatak (any Greek can translate) I am receiving from Jackie. We are sitting at the Eastern most point of Diadreen’s odyssey; and tomorrow we shall point her westward for our long return journey.

Everything goes well and the boat performs in a most excellent manner. What I really mean to say is she’s a sculing son-of-a-gun. We | have endured our first f full gale that lasted a long | time (2 days) and sailed from Sicily to Greece without mishap. j We have just returned from three days in Istanbul. It is the most exciting city we have thus far visited. The Turkish people are amazing, polite, trustworthy and hard working. Their culture which has seen conquest by the Hittites, Greeks, Romans, vandals, crusaders and Turk is a polyglot of the good things. Their country is an open air site of antiquities. We have visited Ephesus, Troy, Pergamon, Constantinople and Didya.

Ww; Cities with 3,000 years of history. We have stood and talked from the stage of the theater where St. Paul preached, wondered at the magnificence of the 1400 year old cathedral of St. Sophia, walked through the holy Muslim shrines of the Blue Mosque and the __ - mosque of Suleymaniye the magnificent. But above all I shall remember the temple of Apollo in Didya. It is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and absolutely amazing. It was the place from which the first oracles were issued prior to Delphi in Greece. It is not possible for me to express all that we have seen, but we are dbing two things that will explain some of what we have done and are seeing. We take many pictures and we are also purchasing slides of wherever we go. I promise to show all when we return to S.F. in 1986-87. 1 think of Passage Yachts often in fondness when we are smashing through the seas and are the first in port.

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33 Pearson Vanguard. (8)

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®^lander Mkll Mku means big interior.

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H. Scandinavian quality construction, built for family fun and solid performance in the North Atlantic and the San Francisco Bay. $18,900.

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Morgan 38. Five sails: Hood, North and Sutter, Autopilot, vane, dodger. Equipped to cruise or race, but both is best. $79,000.

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TARTAN 33 . One measure of the respect a boat

A spotless, thoroughbred performance machine. Built for cruise comfort. Equipped to move in the water. Priced to move in the market. $105,000.

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Herreshoff Ketch, 1982.

C-T, 1981.

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Guffstor, 1977.

Perry, 1978.

Col II, 1974.

Kettenburg PCC, 1958.

Dufour, 1981. V y /.

C$r, 1977.

Rhodes M/S, 1961....

Swan, 1979........

Endeavour, 1974.

West sail, 1976. ' *■£.♦ Morgan, 1972.

Bounty, 1957. . . .

Guffstor, 1973.....

Islander Freeport.

(2) Morgan 0/1 Kch, 1981.

Perry, 1983_..

Mariner, 1971-Olson, 1982. '>V* Clark, 1980..

Formosa, 1979.

Cal, 1971. .

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Catalina, 1979.

Downeast 38.

Hans Christian Cutter, 1978.

Pearson, 1984.

Crealock, 1981.

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Tayana Cutter, 1979...... islander.(3) frm Coronodo, 1971 .

Dufour, 1979.

Ericson, 1970....

Pearson, 1981.

Santana, 1981.

Tradewinds, 1985.

Col, 1975.

Aloha, 1985./...,...

Columbia, 1973.

Yamaha, 1978 .

Cal, 1973.

Tartan, 1982.

Ericson, 1973.

Fuji, 1976.

Atkins cutter, 1979.

Columbia, 1979.

Columbia Sabre, 1965. lapworth, 1961.

58,000 67,000 89,000 146,000 120,000 65,000 39,000 80.000 40,000 43,900 79,500 36,000 60,000 59,000 65,000 45,000 84,000 30,000 36,000 42,500 65,000 30,000 58,000 58,000 48,000 10,000 25,000

32' 32' 32’ 32' 30' 30' 30' 30' 30' 30' 30' 30’ 30' 30' 30' 30' 30' 30' 29' 29' 29' 29' 28' 28' 28' 28' 27'

Islander, 1966.

Nantucket, 1971.

Pearson, 1977.

Valiant, 1977.

Bristol, 1974.

Col 2-30, 1970.

Catalina, 1978.

Center Cockpit S-2, 1978 Columbia, 1973.

Dufour, 1969.

Hunter, 1978. lancer, 1980.

Islander B-30, 1979.

Pearson, 1977.

Rowson, 1981.

Tartan.(3) frm US, 1981.

Yankee, 1972 Alden, 1946.

Cal, 1971.

Competition 1000, 1973.,.

Jensen Cal, 1973....

Triton, I960 , Pearson, 1977.

Cal, 1968.

Columbia, 1969..

Aloha, 1985.

33,000 31.500 42,800 58,000 30,000 Offers 29.500 44,750 23,000 3?,000 35,000 26,000 35,000 27,000 24,000 33,000 29.500 30.500 25,000 Offers 27,950 24.500 17.500 26.500 18,000 19.500 28,000

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Bayliner, 1980.

Col, 1976.......

Cqpe Dory, 1980.

Catalina, 1983.(3) frm Cheoy Lee.(3) frm Coronado.. .(2) frm Ericson.(31 frm Mull Custom, 1976.

Nor'Seo, 1978... .

Columbia, 1969..

Ericson, 1969..

Int'l Folkboat.

(3) frm Ranger, 1972. .. .

(2) frm Col, 1969.

Coronodo, 1969* ...

Ericson, 1980.

Kirby, 1979. lancer, 1969. ' • ' > .

Scidelman, 1979.

US Yachts, 1982.

Gladiator, 1968..

Islander, 1964. ...

Pearson lark, 1968.

Mark Moriane, 1978.

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January 6 — “All Whales are not the Same”. Steve Cooper presentation at the Oceanic Society, room 300, Bldg. C, Fort Mason Center, 7 p.m. $2 donation. 441-5970.

January 7 — U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Skills and Seamanship class, every T-Th from 7:30 to 9:30 at Coast Guard (Government) Island. Abigail Wagg 562-4075 or Betty Oakey 523-8090.

January 8 — Same as above but one night a week at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, Oakland. James Lucas 444-1259.

January 10-19 — International Sports and Boat Show at the Cow Palace. This is a big one, so bring your walking shoes. For more information, see Sightings or call 931-2500.

January 15-February 22 — Second Annual exhibition of marine paintings and maritime artifacts dating from the 19th and early 20th century; Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco. Square-riggers to scrimshaw, and more than 60 works of art. Go to it and get some culture, you heathens. Frank Kappler/Liz Lacey 392-3010 or Montgomery Gallery 788-8300.

January 22 — Stockdale Marine’s Coastal Navigation class begins. Gale Stockdale will teach this once a week class at Stockdale Marine, 4011 California Ave., Carmichael. (916) 944-1232.

January 22 — U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Skills and Seamanship class, Hogan High School, Vallejo. One evening a week. (707) 644-9197.

January 24-February 1 — Pacific Marine Exposition, San Mateo County Fairgrounds and Expo Center. Formerly the International Boat Show held at the Moscone Center. Carol Ramey 436-4664.

January 30 — SSS Transpac Seminar No. 3, Oakland YC, Alameda, 7-10 p.m. This one is on safety equipment and personal gear. It may be aimed at singlehanded Transpackers, but there’s something here for everyone.

February 5 — Concentrated class in Celestial Navigation. Offered

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441-5970.

April 27 — Opening Day on the Bay. Lots of parades, special events and general mayhem on the water.

Racing January 1 — Master Mariner’s ’86 Kick-Off fun race and chili feed. A right proper way to bring in the new year. Lance Schoenberger 331-3170.

January 10 — Women’s Racing Association Winter Race Series Awards Dinner, 7 p.m. at the Berkeley YC. Special feature: a representative of the Golden Gate Challenge and a video on the syndicate’s effort. WRA members, guests, even men are invited. Donation $5. RSVP to Sandi Harris at 922-6334. More information, Teri Stradtman, 922-5799 eves.; 433-4310 days.

January 18 — Transpac seminar, 211 Mariner’s Square, 1900 Northlake Way, Seattle, Washington, 6 p.m. The program includes a discussion of preparation and past races by previous Jack and Jill (Port Angeles to Honolulu) participants; a slide show; and sail care seminar. Randy Mueller (206) 784-5437 or 858-3387 (eves.)

January 19 — The second arfnual “Ladies Shoot the Breeze” Yacht Racing Clinic, South Coast Corinthian YC, Santa Monica.

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Big or Small January 29 — Santana One Design Association presents Paul Kamen speaking on “The 1985 Yacht Racing Rules: Seven Areas of Confusion.” There are only seven? 8-9 p.m., Berkeley YC. Everyone welcome. $5 donation. Mark 278-9320 eves., 423-2924 or 422-4962 days.

February 1 — Race Management Seminar, St. Francis YC, begins 9a.m. Part of YRA Certified Race Officer program, but open to all interested parties. Small lunch fee. Reservations required.

YRA, 771-9500.

February 1-28 — SORC series. 2/1-2/2, St. Pete to Boca Raton and back; 2/9, St. Pete to Ft. Lauderdale; 2/20, Lipton Cup, Biscayne Bay; 2/22, Ocean Triangle; 2/25, Miami to Nassau; 2/28, Nassau Cup. February 2-12 — DHL Guam Cocos Cup. God knows why they picked Guam, but $80,000 in prize money will probably be enough to attract 100 boardsailors to this yearly event. For more, contact Guam Cocos Cup, c/o Pan Pacific Sports, Ilikai Hotel, Suite 102, 1777 Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96815.

February 6 ■ — Santana One Design Association presents Kame Richards speaking on “Racing Tactics: Starts and Mark Roundings.”

Tactics? Isn’t staying in front of everybody else all you have to do? All welcome; $5 donation. Mark 278-9320 eves., 423-2924 or 422-4962 days.

February 8, 1986 — Plan ahead for the San Diego to Manzanillo Race. Entry deadline is January 10. For more, call the San Diego YC at (619) 222-1103.

February 7-20 — International 12-Meter World Fleet Racing Championships, Fremantle, Australia. Keeping the course warm for the America’s Cup. February 15 — Start of the third leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race from Auckland, New Zealand.

February 22 — Pacific Cup Seminar, Ballena Bay YC, Alameda, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This first of three seminars will cover provisioning, preparing the boat for offshore racing, safety equipment and advice from those in the know. Marina Eisenzimmer 969-8521 evenings.

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BOAT OF THE YEAR J/40 has been voted 'Yacht Racing & Cruising's overall BOAT OF THE YEAR. This honor was bestowed upon J/40 by a panel of expert designers: Scott Graham {Graham and Schlageter), Dave Pedrick ('Nirvana', 'Defender'), and Bob Perry (Valiant 40, 'Meridian'). Also voting were 'Yacht Racing & Cruising's big boat experts Lee Scowcroft, and John Glynn.

In winning, J/40 compiled the widest margin of victory in any category to take overall honors, beating such new designs as: Beneteau 375, C&C 38, C&C 44, Elite 45, Hunter 45, Jeanneau Sun Legende 41, O'Day 40, Soverel 39RC, Swan 43, and Tartan 40.

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LETTERS

YANMAR ENGI

□ ONE SHOULD COMPLIMENT, NOT JUST COMPLAIN I’m writing to acknowledge the fine welcome and outstanding hospitality afforded by the Berkeley YC and the San Francisco YC in Belvedere.

Perhaps there are many excellent clubs in the Bay Area; these are the only two 1 have had the opportunity to encounter. In each instance I have been impressed both by the friendliness and high-level efficiency of the staff. Such qualities are so welcomed by those of us sailing so far from home.

My gratitude to the people of both fine clubs; recalling these warm encounters will lighten my miles ahead.

Dr. Claude Briot Spaciba At the Berkeley YC □ SAILING WITH KIDS In response to your invitation to share the experience of sailing with children, here goes: My husband was determined to continue sailing on the Bay in our 25-footer after the birth of our son, and indeed, baby had his first initiation to the water when he was seven days old. ,We wedged a cot into the quarter berth, and there he slept for hours at a time, lulled by the motion of the boat. He even slept through the occasional dousing and sheet landing on his head! When baby was awake on board, he was happy in a front pack.

As he became more mobile and less inclined to sleep on board, we visited many marine stores looking for a solution that would enable us all to keep sailing. On a trip back to England when our little sailor was ten months old, we found the answer to our problem in a chandlery there — an extremely well made safety harness designed specifically for children which adjusts as the child grows.

For the past two years, we have been sailing happily as a family. In fact, because our son has been sailing continually with us, he is incredibly good for a ‘terrible two’ and will sit in the cockpit relatively quiet for hours.

We all entered a Sausalito YC Helmswomen’s Race where nursing and diaper changing were duties at the helm.

Our son does have a life jacket and of course the harness and life jacket would be the optimum combination. But junior hates sitting around in his life jacket, so we keep it immediately to hand on deck and feel that as long as we are only sailing in the Bay, it is important to ensure he remains on board.

We now have a another little crew member and are still sailing.

Yes, I am the person you see at the helm with one child on my knee and the other over my shoulder! Unfortunately, the water does not have the same sophorific effect on Number 2, but his safety harness is waiting for him.

Because I was so impressed with the English harnesses, I have become the U.S. distributor for the manufacturer. Unfortunately, I have stopped sales due to the prohibitive cost of product liability insurance. However, anybody who would like more information is welcome to contact me.

I should lastly mention a re-allocation of duties caused by a ‘young’ crew; I am always helmsman and my husband relegated to the ‘apus foredeckus’! So don’t choose between boats and kids, give them both a chance. Safe sailing.

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Incidentally, we hope you and other sailing parents would take a few minutes to call Glenda Carroll at 454-6327. Glenda, a sailor and a mother, is doing research for a ‘sailing with kids’ article for Latitude 38. The more input we get from you sailing parents the more informative the article will be.

G STEVE OF CABO - ONE EXPERIENCE I read with interest Jean M. Kemmerer’s letter about the radio ripoff in Cabo San Lucas by a guy named Steve. If I remember right, he is the same as or is at least associated with another repairman named Esteban.

I took my Zenith radio to Esteban for a blown fuse and to have a simple DC cord made up, all of which could have taken no more than 15 minutes. I was charged $40.00 which seems to me is a pretty good hourly rate in Mexico.

Everyone should be aware of the local gringos that specialize in ripping off unsuspecting newly arrived yachties. There are a lot of honest people, but to make sure, ask for the bill before work is started.

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GMORE ON STEVE OF CABO This letter is in response to the November letter Parts is Parts — Or Are They? regarding ‘Steve of Cabo’.

When we started cruising down the coast of Mexico last winter we decided we wanted further electronic navigation assistance as the Loran C is only accurate to about Turtle Bay. So when we amved in Cabo San Lucas I flew home and bought a Magnavox SatNav and then returned to the boat.

In Cabo we retained the services of ‘Steve of Cabo’. For a prearranged set price he agreed to install, program and test the unit for us. As well, he came back days later to make sure we understood how the unit operated and to see if we needed any further assistance.

We left Cabo delighted and cruised the mainland coast of Mexico for sojne months. Steve saw us when we arrived back in Cabo and came by to say hello and make sure all was still well with the SatNav. We are happy to say that Steve’s work was wonderful, and a year later everything he did for us still works fine. We also appreciated his follow-up on the installation to make sure that we, his customers, were pleased. It’s something so few businesses do these days.

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□ DIFFICULT QUESTIONS FOR OWNERS OF FIBERGLASS BOATS The recent demise of the moratorium on oil drilling along California’s outer continental shelf has placed the northern coast in jeopardy . Exploratory wells will eventually be drilled and then the platforms constructed, each supporting a cluster of rigs. The traffic of oil tankers servicing the platforms and the refineries ashore will increase.

And as certainly as the wind backs to the south on the edge of a gale, there will be a spill somewhere along our coast. It may be the size of the blow-out at Platform A in the Santa Barbara Channel or something even more awesome and incomprehensible, comparable to the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz which dumped 223,000 gallons of oil into the coastal waters of Brittany.

Max Blumer of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute wrote: “Oil pollution is the almost inevitable consequence of the dependence of a rapidly growing population on a largely oil-based technology.” It would be naive to expect a special dispensation for our coast. At some place along our shore the black tide will flood.

Although oil companies have emphasized the safe operation of offshore'drilling rigs, the ocean remains a hostile environment as any sailor with experience has witnessed. Nothing about it remains certain except that things can go to hell in a hurry. Our coast is one which invites shipwreck and where heavy seas frequently generated by storm force winds can place even a sturdy ship in hazard. The vulnerability of a platform precariously balanced upon stilts with a well shaft sunk hundreds of feet into the sea bed increased the danger geometrically.

A significant spill along our coast could do devastating damage.

The coastal zones above the continental shelf are responsible for fifty times the organic production of the open ocean yet comprise only 7.6 percent of the ocean surface. Coastal waters are the nursery of the entire oceanic system and are especially vulnerable to hydrocarbon pollution. After the Santa Barbara disaster Robert Holmes of the University of California reported that “on many rock surfaces the entire plant and animal communites [had] been killed.” What price do we place on the life of a single periwinkle or sea urchin? And how do we value a thousand, or a million?

Following the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz, French biologists calculated that as many as 33 million dead animals of various kinds might have been on an area of sand three miles square. In any spill the population of diving birds (grebes, cormorants, scoters, pelicans and mergansers) will be devastated, especially if the spill should coincide with the annual migrations of many species. Massive pollution from a blown-out well similar to several which have occurred in the Gulf of Mexico could seriously threaten our vital fisheries.

As sailors I think we owe a responsibility to the oceans we sail.

Each of us should become informed of the threat. There are questions which must be answered before we attempt to exploit offshore oil resources. Are we prepared to deal with disaster on the scale of the Amoco Cadiz? Do we have the technology and thq resources? Is there a comprehensive plan? Is it practical in the heavy sea conditions which often prevail along our coast? Are the risks acceptable?

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LETTERS □THOUGHTS ON CRUISING THE PHILIPPINES My husband, David, and I have spent the past two years in Asia on our Westsail 32, Meander, and at least six months of each year in the Philippines. The latter we consider a cruiser’s paradise. Not only is it the only country we have found where we can easily live within our budget, but it has beautiful scenery, good anchorages everywhere and the people are handsome and friendly. I don’t think we would overly worry about going to Davao or Zamboanga except that you fall into a wind hole most of the time and can’t get back. The only place’ we avoid is Manila, which is like a big city anywhere in the world, with only the worst flavor of the Philippines.

You’ll find a large selection of cruisers at Puerto Galera on Mindora Island. You reach it from Manila by ferry from Batangas. It’s a lovely resort with lots of pleasant, inexpensive places to stay. Rai Reva with Peter and Sandy Oehmans will likely be there. On Bohol, Heinz (can’t remember his last name) has a cruising resort on the north side of the island. He came to the Philippines via trimaran, fell in love with Bohoi and Miriam, so he decided to stay. But he still wants cruisers around.

Please find someone with a ham and listen to Rowdy’s net at 000 Zulu on 14320 and you’ll hear where everyone in the Philippines is.

I’m not sure if Rowdy himself is back in the Philippines from Hong Kong, but he is a fascinating character and well worth an out of the way trip to meet him. Most likely he will be someplace on Cebu Island, which is where most of the cruisers congregate.

The first anchorage you’ll find on Cebu is in the city itself, right under the bridge from Mactan (where the airport is) into Cebu. There are several permanent boats there and usually a fair sprinkling of transients. One American couple has had the owners of the area build them a house on the land fill and let them keep their Tayana 37 in the anchorage. I think their names are Don and Beverly. We don’t much like this anchorage as the water is filthy and smelly, and the surroundings ugly. However, it is convenient to markets, night spots, etc., so it’s popular.

There are two other anchorages close to Cebu used in alternate seasons; Lilo-an to the north and Pooc to the south. In December it will most likely be Pooc, which is about our favorite village in the Philippines. You take a jeepney on Colon street in downtown Cebu to Tabunok and at the end of the line, pick up a tricycle to Pooc — total cost should be under 5P. Have the tricycle take you to Tina’s restaurant on the beach, which has wonderful native food so reasonable you can’t believe it. Right behind Tina’s is a guest house where Peter Cree from New Zealand is building a 55-foot schooner.

He is quite a character and can tell you what is going on. Generally, the Pooc YC (anyone who happens to be there is a member) meets on his porch at 5 p.m. for a few San Miguels. Tell him hello for us and that we’ll be there probably sometime in April.

The last popular anchorage on Cebu is Port Carmen about 40 k north. It’s landlocked and a great typhoon shelter. However, 1 wouldn’t advise making the trip unless you get in touch with someone there, as it’s very difficult to raise anyone aboard from shore.

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I read your Dope Boat of the Month article on pages 108 and 109 in the November issue. Whoever gave you the scuttlebutt on the Mir, the boat involved, was either misinformed or a scurv!

Here are some facts: 1. The Mir is a 62-ft Abeking & Rasmussen, Dick Carter design.

2. The Mir was not stolen by anyone. The former owner signed the boat over to the United States Government (i.e. signed power of attorney) on March 21, 1984. This was part of a plea bargain where he also gave up a few of his former crime partners and all of the illgotten assets. The Feds knew that Mir belonged to them when it transited the Panama Canal in April of 1984, yet they did nothing to regain their property or prevent a suspected drug smuggling operation from happening.

3. The skipper of Mir did not know the United States government had taken over ownership of the boat, and was obviously not the person who stole the boat. Hopefully, you’ll change the “brave — or perhaps stupid” to “ignorant of the fact that the crew was given away by a snitch who wished only to save his own scurvy neck!”

1 hope you will uphold your reputation as a fine, truthful boating magazine by printing this letter. All of the above information can be proven under the Freedom of Information Act. Thanks — and keep a weather eye.

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□ SIX COMMENTS This is probably too late for Rick, who wanted budget hotel information in Tahiti, but perhaps it will help others.

Papeete has several budget hotels. One is The Royal Papeete which is next to the power plant and across from the cruise ship quay. There are several more like the Bel Air located about two miles south of the airport. Le Truck runs every few minutes so the distance is not really a problem. The Royal Tahitian sometimes has $40 rooms.

The biggest problem is that December is a bad month to get any hotel room in French Polynesia. The whole month is a school holiday and many out-islanders go to the big city then.

On Moorea there are cottage rentals located directly across the street from the Club Bali Hai. You can walk across the street and enjoy some of the club’s atmosphere, especially their Tahitian feast free of charge. (Food is extra.)

On every island in the Societies there are budget priced hotels, although sometimes they are located fairly far from a town. There are two great ones on the'south end of Huahine, which cost about $75 per day.

In regard to the ‘Rich Man’s Sport’ Sightings in December, I say hooray for the crew of Sealestial, hooray for the author of the article.

And having met captain, crew and slave driver, I speak from first hand experience!

In regard to Da’Kine by Alenui Al, it is a great article, I would only add, use all chain with a nylon line snubber.

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LETTERS I hope Diana Green Jessie’s Changes article was only using the 30th of March and 15th of April” as an example, as once again that’s hurricane season.

I just saw another one, . . it was September when we departed Bora Bora for Hilo”. No wonder U.S. Coast Guard reports about 15 boats a year disappear between 110° and 160° west during the hurricane months of either the North or South Pacific. Don’t people understand that hurricane season is a time not to travel?

Off my soap box — thanks for your excellent publication.

Fred Boehme Honolulu Fred — It’s our understanding that Rival II was put on a lee shore by a strong wind, not a hurricane. Such is the risk you always run when anchoring in front of what might become a lee shore with the onset of a breeze or a change in the wind direction. We’ve anchored for the night in that same spot a couple of times, and not thought it reckless. We do have a powerful electric windlass and a reliable diesel on our boat — which have been very handy in getting ourselves off anchorages that have become lee shores. We don’t know that Rival II was fortunate enought to be so equipped.

With respect to hurricane seasons, what’s wrong with leaving from Mexico so that you’d arrive in French Polynesia between March 30th and April 15th? Yes, it’s technically hurricane season in eastern Polynesia, but the only time they’ve had hurricanes in the last 80 years was the El Nino hurricane season of 1983. In your Cruising Guide to French Polynesia you suggest starting such a typically 30-day crossing in April, May or June. We’ll go with leaving in April or very early May. If you wait any longer than that, your chances of encountering a hurricane are far greater than making a Pacific crossing starting in January or February.

If we’re off the mark here we’d certainly appreciate hearing from those who can provide better information.

□ I DON’T THINK I’M BEING OVERLY CRITICAL, BUT . . .

I attended an unusual function November 9th at the Berkeley YC, the advertised purpose being the awards dinner for the Handicap Divisions Association (HDA) of the Yacht Racing Association (YRA).

All participants in the HDA summer series were invited. First in line for tickets, naturally, were the sailors who had withstood the cold, wet, terrifying and ultimately wonderful experience of racing against the best on the Bay. Afterall, what an opportunity to meet your competitors, to recognize those who beat you by two seconds on a 15 miles course. And to receive some recognition for the hard work and expense of yacht racing.

Sounds like a great awards dinner, doesn’t it? Well it should have been, but that’s not what happened on November 9 in Berkeley. It was a dinner, food was served. And there were awards, but it was here that the story started to get tacky.

The various division winners — there were less than a dozen — were read at a speed which would only have pleased Evelyn Wood.

There was no time for individual recognition at all. Winners were asked to go to the trophy table at the side of the room and pick up their silver. “I’m sorry none of them are marked,” we were told, “just take what is yours.” The awards part of the award’s dinner was over in just a matter of minutes.

What happened? I wondered. Surely that couldn’t be all there was. I had driven from Placerville to see the award’s presentation just as I had driven in the pre-dawn hours throughout the summer to get to Brickyard Cove to put the boat together and go out and race.

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LETTERS predated their zeal and enthusiasm and the times they let us have room at the mark when the overlap was questionable. That doesn’t seem like an unreasonable request from an award’s dinner. I’ve seen it done before, so it’s not an impossible request.

1 think it was shabby treatment and I was very disappointed. 1 don’t think I’m being overly critical when I say, “Come on folks, is this the kind of award’s dinner that hard-working sailors deserve?”

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□ DON’T SNIPE AT THIS DESIGN The article on Jim DeWitt in the November 1985 issue of Latitude 38 was richly deserved. Jimmy is certainly one of the Bay Area’s talents and it was a pleasure to read of his exploits. He is one of the “good guys” and I consider it to be a privilege to call him a friend of mine.

I am sure Jimmy would take issue with one of your statements.

The article states that Jimmy “purchased a Snipe and won the Pacific Coast Championships back when that was significant”. There are an awful lot of Snipe sailors on the Pacific Coast, and in particular, San Francisco Bay, that consider the P.C.C.’s as significant as ever — maybe more so. Forty-five boats participated in this championship this past summer at Huntington Lake. Latitude 38 would be hard pressed to find another class able to put that many boats on the line for an “insignificant” championship.

The San Francisco Bay Snipe Fleet and Richmond YC have recently been named by the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA) as hosts of the 1986 North American Championships. We are also one of two finalists being considered to host the 1988 U.S. National Championships. San Francisco Bay will be considered a hotbed of Snipe sailing over the next few years and it is our hope that Latitude 38 will consider these events as “significant” as those participating in them.

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□THEIR OFFICIALS VERSUS OUR OFFICIALS Now might be a goo/d time to discuss a problem that’s been on my mind for some time. My wife and I cruised Mexico for six months on our sailboat Compromise during the 1982-83 season.

We found that dealing with the officials (Port Captains and Immigrations) for the most part was simple and pleasing. What bothered me were some of the corfiments from other yachties. To generalize the opinions would be to say that many people felt “put out” by the bureaucratic problems of clearing in and out of port.

Also while we were in La Paz some people found it necessary to meddle in the affairs of the Port Captain, with the resulting effect of making it necessary to clear porf if only going out to the local islands.

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LETTERS after our return. As they told me the horror story of sailing in the United States, 1 couldn’t believe it.

So, I accompanied Chris to the Federal Building and was aghast at the manner in which he was treated, and the monetary costs he was subjected to. The official tried to make the point that if Denmark would just join the other countries with reciprocal agreements, it would be easier. Chris tried to explain that you don’t need a cruising agreement to cruise in Denmark, but it fell on more bureaucracy.

It seems to me that it’s time to update our system to at least be as modern as Mexico. And, I would add to those of you cruising in Mexico, before you criticize the Mexican officials, take a good look at ours.

Sure enjoy your mag at home aboard our new boat San Juanita.

Jim and Darda Harrison Long Beach Jim and Darda — The points you make are excellent. By and large Mexican officials are exceedingly easy to get along with. Do what you’re supposed to do, smile, chat a little and you’ll have no problem.

But if you weren’t born in the USA, lord help you if you’re cruising here. Just as you say, it’s difficult and it’s expensive. American yachties got it good.

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LETTERS our projected date to resume our cruising adventures.

Warmest regards from your refrigerator sailors.

Pinky & Percy Gemini Anchorage, Alaska P&P - Thanks for the kind letter. If anybody sails up there with a good photographic background, you might let them know we’d be delighted to get a few rolls of black and white film on the sailors, boats and spots in Alaska. If anyone can provide us with reasonably good stuff, we’ll be delighted to pay them for it.

□WAS IT COINCIDENCE OR WAS IT PLANNED? 1 loved the Cruising Kick-Off Party. Thank you for planning it to coincide with my birthday.

I saw many friends, including some we shared the Turtle Bay tragedy with in June of 1984.

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□ CRUMMY CAPTION On pages 182-3 of the November issue there is a large photo of an oaf apparently mouthing inanities from the cockpit of his boat. All well and good, 1 suppose. However, the caption states: “Bo Hudson and his wife recently sailed south . . .etc.”

Now, not one person in a hundred knows or cares who Bo Hudson is or where he has gone with his boat. But any sailor in Sausalito who doesn’t know Annie Hudson just isn’t trying. She has been one of the pillars of West Marine for the past five years and has helped hundreds of cruising sailors do the right thing by themselves and their boats. To refer to this intelligent, friendly, knowledgeable, patient, beautiful person as “and wife” is surely an unjustifiable editorial lapse.

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I enjoyed the December issue’s article on Boardsailers, Burch Thomsen and the SFBA because I was the guy in the sailboat who “with great difficulty” recovered him and his sailboard. As a result of this experience there are a few things 1 would like to pass on to others.

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To those who don’t like these ideas, think about how long you can tread water while waving both arms in a distress signal. Sailboarders might also give some thought to just how difficult it is to disassemble a board sail when you can’t lay it out on some beach. We found it so difficult that I was tempted to tie it to the aft stay and convert my sloop into a yawl for the trip back in to the Bay. It makes us all think about safety and how hard it is to get someone out of the water. I bet Burch, as athletic as he is, appreciated the low freeboard on my 46-year-old sloop. He shot out of the water and on board all on his own and looked damn happy about it too.

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□WORTHY OF SUPPORT We were delighted to see the article on Junior Sailing in the November issue. This is a growing activity in the Bay Area and one which the adult yachting community should heartily support.

We thank you for the brief mention of our program in the beginning of the article and are sorry that you were unable to report further on it. Sail Camp is a joint venture of the Oceanic Society and the Sausalito Cruising Club, and has just finished its third and most successful year. We feel that is an extremely well-rounded program stressing not only sailing and seamanship, but also marlinspike seamanship, history of sail, and boating safety. Our kids sail not only in FJ’s and Lasers, but also on larger boats for day sails and an overnight to Angel Island.

Sail Camp is open to all children, no yacht club membership is required. Indeed, the children automatically become members of SCC by way of their participation in Sail Camp. Sausalito Cruising Club has responded to the swelling in their Junior membership ranks by initiating Junior Sail Days held throughout the year, sponsoring races for the Juniors, and inviting their participating on the Race Committee. The Sausalito Cruising Club was recently honored by the Pacific Inter-Club Yachting Association with the presentation of the Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz Trophy for excellence in its Junior Sailing Program.

We hope that Latitude 38 will continue to report on Junior Sailing activities in the future. These youngsters need to see their names in Latitude 38 too!

P.S. Any parents interested in Sail Camp can contact me at the Oceanic Society (441-5970) and I’ll be happy to give them further information.

Jane A. Piereth Director, Sailing Educations / Adventures Programs Oceanic Society

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Having not heard from him on Thursday, 1 assumed the parts were not available and the unit would not be finished.

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Although we are not members of the ‘Electoral College of the Pacific’, we feel qualified to vote as we know Merl, Sterling Hayden, and knew the late Spike Africa.

When Merl returned to the Bay Area in 1963 — after visiting many islands in the South Pacific, he did a lot to promote that area of the world. One of the main ways he did it was by bringing home with him, Teaitu, a member of the famous Marieterangi family of musicians from the Tuamotus. For that feat alone Merl deserves a Capital A and our vote for President of the Pacific.

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□TAKING US BACK We’ve been reading your Mexico cruise guides and reminiscing.

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LETTERS In the best tradition... hole in the Sea of Cortez (which is not true), we were visiting places like Bahia San Francisquito (not to be confused with Isla San Francisquito of puka shell fame) which is very cool and refreshing even in the summer.

Everywhere we went we stopped and visited everyone and had a great time. This was true even though we didn’t know a bit of Spanish when we hit Cabo — we still know very little!

When fall and the northerlies started to roll around, we began heading south and were ready to depart Cabo for Hawaii by April.

We didn’t have any great articles like yours, but we made our own memories and we cherish them. It really is okay to create your own cruising experiences.

We sure love Latitude 38 and appreciate your publishing news of other cruisers. We love to read about our old cruising buddies.

P.S. Hello to Dana & Michelle on Larki.

Larry & Evelyn Southern Cross II Brownsville, WA Larry & Evelyn — There are a million ways to enjoy cruising in Mexico and our guides are only meant to be the roughest outlines.

Those who breakaway from the beaten path we describe, such as yourselves, are very likely to have the most adventures and thus the best time. One proviso, however; as a general rule, we strongly suspect that most people would prefer to cruise Mexico in the winter as opposed to the summer. For the most part the heat is oppressive down there while it’s great up here in the States. But to each their own, we know several people who enjoyed spending the warm summer months in Puerto Vallarta.

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□ BRAND NAME RECOGNITION? Several months back you had an article on the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s Great Longitude Race. The article mentioned that Linda Weber-Rettie used two autopilots. One broke after being used to surf down big waves in gale winds all night. The second one, right out of the box, broke after four hours use in howling winds and 15-foot seas.

I am considering the purchase of an autopilot and would like to make sure I do not make the mistake of buying the model she used.

Roger Barlett San Diego Roger — We’ll throw your question out to Linda and see if she cares to answer it.

For your own good, you might be slow to immediately write off the particular model of autopilot until you learn the details of what went wrong. An autopilot that can surf a boat down gale-whipped seas all night is nothing to be sneezed at. In fact there might not be any others suitable for the job. Secondly, what caused them to fail? Were the units completely drenched? Were the connections sopping wet? Did a fuse blow? Was there insufficient juice left in the batteries?

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BUILT TO CRUISE . years later the guy came back complaining that the autopilot was no damn good. Stevie and Tommie went down to the boat again to check it out and — you guessed it, the damn thing had been left on for two years again. Stuff like that happens all the time.

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□ WRITING THE WRONG I am always more than willing to tell you what you did wrong. You bought a yacht as a workboat. Unfortunately, what you did is the norm rather than the exception, and you are in good company with numerous city, county, state and federal agencies as well as many individuals.

There is a quality difference between workboats and leisure boats which is reflected in basic construction cost. The very good reason for this is that leisure boats are intended for occasional service under good conditions and needn’t be very reliable. Thus the builders can afford to advertise them and spend more on cosmetics.

It may be worth pointing out some specifics: Many workboats are aluminum, steel or wood rather than FRP because of the better durability of these materials. FRP workboats are built to ABS “Rules for . . . Reinforced Plastic Vessels”, which are generally regarded as excessive by the recreation marine industry. s I have included part of DNV “Rules For . . . Vessels Less Than 15 Metres”. Note the extra pages for commercial v. leisure boats. ts Many workboats are semi-custom for a particular service.

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This obviously increases the cost, but produces a more suitable boat. s Virtually all workboats have taper couplings, a muff coupling or some proprietary system like a Dodge Taperlock. Most leisure boats, even ones with big engines, have straight bore couplings held by set screws or a thrupin. The former arrangement has been known to release the shaft when put into reverse many times. The latter can cause fatigue of the shaft. Leisure boats do not see enough use to have problems like this, so the cost of machining and aligning the shaft for commercial systems is not justified. ^ Most engines have different ratings for pleasure and commercial use and differ in terms of accessories (and price). Gearsets also have different ratings.

We build a stock 26-foot FRP planing workboat and a smaller fast skiff for the tuna industry that can be modified for your needs. You could also get stock aluminum boats from numerous workboat builders all over the country, but the lesson is that leisure boats are basically toys, and you don’t get or pay for professional quality in toys.

It is worth noting that similar differences exist in sailboats: If you want horror stories about sailboat problems just contact a charter fleet operator.

This is not even uhique to the marine industry. There is a difference between a Toyota pickup and an Iveco commercial truck and between a Sears socket set and one from Snap On Tools. Each has its place. ,

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LETTERS couplings, with the different engines specs or the accessories or gearsets. In fact those have all been eminently satisfactory on our photoboat.

Our problem has been that too often when you turn the key, nothing happens. And that getting something to happen, no matter how much you’re willing to pay, takes months and months and months. As we said: “Powerboats? Bleeeeaaaaaauuuuuukkkkk!”

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□ STOLEN GRAVESTONES Most Bay Area residents have been made aware, through the media, that a ‘wave organ’ project is under construction at the end of the breakwater near St. Francis YC. It is indeed an interesting undertaking and the final result should be enjoyable to the public. The work going into the project — the stone work in particular — is very fine.

Something, however, everyone is neglecting to mention is the fact that the project is using resources that are not in fact theirs. Huge stones were removed from the San Francisco breakwater for use in this project. They are beautiful stones and I can see how those involved would want to incorporate them into their art. I’m not talking about a few pieces'of granite here and there, but a large number of very large stones. These stones helped comprise an already inadequate breakwater.

The breakwater is in a constant state of deterioration caused by erosion. The removal of these stones has greatly accelerated the work of the elements. It is incredible to believe this could have been allowed to happen.

The Dept, of Parks and Recreation is constantly assuring boatowners that improvements are ongoing. Dismantling the breakwater hardly falls into that category. Even if the area is filled soon — which we are assured it will be — it will not repair the damage already done. The integrity of the structure has been undermined. The first storm of the season has come and gone. I wonder how much more dirt and rubble will tumble into the Bay before anyone realizes the breakwater is no longer there.

C. Orcutt San Francisco

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□ STOP MAKING SENSE Holy mackerel, enough already! Will we ever see the end of the zaniness that is America’s Cup fever? We are rea’ching new heights of the ludicrous in the continually escalating hysteria to possess what is nothing more than a cheesey souvenir of the much-detested Victorian age. Certain segments of society are going into a feeding frenzy, while in hot pursuit of a useless piece of pseudo-art.

Some second-rate silversmith, who because of a bad hangover forgot to braize in the bottom plate of the Auld Mug, must be howling in his grave at the sight of whole herds of grown men burning up $100,000,000 of inflated monopoly money so that they might have the honor of pouring^hampagne into the thing and seeing it dribble out all over their precious Gucci loafers.

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LETTERS

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baddest-ass consumers and over-achievers in the history of the world. The America’s Cup is only a symbol, but it represents an ideal of which everyone desires. To be able to fly to the moon for a round of golf, to cruise at 80 mph on 8-lane super highways, to engulf oneself in instant pizza and unlimited beer, to enjoy the hypnotic effects of the large-screen VCR, the pop-up toaster, and the ubiquitous electric blanket — to have it all, and feel that you deserve it, that you are the best.

It seems we have been looking in the wrong direction for the threat. The Russians could never have taken away the America’s Cup. How ironic it is that our southern hemispheric cousins, the Aussies, would be the ones to give us a shiner.

Gary Blair Santa Cruz Gary — Yours is an interesting perspective on the America’s Cup, although we don’t think it’s right on the mark.

The way we got it figured, the America’s Cup is pure and simple about pride. In the old days nations could satisfy their pride with wars. However in these nuclear days, that’s not only too expensive but is also frowned up-on in certain circles.

If you stop to think about it, the America’s Cup is a great substitute for war. Not very many people get killed, it’s far cheaper, and nobody gets upset if you gamble on the outcome.

Actually there’s no reason for the America’s Cup. But neither is there a bulletproof reason for the Eiffel Tower, the Coliseum, Beethoven’s 5th, Venus de Milo or half the enjoyable junk on this temporal sphere.

And what about the “obsolete doggo lead-mines”? That they are dinosaurs is their virtue. As we’ve seen in the last few years, huge breakthroughs in IOR boats, 14-footers, and planning boats is not that difficult. By comparison the learning curve in 12’s is nearly flat, meaning if you can come up with something innovative, you really deserve your beer. Thus the 12’s have more or less become the accepted arena for the best minds and bodies.

The America’s Cup — as long as nobody is required to contribute and it creates jobs by throwing zillions of dollars into brisk circulation — we’re all for it.

□ NUMBERS AND ADDRESSES It was with great interest that I read the story on La Mouette by Steve Osborn in Volume 96, Because I belong to an obscure British Organization that counts the current owner of the original Eel in its membership. It occurs to me those two outfits might enjoy contact with each other. I’d happily assist to that end.

Might you be able to locate any of the following folks for me: Jack Weingand, Steve Osborn, Ray Speck or Kit Africa?

Congratulations indeed, on achieving your 100th issue, a remarkable feat, with Bay sailors and the marine industry being the better off as recipients — willing or not — of your lengthy windy efforts.

Bob Simmons Alamo Bob — As a general rule we don't like to give out addresses. Let’s just put out that the above-mentioned folks can contact you at Box 524, Alamo, CA 94507.

And thanks for the kind words.

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LETTERS Belated news: We towed our boat to Lake Mead in May for eight days of sailing. After we got the boat all ready to launch, we discovered the main was ripped. This meant we had to find a sailmaker/stitchmaster if we were to sail. To shorten an otherwise long story, we found Fabric Dynamics in Las Vegas. Its sailor/manageresss, Chris, repaired the sail promptly, prudently and for a reasonable price. So if you mobile sailors near Las Vegas need some repairs, you know who to go see.

Once in the water we had a marvelous cruise, although to be sure we were never out of sight of land. But so what? We cruised nearly 200 miles, had a great time, never had to wash the salt off, and could take a dip anytime without fear of sharks. For those of you with trailerable boats, we recommend Lake Mead. We plan to return often.

Do choose the time of year you visit, however. It can be wild fn July and August, with thunderstorms and strong desert winds. But at least there are some good sheltered anchorages. The Overton and Colorado River arms are the wilderness, a fact that was obvious in May when we hardly saw any boats at all. Also we recommend sailors bring along both VHF and CB radios so you can reach people. Each marina is equipped with one or both.

We suggest people start their Lake trip by launching at Overton Beach. There are no launch fees charged because this is a National Park Ramp, and parking is free. (Most of the other places charge $6 to $10 a night to park your vehicle and trailer.)

Vicky Davis, the manager at Overton, and her collegues are helpful, friendly and keep a good stock of basic supplies such as beer, bait, gasoline and Twinkies. If anyone needs more basic supplies, Overton has at least one supermarket, although you would do better buying in Las Vegas.

Once on the lake it’s not so far between marinas that you can’t keep well-supplied with ice, beer, gasoline, Twinkies and other bare essentials. By the way, the water in the lake is unbelievably clear — you can see the bottom in 40-ft.

Again we highly recommend Lake Mead. We had planned to return last September, but burglars got our main and 110 genoa. So now we plan to return in May or June and then again in September.

Chuck and Bev Berkstresser Sacramento Chuck and Bev — Thanks for the report. Next time be sure to tell us what kind of boat you took to Lake Mead and perhaps shoot a couple of photos.

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□ ONE DOSE OF DERISION Sitting here in Bahia Santispac in the Gulf of California, we became slightly befuddled one evening as, inevitably, something or other that one of us read in Latitude 38 was being discussed. I had not read your Cruising Primer article, so the nextlime I was using the head, I did so. Fortunately those pages were still intact.

Those of us aboard Rebecca, George and Marilyn Mason, and Spanish Dancer, Dave and Dee Stevens, are always interested in reading articles like that to see if we did everything right. We have both sailed, motored, even paddled our way down the outside of Baja and have been exploring the'Gulf of California for around a year now.

Now, we agree with everything you said; afterall, there’s no teacher like experience. However — also inevitably — there’s always a wise guy or four in this crowd > and we’d like to add some thoughts on item 13 (yer lucky number)", the depthsounder you never found any use for south of the border.

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LETTERS numbers on the charts are a nuisance anyway because you constantly have to change course to avoid running one of the things down.

Besides, whenever we anchor down here we simply pull up close to the beach or a bunch of rocks or something and throw a heavy object onto the shore, of course avoiding crushing any beached pangas or other sunbathing yachties. Then we back up, letting out a bunch of rope, since the wind always blows offshore. This has worked terrific!

Oh yes, more about those numbers on the charts. Marilyn and Dee have found that if you color in these numbered areas say with, oh, dark ultramarine and aquamarine, depending upon how big the number is, you get a map that kind of looks the same as where you are. You have plenty of time to do this during a long, hot summer hiding from hurricane Waldo or something.

All right, by now you’ve decided that our brains have been cooked by the sun and this is the natural result. Partially true, friends. But we here can only figure that some typo occurred on item 13. Surely you meant to write “meat thermometer” rather than “fathometer”. We have never needed a meat thermometer south of the border, either.

In practice we’ve found that our fathometers are indispensible in calculating our anchoring scope, a very interesting thing to know when a howling norther or a chubasco nails you. Also, in La Paz for instance, people always ask you how much scope you have out.

Now I suspect they ask this almost everywhere they anchor; I know I do. This way, if you know the water depth you can figure out how to anchor so that you don’t bump into anyone at oh-dark-thirty. Even though this eliminates chances of checking out the other guy’s old lady with her sleeping outfit on while fending off, it does prevent damage to the vessel.

Well, we’re fresh out of derision for now, but you can surely tell that Latitude 38 is thoroughly examined here in Baja. Oh yes, I’m reminded by my compadres: (1) To the yachts coming down this year, remember to bring plenty of lobsters to trade to the fishermen for t-shirts on the outside of Baja; and (2) To Latitude 38, please print more bare-breasted pictures so we can trade Latitude 38 for shrimp inside here in the Gulf. And, finally, never change to the glossy paper, if you know what I mean.

P.S. Keep away from the light part; only stay in the blue part.

TNX, ‘Ganiamor’.

George and Marilyn Rebecca Dave and Dee Spanish Dancer Bahia Concepcion D&D and G&M — Actually the first time we went to Mexico we did have a functioning fathometer. But it broke and since we hardly ever needed it, we replaced it with some marked line with a chunk of metal at the end. Just for the heck of it, last time we were down on the boat we wire brushed the rusty metal weight to see what it had once been. Believe it or not, it looked as though it may have started life as a meat thermometer. Can you believe thatlf?).

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LETTERS Josh — Sorry, but we don’t have that information any longer. We do know that in a subsequent issue we ran Rainbow’s address.

We do know that several of our readers have put such a system together — as we recall it utilizes a Radio Shack color computer — and we’ve printed your address in the hope they’ll contact you.

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□WATER TAXI FARE It s too bad that Lou and Bill on the Providence had such a bad time during their stay at Port San Luis.

But just because they were unhappy they have no excuse for falsely accusing me of adjusting my rates by the look of their boat, or the weather. They also have no right to imply I can get away with something like that because I’m someone’s brother-in-law.

I’ve been the water taxi owner/operator here for many years now and I do not think I would still have my license if I indulged in the “south-of-the-border” tactics Lou and Bill’s letter implies.

Do they really think Port San Luis officials would be so stupid as to allow me to operate that way?

My rates, while the Providence was in harbor, were $1.50 per person, per trip, inside the mooring area, and $2.00 outside the mooring area. They likely paid $2.00 per trip for my semi-convenient water taxi service since they were, in all probability, outside the mooring area.

It seems to me that it is people like Lou and Bill who give long distance boaters a bad name in many ports. I’d appreciate it if you would correct their false impressions.

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LETTERS sons adversely affected, and do it in print with equal notoriety. The irony here which you may not appreciate is that Justice Bird would be right up front defending your right to be a crackpot under the First Amendment.

Awaiting your kind response, I am refraining from cancelling my subscription.

Harold Tyvoll San Diego Harold — After the issue went to the printer we must confess we had second thoughts about that item. Specifically, the disparaging remarks we made about the intelligence and pulse rate of jurors. We apologize for it, and hope it was beneath our normal standards.

As for joint and several liability, we firmly believe that within the next few years many of its applications will indeed have been shown to be voodoo justice — in the sense that they hurt society and individuals far more than they help. We think the early signs of it — the closing of ice rinks, the devastation of local government budgets, the difficulty of getting insurance for child care centers, doctors abandoning obstetrics, etc. ad nauseum, are obvious.

(Incidentally, we’re not alone. In an editorial the San Francsico Chronicle called deep pockets, “illogical”, “outrageous”, “harmful” and “sometimes ridiculous”. In other words, voodoo.)

We wonder if you’ve ever been on the ‘wrong’ side of a joint and several case. We have, and can tell you it’s a lame joke. There was no defense possible, not because of the merits of the case, but because the system made it economic suicide to contest it — something the plaintiff’s attorney made clear over and over again. It was an out and out shakedown, the white collar equivalent of having a knife put to your throat in a dark alley and being relieved of your wallet. The only difference is that in the first case the perpetrator is an officer of the court while in the second case he’s a criminal who goes to jail if he’s caught.

As for Rose Bird’s involvement, let us reword it. Joint and several was primarily the doing of Donald Wright, who was on the court before Rose Bird took the bench in 1977. However we think all observers of the court will agree that she has done her best to expand its role and application. Since Rose Bird and the California Supreme Court have been the western world’s recognized leaders in the expansion of joint and several, we do believe it’s correct to say she’s a pioneer of this area of law.

We suppose we would be remiss in not noting that the last three of Governor Brown’s appointments to the court have become more moderate in their deep pocket decisions, leaving the Chief Justice Bird increasingly on her own to write minority opinions.

Harold, we know full well that many lawyers and judges read Latitude 38. It’s for that very reason that we feel a deep obligation to stand up and rage against what may look like justice to those in the inner circle, but doesn’t feel like it to the remainder of society. Back in the 70’s the executive branch of the government lost much of the trust and respect of its citizens with dreadful repercussions that still rock the country today. We think judicial branch is approaching a similar crossroads, especially in California where the polls show the Chief Justice is on the verge of being thrown out on her ear.

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Multihuller Regina Burke called to confirm our “headstones in the harbor” story in last month’s Sightings. She first heard the story from the friend of her grandfather who actually helped move bodies and headstones from the last cemeteries in the City down to new plots in Colma. According to him, families of the dearly departed were given the option of moving the headstones to the new plots themselves, or paying to have it done. The rest were dumped in the Bay. She also recalls Granddad’s friend was so horrified at the whole business — old dilapidated coffins often fell apart on removal from the ground — that he demanded to be cremated when he died.

Eat for the Cup. There are people out there — none of whom belong to the New York YC — who are of the opinion that the Australian upset at the last America’s Cup was the best thing that ever happened to sailing’s longest running match-race. Not because we lost, but because the victory opened up the competition to challenges from other American groups. New blood and all that.

Unless you have been imprisoned in a dungeon on Mars for the last couple of years, you must be aware that one of those groups is none other than our own Golden Gate Challenge, spearheaded by the St. Francis YC. As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, the Challenge has been gaining momentum steadily since its inception.

Once the first of two as yet unnamed 12 meters feels the Bay under her bottom for the first time in February, that momentum should really snowball.

The Sacramento YC is one of the first clubs to officially throw its support behind the St. Francis effort by holding a formal dinner on January 14. Proceeds from the $100-a-plate affair go to help fill the $10 million war chest needed for the challenge. MC for the evening’s ceremonies will be B.T. Collins, former director of the California Conservation Corps. Special invited guests include former astronaut Wally Schirra, Honorary Chairman Cyril Magnin and Sailing Coordinator Tom Blackaller. For information and tickets, call Sacramento YC Commodore Jim Pierce at (916) 441-7482.

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In 1955, Henry Miegs of the £ay area contracted with Myron Spaulding to build him a boat for the ’55 TransPac. Realizing the boat wouldn’t be completed in time, Meigs went south and bought Suomi, another Myron Spaulding boat. Meigs and a crew of four brought her north that winter to have her fitted out for the race. Somewhere in the Conception-Arguello area; running with a southerly in heavy rain, Suomi was run down by a freighter. Only part of the dinghy was recovered. No other traces of the crew or boat were ever found. page 93

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Ten years ago that’s all everybody talked about. The generation gap was replaced briefly by the gender gap, but that faded too. For the moment, terrorists have replaced gaps in the headlines.

While the so-called gaps may have disappeared, if you read the December 9th issue of the Wall Street Journal you may have seen two unrelated items that indicate there indeed remain differences between the generations.

In an article titled To the Young, Vermouth is a State, one Donald G. Smith mourned that nobody under 35 years of age ever drinks that middle age standby, the martini. The under 35 crowd, he concluded after some investigation, goes for drinks made with rum and tequila, often sharing the glass with things like shaved almonds.

In an unrelated article about planning for retirement in the second section, Edwin A. Finn Jr. reports he too had found a difference in the generations. Older people, he found, have done a much better job of saving for retirement. Young people, he discovered, worry a lot about their retirement, but spend too much to have anything left to set aside for it. He quotes a Dallas financial consultant thusly: “You get them (young people) in here and you think you have them convinced (to save for their retirement). But deep down inside you know they’re thinking of how to buy a bigger sailboat”.

Setting the record straight.

While writing about Merl Peterson in the last issue we made the following statement about Sterling Hayden: “Hayden is a man who responded to a divorce in which he lost custody of his children by ‘kidnapping’ them and taking off to the South Pacific — against the judge’s orders — in the magnificent schooner, Wanderer.”

Sterling’s son Dana phoned us to say that while not a great big deal, that statement is not accurate. Sterling had custody of the children at the time. He petitioned to take them out of the country; their mothered contested, and the judge ruled in her favor. Despite the ruling against him, Hayden promptly set sail for the South Pacific with the children and Spike Africa anyway.

We regret the error.

You meet the nicest people at boat shows.

After examining each photograph of the January 1986 Playmate of Month about 17 times, we finally got around to reading the accompanying copy. There we learned that Playboy discovered her working a booth at the International Marine Trade Show and Exhibit that’s held each year in Chicago.

The young lady, Sherry Arnett, was laboring at the Awlgrip paint exhibit. Specifically she was autographing posters depicting herself and two other bikini-clad women surrounding a few cans of Awlgrip.

Awlgrip is the stuff you spray on the topsides of your boat when the gelcoat gets oxidized. A class act all the way, the girls wore white shorts for the autograph session at the show; white shorts with the following motto stenciled across their buns: “Our bottoms are as good as our tops”. Ydu can check the accuracy of that claim yourself by buying the January issue.

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LOOSE LIPS often seems you’re mostly confronted with filth, fights, destruction and death. Some folks take off cruising in the hope to get away from all this insanity. But as Diana and Kellogg Fleming of Swan, a San Francisco-based Garden Porpoise found out, there’s no certainty you can ever escape.

Latitude 38 readers may remember the Flemings from reports they sent during the last couple of years from the South Pacific. Since their last letter, they’ve proceeded on to Larnaca Marina, a 400-boat facility on Cyprus. They were there last September 25, in what was clearly a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

According to an article by them published in the December issue of Cruising World magazine, at 4:15 a.m. on what was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, they were awakened from their bunks by the panicked screams of a woman and gunshots. After alerting the marina police and hearing men with guns shout for the Egyptian and French ambassadors, Kellogg returned to Diana on Swan where they remained below deck for the duration of the incident.

When dawn came they could see the bloodstained body of a middle-aged woman propped up on the bow pulpit of a 30-foot boat some 70 yards away from their slip. They could also see two men in the cockpit sweeping the horizon with machine guns but not firing.

At 7 a.m. there was some shouting in Arabic between the men with guns and some others on the walkway leading to the marina.

There was more gunfire, and then silence once again.

The silent standoff continued for hours. Although right on the scene, the Flemings actually learned what was going on by listening to a BBC broadcast: The three Palestinians had shot an Israeli woman and held two men hostage on the boat. They were seeking the release of 20 Palestinian members of the elite Force 17 hit squad that had been taken prisoner by the Israeli navy.

The standoff suddenly ended at 2 p.m. when the terrorists, for no apparent reason, gave themselves up. There were no shots fired and no struggling; smiling, they simply walked up to the group of police and surrendered. Other police ran down to the sloop to check on the remaining hostages. They found two men in the sloop’s cabin, hands tied, dead from gunshot wounds through the back of the head. The dead woman on the bow pulpit was later identified as the wife of one of the murdered men.

The Flemings were stunned by the randomness of it all. As they wrote in Cruising World, Larnaca Marina has long been both a crossroads and a home to transients. Visitors'come from Northern Europe seeking sunshine, and from the Middle East seeking relief from the turmoil in their homelands. Many of the 400 boats in the marina were from the Arab world, many others from Israel.

Those brave — or perhaps stupid — enough to follow the TV news probably know that this incident touched off a whole string of violent incidents. In retaliation Israel bombed the Tunisean headquarters of the PLO, killing about 60. This in turn lead to the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, and the murder of American tourist, Leon Klinghoffer. The United States then got in the act, with the redirection of the Egyptian aircraft carrying the Achille Lauro hijackers.

Fallout from these subsequent events is still hot.

However on December 13, the Larnaca Marina incident was concluded with the sentencing of the terrorists in Nicosia, Cyprus. Two Palestinians and a Briton, were sentenced to life in prison, which normally translates to between 10 to 15 years in prison. Each man had admitted murdering one of the victims on the boat so they’d have an equal part in the act. None of the three sentenced professed to be unhappy with their lot. Englishman Ian Michael Davison said, I would do it again tomorrow", . . I’m happy about what I did”.

Yes, you can cruise, but you can’t hide from the wretchedness of humanity — at least certainly not right now in the Middle East. page 97

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SIGHTINGS no place to be in a boat Idaho is famous for its potatoes; the Golden Gate is infamous for its Potato Patch. The evil reputation of this shallow bar outside the Gate is well founded. Hundreds of ships litter the bottom in the area bordered by San Francisco Shoal to the South, the enhance to the ship channel to the West, and Fourfathom Bank and Potatopatch Shoal to the north — collectively known as the Potato Patch. ^ We don’t know that any formal surveys have been taken, but if one was, the Potato Patch area in winter would certainly rank as one of the most consistently treacherous stretches of water in the world. cont’d on next sightings page

new berths for The Oakland Port Commission has approved an expansion plan for Jack London Square that includes the installation of a 111-berth marina and more guest berths for Scott’s and the Grotto Restaurants. Tie-up facilities are only one small part of the $85 million project, though. The plan will also add 365 hotel rooms; 70,000 square feet of

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And one of the most deceptive. If you hit it on a day with light wind, a moderate swell and a flood tide, for example, it can almost be like a mill pond. But let the wind and swell build and the tide change, and it completely changes character. What only hours before was a smooth surface has been transformed into a cauldron of huge and confused breaking seas. If you don’t believe it, just ask anyone who sailed the tragic Doublehanded Farallones Race of 1983.

Or take a drive to the Marin Headlands when the tide is low and there’s a big swell running. The accompanying photograph was taken during a near windless day, the tide still ebbing, and the swell moderate. Yet what you see is about a six to eight foot breaking wave about one mile offshore. About every five minutes three or four of them would come through; between them it would just be a lumpy, rolling sea. And to the north of the Potato Patch the sea was flat and unthreatening.

Remember this photo was taken on a mild winter day. Go to the headlands on a day with gale winds, a ferocious ebb and a huge swell and you may never step on a boat again. It’s terrifying.

The Potato Patch claimed three more boats and four more lives the first week of December. The body of one of three Vietnamese fishermen missing since December 1 washed ashore on Ocean beach mid-month. The boat had gone out to fish around the Farallones for the weekend and never returned.

A Coast Guard search the following week turned up nothing.

A trawler and classic motoryacht traveling together up the coast were the other two casualties. They were destroyed by particularly vicious Potato Patch waves the night and morning of December 2. One person is presumed to have drowned in the incident.

What happened to those two boats is a good illustration of the explosive, unpredictable nature of the Potato Patch. Both Bruce Martens, aboard-the 60-ft motoryacht Girlfriend III, and Paul Stevenson, aboard the 50-ft trawler Wind D II , are experienced delivery skippers. Both have navigated in and around the Gate without incident scores of times. Most of the other six people aboard Girlfriend and the three on Wind D were also experienced sailors.

The two boats, recently purchased, were being delivered to the Bay Area from Southern California. Ironically, they were traveling together for safety.

The trip north had been rough, but not unusually so for December. With moderate seas and wind forecast, the two boats departed Monterey on Monday, December 2. About 5 p.m., in 15 to 25-knot winds and one-half mile visibility fog, they were in the ship channel that bisects the Potato Patch. They radioed home to say they’d be pulling into Sausalito Yacht Harbor about 6 p.m.

A short time later, however, the moderate seas turned into giant, breaking waves. “Like somebody flicked a switch,” said Stevenson. “In about five minutes, everything just doubled.” At that point he estimates the two boats, which were in communication on channel 68, were about a half a mile from Seal Rock.

“We saw the damned lights, but we couldn’t make any headway,” Stevenson said in an Examiner article the next day. The monstrous seas, enlarged by a building ebb, were setting the boats south. There was nothing to do but try and work north, so Girlfriend III and Wind DII turned into the seas. The first wave after the turn broke on Wind DII. “Everything turned pitch black,” said Stevenson. “We were inside 6f it. Then all of a sudden, there was no more noise; we were airborne.”

The 50-ft boat flew out of the back of the wave and slammed into the trough with such force that it ripped three to four feet of hull off the port bow.

Stevenson radioed a Mayday to the Coast Guard and told his crew, “I don’t know if we’re going to get out of this.” About five minutes later, the Coast Guard received another Mayday from the Girlfriend III. The boat had lost its pilot house and was taking water fast.

The Coasties dispatched the 44-ft rescue boat from Ft. Point and a helicopter to assist. The helicopter located the two boats shortly before 8 cont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS no place to be - cont’d p.m. and tried to take crewman Stewart Caskie off the trawler. He’d been thrown across the cabin during one of Wind D IF s flights off the back of a wave and had injured his back. Low qn fuel and unable to get a line to the tossing, pitching boat, the helicopter had to abandon the attempt and return to its base. \ Soon after the helicopter left, the 44-footer spotted the yachts and Petty Officer Rick Leffler, the skipper, radioed that he was about 400 yards away.

A few secortds later, the Coast Guard vessel was broadsided “by a wall of water” and rolled 360 degrees. Although designed to withstand such a roll

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and right itself, the rescue boat’s radar and communications gear was torn off and Leffler feared for the safety of his crew. “I’ve been out in a boat a total of 1,400 hours,” said Leffler later. “I’ve never seen it that bad.” He made the decision to turn back.

The 83-ft Coast Guard cutter Pt. Heyer led the next charge out the Gate.

Also dispatched were two Coast Guard jets, three Navy aircraft and another Coast Guard helicopter.

Meanwhile, the two boats had become separated in the darkness. A San Francisco Pilot boat located the Wind D II and stood by, ready to render what assistance they could. The second Coast Guard helicopter managed to get Caskie off and to a hospital. The trawler’s engine, sputtering as the boat flew off the seas and the fuel sloshed in the tanks, was barely able to hold her bow into the waves. The engine finally quit altogether as the Pt. Heyer hove into view, and Wind D II went broadside to the waves. Between 10 and 11 that night, Stevenson and the remaining two crew transferred to the cutter and left the sinking trawler to the mountainous seas.

The seven people aboard Girlfriend III were in even more dire straits. They abandoned the sinking yacht during the night and climbed into the liferaft.

Waves kept tumbling people out of the raft, though, and only six of the seven managed to hang on and withstand hypothermia until they were picked up about 4:30 a.m., four miles southwest of the Gate. Presumed drowned is James Vivian, 45, of San Rafael.

It’s easy to moralize about these incidents, and even easier in hindsight to say what the skipper’s and crew should have done. It’s more constructive, however, to simply remember this and the other Potato Patch stories the next time you’re contemplating a winter trip through the Potato Patch. cont’d on next sightings page

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Our advice on the winter Potato Patch is simple. Don’t transit it unless you absolutely have to. And under no circumstances should you transit it during anything but ideal weather conditions. It’s a conservative recommendation to be sure, but given the number of bodies and ships the area has claimed, it’s the only sensible approach.

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ern California only, please be advised of the following: On November 24, stormy conditions broke a 25-ft sailboat loose from its Santa Barbara roadstead mooring. Driven ashore, it was completely destroyed. \ Three more boats got into big jrouble on November 30.

At Ventura a father and son were thrown from their powerboat just a few yards outside the breakwater during heavy surf. The two had just decided it was too rough and they should turn back. Unfortunately they made their turn back in the direction of the surf and were swamped then capsized by eight foot waves. Fortunately the two survived; the boat was a total loss.

Moving south on that same day, a 120-ft three masted topsail schooner was completely destroyed next to the south jetty of Dana Point Marina after her anchor dragged in strong winds and high seas. Built in 1913, Perseus had no power of her own and was in the process of being towed from Los Angeles to San Diego where she was to be restored. The tow boat was not right at the scene when the schooner’s anchor broke loose and she started to drag.

November 30th’s worst incident took place at Oceanside, where the 30<ftN v Pudmuckle was thrown on the jetty by a large wave that appeared out of nowhere. One person was killed as a result of being crushed on the rocks; six others were thrown in the water but survived. The boat was bashed against the rocks by several more waves and badly damaged. While the Oceanside entrance is notorious, the boat was not being sailed by novices; they were returning to the harbor after victory in an Oceanside YC yacht race.

Please, dear readers, realize that the winter ocean — Northern or Southern California — commands respect and requires constant vigilence.

Don’t get us wrong; roasting chestnuts on an open fire has its moments. But we know of another holiday activity that even beats dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh: going sailing! Want to put a holiday twist on this wonderful and worthwhile

liveaboards They say that God created the heavens and earth during the first six days and that on the seventh day He rested. It seems just about, that long ago — perhaps the eighth or ninth day — that the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) decided that boats ought to fall under their jurisdiction. Given a whole new group of subjects to rule — and with which to justify their expanding budget — the obligatory studies, and hearings and meetings commenced.

They still continue today. It’s been two-and-a-half years since the first study on houseboats and liveaboards began, and hard as it is to believe, the BCDC and Staff are still waffling over exactly what mandate they have for authority over boats.

You may remember that for most of this period, the BCDC Staff adamantly clung to the ridiculous claim that the Commission had authority over boats because boats were Bay “fill”. Apparently somewhere along the line they came to the conclusion that this really was a little too far-fetched, because they’ve abandoned that entire argument.

Now the BCDC Staff is telling the Commission that their authority over boats is soley derived “substantial change in use” as defined in the McAteerPetris Act which created the BCDC in the first place. They may regret this move, as it may end up all over their face.

According to the McAteer-Petris Act, “substantial change of use” is: “Any construction, reconstruction, alteration, or other activity whether or not involving a structure, if activity either; 1. has an estimated cost of $50,000 or more; 2. involves change in general use of structure or land, (i.e,. agriculture, residential, commerical, office, vacant, no-use, etc.)”

By virtue of this definition, Alan Pendleton of the Staff has told the Commission that they have jurisdiction over liveaboards because a change from no use to residential use or from navigation use to residential and navigation use is a change in use as defined by the McAteer-Petris Act. And a change in use requires a permit from the BCDC. The ramifications of such as claim, as the Pacific Interclub Yachting

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SIGHTINGS the dozen endeavor? Get a bunch of friends together and go charter a big boat like the folks pictured below have done. Divided up 10 or 12 ways, it shouldn’t be that expensive. We guarantee it will be more memorable than hot chestnuts.

liveaboards - cont’d Association observers have pointed out, are widespread. Using such a justification means the following activites would require permits from the BCDC: ^ Using a powerboat for commerical fishing one day and taking friends out for an afternoon cruise the next day. is The transferring of a dealer owned boat (commercial use) to a boat buyer (navigational use).

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iiveaboards - cont'd I* The cessation of use of a boat. For example you could not just stopping using your boat without a permit from the BCDC because that would be a change from navigational use to no-use. i* Use of your boat as a charter vessel ope day (commerical use) to pleasure use (navigation) the next day. ' Moving off your boat to land based housing, a change from residential use to vacant or non-use.

Substantial rebuilding or refitting of boats. It would be illegal to spend more than $50,000 fixing your boat — watch out you IOR racers — without a permit from the BCDC. v* Building a boat on land within the jurisdiction of the BCDC (anywhere near the Bay).

Prior to the last 2.5 year’s stink over houseboats and Iiveaboards, the cont’d on next sightings page

If there’s ever a yacht hall of fame, Jim Kilroy’s legendary line of Kialoa’s would undoubtedly be among the first to be enshrined there. For about as long as we remember, he’s been driving these beautiful yachts — he’s now up to Kialoa V — to victory in races all over the world.

So it was with understandable interest that we noticed Kialoa II out of the water at Anderson’s yard in Sausalito. We walked around, snapped a few pictures and marvelled at her 11-foot, 3-inch draft. We tried to imagine the 1965 TransPac winner screaming down the Molokai channel against

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SIGHTINGS swift canoe such other legends as Ticonderoga, Stormvogel, Blackfin and Windward Passage.

When we got done daydreaming, we called present owners Frank and Marcia Robben to see what was going on with the boat these days.

The Robbens are Kialoa II’s fourth owners, Marcia said. They picked the boat up a year ago December in Newport and presently berth it in Berkeley. Kialoa II is out of the water for routine maintenance and certification work. The Robbens plan to offer the boat on sort of a sailing bed and breakfast cont’d center of next sightings page

Iiveaboards - cont’d BCDC was held in high regard by almost everyone except those who had to get permits from them. But with the brouhaha over houseboats and Iiveaboards, the scales have fallen from many eyes. The work of BCDC Staff has been checked and found woefully wanting, their tactics have been felt by a new and wider segment of the population, and the Commission no longer enjoys the carte blanche respect it once had. If the Commission buys the “change of use” reasoning for authority over boats, we predict they’re going to see more of their support ebbing in addition to taking a humiliating drubbing in the courts.

But all that’s for time to tell. Right now the houseboat and liveaboard issue is reaching yet another in a long line of anti-climaxes we’d like to review now: 1983 — July and August, public hearing on houseboat and liveaboard question, overwhelmingly negative to BCDC staff findings and recommendations.

1983/1984 — Between September and February there was a six month period of public comment. Almost all comment continued negative.

1985 — July, a revised report on houseboats and Iiveaboards is presented.

1985 — August and September, hearings with public comment, again overwhelmingly negative.

1985 — October, additional meeting to try and accomodate more of the public comment. Again overwhelmingly negative.

1985 — October, after all the reports, hearings, revised reports, and hearings on revised reports, the Commission decides not to accept the recommendations of their Staff but to appoint their own committee of Commissioners to analyze the reports and the public comment and to further study the issue.

1985 — November, the committee of commission members meet three times.

Then on December 5, the comittee of Commissioners presented their* recommendations to the full Commission. Having gone through all this, they did not present a single recommendation, but three alternative definitions of ‘liveaboard’. The full Commission may vote to accept one of these alternatives, it may accept a modified one, or if may reject them all.

The definition of a liveaboard is crucial to the entire relationship between recreational boaters and the BCDC. Therefore we review each of the alternatives here, as summarized by BCDC Executive Director, Alan Pendleton: “Alternative One would define a liveaboard boat as being other than a transient boat and as being used or capable of being used for active selfpropelled navigation and that is occupied with the intent of being used as a primary residence.”

We have it on high authority that if the Commission adopts this alternative, the Bay Area Boaters will take the matter to court. Informed sources also tell us that such a legal effort would either directly or indirectly be supported by the Pacific InterClub Yachting Association.

“Alternative Two would define a liveaboard boat as being a navigable vessel that has a primary use that is inconsistent with the public trust and that serves as a primary residence. This alternative would also provide that any navigable vessel whose primary use is consistent with the public trust and that is capable of being used and is intact used for a trust purpose is not a liveaboard boat. Finally, this alternative would define primary use as being the use for which the vessel is functionally best suited.”

“Alternative Three would recognize that most “pleasure craft” have, by definition, recreational boating as their primary use and are therefore consistent with the public trust. This alternative would recognize, however, that a small proportion of such vessels have fallen into disrepair or are not used regularly for trust purposes and should be regulated. Thus, this alternative would provide that any recreational vessel that serves as a primary residence for 180 or more days and which is not employed for a trust purpose (Editor’s cont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS liveaboards * cont'd note: using your boat for an afternoon daysail is a trust purpose) for 90 consecutive days during a calendar year is a liveaboard boat. This alternative would also provide that any recreational vessel that serves as a primary residence for 180 or more days and which is not substantively employed for a trust purpose on at least eight separate occasions or for at least 15 days during any calendar year is also a liveaboard boat. This alternative would also grant reasonable exceptions to these time limits under specified circumstances and would provide that certain evidence would constitute presumptive evidence to sustain a finding of “non-liveaboard use”.

The PICYA fully supports the adoption of Alternative Three.

Latitude 38 supports the adoption of Alternative Three, with the understanding that the BCDC’s “change of use” justification for authority over boats is not valid.

On Thursday, January 16 at 1:00 pm in Room 1195 of the State Building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, the BCDC Commission Mil hold a public hearing on the proposed definitions of a houseboat and a liveboard. If you wish to testify on the three alternatives — and we encourage everyone to do so — you should contact Jeffery Blanchfield at 557-3686 no later than Friday, January 10. This is a very crucial meeting, and a huge turn- V out in favor of Alternative Three might go a long way to insuring you’ll continue to have the freedom to use your boat when and how you wish.

What will happen at the end of the meeting on January 16th? Take a clue from what’s been happening since the beginning of time; the matter will probably be continued to allow for further study and comment.

spike and merl Readers of the December issue will recall that we decided to hold an election on whether or not Merl Peterson should succeed the late Spike Africa as the President of the Pacific Ocean. Just a few days before we went to press this month, we received the following letter from Merl himself. This is what he had to say about this — and other — matters: I am sorry gentlemen, but you have made an error in calling for an election. My hat is not'in the ring. I am the President of the Pacific Ocean. My claim to the title goes far beyond the Bay Area Electoral College of the Pacific Ocean (E.C.P.O.). 1 will explain the circumstances leading up to my becoming President: Back in the mid-70’s, Spike Africa and I were in Newport Beach discussing the old times back in Sausalito. During the conversation, the subject of his being President of the Pacific Ocean came up. I asked him who the Vice President was. He said there wasn’t one. He then decided that I should be the Vice President and appointed me on the spot. 1 think Bob Sloane (owner of the schooner “Spike Africa”) and Bob Dixon were there at the time. A few years later, 1 had t-shirts printed up with my name and picture on them showing me as Vice President of the Pacific Ocean. These t-shirts have been presented to people all over the world, including Kings, Princesses, and Royalty from six European countries.

In August, 1984, during the Clipper Cup Races here in Hawaii, Spike Africa’s passing away was discussed. It was decided that there should be a new President. Word went around the Hawaii YC where several hundred old yachties were gathered. It came about that since 1 was Vice President, I should succeed Spike as President. After all, Spike wouldn’t have appointed me as Vice President if he hadn’t thought that some day I might succeed him.

The sailors who then unanimously elected me as the new P.O.P.O. were from the U.S., and many Pacific Basin countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, etc.

Rich Myers from Sausalito drew up a t-shirt with my picture (the same one you printed in the December ’85 Latitude 38) and the words, “Merl Peterson, President of the Pacific Ocean”. We had a huge inauguration party. cont’d on next sightings page

swift canoe basis next year and she needs to meet Coast Guard chartering specs before then.

The 72-footer is also slated to serve as committee boat for next Fourth of July’s start of the Pacific Cup Race to Hawaii; a fitting

boat shows Sailboats are only part of the attraction at the 44th annual San Francisco Sports and Boat Show being held at the Cow Palace.

The January 10 to 19 show also features halls full of fishing equipment, guns, hunting dogs, houseboats, waterskiing and jetskiing stuff, and travel to Alaska and Baja. As with last year, there will be lots full of motorhomes, fifth wheels and RVs. Also, three complete log homes, down to fires in the fireplace, will be open for inspection. A highlight of the show this year is a display of guns, hats and other items once owned by the famous cowboy Tom Mix. There will be lots of glitter and decadence on display in the speedboat and powerboat halls. Organizers are calling the 48-ft Californian the queen of the show. If we had to pick,, though, we’d probably take one of those lean, mean Donzis. Never know when you might have to get from Sausalito to Alviso in 10 minutes.

Sailboat manufacturers in attendance include Freedom, Hunter, J-boats, Newport, Catalina, Cal, Tartan, McGregor, O’Day Hobie and Laser. There will be more marine accessories this year, too, three entire halls worth. Hours for the San Francisco Sports and Boat Show are 1-10:30 p.m. on* weekdays; 11 to 10:30 Saturday and 11 to 7 Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $2 if you can convince ticket takers you’re under 12 and $2.50 weekdays if you can convince

relief is spelled In a departure from her regular mission — training young sea cadets — the state tallship Californian sailed to Acapulco last month with seven tons of donated relief supplies for the Mexico earthquake victims. She arrived November 27.

The goodwill trip was a cooperative effort by the City of Oxnard, whose residents donated the provisions; Camino Real Savings Bank, Californian’s major corporate sponsor; and Operation California, a Los Angeles-based international relief agency.

The ship averaged 9 knots on her southbound trip, stopping only at Cabo San Lucas to take on officials. The 145-ft topsail schooner is now on her way back home.

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SIGHTINGS - cont’d choice if we say so ourselves. Marcia was even able to tell us what “kialoa” means: It’s the Hawaiian word for long, light, swift canoe used for racing.

a-comin’ them you’re over 65. And remember your walking shoes.

The Pacific Marine Expo at the San Mateo County Expo Center is the other big January show. Never heard of it? That’s probably because it was called the International Boat Show when it was at the Moscone Center last year. It may be a little more of a drive for some of you this year, but with the lineup of sailboats, sailing films and seminars, it’s going to be worth it. Confirmed attendees include Catalina, NorCal, Hansel, Magic, Panda, Aloha, Stilletto, Prindle, Pretorien, Tiara, C&C, Pearson, Ericson, Jenneau, Landfall, and Mistral and Fanatic Sailboards.

Passport and Beneteau may also be represented. Films include the Emmy awardwinning “White On Water”; and documentaries on the 1985 Admirals Cup, ’84 Big Boat Series and ’83-’84 Whitbread.

All the seminars are geared to sailing.

There will be talks on financing, sailboarding, roller furling, donating boats, performance catamaran sailing and chartering in the Med, among others. Hours for this show are noon to 10 p.m. weekdays; 10 to 10 Saturday and 10 to 8 Sunday. Admission for adults is $6. Little people get in free when accompanied by big people, and $2 discount coupons are available at local marine outlets throughout the Bay area. For more information, call the Northern California Marine Association at 436-4664.

s-c-h-o-o-n-e-r goodwill schooner in another time. Does anybody out there remember the schooner Goodwill? She was a beautiful, classic-two master about 100-some feet long. She may not have been official, but owner/skipper Larrabee (we can’t recall his first name) regularly brought loads of food and clothing to Mexico on his frequent trips south in the ’50s and ’60s. Those who knew him will tell you Larrabee was a real character»around the Southern California sailing scene back then. Goodwill went missing sometime in about the mid ‘60s and was found wrecked on Baja’s Sacramento Reef. The bodies of all but one of those aboard were recovered; no trace of Larrabee has ever been found.

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spike and merl - cont’d Everyone there received a t-shirt.

Your article made it sound like I had proclaimed myself President. This is obviously not the case. With all due respect to the Bay Area E.C.P.O., the sailors of the Pacific Ocean have already elected me. It appears that the Bay Area was unaware that Spike had originally appointed me as Vice President.

It would be nice if you recognized me as President also. But after criticizing your decision to have an election, you may have negative thoughts about that.

Now about your comment that I would not be able to pull off the stunts today that I did back in the 60’s — you are wrong! No one thought I could get by with them back then either. If I had Viueka in the San Francisco Bay now, you would see similar events happen. Everything I did was for fun and not against the law. Of course, the Sausalito Police Department wanted to make Rico Banducci and I look like villians, but we really are good guys. Your source of information about my past escapades did a fair job, but there are a number of discrepancies I feel I must correct. They are as follows: 1) We didn’t sell tickets to spectators. The Sea Battles were free for everyone. Rico and I paid for everything out of our own pockets.

2) In the first Sea Battle, Rico and I had mixed crews. It was in the second that I had the all-girl crew.

3) No charity disassociated themselves from us. Rico and I chose which charity we wanted to donate to. The money was raised by selling badges, t-shirts, balloons, and admission to the trophy presentation dinner/dance at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon.

4) You also got the price and alteration costs I paid for Viveka wrong. And she was built at Lawleys Shipyard in Quincy, Mass., in 1930, not the 20’s.

5) Sterling Hayden didn’t own the Wanderer when whe went on the reef at Rangiroa (in the Tuamotu Islands). He is far too good a sailor to ever let that happen. Joe Price of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, owned her then. I got the cannon when Sterling sold the Wanderer to Joe. 6) You mentioned the crowd packed around the Trident Restaurant when we had the first Sea Battle. The whole town of Sausalito was jammed. Every road into town was clogged. It was estimated that 12,000 people saw the first Battle. The Sausalito Police and Fire Departments were very unhappy and tried to assess us $10,000 for the extra police costs. Naturally, we didn’t pay it. By 5 p.m. that day, all the bars and restaurants were sold out of booze and food. (They were happy.)

7) No rotten vegetables were used in the battles. Also, no flare guns were fired. We fired the 150-lb cannons (all eight of them) with paper and flour to make it look like smoke.

8) There was only one airplane, which was my own private Airforce. Jack Gregg was flying the plane and dropping paper bags full of flour on the Sheerwater. (And the Sheerwater is a ketch not a schooner.) If you think about it, if he were flying as low as 20 feet over the water, how many of the 100 or so spectator boats would still have masts? Jack had permission to fly low over the water from the FAA. He never flew over any houses, but stayed over the water at all times.

9) The motorized coffins were in the first battle, not the second.

We did have a bit of trouble at the Corinthain YC’s dinner/dance after the second Sea Battle. They wanted to charge my all-girl crew to enter. Since Rico and I had spent a few thousand dollars of our own money to put on the Battle, and all the money went to charity, I felt we shouldn’t have to pay to enter. So we all went to Sam’s instead. Rico got the word we were over there, and he and his crew joined us. When it finally dawned on the CYC that the crews weren’t there and that without them the party would be a flop, they came over to Sam’s and begged us to come back. Rico and I said, “No deal, you blew it.” We stayed at Sam’s.

I do hope this letter clears up the misinformation about the Sea Battles of 1961 and 1963 and settles who the official International President of the Pacific Ocean is. cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS spike and merl - cont'd Please print this in the January issue so you can call off the election.

Thank you, Capt. Merl Peterson \ ' Before we get onto the issue of the presidency, we want it understood that our primary source of information for ‘the past escapades’ were the newspaper clippings that Merl forwarded to us. If he says we were wrong, we’ll gladly stand corrected on all of those matters.

Back to the issue of high office. We read the letter to a couple of Spike’s cont'd on next sightings page

we don’t got to show The Coast Guard may board your boat at sea and check on deck for drugs, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in San Francisco on December 21. They can do this even if they have no reason to suspect that x you are carrying drugs and they can do it without a search warrant.

The vote by the three-member panel of the Appeals Court was uhanimous.

The court ruled that the Coast Guard has

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the right to board all U.S. boats on the high seas to conduct document and safety inspection. This expands an earlier decision where the court ruled such an administrative boarding was all right in a case where the boat appeared as though it might be in danger of sinking. The boat in this latest case, Arrakis, gave no indication that she was in danger.

The opinion by Judge J. Blaine Ander-

old friends and had the gist of it passed on to Babe Lamerdin, a fine sailor who lived in the same house as Spike for 15 years. Babe and the others were basically unmoved by Merl’s explanation of’his ascendency.

Perhaps the most unmoved was former Sausalito sailmaker Peter Sutter, who is now cruising the Pacific in his Wylie 36, Wild Spirit. Sutter recalls that Peterson’s Viveka had originally been Cyril Tobin’s Seaweed. Under Tobin’s ownership the staysail schooner had been one of the best maintained vessels on the coast. Sutter says that several years after Peterson had purchased the boat and renamed her, she had lay at anchor in Richardson Bay, her bowsprit dangling in the water for nearly a year. “F-k no!” exclaimed the normally mild-mannered Sutter in reaction to the thought of Peterson taking over the late Spike Africa’s duties, “A guy who can’t take care of his boat can’t become President of the Pacific Ocean.”

By sheer coincidence, we happened to be in Honolulu for an hour and a half very early on the morning of December 5th. Just for the hell of it, we grabbed a taxi and raced down to the Ala Wai to have a 30 second look at Viveka and take the accompanying photograph. If we may be candid, the once magnificent schooner that now belongs to the man who is President of the Pacific Ocean looks delapidated, non-functional and uncared for. In the vernacular, a piece of shit.

So if we may address you directly, Merl, let us say that since we were surfing and not sailing during the glory days of you and Spike and all the other legendary schooner men of recent history, we’re simply going to abstain from the whole matter. Afterall, it was a different eira, and far be it from us to be president-makers. If the “old yachties” accept you — and your stewardship of that now sad schooner — as being worthy of the President of the Pacific Ocean, we’ll accept the wisdom of their experience.

As for our own, non-counting opinion, we think you’ve demonstrated a great attitude and a superior outlook on life — but your schooner, allowing it to wallow in that condition tarnishes the memory of the man whose office you have taken and the splendor of the world’s greatest ocean. Nothing,personal, you understand, but it just doesn’t seem right:

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12 meter talk There’s nothing easy about an America’s Cup campaign, except spending money. Sausalito’s Ken Keefe knows that. He was part of the Defender team which got their tails whipped in the 1983. In addition to sailing on the boat, Ken was in charge of maintaining it. “These boats are like race cars,” he says.

“They’re all built to minimum specifications and break easily. Hey, just raising the mainsail is an organizational feat!”

Currently Ken, who’s 29 ybars old, is acting as project coordinator for the St. Francis Golden Gate Challenge’s first of two 12 Meters, which has slowly been taking shape in Stockton. Tall, bushy-haired and an easy talker, Keefe has been shuttling between there and his Sausalito office keeping track of all the various custom parts that have to be ordered, built and delivered. He reports directly to the sailing coordinator, Tom Blackaller, who was Defenders skipper. “Tom looks at the broad picture,” says Ken, “while I worry about everything.” ?■ If past performance is any indication, Ken’s a pretty good guy to have worrying for you. He grew up sailing big Boats and Lasers on the Bay, part of the St. Francis YC junior “mafia” that turned out sailors like John Bertrand, Steve Jeppesen, Bill George and Paul Cayard. He’s been sought after as crew on the best of the big boats, and helped Paul Cayard place second at the 1984 Olympic Trials in Stars. During all that time he worked at Anderson’s Boatyard in Sausalito, including six years as manager. He knows how to put boats together and take them apart so they can be put back together.

Ken is getting some valuable assistance from another ace, Hank Stuart, who is also tall and conversable. A transplanted upstate New Yorker, Hank, cont’d on next sightings page /

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12 meter talk - cont'd 27, has considerable 12 Meter experience. In 1978 he trained for a summer with Baron Bich’s French America’s Cup team. The following year he crewed for Dennis Conner in the Freedom program, and in 1980 he served as part

son, reasoned that the “minimal intrusions” on the government’s interest in the safety of ships at sea — and the cutting off of the supply of contraband.

In the case of the Arrakis, once the Coast Guard boarded the vessel an officer smelled

high tide What you see below is the latest in aids to navigation. The Coast Guard reasoned, that since many people drive boats the same way as cars, why not use the same signs? Turnout lanes and stoplights under the Golden Gate should be operative soon.

Just kidding! What you really see here is what happens down at Clipper during the

Ken Keefe.

of Russell Long’s Clipper team. That’s where he met Tom Blackaller, who put Hank to work commissioning and later sailing on Courageous, Defender’s training partner in the 1983 campaign.

Ken and Hank already have plenty to concern themselves with as the hull and keel are being completed at Stephens Marine in Stockton. The boat should be in the water by February, and then it will have to be brought to Anderson’s to have the mast put in. That job could have been handled in Stockton, but the bridge holding up Interstate 5 is only 60 feet high, too low for a 12 Meter rig.

That’s just one example of the logisfical problems Ken and Hank face in the coming months. They both realize that getting the boat on the starting line in Perth next October for the challenger trials and keeping it sailing will be just as much a task as winning races. “There will be lots of gear failure in Australia,” predicts Ken, referring to the strong summer winds that prevail off Perth. The pit crews have the potential to make or break a team’s effort, and Ken is already considering the idea that he may not sail at all but just work to keep the boat going. “That would be strange,” he admits, “because I’ve never been left on the dock before.”

The rough weather expected at Perth will also take its toll on the sailors.

Hank says they expect to have 17 or 18 regular crewmembers instead of the standard 11. “During the previous America’s Cup defense campaigns,” he explains, “you only had a week of racing in June and July before the final selections. In Perth we will race 40 times over a three-month period. It’s really going to take a team effort to win, and we’re going to have to accept "he fact that we’re not all going to be sailing every day.” cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS marijuana. In response to his inquiry, he was told that there was pot below decks. This provided sufficient cause to search the hold.

The Arrakis was seized in November of 1983, some 30 miles off the Baja coast. She was eventually towed back to San Diego.

at clipper peak tides of the year. The boat ramp disappears along with much of the parking lot under about 6 or 8 inches of Bay. From the water it looks as though you can drive right past the gas dock and tie up in front of the Sausalito Food Company. We wouldn’t suggest you try it, but if you do, remember to' mind the traffic signs.

12 meter talk - cont’d They’re also going to face some pretty serious media attention, a fact which may play a significant role. Ken remembers coming in from a day’s sail in 1983 and having to wait for Blackaller to talk to the press before getting on with business. “It was shocking to me to realize that we had to rearrange our priorities,” he says. Being in the public eye is something most American sailors aren’t used to, although Hank says he purposely has been sailing in regattas with lots of hoopla to get himself used to the idea. “It’s going to be a real zoo!” he predicts.

Adding another layer of complexity to the program is security, which has been part of America’s Cup campaigns before but was raised to absurd heights in 1983 when the Aussie’s played peekaboo with their winged keel.

I hate it,” says Ken. “We even have to sign non-disclosure agreements, which is so far from going sailing.” It’s also expensive. For example, every night during the building of the keel, the Golden Gate syndicate paid to have it covered with a 20-foot steel container weighed down by a forklift!

From a sporting point of view, the America’s Cup is a tremendous chess cont’d on next sightings page

LATITUDE 38/JOHN ’

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12 meter talk - cont’d game, and both Ken and Hank enjoy being players. One of Ken’s buddies, Paul Cayard 26, is in the midst of making up his mind if he wants to join in.

Paul, who grew up in San Bruno, holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and France, making him eligible to sail for either country. Being one of the top one design and big boat drivers in the world rir^tat now, he’s obviously in demand. While his allegiances may lie with the San Francisco group, he’s been offered a leading role in Yves Pajot’s French challenge, reportedly funded to the tune of 95 million francs.

In December, Paul travelled to Perth, Australia, for three weeks of training with the French. Before leaving he said he intended to make up his mind about a) sailing 12 Meters at all and b) if so, with whom, by the time he returned. A sailm^ker by trade, he stands to make a big splash if he’s on the winning America’s Cup team. If he loses, he’ll forfeit a year’s worth of sailing and selling to the IOR big boat market. If he goes with the French, what will folks in the U.S. say? He also knows that if he chooses the Golden Gqte Challenge and wins the driver’s spot, his grasp on the helm will only be as strong as the boat’s performance. If things go bad, the syndicate backers may clamor for Blackaller to take the reins.

“We’re all trying to make career decisions,” says Ken Keefe, empathizing'' with his friend and sailing partner. “It’s more than just going out sailing like it used to be.”

— shimon van collie

You’re correct in assuming that our occasional slams against gin palaces, better known as stink pots, better known as motorboats, are mostly tongue in cheek. But not entirely. With the amount of bucks we’ve had to put in to keep our &-/$ photo boat in v some semblance of proper working order, it’s impossible not to feel a little vindictive. So

headstones Have you recovered from the “knots per hour” controversy yet? Then brace yourself, we may have a new reader forum developing: headstones in the breakwater. Or more

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boating classes No matter if you just bought your first boat at the boat show or would just like to brush up on the basics, a United States Power Squadron boating class may be just what you need.

The classes, which meet one night a week for 13 weeks, cover the use of outboard, inboard and sailboats. You’ll be taught the basics of boat-handling, common sense rules and boating skills that will help assure you and your friends will have a safe time on the water.

Commended by the Coast Guard, U.S. Power Squadron classes are taught by expert volunteer skippers.

The dates and lpcations of the classes — there’s one near you — are listed below. Some classes start at 7:00 p.m., although most start at 7:30.

BEG. AREA LOCATION 7:30 P.M. LarkspurCorte Mad. Redwood HS Tues. 14 Jan. Martinez Alhambra HS Tues. 11 Feb. Napa Ridgeview Jr. HS Tues. 11 Feb. Novato Bel Marin Keys YC Thurs. 23 Jan. Novato Novato.HS Thurs. 16 Jan. "Oakland Piedmont HS *Tues. 4 Feb. Richmond Richmond HS •Thurs. 27 Feb. Sacramento (North) SMUD Center Tues. 11 Mar. Sacramento (South) Valley HS Thurs 13 Mar. San Fran Homestead S&L Tues. 21 Jan. Wilcox HS San Jose Tues. 11 Feb. San Leand San Leandro HS *Wed. 2 Apr. San Mateo Shoreview Rec Ctr Wed. 19 Feb. San Rafael Marin Academy Wed. 15 Jan. Santa Rosa S.R. Jr. HS Thurs. 16 Jan. Stockton Stockton Blind Ctr Tues. 4 Feb. Suisun City Solano Com Cllge •Mop. 10 Feb. Vallejo Vallejo Jr. HS Wed. 12 Feb. Walnut Crk Las Lomas HS Thurs. 13 Feb. *At this address, class commences at 7:00 p.m. All '•Includes Alameda and Berkeley.

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you never stop learning Did you know that the California Maritime Academy up in Vallejo has a cont’d on next sightings page

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it was with great glee that we read and now pass on the following item. The Coast Guard recently released a list of 52 different boats involved in safety recall campaigns because of defects in manufacture or the inability to meet legal safety requirements. All 52 were motorboats.

Continuing Maritime Education (CME) program? Well they do, although we had certainly been ignorant of the fact.

They offer a large number of classes, although not all of them might be of interest to our readers. Anyone out there, for example, interested in Crude Oil Washing or Marine Terminal and Stevedoring Operations?

But there are a number of other classes that sound interesting. Basic diesels, Maritime Law, Navigation and Piloting, Basic Marine Engineering, Marine Chartering, Emergency Medical Training — these are just a few of the courses offered.

Some classes begin in January, while other winter-spring classes begin every month through June. Some classes meet during the day, some meet in the evening. Some are every day, others are as little as once a week. The hours of instruction per class can also vary greatly; from as few as 12 hours to

per hour specifically, the removal of same. Some people think it’s eroding the whole breakwater.

Read what they say in this month’s Letters.

LATITUDE 38/RICHARD

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never stop learning - cont’d as many as 44 hours in the case of Small Boat Handling. Tuition runs from $140 to $725 for Simulated Slow Speed Diesel Training.

If any such classes sound interesting to you, contact the California Maritime Academy for a free brochure containing a list of courses and detailed descriptions. You can write them at P.O. Box 1392, Vallejo 94590, or you may phone them at (707) 648-4162.

The CME also operates the Radar Observers School at Fort Mason in San Francisco and offers radar classes there for both beginners and experts. In addition CME from time to time has workshops or intensive seminars on topics such as Small Boat Diesel Troubleshooting, Marine Electrical and Refrigeration Troubleshooting, and other topics. Write or call the above numbers for information on these programs also.

local 12 schedule What’s the timetable on the local 12 Meter scene?

The Golden Gate Challenge’s boat — like all new boats — is running a little behind schedule. The hoped for early January launch is off. Tentatively the boat will be put in the water at Stockton on February 3, towed to a v\ Sausalito yard to have the stick put in and be rigged, then taken over to Charley’s berth at the St. Francis for the christensing.

The christening will be a big deal, with Mayor Feinstein, Cyril Magnin, all the Golden Gate Challenge people, and hopefully thousands of plain old sailors like you and we. The date for the christening has not been definitely set and will not be for some time; February 8 has been bandied about, however. We’ll bet it’s a least a week or two later.

A day or two after the christening, the Golden Gate’s 12 will be sailed for the first time on the Bay. But it won’t be sailing alone for long. Buddy Melges of Chicago’s Heart of America Syndicate has said, “We’re freezing sailing up here on this Canadian lake, when are you assholes going to get your boat in the water? One second after you get in the water we’ll be there with our boat.”

So by March we can expect to see the Golden Gate’s new 12 go against Heart of America’s boat. Two other 12’s have also said they’ll be heading here for testing against each other. These include Canada I, which would have been here in January if the Golden Gate 12 had been done by then; and, Newport Harbor YC’s 12, the old Magic.

It’s not certain yet where the boats will be kept, but we do know that the Port of Oakland — always an aggressive bunch —is trying to see that one of the 12’s will be based in Jack London Square. Sounds like a great idea to us, a way to bring the America’s Cup fun to more people.

At any rate, San Francisco Bay is going to be the best place in America to view the 12’s in action this spring. And maybe this summer, too. You see we had this wild dream thei other night that some huge United States corporation was going to put up a fabulous sum of money — maybe $3 or $4 million — to sponsor a United States 12 Meter series on San Francisco Bay early in the summer.

Now we all know that some of the six American syndicates aren’t crazy about racing against the others. Conner’s San Diego group doesn’t like to, nor does the New York YC syndicate. Conner doesn’t like to share secrets while the New York YC syndicate is said to be too embarrassed about the speed of their boats, since their new one is said to be decidedly slower than their old one. In fact the joke making the 12 Meter rounds is that if the New York YC designs five more boats, the last one won’t be able to sail out of the harbor.

But in our dream, the corporation uses a clever old trick to lure these reluctant syndicates into head to head competition: money. They do this by putting up $1.5 million for the winner of the weekend series, $1.0 million for the second place boat, $500,000 for third — something like that. Given the never ending need these syndicates have for money, such a trick just might cont’d on next sightings page

Last month the government of Baja California Sur and the La Paz YC distributed the race announcements for this year’s Semana de las Regatas or Sea of Cortez Race Week. The announcements should be x appearing in yacht clubs and chandleries in the next few weeks.

Race Week will begin March 30 in La Paz in a big way. 1100 is the Easter Service, 1700 is the flag raising and the crowning of the queen, 1900 is the cocktail party hosted by the government and the La Paz YC. Last year hundreds of people showed up for these loose knit festivities, and most had a fine time.

The feeder race from Pichilinque to Isla Partida is March 31; Race Week’s other two races will be on April 2 and April 4. Between and after the racing there will be all sorts of semi-organized activities at Partida; volleyball, potlucks, dinghy races, windsurfing, horseshoes, sand sculpture, frisbie, golf — no tennis — but music and just about anything else you might want or care to bring. Oh yes, probably once again there will be the overwhelmingly popular nonsense that goes under the names of wet-buns contests (male & female), wet t-shirt contests, and even male and female bikini contests.

If you take life very seriously, you’ll probably want to stay in a well-lit room with thick walls and not attend Race Week. If however, you’ve nothing against fun people, tropica! air and water, easy competitions, tequila and beer — well then you might want to show up-

love me If you happen to own a 38 to 48-ft diesel power yacht, the folks at the St. Francis Golden Gate Challenge would like to talk to you. They need to charter or have donated such as vessel to be used as a tender to the two 12 Meters they’re building to win back the America’s Cup.

miller On December 8th the crew of an Islander 36 was returning to its berth after winning a Metropolitan YC mid-winter race when they noticed a Taiwan trawler by the name of Sea Snail overtaking on their quarter. It soon became apparent that the helmsman was looking aft, unaware that he was about to run down the sailboat.

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local 12 ■ cont’d bring New York and San Diego out of hiding.

Of course this is all just a dream and never will happen — although you never know, do you?

How are the various United States syndicates shaping up against one another? Here’s a very subjective rundown compiled from the tons of gossip floating around: San Diego — They’ll be tough competitors because they’ve got Fritz Jewett, a guy who knows his way around 12 Meter money and administration. They’ve also got Conner, which is both good and bad. It’s good because he s a fine helmsman; it’s bad because he’s locked in as their driver no matter what. They’ve got three boats; two old ones and Stars and Stripes. It’s hard to evaluate their speed, because they’re sailing in Hawaii and don’t like to sail against other boats.

Everybody wears flippers at race week.

While it’s best if you bring your boat, Race Week organizers realize that it’s not possible for everyone to do so. Thus you’re encouraged’to show up in La Paz on the 30th with your camping equipment and we’ll make sure you get a ride to Isla Partida and on a race boat if you wish. Campers must remember they have to be 100 percent selfsufficient. The only thing that will be available at Isla Partida is beer; there is absolutely no food, no water, no lodging — no nothin’.

Last year approximately 200 boats showed up for at least part of Race Week, including 165 boats on one day alone. Isla Partida can handle this many boats, which is a good thing, because even more are expected this year.

We hope to see you there!

tender The Golden Gate Challenge is a 501C3 tax deductible foundation. If you wish to discuss the donation or charter of your powerboat, call or write them at 69 California St., Burlingame, CA 94101; (415) 332-5255. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime.

time had time for drastic action to avoid a collision. In this case drastic,action consisted of radically altering course and whipping a beer bottle at the trawler to alert the captain. The throw was straight and true, and the bottle landed dead center on Sea Snail’s windshield.

The tossed bottle did get the attention of the trawler skipper, whose response was an upraised middle finger. Ignorance, they say, is bliss. Sea Snail never altered course, and in fact appeared to be on autopilot.

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Golden Gate Challenge — Many consider ours to be the best technical effort. Along with San Diego and New York, we are the only ones with a new boat to date. Most observe it’s absolutely going to take a new boat to win.

We’ve also got good drivers and crew. The helmsman will be determined by who does the best, with Tom Blackaller, Dennis Durgan and Paul Cayard as the strong frontrunners. Guys likely to be part of the crew include Kenny Keefe, Hank Stuart, Craig Healy, Scott Easom, Tommie Ducharme, Peter Stakus, perhaps Russ Silvestri, and a host of others.

The Golden Gate Challenge also has a second new boat designed, which one member of the group described as “three quantum leaps beyond” the first one. First, of course, it has to float. It's said to be a radical concept and will not be built by Stephens. The Kiwi’s built the first two 12’s in fiberglass, so we asked if the second Golden Gate 12 might be made of that material. “No comment”, we were told.

Chicago’s Heart of America — The big weapons here are Buddy Melges and Gary Jobson. The big problems are they’ve got a slow old boat, Clipper 1, and a small pool of big boat sailors to draw from.

The New York YC — This effort seems to be proving the old theory that money alone can’t buy happiness or success. They’re on their third chairman, and helmsman John Kolius has quit and returned once already. Their ‘leggo’ boat is said to be slow, but not as slow as the one they built after it.

Nobody’s sure how pedestrian their 12’s are because they don’t like to sail against qther United States boats, but Italy’s old Azzura has beat New York’s best. / Newport Harbor — They’ve got Rod Davis, a fine driver, but they’ve also got the old Magic. Things could be looking up for them, however, as apparently they’ve given the go ahead for a new boat.

Yale Corinthian — Peter Isler is driving the old Courageous with the Leonard Green’s new vortex keel. The scuttlebutt is that the keel’s not cutting it and the boat may be years too old.

And that’s all we’ve got to say about 12’s for this month.

out of everything Is it our imagination, or does Latitude 38 seem overly laden with stories of wrecks and disaster this month? Well, when it rains, it pours. A couple of days before we put this one to bed, we fouhd out about another boat in trouble. This one was the 48-ft ketch Adventuress bound from Hawaii to San Francisco. As the four-person crew learned, that’s a hairy time to make that passage. A few hundred miles out, the "yacht was hit hard by a winter storm.

Then on December 20, Adventuress radioed that they were out of food, water and fuel. The Coast Guard air-dropped supplies to the boat, and a San Francisco pilot boat transferred some charts. (They didn’t have charts?)

When it got close enough, the Coasties towed Adventuress the last few miles to safe harbor at Pier 39.

As if things weren’t bad enough, a federal marshall met the boat as it tied up. Seems an outstanding warrant for the owner turned up in a routine Coast Guard check, and they informed the Feds. It was a false alarm, though. The names were the same, but the Adventuress’ owner wasn’t the wanted man.

At last report, the boat and crew were drying out and recuperating in peace.

ALAN OLSON

11T know that once we get the lumber to 1 the yard, the boat will just rise up off the ground,” says lanky 44-year old Alan Olson.

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Mexiqo in early 1985, the park where she was firet launched has since been named in her honor.

Launched in 1977, Olson guided the Stone Witch to a wide variety of callings.

There was a commercial fishing career that was terminated because it didn’t pay the bills.

Then the Stone Witch became involved in environmental whale watch expeditions with Greenpeace, an association that eventually led to her much publicized participation in the 1978 sea protest of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near Port San Luis.

Later Olson put his ferro cement schooner in the charter trade, although hardly of the genteel trade as suggested by advertisements in the back of glossy sailing magazines.

Those who paid to sail on the Stone Witch were not waited on hand and knee, but rather were expected to participate in every aspect of running and maintaining the vessel. Some charters were mere day trips off the coast of Hawaii, others included passages to Mexico, Guatemala and Micronesia. The trips were actually sail training sessons for paying students and working volunteers. i

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tion of a 99 gross ton sailing ship for which there currently is neither the funds to build with nor the site to build on. Most people would be considered whacko for speaking in such a way, but not Alan Olson. His admirers and crew call him ‘the wizard’.

For when Alan Olson (no relation to designer/builder George Olson of Santa Cruz) dreams, people believe. And this is a fortunate thing, because he doesn’t dream on a one man scale. “Alan dreams big,” says Merlyn Storm, one of Olson’s most ardent admirers, “therefore he must include others in his dreams.” Alan’s latest dream is his most grand, a slightly scaled down replica of the Galilee, a 134-ft brig that was locally designed and built by Matthew Turner in 1891.

Olson is best known to Northern California sailors as the creative force behind and skipper of his previous nautical vision, the Stone Witch, a 70-ft square-rigged schooner he built with family and friends during the mid 70’s in Alviso. A minor San Francisco Bay legend before she sank off the coast of

As a further development of these charters, in the summer of 1984 Olson and Merlyn Storm formed a sail training organization named Call of the Sea. This non-profit corporation was founded to be the vehicle that would provide San Francisco Bay youngsters an opportunity to get handson experience and education on sailing the sea. Many of the youngsters who participated in the program were either poor or minority youths, the very people who otherwise would not be likely to have access to

Call of the Sea co-founder remembers, “The Stone Witch was home to a large family.

Local fishermen, friends and passersby were welcomed to share a conversation, cup of coffee or boisterous party.” All boats have fans, but Olson’s Stone Witch had lovers.

On paper, the schooner belonged to Olson. In reality she belonged to her colorful family of crew, friends and fans, which included sailors and novices from all walks of life. There was ‘Dangerous’ Dan Shugrue, so named because he would always be the first to volunteer to climb the rigging during a storm or change the sail on the bowsprit.

Another was Bob ‘Bitchin’, a 6’4”, 300-pound biker and motorcycle magazine editor. Finding people to crew or work on the Stone Witch never proved to be a problem. \ While Olson accepted everyone who came aboard the Stone Witch and sought to learn from each, Storm says he’s an even better teacher. “He knew how to accept peoples’ level of ability, and then encourage them to go further. A teacher in every sense of the word, he made the hard things easier.

When we were uncomfortable during a storm,” Merlyn Storm continues, “he’d tell us, ‘ “As soon as we’re back on shore, with a hot cup of soup, we’ll forget all of this and tell stories about it.’ ” In other situations Olson would let the crew figure problems out for themselves, and most of them felt in the long run they were better off for not being babied.

“Alan’s theory on life intrigued a lot of us, too,” says Storm, recalling the many times friends of the Stone Witch would sit around the galley having philosophical discussions.

“His relationship to The Witch was one of equals — she was his teacher, as was the

"Alan dreams, big, therefore he must include others in his dreams. such an adventure.

“We wanted to share our calling of the sea with others,” explains Storm. “Even though other types of charters would have paid more, such as weddings and parties, we wanted to do something I’d call lifework.”

Berthed during much of this period at San Francisco’s Pier 31, the schooner functioned as something of a community center. The

sea. But he had built her, so he was her master. But her needs kept him busy and so it went — it was very symbiotic.”

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his confidence in the project spread to the crew. “He’d talk about the 'flow of energy’, and how if we’d start getting ready ourselves, people would begin signing up for the trip.

Most of us didn’t even know where Micronesia was at the time,” confesses Storm.

It turned out to be a case where there was ’no stopping the flow. “Someone put down a deposit for the trip and we started outfitting the ship,” Storm continues. “Sure enough, the energy flow brought more people our way and soon the deck was full of supplies and people working.”

The Stone Witch expeditions came to an abrupt halt on an uncharted rock off the southern tip of Tenacatita Bay in April of 1985. “We hit the rock, slid up and bounced,” Olson recalls. “Then the swell picked us up and slammed us against the rock about four times. Finally it lifted us over and we started to sail again — square sails and all.”

“As soon as we hit the rock,” the silverhaired Olson recalls, “I figured the boat was done for. Shit!”, I said, “the Stone Witch is gone!” Despite his immediate pessimism, he almost mechanically sprung into action. “1 was almost detached, analyzing the situation : How long will she stay afloat? Does she still have enough stability? Is there steerage?

Can we make it to shore? Can we pump fast enough?”

Within a very short time, it was apparent that pumping was not going to save thte schooner, nor could she make shore. Alan had all the passports, money and airline tickets gathered together, and then had the liferafts inflated. The first group abandoned ship five minutes after striking the rock.

Olson stayed behind with the second group.

“I was personally going to stay right with the boat until it was out from underneath me. You don’t leave a ship that’s floating.”

Particularly not one you’d built with your own hands and had been such a big part of your life. Ultimately th<* eight crewmembers, Olson included, had taken to the liferafts and were soon to be picked up by another sailboat that had fortuitously been cruising nearby. Everyone had been saved,, but in just 15 minutes the Stone Witch had gone to the bottom in 140 feet of water. And down there with it was Olson’s home, his way of life, and his dream._ Alan Olson’s next project is a smaller^replica of this ship, the ’Galilee’. til*"'page 123

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I I aving watched his boat sail under, top sails and all, Olson was uncharacteristically negative. “My first thoughts were to leave. The boat’s gone, let’s get out of town.” But his crew and numerous other supporters offered -to help try and salvage the schooner. Olson admits, “1 was ready to quit, but the group wasn’t and I was lifted by their spirits.”

Americans, Canadians and Mexicans worked on a volunteer basis for two months.

“Not one person got paid, even the Mexican diver that worked so hard. They just got sucked in by the energy,” says Olson. “It was constant hard work, made all the harder by the lack of proper equipment and in the face of the adversities of the sea. But no one thought of quitting.”

The Stone Witch was located and eventually raised from 140 feet of water. Having labored so mightily agaist such heavy odds, Olson and the crew discovered she was too badly damaged to be salvaged. She was resunk to her permanent resting place off Bahia Navidad. “A Stone Witch museum,” one supporter suggests.

Although the Stone Witch was now gone, Olson did feel a sense of relief. “We’d done the best we could,” he explains.

Ison has been doing the best he can since he was born 45 years ago in Minneapolis. He slipped into a hautical career as a teenager, driving motorboats in a waterski show. Despite a stint as a pre-med student, he’s been around boats ever since. His first voyage was down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico in a 40-ft catamaran, a boat that he characteristically built himself.

Perhaps Olson has a naturally easy way of dealing with life. Or perhaps it’s the lessons he’s learned from the sea. For whatever reason, he’s been able to live a low-key lifestyle many men would envy, and yet he’s still been able to launch his dreams with, from all appearances, exceptional ease.

Since his return from Mexico in July, Olson has been doing engineering work on a 70-ft yacht in Point Richmond to catch up financially. And even though he’s without a boat, he manages to go sailing more than jnost, boardsailing an average of four times a week. “My next paycheck,” he says with a smile, “I’m going to buy a new windsurfer.”

Like many sailors, Olson is not wealthy. His office/home is a small apartment in San Francisco’s North Point district. The apartment is cluttered with boardsailing gear and assorted Stone Witch memorabilia. Olson

does have wheels, a beat up 1968 Chevy van houses to carry his sailboard.

Upon realizing the Stone Witch was really gone last summer, Olson felt relief that he’d done his best to save her, but also relief because, “I was free now to start building another ship.” He’d been thinking about building a new ship for about a year before his schooner went down.

The ‘Galilee’ in port at Tahiti in 1895.'

He’d decided that the new ship should be larger than the 70-ft Stone Witch and built of wood rather than ferro-cement. “Not that there’s anything wrong with ferro cement, there isn’t,” he says, “but I want a traditionally built boat. Not a yacht, but a working schooner, one that requires a lot of sail handling.”

For these reasons, Olson has chosen to build a two-thirds version of the Galilee, a Matthew Turner designed brigantine that .Turner built in Benicia in 1891. The original

DREAMS IN MOTION tional building methods are not particularly difficult, they’re just not often used anymore.

Olson recognizes that progress has been Galilee was 134.5 at the waterline, had a beam of 33.5 feet and was 354 gross tons.

The scaled brig is to be 86 feet on the waterline, 22 feet of beam, 99 gross tons and 130 feet overall.

(Some sailors may have a faint recognition of the name Matthew Turner. A sistership of the Galilee he designed, Lurline, won the first two TransPac’s, in 1906 and 1908.)

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IS THE SEA CALLING YOU? This new Galilee will be built and owned by all of us. For those who want to join in the beginning, donations will help to lay the keel. Once the keel is laid, she takes on a life of her own.

Our start-up needs are seed money, shipbuilding tools and materials, and a boat for off ice/library/teaching space. And, of course, volunteers.

Contact Call of the Sea at 55 Sutter St. #534, San Francisco 94014 or (415) 392-6778.

There.will be a celebration of the new ship on January 2nd at the Sausalito Cruising Club from 5 p.m. on. We know this is short notice but everyone reading this in time to join the party is invited.

alilee was one of the last squarerigged ships to carry cargo before steam took over the shipping industry. A packet ship between San Francisco and Tahiti from 1891 to 1896, she averaged 28.5 days on her windward trips from Tahiti to San Francisco, an excellent record. Turner was considered one of the finest designers on the west coast during his time, regrettably the lines of all of his designs have been lost save one — those of Galilee. Interestingly enough, her stern has been preserved and can be seen today at Fort Mason.

Once completed, Olson believes the vessel will be suitable for both sail training and as a classic ship to represent San Francisco Bay. “There has been a renewed interest in classic sailing vessels,” he notes.

“Many cities on the eastern seaboard and most large European cities have ships to represent them and are regularly raced all over the world.” Olson believes that the San Francisco Bay Area would benefit from such a vessel.

Olson says that some of the funds .for building and maintaining the ship will come from student fees, but fully realizes “you could never charge the students what it'really costs”. Therefore he’s looking for as broadbased support as possible. “We would rather have as many sources as possible, as this would assure her long life and give greater depth to the community involvement.”

Thus funds for the project will be sought from corporate foundations, from individual donations, from membership fees, and from chartering oh weekends “when the students will go to work”.

Since one of the program goals of Call of the Sea is boatbuilding, and one of Olson’s desires is that traditional boatbuilding methods not be lost, the non-profit organization will build the boat themselves. “There’s much to be learned from the construction of a large traditional ship,” says Olson, “and the art of putting something like this ship together is fascinating.” He notes that tradi-

made in boatbuilding techniques for certain kinds of boats, racing boats in particular, but will build the new Galilee using the authentic methods. “There are a lot of new methods, but for this type of boat, which is not a race boat but a heavy-duty sailing vessel, one that will be used for hauling cargo up and down the coast, the traditional methods are best,” he maintains.

The first step in building a traditional boat is acquiring the lumber. “We’ll be selecting the wood ourselves,” says Olson. He plans on using California and Oregon Douglas fir.

Wood cutters will be hired to fell selected trees, which will then be hauled to a local mill where they will be cut to planking and framing sizes. Olson expects the boat will require about 100 tons of wood.

After doing research, Olson has concluded that winter is the most practical time to cut, because the wood must be cured before it can be used. The longevity of Douglas fir, he explains, is increased considerably if it’s cured properly.

Olson anticipates it will take one year to build the hull and another year to outfit the vessel. He hopes construction will begin this summer, and hopes that it will be on a site in Sausalito. While the new Galilee is being built,/the Call of the Sea sail training programs will continue during the summer using donated vessels.

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fls for construction of the new boat, Olson plans to have one or two head shipwrights to work and teach. Much of the actual work, he says, will be done by volunteers and students. Already, he says, “Lots of people are calling to say they want to volunteer.” Of course.

That’s it. That’s the ‘energy flow’ that Olson talks about. The ‘wizard’ is at it again.

You can almost feel the ground start to move

— terese pencak schwartz

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e’ve heard of some pretty incredible sailing achievements in our time, and ranking right up there near the very top is the voyage of the Express 27 Light’n Up in the 1984 Pacific Cup Race from San Francisco to Kauai. It’s a story that for some unknown reason has largely gone untold.

In short, it’s the tale of a nearly unbelievable achievement; two guys sailing a stock 27-ft boat across 1,100 miles of the Pacific in just the first four days of the race.

That’s an average of more than 11.50 knots — all day and all night for four days!

That’s like finishing a Lightbucket Race in just a little bit over two hours.

Like finishing the 86-mile Silver Eagle Long Distance Race before 4:30 in the afternoon.

Like doing a Windjammers Race to Santa Cruz in less than six hours.

Like doing the Oakland to Catalina Race in just over a day.

Like doing a MORA Long Distance Race to San Diego in less than a day and a half.

And remember, we’re talking a stock Express 27 with just two guys aboard. The two were the boat’s owner, Gary Clifford of San Rafael, a sales executive, and Jonathan Livingston, a Richmond architect.

Before the wind eased up and they came off their 96-hour balls out plane, Clifford and Livingston were only 50 miles behind Merlin, the TransPac record holding 67-foot ultralight that was being fully crewed. Merlin went on to set a new Pacific Cup elapsed time record of 9 days, 7 hours and 45 minutes. Little Light’n Up crossed the finish line just two days later, hot on the heels of another fully crewed entry, the Petersen 36 Surefire.

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lifford’s victory in the doublehand^d fleet was not unexpected. He and Jonathan had been part of a crack Midget Ocean Racing Club team on Light’n Up which won just about everything on the Bay and ocean in 1983. What astounded shoreside observers,

however, was their ability to go so fast for so long. San Francisco Chronicle writer Kimball Livingston even suggested that perhaps they were under the influence of a controlled substance which was screwing up their posi-

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“We had cocktails the first night out,” said Clifford recently, still stoked on the experience and eager to go again this year.

“The bottle never came out again. A glass of alcohol required two hours of rest and w.e couldn’t afford the time. The cans of beer we brought disintegrated in the bilge and we threw them overboard!” The only substances Gary and Jonathan indulged in were caffeine and adrenalin, the latter produced out of stark raving fear. “At night we were in total blackness,” says Gary, “and the boat was just going VRROOOOM! It was like the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland, only you could never get off!”

Fortunately for posterity, Gary and Jonathan, who’s also known as “Bird”, made a series of tape recordings during the race. Following are the annotated transcripts of those tapings, beginning with the trip out to the starting line at the Golden Gate on July 8th, 1984.

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To those who’ve never gone fast on a long ocean race the transcripts may sound like just so much meaningless babbling. To those who have, it will make all the sense in the

cJ onathan: All right! Here we are on the way out to the start. Clifford’s on the helm.

We’re right by Southampton and it’s blowing about 20 out here. There are a couple of Solings nearby going crazy. We’re going awfully crazy ourselves here . . .

Gary: (In the background) OOOUUUUWWWWW!!!!!

Jonathan: We got shit all through the boat. U doesn’t look too bad now, but I don’t know where it all went. We’ll find out on the first tack! We just had a pretty good send off.

Squad Car (a Hotfoot 21 also entered in the doublehanded division) is under sail and fully powered *a way. They’ve got a blade and full main up.

(Jonathan’s voice is excited and nervous.

There had been the usual last minute rush to get everything ready for sea. The pair had never doublehanded before, however. Instead of sailing they had spent the time working on the boat. It wasn’t until the ninth night of the race that they had to jibe for the first time. Gary, unaccustomed to steering and handling the lines while Jonathan took care of the pole, had his head bashed by the

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“Jonathan thought I was dead!” says Gary.)

Jonathan: Anyway, it’s noon on July 8th and we’ve got a one o’clock start. We’d better hustle. F-k! Put this thing away and let’s get going.

Gary: Yeah, let’s go! ^ Jonathan: Bird out.

(Break in tape)

down the westerlies, towards the trades. The latitude will change your attitude about this ocean. Ha! We blew up a lower a little while ago and Clifford fixed it. The main halyard went, too, and we have it up on the jib halyard right now. Heh, heh. But, shit, we’re lipping down the shoulder on the rim right now and hopefully we’re going to beat

Merlin . . . maybe she’ll get stuck in the high.

We’re averaging about 10 knots from Frisco, not doing bad. (Buffet continues to sing in the background.) We just had ourselves a rriarguerita. The SatNav doesn’t work worth a shit, but other than that . . .

Clifford: We have no idea where the f-k we are.

tJ onathan:‘We last left this effort on the way to the start . . . % Gary: We made the start with ten seconds to spare! (laughs) Jonathan: We headed out the Gate overpowered in about 30 knots of wind. It’s gnarly and we’re starting to get good ocean conditions. We’re making about nine and a half knots and we have porpoises on our stern.

It’s about 7:30 and I’m going out to fix the tiller. The screw’s coming loose a little bit.

Clifford’s been driving about an hour and a half. We were both feeling kind of queasy to start with, and we both almost puked.

Gary: Almost!

Jonathan: We almost had technicolor all over the cockpit. This dodger is great man.

I’m going to quit jawing before I get sick down here and go out to catch the last of this wonderful evening.

(Break in tape. During the first 24 hours, Light’n Up averaged over 12 knots, covering almost 2JdO miles with just the storm jib and double reefed main up. At one point the main halyard broke, as did a bolt on the lower shroud. Gary fixed the latter by himself, a task he says was one of the low points of the race. The main was jury rigged on the jib halyard, but eventually Jonathan had to climb to the top of the spar to affect repairs. “It’s only a 2,000 pound boat,” says Gary, “and we were putting 150 pounds at the very top of the spar. I tried to keep the boat under him, but we were swerving all over the ocean. If we had to do it again, we would have left the chute up for stability.”)

cJ onathan: Here it is, folks! Monday evening, twilight, 8:49 &nd the kite’s up.

Clifford is white teethed . . . white knuckled!

(Laughs) Jimmy Buffet is on (music in the background) and we’re rolling. The last 24 hcmrs were wet and miserable . . .

Gary: (From the cockpit) It’s the moon!

The moon is up!

Jonathan: What else do you have to say for yourself, Clifford?

Gary: F-king great!

Jonathan: So here we are. Jimmy singing with us and we’re doing about 20 knots now, j>age I 28

THE PACIFIC CUP Gary: I can truthfully say that I’ve never been so terrified in my , entire existence.

(More water noise.)

Jonathan: Terrified is the word, eh?

Gary: If this wasn’t such a great yacht this would be a horrifying experience! It’s pitch black. I can see nothing but the spinnaker and the compass, and we’re knocking off 20’s . . . (Jonathan chortles) . . . probably never going under 15. (In the background is the sound of sails flapping.)

Jonathan: You’re at 210 . . . (More sail noise . . . someone grunts . . . sails flog for several seconds . . . sounds of a sheet being winched in.) Well, we just got a round up on tape. (They both laugh.) We have a double reefed main and a kite and we’re just winging along here. Every time we round up it comes around like a champ. I guess losing that main halyard was a blessing in disguise. We’re clicking off 22 coming down a wave now.

Can’t see shit . . . just blasting into the night haphazardly.

Gary: We have no idea where we are.

My beard is killing me. It’s grinding on the velcro strap of my foul weather gear. (Noise of the water increases.) Yeeoowww! Help Mr. Wizard! We haven’t slept all night, but it’s worth it. Steering about 210 for Hawaii. This is 10 July, 4:20 in the morning. Bird out.

(Break in tape. Gary later reported that they often were sailing faster than the waves, surfing up the back of a sea and then charging down the face to the next one. Waves would pick them up and throw them farther than if they had been a heavier boat. Even with the autopilot on during their halfway dinner, they were able to hit 16 knots with no problems. “It was an awesome feeling to sit across from your mate down below eating dinner and realize that no one was driving!” recalls Gary.)

life was in Jonathan’s hands. “1 sure hope he keeps his act together!” Gary remembers thinking.)

(In the next section, neither sailor is clearly identified, but it’s clear the dialogue is more important than who is saying what.)

Jonathan: Yeah, but we’re going towards Hawaii anyway. Oh yeah, by the way, we broke out the smut magazines tonight.

(Pause) I’m amazed, man, what I’m missing back home. This is incredible. Anyway, this is Bird, it’s damn near nine o’clock and it’s all grey . But our spirits, are high. Until next time, out . . .

(One of the unexpected pleasures Gary and Jonathan discovered on the race was that when they went off watch they could be completely alone down below. Gary loved the solitude, describing the experience like sailing singlehanded but having someone with whom to share. They also developed extraordinary trust for one another. Turning the helm over for the first time when they were hitting 18 knots, Gary realized that his page 129

^\ll right, sucker!

All right, what? (Both voices sound tired.)

Let’s have a blow by blow description of how doublehanders sail at night going 200 miles an hour. (In the background is the sound of water rushing by the hull.) Oh, man . . .

Grab the sheet here . . .

It’s the blind leading the blind. (The water noise gets very loud.)

Course?

210 right on the button. (Water noise increases.) Good wave, good wave!

Yeeoouuwww!! Compass is 195 . . . 200 . . . 210. Warp speed! (Laughter.)

No shit, man, no shit. (Water noise increases even more.)

(Pause) Jonathan: Well, how do you feel tonight? /

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C/onathan: Hey! Here we are! Speed night! Tuesday night at the drags!

Gary: We’re easily going to have a 300 mile day . . .

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Jonathan: I was out to lunch, going to sleep, reading Hustler . . . hey, hey. Gary’s out here dreaming of big mountains (voice slurring slightly), dreaming of Pike’s Peak.

We’ve got froth coming out of the back of the boat . . . steam, smoke. What have you got to say for yourself, Clifford?

Gary: A 25-foot rooster tail! I’ve never gone so fast for so long in my whole life!

Jonathan: I thought that’s what you said last night?

Gary: This is better . . . Ha! Jonathan: (Laughs.) Anyway, we finally

SQUALLDUSTING got a fix today and found out where we were. Thank God! The radio doesn’t work very good, looks like we might be low on power or something. We’ll check it out tomorrow. I’m going to heat up some tunes right now and a little chow later.

Gary: Oooouuuwww! (Water sound rises.)

Jonathan: Here we go again! Oh, a mere 16. Ha, ha!

Gary: We’ve got to be averaging better than 16.

Jonathan: Great! Well, to be continued at dinner call. It’s . . . (yawns) . . . 7:30 and out.

(Break in tape. Neither sailor slept much during the first four days. On the fifth day Jonathan fell into a deep sleep and it was difficult for Gary to wake him at dusk. When the Bird came on deck to help call the compass, he was still in his dreams, a phenomenon which repeated itself for the next couple of days. They both also experienced hallucinations, including repeating sightings of the South Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge off the starboard quarter, the birdcage off Richmond, and even a bakery.

“I smelled fresh baked bread all around me!" says Gary.)

cJ onathan: Okay, folks. Here it is. (Voice sounds very tired.) What day is today? It’s July 14th, Saturday at 10:30 in the morning and Clifford is still on watch.

Gary: We just made ouf morning report and it appears we’re right up there with Sir Isaac ,a Burns 49, the Rhodes 58 Natoma and Surefire , a Frers 36.

Jonathan: Kicking their ass, man.

Gary: We’re in this for second boat to finish.

Jonathan: We’re hanging in there, man.

The boat is pulling out all the stops. F-kin’ Light’n Up has become a real lively critter here. We’re down to our last pair of underwear and our butts are really starting to get infected.

Gary: That’s the bad news. The good news is . . .

Jonathan: The good news is we found . . . (His speech is very sloppy at this point) ... we found our calling . . . We’re now officially the founding members of the Squadbusters . . . No! . . . The Squallbusters . . .

The Squallbusters Gang. (He plays the theme from the movie Ghostbusters loudly in the background.) This is our theme song here.

(When the song gets to “Ghostbusters,” the two of them shout “Squallbusters!”)

That’s what we did last night: we busted a

few squalls!! How many did we get?

(Yelling.) Pig F-ker! Rat F-ker! Mother F-ker! Iron Balls! Panty Raider! They all got us, all those squalls. We took them for a ride!

Got them bastards. (He sings “Who you gonna call? Squallbusters!” along with the music.) We ain’t afraid of no squalls!! (Voice almost hoarse.) Squallbusters. (Music fades away.) Yes, folks, that’s how it was last night. From sundown to sunrise, fighting the mighty elements.

Gary: We averaged 16 knots throughout the event. (His voice is hoarse too.)

Jonathan: It was just incredible, bounding from wave top to wave top. In the morning you wouldn’t believe what the boat looked like. It had fish skeletons coming-out of the scuppers . . . we just tore the skin right off those fish when they,got caught. Man, we had seaweed hanging in the rigging. (Gary is laughing and gasping in the background.) It was just incredible. Our hair was stiff from the salt.

Gary: We looked like a motorcycle gang but instead of bugs we had fish and squid all over the windshield.

Jonathan: Yeah! (Laughs) Man, this poor boat. It’s holding up real well. I couldn’t believe it. Clifford did the first ever crest'to crest leap on an Express. He must have been airborne for at least 20 seconds. (Clifford laughs in the background.) We were busting those squalls and they fought back hard.

There were heavy casualties suffered on both sides.

Gary: Demon wayes and darter waves Jonathan: Darter waves, man! These demon waves from the dark sides of the clouds . . . they come zipping around and they get coordinates from the master controller himself. They’d come and get you right in the face ... Splot! . . . Water right down to your goulashes.

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1X nyway, here we are. We’ve got about 900 miles to go and it appears to be a pretty quick trip. Merlin’s not setting any record, but we sure are. (Note: Merlin did set a Pacific Cup record.) So this is Bird, Cliff’s in the cockpit. Oh! Were we . . . are . . . were we tired. How tired were we? Man, we were tired.

Gary: Actually, I was real tired until we started squallbusting and the adrenalin was awesome. Twelve hours we were steadily in squalls.

Jonathan: We had this great crash. The

last squall . . . what was it, Panty Raider?

Who got us the last time?

Gary: Yeah, Panty Raider.

Jonathan: We were getting to the end of our adrenalin. We had the Squallbusting theme on and we-were giving them a last go ... we were zooming up to 30 knots . . .

Gary: We looked up in the sky and here was this squall, Lord, the dark side of the page 130

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Jonathan: We couldn’t believe it! The cloud had this face with this smile on it, iike it was saying (in Cheech and Chong voice) “Hey, Hey, Man. Hey, salami! We going to get you!! Hargh, Hargh.” We were laughing at him and saying “Yeah, right! Nothing can stop an Express!” We don’t know what happened. He must have sent out one of his

SQUALLDUSTING THE PACIFIC CUP demons.

Gary: A demon rogue wave!

Jonathan: . . . and we didn’t have our infrared detectors on. We’ve got these great hats that all Squallbusters must wear: World War One flying helmets with big infrared goggles for catching them spitters and them demons and rogue waves. Anyway, we were zipping along'in the 30’s. Easy 30’s, right?

Gary: Easy 30’s.

Jonathan: (Laughs) We were singing the Ghostbusters theme and I was shooting machine guns at the sky “ while Gary was steering at 30 with two fingers on the helm.

Out of the blue, man, this f-king demon came up and got in our rudder and just knocked us on our ear. There we were . . .

Christ!, there we were: pinned, laughing, the Squallbusters theme blaring out of the stereo, a thousand miles from any human, any moral human, any normal, sane human. There we were on our ear and that little f-ker took a couple of our drinking mugs right out of the cockpit, and a couple of towels, a couple of pairs of our dirty underwear, and a couple of used rubbers.

Boom! Gone! He got us. We were still

N laughing when we got up. F-king seaweed hanging from the the boat. (Gary laughs in the background.) We were going near 30 when we got going again. What a night, folks, what a night!!

Well, we’ll bring you ringside, live activity tonight when the Light’n Up once again joins Gary: Squallbusters!

Jonathan: . . . joins forces with the light side to meet the dark side tonight around „ . . oh . . . the witching hour. About 10 o’clock is when they start getting real mean and heavy. Until then, this is Bird and Cliff, out.

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he tapes end here. In the lighter air of the last half of the race, Light’n Up couldn’t match the larger boats speed with their longer waterlines. Her speed dropped, although Gary says they were still able to surf

frequently on the waves. They also spent almost four hours near the finish chasing a boat which fired off a flare. The Coast Guard requested that they stay near the vessel because there were no other boats in the area. After vainly trying to catch the mysterious craft, Light’n Up broke off and x headed for the finish at Nawiliwili on the island of Kauai.

Both Gary and Jonathan are eager to repeat the race. They say the bonding they experienced was worth the whole trip and they recommend it highly to others. There has been talk of an Express 27 one-design fleet in the 1986 race, which starts on July 4th. Jonathan and Gary have also considered it a triplehanded race. The extra weight of a third sailor would theoretically be offset by having a fresh driver on the helm at all times.

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LIFE WITH GREGORY

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hat began as a bedraggled blob of wet, black fluff ended up totally dominating our lives for one summer. It was a baby duck we rescued from what was then the free anchorage in the commercial basin of Point Loma, a place fondly known as The

Gregory, at home on top of a can of beans.

Bay of Pigs. The free anchorage was home to many floating folks as, well as sundry schools of ducks. The latter were primarily raised on cat food.

It all started out when I watched as six ducklings dwindled to a last, sickly looking specimen. He was obvious proof that ducklings don’t fare too well on the cat food so generously tossed out by the local population. Sickly as it was, it still required great skill at the oars of my small dinghy and a great determination to capture the little beast. There was surprisingly little objection from its mother; she swam off grumbling as if to say, “It’s your problem now!”

The parental urges of my captain are of a very low order. His first fond remark was, “But it’s going to shit everywhere!” Then I pointed out that this was very unlikely to happen unless we found it something it would eat. We went through our provisions and tried tempting our new infant with breadmush, rice mush, sprout mush, oat mush, mush mush, etc. We rammed it down his throat, stuck his beak in it, his head in it, his feet in it — but he simply did not grasp the fact that it was food. When we finally got to the stage of looking for a likely coffin, he began pecking at things. Where there is a

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peck ttrere is a swallow, and in no time he was pecking and gulping at top speed. This habit of pecking at everything — edible or not — earned him his name Gregory Peck. It also earned him a certain amount of verbal abuse through the following months.

Once Gregory decided we were his parents he became as demanding as any small child. He would squeek and squeal in fifty different sharps and flats as soon as we were not in bodily contact with hjm. Watching TV he was hand-held, where he contentedly chirruped and dozed. While I cooked in the galley, he’d sit on one of my feet. When I moved across the galley, he’d fall off and patter behind me, squeakingxuntil I stood still long enough for him to climb back onto a foot again.

I f I dared go to the head, he stood shrieking at the top of the three steps down to the saloon. Then he would do a kamakazi dive and arrive — with a plop — in the salon Then he’d patter off squeaking in the direction in which I’d disappeared. As I sat on my throne trying hard to ignore him, I’d see him flapping past the head; then he’d put on the breaks, turn around and peer at me over the door frame.

It was another kamakazi act when he attempted to hurl himself over the door frame into the head. Eventually he’d flap over and fall in to sit contentedly on a foot. From this I discovered that feeling guilty about going to the head can be constipating. But anything was better than listening to the infernal noise of an irate, ignored duckling. If we left him on board alone, we could hear him clear across the anchorage as we rowed ashore!

At night he was bedded down in a carton with a glass jar of hot water and a soft cloth to snuggle against. It didn’t work too well.

We had to put out the lights and lay there in the dark, hardly daring to breath; while he

beat himself to exhaustion trying to get out of the carton. The noise was incredible — and went on for 15 to 20 minutes every night!

Finally he’d fall asleep and we could continue with any normal night time activities.

Can somebody please tell me how this happened? We were the ultimate, unat¬

tached cruisers: no firm ties to friends, family, parrot, dog or cat. And yet here we were, -n not only associated with, but dedicated and devoted to a fluffing duck! I recall days and a

windy night rowing around the anchorage calling for my duck. Just another anchorage freako! Or driving all over San Diego and its suburbs, from one pet shop to another looking for special duckling feed so he’d grow up with strong teeth and bones. Thank God his teeth never made it, as his pecker was bad enough without them.

I n the early stages his little squirts were too small to be offensive, but we noticed how he lifted his rear before he projected ‘it’ quite some distance away from whatever nest he had at the time. If you paid attention you could catch it in a paper towel before it landed. Spending an evening trying to predict the direction of a duckling’s squirts is not a fun evening.

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time the captain fell asleep in front of the TV with Gregory nestled under his chin. When the captain began to snore, I watched with sadistic fascination as Gregory woke up an-

Ducks find things to peck at in the strangest places.

They peck hard, too.

noyed by the rhythmic gale that ruffled his fluff. He'looked up at the source of his irritation and noticed an interesting tidbit flapping in the breeze — inside the left nostril of the captain. Closer and closer he peered, and then — showing great agility and speed — he plunged his beak in and jerked out a hair!

The captain suddenly sat up straight with a shriek and cracked his head on and instantly destroying a reading light. Now that was fun!

So was having a duckling swimming around in a plastic bowl as an interesting centerpiece on the table at a dinner party. As long as he didn’t spy something on a plate that he felt he deserved for dinner.

We took Gregory to the beach with us, dragging along his own pool. But he didn’t page I 35

care for the temperature of the water, the sun or the noise. He much preferred a weekend with friends at a Newport Beach condo where the swimming pool and hot tub

way.

Then there was the next stage; at about four weeks he entered the terrible fours. His squirts became definite shits, and he liberally streaked everything from about two feet down to the cabin sole. It removed varnish and attracted flies — and gave the captain endless opportunities to say, “I told you so!”

1 was forever washing down floors and furniture with disinfectant while the captain tore out his hair — which is very strange as he has none.

Poor Gregory was banished to a newspaper-lined cockpit which looked like a pig pen. Yet all the newspapers I could carry were not sufficient to cope with the problem.

Our boat was the one with the black cloud of flies hovering over it. About this time we decided Gregory needed to learn how to swim in the ocean, but he had other ideas.

As fast as we put him into the water, he leaped out of it. We actually had to bathe him to keep him clean. What kind of a duck was this? He prefered riding in the basket of my bike to swimming.

Finally, Peck found himself banished to the small raft alongside our boat. He had a

were much to his liking. He also liked the cat’s water dish, although not the cat. Nor did he like the two year old child who thought he was a bug and kept trying to stomp on him.

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hen he was very young, Gregory Peck travelled in my blouse. There he wriggled happily and earned me some strange looks in the Point Loma Safeway. However, he rapidly became a local character as he accompanied me around the area on my bike.

It was in Pacific Marine Supply that we discovered a real step-mother 'for him, as Chris Frost put a black feather duster over him as he pattered up and down the counter top. Instant silence! At this stage he would follow me to the ends of the earth, waddling behind me at top speed, squeaking all the /

The fledgling amphibian gets an assist from a ramp during his early days.

nice little house on it, with a nice little ramp into the water should he change his not so nice little mind about swimming. We learned that the best time for him to be brought inside for a visit was first thing in the morning — before he’d had his breakfast. He was

LIFE WITH THE PECKER hungry, but more important he was empty.

Hunger made him very inquisitive and he’d flap around pecking and pulling at everything. I was brushing my teeth in the head one morning when I heard this incredible noise. Like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in swim fins — in my galley! There was this bump under a dish-cloth, with big yellow feet, flapping around and bouncing off the furniture. My dishcloth hangs over a stainless bar in front of the stove. Gregory had jumped up and pecked a corner down.

It fell over his head, covering him and resulted in this wild and crazy blind tap

Daddy scraps the barnacles while Gregory pecks.

dance around the galley.

ne sunny day, the captain decided to clean the bottom of the dinghy and Gregory waddled around on top, eating all the goodies the ocean had deposited over the

months. Not a good idea! Ever seen a duck vomitS We brought him inside when he began looking pale and ill. He began by shaking his head violently from side to side, and the half-digested icky, green, snotty vomit flew everywhere around the cabin. We hid in the saloon, neither of us daring to enter the galley and risk getting sprayed. I felt it was the captain’s duty, as it was he that Gregory had helped all afternoon and thus had we arrived at our demise.

Just when we were convinced we had a queer duck on our hands, he discovered the water. 1 was rowing home across the anchorage one evening when a small feathered bomb appeared and flew around the dinghy, flapping on top of the water in great delight.

Eventually we went swimming with him and he enjoyed riding on a shoulder or back.

In the middle of this hot summer, we agreed to look after our favorite cocker spaniel for two weeks. At first we were afraid for Gregory in case he ended up as spaniel mush, but our fears were unfounded.

Gregory had developed into a mean and agressive pile of pin-feathers, and gave poor spaniel a bad time. We had to protect spaniel from Gregory! \ As the summer progressed, his plumage appeared and I was sure for a few weeks that we’d have to change his name to something a little more feminine. But then his head turned into a shimmering blue-green and the feathers on the tip of his wings acquired the brilliance of a male mallard. Newly clothed, he started to disappear at night to show off his new duds. Early in the morning he’d be there doing a tap dance on the raft, craning his neck until he looked like a swan, trying to catch a glimpse of us through the galley port.

But more and more often he’d vanish to reappear a day later — just in time for dinner.

We ended the summer with a week in Catalina, leaving Gregory at home to be fed by a neighbor. It was then he ran away from

home. I choose to ignore the captain’s comment about Gregory having his last swim in orange sauce, and believe he is that magnificent male mallard that comes around for a hand-out, trailing three devoted female comp'anions.

T 1 he captain highly recommends raising a duck instead of a child. All the problems are over in one summer, then they leave home never to be seen again. (Especially if you push off for the South Pacific as we did.)

Best of all, he says, if the little rubbish won’t oblige and leave home, you can always have him for dinner.

I just wish to leave you with a warning: if you see a pathetic duckling swimming around your boat, remember to resist the temptation to adopt, or you could lose your heart, your sanity and your hair.

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THE LATITUDE 3B INTERVIEW

BRUCE PERLOWIN The gentleman in the photograph at left is Bruce Perlowin. When the photograph was taken last November, he was being held in the San Francisco County Jail. He’s still in that jail and is likely to remain in federal prisons for the next five to ten years.

The 34-year-old Perlowin is incarcerated for smuggling pot into the United States. He was not a small time importer, but what authorities have called the biggest pot smuggler on the west coast. We’re talking in the range of 350,000 pounds of Columbian and Thai pot over a five year period, weed with a wholesale value of $125 million.

He must have smuggled it into Florida — is that what you’re thinking? No way. Virtually all of it came in here, to San Francisco Bay. Fourteen trips were offloaded at the Castro Point Pier just north of the Richmond Bridge that his organization controlled, and one Thai trip was offloaded at Redwood City. In other words all this smuggling was going on right under our noses.

Perlowin is a very intelligent and gentle guy. Some smugglers are like that. This interview was his idea. Part of the reason for it is probably ego, part of.it just wanting let the secret out in the open after all these years.

What’s an interview with a dope smuggler doing in a sailing magazine? We think that question will answer itself as you read this and the next installment. People who smuggle dope by boat affect boater’s lives in ways the innocent simply don’t realize. The purpose of this interview is to make you aware of what’s really going on out there. If you love sailing and cruising, we think you’ll be fascinated — and disgusted. We know we were.

38: How did you get started in smuggling?

Bruce: I basically grew up in it. 1 went to Norland Senior High in North Miami, and I started selling nickel bags in high school. Then I sold ounces, then pounds . . . , 38: Where did you get the weed to sell?

Bruce: Through the local hippies. This was back in 1968 and 1969. Then my friends all went to college and drug smuggling started to come into the country other than through the Mexican Connection at California, Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico — specifically around Tampa, Florida. From there it was distributed in Tampa itself and Gainsville because those are college towns. My friends in Tampa and Gainsville would drive some of it down to Miami and we’d sell it there. ' Later the trend got reversed. The drugs started coming into South Florida; Miami, Fort Launderdale, the Keys, and then was distributed up the state.

38: So what happened after you sold pounds?

Bruce: Well one day this guy in Gainsville brought down 50 pounds and asked if he could store it in my house. At that time 1 was into yoga and organic gardening and I had quit selling dope. But I said ‘sure’. After a few times of doing that, I realized I could sell the page 139

pot as well as store it and make more money. So after a few weeks I was selling the whole 50 pounds. Then I slowly got back into selling, eventually working up to seljmg thousands of pounds.

38: When you got to the big scale were you going directly to Columbia to buy the stuff?

Bruce: No. I had bqcome such a good salesman that I told the smugglers I wanted to be partners with them. These guys were bringing the stuff in by boat and plane. Eventually 1 did become partners with them and thenjbecame a smuggler myself.

You see, in South Florida you can either smuggle it all the way from Columbia or Jamaica into the country, or you can offload a big freighter off Florida, or you can offload from the Bahamas where freighters have dumped it on the beaches. I did all of these things; I smuggled my own trips, 1 did plane trips, I smuggled from the Bahamas, 1 did offloading — there was a job to do every week down there. Eventually, as in any business, you get to know the people involved, and if you are good at what you do, you’re just in business.

38: Was it dangerous?

Bruce: South Florida was real dangerous; there are a lot of guns there. It was really crazy, which is why I moved to California in the first place. It’s so much more mellow out here.

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What time frame are you talking about?

Bruce: A lot of hippies were bringing the pot in and turning the country on in the late 60’s and early 70’s. My first smuggle was in 1975 — I was 24 then. But to show you how violent it gqt, one of my partners put a contract out on another one of my partners. (Spoken with a tone of total disbelief). So that was the ultimate thing that made me decide tb come to California — that and wanting to ;

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Florida trained with years of experience, develop the market out here.

Actually I had been preparing the California market and to relocate out here for years. 1 had been flying pot out here on commerical planes and everything. So when these guys put a contract out on each other and the hit man got caught and made headlines all over, 1 stayed out here in California and never went back.

38: Were you carrying arms on all your operations?

Bruce: No. I’ll tell you one of the most violent episodes in my experience, however. I had $250,000 of pot in one of my stash houses in Florida, and six guys came and beat the hell out of my watchman and stole all the pot. They almost killed him, in fact, because he wouldn’t tell them where the other stash house was.

38: Were they ordinary thieves or what?

Bruce: We tracked them down, because when you rip off a dope smuggler in Miami, the next week the guy makes another half million dollars so he hires people to go after you. So we hired a private investigator to go after these guys, and we tracked it down to a guy who was working as a confidential informant for the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) — who was wanted by the FBI on a murder rap. The DEA was actually hiding him from the FBI so he could do work for them! That all blew up in the papers, so we just backed off, figuring the guy had enough problems without us going after him.

It became a very violent arena down in South Florida. One of my best friends, for example, was shot six times in the head. That was on a coke deal. I stayed away from coke because the coke people are all nuts; the people in Columbia, the people who smuggle it, the people who sell it and the people who use it. They’re all gun-happy.

It’s interesting, because in the beginning of dope smuggling you had a lot of Cubans who were the wild men, right? Because they wanted to take Cuba back from Castro and were very militant. Then you had the Columbians who brought in their crazy people, the ones now known as the ‘cocaine cowboys’. The Columbians are much more violent than the Cubans ever were. What I mean by that is that they have a lot less regard for human life. In a dispute the Cubans

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appropriate response to the problem. might kill you, but the Columbians would kill your entire family; your uncles, kids, aunts — everybody. That’s sort of the way they do things in Columbia.

So there was always that type of violence. And then if you don’t pay quick enough they’d kill your family. If you gave a guy a couple of hundred thousands dollars of pot and he gets busted or ripped off, how do you deal with that? It just got more and more violent, so I

moved west.

38: What about th^ authorities back in South Florida. Are things pretty crooked?

Bruce: It’s really corrupt down there; I mean you’re talking about millions of dollars. There were three cocaine dealers killed — again it’s cocaine where almost all the violence turns up. But the last time the three guys were seen alive was with policemen, and now the policemen are under investigation for the murder of the three smugglers. And the investigation is showing that the police were giving their confidential informants badges and uniforms to rip off dope dealers and kill them.

38: Is there less corruption in the state and national agencies? For example, the Coast Guard, is these less opportunity for corruption there? \ Bruce: It’Incorrupt all over and I’ll give you a typical example. The Oregon Beaver was busted here on San Francisco Bay several months ago with 60,000 pounds of pot. Now they say by the time it got to the Coast Guard station there was only 45,000 pounds.

38: How do you know about the discrepancy in the amount of pot seized and the amount eventually brought to the station?

Bruce: First I know it because I saw the 60,000 pound figure on TV — and I had thought that’s ridiculous because you can’t fit 60,000 pounds on a boat that size — especially with Thai weed which is much bulkier. And then I saw the size of the packages and I realized that in fact you can fit 60,000 pounds into the Oregon Beaver because the bales were much smaller than the normal Columbian ones. Later there came out a report that there were only 45,000 pounds — and the government started investigating it! They don’t know what happened to the 15,000 pounds. Now they’re saying there was only 45,000 in the beginning.

But according to my sources — and I will not reveal who those sources are — there are 15,000 pounds missing somewhere. And I do get pretty accurate information.

38: Well do you have any first hand knowledge of national agencies being corrupt?

Bruce: (Laughter) My firsthand experience is when the DEA informant came and stole $250,000 of pot from my guy. Although I have to say I consider that better than being arrested. I was glad they did it that way — except they beat up my guy.

38: Tell us how you came to start up business here ih California.

Bruce: Since 19741 had been flying the best pot of every load out here. Californians are real choosy and they’ll only accept the very best stuff. So I was flying the best ten percent of everything I got to sell out here.

So one day I was atop Skyline Blvd. in a van delivering a load to a guy at a vista view. He pulls up in his van and I say, “Quick, let me throw the bale in your truck and we’ll split”. The guy said to me, “Hey relax, we can see for two miles in all directions, nobody is going to bother us up here.” Then I hear a howling in the background and I asked him what it is. He tells me it’s a coyote. And there’s a full moon, and we’re overlooking the lights of San Francisco, and we’re overlooking the mountain, and the guy is completely relaxed. And he’s telling me “thank you” for bringing the pot to him because now we have a way of making money. Besides, this guy’s wife worked for the Whole Earth Catalog, and those folks were my heroes back then.

So here he is thanking me, I’m making $100 a pound more than in Florida, it’s a completely mellow scene, and it’s beautiful overlooking the Bay — at that moment I decided I was going to move my operapage i 40

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But for the next few years I just flew pot out in suitcases on commerical airlines.

38: Wasn’t that a risky way to do things?

Bruce: No, back then it wasn’t. It was funny because we’d try and stuff 100 pounds in just three suitcases and it really got absurd. In the beginning we used hard suitcases, American Tourister. Then we realized that nobody was checking, so we used soft sided cases so we could stuff more pounds in. We’d just check the cases in and pick them up here on the west coast.

38: Did you personally fly on the planes, or did you hire other people to do it?

Bruce: I did it numerous times myself, I also hired a couple of girls to fly back and forth a couple of times. I also had some men do it.

38: What did somebody get paid for doing something like that?

Bruce: I don’t remember what it was back then. Five hundred or $1000, something like that, with all expenses paid.

38: Did any of them ever get caught? . Bruce: No, hever.

38: You’re talking about what, 100 trips in all?

Bruce: I’d guess between 50 and 100.

38: Then what did you do with it once you had it out here, sell it all over the state?

Bruce: Yeah. Palo Alto mostly, that’s where I based out of. I had a customer in Half Moon Bay, another down in Santa Cruz.

38: You sold them bulk loads?

Bruce: Yeah. Say I would bring out 500 pounds in five trips. So I’d give a couple of hundred to this guy, a couple of hundred to that guy, and one to that guy, and that would be it. I had a half dozen to a dozen customers back then and I was developing more.

38: Were you rolling in money then?

Bruce: I had a lot of money and was making a lot of money, but I was re-investing it.

38: Give us a rough figure of the kind of money you made.

Bruce: In that first month of 1975, for example, I made my first $100,000. It was ten days worth of work. From then on I was making about that maybe once a month. It’s hard to average out though, because sometimes you’d make a quarter of a million but then the next thing you know somebody would get busted and you’d lose the weight or you’d get ripped off. So it’s hard to come up with an accurate figure for back then.

But I had made well over a million by the time I moved to California, I know that.

38: Is that in your pocket or were, you re-investing it in boats and stash houses and stuff?

Bruce: I was re-inventing it. I had a legal business which was doing really good, called the Magic Woodsman. I imported redwood from California to Florida and manufactured redwood burl tables.

38: And then what (laughter), shipped them back to California?

Bruce: Actually some of them we did. We shipped all over the country. We also did cypress from the Everglades and mahogany from Belize.

38: Tell us about the smuggling jobs that came up the west coast, when did that start?

Bruce: The first trip I did on the west coast was in 1978, and was the first of many. The trip was done with a bunch of guys from the Florida Everglades; their group of people and my group of people. It was an Alaskan crab boat — I can’t remember the name of it — that page 141

went all the way down to Columbia and was supposed to pick up 30,000 pounds. Unfortunately, it could only pick up 16,000 when it got there. Somebody had made a mistake; the boat could carry 30,000 pounds of fish and ice which are denser than pot. I didn’t know enough about boats then to catch the mistake, so they had to leave 14,000 pounds on the beach in Columbia.

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38:

You say ‘they’; did you ever go on the trips yourself?

Bruce: No. I’ve never been on a boat. I mean I’ve been out fishing and stuff, but never on a smuggling trip.

38: How do the people on the boat know where the hell to go in Columbia to pick the pot up?

Bruce: In this case the Alaskan crab boat met the Columbian guide in Panama and he guided them in. In later trips they’d meet in Costa Rica — either Golfito or Puntarenas. In some cases the captains and crews were on their second and third trips and knew exactly where to go. In those cases we didn’t need a guide.

38: Was there a great danger in getting caught in Columbia?

Bruce: Yes, there were a couple of times when it was close. Once the Navy started practicing beach landings right near the beach we were operating out of. So that delayed the boat three days. Had it gotten there two or three days earlier, it would have been busted.

38: But only by chance?

Bruce: Right. That part of Columbia is very secluded, there are no

interview: roads or even rivers around there. We actually had to fly the pot over three Columbian mountain ranges to get it to^the beach, it was that undeveloped. Our pot came from central Columbia, a place southeast of Bogata called the Yanos (spelling is probqbly not correct) , because again Californians are very picky about their weed and accept only the best, and that’s where the best grew.

So we’d fly the stuff over the three mountain ranges to the ocean and dump the bales out of the plane when it flew over the beach.

Then we’d hire the whole village to gather it and store it.

38: What kind of planes were they?

Bruce: DC-3’s and DC-4’s with cargo doors.

38: Were you involved With that or did you only enter the picture later on?

Bruce: I was involved with paying for the plane transportation, but during this part of my life I never went down to Columbia. 1 had earlier, however. By this time it was all being arranged by the Columbians themselves. I just paid the money up front to cover it.

38: Were the Columbians trustworthy,- or was it a dicey deal?

Bruce: They were real trustworthy because you only paid them $10 a pound up front. Besides, by the time I got to California I had been dealing with the same Columbians for four or five years. So 1 had a good reputation and so did they, In addition I was paying $55 to $75 a pound, and they were only getting $10 a pound up front.

They only got the rest of their money after the pot got in and was sold in the States. So they had as much at stake in seeing the trip work out as I did.

38: So you paid $75 a pound for the pot in Columbia; what did you sell it for in Northern California.

Bruce: An average of $300 a pound. The highest I ever sold for was $385. But the average was $300 to $325.

38: All right, so that first shipment got through, what happened Bruce: No, no, that one did not get through! The Alaskan crabber did not work out. We were going to offload in a place called Hidden Beach in Northern California, it’s about a hour drive above Eureka at a small town called Orrick. We were up there waiting for the boat to come In, but before it could get in the Coast Guard overflew the plane twice and saw the bales of pot on the deck.

This was typical of the kind of screwups you get in smuggling operations. The captain had planned to make a tent like the kind the crabbers do so they can work in the shade; the purpose of his tent was to hide the bales of pot from the view of aircraft. But when he was loading up in Columbia, one of the Columbians stole part of the canvas. Thus he could only cover half the deck and the other half was open to view.

38: What do the bales look like? Bales of hay?

Bruce: Bales of hay in burlap. The Coast Guard is trained to know what to look for, they can tell. So they overflew the boat with

... in order to justify owning the eftd of the pier, I built these huge, 3,000 sq ft houseboats, They were built on these last barges, 60-ft long, 30-ft wide, 15-ftdeep. one of their C-130’s or whatever plane that is, and then came back a second time to be sure.

The captain decided the best thing he could do was pull in near Pt. Reyes, get in his dinghy and row ashore. Just before he got off, however, he set the boat on autopilot, figuring he’d be able to find the boat 24 hours later with a speedboat. This was assuming that somehow the Coast Guard hadn’t found and busted it in the mean¬

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38: You mean he had the boat powering in circles all night long?

Bruce: No, he just set it on a northwest course and figured out where he could rendezvous with it 24 hours later. Now my job in this operation was to offload the boat with inflatables and get all the trucks and everything on shore. But in my wildest contigency plans I never dreamed I’d have a boat full of my pot heading off to Timbuktu with nobody aboard.

We never knew for sure what happened to that boat, we assumed it sank.

38: You never found the boat?

Bruce: We never found the boat. It had been leaking about a week earlier; it was a wooden boat and taking on water. There was something about the batteries being low and not being able to work the bilge pumps. With his last bit of battery power, the captain was able to get through on the SSB radio and tell my partner of the time, Tommie, what was happening. Tommie then flew his plane out over the ocean and dropped the guy an alternator. Dropping parts and messages to disabled boats from planes is pretty standard stuff in the world of smuggling.

So the guy picked up the alternator, installed it, and got the batteries charged up and pumps working again. So that immediate problem was solved. Tommie did notice the bales on deck, and so we were nervous about that. We were even more nervous when we learned the Coast Guard had spotted the bales.

38: How did you learn he’d been spotted?

Bruce: The captain radioed Tommie who was on radio watch in Palo Alto. I was in Orrick and Tommie called me by phone up there.

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perlowin cover some of the $300,000.

You have to understand, if you can’t make a minimum of $10,000 a week on the streets of Miami you don’t belong in the business. If worse comes to worse you can always sell 1,000 pounds and make $10 a pound through middling it. Or else sell 250 pounds and make $40 a pound.

38: Who does all this stuff go to these days? We probably haven’t smoked a total of an entire joint in the last ten years.

Bruce: 1 gave it up a long time ago, too. But everyone else I worked with smoked. Of course they would never smoke the stuff we brought in, they would only smoke California home-grown.

Most of the stuff still goes to college towns I guess, that’s the big point of distribution. But I haven’t really dealt on that level since 1975, so I’m not that up to date. But back then I brought 1,000 pounds from Jamaica, and I split that into quantities as little as 100 pounds. So I haven’t been down to the single pound level since about 1971.

The Castro Point Pier as it appeared from the air in the mid-’70s.

and since it was never busted by the Coast Guard, we assume nobody ever found it. We finally concluded that the bilge pumps probably lost their prime after they pumped all the water out. When the water came back up they couldn’t pump it out. Eventually the boat must have just gone down. Tommie spent four days searching the ocean for it with his plane, but he never did find it.

So then my problem was explaining what happened to the dope to the Columbians, right? This is where your violence often comes in.

38: Are they understanding about these things or do they assume you were trying to rip them off?

Bruce: Well naturally they assume you tried to rip them off.

“Show us the newspaper articles”, they’d say. But since the boat was never found, we didn’t have any newspaper articles to show them.

“Show us a dead sea captain”, they’d say, “some kind of evidence that you’re telling the tri/th. Don’t show us a living captain and tell us he sent the boat off to China”, they said. (Laughter).

38: So how much were you suddenly in arrears?

Bruce: Let’s see, I paid them $160,000 down, and 1 ended up paying them $300,000 for the whole trip, $10 a pound for the whole 30,000 pounds.

38: Where did that money come from?

Bruce: Money from previous deals. Even as this was happening I had a load coming in to Texas. That was 6,000 pounds and I was selling a lot of that out here. / 38: How did you bring it in to Texas?

Bruce: By boat across the Gulf of Mexico. Then we drove it out here by motorhome. So I still had a decent cashflow and that helped page 143

38: Taking an overview on your west coast smuggling, how many trips did you organize in all?

Bruce: There were 15 trips total from Columbia and Thailand between 1978 and the last one in 1983.

38: We notice on this time line you gave us that you had a son born between the Alaskan crabber and the second trip.

Bruce: Yes, Jeremey. I went up to the place in Ukiah and helped deliver him. In fact that was the longest time, 17 days, that I ever spent in that house. It wasn’t that big at the time, but as the trips started coming in I added more and more on to it. I never did spend much time there at all.

38: Let’s go on to some of the other trips and any interesting things that might have happened during them.

Bruce: All right. The second trip was the Annie Grey in October of 1979, that one brought in 22,000 pounds from Columbia.

38: We presume with the size of the loads listed here you only used large fishing boats for the open ocean parts of the trips?

Bruce: Yes. For the Thai trips we used some motor schooners, but that’s at the very end and we can go over that later.

38: What about the Annie Grey, any problems?

Bruce: The Annie Grey didn’t actually go to Columbia. That was at a point where I just wanted to do offloading here in California. I was negotiating with three or four different groups, all of whom were going to bring up 60,000 pounds. I would do the offloading and I would get 25 percent.

38: How big a freighter was it that brought the stuff up?

Bruce: This was just a coastal tramp freighter. It would only be carrying the pot, offload it, 'and then probably go right back to Panama — that was typical. I was just offloading this trip; everybody involved in the main deal was a Columbian except for one American.

They were supposed to bring up 60,000 pounds, but they only brought up 22,000. / 38: So in actuality it wasn’t a very efficient or economical operation, if they only brought up 22,000 pounds?

Bruce: Well, (softly disagreeing) that’s a lot of money though, $7,250,000 wholesale. Twenty-five percent of that is a decent paycheck.

38: That’s true, but you certainly could have cut expenses had it been brought up in a 65-ft fishing boat.

Bruce: Oh yeah. But the tramp freighter was the standard of the time. You brought the stuff up in a freighter and offloaded it with fishing boats.

1 soon realized, however, things were different here than on the east coast. You see in Florida you have these little yachts and they just go to the Bahamas and back, or else you use fishing boats that

interview: just fish the local waters which aren’t that rough. It’s not like the North Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean or even the-Gulf of Mexico where you need a whole different class of boat. It’s a whole different thing because you also don’t have landmarks and buoyi^like in the Bahamas. y So I realized the west coast guys had a lot more skill and talent than all the would-be captains out of Florida. And I realized that the boats doing the offloading from the freighters had all the capability necessary to go all the way down to Columbia and back.

So after the first offload trip and after the other people didn’t come through with their 60,00Q pound loads, I talked to one of the groups, Fred and Ned . . .

38: The Shure brothers from Ann Arbor?

Bruce: Right. 1 said ‘why don’t we be partners?’, you give me some money and I’ll offload it. I had a dock and the boats . . .

38: Wait. Our readers need to know that this is the dock on the north side of the Richmond Bridge on the Contra Costa shore — which just happened to be in the Coast Guard’s radar shadow because of the bridge. Go ahead.

Bruce: Originally I just rented the dock in Richmond; it must have been about 1979.

38: So the Annie Grey offloaded the pot at Richmond?

Bruce: Right. She met the freighter about 200 miles due west of San Francisco and brought it to the dock in Richmond.

38: How did they find each other, with Loran’s?

Bruce: Yes. Now that’s the difference, because we’re talking about professional seamen here, not the kind of people from Florida who didn’t know that much. The fishermen out here on the west coast have to be able to go back to the same spot where they found the school of fish — they know what they’re doing. They are really good.

38: So where did you find these guys?

Bruce: They were just local fishermen. The letters I wrote to the probation officer and sentencing judge on behalf of Gary Ganong, Phil deGiromio, and others explains how getting them was done and how that worked.

38: We read that, it was very devious.

Most of these guys were Northern California fishermen?

Bruce: Northern and Southern Californians — mostly from up here.

38: And mostly fishermen, or others, too?

Bruce: Mostly, but there were others also. Guys in the marine business, guys in marine electronics — in fact one guy was in that business in Southern Marin County — I won’t say who, though, even though the statue of limitations has expired.

38: So you were leasing the pier, from who?

Bruce: Just some guy owned it, and I just leased the end of it from him. Eventually he wanted to sell it, so I bought it. Then in order to

So then my problem was explaining what happened to the dope to the Lolur nl . . . h t? 1 \ us s whe your viole i< oftc 1 < o nes n justify owning the end of the pier, I built these huge, 3,000 sq. ft. houseboats. They were built on these last barges, 60 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet deep. We built the houseboats on them. They were big; when you sat on the floor you were looking up 30 feet to the ceiling. They were really beautiful homes, but you couldn’t park them in Sausalito or where the BCDC has control, so we’d have to move them up the Delta. They ended up as alternative offloading

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Mari» Colette, 65-ft steel albacore boat, valued at $305,000.

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Rachel M, 47-ft steel albacore boat, valued at $270,000. Owned

by Perlow > innl ; ;i :ed in rai hc a , ay Pacific Pioneer, 75-ft Desco shrimper. This boat was located in Hawaii to serve as a back-up for the Thai trips. While all the arrangements had been made, it was never rented by the Perlowin organization.

Taylor Day, 75-ft Desco research fishing vessel, valued at $950,000. Rented by Perlowin, government action caused it to be repossessed.

Robin Ann, 72-ft steel bait boat, valued at $500,000. Rented by Perlowin until seized by the government.

Karen Lynn, 65-ft steel dragger, valued at $350,000. Rented by Perlowin until government action caused it to be repossessed.

Annie Gray, 65-ft steel albacore boat, valued at $280,000.

Rented by >veinment actior causec if to be repossessed.

Falcon, 85-ft converted minesweeper, valued at $220,000. This was a back-up vessel based in Acapulco, and came to the rescue of the Karen Lynn when she broke down. Owned by Perlowin, this v?ssei ;ol 1 b ;f< re ■ irtt >l spots for smuggling trips.

38: Whereabouts in the Delta did you put them?

Bruce: The real nice one is right on Sherman Island.

38: Is it still there?

Bruce: Yeah. I sent a guy up to take a picture, but a guy ran him off with a gun. (Laughter). I have no idea who owns it right now.

38: So that was the front for owning the end of the pier. Did it make any money?

Bruce: Oh yeah. Well, no . . . let me explain. I owned 80 percent of the houseboat company which was called Shelter Engineering.

Two of my co-defendents in the smuggling operations owned 10 percent each; one of them was building the houseboats and the other guy was supervising it.

Whenever we got done with one of these things, instead of putting them on the market, I said, “Heck, I’ll buy it”. So I plunked down a quarter of a million for each of these houseboats and would send it up the Delta for an offload spot. I did that with all the houseboats; there were three in all.

38: Explain to us a typical procedure, the Annie Grey run, for example.

Bruce: Well the Annie Grey meets the freighter 200 miles offshore and picks up the load. Then it comes in under the Gate two or

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three hours after dark, and takes 45 minutes to go to the Richmond pier. It gets offloaded onto two trucks, the trucks leave and then the boat leaves. And that’s it. The boat gets refueled while we’re offloading it. We immediately have the boat leave the Bay again, usually to go to Fort Bragg or down to Moss Landing or to San Pedro or Oregon — just away.

As I remember now the Annie Grey operation had a bit of excitement, because we thought the Coast Guard was going to bust the boat. One of the guys, whose trip it was said they were getting radio communications from tl?e Coast Guard that they were going to bust the boat.

38: The Annie Grey specifically?

Bruce: No, drey were looking for drugs on a boat coming in. He didn’t say exactly what he heard and he was hearing it second hand himself. But it was something about the Coast Guard getting ready to bust a boat. So he freaked out and one of his guys — this is a good example of the difference it makes when you have experienced Florida smugglers in an operation and your California people who at that time weren’t experienced. He was all nervous and said, “Get my guy on the dock out of there” —'we had a watchman on the dock in Richmond to make sure nobody was infiltrating our offloading spot.

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wanted him to leave.

That wasn’t a very smart decision, and I didn’t even have to ask one of my Florida men if he wanted to help out in alternative action, because 1 knew he would. So I sent him down to the dock to replace the other watchman — and my guy was a 60-year-old man. But he was an experienced smuggler.

38: Sixty?

Bruce: Yeah, this was Harry Foster.

Anyway he went down and relieved the watchman, then me and one of my workers got in a speedboat. We told the guy to keep the trip going, that we would follow the boat. If the Coast Guard boarded them, we would pull up in the speedboat and they could jump overboard onto our boat and we’d get them to safety, right?

38: Do you really think a rescue operation like that would work?

Bruce: (A long, thoughtful pause) I don’t know. Why wouldn’t it, you pull up to the other side of the Coast Guard boat and everybody hops aboard? I don’t think the Coast Guard would open fire on the Bay. 38: What kind of ‘speedboat’ were you using?

Bruce: At that time it was a rented speedboat. Later on it became two Scarab’s and another whose name I can’t remember right now — it used to be run in the offshore powerboat races. We kept the boats in a warehouse just north of San Quentin when we weren’t using them.

38: Where did you launch them?

Bruce: Right there . . .

38: Loch Lomond?

Bruce: Right, that’s it. (Laughter). One time one of the workers had to launch the boat in the middle of a storm, and later he said the guy at Loch Lomond looked at him like he was crazy. “What are you guys doing?” the man asked. “We’re going fishing,” our worker said.

“You mean you’re going fishing in a storm like this”, he asked. “Sure we are,” our worker said, “you guys out here in California are a bunch of sissies.” (Laughter). But they went ahead and launched it from Loch Lomond. A second Scarab was launched over at the Berkeley Marina.

We launched the boats in two places because we had two escape routes. One went up to San Rafael — the reason it went that way was that any helicopters following us would hopefully fly into the high tension wires at the entrance to the San Rafael Canal. We figured in hot pursuit they might not see the wires, would crash, and allow us to escape.

The other escape route was someplace near the Berkeley Marina. I personally never went there because I never escaped. (Laughter).

Later on we had the two speedboats under the pier in Richmond.

At the time of the Annie Grey we just had a rented speedboat. So thinking the Annie Grey was about to be busted by the Coast Guard, I took the speedboat over to Angel Island and went up to the phone booth to call the guy and tell him I was in position. And probably the most frightening thing in all the California operations happened that night as I went up to make the phone call from the booth at Angel Island. I started hearing all these hissing sounds. After I got closer I realized the hissing was coming from all these raccoons that were six feet tall — at least that’s what they looked like at night. When I got the other guy on the phone I said, “Look, do raccoons sometimes attack people?”. He said, “Yeah, why?”. (Laughter). I was surrounded by raccoons and so I knew why they called it Raccoon Strait.

38: This was late at night?

Bruce: About four hours after dark.

38: The Rangers didn’t tell you to leave; it’s illegal to tie up there after dark.

Bruce: No, the whole place was closed. If any of the Rangers

interview: were there they were in their quarters. I walked right up through the ferry landing to the pay phone; nobody bothered me.

38: Then you went out to the bridge and followed the Annie Grey in?

Bruce: Yeah. We tucked ourselves in behind I gue^ the south side of Angel Island so we could see them, come in under the Gate.

And we just waited there. Our spotter up on the hill saw the boat and radioed us that indeed it looked as though it was being followed.

38: What was following them, a Coast Guard 41-footer or something?

Bruce: We didn’t know. We figured it was the Coast Guard. So I said to the guy in the boat with me, “All right, this is it, this is what we’re paid for, we’re going to go out and confirm that’s the Coast Guard and then we’ll rescue our guys.” So I radioed that to the guy on the boat.

38: Weren’t you using a special frequency so nobody could tune in to your conversation?

Bruce: Yes. What you do is ‘shave’ the frequencies in your walkie-talkies so you’re in between frequencies on other radios.

38: This afforded you secure communications?

Bruce: Yes. Now there are people who do monitor in between frequencies, specifically the intelligence agencies in this country, but you don’t say much so it works out okay.

So anyway we buzzed the boat supposedly following the Annie Grey and it turned out to be the Annie Grey herself. So in reality our boat with the dope was following another fishing boat in, it wasn’t being followed at all.

Unfortunately the captain of the dope boat never got the message that we were going to follow him. He knew we were there but didn’t know who we were. We went under the Richmond Bridge pretty close together, and we went ahead and tied up at the pier and turned off our engine. The next thing we know the captain of the dope boat is barreling down straight at us to ram us — it was like the old war movies with the boat heading straight for you. It was an amazing sight. But we got our boat started and out of the way.

38: Was that kind of confusion normal in the operations?

Bruce: You always have mishaps of one type or another. If you don’t, you’d better start worrying. Because you’d rather have problems come up and be able to cure them — I mean our boats have run out of gas on the ocean, boats have broken down — all kinds of stuff.

There was one case where one of our boats broke down and we had to go out and buy a $225,000 coverted minesweeper in the middle of the night to go out and tow this boat in. Some of our boats have sunk — or started sinking. One off the coast of Columbia right after oading it up.

38: How much did the captain of one of those boats get paid for a •un in like that?

Bruce: Well it’s the same thing. You get $300,000 — but if for

. . . when you np off a dope smuggler to go after you . . . some reason you don’t get the trip in, you don’t get paid.

38: We’re talking about the guy on the Annie Grey; how much vas he paid for bringing the pot in from offshore? Afterall, he’s jrobably in the most vulnerable position, right?

Bruce: I don’t know what he was paid because that was the first jne. The standard later became $300,000 for captain and crew for a rip to Columbia. Normally there were three people; the captain and

two crew. I’d leave it up to each group to divide the money as they saw fit.

38: The second trip shown on the list is the Shanti in February of 1980. Anything unusual about that one?

Bruce: The Shanti was a fishing boat from Moss Landing, a local fisherman by the name of Dixie had built it. We parked my motorhome down there and I had one of our workers live in it and try and get to know the people so that we could find more boats. Dixie had found us the Annie Grey and a boat called the Three Score, which was a boat that eventually got busted in San Francisco Bay doing a trip for someone else.

38: Did you know a lot of other people organizing trips? Does everybody know who everybody else is in the business?

Bruce: Yeah. Pretty much. If not in person then by reputation.

You know what’s going on.

38: Who i| the common ground; the skippers, the workers?

Bruce: Mpkly your generals. (Perlowin’s organization had a number of military ranks, each with specific responsibilities). The information flowed to me from my generals. One general worked with half a dozen skippers, and they would know a guy doing this operation and another guy doing that operation.

38: Did the generals work exclusively for you?

Bruce: Yes, exclusively and full-time for me.

38: How many did you have?

Bruce: About half a dozen.

38: How did you define their position as opposed to majors?

Bruce: The generals were in charge of a whole variety of things, and often times they’d have different jobs. Certain generals would do the laundering of the money, the legalizing of the money and the work with the banks. Another few generals would be in charge of the boats; maybe four. Another one would be in charge of sales.

38: These are all different age people?

Bruce: Yeah. Lot’s of them were in their 60’s. Very few of them younger than me. I was one of the youngest in the whole group.

38: Did they meet each other other and were there lots of conflicts ' between personalities?

Bruce: There was very little conflict. Everyone was making a lot of money so there wasn’t a problem. In the beginning it was a lot of fun because we were very successful, we were all getting paid a lot of money, and because we were building a new industry out here — the smuggling industry.

38: These were people from Florida?

Bruce: Yes, all my main people were from Florida.

38: Let’s go over some of the other operations.

Bruce: After the Shanti . . .

38: Let’s back up for a second. How did you get the owner of the Shanti to go in with you? • Bruce: The guy who was building it knew we were smuggling.

38: How did he know?

Bruce: Well we told him. Then we asked him to find us other boats.

38: Did a lot of people in Moss Landing know you were smugglers?

Bruce: No. Dixie was the first guy who knew we were doing it, and he’d get us other people. He ended up selling his own boat, Shanti, to a fish company, and then we bought it from the fish company, through Dixie, without the fish company’s knowledge that we were using it.

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Bruce: No, a guy from Sausalito introduced me to him. A guy who had Pier 34 or something. 54?

38: Pier 39?!

Bruce: He didn’t own it or anything, he had a boat docked there.

He was a smuggler that had done some trips to the Bahamas and Florida. 1 knew him from previous connections and somehow he knew Dixie. He introduced me to Dixie and then Dixie turned me on to all these other people.

38: Is there honor among thieves/smugglers? Did you trust such new acquaintances?

Bruce: Well when the Shanti went down Dixie got me the captain and crew. They got paid $300,000, and Dixie got a part of that just for getting them the job. Maybe $20,000, if 1 remember correctly.

And Dixie made money selling the Shanti to me, maybe $20,000 to $25,000.

38: Speaking of Pier 39, are there drug smugglers in all the marinas in the Bay Area? And have drugs been smuggled into most of the harbors?

Bruce: If there’s any drugs smuggled into Sausalito, for example, it would be cocaine. Pot is too bulky for that. The same thing is true with most of the harbors in the Bay Area, you’d be too obvious driving up with big trucks.

38: Well then do people smuggle cocaine into the marinas?

Bruce: I don’t really think so. Any coke that comes into California — despite what they said about mother ships and little boats offloading them on that ridiculous news broadcast the other night — comes in on the giant freighters, the ones that are 500 and 600-ft long. On newscasts they tell you little boats are bringing the stuff in from mother ships — then they show you file film of pot being unloaded from the Oregon Beaver. Coke all comes in on the big ones — remember the frogmen that got busted a few months back — things like that. I also heard there was 270 kilos busted off a freighter down in San Diego. So it’s big trips on big freighters, it’s not on any of your smaller boats.

Well, there might be some smuggling like that, but it’s a stupid trip.

Sure a guy who has a sailboat could go down to Peru and pick up a load of coke and try to smuggle it. Some of my captains and crews have gone down to Peru to try and smuggle coke — the last I heard of a couple of them was they’d been captured by the Peruvian government and were being given electric shock treatment to make them talk. They’d been given ten year sentences, but the government was torturing their genitals to get them to talk — with the help and supervision of the local American DEA agents down there..

Their problem was they weren’t well connected or their connections were no longer good when they got there. _ 38: We were in San Bias, Mexico last year and the Port Captain showed a sailboat that belonged to a couple that went up into the hills to buy some dope. When the couple hadn’t returned after a year, he’d pulled the boat into the harbor. He assumed they’d been killed.

He told us that area of Mexico was very rough if you went looking to buy dope. ' Bruce: There is a lot of violence in this business, and you’ve got to know your way around to not get hurt. I mean I grew up in the business and learned my way around through many years of experience. There’s a lot of do’s and don’ts in the business — that’s why the Florida people were so gootl and that’s why we were so successful — because we were Florida trained with years of experience.

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you just can’t tell a new guy, he just has to make the mistakes. Well myself and the other Florida people have been through all that. I’ve had boats sink, guys freak out and shoot each other onboard, get busted by the Coast Guard — after so many times you learn the appropriate response to the problem. It’s just like any other business.

Every one of the 15 deals listed here had some kind of problem.

For example on the Shanti’s run, the pot was soaking wet when it was loaded in Columbia. The boat got down there late, and because of army movements they had to move all the pot. One of the obstacles was a fresh water river, and it was flooding, so the pot got soaking wet.

38: So what did you do?

Bruce: Well when we got it up here we just dried it out. We bought a couple of houses and equipped them with racks and stuff to dry it — everybody used a different technique of drying it. Some layed it in the backyard, others did it indoors and built fires and turned up the heaters, others put herbs in it.

38: Did you lose a lot of money on that trip?

Bruce: No, we made a lot of money. We got a break from the Columbians for what we had to pay for it.

38: The Karen Lynn was the next trip. Anything go wrong with that one?

Bruce: That’s the boat that broke down off Moss Landing.

38: It was fully loaded?

Bruce: It was fully loaded and it was breaking down. The crew was freaking out because they were going to have to dump the load and call the Coast Guard or else they were going to drift out into the Pacific and never be heard from again.

38: Who was the crew of this boat?

Bruce: Local fishermen.

38: So did you respond to the crisis?

Bruce: I went out in the middle of the night and bought this 85-ft former minesweeper.

38: You bought it in the middle of the night?!!!

Bruce: Yeah. The Karen Lynn was the boat that was broken down. I sent the Shanti down from San Francisco Bay to rescue it. I also flew down to Moss Landing and picked up Paul Hill, who had just come back from Costa Rica where he’d been staging the Mar^i Collette trip, and we rhet a guy at midnight in the office of some fish store. Paul went out and found a guy who had a boat for sale, and we bought it that night.

38: What does a guy think when you suddenly want to buy his 85-ft boat in the middle of the night?

Bruce: He thought it was for smuggling. In fact he went with Paul to tow the boat in. This guy Paul Hill was amazing, he went nonstop, flying back from Costarica, driving down to Moss Landing, spending the night buying and getting the new boat ready, and the next day tows a boat full of pot in. But that’s what went wrong with

Californians are real choosy and ' they'll only accept the very best stuff. that one.

38: How can you bring so much stuff into Moss Landing and people not notice?

Bruce: We brought it into San Francisco Bay. 38: Was the Richmond Pier the only place you off-loaded your pot — except for that first trip on the beach?

Bruce: Yeah, except that first one didn’t get offloaded because

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he boat sank. Well we did have a second dock and one of the last shipments was unloaded there.

38: Where was that dock? \ Bruce: It’s in Redwood City at the very end of the piers. We ented that and we had a bunch of steel hatch covers there to be a ront for that. We had a guy down there setting up the steel hatch ;overs. We did bring a load in to Redwood City from Thailand in 'Aay of 1983.

38: Looking over the list of trips you put together, it seems as hough some of them must have been overlapping.

Bruce: We tried to have about three trips going at all times.

38: That’s sound very hectic. Was there a season for smuggling?

Bruce: No, it was year round. Pot grows year round in the region af Columbia ours was coming from, which was basically to the southeast of Bogota.

38: Going back to the Karen Lynn, wasn’t the Coast Guard at all suspicious or interested in helping when they saw one boat towing mother in?

Bruce: On no, they don’t want to stop a boat under tow. If they see you under tow and everything’s fine, the last thing they want to lo is get involved. In fact we went right by a Coast Guard boat.

38: What do smugglers act like in times of stress like this? When hey were being towed up from Monterey Bay were they all pissing in heir pants?

Bruce: It’s an individual thing. Some guys are real tense and ner¬

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But the professionals are used to this kind of pressure and it’s Just another trip. It comes with the territory.

38: What happens after a load safely makes it through; is there a big psychological high or low?

Bruce: You get a feeling that there’s nothing like it in the world.

It’s better than getting laid, almost. It’s better than actually, having a million dollars. Better than getting drunk or doing any drugs. It’s a feeling of> elation when you know you’ve made it.

38: What’s the cause of the elation, having put one over on the authorities, having made a lot of money . . .

Bruce: Putting one over, doing something real dangerous and getting avya$/ vyith it, being real successful in something that took an enormous amohnt of planning — and you just became a millionaire again.

38: Is there any post-exhilaration depression?

Bruce: No, because you have the next boat to worry about. And now that you had more money you had to buy another dock and some more boats, fix up the old boat, get the Luxembourg trust set up to launder the money — there was plenty to do.

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THINKING ABOUT

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hen we were readying Dove to go cruising, if we gave any thought at all to a dinghy, it was that we didn’t have to hink about it. Afterall, snuggled down on deck between the mast and the main hatch A/as a little seven-foot pram custom made to :it. She was a beauty, gleaming white with varnished rails, seats and oars, non-skid on

the floor and polished bronze oarlocks. Her previous owners had used her for over 50,000 cruising miles and they knew far more about it than we did.

So it wasn’t until two weeks before we Mere planning to leave for Mexico that we decided to try her out. Our first surprise was how heavy it was and how awkward to launch and retrieve. We needed a halyard and winch to get it over the lifelines and into the water. Oh well, we can live with that we thought and climbed in. It was pretty tippy, and with Betty and 1 aboard there were only about two inches of freeboard. It didn’t feel safe even in the flat water of the marina. Out in the Oakland Estuary it was positively scary. Little wavelets washed in and it rocked alarmingly. Ten minutes experience told us we had a dinghy problem and better do some thinking about it.

and easily stowed. We promptly christened it the Rubber Ducky. Back at the marina we blew it up, climbed in, and since you sat right on the inflatable floor, it was very stable. It paddled nicely and we figured our dinghy

problem was solved.

ow the scene shifts to Mexigo, four months and 50 patches later. Th&re v>exare looking at a four-foot split in a seam and knowing that we needed to think about dinghies again.

All of the other boat’s dinghies were much more substantial than Rubber Ducky regardless of whether they were hard or inflatable. It wasn’t real hard to be more substantial than our Rubber Ducky.

We again considered a hard dinghy. They row much better, don’t leak air and can be rigged to sail. But they are still heavy, hard to stow and downright dangerous upside dov>n in the surf. And we already knew about being upside down in the surf.

The standard rig at the dinghy landings

A couple of alternatives to the inflatables.

This has a definite Polynesian influence.

stow, but not cheap. We also acquired gas cans, oil, spare parts, motor manuals, etc.

It worked beautifully. After the Rubber Ducky it was like a Buick station wagon putting serenely along. Naturally we called it The Station Wagon. The dinghy functioned flawlessly. The only patches on her were from our own carelessness; dropping a scuba tank on it and dragging it across a hundred beaches and coral reefs. The Seagull was not as satisfactory. They say you either swear by them or swear at them. We did a little of both.

Since neither of us had ever owned or needed a dinghy before, we figured something light, cheap and easily stowed was what we wanted. So off we went to Sears to see what to get. There it was, a bright yellow and blue little inflatable.

Even though it looked like it would be more at home in a swimming pool than in the ocean, it met our criteria; light, cheap,

seemed to be an Avon Redcrest and a Seagull outboard. We had originally decided against having an outboard because we didn’t want to carry explosive gasoline. After a few nights of the long row home in the teeth of a stiff wind, that didn’t seem so important.

So we bought the Redcrest and the Seagull. The rig was light and fairly easy to

/After the first blush wore off our new rig, we found our horizons expanding. A friend had an inflatable sportboat with a hard transom and a big motor. He took us five miles down the coast to a good dive spot.

You wouldn’t have wanted to anchor a big boat there, and our Redcrest/Seagull combination was not appropriate for rough water.

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DINGHIES was obviously still closed. While we were watching all this, the current continued to push toward the pass. All of a sudden — even a quarter of a mile from the entrance'— we were in swirling water and three-foot breaking waves. We immediately turned around and headed back, but were not gaining against the current. After about a half hour we were still in the same spot and I began to get scared. Water was flying around and the Seagull has no aircleaner. It is not at all uncommon for it to suck in a dollop of spray and stop. If it did, we were in the surf. I got my friend started on the oars and between his efforts and the Seagull’s we managed to get on the inner reef and out of the current. An experience like that will get you started thinking about dinghies again.

I n the four years since we were in Mexico, the standard dinghy rig' seems to have changed. Now most cruising boats too small

In Tahiti we spent a lot of time anchored a few miles from town. It was well over an hour in the hot sun in our dinghy. The alternative was go ashore, walk a half mile, wait for Le Truck, ride for forty-five minutes, then do it all over again in reverse. Another friend zipped downtown in his sportboat in twenty minutes, trolling for fish as he went.

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Our first inflatable was from Sears. We called it the ‘Rubber Ducky’.

tugboat a couple of times when Dove’s main engine was down.

So we didn’t think about dinghies again until Moorea. We had anchored near the Club Med and picked up some friends for a week’s cruise. Big surf had closed out the pass and after three days everybody was getting a little boat bound. It was only a mile or so down to the pass, so we hopped in the dinghy and went down to check it out.

Maybe it had calmed down enough to take Dove out.

We didn’t realize that three days of big surf coming in over the reef had piled the lagoon full of water and its only way out was through the pass. The four of us went flying down the channel at a great speed and were soon near the entrance to the pass.

With waves breaking across the mouth and the water boiling where the outgoing curr'ent met the incoming waves, the pass

Our second inflatable was an Avon. For reasons obvious from this photograph, we called it The Station Wagon’. /

for a dinghy in davits or a Boston Whaler on deck are carrying a hard-transomed, inflatable sportboat with an engine big enough to make it plane. This kind of rig almost meets our original criteria. It’s light enough to launch from the deck or pick it up and run it up the beach, it’s fairly easy to stow — but it very definitely is not cheap.

There are dozens of manufacturers of inflatable sportboats and lots of different models available in the size range we were looking for. They all boast of their quality

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Now We’ve got a hard-transom with an 8 hp outboard.

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MORA/IOR MORA I Predator — Hawkfarm \ MIDGET OCEAN RACING ASSOCIATION

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he elimination of an 10R division from MORA this year makes for a tidy delineation. Now, with fe\& exceptions, all crewed PHRF ocean racing boats under 31 feet race MORA; all those larger race PHRO. Nearly 40 boats participated in this year’s 10-race season, which was divided equally between the spring Pete Smith Series and fall’s Golden Hinde series. Each boat was allowed one throwout per series to determine overall series winners, and two throwouts from the whole season to determine overall season winners.

MORA’s unofficial credo — “When the going gets weird, the weird get going” — is highlighted every year by the 440-mile downwind slide to San Diego, which this year departed San Francisco in early June.

Though not part of the official MORA season, this has become a very popular event. Lots of dropped masts and broken gear this year forced about a third of the 17-boat fleet to DNF. The Kame Richards/Bruce Wright Express 27 Frog in French emerged from the carnage to take first to finish and corrected time honors.

Other special MORA awards include the “Rookie of the Year”, which went to Dan and Linda Newland, and the “Most Improved”, this year awarded to current MORA Commodore Roger Heath. The Jim Boles Perpetual, named for the late chief PHRF handicapper and awarded for the first time last year, went to overall winner John Liebenberg.

The 1986 season is shaping up to be a good one for MORA. They’ll celebrate their 20th anniversary, encourage more social events and try to elicit more “crossover” participation from Bay racers. Reintroduction of a MORC (Midget Ocean Racing Club — a slightly different rating rule) Division has been suggested to benefit the “gray area” boats between ULDB and heavy displacement. And finally, the season will be shorter; the same amount of races, just in six weeks

less time. This is being done to move the season along a little more expeditiously and avoid conflicts with specialty events like September’s Big Boat Series. For more on MORA, call Roger Heath at 681-4150.

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articipation in IOR stabilized at slightly more than 50 registered boats (for both the Bay and ocean series) this year.

That’s encouraging news to organizers'; who have been trying to reverse the slow downward trend of the last few years.

Part of the difference may be due to a hiodified Bay series. This year, there was no cumulative scoring. Boats raced each race for itself, and owners and crews didn’t have to get discouraged if they didn’t do well early in the season. The ocean schedule remained the same: four races in the spring Danforth Series and four races in the fall Gulf of the Farallones Series; no throwouts.

Next year, IOR plans nine races and a shorter season. The Ocean-Vallejo Race, which has always been optional, will be officially added to the Gulf of the Farallones Series. Racers in this series will also be permitted one throwout. The season will now end in September, which will make the Navy happy. They didn’t want any races conflicting with fleet week; something about not being able to tell the difference between racing boats and protestors. Hmmm.

Also in the planning are incentives to lure out more of the estimated 100 IOR boats in the Bay. The exact form these will take has yet to be determined. One plan under consideration is the adaptation of some form of the SORC “old age” formula. This consists of deducting a percentage from a boat’s rating based on its age; the idea being to even things out for the older boats. “We’d like both new boats and to get some of the people who haven’t raced for a couple years to come back out,” says IOR co-chairman Colin Case. For more on IOR, call Colin at 441-0197 or John Clauser at 443-6499.

Dan Newland/ Linda (Weber-Rettie) Newland Island YC Dan and Linda Newland had three major events to juggle around this past summer: the MORA series, the Hawkfarm One Design Series and their marriage. For the latter, says Linda, “We had to check the master schedule for a weekend when there were no races. Otherwise, a lot of the people we wanted to come couldn’t have made it.”

As it turns out, they had to let the One Design series slide this year, concentrating on completing the MORA series and making an honest man/woman out of each other.

They were married in June.

On the water, Linda and Dan trade driving duties. Linda normally drives during starts, concentrating on making the boat go while Dan puts them where they want to be.

Once under the Gate, Dan takes over, trusting to Linda’s well-honed navigational skills to get them where they want to go.

Crewing this year were the ever faithful Karin Hughes, semi-regulars Rocky Smith and Justin Brown and a host of others.

The high point of the season came during the first leg of the Corlett but had nothing to do with racing. On the way up to Pt. Reyes, Predator attracted the attention of a whale (no, not Humphrey). The 30-ft whale accompanied the 28-ft boat for an hour, slowing itself to keep up, breathing every minute on the minute and passing so close under the boat that Linda could see its eye watching them and Dan could feel the wash of its tail through the rudder.

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SEASON CHAMPIONS MORA II Friday — Express 27

IOR I Tsunami — Castro 40

IOR II Annalise — Wylie 34

John Liebenberg Richmond YC

John Cains Berkeley YC

Paul Altman Island YC

As a whole, sailors are a superstitious lot.

They can often be seen avoiding sidewalk cracks, mumbling ditties about red skies and the like. Among those who dare to be different is MORA II and overall MORA season champion John Liebenberg. While at least one major west coast manufacturer listed the 13th in a line of production sailboats as “not built,” John not only likes owning the 13th Express 27, that’s why he named it Friday.

This “reverse superstition” does seem to work in his favor. In addition to the Ocean win, John, regulars Carl Melius and Colin Moore “and about 18 others through the season,” also sailed the boat to a second overall in the Express 27 One Design Series in the Bay. Last year, they won the Bay series and took third overall in MORA’s fall series. Extracurricular activity included being aboard Fat Strange’s Express 27 UXB when the boat dropped its mast during the MORA San Diego race and had to limp into Morrow Bay. John was back on board for a much more enjoyable overall win of the Windjammers. The Big Boat Series found him aboard Bruce Stone’s one-tonner, Arbitrage; and the Cabo race found him Mexico bound on the Freya 39 Gypsy Warrior.

John, a mechanical engineer, prefers ocean racing to Bay racing, primarily for the challenge of its differing conditions. “In general, the wind in the Bay tends to be heavy all summer,” says John. “£)ut in the ocean, it’s variable. I like sailing in light wind

Tsunami is really an international boat. It was designed by a Spaniard, built in Hong Kong by a former British flight engineer, cut its racing teeth by winning the China Sea Series’ Hong Kong to Manila Race and has raced the last couple of years in the Bay with a crew so diverse in nationalities and backgrounds that tactician Lou Worthington remarked, “At one time, we even had an American aboard.”

The design of the Castro 40 was influenced by the Tony Castro-designed Admiral’s Cup winner Justine. With a consistent crew, Cains says, it’s really a fast design, particularly off the wind. The problem is finding a crew that can make^6very race. With an 11-man allowed complement and both a Bay and ocean series to complete, that’s a lot of commitments that have to be made. More than once, says Cains, Tsunami sailed so shorthanded “that there were two pieces of string in each person’s hand.” The most regular crew included Worthington, Pat Anderson, Rick McCamy, Glen Garfien, Sally Green, Don Brown, Tony Cross, Patrick LeCognac, Yves Gossard and Doug Fredebaugh.

High points of Tsunami’s season included taking second to Blondie in the Windjammers and having a downwind run both going and coming from the Half Moon Bay Race.

Cains’ next target: Hawaii. If he can get the crew together, Tsunami will be on the line for next July’s Pacific Cup.

Hanging in there was the key to Annalise’s success in IOR II this year. In some tough competition, Paul Altman and crew were persistent enough to pull seconds and thirds out of almost every race except the Farallones, which they missed, and the Ong Triangle, “which we bombed horribly,” says Altman. They hung in there, though, to come back with a first in the Half Moon Bay race and eventual overall season honors.

Paul’s regular crew (for the Bay and , Ocean; Annalise did both series) this season included Rich Fisher, John Thomas, Brock Parsons and Joe Marengi. Also along for most ocean races were Tom Lasardi and Mark Luttrell. Paul’s wife Ann (for which the boat was named) and son Eric were on board for many of the Bay series races.

Those who believe in karma might be interested to know that Annalise was also a winning boat under its previous name, Pegasus, and previous owner, Dan Newland, who among other things sailed it to a singlehanded Transpac win several . years back. Even more interesting is that Paul Altman’s former boat, the Hawkfarm Predator, which he sailed to many victories including the 1978 MORA San Francisco to San Diego Race, also had a winning season for its new owner — Dan Newland!

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HRO is to ocean racing what HDA (Handicap Divisions Association) is to the Bay; the organization under which the larger PHRF rated boats race. (Most PHRF rated boats smaller than'-31 feet race in MORA.) The PHRO series consists of eight races, four in the spring Hal Nelson Series and four in the George Jester series. Thirtyone boats registered for the season.

More social interaction between races heightened the enjoyment of the season for most participants, reports Dennis Robbins.

On overnight races, such as the Half Moon Bay and Drakes Bay events, boats rafted up Saturday night for a barbeque/cocktail gettogether. More social events are planned for next season, as is a drive to get more boats out racing. Most of those attending the December 7 awards dinner pledged to try and get at least one person each with a similar boat to join PHRO racing. For more on the PHRO, call Dennis Robbins at (W) 954-6757 or (H) 527-5569, or Ray Sieker at 591-4191.

Moon and Drakes Bay events counted as two races each, one up and one back.

Unlike last year, each race was scored individually and there were no official series or overall winners. By virtue of the fact that he won every race, we decided to feature Peter Jones as the overall champ anyway.

A lot is going on with SSS in preparation for next year. Their “TransPac Prep” seminars are proving immensely popular.

Sixty people attended the fir$t one in November, and a like number were expected at the next one December 19 at the Oakland YC. (See Calendar for more details.) Although open to the general boating public, these seminars are geared toward those planning to participate the Society’s Singlehanded TransPac, which starts next July. In the more immediate future, mark your calendars for the SSS’ next Three Bridges Race, scheduled for January 26. For more on SSS, call Tony Smith at 454-2312 or Peter Hogg at 332-5073.

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n 1984, there were two singlehanded associations in the Bay: SSS and ASH (Association of Singlehanders). This year, ASH was absorbed by SSS and officially no longer exists, despite some lingering confusion to the contrary.

Whatever their organization is called, the singlehanders had a good year. Both the season and specialty races, which included the Singlehanded Farallones, the Three Bridges Fiasco and the Great Pacific Longitude Race, came off without a hitch.

The six season races consisted of the Half Moon Bay Race, the Drakes Bay, the Duxbury-Lightship Race and Horace’s revenge: the Ocean-Vallejo Race. The Half

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he Santana 35 Fleet is the only one design class to offer both a Bay and Ocean series to its members. And true to their competitive nature and numbers — turnout in the ocean averaged a dozen or so boats per race — many skippers took avantage of the dual schedule and raced both inside and outside the Bay. In the ocean, the S35 fleet uses a combination of MORA and IOR courses. In a comparatively moderate year, Fred Doster on Take Five and Rich Savoy on Hurly Burly ended up with the same score, making the boats tied for the season. Since we featured Rich already as S35 Bay Series champ, Fred gets the spotlight this month. For more information on the Santana 35, call Bill Van Pelt at (408) 749-2110 or Chris Corlett at (415) 521-7030.

Richard Leute Ballena Bay YC Although this was Rosy Option’s first win in her four years of racing the ocean, the boat has always done better outside the Gate than in. Owner Richard Leute credits the phenomenon to a more experienced and consistent ocean crew — Mike Taylor, Mary Lovely, Jim Quanci, Mike Dousman, Mike Lipson, John Dolan, John Morreau and Pat Frey. The season strategy was equally as consistent: “Sail conservatively and avoid the demon of the South Tower.”

Also helping Rosy Option this season were new sails, lighter winds compared to previous years and the fact that Leute was able to complete all the races. As a representative of an international health care corporation, that’s harder than it sounds. He can just as easily be found in downtown Tokyo as out rounding the lightbucket on any given weekend. He also managed to complete a less than spectacular HDA season and a respectable second in class and overall in the Silver Eagle.

Next year, the German-born Leute hopes to put together a more serious effort for the Bay series, in addition to doing another ocean series. “I like being able to pick how you’re going to get somewhere in the ocean rather than play ‘follow the leader’ in the Bay,” says Richard. “But my schedule has forced me to sail the Bay so much more that I’m really getting to like it just as well.”

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SEASON CHAMPIONS SANTANA 35 Take Five

sss Emerald — Yankee 30

MORA Pete Smith Series OVERALL: 1) Unity, Capo 26, Bud Fraze. CSC; 2, Sparrowhawk, Moore 24. Roger Heath. CSC; 3) Not Yet, Merit 25, Jim Fair, CSC.

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Newland/ Dan Newland, IYC; 2) Friday. Express 27, John Liebenberq.

RYC, 3i New Wave. Express 27. Buzz Blackett. RYC.

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Fred Doster (above)/Dave Wood Metropolitan YC Although Fred Doster and Dave Wood remain partners, Dave has only raced aboard Take Five in spirit in the last couple seasons.

He’s on an extended cruise around the world, and is having too good of a time to think about coming back yet.

In the meantime, the boat has been in capable hands. Doster and crew Paul Sinz, Bruce Schwab, Dan Doyle, Mike Roth, Russ Boudreau, Ralph Lucas, Bob Bergtholdt, Paul Van Basselar and alternate Brad Clerk sailed the boat hard in 1984, racing more than 50 days during the season and taking top honors in both the Bay and Ocean series. “This year we decided to rest,” says Doster, who runs a real estate firm in Concord — so they only did the Ocean Series, the Santana 35 Nationals, the Oakland to Catalina Race . . . They even won the turkey in MYCO’s November Turkey Race.

The Santana 35 fleet is one of the most competitive ones around. Keeping Take Five honest at every turn this year was Rich Savoy on Hurly Burly. Rich, who was fleet champion for the Bay series, “Was without question our stiffest competition,” says Fred.

How stiff? Well, after racing neck and neck the 50-some miles out to the Farallones and # back, Take Five crossed the finish line only a very few seconds before Hurly Burly. Now that’s racing!

1) (tie) Take Five and Huriy Burly, Rich Savoy, CSC; 2) Tinsley Light, Hank Grandin, STFYC; 3) Wide Load, Sam Bonovich, MYCO.

Division l: i) Wall St. Duck, Scumaeher 3.8, Jim Robinson STFYC; 2) Arbitrage, X-0n8 Ton, Bruce Stone. DSC: 3) Tsunami,

Peter Jones (no yacht club) Peter Jones is a “low bucks” racer. He’s also living proof that you don’t need gobs of money to do well in sailboat races. With a sail inventory consisting of two 150 genoas circa 1973 and only one spinnaker — an ounce and a half — Peter sailed his 1971 Yankee 30 to straight bullets in the six-race singlehanded series.

Peter has been racing singlehanded events since he bought Emerald in 1980. He likes singlehanding for its solitude, its challenge and “because you can’t blame anybody but yourself”. But he’s far from antisocial, citing the raft-ups at Drakes and Half Moon Bay as high points in the season. Another high point was his division win in this year’s Singlehanded Farallones. For more social racing, he crews on Bren Meyer’s Santa Cruz 27 Hot Flash or John Kerslake’s Olson 30 Bravo when he has time. As a yacht broker who runs his business out of his home in the City, though, sometimes that is in short supply.

The keys to doing well in singlehanded races, says Peter, are concentration, lasting power and being prepared. All three hinge around the singlehander’s biggest obstacle: getting tired. That’s best dealt with, he says, “by staying warm and eating right.”

Peter recommends singlehanded sailing highly and urges newcomers to try their hand. “These are really fun races,” he says, “and with more people out there, they’ll be more fun.”

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lthough SYRA shares the same 32 x member clubs as the YRA, the two organizations are totally independent of each other. SYRA was formed in 1957 to support one design racing for the smaller keelboats on the Bay. Today', the emphasis is on boats in the 20 to 30 foot range, though no upper or lower size limits have officially been set.

The five SYRA classes represented this year were the Cal 20, Santana 22, Venture 24/25, Rhodes 19 and Catalina 25; the latter having formed its one design racing fleet for the first time in ,1985. SYRA also runs a handicap fleet for classes unable to put the required seven boats on the line to qualify for fleet status, but only a couple of boats took advantage of that this year.

SYRA ran 15 races this season, any 10 of which counted for overall honors. Last year, Association President Ron Teffs pointed out that although competition in the larger classes (The Santana 22s qualified 35 boats this season; the Cal 20s, 30 boats) is very tough, SYRA is an excellent place for beginning racers. The observation is still valid. For more on SYRA, contact Lorena Vernon at 984-5319 or Edna Robinson at 357-1634.

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SMALL BOAT RACING ASSOCIATION

BRA began in 1937 with four classes.

Three are lost to history, but the fourth, the Snipe class, continues to be one of the strongest one-designs going in this or any other organization. The class, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, registered 23 boats this season.

The Snipes and the 14 other classes that today comprise SBRA are broken down into three Divisions. Division A is for singlehanded sailors and most of the racing takes place on protected water. Division B is a competitive daysailor class. Division C is for the more high-tech designs. Most spinnaker and trapeze boats are in this class. There is also an open division for classes with fewer than five regular participants.

A total of 271 boats competed in SBRA races this year. Nearly half registered the day of the race under a program begun last year to solicit more participation. It’s turned out to make a lot more work for the race committee, but it has resulted in more boats racing and so will continue next year. As always, boats are also encouraged to register for the whole season ahead of time.

For more on SBRA, call Scott Royanpera at 939-4069.

SYRA Seascape — Santana 22

SYRA Loafer — Cal 20

Jim Lindsey Richmond YC

Kevin Friel Sausalito YC

In the past decade and a half, Jim Lindsey has become a force to be reckoned with in small yacht racing. (He’s a force to be reckoned with in trying to get a photo, too.

We’ve been trying for three years, and the above photo is as close as we’ve gotten.

Take our word for it — he’s in there somewhere.) In the J/24 class, the largest one design fleet on the Bay, he and partner Bill Claussen were unbeatable for four years running. On his own, Jim has dominated SYRA’s Santana 22 class — no small fleet itself with 35 registered boats in 1985 — since he first raced it in 1971. In the last 14 years, he’s lost the championship twice.

Well, it wasn’t exactly on his own. No skipper can win races without good crew work. Howard Canfield and Jim’s wife Kelly provide it on Seascape. Changes in class rules may also have helped. This year for the first time, boats were allowed to have mylar headsails, and to relocate jib sheeting points from the outboard rail. (Santana 22s race with ^working sails only; no spinnakers.)

Seascape’s new jib and more inboard jibsheet block made a dramatic difference in boat speed, says Jim. “We’d just hang on and go.” Other modified boats were also faster; Charlie Brochard on Tacky Lady was right on Seascape’s heels the whole year.

But you can’t win them all. A broken mast halfway through the J/24 season put Lindsey and Claussen out of contention in that class — at least for this year.

What the Cal 20 lacks in speed and breakneck manuverability, it more than makes up for in economy, equality and an excellent fleet organization. In a time when you. can often “look down the dollars to see who’s going to win,” says season champion Kevin Friel, the top 10 boats in the Cal 20 fleet are essentially dead equal. What determines who wins is how they’re sailed.

“The Cal 20 tends to be a tactical boat,” says Kevin, who has won the class nearly every year since he first started racing it in 1978. “It’s really frustrating when you’re going downwind and the guy who’s staying right with you is doing everything wrong.

You might make a little on him going to weather but basically mark roundings and other tactical maneuvers are where you make or break a race.” He and crew Russ Hayes and Sue Lenkowec also benefitted from watching how rock star John Kostecki sails a Cal 20. Now, says Kevin, “I watch the knotmeter more. I work the rudder more, try to keep the boat horizontal and foot off to maintain speed.”

Outside Cal 20s, Kevin has long been a sought after driver. He’s steered boats of all sizes to wins in various classes, including High Roler “the year they won everything in the Big Boat Series.” In fact, he figures he’s averaged two weekends of racing a month during the season for the last 15 years. Next year he plans-to race a little less and enjoy some of the less intense fleet activities more.

2) Tacky Lady, Charles Brochard, 3) Keelkicker, Bruce MacPhee, SCC.

2) Hana Pau, Mary Jo Foote and Vince Meyer, IYC; 3) Tension II, John Nooteboom, CYC.

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SEASON CHAMPIONS SBRA FJ

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Larry Weatherly Fremont Sailing Club

Dennis Silya Lake Merritt YC

Larry Weatherly attributes his first season championship to consistency, a new crew, and the fact that Steve Klotz didn’t make all the races. “Steve is the three-time world champ,” says the retired manager of a commercial refrigeration service. “When he doesn’t race, the rest of us have a chance.”

FJs are Larry’s first and only interest in sailboat racing. He bought his first one 11 years ago, began racing immediately, and has been steadily improving ever since. This year, with the accumulation of experience and the addition of Cathy Doering as crew, “Things really began to gel,” says Larry. In addition to the SBRA win, he drove the boat to victory in the local club series and “even beat Steve Klotz a few times.” The most consistent threat through the series was eventual second place finisher Tony Slocum.

The only race Larry missed this year was the one that conflicted with his 50th high school reunion; and the only one he’d rather forget is the one at Inverness when he and Cathy fouled a jibe and capsized. Otherwise, it was a banner year. Larry and crew will be back to try to make it two in a row in ’86.

When it comes to convenience, it’s hard to beat an El Toro: no slip, no trailer, no need to scare up crew every weekend. “I just throw it in the truck and drive to the race,” says Dennis Silva. “When I get done, I throw it in the truck and drive home.”

It’s also hard to beat the camaraderie of the El Toro fleet, says Dennis, a steel industry sales rep. “In some fleets, the only time you see the guys you race against is at the trophy dinner.” Not so El Toro sailors.

To these guys, bending the elbow and shooting the breeze with your sailing peers in the evening is often as enjoyable as racing during the day.

The hardest thing to beat in the El Toro fleet, however, is another El Toro if you haven’t been sailing one regularly. The little eight footers have come a long way from plywood and cotton, and the expertise of those who sail them has kept pace.

Nowadays, says Dennis, “Experience is everything. I can almost guarantee seven to ten years before a novice starts winning.”

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ne of my favorite lunch-time haunts is a small store on the edge of the financial district that specializes in nautical books, charts, and navigation instruments.

It’s a perfect escape from the corporate world. I go there to browse through the sailing books, check out new products, and read the latest magazines (without having to buy them — a privilege of regular customers).

It’s also a very likely place to run into other people I know through sailing — which is why I wasn’t the least bit surprised last week when I looked up from the article I was reading to see Lee Helm walk in the door.

“Hi, Max,” she said. “You know, I had a feeling I might see you here.”

“Yes, I’m one of the regulars," I said as I put down the magazine. “What brings you here today?”

“New course plotter, Max. There’s only one kind that I really like — you know, the one with the little sliding clear plastic T-square and the built-in adjustable magnetic compass rose. Well, like, my old one finally broke and I’m having trouble finding a replacement, so I came in to the city early today to see if they have one here.”

Lee is a graduate student in naval architecture. During the winter she has classes in the morning, and works for a design firm in the afternoons.

“This place will have it if anyone will,” I said. “By the way, were you out racing last weekend?”

“For sure. I even got to skipper!”

“That’s great, Lee.” “The owner had to go out of town on business for a week, so he asked me to steer.

You should have seen my start, Max. It was . . . awesome!”

“So how did you end up finishing?”

“Not so awesome. About middle of the fleet. One boat got by us on the first beat — I guess I still can’t drive as fast as some of the other skippers — but then we lost big on the first reach because a mark was way out of position.”

“You didn’t cover!” I scolded.

“But they were going the wrong way!” she

the committee set the mark practically a quarter mile too far upwind, and all we did was lose three more places. Why can’t they put those marks in the right spot, anyway?”

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said, drawing upon the wisdom acquired over many years of searching for marks that were not in the right spot. “You have to anticipate the possibility that a temporary mark might be set a little off position, and sail tactically until you have it in sight.”

“I think that can really degrade the quality of racing,” she said.

I detected some sour grapes here.

“YRA has just replaced some of the missing permanent marks,” I pointed out.

“That should help the situation for next season.

“But really, Max, there’s no excuse for a race committee setting a mark even a tenth

in the right spot? insisted. “I mean, I had everything plotted out so carefully. There was a strong ebb, so I sailed real low. The rest of the fleet should

of a mile off station. I mean, there are simple piloting techniques that are very accurate.”

“It’s more difficult to do a good job as race

only good to about five degrees, at best.” pointed to a display case containing- one of the inexpensive hand-bearing compasses that race committees are customarily equipped with. “And even the newer ‘hockey puck’ style compasses,” I continued as I gestured to another display of more expensive instruments, “aren’t much better when you try to get a steady reading from a small boat in rough water. And you can’t ex-, pect a whaler to carry a Loran!”

“Hand-bearing compass is a silly way to do it,” she scoffed. “To be precise you have to use ranges or horizontal sextant angles.”

“Okay, Lee. I know ranges are very accurate when you can get them. But what on earth is a ‘horizontal sextant angle’?

“That’s when you hold a sextant sideways and use it to measure the angle between two objects. The result is a circular line of position.”

“And you expect the race committee assistant who drives the crash boat to be able to do that? Lee, I never even heard of it!”

“But, like, it’s so simple! Look, a sextant is just a fancy protractor.”

She slid open a large glass door and pulled a top-of-the-line sextant off the display shelf.

“All it does is measure the angle between two objects,” she explained as she flipped up all the shades and set the index arm to zero, and then put the sextant In my hands, handle down and arc horizontal. page 160

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Keeping the instrument on its side, I sighted the window edge in the telescope, and then slid the index arm forward into the same field of view as the window edge. A few turns on the micrometer drum brought them into perfect alignment. ’ Lee took the sextant back to read the arc.

“52 degrees, 46.4 minutes,” she said.

“That’s more than a hundred times as accurate as what you could do with a handbearing compass. Even a cheap sextant is good to within a 60th of a degree, and it’s not affected at all by magnetic deviation or accelerations of the boat.”

“I see how a sextant measures angles between objects very well, but how can that help you set a mark?”

She opened a large draw in the chart cabinet in the middle of the store and pulled out a local Bay chart, spreading it out over the magazines on top of the cabinet. Meanwhile I looked over at the woman behind the sales counter, shaking my head to indicate that I did not want to be held responsible as an accomplice to Lee’s ransacking of the store. The salesperson just shrugged helplessly in response. After all, by now everyone in the store had gravitated around the chart cabinet for the free lesson in piloting.

“Let’s say you’re trying to set mark ‘H’ of the Olympic Circle. You get to what you think is the right spot, pick up your sextant, and measure the angle between the big gas tank and, let’s use the high point on Brooks Island. You get an angle of 30 degrees.

Now, if turns out that for any three points, there is one and only one circle that passes through all three points. The'three points are the gas tanks, the top of Brooks Island, and your position. And it also turns out that the radius of thef circle equals half the distance between the two objects you sighted, divided by the sine of the angle you measured. So it’s a simple matter to calculate his radius, set your compass to that distance and strike arcs from the two known points to find the center of the circle, and then draw the circle. Your position has to be somewhere on that circle.”

“We still don’t know if we’re in the right spot,” I said.

“Of course not Max. We only have one circle of position. The next step is to find a third object — let’s use the racetrack building

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expecting far too much of a race committee if you think they’re going to go through a process like that while they set marks.”

“Maybe you have a point,” she con\ ceeded, “But at least they could take the time to make sure they put the permanent marks in the right spot.”

“Aren’t they all pretty much where they belong?”

“Not exactly. After that race I became, like, determined never to sail in the wrong direction to a mark ever again! So I went out the next day and surveyed the entire Olympic Circle.”

She unzipped her backpack and pulled out a large-scale chart she had drawn of the Olympic Circle, showing “correct position”, “charted position”, and “actual position” of each of the marks.

“You can keep that, Max, I have lots of copies,” she said as she walked over to the sales counter to ask about the course plotter she wanted.

I studied the chart while several of the other customers looked over my shoulder.

“I had a feeling mark ‘E’ was much closer to ‘D’ than to ‘F’,” said one of them.

“And look how far ‘B’ is to the west of where it’s shown on the chart,” said another.

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in Albany — and take another angle. It would measure something like 25 degrees, so you can draw another circle of position.

Where the circles intersect is where you are!”

“That seems like a lot more trouble than taking normal bearings,” 1 observed.

“But like, it’s deadly accurate. As accurate as the chart, that is. And if you don’t like all the circle drawing ...” She walked over to a rack of miscellaneous plotting devices and took down a strange looking plastic instrument. . . you can use one of these ‘threearm protractors’. You just set the three arms to the two angles, and fit the arms over the three points. It only fits in one position, and the hole in the center indicates where you are.”

I watched Lee demonstrate the device on the chart.

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1 perfer the numerical methods for accuracy, though,” she continued. “In fact, I, have a neat little computer program that solves for range and bearing from the center point, given the relative positions of the other two points and the two observed

angles as inputs.”

“Now that sounds like the easy way. Can I get the listing from you sometime?”

“It’s just basic geometry, Max. Even you could write it yourself. Besides, last time I gave you a program listing you had to call me five times before you finally had it running!”

“But Lee, you gave me a listing with mistakes in it!”

“Oh, they were just,obvious typos.”

“Okay, I’ll take a stab at this one on my own.”

“Check out Bowditch on this subject,” suggested one of the customers who had been listening in. “There’s a very thorough discussion of some of the fine points of this technique. They call it the ‘three-point fix’, and give some guidelines for selecting the points for the best results. For example, if all four points — that is, the three points you’re sighting and your position — all lie on the same circle, you get no fix at all!”

“Yes, that’s right,” said Lee. “You have to select the points for a good intersection of the circles.”

“Anyway, Lee,” I said. “I still think you’re

eanwhile, Lee wasn’t having much luck.

“What you’re describing sounds like the ‘Director Instrument’, said the salesperson.

“They were made in Sag Harbor, New York or someplace. They don’t make them any more. We only have one left, and it was returned by a customer who said it was defective.”

A minute later I heard Lee agree that the one remaining “Director Instrument” was off by 1-1/2 degrees because the printing was off center.

“Max, I’ve got to run or I’ll be late for work,” she said on her way to the door.

“Hope you find the chart useful.”

“I’m sure I will,” I said. “Thanks!”

As soon as she was gone I went straight to the counter and boilght the last remaining Director Instrument in captivity, even if it was off by 1-1/2 degrees. Then about 35 ship’s clocks all struck two bells simultaneously, and it was time to get back to the office.

I’ve always been rather tolerant of race committees that can’t set marks exactly where they belong. But this may not last too much longer. If I can figure out how to find the right spot, so can they. And besides, Lorans are getting cheaper every year!

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t’s freezing cold and raining outside, which means it must be time for s Latitude 38’s annual Crew List. What’s the Crew List? It’s our once a year personal advertising feature where we allow folks who’d like to race, to cruise, or social sail on the Bay, the opportunity to get their name on a list where it might be seen by boatowners looking for just such a crew.

Additionally we also allow boatowners to advertise the availability of-crew positions on their boats — again, be it for racing, cruising, or just plain social sailing on the Bay. The Crew List has been an annual feature of Latitude 38 for quite a while now. From the reports we’ve gotten, we’d have to guess that each year the List has been more successful. A pleasantly surprising number of people have told us that they’ve either gotten on racing boats or have cruised the far reaches of the Pacific as a result of having signed up for the Crew List. A few have even gotten married. We’re very happy about that.

For the record, the Crew List Advertising Supplement is for informational purposes only. Latitude 38 does not make or imply any warranty, guarantee or recommendation in regard to the character

^\nother reason we feel the List has been so successful is that we’ve charged people for advertising their names on the List.

Evidently this helped weed out most of the people who weren’t really serious, people who in previous ‘free’ years signed up “just to see what would happen”. Invariably those folks proved to be a source of frustration — as well as loss of time and money — for those who were serious.

The $5 charge to advertise one’s name on the List, however, did not seem to deter interest. Each year’s List has had more respondents than the year before.

This year, partly to help discourage the litigous, we again require that boatowner’s pay an advertising charge to get their names on the Crew Wanted lists. However, in recognition of the fact that boatowners have too many expenses to begin with, their advertising charge will be just $1.

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APPLICATION FORMS of any of the individuals participating in the Crew List or the condition of the boats used as a result of this List. You must judge those things for yourself.

the Crew List Parties last year, one will be held in Marin County, the other in either Oakland or Alameda. Both parties will be held in April, right when boatowners and crew are trying to find each other.

We’re pretty certain that most people who attended either one of the Crew List Parties last year — at either the Metro Oakland YC or the Corinthian YC — will tell you that the parties themselves were worth the advertising fee. Our friends at Pusser’s Rum were good enough to pass out Pusser’s Pain Killers, scores of t-shirts, 200 America’s Cup mugs, two big decorative flagons of rum, and other goodies. In addition, we at Latitude 38 donated 125 “Roving Reporter” t-shirts and visors.

The net result was that you had about a 33 percent chance of winning at least one door prize. We’re not sure if Pusser’s will be back again this year, but we plan to have a good number of door prizes. We look forward to seeing you at the parties this year.

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Rule Two: Fill the forms out clearly. If you don’t, they will get sent right back to you with your money.

Rule Three: Don’t forget to include the advertising fee with your form. Those wanting to crew can sign up for as many categories as they wish for $5. Those with boats looking for crew can sign up for as many categories as they want for $1.

Rule Four: Those of you who wish to advertise your name for racing crew positions or for racing crew, must have your forms back in Latitude 38’s hands no later than the 15th of February. This is necessary so we can publish the full racing Crew List in the March issue (which is distributed the first week in March), giving people time to get

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Those are the rules. Easy enough, aren’t they?

Once again this year we want to let the women in particular know that it’s perfectly all right to use a pseudonym or just your first name. Because this list will be available to the general public, we also encourage you to use an answering service or post office box to get your responses. This both allows you to screen inquiries and not be deluged with telephone calls at your home or work. And believe us, if you are a woman, you will get calls.

We also insist that women don’t sign up for the Crew List unless you can handle amorous men. Feedback from the previous Crew Lists — the very early ones in particular — indicate that either, 1. saltwater is a hell of an aphrodisiac, or 2. women who advertise their names in the Crew List are so irresistible that sailors have a hard time keeping their hands off. Actually it’s not all that bad, but you really shouldn’t sign up on the List unless you can handle yourself with men.

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downside risks to counter the sometimes over-optimistic expectations some people bring to the Crew List and to sailing in general. To our knowledge there has never been a serious problem stemming from the Crew List, and we naturally want to keep it that way. But when you are dealing with the public and a potentially hazardous activity like sailing, it’s important people considering advertising their name appreciate the risks involved. So stop and think before you advertise your name or boat.

For those of you who want to sail off to the South Seas but have no sailing experience, we recommend you reconsider three or four times before putting your name on the List. If you can’t conceive of how sailing the ocean can be unpleasant or difficult, read Part II of Elena Garcia’s The Rudder That Wouldn’t Come Home, which was featured in Volume 78. If you don’t have that volume we’ll send you a xerox of the story.

Elena, incidentally, did sail the South Seas as a direct result of signing up on the Crew List. If you can put up with all the problems as cheerfully as she did on the trip home from Hawaii, you’ve got the right attitude. If not, maybe you ought to stick to social sailing or racing on the Bay for a few seasons to develop a better appreciation of what’s involved.

1 he forms themselves should be pretty much self-explanatory. A couple of hints: It’s not a good idea to overstate your skills.

If you don’t know what you’re talking about someone who does can tell in an instant.

Looking for romance in your sailing?

There’s nothing wrong with that as long as you’re upfront about it. However, if you think a woman has an obligation tojalay footsie with you just because you gave her a berth on your boat, you’re dead wrong!

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ample, requires a much greater commitment than just ten afternoons. Ask a racer for details.

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December 10 — Arrive Cabo San Lucas from San Diego.

January 10 — Arrive Zihuatanejo from Cabo San Lucas.

February 7 — Arrive Las Hadas from Z-town.

February 25 — Arrive Puerto Vallarta from Las Hadas.

March 25 — Arrive La Paz, Baja Sur from Mazatlan.

March 30-April 7 — Sea of Cortez Race Week.

April 20 — Arrive Puerto Escondido from La Paz. May 5 — Arrive Cabo San Lucas from Puerto Escondido for trip back to States.

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hen we left off last month, we’d arrived at Las Hadas and cruised the fertile grounds in the area 50 miles to the north.

Great as this area is — and it’s superb — by February 25th you want to be up in the Banderas Bay/Puerto Vallarta vicinity, where you’ll spen’d the next month.

Banderas Bay has a number of great things going for it. Number one, in our opinion, is the fact that it almost certainly has the most consistent good sailing breeze in Mexico. Paul de Silva, a former Commodore of the St. Francis YC who moved to Puerto Vallarta with his Cal 34, told us during our first visit that the wind usually comes up page I 68

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about 12:30 in the afternoon and blows 12 to 15 knots. Typically it fades in the late afternoon and stays pretty quiet until about noon the next day. From what we’ve observed during a number of visits, this is accurate information.

Secondly, the Banderas Bay area never gets really cold. We’ve sailed there in the rain on New Year’s Day and we’ve sailed there in rain — and thick fog!!! — in February. Each time it was only a matter hours before it was swimming suit weather again. And on each of these coolest of times in Banderas Bay, the water was warmer than the air. Rain — and certainly fog — are definitely the exception in winter. You’re more likely to have bright sunshine packing plenty of heat, with the sun screen and cold beer requiring frequent replenishing. (If you’re shivering in the Sea of Cortez while you read this, remember it’s only a three or four day sail to P.V.) Another of Banderas Bay’s strong suits is

Above, the 'yacht club’ anchorage at Yelapa. At right, the Yelapa waterfall.

variety. It’s got everything from Puerto Vallarta, which has all you’d expect from an American city, to the anchorage at Punta Mita which offers no amenities beyond a white sand beach. Between these extremes page 169

are Yelapa, La Cruz and Mismaloya, all nice places in their own right. And since Banderas Bay has an oval rather than linear coastline, it’s no more than 20 miles between any of these disparate places/atmospheres.

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X uerto Vallarta has daily air service from San Francisco, Los Angeles and a number of other large U.S. cities. The combination of this convenience and the consistent afternoon breezes make this a perfect spot to have guests fly down and meet you for a week. You can easily satisfy your guest’s whims of everything from a solitary jungle anchorage to a thumping body to body disco — all in the same 24 hours. You may not be interested in everything offered, but Banderas Bay has it all.

Before we skip through a stop by stop tour, there are a couple of warnings we need to issue. First off, there is a glaring error in at least some editions of the Sailing Directions for the West Coasts of Mexico and Central America. If you’re using this volume, you’ll

want to note the mistake. On page 61 of our second edition 1979, it says that Islas Tres Mariettas, located just a few miles southwest of Punta Mita, are restricted because of a prison there. This is not true. The prison island is Isla Maria Madre in the Islas Tres Marias group some 50 miles to the northwest. This is a very important distinction to

MEXICO CRUISE PRIMER make, because in recent years the prison authorities have required boats that have strayed to within 20 miles of the shore to follow them in for questioning. All the boats and crews have been released, so you have little to worry about, but it’s not the mdst enjoyable side trip.'

A second error. In the ChartGuide Mexico West, the sketch chart of La Cruz de Juanacosta doesn’t correspond to our recollection. They indicate a natural breakwater only. Unless We’ve taken leave of our senses, there’s a man-made breakwater that extends from the tip of the natural breakwater to the east. It also has a light on it. The addition of the man-made breakwater is what gives the anchorage such good protection . We want to emphasize that for .the most part we think the ChartGuide is excellent and we use it all the time. Furthermore, we understand that the new edition of it is due out very soon, and perhaps the ipacThe anchorage at Hismaloya, with the old ‘Iguana’ set.

curate mini-charts of La Cruz and Careyes have oeen corrected.

^\nother thing. If you’re approaching Punta Mita from the north and relying heavily on your SatNav for position, be on your toes. According to the Sailing Directions, Punta Mita may be as many as three miles east of it’s charted position. So if you arrive in the dark of night, and you can’t reconcile the position of what seems like It should be the Punta Mita light with your SatNav position, that may be the problem. We’ve never had a SatNav working in this area, so we’ve never been able to confirm the chartedxposition. We’d be delighted if one of you folks cruising down there this year would do it for us.

The Puerto Vallarta shoreline is also said to be about 1.5 miles east of its charted position.

Here’s a health warning. There are sea snakes — sometimes swarms of them — in the waters of Banderas Bay. Generally speaking they won’t come after you, and you shouldn’t go after them. They’re very poisonous. It’s our understanding most of them don’t have big enough mouths to bite humans except on the little toe or finger or something, but we’ve not run extensive tests on the subject.

A more important health warning concerns hepatitus. Over the years Puerto Vallarta has been the hepatitus capital of Mexico — and perhaps the world. Some people blame the fact that too much raw sewage gets pumped directly into the bay from the Puerto Vallarta. Others blame unsanitary food-handling in some restaurants.

We don’t know which to believe, but we do suggest you don’t swim anywhere near Puerto Vallarta proper and that you be careful where you eat. How you successfully ac-

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complish the latter is a mystery to us.

Also be advised that the water in Puerto Vallarta — as is the case with all the mainland — is not safe to drink except for those with well-acclimatized bowels. The way we figure it, bottled water is a bargain for cooking and brushing teeth. As for the body’s liquid needs, we suggest beer, fruit juice and tequila — in that order. Even so, you should accept the fact that a bad case of tourista is a likely possibility.

F 1—enough with the warnings, let’s have some fun.

If you’re arriving from the south, which you’ll do if you follow our itinerary, Yelapa is your first stop. Just a little cut in the junglecovered mountains on the south side of Banderas Bay, you won’t see it until you’re right on top of it. Yelapa is primitive in the sense that it’s not supposed to have any windows, doors or electricity. (This is almost true). But it’s unprimitive in the sense that each morning the Serape, a big tour boat, arrives with a huge crowd of tourists from Puerto Vallarta. The tourists wander up and down the pa/apa-lined beach until about 2:30 when they reboard the Serape for the trip back to PV and their hotel.

Unless you want to get something to eat from one of the palapas — they close soon after the Serape leaves — it’s best to relinquish Yelapa to the tourists from 10:30 to 2:30. Since there are no roads to Yelapa, when the Serape is gone, so are all the tourists.

There are two places you can anchor at Yelapa, neither one of which is very good since the shore rapidly drops off to deep water. This is one of the places you’ll be kissing your electric windlass if you have one.

We suggest you anchor on the west shore, just outside the the group of pangas you’ll find there. It’s deep, so you’ll need lots and lots of line. / The second place to /inchor in Yelapa is directly in front of the beach. This is risky because of the deep water; either you anchor almost in the surf or you have inadequate scope. It’s the kind of place you want to be ready to leave the moment any'significant onshore wind appears.

For ail our cautions, plenty of boats do anchor here. Last February, for example, we anchored our boat here next to a green Swan 65 named Sayula. “Say,” we hollered over to them, “isn’t that the Sayula that won the first Whitbread Around the World page 171

Race?”

“Yes, it is,” they replied. “Say,” they continued, “isn’t that the Contrary to Ordinary that won the first Sea of Cortez Race Week?”

Okay, they didn’t really holler that, but we sure wished they had.

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1 erhaps Yelapa’s biggest charm is it’s people, who are definitely more cosmopolitan than you’d anticipate finding in a jungle hideaway five miles from the nearest road. Some of them are Mexicans, some are indians, and a surprising number are Americans. All seem to have traveled extensively or are wise beyond their circumstances. We don’t know why this would be the case, but it certainly seems to be true.

Virtually all cruisers who stop at Yelapa make the pilgrimage up to the waterfall. The water freefalls about 150 feet into a goodsized pool. After a couple of months of cruising in tropical heat and being coated with salt, there are worse things in life than lounging in the cool sweet water of the pool with some good friends and a couple of beers.

Mismayloya is just a few miles up the ay from Yelapa, and is geographically similar.

It’s another little cut in the coast that’s difficult to anchor at because the bottom drops off so steeply. The road from Puerto Vallarta comes right down to the beach here, so the crowds are greater and so is the noise.

The big attraction at Mismaloya is the aura of Liz Taylor that still mixes with the thick sweet tropical air to create a weird perfume.

Yes, this is where The Night of the Iguana

Bustling downtown La Cruz, a pedestrian’s paradise.

was filmed, a decision that ultimately turned the little fishing village of Puerto Vallarta into Mexico’s Waikiki.

From the few battered remains of the movie set, it’s about eight miles to Puerto Vallarta. Over the years some boats have anchored right off downtown Puerto Vallarta.

You can do this, too, but it’s not the best of ideas and requires some care. The holding ground is not particularly good, with the result that a couple of boats have dragged

The Banderas Bay food is fresh and tasty.

ashore and been reduced to splinters. Puerto Vallarta is also very noisy and there’s no , good place to leave your dink downtown.

Most cruisers choose to anchor in the harbor, which is located about three miles north of the city center. There’s good protection here from most weather, but once the .season’s in full swing boats pack themselves

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in like sardines. They’ve been dredging the main harbor for a couple of years now, so there may be a little more room than before.

There’s quite of bit of open space in the back of the harbor that’s been dredged and rip-rapped. If you’re brave, you can try and work your way back. We know it’s possible, having seen a number of boats drawing six feet back there last year. We just don’t know the correct route — if there is one. If you can get back there and find someone to watch your boat, this would be a good base from which to explore inland Mexico.

If you’re anchored in the outer harbor, land your dink next to the cruise ship dock, which is also next to the Port Captain’s office. From here it’s a short walk to buses, taxi’s and other transportation for the ride — it’s too far to walk — to town. If you’re anchored in the inner harbor, you can tie your dink to the charter boat dpck. You can also arrange to have fuel, ice and beer delivered here.

As for the exploring the big city, we’ll leave that to you. Be prepared, however, to mingle with a population and a city that seem about as Mexican as San Diego. If you’ve been out cruif ing for awhile, you may be overwhelmed by the hectic pace and crowds of pushy tourists. We strongly suggest you get to town very early in the morning; when it’s quiet and uncrowded it can be quite charming.

Once the pace of the PV blows you away, it’s time to sail to La Cruz de Juanacosta, less than ten miles away. La Cruz is about as slow as any town can get. There are a couple of restaurants, a park, a movie theatre, a couple of very small stores, and many vacant lots. There’s one restaurant in town that’s been seeking to be yachtie headquarters, although the name evades us now. Last year the owners were delighted to give yachties rides to and from PV when they went in each morning to buy supplies. If they’re still around, you’ll have no trouble finding them.

The bar at San Bias — enter with local knowledge only.

If the faint hub-bub of tiny La Cruz is too much for you, there’s always the^isolation of Punta Mita. This is an excellent anchdrage, but when coming or going, you have to be careful of the reef and an offshore rock.

Check your charts and sailing guides for specific directions.

Puta Mita is the last stop in Banderas Bay. From there it’s about 40 miles to Matenchen Bay and San Bias, although you may choose to stop at Jaltemba or Chacala on the way. Yachts stop at these two anchorages only periodically, as neither one has much in the way of supplies. .

San Bias and Matenchen Bay have a rather interesting history, and actually played small parts in the California Gold Rush.

Originally they were thriving Spanish settlements and served as ports for the Manilla galleons after their long voyages across the Pacific. They would be unloaded at San Bias and their treasures taken up to trading center of Tepic. Galleons were also built and repaired at San Bias.

When gold was discovered in Sacramento, nobody telephoned the news back to Washington and New York, because there were no telephones at the time. Nor were there telegraphs in the west. So a Navy Lieutenant by the name of Edward Fitzgerald Beale took some samples of the gold and sailed the Ohio on down to La Paz, where Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Naval forces Thomas Jones put him aboard the Congress for the trip to Mazatlan. Being the middle of summer, they ran into a storm and had a hell of a time making it across the Gulf. In Mazatlan Beale hired a small schooner to take him to bustling San Bias, a 100-mile trip that took five days because of yet another summer storm.

Once in the fort at San Bias, the Mexican governor told him there was no way an

American could make it a dozen miles into Mexico without being robbed or murdered.

But with great luck and fortitude, Beale eventually journeyed to Tepic, Guadalajara, occupied Mexico City, Vera Cruz, and finally New Orleans where he telegraphed the historic news.

an Bias and Matenchen Bay have changed little in the years since the Spanish settlement. A particularly irritating constant has been the tiny mosquitos at San Bias. According to one historian, Beale “felt as though he were being consumed alive by every gnat, mosquito, and chigger” that thrived in nearby swamps. If you stop here, you’ll know exactly what he meant. The only consolation is that these are union mosquitos and only work certain hours of the day.

The town of San Bias is pretty much free from the little buggers, and in fact is a quiet and charming little place. Some boats skip Matenchen Bay and go up the Estero deArsenal to anchor right next to San Bias. The problem is there’s a shifting sand bar, and unless you have local knowledge you may get into trouble. It can usually be done, but be careful. Frankly, we prefer palm-lined Matenchen Bay, bugs and all.

By this time it’s the middle of March and you want to start high-stepping it up to Baja.

You start with a 40-mile beat up to Isla Isabella, an interesting bird reserve, and then the*75 or so miles to Mazatlan. We personally don’t have much good to say about Mazatlan, so we’ll skip it other than to note that you can get all the supplies you need in this biggest of west coast ports.

It’s about 200 miles across the sometimes rough gulf to La Paz, a long passage after all the harbor hopping you’ve been doing.

Don’t be discouraged, it’s almost time for Race Week, and you’re about to discover an entirely differertt and fantastic area of Mexico, the Sea of Cortez. You’re going to love it.

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n October 27, the dream became reality. Pat and Kevin McGrath said goodbye to well wishers and sailed out the Golden Gate for the last time this decade.

Eight years of planning and preparation were behind them. Ahead, The Big Cruise: Mexico, Hawaii, the South Seas. No more

Like everything else aboard, those two items were rigged and working when they departed Morro Bay on November 7.

below; the autohelm was steering. Pat had just completed her every-15-minute X walkaround of the deck and settled back under the dodger when the night exploded.

“A Xlll at once there was this big, bone¬

workweeks, traffic jams, phone bills. Now their lives centered around Criterion, the Westsail 32 they had built themselves, the places they had yet to see and the many moods of the sea.

On November 8, the dream became a nightmare. Half an hour after midnight, Criterion collided with a freighter.

I at and Kevin McGrath, now in their early 30s, made the pact to go cruising together even before they were married 10 years ago. The dream was never shelved. In 1977, they bought a Westsail 32 hull and deck and for the next six years, built the boat of their dreams. Criterion — “Everything we put aboard had to answer to certain criteria,” says Kevin — was launched in December, 1983. For the last two years, the San Jose couple has sailed the boat out of Alameda’s Marina Village almost every weekend. To get to know her every mood, they made trips to the Farallones, Drakes Bay and Half Moon Bay. Late this summer, they quit their jobs, sold the house and cars, gave the cat away and started outfitting for The Big Trip.

“Over the summer, the boat changed from a nice, orderly boat to a cruiser,” says Kevin, “with jerry jugs and and all sorts of things on deck.”

The outfitting went like the building: when in doubt, overdo it and only settle for the best. Criterion was a well-found cruiser when she left the Bay. For simplicity’s sake, the boat was not overly laden with electronics, but what was aboard was the best, right up to the radar reflector and masthead tricolor.

Pat and Kevin McGrath.

Thursday night fell moonless, cloudy and black. Criterion slid easily down the coast, passing Pt. Conception under reefed main and staysail, bound for Channel Islands harbor. At midnight, the only lights they s.aw were the Conception lighthouse and those on the oil derricks ahead in the Santa Barbara Channel. The boat was about four miles off the coast, about half a mile in from the shipping lanes. By 12:30, they were approximately four miles south of the point. Kevin was in his sleeping bag on the port side The

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center, was the only leak.

Thruhull,

lower right

jarring sound,” says Kevin. “The impact threw me across the cabin. Someplace in midair I thought ‘This is the big one; the one you never want to happen.’ As I was struggling to get out of my sleeping bag I watched the port side disintegrate.”

His first words were “What the fuck?” His first thought was that the boat had grounded, then that it had hit a container that had fallen off a ship. On deck, Pat didn’t know what was happening until she saw a huge bow silouetted in the Pt. Conception light. “Then I realized the ‘night’ I was looking at on our port side was a ship.”

As Kevin fetched the deck, water was pouring over the stern, probably from the boat being pushed backwards through the water. For a good 30 seconds the collision “happened” and then — silence. It was only then that Kevin got the full impact of what had transpired. “I was looking up at this very large, slab-sided, V-shaped stern,” he says.

“I could read the writing on it very plainly.”

In one of those strange quirks of the mind, that name still blazes in his memory, but he can’t for the life of him read what it says.

Neither Pat nor Kevin recall seeing lights of any kind on the vessel, and within 10 seconds the night had swallowed it up again.

The young couple recall looking at each

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other in shock for a few seconds and then springing into action; Pat forward to undo the liferaft and Kqvin below to put out a Mayday on the radio. He told the microphone Criterion’s name, that they had been hit by a ship traveling about 15 knots, and their last known position. For a few agonizing

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seconds, no one responded. Then Coast Guard Long Beach came up, verified the reported position and asked the condition of the boat. Kevin told them to stand by.

spreaders, the other to starboard eight feet above that. The top 10 feet was still straight, and though the tricolor was gone, the masthead antennas and wind instruments still worked. Daylight would also reveal a maststep smashed flat against the spar and scraped-off paint — freighter blue — 35 feet above the deck.

From what he could see with a flashlight, the hull had two four-foot long cracks, one at midships, one forward, that extended from midway up the hull to — and possibly below — the waterline. (Once the boat was hauled, the cracks were found to extend about two feet below the waterline.) After as extensive a survey he could do, including going forward through the foredeck hatch, the only real leak Kevin could find was a slow one around the cracked throughhull fitting for the foreward head. The pumps kept up with it easily. “At that point,” he says, “we both felt

'Criterion's mast, 35-ft up. Paint scraped off is freighter blue.

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epilogue to this story can be summed up in the answer to the first question Pat asked when she realized they weren’t going to sink: “Are we still going?” In a sentence, hell yes, they’re still going.

Ironically, the McGraths had planned to cancel their insurance, which only covered the boat in California coastal waters. But Pat had procrastinated, finally deciding that the small refund wouldn’t be worth it. They were just going to let the policy lapse when it ran out — pn December 1.

Within the first three minutes of stepping ashore, the couple had several offers of places to stay. The insurance adjuster arrived that afternoon, assessing the damage at more than $25,000. Within days, Criterion was southbound on a flatbed, headed for Bud Toplin’s yard at World Cruiser Yachts in Costa Mesa, where it’s beginning the rebuilding process as you read this. Bud was foreman for the Westsail corporation and the McGraths are confident that he and his crew can rebuild the boat to their own high . . . criteria. Rebuild is literal here: The entire portside (and most of the rest of the interior) will be gutted. It will then be reglassed on the inside and possibly remolded on the outside.

New bulkheads will be heavily glassed in and

It actually looked worse than it was,” he says. As he began pulling up floorboards, he realized the pumps were handling the water, most of which had come down the companionway while the boat was backing up. What worried him was forward, but he couldn’t get to it immediately. The impact had collapsed the forward bulkhead and jammed the door shut. The other portside bulkheads were also torn loose and stores, charts and everything else from the portside was strewn around the cabin.

Topsides, Criterion had lost the port upper shroud and the forestay, causing the mast to flail around until Pat brought them back on course and wind pressure calmed the spar. As the boat resumed her five-knot progress toward the mainland as if nothing had happened, Kevin saw no reason not to keep sailing. He rigged the running backs to act as uppers and a halyard to take the*place of the forestay, then sheeted everything in tight to heel the boat and keep the damaged port side as high out of the water as possible.

Had he been able to check the mast more closely, he might have changed liis mind.

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very validated in our choice of boat.”

Kevin relayed all the information he could to the Coasties and wondered if a certain somebody might be listening in. “Big ships are required to monitor channel 16 and I wondered the whole time if anyone on that ship heard our conversation.” As best he could with a wet chart and no straightedge, he set a new course for Santa Barbara. He also requested an escort, but the Coasties reported that their cutter at Santa Barbara was down for repairs and the next nearest was at Marina Del Rey, 12 hours away. “The Coast Guard put out a bulletin for any ships in the area to lend us assistance, but other than that we were on our own,” says Kevin.

But not for long. About two hours after the collision, the Nicor Empire, a 100-andsome-ft drilling supply boat with two aboard pulled into view. “They were great,” says Kevin. “They came way out of their way to help us. They stood off 100 feet the whole way into Santa Barbara, keeping us appraised of the situation with their radar and shooing other traffic away.” About an hour out of the harbor, Kevin called the harbormaster, who arranged immediate haulout.

“He came and escorted us in and we drove right onto the travelift. That was about 8:30 in the morning. From there on out, everybody in Santa Barbara was super.”

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COLLISION COURSE a new mast rigged. Theoretically, the repair job should make for an even stronger boat than before the collision. Pat and Kevin plan to take delivery of the boat in March or April and be on their way again in May or June.

In the meantime, it’s back to the real world for awhile. They came to appreciate hdw much gear a Westsail 32 can hold when the 15-foot Ryder truck they’d rented to haul it in was barely adequate. They’ve found “a beautiful place in the Santa Cruz Mountains” to live for the next three months. And they’ve thought a lot aboirt what happened and how they can prevent it from happening again.

econstructing the incident, Kevin feels Criterion and the big ship were on essentially reciprocal courses. The ship’s bow wave rolled the Westsail and the ship first struck just forward of the main bulkhead, below the waterline. After that, Criterion just bumped and grinded down the side of the big vessel.

The two big bangs he heard were probably the shroud and forestay — breaking strength 9,500 pounds — breaking. The impact pushed the port hull in about 6 inches, rip¬

we don’t really want to put out the expense.

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he Coast Guard is investigating the collision. At this writing the identity and nationality of the ship is not known. When and if it is, its owners could face stiff fines and the captain could lose his master’s license.

Pat and Kevin have lots of people to thank, many whose names they don’t remember or never knew. The two crewmen v aboard the Nicor Empire; the Harbormaster

Above, better days. Below, the shattered mast compression post.

at Santa Barbara; Lt. Tom Christian of the Santa Barbara Coast Guard who offered his home for them to stay in; Tom Christos of Fireman’s Fund Insurance; and last but not

“We thought the boat was in Santa Bar-

“Bowsprit?” we said in our typical state of The collision ripped all bulkheads and other furniture loose from the port side.

ping loose all the bulkheads. Once the ship had passed, the hull popped back to shape.

What, if anything will they do different next time? “Our itinerary is the same,” says Pat. “We still plan to spend two to three years in the South Pacific. But we’ve had an attitude adjustment. We will now automatically assume ‘they don’t see us’.

And we are looking at ways to make ourselves more visible.”

“We’ll probably stay even farther from the shipping lanes,” says Kevin. “1 now think only one-half mile away might have been like playing on the side of the freeway. We’re also toying with the idea of radar, although

said our someone. Isn't that the boat we’re talking about? unrelated incident, Born Free, bound into the side of a freighter at 3 a.m. on, ahem, Friday the 13th of December. The

aboard were shaken up but not injured.

They lowered the satis and motored into Morro Bay without further incident. The ship did not stop.

least their families and supportive friends, particularly Craig Millett, Kay Doty and Jane Winter-White, who have sometimes been in twice daily contact.

“Our friends are saying, ‘You guys have more stories for someone who’s only gone to Pt. Conception-,’?’ laughs Pat. “And they’re right. It will make a great first chapter for the book.”

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With reports this month on new buoys on the Berkeley Circle; the ‘cabo broom’; the Whitbread Race; (^ Women’s Racing Assn. race; the Mid-Winter results; the Manzanillo Race preview; the MEXORC preview; the rule changes in England; the launch of Australia III, the USYRU Capsize Report; the loss of the Ethel-O; race notes, and much more.

The Buoys of the New Year A number of racers — including Max Ebb in this issue — have complained that the YRA marks are not always where they’re supposed to be — and in a few cases aren’t there at all.

For a long time it’s been one of those problems that everyone’s talked about, but nobody’s done anything about. At least that was the case until December 21 of last year when the YRA placed five brand new buoys in position on the Berkeley Circle. Three of the new buoys replaced existing marks F, A and G. Two new buoys replaced C and H, both of which have been missing for some time now.

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You don’t want to ram one of these babies, however. Constructed of 5/16-inch steel and weighing just under 700 pounds,

they’ll scratch the hell out of your topsides.

Railroad train wheels anchor the buoys to the bottom. That may not seem sufficient to you, unless you’ve tried to lift such a wheel recently. They tip the scales at 750 pounds.

While inspecting the old buoys, Bob

Thalman and others on the YRA Buoy Committee discovered that many of the old marks were way off location. The most important of these was X, the mark in the middle of the Circle that is usually one end of the starting line. It was 100 yards from where it was supposed to be. Thus if syou‘‘ lost a Berkeley Circle race by one second last year, maybe the measured distance was inaccurate and you didn’t really lose. But please, no protests at this late date.

While replacing five buoys might sound like a simple operation, it wound up costing $5,000. Buoys, like boats, are an expensive proposition. Also contributing to the cost was the committee’s philosophy to do it well and do it right — so it won’t have to be done again for a long while.

As for the YRA Buoy Committee^' — thanks from everyone!

The Broom that Swept Cabo Those of you who read last month’s article on the Cabo San Lucas Race will appreciate the significance of the photograph at right.

The individuals pictured are from left), Zan Drejes, Lu Lee and Bill Lee. That’s a broom

The circle marks the spot.

in Bill’s hand, not a boom.

The Lee’s were last minute additional crewmembers on the Santa Cruz 70, Blon¬

die, which under charter to Bill Martin of Ann Arbor, was first to finish, first in class, and first in fleet — a clean sweep. As if that wasn’t enough, Blondie also established a new course for the Long Beach to Cabo run.

As of the middle of December, nobody had chartered Blondie for February’s San Diego to Manzanillo Race. Why not you? It would give you a chance to go head to head with the boat that made a clean sweep of the Manzanillo Race in 1984, Nick and Bob Frazee’s N/M 68, Swiftsure III. Details on that race elsewhere in the Racing Sheet.

Whitbread Update The bigger they are the harder they fall was the theme for the first leg of the fourth Whitbread Round the World Race. The four boats to sustain enough damage to ruin their placings were all maxis from the six-boat Division A fleet.

The damage occurred during a severe gale near the Cape of Good Hope. Eric Tabarly’s Cote D’Or was the first to go down. The 82-footer, longest in the fleet, reportedly fell off a wave with such force (one crewman described the sensation as “Being in an elevator when the hoist cable breaks”) that it munched the Divinycel! core inside the hull near the bow. It was impossible to tell th^ extent of the damage underway, but “the fearsome graunching noises” weren’t very reassuring. They tacked, took off some sail, shored up the damaged hull and ran off until the storm abated.

Drum also started coming apart in a similar manner. Soon after skipper Skip Novak wrote a tribute to all the builders and crews for keeping the boats in one piece, a crewman called him forward to watch the sides of the hull oilcanning in and out about half an inch. Eight crewmen rushed forward to put their backs against the flexing area while the topsides crew started peeling sails off. Drum went down to just a storm jib and the crew shored up the area with flooring, strips of cabin lining, a jockey pole and broom handles. Ocean racing is such fun.

Portatan, the only American entry, was the next to go. In the lead by more than 100 miles with only- twice that to go, the big Bruce Farr design dropped her mast. There were a lot of “I told you so” looks aboard.

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Flyer around the world in the last Whitbread and had about 40,000 miles on it. Ironically, though, the failure was not in the mast; one of the brand new intermediate shrouds failed. To try and complete the leg, skipper Peter Kuttel pulled into Namibia, had a sleeve slipped over the broken portion of the mast and set out again for Cape Town — only to break the spar again. The only yacht to not officially complete the first leg motored into Cape Town where it got a new mast and possibly a new name. The last report we were able to get from race headquarters in Portsmouth was a recording that made no mention of Portatart. It did, however, refer to “Peter Kuttle on Atlantic Privateer”. Since no boat by that name started the race, we can only surmise that Kuttel or his backers changed the boat’s name in Cape Town.

We’ll try to confirm this', and the reason for it, by next issue. ' NZI Enterprise was the fourth injury, arriving at Cape Town with a 20 degree tweak in the top of the mast about 75 feet above the deck. A parted intermediate shroud caused the bend. This boat also suffered structural weakening. Like many other contenders, Enterprise’s crew had a lot of work to do before the December 4 start of the second leg. / With Portatan out of the running, the fractionally rigged UBS Switzerland took first to page 179

Santa Cruz Gothic; Zan, Lu, Bill and the ‘sweeping’ broom.

finish with a time of 34 days for the 7,000-mile run from Portsmouth. Overall handicap honors went to the Division C boat, L’Esprit D’Equipe. The Dutch Phillips Innovator, and the Swan 651 Fazer Finland also Division C boats, brought up the second and third on corrected time. The sweep and lack of damage to the smaller boats was credited to their catching only the tail end of the gale. They only had to contend with 35 knots of wind while the maxis were duking it out with larger seas and 50 knots.

For the most part, repairs were effected quickly, but you have to wonder at some of them. Cote D’Or, for example, turned out to be four tons over her designed weight when built, and when launched had a definite bow-down attitude. Tabarly had to go with her like that, and reported a strong tendency to submarine and punch into waves on the way to Cape Town. The 200 pounds added to the bow by repairs there only exacerbated the problem, so he decided to jerk her out again and put on a whole* new keel! He called it part of the repairs, but several competitors understandably disagreed. The jury is still out on whether the modifications will be penalized.

And poor Drum. This has to be the /

unluckiest race boat built in recent memory.

First, the boat (as Colt Cars) ran into funding problems and wasn’t even going to be built.

She was saved and completed under the ownership of rock star Simon Le Bon, and thanked him by dropping her keel during the Fastnet and trapping him and several other crewmembers in her capsized hull. Then she ’started coming unglued in the Whitbread.

After repairs in Cape Town, they were lowering her back into the water when the rudder hit something and split open. Sigh.

Back out of the water she came for a new rudder. At last report, Drum’s various bandages were holding her together.

At this writing, the fleet was about 1,200 miles southeast of Fremantle around latitude 50 south. It gets cold down there. A few boats have reported seeing icebergs and the crew of PhiHips Innovator has had such problems with fog and condensation below * that they’re all wearing their survival suits to keep dry. Icebergs, fog, survival suits? These guys are really hardcore.

Atlantic Privateer (ex-Portatan?) is once again in the lead, some 450 miles ahead of NZI Enterprise. If nothing changes, Enterprise will still hold on to her lead on handicap, but Privateer will move up to second overall when she hits the finish in Auckland about January 4. (How that can be when the boat didn’t complete the first leg is beyond

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\ us, but that’s what the recording said.)

Phillips Innovator is leading the four-boat Division C fleet and Rucanor Tristar the fourboat Division D fleet.

Women’s Racing Association The Perpetual Trophy Race on December

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Winds were mild for this December 7 race, no more than 15 out of the North and Northwest. So the fleet raced a short 7.3-mile course. The Cruising Club uses the Little Harding, Yellow Bluff, Blossom trangle for its midwinter races.

Columbia Challenger — 1) Shay, Rich Stuart, SCC; 2) Osprey, Peter Sears, SCC; 3) Rurik, Norm Carter, HMBYC.

Golden Gate —• 1) Fledgling, Mike Bonner/Jim Geagan, (no club); 2) Pajarita, Robert MacDonald, Bay View Boat Club; 3) Kutiipo, Chris Craft, (no club).

Triton — 1) Cyrene, Chris Wahl, SCC; 2) My Way, Lowell Jett, SCC; 3) Skye Mist, Paul Brent, CYCDivision 1 — 1) Troubador, Swan 46, Jim Diepenbrock, CYC; 2) Sangvind, Farr 48, Jerry Jensen, MYCO; 3) Ruckus, Newport 30 Mklt, Paul Von Wiedenfield, Presidio YC. Division 2 — 1) El Viento, Santana 22, Al Conrad, SCYC; 2) Perezoso Excalibur 26, Linda Kasper, (no club); 3) Circus, Bear Boat, Robert Jones, SCC. Division 3 — 1) Peer Gynt, Knarr, Kjell Skaar, CYC; 2) Gusty Santana 22, Mike Bykoff, RYC; 3) Speedboat, Knarr, Leigh Johnson, STFYC. Division 4 — 1) Flying Cloud, Ariel, Dave Hendrickson, (no club); 2) Caliban, Cal 20, Dave Green, BBYC; 3) C'byn, Electra, Jack Van Keuren, SCC. Golden Gate YC Postponed due to inclement weather.

Makeup race scheduled for March 2.

Metropolitan YC Starts for both the December 7 and 8 MYCO midwinters were delayed, but for different reasons. On Saturday, the race committee set up for a northerly, but five minutes before the start, the wind swung radically to the west. Things were shifted around in about 20 minutes for the start. A healthy 20 knots blew throughout the race, and 25 to 35-knot gusts and small rain squalls made for some white-knuckle spinnaker action.

On Sunday, the race was postponed an hour because there wasn’t any wind. The boats started on a short course and light

14, which pits the best two boats of each division against each other, ended WRA’s fall season. Lightish north to northwest winds in the 10 to 12-knot range prevailed over most of the Olympic Circle course, although it piped up to as much as 18 out toward F mark. Island Yacht Club hosted the

event. Gene Harris and her crew Claudia Tyler, Celeste Sendel and Cheri Morrow on the Wabbit Ricochet won it.

Speaking of F mark, WRA has approved the donation of $50 to YRA for the upkeep of racing marks, particularly those on the Olympic Circle, and very particularly F

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mark. Anyone who has used F knows it is one of the more difficult buoys to spot, even when you’re fairly close.

The WRA winter season begins January 18 at the Richmond YC. Subsequent dates are February 1 (TYC), March 1 (SFYC), March 16 (GGYC), and April 12 (1YC). The

March 1 event is listed as the Shalleberger Memorial/WRA Race after Ann Shalleberger, an active SFYC and WRA racer who willed her Knarr to her crew when she passed away several years ago. For more on WRA racing, call Liz Farrier at 567-9314 Perpetual Trophy Race — 1) Ricochet, Wylie

Wabbit, Gene Harris; 2) Equity, Merit 25, Glenda Carroll; 3) Risky Business, Soverel 33, Karen Weisiger; 4) Hot Chocolate, Newport 30, Mary Lou Oliver; 5) Two Bits, Cal 1/4-ton, Marcine Osborn; 6) Ragtime, Santana 22, Nancy Farnum; 7) Happy, Santana 22, Barbara Kerr; 8) MyToy, Ranger 26, Barbara Adams.

Metro cont.

Metro cont. about three-fourths of the way through the race, shifted again to the west, making for a spinnaker finish.

Which reminds us: the MYCO race committee pleads with all racers to have the proper numbers on their spinnakers. Some chutes had no numbers; others had bogus numbers that really fouled up scoring. Don’t say you haven’t been warned. As with last month, these are preliminary results. Standings could change pending protests and spinnaker identification, Saturday 12/7

Division A 1) J-Spot, J/29, Tom Fancher; 2) Violation, J/29, Noel Rhodes; 3) Kitty Hawk, Sonoma 30, Rhonda Fleming.

Division B — 1) Mesmerize, C&C 35, Todd E. "Lee; 2) Bella Donna, Bums 27, Dan Woofery; 3) Bad Bunny, Wylie Wabbitt, Colin Moore.

Division C — 1) Pearl, Olson 25, John Adams, 2) Predator, Hawkfarm, Linda Weber-Rettie/Dan Newland; 3) Honey’s Money, Olson 25, Bob Evands.

Division D — 1) Three Sheets, Sprinta Sport, Tony Soter; 2) Beamish, Luders 36, Charles Fairchild, 3) Everready, Cat 29, Mark Cheney.

Division E — 1) Latin Lass, Catalina 27/, Bill Chapman; 2) Slow Dancer, San Juan 24, Dennis Beckley Division F 1) Emma, Fotkboat, Gary Clymer; 2) Artesian, islander Bahama, K.D, Speer; 3) Naressia, Coronado 25, Bobbt Tosse.

Olson 30 — 1) St. Anne, Richard Heckman; 2) Naked Aggression, Perry Matthews/Kathy Marshall; 3) Hotstreak, Don Young.

Express 27 — 1) Trimmer, Dave Hodges; 2) Desperado, Mike Bruzzone; 3) Graeagle, Richard Hodges.

Santa Cruz 27 — 1) Hot Flash, Brendan Meyer, 2) Variety Show, Bob Shuyler; 3) Dynalfow, Mark and Matt Dini. j/24 — 1) American Beauty, Ray Del rich; 2) Sowick-Cited, Helmar Sowick/Jeff Madrigali; 3) Dejavu, Chris Perkins.

Merit 25 — 1) Equity, Chris Kafitz; 2) Chesapeake, Jim Fair; 3) Twilight Zone, Paul Kamen.

Newport 30 — 1) Achates, Bob Schock/Bili Schultz; 2) Harry, Dick Aronoff; 3) Callisto, Howard Kan.i/Charies Ciemon.

Catalina 30 — 1) Mona Too, Dave Haiaby; 2) Starkite, Brian McDonough; 3) Fat Cat, Seth .....—--

Bailey.

Catalina 2-27 — 1) Sundance II, Leigh Bright; 2) Wanika, Steve Wilson; 3) Con Carfno, Gary Albright.

Ranger 23 — 1) Twisted, Don Wieneke; 2) impossible, Gary Kneeland/ Joan Newberry; 3) Smokey, John Nelson.

Santana 22 — 1) Hot Ruddered Bum, Eric Fieberling; 2) Buffalo Honey, Lou Fields; 3) Tara, Howard Brunn.

Sunday, 12/8

Division 1 — 1) Mesmerize, C&C 35, Todd E. Lee; 2) Sweet OkoJe, Farr Custom, Dean Treadway; 3) Power Play, J/29, Peter Cunningham.

Division 2 — 1) Viva 40, Express 27, Bart Harris; 2) Frog in French, Express 27, Kame Richards; 3) Leon Russell, Express 27, Russ Johnson.

Division 3 — 1} Zotli, Choate 27, Robert Hrubes; 2) Susurrus, O’ Day 34, John Webb; 3) Wanderlust, Ericson 35, Bruce Munro.

Division 4 — 1) Magic Jammies, Wavelength, Charles Witcher/Nick Rau; 2) Yankee Doodle, Yankee, Brian O’Donoghue; 3) £1 Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Jocetyn Nash. , Division 5 — 1) Twilight Zona, Merit 25, Paul Kamen; 2) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair; 3) Xanadu, Merit 25, Blit Glass.

Division 6 — 1) Catch 22, J/22, Jerry Blok; 2) intrepid Fox, Cal 34, Jim Fitzmaurice; 3) 20/20, Cal 29, Phil Gardner.

Division 7. — 1) Honcho II, Santana 27, Paul Rosenthal; 2) Sundance II, Cal 2-27, Leigh Brite; 3) Temptation, Cal 2-27, Rollye Wiskerson.

Division 8 — 1) Mal-Tai-Mmm; Cal 20, Shirley Howland; 2) Jubilee, Ariel, Don Morrison; 3) Passage, Coronado 25, Peggy Hickman.

Santana 35 — 1) American Eagle, Tom Otter; 2) Silhouette, Wayne Walker; 3) Hurly Burly, Rich Savoy.

Islander 36 — 1) Tom Cat, Allan Sebastian!; „ 2) Juggernaut, Frank Tomsick; 3) Grumpy Dog, Cyndy Hessenbruch.

Wylie Wabbit — 1) Bad Bunny, Colin Moore; 2) Contingent, Jerry Keefe; 3) Mr. McGregor, Kim Desenberg.

Moore 24 — 1) Popeye, John Kelly, 2) Bitchin, Brian Goepfrich; 3) Tinsley Maru, Bruce Hayes.

Olson 25 — 1) Alchemy, Joe Kitterman; 2) Fast lane, Norm Williams; 3) Honey’s Money, Bob Evans.

Islander 30 — 1) Antares, Larry Telford; 2) Current Asset, John Bowen; 3) Bianca, Bruce Wallace.

Santana 22 — 1) Bantana, Lloyd Banta; 2) Nemesis, Anna Peachy, 3) Gust Buster, John Orfali.

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San Diego to Manzanillo Race Time is running short if you’re going to participate in the last Mexican sleighride of the season, the San Diego to Manzanillo Race starting February 8. For one thing, the entry deadline is January 10; secondly, there is a maximum limit of 40 boats, a number rapidly being approached.

Hosted by the San Diego YC, and the 1100-mile course ends at the luxurious Las Hadas Resort made famous by Bo you know who for doing you know what. The race is open to boats with IOR ratings between 23.5 and 70.0. The entry announcement did not make the upper rating limit clear, with the result that the MacGregor 65, Joss, entered and then was rejected. Most MacGregor 65’s rate well over the race’s top limit of 70.0, although the SDYC is holding open one slot for an unnamed Big Mac that is said to be having her rating lowered to within the acceptable parameters.

The Manzanillo Race started in 1976 as a replacement for the Acapulco Race which had been held on even-numbered years between 1952 and 1974. The change was made because the Acapulco Race was just too darn long for the light airs that predominate along the Mexican mainland.

Seventeen days, for example, wasn’t that bad an elapsed time.

To date the Manzanillo Race has been

1982 — Hot Rum, Catillon/Sellars.

1984 — Swiftsure III, Nick & Bob Frazee.

In the last race Swiftsure III took the hat trick; first to finish, first in class, and first overall. She covered the course in 6 days, 18 hours —- a good time but not a record time. , The course record was established in 1978 when Bill Lee drove Merlin over the 1100-mile course in just 6 days and 2 hours.

Merlin was just under a year 0I4 at the time, and only eight months earlier had ^established the TransPac course record which also still stands.

Swiftsure III is back this year to take another crack at the record, but she’ll have some stiff competition. Kathmandu, the Santa Cruz 70 which finished second in the recent Cabo Race is expected to enter, as well as a host of other ultralight maxis. A list of paid-up entries as of December 10th accompanies this article.

If you want to get your boat entered, do so right away by calling Jennifer at the San Diego YC; (619) 222-1103.

MEXORC As is the case in all even-numbered years, right after the Manzanillo Race is MEXORC. A mananaland version of the so very serious SORC held at the same time each winter in Florida, MEXORC consists of five races of

PAID-UP MANZANILLO RACE ENTRIES AS OF DECEMBER 10

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Choate 41 ■

Lone Star Ms. Blu Nalu Prims Ragtime Siiberrad Smaug Swift ill Toboggan Tyhoon Morning Star

NIM 55 Swan 51 Swan 44 Olson 40 Spencer 62 Peterson 39 J/35 N/M 63 Holland 42 Olsen 45 Express 37 SC 40

held five times. Overall corrected time winner and owners for each years are as follows: 1976 — Ragtime, Dr. William White and William Pasquini.

1978 — Resende, Dr. Michael Satterlee.

1980 — Auanti, Armend Barpeschi.

Bob Batcher Peter Marble Burton/Benjamin Harry Thomasen Peter Grant Fred Krishner Pat Farrah Cliff Tho ■ Nicholas and Bob Frazee Paul Queyrei John Olsen Larry Doane

Alien/Wintersteen

Southwestern Newport Harbor Coronado YC Long Beach YC San Diego YC San Diego YC San Diego YC Voyager YC Long Beach YC St.‘ Francis YC Pacific Mariners

varying distances, races that are sailed in the easy-going spirit of tropical Mexico. There’s also a whole lot of plain-old fun and games ashore to maintain the proper atmosphere of the event.

MEXORC runs from February 20th thru

the 26th. You can sign up for the racing when you get down to Mexico — officials will make it easy, even if you don’t have a rating — or you can contact General Chairman Bob Higgens at (714) 739-8100.

England Swings Not normally known as the most trendsetting of nations, the English have nonetheless taken two rather bold steps in the world of yacht racing.

First off the Royal Ocean Racing Club, a private club that administers virtually all ocean racing in England, has taken the big step and decided to have a division that allows yachts with advertising to compete in their races.

The idea was first experimented with in last year’s Fastnet Race, and allowed some of the Whitbread Around the World boats to compete. Previously boats with advertising had to tape over the ads while they competed in RORC races, hoping the tape didn’t wash off until they got back to the docks.

Boats with, advertising will compete in a special Open Division, and although they’ll race alongside the Division 1 boats, there will be separate point scores and trophies.

The second innovation is that the RORC

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seen again, as more than 500 spectator craft followed the stars of formula one yachting around Perth water.” Said designer Lexcen, “Walt Disney couldn’t have done it better.”

— marilyn hutt

Las Hadas after the Manzanillo Race. A transom lovers paradise.

will no longer require crewmembers to be amateurs to compete in their races. It’s not that the RORC necessarily wants paid crew, it’s simply that they recognize that the amateur rule is impossible to enforce. If you can’t enforce it, why have it?

Cup Doings Down Under “Dennis Conner was wrong — God is an Australian,” declared Warren Jones. The Australian syndicate director for the next America’s Cup challenge was referring, to Conner’s post race statement — “God must be an American” — made in 1983 when wind conditions favored Liberty.

The occasion for Jones’ declaration was the naming ceremony for Australia III at the Royal Perth Yacht Club. Some 5,000 spectators and a national television audience listened to speeches by Jones, syndicate kingpin Alan Bond, Australia II and III designer Ben Lexcen and other Cup figures.

As Bond’s wife Eileen smashed tbe bottle of champagne over Australia Ill’s bow, almost on the head of the boxing kangaroo logo, 3,000 red, white and blue balloons soared

skyward while gaily decorated yachts sounded hooters, sirens and horns.

With his usual flair for the dramatic, Bond announced during his part of the ceremony that Australia III would join Australia II for a demonstration sail on the Swan River. The new boat was escorted into the marina by four sailboarders, their sails all bearing the boxing kangaroo. While loudspeakers blared out Australia II’s fight song, “Man from

Down Under,” a helicopter towing a huge boxing kangaroo flag passed overhead.

Two hours later, with Bond at the helm of the new boat, the two sloops glided down the Swan to the cheers of onlookers. “It was a sight that had never been seen on the Swan River,” a reporter for The Western Australian wrote, “and probably will not be f

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Final Report on Safety From Capsizing The joint committee of the United States Yacht Racing Union and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers has released the final report on its research aimed at minimizing the danger of capsize in severe seas. It is available from the USYRU at P.O. Box 209, Newport, RI 02840.

This report was inspired by the Fastnet disaster of 1979 and culminates the work of many researchers over the intervening years, including theoretical analysis, tank tests, statistical studies and meteorological studies.

The report makes a wide range of recommendations, the most important a proposed screening criterion to allow vessels to participate in Group 1 offshore races. Interested owners should obtain the report to determine whether their vessel is considered adequate under this criteria. Other recommendations included increased mast scantlings, improved deck watertightness and placement of ballast low in the vessel. , Of special interest to owners are a note that capsizes tend to be associated with catastrophic drops in barometric pressure (a sustained rate of 24 millibars in 24 hours) and the following comment quoted ver¬

And now there is ‘Australia III’.

batim: “There exist many craft which, through the provision of accommodations or by designation, give the appearance of being suitable for use offshore; and owners are

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\ \ cautioned to inquire of the architect whether the parameters and construction of a design suit it for offshore use. Owners are strongly advised to make, in consultation with a designer, a determination regarding the suitability of their yachts based on information such as provided by the project; and to keep unsuitable yachts within protected waters.”

— chris barrel

Winter Happenings It’s a slow winter in the Bay Area big boat arena. For the first time in quite a while, no Northern California boats will be competing in the SORC. Even-numbered years usually have a little less competitive fleets, because the odd-numbered years are the ones which attract the boat looking for the prestigious Admiral’s Cup slots.

While no Northern California boats are going to the Circuit, a couple of local sailors will be driving Circuit boats. John Bertrand will be sailing Windquest, Dick DeVos’ Rhode Island-based brand new Frers 50.

Dee Smith will be on a new Tripp onetonner that was built by former Alameda resident Bill Green, who now works his boatbuilding magic in Lymington, England.

Smith figures the unusually light masthead boat will either fly or be an also ran.

Steve Taft has done every Circuit since 1976 when he sailed on America Jane. After 11 years of that he’s decided to do something different. Well sort of different.

He’ll still be sailing, but casually on a Swan 46 in the British Virgins.

John Kostecki, whose main focus is a Soling gold medal in the next Olympics, will be concentrating on small boats this winter. First there’s the J/24 mid-winters in Florida, which consists of a 100 boat by invitation fleet. Kostecki feels the mid-winters are even more competitive than the J/24 Worlds.

Then in February Kostecki will be racing Etchells 22’s in Florida, once again in top flight competition. We hope to have a feature on the Florida midwinters for you next month.

The Bay Area’s new big boat, the Bob Smith-designed High Risk is still being outfitted and looks a few weeks away from being launched. If it’s anywhere near as fast on the water as it looks on land, it will do great.

Cutting Corners The worst that can happen when you hit a mark is losing the race, right? Wrong. Just ask Jim Graham of the Thunderbird fleet.

He didn’t lose the race; he lost the boat.

The incident occurred during a GGYC club race on Columbus Day, October 12.

Graham and his two-woman crew aboard Ethel-0 were headed for Blossom from Harding at a good clip. When they went to round, the strong current and wave action set them right down on the buoy instead.

“The buoy itself was heeled way over from the tide and the last thing 1 remember seeing was these big lugs welded to the top,” says Jim. The boat hit with a real crunch — and kept right on going onto its new tack. “The first thing 1 thought was that I had to exonerate myself for hitting the mark,” says Jim. When the boat started to become sluggish, he looked below. Twenty-five to thirty seconds after impact, water was already over the bunks. \ “With that much water that fast, I knew we were in a bad way, says Jim. They started waving their arms to attract attention, but at first, everybody just waved back. Finally, a Navy river boat out to enjoy the fleet week activities came over and threw Ethel-0 a towline. Once the tow was secure, Jim had his crew transfer to the Navy boat and jumped below to try to stop the leak. Unfortunately, he could only get at a small part of the gash, much of it being obstructed by the icebox. By the time water was up to his chest and the decks were awash, he figured it was time to abandon.

From the Navy boat, Jim watched his pride, joy and recreation of the last fourteen years slip beneath the surface. “It was a shock to see my boat go down, but I’m thankful for the safety of my crew,” he says.

“If the bottom line is that nobody is hurt, then I’ll go for losing the boat anytime.” The time from impact to sinking: less than five minutes.

This story has a happy ending. Jim has acquired another Thunderbird. The 1963 boat had sunk in its slip in the San Rafael Canal a couple of years ago and the insurance had written it off as a total loss. “The owner of the yard was interested in getting it out of there, so we effected a bargain. I was given some yard time to get the boat back in the water

and, with the help of members of Fleet 6, it’s back in the water.” Christmas is delayin'g work on the mast and rigging, but Jim hopes to have the boat raceable by next season.

“Fixing this boat was good therapy,” says Jim. It’s not the same as what I lost, but I think it’s going to be fun.”

Race Notes In our it’s-rough-to-be-clairvoyant department this month is the December Race Notes item about double spreader rigs being approved by the Olson 30 Class Association. Fleet Captain Kathy Marshall called to say no way, Jose. Although the general consensus was that the rule change would be approved, as of the first of December when the issue came out no vote had been taken.

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by an overwhelming margin. Interested in more about the Olson 30? Kurt Tellufson is the new fleet commodore. He can be reached at 1276 Devonshire Rd., San Diego, CA 92107. Locally, Perry or Kathy Marshall at 627-8691 can tell you more.

The Ballena Bay YC is offering a series of three all-day seminars for skippers and crews racing this year’s Pacific Cup. Topics to be covered include electronics, provisioning, safety equipment, health emergencies and preparing your boat for offshore racing. Lots of advice and opinions will also be available from well-known yacht designers and sailmakers. The seminars are on February 22, March 1 and March 15. $10 a day covers lunch and coffee. For information or reservations, contact Marina Eisenzimmer 521-RACE (days) or 969-8521 (evenings).

The Encinal YC is once again sponsoring a five-race “warm-up” series in the South Bay near the Naval Air Station. This fiverace, one-throwout series is designed to assist boats and crews in tuning up for the upcoming racing season. It’s also an excellent place for new racers to get the feel of page 185

'Ethel-O’, before the Blossom Buoy got her.

the sport. The dates are January 25, February 8 and 22, and March 8 and 22. All races start at 1 p.m. All participants are invited to enjoy the Encinal’s bar and restaurant after the races. The entry fee is $20, $5 of which goes to the Golden Gate Challenge. For more, contact Terry Iverson at 769-6190 or 522-0106.

We’ve always believed in calling a spade a spade. For that reason, our January award for the most accurately named race on the Bay goes to the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s Three Bridges Fiasco. It is a crazy race to sail, a difficult race to watch and an impossible race to photograph — a real fiasco.

Like all fiascos, though, it can also be lots of fun. The object is to start, round marks under or near the Bay’s three major bridges, and finish. You are allowed to do this in any order you wish. The only other rule is that you be alone when you’re doing it. After all, the race is sponsored by the Singlehanded Sailing Society. The starting gun for this

year’s fiasco goes off on January 26. For more, call Tony Smith at 454-2312.

Want to move up in the standings? North Sails has a two-day program called the North U Fast Course that teaches you about sail shape, rig control and boat handling. In addition you get a 237-page Fast Course Book. It’s not on the water training like the J World courses, but it’s less expensive and the next best thing. The North U Fast Course comes to the Bay Area March 1 & 2; call the North loft at 522-5373 for information.

If you folks read the story on the Cabo Race last month, you no doubt saw the sidebar on page 115 that said “Cabo Race Results”. It was obvious that it wasn’t real/y the Cabo race results — they appeared on page 119 — but some other unintelligible mumbo jumbo. After hours of determined study, we finally concluded it was supposed to say, “The Cabo San Lucas Ultralight Maxi Drag Race Results”. Here then, in what we hope is readable fashion, are the results of that drag race, with the name of the boat, the type of boat, and the time — in days, hours, and minutes, it took to finish the course: Blondie, Santa Cruz 70, 3:03:45 (three days, three hours, and 45 minutes); Citius, Santa Cruz 70, 3:04:32; Ragtime, Spencer 62; 3:08:10; Joss, MacGregor 65, 3:08:30; Kathmandu, Santa Cruz 70, 03:08:34; Cheeta, Peterson 66, 3:08:43; Saga, Nelson/Marek 68, 3:09:08. There were more, but those were the top seven. If you check the times you can see that the boats that finished between 3rd and 7th were separated by less than one hour after 750 miles of record-breaking racing.

One of the best liked and most talented drivers on the west coast over the last bunch of years has been sailmaker Dick Dcaver of Southern California. He’s won the Congressional Cup and had great success driving boats like Ragtime and Condor of Bermuda.

Recently Dick had a boat built for himself, a Farr 55, that came from the same mold as Whistlewind, but was made several feet longer. It sports a masthead rather than a standard fractional rig. Some of Dick’s best friends in the Long Beach area are a little worried for him, however. You see he named the boat Outta Here, and everyone’s waiting for some prankster to preface it with “Get the F-k”. Sailors can be like that.

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With reports this month from a charter group’s trip to Greece; Foxy Lady II in Rangiroa; the harbormaster’s Office at Puerto Escondido; Mariah in Aruba; PicaroonJn Cabo San Lucas; Seeadler in New Zealand[; Locura after crossing the Atlantic; Antipodiste in Hawaii, and cruise notes.

Cass’ Marina Trip to Greece Lois Keating-Fischer plus 20 Chartering the Greek Islands (San Francisco Bay) It’s a sad but true fact of life that right now most of us can’t afford the time or money to drop everything, buy a boat and cruise the Greek Islands. If you can’t do exactly what you want, sometimes you have to settle for the next best thing, which in the case of the Greek Islands is a two week charter.

Last September Lois Keating-Fischer, who runs Cass’ Sailing School in Sausalito, put together just such a trip for 20 sailors — be they bakers, bankers or candlestick makers — from the San Francisco Bay Area. Since many of the group didn’t know any of the

Women in the Cass’ group enjoyed the sunshine as well as the sailing in Greece.

others, Lois played matchmaker, assigning groups of four to each boat. Lois often trusted her intuition, in one case putting three women in the same boat with one lucky guy.

After the brief and ever-so-refreshing 19 hour journey from San Francisco to Athens

to Poros, the group stowed their gear, took a brief tour of the main street, returned to their berths and dropped right off to sleep. The berths were on Maxi 95’s, center cockpit Swedish boats about 32 feet long.

The next morning they met the rest of the 12 boat flotilla they would be spending the next two weeks sailing in loose company with. While most of the other Ipobt^ in the flotilla had English speaking people aboard, they came from all different parts of the world. Several groups from England, one from New Zealand, one from Australia, one from eastern Canada and even one from Africa.

Eventually they would cover about 150 to 200 miles of water, with stops at the islands of Aegina, Poros, Hydra, Dhokos and Spetse, as well as mainland ports of call that included Epidauros, Ermioni, Porte Helli and Plaka. ^ The way the flotilla worked was simple; each morning about 1000 there was a skipper’s meeting, where the flotilla leaders explained what the possibilites were for the day and what the evening’s destination was.

Since the longest passage that had to be completed in one day was just 20 miles, each boat in the flotilla could follow a completely different daily itinerary and still be with the group.

For example, some boats would choose to hang around the previous night’s anchorage and rest until noon; some would take a taxi into town and explore ruins; some would spend the morning having a leisurely breakfast; some would take side trips to optional ports, and others would head directly to the evening’s anchorage to swim or spend time In the village. The only requirement was that the boats arrive at the evening’s anchorage before dusk. It was always easy.

One of the best features of sailing in a flotilla is that you didn’t have to do any paperwork. Nope, that got left to the flotilla leaders, who would dash ahead to the next stop and take care of that hassle. All of the stops except Athens were at small villages, where the English might have been broken but the smiles were sincere.

The mid-September weather in Greece was just fine. The air was warm and the

puts it, “My crew could not wait to shred their clothes and jump in the Aegean, for not only was it warm, but it was also very salty and thus easy to float in.” The wind strength was anywhere from 0 to 40 knots, although the top wind was short-lived and provided for a great sail in the afternoon when it lightened.

With the open itinerary and the help of the guides, each new day was an adventure full of possibilities; visiting ruins, caves, marble factories, or hiking, skin diving and eating.

The group found the simply prepared foods to be fresh, delicious and inexpensive — just the way they should be.

But the thing that made this — and all cruises — a big success was the people. They all got along well together and in fact still remain friends, holding parties so they can relive their sailing fun in Greece.

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sonally not visited it for 24 years.

The locals are very friendly, curious and easy to approach. After four months in the Marquesas/Tuamotus, we have not had a single negative experience. Any apparent “lack of interest” is usually only timidness and a friendly open greeting will bring a giant smile. Bring a polaroid camera and you will be a big hit with both children and adults.

Some key points on Rangiroa that may be helpful to those following us: •Both passes, Tiputa and Avatoru are navigable but come in/out at slack! They move fast.

•Do not try to enter the small boat harbor in Avatoru without local help.

•Do not use data from Fred Boehme’s A Cruising Guide to French Polynesia on Rangiroa. It is wrong! He has the passes reversed and the Gendarmarie is in Tiputa, not Avatoru.

•Original visas can be extended (3 month) at the Gendarmarie in Tiputa.

•Bring plenty of francs as there is no bank.

The ruins of Greece provide some of the mosc aweinspiring sightseeing in the world.

15 to 20. If you’re interested in group sailing fun, you might give her a call to find out the details.

- latitude 38 12/15/85

Foxy Lady II — Ericson 32 Brian, Jan & Brian Jr. Caldwell Rangiroa, Tuamotus (Honolulu, Hawaii) After three weeks in /)he, Tuamotus we had an uneventful one night, 85 miles, crossing to Rangiroa, largest atoll in the Tuamotus. We entered Tiputa (eastern) pass and have visited the two main villages of Avatoru and Tiputa. The diving is great and the people are very friendly. They have daily air service to Tahiti and the. stores have the best selections we have seen since Honolulu.

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tion of private anchorages available. Fish and marine life abound in the lagoon.

Several types of fish are poisonous to eat, so you must be careful. Locals are the best sobrce of this information. We have found great shells and Brian Jr. (9V2 years) snorkeled with his first manta ray in Avatoru pass. We have floated the pass with snorkeldive gear which is an exciting way to cover a lot of ground.

We sailed in company with Fiddlers Green with Cliff and Martha aboard (Calif.) and Cavaou with Arie and Kareen aboard (France) to a small atoll named Mahitu, owned by a local lady here in Avatoru. Her name is Mata, 50 years old, seven children and has lived in Avatoru all her life. She prepared a fantastic Tahitian meal on shore using an immu, or ground oven. Fresh fish we caught were wrapped in woven coconut palm leaves and coconut bread was cooked all morning for a great afternoon feast. She then taught Jan and Martha how to weave baskets from coconut palms. Although Mata’s family has owned this small atoll on the eastern end of Rangiroa, she had per¬

The men in Cass’ group went for the maximum legal sun also.

The hotel will change money but at a very unattractive rate.

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locals need it, so bring a good “catch system”.

We enjoy this lifestyle even more than we thought we would. It is exciting, challenging and very rewarding. The islands and atolls of French Polynesia are changing and developing rapidly, so for those poor souls waiting for the right time, right boat, right finances, right -—, etc. before casting off, I would say go now!

We plan to cruise the Societies NovemberApril and then head farther west. Our original plans to spend three-four years in the South Pacific are probably pretty accurate, as long as it stays fun.

Au revoir, Brian, Jan and Brian Jr.

New Harbormaster at Puerto Escondido, Baja Sur Jens Kolbowski, whose sailboat Radient has been a common sight in Puerto Escondido, Baja for years, is now the harbormaster. Norm on Endeavor is his assistant.

Facilities at Puerto Escondido have been upgraded, as have the number of rules and the costs. Ah progress. The docks now have water, and electricity is available by prior arrangement.

All berths are side-ties as shown in the accompanying sketch. The charges are based on the dock space used, not on the size of your boat, according to the following schedule: Up to 16 ft. — $1.00 per day or $25 per month. Up to 30 ft. — $2.50 per day or $60 per month. Up to 55 ft. — $4.50 per day or $105 per month. Over 55 ft. — $6.00 per day or $145 per month.

There are four water spigots located at the land end of each dock finger, so you must provide your own hose. All hoses are private except the one at the dinghy dock. Electrical outlets are indicated on the sketch by a large E. Heads and showers are available at the marina, as is the use of the recreation and TV rooms at the Tripui Trailer Park, a half mile up the road. The heads and showers are locked during the night, but keys may be obtained for a deposit if and when available.

It seems that only six of the first 30 keys made fit the locks. Ah Mexico.

They also offer a cruising package which includes the use of the dinghy dock and 30 minutes of dock time for free water in addi¬

tion to the use of the above facilities. The charge for the cruising package is $1.00 per day, $6.00 per week, $25 per month or $75 for six months.

For those who don’t want the cruising package, free water is still available.

However, you must land your dinghy on the beach and haul it.

There is an office and snack bar in the marina building that is open from 9 to 5. The snack bar serves sandwiches^ shrimp cocktails, beer and soda.

N vx You can call the Tripui Trailer Park on VHF channel 16 to make advance arrangements. Jens is also an amateur radio operator; German call sign DL9-LJ and Mexico XE1-JDK. He can be contacted through hams on the current maritime nets.

Puerto Escondido, the well-known hurricane hole, averages about 70 boats during the summer but there is still lots of room to drop your hook. They are currently planning to dredge the entrance, which has been about 35-ft wide and 10-ft deep in the past.

— vern rathfelder Readers — Alameda residents may recall Jens, he completed his Cascade 42 there about 12 or 15 years ago. Since then it’s been in Mexico most of the time.

Mariah — Pearson 365 Bill Lewis & Wendy Ware All over the Caribbean and Venezuela (Stockton) We hadn’t realized that it’s been almost a year since our last update, but it has, so here goes . . .

Since being released from the Costa Rican jail in July of 1984, [Latitude Vol. 89] we headed south, fast. Golfito was a great stop as were the Las Perlas Islands of Panama.

The Canal transit was fascinating and came off without a hitch. The Balboa Yacht Club was the pits, but the Panama Canal Yacht Club at Cristolbal was a refreshing change with showers, washers and dryers, and nice people.

We had a great time visiting Mike Starbuck at Playa Blanca in September and then went on to the San Bias for a hot, if pleasant, visit with the Cuna Indians where Wendy came down with mola fever and put a serious dent

in our cruising kitty. The only bad incident which occured here was when some young Cuna men boarded our boat — we were swimming nearby — and stole a number of items including cash. After much effort by the local Cuna authorities, they caught the youths involved and recovered a little of the cash. I feel the incident was unusual and not indicative of the Cuna people. We traveled as far south as Mono Village and enjoyed every stop.

In October of 1984, we headed north non-stop to the Bay Islands on Honduras, specifically the island of Guanaja at the harbor of Savannagh Bight. This should not be missed, it’s picturesque and there are nice folks. It took six days to beat the 694 miles north, but was not a bad trip overall, despite the Caribbean’s ‘square’ waves. We also stopped at Roatan for diving and snorkling, some of the best so far.

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The entrance and marina at Puerto Escondido. Radient is the boat at the far left of the marina.

In November we departed Honduras for a trip up the Rio Dulce River into Central Guatemala. The bar across the river will handle a five foot draft for sure, six feet if you get a good run at it, and seven feet requires a tow 3/4 mile through the mud, something which is easily arranged. We can’t say enough superlatives about this part of the cruise. We left the boat at the Catamaran Hotel and traveled as far inland as Guatemala City and Antigua. Everywhere we went we were treated well and felt quite at ease. Wendy came down with Mayan Indian weavings fever and put another dent in our cruising kitty. We traveled by bus with no problems, returning to the Rio Dulce where I acquired a 39th birthday, and where friends Andy and Jan Sibert (Bug Off — Long Beach) put on an honest-to-gosh Thanksgiving dinner, including turkey, at Livingston, Guatemala.

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mainland left us unimpressed with much poverty and attitude problems. However the islands and off-lying reefs were marvelous.Great diving, good water, and no-hassle type cruising. We visited Glover Reef whjch was the best diving of the trip. Unfortunately, it is for the most part uncharted and I wound up on a coral head — my fault, not the lack of charts — and blew the transmission trying to get off. (It was in marginal condition, anyway). I pieced it together in a way that gave us forward — no neutral or reverse — and we opted to make a run for Florida, the nearest place we could get it repaired.

We departed in mid-December and sailed non-stop to Ft. Lauderdale; 978 miles in 11 days. We hit one Norther off the coast of Cuba and hove-to for 20 hours in 40-knot winds and 15-foot seas, losing 40 miles. But we arrived in Florida in time for the Christmas madness. It was great to be back in the U.S. but a little frightening at the same time. Ft. Lauderdale must be the boating capital of the East Coast, but definitely is not hospitable to cruisers who live aboard.

However, we managed to overcome most

difficulties with a great deal of luck. The transmission was replaced, prop straightened, shaft straightened, haul-out completed and off we went.

The first part of February 1985 we crossed the Gulf Stream to West End in the Bahamas. This stretch of water deserves a lot of respect and is not to be taken lightly. On the Bahama banks we learned a different type of cruising; from marina to marina is the style here. It’s expensive, with water running 15-25 cents per gallon, for example, and other prices falling in line. We watched a drug bust the second day in West End, Great Abaco. A couple of Cubans, a powerboat and 63 bales of whacky-backy. We cruised the Bahamas making many stops until reaching Georgetown, the East Coast equivalent of what Cabo San Lucas used to be. After a bit of minor reprovisioning, it was south to the Turks and Caicos; 374 miles in three days. Cocksburn Harbor was very bad.

The town is all but closed up with no facilities except fuel and water. The anchorage has poor holding and is roily.

In April we left the Caicos for a seven-day passage to Ponce, Puerto Rico. The yacht club in Ponce is really nice and welcomes cruising boats. On we went to the U.S. and British Virgins, with a particularly nice stop in Virgin Gorda at The Bitter End. It’s a great stop for cruisers, with showers, moorings, garbage pick up, movies and atmosphere, although slightly on the expensive side. It’s also a good place to rest up before crossing the Anagada Channel, which has the potential to be a real butt-kicker. We had a smooth crossing', though, to Phillipsburg, St. Maarten.

Well, there we were in May, finally seeing the' Caribbean in all its glory. To cut this short, we stopped at almost every island down the chain while working southeast to '’Grenada. In summation, it went like this: lots of charter boats, no such thing as a secluded anchorage, fishing was poor, and all-in-all we wouldn’t go out of our way to do it again.

On the other hand, the farther south you go the more friendly the people get and the cheaper the prices are. The islands are beautiful and are full of history, and the East Coast folks we met cruising the Islands were a lot of fun.

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departed for Venezuela. We now consider ourselves irreparably spoiled — the Venezuelan people are some of»the most generous, friendly, easy-going people we’ve met. They think highly of Americans and continually go out of their way to help. It’s hard to buy fish or lobster from the fishermen because they insist on giving whatever you ask for free — to the point of embarrassment. The islands off-lying the Venezuelan coast are truly what our style of cruising is all about; clear water, good diving (I got my biggest lobster to date, seven lbs.), good anchorages and nice people.

The mainland is much like Central America in appearance, however the people for the most part are well-educated and considerably more affluent. You can purchase anything you want here at very good prices.

For example, a gallon of Imron paint is $40; a complete hull paint job, 34-ft with Imron is $600. Beer is $4/case, diesel 6 cents/gallon if you jug it, and food is the cheapest yet. As you might have guessed, we were impressed. The bad news is that they only give you a 60-day visa free, with a possibility for extension at $70/person per month. Make sure you have your visas" before you enter the country or Immigration will send you back to Grenada or wherever — to obtain one.

In our rating of favorite cruising grounds, Mexico has now been lowered to number two. Venezuela is now number one.

In mid-October we reluctantly departed the fantastic Las Aves Islands with its incredible bird and fish life for the Dutch island of Bonaire. This is a good stop with excellent, scenic diving. Anchoring is a challenge due to poor holding ground and very steep dropoffs. At Curacao where we finished replacing all of our standing rigging and hauled out for a new bottom job at the Curacao yacht club in Spanish Waters.

It’s now mid-November in Aruba, a nice stop but a short one as we are anxious to make a return visit to Mike Starbuck and Susan Finkle in Panama. We received a letter from them saying they had a couple of turkeys and some gin in stock, so we will time our visit to arrive around Thanksgiving.

They are both nice people and should be visited you are in Ihe area.

The West Coast boats around here are few, but some we’ve met are: Leonidas,

Marina del Rey; Avalon, Honolulu; Windwalker, Portland; Rough and Ready, Seattle; and, Windseeker II, Los Angeles. That’s it for a whole year?

Our future will go something like this: Panama to the Galapagos for Christmas, Galapagos to Marquesas, the Line Islands to Hawaii, then Vancouver, San Juan Islands and Seattle in August of 1986. Then we begin the dubious business of acclimating ourselves to “civilization” until we can cruise again.

A footnote to add to your bottle stories: We threw a bottle overboard at Guadalupe in the West Indies in May 1985. Two girls recovered the bottle 120 days later in Daytona Beach, Florida, right after Hurricane Elena. We estimate the bottle traveled west toward Central America, up the Yucatan channel, northeast past Cuba, and swept around Florida in the Gulf Stream, probably blown onshore by the hurricane.

That’s a distance of roughly 2,500 statute miles at a speed of 1 mph. (After your many heated debates concerning the correct usage of the term “knots”, you’ll note that I have taken the easy way out!)

— bill and wendy 12/1/85 Bill and Wendy — An outstanding report.

You sure sound like you’re enjoying yourselves.

Incidentally, Bill and Wendy have offered to write detailed accounts of any of the spots they have visited. Anybody out there have any special requests?

Picaroon — Santana 35 Dave, Bob, and yes — Gordie!

San Diego to Cabo

Mariah visited by a few Cuna indian friends whileat anchor.

(San Francisco) Thanks for the press; egotists that we are, we loved it. Someone flew down here with a bundle of 38’s and sold us a December issue for a beer — that’s how we got to see the Pic in print.

First off I have to report that I got shit because Bob and I got press but not Gordie, who is somewhat miffed. Other than that, we’ve been having a blast!

We left San Diego on November 15, and immediately put up the spinnaker and sailed south. We decided to skip Ensenada, as we kept hearing stories of hulls covered with oil and of fishing boats being less than careful in the anchorage.

We expected to arrive in Turtle Bay late in the afternoon on the 17th, but that all changed because of very strong winds — especially at night. For example, we hit 10’s and 12’s all night long off Cedros and hit 15 once — this even though we had reduced sail to just a double-reefed main and 110 percent jib. There was little visibility, with big bow waves. All kinds of flying fish that couldn’t get out of our way landed on deck, and hundreds of squid jumped aboard for the ride. Days later we were still finding them in the sheet pouches.

Because of the strong winds we arrived in Turtle Bay hours ahead of schedule. We had intended to stop for just two days, but ended up staying a week. There’s a great little village here and everyone was very friendly.

A big plate of fish was only $1.40, and beer just 40 cents.

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we finally caught a fish we could land and eat.

From there we had an easy sail to Bahia Santa Maria, then Mag Bay. As has been the case since San Diego, our working sail has been the spinnaker. Since we don’t have an autopilot, that’s meant a little bit more work for the crew, but the sailing has been great.

Since the weather reports suggested it would be a good time to continue south, we only spent a single night at Mag Bay. We had a wild ride to Cabo San Lucas. The first day we had the chute up and were consistently hitting 10’s — when Bob hooked two yellowtail at once. So I drove, Bob filetted and Gordie cooked — and soon we had a hell of a lunch. Nightfall brought big seas and 30 knots and more of wind. Again we hit 15 knots with much reduced sail.

We arrived in Cabo on November 27, and Gordie whipped up a great Thanksgiving dinner from the San Diego provisions.

Cabo seems pretty crazy after Turtle Bay, what with all the bars and discos. But customs, the Port Captain, and Immigration are certainly Mexican. Surprisingly the sailboats are outnumbered here by powerboats by a margin of 2 to 1. We’ve also found that the women prefer the 70-ft marlin boats to the Pic, but we’re working on it.

We’re trying hard to adjust to the local culture, which fo>- us means drinking tequila and taking siestas.

From here we’re off to La Psfe for Christmas and New Years. Again we want to thank you for the press; most of our friends read Latitude 38 and it saves us from having to write letters.

— dave, bob and gordie 12/15/85

Seeadler — Cascade 42 Harry & Kurt Braun Russell, New Zealand (Alameda) Cyclone season being upon qs, we left Neiafu in the Vava’u Group of Tonga on October 15. Our departure was somewhat delayed by the arrival of the cruise ship, Fairstar. All the customs and immigration officials had departed their posts to have some fun, so we were temporarily locked out from checking out.

Having finally cleared, we went past the Tonga Beach Resort to wave goodbye to Guenther and then cleared the north cape of Hungar Island by noon. They say ‘gentleman do not go to weather’, but what could we do, the wind was on the nose and piping up to 20 knots and the seas soon built to five and six feet. So by early morning we hove to next to Kao Island, which is a live volcano. Things didn’t get any better.

We took the main off and anchored between two islands to sort things out, and the weather got worse. We did not feel comfortable, having lived the soft life for the last couple of weeks. Besides it was dark, we were cold and seasick, it was raining, the visibility

could be wrong?

Well, it was night and our bow anchor 1 had worked itself loose and the jib bag had been torn loose by the seas breaking over the bow. With no place to hide, we continued south toward Tongatapu with a storm jib and found ourselves making hull speed. By the time we got to Nukualofa, the captal city of Tonga, it was too late to enter the tricky pass. So we hove to for the night once again, and searched between rainsqualls for lights of the city. To stay clear of all the hazards, we kept careful track of our position, and discovered that we were drifting at about 2 knots.

When we finally went to enter the pass the next morning, we approached buoy No. 1 and discovered it was buoy No. 2. We had missed the first buoy completely! Nevertheless, by 0830 our troubles were over, as we were inside the reef and had dropped anchor in front of Nukualofa. We took the dinghy to the wharf, where a friendly lady gave us a lift to customs and immigration. So by noon we had our clearance, mail, fresh bread, a wash down and plenty of time to get a well-deserved rest.

The following morning we were ready to

Opua Wharf, Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

enjoy this part of Tonga and visit the King.

To our disappointment we had to settle for the heavily-built princess, as the King was in Germany looking for aid to finish the newlybuilt commerical harbor facilities, courtesy of the West German Republic. The guard at the Royal Palace spoke English fluently, and directed us to burial grounds of former kings.

The anchorage off Nukualofa is pretty

was poor, the currents were unpredicatable, a storm was blowing, and the nearby reefs of the Haapai Group are nothing to fool with in even the best of weather. Furthermore, this was an area of magnetic disturbance, submarine volcanos and whales — so what else

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much just an open roadstead in a lagoon.

There and inside the very shallow inner harbor we found many of our new and old friends. Shopping and sightseeing also made the time pass quickly. We rented a car to see the flying foxes, the blowholes, the caves and the wood-carvers and black coral carvers.

Lots of kids came out to the boat to trade fruit and veggies for any kind of old clothing, thus we never ran out of fresh food. When Captain Cook called these the ‘Friendly Islands’, he hit it right on the head. There is water available at the inner harbor, but you must go there when a fishing boat comes in, otherwise the crane is locked.

The cyclone season officially started on November 1 here, so it was time to head south for New Zealand. Unfortunately, the storms off New Zealand don’t end until the end of November, so you’ve got to take your chances sometime and just leave. Our trip started well, as we left in ideal light conditions on October 24. On our second day out we saw lots of volcanic ash on the water, so one of the hundreds of submarine volcanoes in the area must have been acting up!

On the sixth day out I discovered I had a bladder infection, perhaps brought on by the chlorine in our water or the dishwater detergent or the drop in temperature as we went south — who knows? However a couple of pills I’d gotten from the LBJ Medical Center in Pago Pago and some herb tea took care of everything within 24 hours.

On October 29 — at midnight, of course — the weather turned nasty. We were getting the genuine article out of the Tasman Sea. Half an hour later the headstay turnbuckle broke and the forestay let go. Our second forestay held, but the jib was left out there for a while, flogging around. We did have a spare turnbuckle, however, and two hours later the broken stay was back in business — and we were longing for a rest.

Rest did not come easy, as we were beating into a gale and confused seas. Then we found out our generator line had twisted around the lanyard for the Aries vane blade, a problem we solved just before our steering became affected. But hanging over the transom in a gale in the middle of the night to make the repairs was no fun at all!

Four days later we made landfall at Cape Brett, and then rode a midnight gale into the

protected waters of the Bay of Islands, dropping anchor at Russell. Somewhat rested the next morning, we motored the few miles over to Opua to clear customs. It was Sunday, but that made no difference to the Kiwi’s, who didn’t charge extra. They ^vere very friendly and relaxed.

With our arrival in New Zealand, both a voyage and a dream has been completed.

Well-prepared and carefully planned, it worked out well.

We’re now in a land of three million people and 80 million sheep. The land is clean, beautiful, unspoiled, unpolluted and full of sailboats. The Kiwi’s have opened their hearts and homes to us; we have felt shamed having nothing to offer in return but our goodwill and friendship.

— harry braun 11/10/85

Locura — Force 50 Ketch Bob and Marie Austin (Skipper and Admiral) Tom and Bobbie Vandiver (Crew) Across the Atlantic (Long Beach) Bob and Marie left Long Beach in November of 1982, and subsequently spent time in Mexico, Panama, San Bias, Honduras, and the Yucatan. They then went up the east coast to Maine, then back down to Rhode Island for the America’s Cup. The winter of 1983 was spent in Norfolk, Virginia where Bob had major back surgery to remedy injuries sustained during anchor drills. After a rapid recuperation, Locura

Marie Austin and her broken foot; not the best thing to have on a transAtlantic passage.

travelled down the InterCoastal Waterway to Florida where they stayed until spring.

In May of 1984 they crossed to Bermuda, the Azores, Spain and the Med, going as far east as Greece and Turkey. They loved Turkey, and want to go back sometime and spend at least a year there. What makes it so special to them are the secluded coves with trees down to the waterline, inexpensive food, and the friendly and honest people.'

Locura wintered in Mallorca, an unfortunate choice since the island suffered through its coldest winter in many years.

There was even snow on the deck several times. For the summer of 1985 they travelled up the west coast of Europe and as far north as Denmark. The winter in Mallorca had been bad, but the summer in Europe wasn’t any better. It was the coldest and wettest summer the area’s had in a long time.

Tough hombres, the couple sailed the 50-ft ketch all the way from the Netherlands to the Canaries without an autopilot or windvane. They were delighted to arrive in sunny Madeira, finally getting to warm up after an entire year.

We, Tom and Bobbie Vandiver who own the Cal 2-46, Satori in Long Beach, met Locura in Las Palmas, Grand Canary after a grueling DC-10 passage. We brought a ‘care’ package, the most important contents probably being the parts for the autopilot.

After two days in Las Palmas’ super yacht harbor, we sailed 70 miles to Gomera, page 192

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another beautiful island. There we took water at the very same place Columbus did in 1492. The next day we sailed to Santa Cruz de la Palma for fresh fruit and veggies as well as beer. The latter was just $4.50 U.S a case. La Palma has a rich agricultural based economy, with many banana plantations terraced into the volcanic hillsides. We took one day to tour the island in a rental car.

Naturally the day we intended to leave the generator motor failed. It took local electricians just a day to rebuild it. When we finally departed we had to motor away from the island; there was no wind, just 8 to 12 foot swells courtesy of a storm way off in the English Channel. It was two full days before we picked up steady 25 knot winds from the northeast which last a good long time. With a single reef in the main and a half-furled genoa poled out, we kept our 25-ton ship rolling and rolling to the southwest for a week.

This was followed by two. days of calms and 75-85° weather before the easterly came back with a vegeance in the form of an early morning squall. Fifty knots of wind surprised us and caught us with full main, genoa and staysail. It laid us right over until we could reduce sail. Later it provided us with welcome showers and shampoos in warm, driving rain until lightning forced us to go below and disconnect all the antennas.

After this the trades settled in at a steady 15 to 20 knots from dead aft. There still were some exciting moments, however. A fast release on the pole had sent it banging into the headstay and bent the dolphin-striker.

We improvised a new one out of wood — an old boat hook handle — and hung upside down off the bowsprit to replace it. It was an ‘E ticket ride’.

With 30,000 miles of cruising beneath her keel, Locura was beginning to show some signs of wear. For example the main boom began splitting along the glue line, so we had to reinforce it with cables and C-clamps and decided not to use the mainsail. But the split boom caused us more than our share of grief.

Bob forgot he was under the main boom and stood up, gashing his head open on the C-clamp. Marie, a veteran emergency RN ran below to get the trauma kit, while I, a fireman, applied pressure to stop the page 193

Still Ralph, still on The Trip’, and still in La Paz.

bleeding. Then the boat took a heavy roll and Marie fell down the companionway, breaking her foot! We finally got Bob taken care of, then went to work on Marie’s foot.

But before we could finally go to the reefer for a well-deserved cold beer, a 40-lb dorado hit our line. It took quite a while to slow the boat down enough so we could haul the, fish in on the old 20-lb test line. All of the above took place in less than an hour.

Normal passage-making consisted more of drinking a cold cerveza, eating cerviche and reading a good book while the miles rolled off. While we were rolling off the miles, under twin headsails we were often rolling gunwale to gunwale, too. As the true trades took over from dead aft, the rolling lessened to a certain extent, becoming more cyclic. In other words, four rolls each half a minute.

The rolling sounds pretty bad, but after a couple of weeks you get used to it. Let me give you an example. One evening at dinner, Bobbi’s spaghetti was tossed from her plate, crossed the table, and then landed back on her plate in the middle of the next roll. With consumate cool, she never missed a bite! In time we tried all combinations of things trying to stop the rolling; mizzen /

sheeted flat, staysail sheeted in, and even a flat mizzen staysail. Nothing helped.

We didn’t see many ships during the crossing. One ship and one sailboat the first day out of the Canaries, then another sailboat halfway across — who ignored our attempts to communicate and changed course when we attempted to close on him.

Then on the last night out of Barbados we saw two more ships, one of which identified himself as the research vessel that had found the Titanic. When we asked him what he was doing in these waters, the skipper became vague and said he was busy and had to get off the air. As we watched what looked like his search pattern, we conjured up all sorts of images of lost galleons, Russian submarines or Atlantis. The ability to imagine is increased with passage-making.

Barbados was a welcome sight, and we anchored in Carlisle Bay, near Bridgetown on the leeward side. It had taken us 17.5 days to cover the 2760 miles, an average ’ speed of 6.5 knots. That’s not bad for this type of boat.

Some greedy port officials gave Barbados a bad reputation which has resulted in few yachts stopping there in the last year. These people have been replaced and ads were taken in European sailing magazines to attract more visitors. Thus clearing in and out ’ cost $25 U.S. and was handled promptly and courteously.

Since Barbados is dead into the trades from the rest of the Caribbean, few cruisers visit the islahd who aren’t coming from across the Atlantic. We found good holding ground off the Boatyard in sand and rock with £ comfortable offshore breeze. The Knowles brothers, local members of a white minority, have converted an old shipyard into a great waterfront bar — restaurant — repair facility — laundry — etc. They have built a steel pier that yachties can bring their dinghies to when they want to come ashore — and it’s free of charge. Of course, it’s assumed you will use some of their services.

We had an excellent Thanksgiving dinner for four, with fish and drinks until late at night for just $40 US. The food and rum and people of Barbados were wonderful. Marie also got her foot set in a proper cast. We later celebrated our crossing with local ham operators, Ian and Trudy Smith, who had monitored our

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Bobbie and I flew home to Long Beach, while Bob and Marie sailed on to St. Thomas where they’ll meet family members for the holidays. Then they’ll head back to the Grenadines, the Canal, and home to Long Beach by June. Bob intends to return to his medical practice, but just long enough to replenish the cruising kitty and build a more modern design cruiser.

— tom uandier (12/12/85)

— chuck &johanna Chuck & Johanna — We’re sorry to hear you didn’t find Hilo to your liking. We had a report a few months back from some cruisers who really enjoyed it. They didn’t need a car, they said, because euerytime they started walking somebody shopped and asked if they wanted a ride. And when they went in the closest bar, the bartender not only fed them boutiously for free, but wanted give them every third beer on the^house. v\ l

Antipodiste — Farr 30 Chuck Warren and Johanna Gallo French Polynesia to Hawaii (San Francisco Bay) Well it’s goodbye to Polynesie Francaise.

At least it was a gentle farewell. We had a three lovely light days after sailing from Moorea. Ultimately we arrived at Hilo, Hawaii after 17 days — plus a few more hours spent sitting in the hole off PointKumukahi.

Arrival at Hilo quickly takes the glow off a landfall. It’s sort of like arriving at Oakland’s Inner Harbor. And it’s a long walk to town, especially after a few weeks at sea. I advise that visitors immediately rent a car. You can call from the little corner market and the rental company will have a van come by to pick you up.

If you must walk somewhere, turn left, away from town. Go to town only when you have a car.

Hawaii is the Big Island in more than name alone. So unless you stay the full 30 days — which I doubt you will after the first night they load a container barge — you can’t see it all. Therefore, you must be selective. But who knows, you may get lucky as we did; our first night in port one of the volcanoes erupted!

I’m writing this from the Maalaea small craft harbor where I was assigned/negotiated a short term stay. It was a mistake. An unpredicted westerly is blowing and I’m within 30 feet — that’s right, 30 feet — of a very nasty reef. I just set another anchor and am preparing to boat-sit all day long.

P.S. It’s later now, and the boat survived.

It was close, however, because at one point Antipodiste was just ten feet from that reef.

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Cruise Notes: We’ve never recommended Ensenada as a stop for boats headed south to Mexico.

The reasons are numerous; there are better places to be, the harbor is filthy and has poor holding ground, the city isn’t much cleaner and offers little to the visiting sailor, and because the harbor is wide open to winter storms from the south. Make that was wide open to winter storms from the south. Not long ago they finished a second breakwater and now Ensenada is an all weather port.

Unfortunately, the city’s other ills have yet to be cured, so we still only recommend it as a port of refuge.

The late November word from Cabo San Lucas was that things are pretty much the same as they were last year. “The new Giggling Marlin,” we’re told, “looks just like the old one that burned down last spring. Same Southern California decor and satellite fed TV’s hanging on the walls, but the management is very friendly.” At the time of the report the season had yet to go into full swing, and the Giggling Marlin was the only place in town more than 50 percent full at peak hours and the only place that wasn’t asleep after sundown.

Of course the season doesn’t really get underway until the 15th of December. But when it starts, it takes off with a roar. We’re told that every holiday plane ticket for the Cape was sold out way in advance and that the closest place to get a room was in San Jose del Cabo — and even then reservations were necessary.

As of the end of November, there were only 13 sailboats in the inner harbor — which still has no berths — and another dozen or so in the outer harbor. They included Sjovind from San Francisco; Mary T

The Pardeys tie up at the Opua Wharf after a long passage.

(Not Mary and Terri’s); Full Circle from San Diego; and, Migrator from North Carolina. The catamaran O Why I was also in the inner harbor, but half sunk, it doesn’„t count.

More and more cruisers are choosing not to leave San Diego until December 1, so the relatively small number of boats in Cabo was not surprising. The latter part of November was said to be cool and grey in Cabo, but since then the sun’s been out most of the time and the water has been lovely for swimming. It’s that old 80° — 80° syndrome.

Leonard’s Tacqueria still does a great breakfast business and is still a good place to post notices looking for crew or to crew.

Up in La Paz the air conditioners have been off for a long time now and when a norther blows it’s been cool. Much cooler, for example, than Cabo. Rafael, we’re told, still guards the dinks on the beach in front of El Chef restaurant. As usual, he knows which boats are in town and who is on their boat at a given time.

The Pad, Where Margarite, ‘den mother of the La Faz cruising fleet’, welcomes all cruisers with rum and lemonade, has moved. It’s now located on the waterfront, page 194

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on the third floor above the El Chef restaurant. From the apartment almost the entire fleet at anchor is visible. A cruiser who jumped ship two years ago, Margarite and her two co-horts, Nancy Smyth and Jeannie Turrentine, have provided local knowledge to hundreds of cruisers over the last couple of years.

Jeannie Turrentine runs the La Paz net, and as of early November some 50 boats were checking in. Folks and boats still down from last year and before include George and Marilyn from Rebecca, Bill from Tevake, Ralph from The Trip and Kent from Periplus. Others include Elias Mann from San Francisco; Black Monk from Sausalito; Aquarius from Portland; Aetheria from Dana Point; Windjammer from Fullerton; as well as Ice Man, Shoe String, Xanthos, and Looking Glass.

The biggest news from La Paz this season has been the middle of the night explosion and spectacular fire December 9 at the end of NAO Yachts’ pier. Only a short time ago new offices had been erected at the end of the pier. It’s suspected that something caused the gas and diesel jugs stored in the office to explode. While the offices were fried to a crisp, the steel pier came out basically undamaged. Several of NAO’s dinks and outboards were damaged as were a few spinpage 195

nakers. None of the boats tied up at the pier were damaged, but all had a lot of ash and soot that needed to be cleaned off. The burned offices are expected to be rebuilt within the next few months.

The sailing charter fleet in La Paz has dramatically jumped in size. There are now five Baja 47’s available for charter; all of which were booked solid for the Christmas holidays. If you want one for Sea of Cortez Race Week, make your reservations quick — and for March 30 to April 6. Incidentally, Alberto Morphy Jr., who runs the charter operation and has been the main organzier of Race Week, became a proud father once again in mid-December.

Most but not all of the above information on Cabo and La Paz is courtesy of Terese Schwartz, who spent a few weeks on John Spencer’s Oliver David Jones.

The cruising season is now in full swing in New Zealand as well as Mexico. It’s hurricane season in French Polynesia, Fiji, Tonga — that entire area — so many of the cruising boats have made their way down to the Bay of Islands in New Zealand’s North Island. In fact so many of the boats are from the United States, that some 70 people attended a Thanksgiving Day feast at the Opua YC. Naturally the Kiwi’s had to have Thanksgiving explained to them.

Dave Symonds was there with his Farallon 29, Quark. The San Rafael resident has been out cruising for about three years now, and told us he’s come to the conclusion that Lin and Larry Pardey has sold a lot of people some bad goods with their “small is good” philosophy on cruising boats. “Thirty feet is just not big or fast enough,” he told us. The irony of the whole thing is that the following day the Pardey’s pull up to the Opua Wharf in Taleisin after a long passage, and who is there helping them secure the lines? Yep, Dave Symonds.

The Pardey’s had arrived non-stop from Fiji, a 1200-mile or so trip they completed in a little over ten days. The approach to New Zealand is often very rough, but the Pardey’s had very light winds the entire trip. Lin told us that they’d spent three fabulous months in Tonga that amounted to one great party after another. “Promise us you won’t tell everyone how great Tonga really is,” she admonished, “or else everyone will go there.”

We promised, but that was a couple of weeks ago so it’s probably all right to let the word out now.

Also in Opua in early December was Harry Braun with the Cascade 42, Seeadler (see his Tonga report earlier in this section). We didn’t get a chance to say ’ hello, but we did hear that he’d prefer not to make the sail all the way back to California and is offering his fully loaded sloop at an outstanding price.

What’s the tab for fishing licenses in Mexico this year? All we can tell you is that Jim and Diana Jessie on Nalu IV paid $105.40 to license their boat,, dinghy, themselves and each of the people they expect on board. We wish them lots of luck with their fishing — they’ll need it to come out ahead.

A few months back we had a two or three line report that Gary Mundel lost his 30-ft sloop Petrel on one of the Caroline Islands and was stranded there for a month or so before he was rescued. Can anyone provide some details?

That’s all -for this month. But please remember to drop us a short line and tell us what you’ve been up to and what other California boats are in the area. This especially applies to those of you in Mexico, as we won’t be getting down this season until March.

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ISLANDER 36 — FOR SALE

Allied Princess 36, well-built full keel ketch made to withstand ocean cruising as well as a good blow on the Bay. Quintessence, built 77 in New York. Equipment inch ground tackle, knot log, wind ind. & VHP. $72,000.

Call (415) 591 -4879 for more info.

Blue hull, teak interior, Perkins 4-108 diesel. Radar, autopilot, Loran, 2 VHF radios, much more. Ready to race, cruise or liveaboard. Very good condition. Exceptionally equipped. $59,900.

(707) 445-0075.

BANDHOLM 35

ERICSON 35 MKII Full keel Alberg design. Cruise veteran; 8 bags, Aires, Tillermaster, propane, etc. $30,000. In Sausalito slip.

(707) 923-9103; (707) 943-3152.

ANASTASIA 32 CUTTER Bruce Bingham design, 32x11x5, 21,000 displ., f/g full keel canoe stern. Loran, Avon, Autohelm, more! Start your cruise in Paradise! Survey, photo, inventory, wr: Steve Soltysik, Box 3035 Lihue, Kauai, HI 96766. (808) 245-8967. $59,000.

"ANIMATION” Best international Folkboat on the Bay. Superbly equipped for ocean/bay. Lifelines, pulpits, dodger, VHF, ds, km, autohelm, windvane, 5 headsails, tri-color masthead, 6 hp o.b. and all C.G. required equipment. Picture/specs in 1985 yachting yearbook. $14,900 or best offer.

(415) 441-1755.

Built in Denmark, near new condition, fiberglass with teak interior, heavy duty North Sea rigged, baby forestay and running backstays, Signet instruments, Volvo Penta, CNG, pressure H20, stereo, VHF. Owner will carry. $55,000.

Mark 526-3613.

CORONADO 25 Used for Bay day sailing, 9.9 hp Johnson, VHF & other gear. $7,500.

(415) 326-5990.

ERICSON 30

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CAPE DORY 30

1969 w/Atomic 4 in excellent shape. Lots of sails & equipment.

She’s received a lot of TLC. Looking for buyer who will do same. $25K. Must see to appreciate. Days (415) 841-0511. Evenings (415) 569-3654. Ask for Warren.

Two-boat owner must sell 1971 23-foot sloop. Great Bay boat, sleeps 5, stove, icebox, good sails, 6 hp Johnson, anchor, safety equipment. New bottom paint. Emeryville berth. $3,950/offer.

Stew (415) 635-5168.

This Alberg-designed cutter is truly a gem. Audrey was built in ’82 & is in perfect condition. Asking only $58,000 for one of the best 30’ yachts on the Bay. We’d love to show her to you or answer any more questions.

Call (415) 591 -4879.

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1970 fiberglass. Built solid. Fun to sail. Great weekend Bay boat.

Standing rigging & keelbolts replaced. 5 hp outboard. Berkeley upwind berth. $5,000/best offer.

Steve (415) 357-8297 nights and weekends.

22-FT PEARSON SLOOP

CHARTER PROPERTY — PEARSON P-32 ’82. Sausalito berth, keep in charter for tax benefits, 11 hp diesel, stereo, ds, 2 km, very clean, fast racing/cruiser. Main w/2 jiffy reefs & 110%. Will haul & paint bottom, int. refinished, manufacturer financing avail. $56,000.

(415) 494-1408.

Only $1,900 buys a 1/3-interest in Folkboat. Upwind Berkeley slip. J-320. US51. Good condition.

(415) 530-0501.

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1977 30-FT RANGER $33,000.

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A 81 ’ well-equipped and in excellent condition. Coyote Point berth. A good, clean Catalina 30. Must sell. $29,700.

(415) 593-1509.

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$5,000 or best offer! Great all-weather cruiser or has been known to be a racing winner! All trophies to back-up winnings.

Will help you with financing.

(415) 778-2229 or 648-8362, 8:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m.

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f—--FLYING 15 FOR SALE 20’ fiberglass keelboat with trailer, 2 suits of sails, spinnaker launcher, race rigged, self-furling jib, full cover, classic design, 38-FT WOODEN KETCH (MONK-OESIGNED) owner will finance.

Call days 548-3730.

Pilothouse (2 steering stations), sleeps 8 in 3 cabins but sailed by 1 or 2. Volvo Penta diesel (overhaul 1984). Benmar autopilot & RDF, Morrow Echosounder, Mariner VHF, Sum Log, sailing CHRYSLER 22 dinghy, Avon inflatable, fridge, cabin heater. Owner has bought 1979. Fixed keel. Exc. cond. 6 sails incl: tri-radial spinnaker. another boat & must sell. $36,000. Write Box 1615 Sausalito Removeable galley, lifelines, 4 Barient winches, 6 hp Evinrude & CA 94966 or call (415) 584-7235. much more. $7,500 or best offer.

(415) 530-7152 eves.

STEAL A 40-FT PIER 39 SLIP Lowest price available: $32,000 or best offer. Slip E-4, in the quieter, more convenient East basin. Let’s talk turkey.

221-2198 or 346-8111.

CREW MAINTENANCE POSITION DESIRED On power yachts, all sizes. Poljsh refugee, 40, Technical Navigator, merch. marine school grad. 18 yrs experience. Boat maint. employment past year w/Pacific States Yacht. M. Kabat, 632 Robin Dr., Corte Madera, CA 94925. (415) 924-6004 eves.

BRISTOL 29 Halsey Herreschoff design, built 1970. Atomic 4, full keel, 5'10” headroom. Divorce forces sale. $23,000/Best offer.

John R. 383-5181 days.

REDUCED! VAUANT 40 — THE IDEAL CRUISING BOAT Westerbeke diesel, autopilot, Loran C, Datamarine depthsounder, VDO wind point/windspeed/wind direction/close haul indicator, Hi-Gain 55 channel VHF, refrigeration, propane galley, hot & cold pressure water, shower and more! $116,500 or trade to smaller boat.

Also: Kenyon stove w/oven: $350; 8-lb Danforth: $20.

Tim Rogers (415) 332-4142 days; (415) 331-6378 eves.

30-FT CHINESE JUNK Volvo MD2, VHF, Montgomery sailing dinghy, quad stereo, Tanbark sails, much carving, full cover, etc. Extensive renovation, upgrading past year. Comfy Bay/Delta cruiser. Guaranteed head turner. Great party boat or liveaboard.

Rob (415) 652-9095.

24-FT SLOOP Excellent sailer. Has raced Master Mariners '84-85. Sleeps 2.

Flush deck design. Good sails. Seagull o.b. Safety equipment. $2,500 or possible trade.

Days (415) 332-5478; eves. (415) 787-2771.

32-FT ERICSON Very well maintained boat. Dodger, sounder, speedo, RDF, VHF, 85, 120, 150, Atomic 4, auto bilge, much more. $29 800 (916) 933-4108.

CREW WANTED Position available on well-equipped 38-ft sloop leaving April for So. Pacific. Anticipate 6 mo. it Enthusiasm, good attitude & sailing skills required. Ocean passage desireable. Share expenses.

(415) 321-4786 eves.

WANTED — CREW OPENENDED CIRCUMNAVIGATION: Experience not essential. Must be over 30, centered, conversive, happy, share expenses. I'm 40, retired pilot with a very sound, well equipped boat and 30,000 miles experience.

(415) 658-3506.

SANTA CRUZ 27 Hull 44 with trailer. 4 Mylar headsails, 2 spinnakers. Sharp red LPU paint, new interior. $17,000.

Contact F.G. Monaghan (707) 554-8855.

CAPTAIN ANO CREW AVAILABLE 100 ton license. College grads, Ham operator. Experienced in Mexico, Spanish, fishing, diving, cooking, maintenance, sail/power. Refs.

For info call: (213) 596-3304.

CATALINA 30-FT Excellent condition. Equipped. $33,000. Can negotiate.

Call Judie (415) 283-3837.

LIFE RAFT YFC (Sea Jay Elliot) self-inflatable 6-person fully equipped in valise. US Coast Guard approved. Never used. Will deliver with new service and check out. Asking $1,750. Must sell!

461-3437.

PEARSON TRITON 29-ft full keel sloop. This late model east coast Triton is in bristol cond. w/many extras & modifications. She also comes with a S.F. Marina berth. $19,500 O.B.O. 668-5696.

82 J/24 7 sails, trailer, radios, new bottom, lake sailed. $12,500.

(209) 226-7611.

13-FT BOSTON WHALER 1971. Wheel steering, fresh LPU, fresh brightwork, Mercury 40 electric start, recent electrical rework, new prop, new water pump, three 6-gallon tanks (2 new, 1 old), lots more stuff, single axle trailer. Best offer.

Bill (415) 969-1475.

VOLVO DIESEL MD-IB 10 hp. New. Never used. $1,800.

Call (415) 459-6520.

OLSON 30 New boat. Must go. Full factory warranty, hull no. 242. 5 bags North sails. Loaded. Must see to believe. $27,900.

(916) 583-9420.

MUST SELL Hunter 30 sailboat (1977) priced to sell now. Jiffy reefing, club jib, cabin top mainsheet traveler, boarding ladder, dsl engine.

Will trade for smaller boat as part payment. $23,000 firm.

(916) 486-0589; (916) 484-0232.

CATALINA 27 — BOAT SHOW SPECIALI Priced a new sailboat lately? Wow! Why not buy mine: sails fast, lots of new gear, beautifully maintained, half the price.

Sailaway for $16,500! Sausalito berth. Call Dave for test sail appointment.

383-7537.

SHARE OWNERSHIP $3,500 will buy an equity position in a Dufour 27. This is one of the soundest built boats on the Bay. Ask anyone who really knows boats. It is fully equipped, including dinghy and electronics.

(415)652-7078.

32-FT GARDEN CRUISING SLOOP Flush deck, spacious interior, large cockpit, substantial (9-ton) plywood & fiberglass construction, custom built 1972. $29,500 w/choice 38’ Santa Barbara slip. Offer w/o slip. (805) 966-7278.

P.O. Box 71, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

MAPLE LEAF 48-FT SLOOP Looking for the quality bluewater yacht? Laffaire’s it: Beautiful teak interior, washer/dryer, 400 gal water, 4 kw gen., end. center cockpit, Loran C ap, radar, teak decks, Airex hull. Best value at $169,500.

(408) 286-4000; (206) 678-6250.

THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS Bare boat or crewed.

Will accommodate six but can be sailed by two.

For info: (415) 435-4479 or (713) 975-1640

BOAT & OARS IN THE TRADITIONAL WAY LOREN DOUGLAS (415) 669-1668 No. 3 Drake Way, Inverness, CA 94937

INTERESTED IN A 30' TO 32’ SAILBOAT Liveaboard and cruising capabilities. Can commit a large monthly payment and small down payment. (Owner financing). Please write to: Owen, P.O. Box 3928, Hayward, CA 94540.

FOR SALE: ERICSON 38-FT — 1983 Excellent condition. Sloop rig. Sleeps 6. Diesel power, VHF, marine radio, pedestal steering and instrumentation, jib roller reefing, full dodger. Fully contained galley including refrigerator, freezer, am/fm radio. Purchase minimum 40% equity for approximately $20,000. Berth available, Marina Village, Alameda.

Contact Mr. Pat Spooner (408) 286-6060 days; or Val (408) 446-0483 days or evenings.

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COLUMBIA 26 MKII Not the fastest, but certainly the most comfortable Bay cruiser for the price. Recent haul and survey. Fully equipped with many extras. $10,400.

Bob (415) 876-1688; eves. 887-8839.

CREWED CHARTERS TO EXPO ’86 Visit EXPO ’86 and then escape on one of our crewed 50'+ power/sailing yachts to the beautiful Pacific NW islands. Write for information on this unique trip to COMPANY SEA, 1200 Westlake Ave. N. #414, Seattle, WA 98109 or call toll free 950-1088 SEAINC.

INDUSTRIAL DOUBLE NEEDLE SINGER No. 112W115 with table and new motor. Good condition.

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OFFSHORE CRUISING SEMINAR

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You can't afford to miss our only Bay Area seminar of 1986. Topics inch Emergency & Tropical Medicine, Coral Piloting & Anchoring, Weather & Passage Planning, & more! Informative & exciting 20 hr. weekend seminar. $95 single, $145 couple. At the Tiburon Lodge, Feb. 22 & 23.

MAHINA CRUISING SERVICES, Box 850, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. (206) 378-2393.

Chart Reproductions & Cruising Guides, covering entire Pacific Coast thru Panama, Caribbean, French Polynesia, Hawaii, New Zealand, etc. Guaranteed satisfaction for 1/5 original cost!

Sample chart $2, free Portfolio Index. Bankcards welcome. MAHINA CRUISING SERVICES, John Neal, Box 800-L, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. (206) 378-2393.

MARINE PORTRAITS Salty nautical portraits of you, your boat, your loved ones by noted artist and boat lover Roxanne Wahl. From a photograph, or in person. Free quote upon request. 480 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110. (415) 626-0378. page 197

A BOAT FITTINGS CATALOG FREE In U.S. dollars at special discount prices.

Send for your copy to: Marine Mail Agencies, P.O. Box 1889, Christchurch, New Zealand.

'Enclose $1.00 for P & P.

MARTEC FOLDING PROP

FANTASIA 35

Racing or cruising, increase your boat speed by 1/2 Knot. 14x7 Martec folding prop, 1” shaft. Used one season on a Cal 2-27.

Excellent condition.

(408) 248-8950 evenings.

Bristol cruising/iiveaboard cutter/sloop. Ready for world cruise.

Autopilot, autohelm, wind vane, 235 gal/water. 1200 miles range, dinghy w/motor, dodger, center cockpit, aft cabin, much more. Must sell, leaving USA. $63,500/offer.

(415) 523-8269.

22-FT DAY SAILER

CAL 20 SLOOP

1975 Reinell sailboat/trailer, sleeps 4, kitchen facilities, 4 sails, outboard motor. Great condition. $5,500.

889-8360 after 7 p.m. or leave message.

5 sails. 6 hp Johnson engine. All in good shape and ready to go. $3,750.

332-7854.

SELL BOAT/LIVE AFLOAT

STEEL CUTTER

CRUISE CREW AVAILABLE NOW

32.6 overall, 30-ft on deck, 10-ft beam, 4.6 draft. Windows, hatches, bow & stern rails,, deck fittings, furniture & bulk head framing. Epoxy painted, place to work & possible liveaboard berth. Call John (415) 364-9422. $10.OOd/offer.

Coop & Jody, 30’s, (415) 237-9393; 633A 19th St„ Richmond, CA 948iH. Cruising preferred. Anywhere, unlimited time. Need experience in all areas of sailing, motivated to learn well, good natured, hard working, available now.

MERCURY CLASS SLOOP

ERICSON 29 Excellent condition, original owner, VHF, am/fm stereo, compass, wheel steering, sleeps 6, all teak redone, new seacocks, Berkeley berth. $24,000.

(408) 286-9124.

Light-fast-strong. Vac-bag Balsa-core hull & deck. Nice .interior (owner lives aboard). Well maintained & rigged for solo-sailing. $23,000. a.m. (408) 423-3138; p.m. 476-7896.

BEST BUY Top shape 1974 North American 23. Heavy built swing keel sloop by Glastron. Like new 2-axle trailer. 7.5 hp Merc outboard.

You’ll never find a quality trailerable priced lower. Asking $7,250.

Call Eric at 332-8576. Leave message.

CARAVEL K-38 KETTENBURG SLOOP Built '57, mahogany on oak, spruce mast.

Beautiful Tahoe veteran now on Bay. Ready for Master Mariners. $31,000.

(707) 584-5999.

31-FT TRIMARAN — NIGHTHAWK Must sell. Very fast one of a kind, designed by ’Skip’ Johnson as a prototype. Pro-built 1967 in San Diego. Construction is stressed skin plywood above waterline & shaped polyurethane foam below waterline with fiberglass overall. LOA 31LWL 30', Beam 18’, Draft 1 ’3” (bds up), 6’ (bds dwn), Displ. 2200-lbs, Demountable. Solid wing decks. Aluminum spars. Lifelines, pulpits. Outboard. Comfortable cabin w/stove & refer. Any offer/trade for trailerable boat.

(707) 542-8165.

SANTANA 22 Good condition. Rigged to race! Singlehand spinnaker gear, 4 winches, 6 hp o.b. Recent bottom job. Berkeley berth. $5,500.

John, work (415) 858-2525; home (415) 856-4086. \ .

NEW NAVTEC TURNBUCKLES For sale: 20 new Navtec 1/2” stainless steel turnbuckles with toggles at each end. Single lot only, $500.

Call Travis at (415) 726-5734 daytime only.

WORLD CRUISER

Beautiful 1983 Hunter 31 can be yours! Fully equipped, ready to cruise or race (PHRF 159). Currently part of successful timeshare program. Let us show you how to set up your own great buy at $39,500.

George (415) 969-9992.

CHANTILLY LACE

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CUSTOM 30-FT RACER/CRUISER

Responsible school teacher-sailor (7 yrs) wishes to rent, maintain your 30-ft or larger for winter, do woodwork, clean hull, Alameda, Emeryville, ? Selling 20-ft Ranger w/trl, 4 sails, head, dodger, new bottom. $5,200.

(916) 577-3119/544-6612.

Popular class in Monterey Bay and fun daysailer. Two suits of sails, rigged to race. Hull #39 in great shape, many extras. In Monterey on trailer. $3,200 or best offer.

Call Ken (415) 982-1111 days; (415) 661-1378 eves.

ROUGHWATER 35 AFT CABIN TRAWLER Lehman 120, low hours, excellent condition. Hot & cold pressure water, shower, fridge/freezer. Excellent liveaboard.

(415) 365-2077 or P.O. Box 205, San Carlos, CA 94070.

$1,500 DOWN, $195/MONTH 26-ft International Folkboat. Strong. Sturdy. Fiberglass. 16 hours of lessons, no charge. Cash price: $13,950.

(415) 837-1399.

Custom over-built Islander 37 f/g sloop. Absolutely gorgeous & ready to go anywhere. Equipt w/radar, SSB, toran, VHF, RDF, liferaft, Avon w/o.b„ RVG windvane, ap, 2 fathometers, 4 bilge pumps, 3 compasses, 2 electric 24v windlasses, 4 anchors, 400’ high tensil chain, 7 sails, 2 sun awnings, new Yanmar diesel w/less than 200 hrs, 24v & 110v generators, 12v & 24v battery chargers, 12v-110v power inverter, mjcrowaye, woodburning stove, shower w/fresh/salt hot water, built-in vacumn, complete Hoopa diving system w/back-up compressor, Tamaya sextant, dodger, boom gallows, oversize rigging thru-out, running back stays, Airex, etc. Recently upgraded & absolutely bristol! Giving it jway at $65,000. Trades considered.

(805) 995-3564.

Hurry — won’t last long!

TIMESHARE NOW AVAILABLE Discover the advantages of timeshare membership. $160/mo. buys you 2 weekend days and 5 weekdays of hassel-free sailing in a beautiful Hunter 31 on S.F. Bay. $200 annual fee. Alameda slip.

Deb or George (415) 969-9992.

FISHER 30 NOR’EASTER MOTOR SAILER Fore and aft Staterooms, deckhouse, autopilot, VHF, knotmeter & log, roller jibs & main, sunroof, rail covers, shower, hot/cold pressure water, carpets & more. $54,500.

(415) 254-2542.

1979 LANCER 28

PEARSON 365 KETCH

28-ft Shad Turner designed shoal draft sloop. Wheel steering, 9.9 hp o.b., stove, VHF, ds. 6’2" headroom and berths for 6.

Berthed in San Leandro. $12,500.

Days (408) 721-6740; eves. (408) 249-3193.

1979. Good condition. Westerbeke diesel, pedestal, compass, fathometer, VHF, pressure hot & cold water, Stall shower, full galley, comfortable, roomy liveaboard/cruise. $57,000.

(415) 697-5977.

'82 MONTGOMERY 17

Flush deck style, one piece hull, has made 2 offshore passages.

Needs lots of work. No motor. Very roomy, strong & seaworthy.

Slow but steady, comfortable cruising or liveaboard. $15,950/offer.

John (415) 376-4706 evenings.

WESTSAIL 32 New condition f/g mini-cruiser complete with Trail-rite trailer, Johnson outboard, head, water, lights, VHF, ds, compass, jiffy reefing and other extras. $6,500.

(415) 521-1152.

21-FT LUGERKIT Excellent first sailboat. Hull & deck totally reworked & painted.

New sail covers. Night lights added to mast. Real steady boat with torpedo ballast on keel. Call Marco (415) 237-0249.

Asking $2,500. Must sell.

PEARSON 10 METER 1/4 ownership interest. Beautiful, comfortable, 1975, 33’ sloop.

New sails, diesel, wheel, loaded w/extras. San Francisco Marina berth. Congenial co-skippers. $11,000 w/terms/offer.

956-3260 days; 453-1139 or 324-0486 eves.

CERTIFIED MARINE SERVICE TECHNICIAN BRIAN ROACH Power or Sail — Repair — Restoration —■ Commissioning — Installation — Gelcoat & F/G Repair — Brightwork — Custom Spray Application LPU — Marine Towing Service.

(415) 526-6593.

SPRAY DODGERS — BOAT COVERS — CUSHIONS Meticulous workmanship. 16 years experience. Highest quality materials at the lowest possible prices. Special consideration for Peninsula Area boat owners. Check it out.

COVER MAGIC (415) 964-9326. _( f.

AL BLAIR — MARINE SURVEYOR Consultant (415) 435-2477

C&C36 Cruise, liveaboard or race and win. Diesel powered 1979 sloop.

Fully equipped. 11 Barients (4 self-tailing), 5 bags Pineapples sails, spinnaker gear, rod rigging, 2 anchors with chain and rode, bow roller, stern boarding ladder, Avon Redcrest, hot/cold pressure water, shower, gimballed brass lamps, customized teak interior fully stocked, stereo, VHF, Nav station, Signet KM, WP, WS, Impulse DS. Maintained and upgraded to better than new. Bristol condition. $62,000.

(415) 435-1207.

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Wooden Boats a specialty. v'\ Sanding, varnishing, painting, general maintenance, minor T 'x engine repairs and servicing. Gas or diesel. k / NN. Master Mariner, 20 years experience, references y {-^ 1 AX Free estimates Call; Clark Arquette — 525-9087

MARINE BATTERIES

USCG LICENSED DELIVERY SKIPPER & MATE

For the Highest Quality, Dependability and Lowest Prices In Marine, Automotive and Industrial Batteries Call San Rafael Welding Supply (415) 457-0550

Delivery skipper and mate now available for yacht delivery to and from Baja this season. USCG licensed with 13 years experience. Navigation and sailing instruction available aboard our 47-ft ketch in So. Calif, or charter with us to Catalina and Channel Islands. Windships Expeditions, 2554 Lincoln Blvd., #412, Marina del Rey, CA 90291.

(213) 306-6836.

BRITEWORKS YACHT MAINTENANCE Have your boat beautiful for spring.

Expert quality wood care. Varnish. Refinishing. Decks. Compound. Wax. Painting. Caulking.

Bottoms. Cleaning. Lettering. Repairs. Maintenance Programs. Serving the Bay Area 10 years.

Insured. References. Fast. Reasonable. Work Guaranteed.

(415) 381 -0803.

QUALIFIED COMPASS ADJUSTER NAVIGATION CLASSES YACHT DELIVERIES (LICENSED) MIKE MAKAROUNIS (415) 939-5073

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1983 24-FT WINDROSE SLOOP

VOLVO PENTA DIESEL 10 HP

7% hP Chrysler outboard. TrallRite trailerTandum, 6’4" draft w/keel down. New 8/15/84 vinyl bottom paint. New Harken traveler & malnsheet. Knotmeter, Horizon radio, anchor pak.

Asking $10,000.

Paul (408) 374-8042.

MD6A with Combi drive. Low hours, good condition.

Sell complete or for parts.

Call eves. (707) 578-4212; (707) 523-4241.

READY FOR CARIBBEAN CRUISING

OLSON 30

OLSON 30

OLSON 30

New throughout incl: dbl-spreader rig, boom, halyards, stanchions, pulpits, lifelines, tiller, rudder assembly, varnish, nonskid, floorboards, cover, etc. Loran, windspeed, km. $19,800.

Call Steve T. for details, w:(408) 462-1565; h:(408) 662-0640.

New 1 Vi hp and 3 hp.

Air cooled Tanaka. Weighs 14-lbs.

(415) 531-1518.

EXPRESS 27 This is one fast Express. 1983 & 84 national winner. Didn’t go in 1985, much more silver. 14 sets of sails, set up for one-design, MORA, has masthead set-up, new Barient 12’s. $27,500.

(408) 476-6917 not after 2100 hours.

OLSON 30

OUTBOARDS FOR SALE

1973 Cheoy Lee Midship 40 ketch berthed in Fort Lauderdale is ready to go. Westerbeke diesel, Yanmar gen., Cold-Plate refrigeration, SatNav, radar, press, hot water, 2 head w/showers & much more. $75,000.

Bill Cleghorn (305) 761 -3326.

1974 NEWPORT 30’ PHII Race ready w/Pro Laited bottom. New paint on topsides. '84 MYC Midwinter champ. UK 150,130, 110% and spin. Asking $29,500 or best offer.

(415)459-7091.

32-FT TRAVELLER

1 L CREW 4 U

Double-ended cutter. USA built, full keel, teak decks & trim, Volvo 23 hp diesel, 6-ft+ headroom, great liveaboard. $39,90o!

Call for pictures and specs.

Sacramento (916) 381 -8568.

Going my way? Experienced skipper with ocean crossings, looking to crew on a 1986 Pacific Cup entry to Kauai, Hawaii. Contact: Carmelita Miranda, P.O. Box 1935 Lihue, Kauai, HI 96766.

(808) 822-7530 home; (808) 245-7751 work.

CRUISING EXPEDITION HAVE CASH

64' ketch leaving January 20 for 3-month cruise to Caribbean via Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, etc. Be part of the crew. Share expenses approx. $1500. Or join part of trip, $250/week.

Ph. (415) 523-6651 after 5 p.m.

Want a clean, sound, shoal draft, trailerable sailboat 17-22’ with a good trailer plus any gear you want to sell with it. Must be fair price and in good condition.

Call (408) 379-2238 evenings.

24-FT COLUMBIA CHALLENGER, 1964

REDUCED $2,500

Outstanding condition. New white LPU hull, standing rigging and windows. Excellent running John 6 hp. Head, galley, stove, 2 mains, 3 jibs, % oz. spinnaker. Too much gear to list. Priced to sell at $4,500. Alameda berth.

(916) 648-9669.

Cal 27. Cleanest on the Bay. Knotmeter, ds, stereo, ship to shore, main, 120,150, spinnaker rigged w/pole. Volvo inboard, cockpit cushions, pressure water, auto bilge pump, more. $17,000.

Call Milt (415) 661-6518.

25-FT CORONADO 15 hp Johnson, rigged with internal controls, RT, stereo, full galley, elec/alcohol 4-burner, bargeque, & many other amenities.

Delta berth. Leaving town, must sell. $7,500 or best offer.

Call (707) 255-5032 or (707) 253 0324 for message.

STURDY CAL 2-27 Clean. Volvo-Penta inboard. Ballena Bay berth. Radio, knotmeter, compass. Solid veteran of ocean, Delta and SF Bay cruising. Excellent sea-kindly family boat. Lifelines with netting around. $24,500 or make offer.

(408) 735-0663.

28-FT CRUISING SLOOP — CRUISE READYII 75,000 mi. vet. NZ built of Kauri. All new rigging, bottom paint, dodger & weather cloths. 7 sails, vane, all charts & nav. tables, 2 sextants, f/g dinghy, Yanmar diesel. Reduced to $28,000.

332-0278, message.

ERICSON 27 Tiller, o.b., genoa, VHF, ds, km. Very good condition. Must sell/sacrifice. $17,000. (415) 589-2474 days; (415) 728-3552 evenings and weekends.

J/29 DYNAMO HUM Best equipped and maintained J/29 on the west coast. 9 sails, digital compass, km, ds, VHF, Loran. Built-in stereo with EQ and cockpit speakers. Custom solid vang, traveler and backstay, carbonfiber spin pole or alu. faired keel and rudder with Micron 33 bottom paint, proven race record, custom boat cover and spare cushions. 7.5 hp o.b. w/alt, Cat. II safety. Call Mike Schaeffer, work (206) 282-5449; home (206) 232-6552 or David Hofford (206)784-8150. $42,500 U.S.

FORCE 5

OLSON 25

Speedy 14-ft AMF racing sailboat.’Virtually new — only sailed twice. Sails and boat in excellent condition. With trailer. Boat and trailer a steal at $1,200. Must sell. Leaving Bay Area.

584-3079.

New boat at dealer cost. $14,447. FOB Phoenix. Never commissioned. Join the growing one-design fleet. Competitive racer; great cruiser. Deluxe int. New trailer & opt. equipment also avail.

Call David Henderson at (415) 331-7217 or (602) 257-8777.

COLUMBIA 30 72-ft spinnaker, 155, 110, 30%. 35-lb Danforth w/200' rode.

FL5 depth, 787C Loran. Max fold prop, 2-man inflatable, davits, tri-color w/anchor & strobe, AC/DC refer, class IV head, shower, etc. 1 lived on board for 4 years. 1 singlehanded her to Avalon and back in ’83. She’s a nice boat and sails very well. $25,000.

459-8630.

RENT A HOUSE ON THE WATER Comfortable 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on Napa River. Room for up to 35' sail or power boat. 11 ’ of water at low tide. Broad reach to and from Carquinez Strait, located midway between Bay and Delta. One hour drive from S.F. $700/mo. Call Steve or Sheryl days or eves, til 9.

(707) 257-1285.

MORGAN 38 PARTNERSHIP

34-FT SCHOONER Partially restored new 20 hp diesel. Must sell! on doctor’s orders, only $9,000. A great buy. (408) 426-0701. Masts, sails, most of the rigging and much more.

Get on board now for the 1986 season. One berth left. Beautiful bristol boat w/Sausalito berth, furling jib, refrigerator, propane stove, great stereo and more. Low down payment. Busy professionals looking for one more. Note: All maintenance and upkeep contracted. You sail, not sand.

(415) 332-6424.

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FLYING DUTCHMAN

DOUGLAS FIR

BEGIN YOUR CRUISE IN NEW ZEALAND

Hull No. 356, built in Holland in 1952, mahogany deck. Includes spinnaker, 2 jibs, 2 numbered mains, windowed Genoa & trailer.

A sleek classic & a great Bay sailor. $2,500.

(408) 281-8383 or 636-0269, ask for Paul.

WCLB graded ship decking A. The highest quality of straight grain fir produced. 2Y4”x10"x20'. Will cut to size. $1,800 a 1,000. There's only 20,000-ft available.

Ask for Paul (408) 281-8383 or 636-0269.

37’ steel cruising sloop (Zeeland Yawl) at Napier. Cruise ready.

Aries vane, 40 hp diesel, good sails, freezer. Family situation forces sale. Boat has already sailed from Long Beach to Sydney to New Zealand. $30,000.

(213) 433-0889.

AFTER THE BOAT SHOW HANGOVER

BRISTOL 32

Consider this Columbia 26 MK II For $9,900 or best offer.

456-7347 or 454-8645.

Well equipped for cruising. Spare parts, SatNav, autopilot. Been to Mexico twice. Call (415) 424-1917 or (415) 593-9644 for appointment.

Asking $45,000.

/ 1966 ISLANDER 29 F/g sloop has everything. Newly rebuilt Atomic 4, VHF, depthfinder, compass. A great liveaboard with gimbled propane stove & oven, AC/DC fridg. Comes with Tillermaster, rubber dinghy, 2 Danforth anchors. $19,500/080.

(805) 528-4018.

FREE ENERGY FROM THE SUN!

MARITIME ATTORNEY

Rugged modular solar panels designed specifically for marine use. Seawater-proof, step-proof and weatherproof. Attractive solid teak mounting rails and stainless hardware included. Call or write: M.I.CO., Box 1363, Lafayette, CA 94549. (415) 938-5322.

Resolution of Construction, Repair, Collision and Lien Disputes for surveyors, owners and builders for over 20 years.

Over thirty-six years of Bay racing and cruising!

William E. Vaughan, Esq. 17 Embarcadero Cove, Oakland 532-1786

DREAMER COME TRUE OUTFITTERS

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL ISLANDS

'Marine equipment for around the Bay or around the world.”

Call for a free catalog. (415) 496-1788.

Or write: P.O. Box 2455, Redwood City, CA 94064.

Join John and Randi Sanger aboard their Valiant 40 Grebe — back from travels in Mexico and Hawaii. 8th season of instructional/vacation cruises. Brochure: EDUCATIONAL CRUISING, P.O. Box 1165, Santa Barbara, CA 93102. (805) 967-4700.

SAIL SEA OF CQRTEZ — MEXICO

1983 CATALINA 30

41’ Morgan "Out Island” bareboat or skippered, fully equipped, Zodiac dinghy, Windsurfer, Snorkel gear, 7V2 outboard, etc. Sleeps 7 in 3 cabins — mid-cockpit.

From $700/week off-season to $1,225/week — 10% off on second time.

April $1,200 — May $1,050.

Bob Moore (415) 892-4210; wk 456-2913.

Taken in trade for new Panda-38. This Catalina 30 is fully equipped from Hood roller furling 120 to a CNG cook stove. Mint condition and ready for a boat show today. Price: $36,500.

Tatoosh Marine (415) 232-7778

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MUST RENT OR SELL

SKIPPER NEEDS MATE

FOR LEASE: CATALINA 30

W/male, 38, seeks non-smoking slim fun-loving lady for sailing oriented relationship. Cruise Hawaii someday? Please call or write: Bob (707) 554-1811, 2020 Glen Cove Rd„ Vallejo, CA 94591.

Cruise equipped. Diesel, wheel, in Emeryville berth. 7 days a month for $160 per month. Please call Jim at 933-7900 from 8-5 and/or John at 229-2227 after 6.

27-ft Owens liveaboard, Pt. Richmond area. $2,300/B.0., terms avail. No engs. but shafts, props, rudders, functional. Lg deck, 1 lOv fridge, sink, head. All new wiring, paint-varnish, carpet, etc. No serious offer refused.

Norman 236-5136.

INGRID 38 KETCH

1973 CONTESSA 26

OLSON 25

1977. Well found bluewater cruiser. Bruce Bingham dblspreader sail rig. Custom refer/freezer, warm teak int., teak deck, finest workmanship, Sabb dsl, Aries vane, Autohelm, much more, all in exc. cond. Doc. $78,500.

(408) 734-8260.

Sturdy f/g full keel sloop. English designed for North Sea. Double reef main, 4 headsails, spinnaker, 7 hp gas i.b., VHF, Lewmar winches, more. For photos & complete info package. (408) 649-8000 days; (408) 624-7643 eves. Judd. $17,500/060.

Launched 3-85, Larsen sails, main, 95% jib, Mylar 155%, % oz. spinnaker, VHF, knotmeter, ds, compass, 4 hp Evinrude, C.G. safety equip., mast tabernacle system. Ground tackle.

Santa Cruz sublet avail. $24,800.

Brian (408) 429-6761.

CAL 2-29

BEST BUY OF THE NEW YEAR

1985 HUNTER 23

1975. Good Bay and coastal boat has VHF, ds, km, head, diesel power, wheel steering, auto bilge pump, spinnaker and gear. Bottom done 6/85, am/fm stereo cassette. Nice wood interior. $23,000 firm.

(408) 425-7502.

Bristol 29.9. Highest quality, excellent condition, diesel, wheeLelectronics, 4 sails, dodger, lots of other equipment. $39,500 firm. Will consider trades.

(408) 244-0722 days; (415) 490-3011 eves.

Fast, winged keel model, outboard, galvanized trailer with surge brakes, Trilux bottom paint, Harken mainsheet blocks, galley, portable head, main, genoa, sail cover. $9,900.

(408) 255-9059.

YANKEE 30-FT ONE-DESIGN

Excellent condition for cruising or liveaboard. Good electronics.

Call (415) 879-0579 eves/weekends. $89,000.

Excellent condition. $25,000.

Call 325-5400.

BALBOA 26 W/TRAILER Fast, dry, comfortable sloop in first class condition. Sleeps 5, new bottom paint, new Johnson Sailmaster o.b., VHF radio, 5 sails, jib furling, fore & aft anchors & rode, 2 batteries & more. $10,950/offer.

(415)493-4619.

HANS CHRISTIAN 38

ERICSON 30

Classic wooden racing sloop. Very fast in all conditions. Great Bay boat. Race rigged. One season on sails. Upwind Emeryville berth also available. Priced to sell at $4,500.

Call Steve 532-9453 or Joel 465-2907.

MUST SELL

KETTENBURG 40

1972 Mason 31-ft wooden sloop. Excellent condition, must see!

Asking $26,000. Days (408) 720-7679; eves (415) 368-9716. ,Ask for Michele.

Outfitted for cruising, great inventory. Needs new owner that will take care of this wonderful boat. We want to sell. $34,000.

Call Derek 485-6776.

ISLANDER 24

OLSON 30

MOORE 24

Exc. cond. Sleeps 4. Stove, sink & storage in galley. Thru-hull head, battery, Honda 10 hp w/remote controls. 2 mains, 1 jibs.

All hatches solid new teak. Full keel. Great sailing boat.Custom trailer. Days (408) 277-2528; eves (408) 266-3022. $9,400/B0.

Immaculate '80 Monterey Bay boat w/custom LPU cabinsides, 9 bags of sails, new Johnson o.b., VHF, km, compass, RDF, battery charger, man overboard pole, float cushions,Ngrgund tackle & new bottom paint. Asking $27,500.

(415) 523-4485.

Hull No. 104. One owner.

Equipped for offshore as well as one-design.

Exceptional condition.

Call Howard evenings (408) 476-0403.

CAPE DORY 25D

GREAT AFTER-CHRISTMAS SALEI

YANKEE 30

’83, like new. Inboard diesel, spacious cabin, VHF, km, ds, genoa. Looks and sails like a much bigger boat. Bay or ocean.

Own two boats, must sell. Top quality throughout. $31,850.

(415) 524-5791 or 237-9602.

Giant markdown on 34’ fiberglass cruising cutter. Perfect liveaboard or world cruiser. Fully equipped & loaded with extras.

Unique opportunity to purchase luxury yacht at bare boat price.

Let's make a deal.

921-2133.

Sparkman-Stephens f/g sloop exceptionally clean and loaded with 12 sails, VHF, km, ds, ws, aw, Plath, etc. $28,500 offer.

(415) 386-2070 days; 752-7154 evenings.

. BRISTOL 29.9

2850 BAYLINER CONTESSA

1979, one owner, beautifully maintained, great ocean/Bay cruiser, diesel, radio, knotmeter, depthsounder, main, jib, flasher w/sock, dodger, much more. Haul out & survey 7/85. $42,750.

Don (415) 772-1532 days.

Flying bridge, 2 helms, Volvo 260 hp i/o„ VHF, ds, knot w/logs, stereo, AC-DC refer, hot & cold pressure water, Santa Cruz sub-lease 1 year. $30,500/offers.

(408) 425-7502.

INGWE’ IS FOR SALE v Beautiful Ingrid 38 wood ketch. Heavy aluminum masts, 8-man liferaft, new diesel, dodger, full racing inventory.

Awlgrip paint from mast to bootstripe, low maintenance. 6’8” headroom, set-up for liveaboard and cruising equipped.

Master Mariner’s Marconi 2-winner in 1984 and 1985, she is a fast boat. Custom cedar and teak interior, refrigeration system. We need a 50-ft boat, will consider trade, wood preferred. Price $62,000.

(707) 226-6825 anytime.

IMPECCABLE 40-FT SAMSON SEASMOKE White oak, mahogany and Apitong create this center cockpit, fore and aft cabin sailor with a 60 hp Picses diesel, spruce spars and all sails including spinnaker. Remaining 30% of construction can be completed to your specs with assistance on T&M basis. Asking $27,500 includes workshop with shower. Contact John at either (619) 291-8243 (leave message) (619) 698-4677 or write: 5055 73rd St. #6, San Diego, CA 92115.

VEGA 27 1974. Full keel, fiberglass performance cruiser. Volvo Penta diesel. 6 sails, knot, ds, VHF, compass, log, windpoint, RDF, autopilot, 2 anchors, kerosene stove and heater and lots more.

Built in Sweden. $23,000 or best offer.

Call Tom days 372-0610; after 5 p.m. 653-6406.

CAPRI 30 Ultra-lite racer/cruiser with excellent trophy record. Includes never used Kevlar main and North inty, BMW dsl, fold prop, hydraulics, Kenyon rig, Barients. Fresh water sailed. '84 & ’85. $25,000/trade. 1-800 237-1419 d; 1-(916) 891-8736 e.

RANGER 23

PEARSON 28 — PRICE REDUCED

CATALINA 22

1976. Bristol condition. Race rigged but never raced. Classic, quality boat for Bay. Knotmeter, compass, 5 sails, Barients, 6 hp motor. $10,500. Call Sy Gold (916) 752-2844 days or (916) 753-2001 evenings.

77 F/G sloop, Atomic 4 and in mint condition. Ideal for racing cruising or family outing. Sails, VHF, compass, knotmeter, depthfinder, etc. Rigged for singlehand sailings. $24,500. Must see to appreciate. Will take trade-ins.

(415) 254-5018.

You’ve seen the rest, come see the best. Trailer, Honda 10 hp, fresh water only, pampered, bottom paint, club jib, 110 jib, reef pts., life lines, built-in galley, stereo, 4” cushions, head, canvas covers. $6,800.

Diane (209) 522-1508.

SALVAGE DIVER

WET BOTTOM CHARTERS Come let us spoil you aboard our Ericson Independence 31 for a day sail on S.F. Bay with crew.

A great gift idea!

Randy and Darlene Giovannoni. (209) 226-0310.

•SALVAGE •LIGHT CONSTRUCTION Bay Area to Monterey.

Cruising

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Dalmatian Lynne Orloff-Jones

Yugoslavia’s Coast

Club Entertainment

(?07) 557-0578

Just returned from New Zealand and ready to serve.

MARINE SURVEY (415) 522-1561 (U.S. Coast Guard Lie.)

capt. harry g. braun, p.e.

Call Sign: KE 6 RX 2814VanBurenSt. Alameda, CA 94501

SAILING EXPEDITION *

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April-May 1986 Chesapeake Bay to west coast of Mexico. Whole trip or portion. $600 per person per week plus airfare. Captain and mate plus 2 or 3 guests on Nicholson 40. Steven Hannon, P.0. Box 267, Oxford, Maryland 21654.

•HULL SCRUBBING Doug Craft (408) 279-3137.

GLOBAL DELIVERIES USCG Licensed Captain and Crew.

Local/Long Distance Short/Long Term (415) 485-0351

Experienced Power/Sail Private/Chartered 41 HARBOR ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901

CRUISE HAWAII Now chartering Dove in Hawaii. Learn to cruise from people who have been there. Two to three people, $500 per week each includes food and licensed skipper. Write for brochure. Dove, P.0 Box 29064, Honolulu, HI 96820.

MARINE BUSINESS FOR SALE Well established yacht sales company, specializing in quality new and used yachts. Lots of repeat and referral customers. Excellent opportunity for right individual/team. Attractive price/terms available. Box 26,1559 Solano, Berkeley, CA 94707. page 200

DREAM FOR SALE Westsail 42 cutter. Beautiful solid teak int. Yet to be cruised. 6 cyl. 85 hp Pathfinder w/only 175 hrs. Prof, finished. Receipts show $190,000 invested. Lots of extras. Unusual opportunity at $120,000 firm. No brokers.

775-0157.

COMPASSES Used Danforth 6” ped. mount w/chrome base. New: $715. A steal at: $150. New Danforth 4" ’Overhead’. Retail: $325. Sell for: $200. New Danforth 3" Corsair flushmount (C-389-H) w/angle of heel. Retail: $145. Sell for: $75.

Gail 775-0157.

LETS GO TO HAWAII June 1,1986 1 need 4 or 5 experienced crew people to help me take my 55-ft ketch to Oahu. She is well equipped: Loran C, SSB, depth, VHF, EPIRB, new sails (all roller furling), liferaft, more. Need navigation, cooking, mech. She has plenty of room. Would like crew to share expenses, but lets talk. If you have lots of experience, teach me. Send picture and experience list or call: Gary L. Hawkins, 4039 Fotos Ct„ Sacto, CA 95820. (916) 456-4141.

1973 ERICSON 32-FT (DIESEL)

1985 CATALINA 22

Bruce King tank tested design, Ericson quality. Refitted 1984-85, following equipment is new: professionally installed BMW D-12 diesel w/Michigan 3-blade prop., control wiring, batteries, cables, seacocks, mainsail (Sutter) & cover, dodger, running rigging, compass, Signet knotlog & Taylor kerosene cabin heater.

Other equipment includes h/c pressure water with fresh and salt foot pumps, 2-burner kerosene stove w/oven, pedestal steering, depthsounder, 7 winches, etc. Redwood City liveaboard possible. $29,000.

Call Hal at (415) 463-0431 M-F, 8-5.

Like new, never in salt water, includes sails, trailer, galley, lifelines, pulpits, deluxe interior and Honda motor. $8,900/offer.

Trade for 14-17' sailboat.

1-800 237-1419 days; (916) 891-8736 eves.

MOORE 24' — MUST SELL Hull 68 S’urfer. Good condition. Stock boat only raced occasionally. Includes: trailer, 7 sails, 2 hp outboard, VHF radio & much more. $15,000.

Call 435-1213 or 435-9341.

BEAUTIFUL 40-FT FIBERGLASS YAWL — A STEAL 3 cabins, 2 companionways, 2 heads, tiled shower, mahogany interior with fireplace, low hours diesel, electronics, lots equipment, meticulously maintained by liveaboard engineer. Cruise ready, rare SF slip. $45K. 499-1690, local S.F. tel. no.

1986 CATALINA 22 $6,500 Never used, modernized version of the classic Catalina 22. Includes full factory warranty, sails, galley, lifelines & pulpits, internal halyards led aft & much more. Excellent sailing qualities & creature comforts too. d: 1-800 237-1419; e: 1-(916) 891-8736

PERFORMANCE SAILING — MOORE 24 Moore 24, the original ultra-light, makes no compromises in performance or construction. After 15 years, other manufacturers are still trying to build boats that will outperform a Moore 24. Their only solution — bigger, (i.e. more money). There are two types of performance: 1) Moore 24, and 2) everything else.

You can have Number 1 for only $14,500. Flying Circus with everything included is a bargain. Call Roger at (415) 387-4590 and make your offer.

GO SMALL, SIMPLE, NOW

GARY MULL CUSTOM 45

BOAT PARTNERS WANTED

Rugged 26-foot Pearson Ariel prepared with circumnavigation in mind. Full keel, inboard Alberg design. New rig, rudder, recent survey. $11,500 firm. Serious inquiries: (707) 874-3018.

’82. Aluminum cutter. A fast cruising boat with everything. Will finance or trade for R.E. 140K. For information, write Linda Biggers, 444 North Street, Healdsburg, CA 95448.

For a Cal 2-24 in very good condition berthed in Sausalito.

Responsible people with sailing experience wanted to share boat at low cost with current partner.

Call Ken at 924-5314.

12.5 KW KOHLER GENERATOR

31-FT MASTHEAD CRUISING SLOOP

4-107 Perkins diesel in very good mechanical condition.

Generator needs some work.

(707) 263-4167 eves.

EXPRESS 37

Steel construction, built in Holland in 1970. Complete cruising inventory, self-steerer, custom rig, Volvo diesel, in first cabin condition with a Sausalito berth. Owner willing to finance with $5,000 down.

(415)258-9325.

QUICK COMFORT 1977 Payne 9.6, sleek, stiff 32’ racer/cruiser features luxurious teak int., h/c press, water w/shower, Electrasan head, Volvo dsl.

5 bags of Pineapples, 7 winches, electronics, loaded w/gear. Upwind Berkeley berth. $32,400.

(415) 490-7678 aft. 6 p.m.

'85 demo boat is aggressively for sale. She is complete. 10 bags of sails, all hi-tech. 9 Lewmar winches, Navtec hydraulics, micron bottom, all deck/interior options, Loran, VHF, wheel Rochester injjr. $110,000.

(415) 526-4555.

1 WOULD LIKE An intelligent, sweet-n-sweli, tall, slim lady who likes the water, can take the sun, to come sail the world. Age 38-50. Please respond to Tommy, Pier 39 Marina, P.O. Box MO-1, San Francisco, CA 94133.

BRISBANE’S/SIERRA POINT YACHT CLUB Welcomes everyone this '86 Holiday Season. We are one-yearold & growing. Memberships & berths avail. Interested, please call Laurence Colleges 589-5361 or P.O. Box 899, Brisbane CA 94005.

CATALINA 27

MOORE 24

Great Bay boat. Atomic 4, VHF, depthsounder, knotmeter.

Excellent condition. $16,000.

330-2778 days.

In exc. shape & loaded with sails (10 bags). For immediate sale.

Only $12,800. Laser, blue and white, very nice condition. $900.

Call 1-(415) 521-6171.

MOORE 24 Completely equipped & in excellent condition. Includes new mast & all rigging, new o.b., VHF, RDF, depth, knot, all MOB gear. With Berkeley slip. Must see to appreciate. Priced reduced to $15,000.

Evenings (408) 245-2877.

65-FT ALDEN MARCONI KETCH Beautifully renovated ageless classic seeks a new owner/or partner. Modern facilities inci. fireplace. Excellent liveaboard & sailer. Motivated seller, flexible, willing to negotiate price or terms. Call Marian or Ken (415) 827-5569; 685-1230 ext. 3222.

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Gary Mull design. Racer/cruiser in excellent condition. Super clean. Main w/jiffy reef, 110% and new 90%. VHF, knotmeter, depthfinder, 10 hp o.b. and much more. $14,950.

Call (415) 345-8039.

CAL 34 — $29,000 Great for cruising: sleeps 6, gimballed stove, Lectrasan head, rigged for racing: 3 spinnaker w/gear, nr. new main (2 reefs), nr. new furling headsail. Backstay adj., 10 Barient winches, VHF, windguide, etc. 40’ Tiburon berth.

(415) 435-2777.

APPRAISER

JACK MACKINNON

NEW AND USED MOTORS

Call anytime'

(415) 332-5233

1. Boat Remains in Berth.

Dick Loomis

— CURTAIN LOFT — New and replacement curtains for your sail or power boat.

Tailor-made!!!

Call for a quote.

1 N. Amphlett-B, San Mateo.

(415)342-5710.

(415)276-4351

NOR-CAL COMPASS ADJUSTING

CHARTERS — SAN JUAN ISLANDS & EXPO, VANCOUVER Cruise the islands and sail to Expo 86.7 nights, 6V4 days. Catalina 27s: $525; Irwin 30: $600; Islander, Endeavor 32s: $650; Hunter 33: $690; Mariner 36: $850, Nordic 40: $1180; Nordic 44: $1380. More. Spring discounts ’til July. Now, fly direct, S.F. to B’ham. Chuckanut Charters, P.0. Box 5361, Bellingham, WA 98227.

(206) 733-2125.

Magneutotm System Exclusively 2. Owner's Presence Not Necessary. « 3. Eliminate Deviation.

(415) 453-3923 days or eves.

BOAT LETTERING BEAUTIFUL, LONG LASTING & REASONABLY PRICED CALL FOR OUR CONVENIENT ORDER FORM Signs • Graphics

(415) 552-2441

PATHFINDER SELF-STEERING VANES

ROBERTS SPRAY 36 (STEEL)

Buy Direct From Manufacturer

Constructed as a bare hull kit. Owner lost interest in yachting. Includes 33 hp Vetus diesel, Bronze portlight package. Winch package, deck hardware, sandblasted, metallized and epoxy primed. 38K+ invested. Asking $20,000 or best offer. SIERRA YACHTWERKS. (415) 684-0202, leave message.

"Successfully Used for Years" Call Bill Paulson: 453-8722 454-9285 Western Sales Mfg. Co., San Rafael, CA page 201

CREW Luxury ketch leaving January for the Caribbean, arriving aprox.

April. Share food expenses.

Ph. (415) 523-6651 aft. 5 p.m.

MARINE SURVEYOR

245 GATE 5 ROAD, SAUSALITO Inflatable Dinghies and Tenders 9 to 5

1958 MERCEDES BENZ Model 180A (4-dr. sedan, 4-cyl gas). This car is in excellent condition. Truly a beautiful classic, but still a practical and useful automobile. $5,500. (415) 533-6980 days; (415) 489-5462 eves

. RANGER 26

ELMER FUDD FOR SALE Purchase of a larger boat forces the sale of our beloved Fudd.

This stiff, professionally maintained, 1971 Islander 30 MKII has won the YRA One-Design Championships (A & B Divisions), All Islander Regatta, many mid-winters, and has cruised us from Santa Cruz to the Delta in complete safety and comfort. If you are thinking of spending around $30,000 you owe it to yourself and'your family to geiFudd's six-page list of cruising, racing and safety gear. Call Bill Nork 772-0421 days or 339-2694 evenings.

-gg READY OUTBOARD SHOP •W7

THIS IS YOUR YEAR To cruise/race/snglhnd your own Ranger 23. Built to IOR Rule

by Gary Mull. Great YRA class & Assoc., cruises, seminars, exc. cond., offshore equip, VHF, stove, Porta-potti, Sausalito berth.

Sacrifice, best offer.

Susan (415) 332-8734.

13V2-FT CHAMBERLAIN DORY

63’ + 16’ HOUSEBOAT & BUSINESS

Built by Rowing Crafters, 1984. Includes all optional features: sailing rig (jib & main), sliding seat, 2 pairs of oars, teak floor boards, name board, canvas cover. Magliner trailer. Beautiful performance, exc. cond. $3,450. Peter Pike (415) 454-6234.

Or restaurant & houseboat built ’72, rebuilt ’85, hauled ’85 Nov. 2 cabins above, 4 below, shower, 4 sinks, galley, head, ready to move in, ideal for Delta bus. or anywhere. Inch mooring 3,000#, rental $120/mo. $60,000, sm. dwn/trade? 957-1470 a.m. aft 6.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27 Beautiful strong cruiser. Fiberglass, teak decks, Volvo diesel. $19,500.

383-1543.

INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT 26-FT

1984 36 CATALINA $65,000

SEATTLE — SAN FRANCISCO SWAP

Great condition and ready for cruising. Fully loaded with Navik, full electronics, Avon, spinnaker, new dodger & sail covers, rigged for shorthanded sailing & more. Must sell. $15,000.

528-2288.

This design has fast become one of the most popular liveaboard cruisers ever. Her gear includes: VHF, w/s, ds, km, CNG, Monitor windvane & much more. For more information, call (408) 423-8487 or (408) 476-2039.

Competent owner of Islander 36 wishes to trade equal time on similar boat on the Puget Sound. You sail S.F. Bay, I'll sail the San Juans for vacation. Located in Sausaiito with beautiful view of the City.

Call Tim (415) 331-6234.

PIER 39 — BOAT SLIP — 36-FT

J/24 1981

NEWPORT 28

Tri-color hull, VHF, digital speedo, North sails (class), outboard, anchor,^ew ice chest, electric package, new battery, Portapotti. Boat in mint condition. For sale at extremely low price.

(408) 426-1526 eves.

Ideal Bay, Delta & offshore sloop. Fast, stable & comfortable.

C&C design. 110,135 and Club jib. Atomic 4 inboard, Sounder, Speedo, VHF, RDF, etc. Alameda Marina berth. Race or cruise this beauty. $23,500. Contact George Roman: (415) 284-9180.

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S.F. waterfront — rent a 36’ upwind facing slip for $180/mo. short or longterm. Telephone connections, discounted parking, security guards, showers, shopping center, restaurants & a view!

Call (415) 523-9638 evenings.

SHIPMATE heating stove 12”x8”x17”, uses 3” stack, weighs 55-lbs. Thick stainless exterior w/cast iron firebox & grate. Burns wood or coal. $150.

ProMite 15 amp battery charges for two batteries: $190.

(916) 777-5602.

1981 J/24 Excellent condition, clean, race rigged, radio, outboard, full sails, new jib. New “offshore” bottom paint, hand faired, lots of extras. Reduced $1,000. $15,000/OBO. Anxious to sell.

(415) 946-0891.

COLUMBIA 26 MKII 3 sails, sail cover, almost new 8 hp motor, new head, depthsounder, direction finder, radio, knotmeter, compass. Good condition. Sausalito berth. $8,500 firm.

1 Andy 381 -6018.

TANDEM AXLE CAULKINS TRAILER SUGAR — 1956 FOLKBOAT 25-FT In good condition. For sale at only $4,500. Ready to sail. Full canvas boat cover, 7 hp Evinrude outboard engine. Located in Monterey Marina. Owner will help in relocating boat to San Francisco.

Call Kelly Morgan (408) 375-2002.

For fixed keel boats. Surge brakes. $1,600.

Mike 456-1860.

OLSON 30 Race equipped, Sausalito berth, no money down, take over loan on approval of credit.

(415) 592-8025.

PEARSON 36 This 1973 sloop is fully rigged for racing or cruising. 14 bags sails, mostly new. New perfectly fine bottom dong Nov. 85.16 Barient winches, some electronics. All safety gear, inch liferaft.

200 hrs on Westerbeke dsl. $55,000/B.0.

342-2777

J/24

ISLANDER 28

Very clean inside & out. Trailrite trailer. Full set of class sails. 4 hp Evinrude, knotmeter, compass, safety gear, all equipment in excellent condition, motivated. Asking $11,900.

Call (408) 248-8522 evenings.

La Fenice was launched 2/80 and has had one owner. Bristol condition w/Signet elect., stereo system, Hood sea-furl, & Atomic 4 engine. Great cruiser/racer. Can be seen at Brickyard Cove Marina B-38. $32,000.

(916) 663-2444.

PIER 39 — SUPS FOR SALE 2 36-ft boat slips for sale in beautiful San Francisco marina.

Phone connections, parking, security, showers, shopping, restaurants. Asking $36,000 each. Title and resale rights. Financing through Wells Fargo.

(415) 883-2919; (415) 456-3141.

COLUMBIA 26 MARK II — $9,250 10 hours on i.b. engine since overhaul, sleeps 5, ap, spinnaker, 2 jibs, 2 mains, dbl lower shrouds, 2 batteries, awning, 6 Barient winches, RDF, Speedlog, EPIRB, teak cockpit grating, deluxe interior. (707)987-3741; (415)435-5206; (415)362-4181.

34-FT ANGLEMAN (SEA SPIRIT)

ISLANDER BAHAMA 30

HUNTER 36

Classic wood ketch, bristol throughout, 7 sails, Loran, VHF, hailer, depthsounder, autopilot, refrigerator, shower, dinghy on davits, Albin diesel; fully equipped for cruising, ideal liveaboard, owner financing possible. $47,000.

(415) 254-0524.

’79 freshwater boat. Consider smaller boat in trade. Owner will finance to qualified party. VHF, spinnaker gear, 5 sails, compass, knotmeter, depth, wheel steering, h&c water, stove/oven, heater, am/fm cassette. $33,800.

(916) 583-9420.

1980 sloop in excellent condition. Yanmar diesel, Hood mainsail and 110%, Sutter 135%. Barients, VHF, Datamarine depth, speed and wind instruments. Asking $52,500. Must sell!

H: (415) 871-5374; B: (415) 464-2590, John.

VENTURE 23

SANTANA 22

Swing keel, trailer, o.b., depth, knotmeter, VHF, stereo. $4,500/8.0.

383-4970. .

ORCA 38

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FOR SALE

t New custom complete boat cover for Mariner 40 and self-furling jib for same. Reasonable offers accepted. Call (707) 823-2228.

INGRID 38-ft Blue Water cutter. Recent survey. SatNav, VHF, RDF, Ham, fathometer, log, monitor self-steering, Tillermaster, CQR, Danforths, Volvo diesel MD2B, Avon raft, 8 sails. Cruise ready! $87,000.

(415)236-4682.

NORDIC FOLKBOAT 25-FT

BALTIC CRUISER Bit. Borressens, Denmark 1961. 30-ft sloop, flushdeck, % keel, mahog. ply, glass over, new mast boom, rigging & sails, internal halyards led aft. Good shape. Must see to appreciate. $8,000 or best offer. Pier 39 El 02.

(415) 392-3321, John.

Power and sail; two year repair outlook: oil analysis computer comparison. (415)934-6159.

YACHT TECHNICIAN • Mechanical • Electrical • Plumbing

TRADE 30-ft Alberg designed sloop for smaller boat, real estate or $19,500. Financing available.

Call (415) 537-9693. „

Restored, good condition, full boat cover, most hardwares new, new spar & sails, Seagull o.b. Good Bay boat. Asking $6,200, but will accept reasonable offer.

(415) 992-0332.

MARINE ENGINE SURVEYING

Dockside Masthead Problems Solved

Berkeley. $5,400.

Bruce 886-6897 evenings.

$105,000 The sailboat everyone dreams of.

Finest materials from the gelcoat in Custom build fiberglass, launched in 1982.

Your wife will love the interior.

Fully cruise equipped.

Phone: Mark Yinger (415) 655-3505.

Small Job Specialist MARTY STEIGER (415) 465-9943

CATAMARANS — NEW & USED Dealers for Prindle. 15,16,18 & 19 in stock.

Clearance Price.

Stockdale Marine in Suburban Sacramento. Drive & Save.

(916) 944-1232.

GENERAL MAINTENANCE Lt. Carpentery, Repairs, Bleaching, Deck and Hull Rubbing, Oiling, Metal Cleaning, Varnish Specialist. Upkeep Programs to Keel Your Vessel in Top Condition.

WINTER MAINTENANCE: Regular Washdowns, Throughhull Inspections.

Winches Checked. * * Give Someone a Gift* * Audre Beauchamp (408) 736-1637.

ISN’T IT TIME YOU LEARNED To fix your own engine problems!

Hands on, theory, debugging.

(415)934-6159

RUN AWAY TO SEA South Pacific adventure — departing Hawaii in May to Tahiti, Cooks, Samoa, Fiji and Tonga on beautiful 51' ketch. 3 weeks: $1,800; 6 weeks: $3,500. For brochure write Marita Shan Charters, 2875 Alamein Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V6L1S4.

(604) 738-2347.

RUN AWAY TO SEA — SOONER I There are still some berths available for our sail back to Hawaii from Tahiti, departing in early March. 5 weeks for only: $2,000.

Call (604) 738-2347 or (808) 949-4216 for details.

US 27-FT SLOOP This 1982 boat is ready to go. Features 6’1" headroom, pressure water plus diesel inboard, A/C, D/C, VHF, main & 2 jibs. Great weekender in mint condition. $28,900. Stockdale Marine in Suburban Sacramento. Drive & Save. (916) 944-1232. page 202

1978 CAPE DORY 27 Alberg designed full keel cruising sloop for the serious sailor.

Quality throughout. Call for inventory/details. $31,000.

(408) 973-1530.

J/24 1979. Race equipped. Trailer. New sails. $10,500.

332-4104.

MAST & BOOM 1981 Cal 2-29 mast, boom and mainsail.

Luff=31'8", Foot=12’3”. $2,500.

332-4104.

CAL 29 Top condition. Recently hauled, Atomic 4, CNG, great cruiser, 3 headsails, custom rigged, w. headfoil. Raced once only and won. $24,900.

(415) 453-0549 or 524-2640.

PURE SAILING Without the hassels. Retiring my membership in Club Nautique (currently priced at $2,200) for $1,950/best offer. Novice or expert, sail on the best! Unlimited free lessons/basic to advanced.

Many extras/social events. Call Tom (415) 349-8561 after 5 pm.

DESPERATE! Must sell our custom Nor'Sea 27 now. Lug rigged South Pacific veteran. Monitor windvane, Yanmar, 4 anchors, Avon w/o.b„ ham radio, scuba, more. Only $29,900. 19738 Gilmore, Woodland Hills, CA 91367.

(213) 472-9428.

HARDIN 44 World cruiser, Hood roller furling, 5 anchors, Barient 28s, SatNav, autopilot, dodger, freezer-rig, not a stock boat. Many extras. $125,000. Lee Leonhard, Marina San Carlos, Box 565, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico.

1983 ERICSON 35+ Brickyard Cove berth, easy handling, diesel, excellent condition, sleeps 7. Equipped for family: Bay and Delta sailing. Wish trade 1/2 share for 1/2 share in cabin near Pinecrest, Bear Valley or Tahoe. $90K. 820-9708 days; 283-2574 nights.

TRIMARAN Fast, stable, safe 40-ft Kantola sloop. Coldmolded, epoxy construction. Finest outfitting & cruise equipt. Open wings, cntrbrd, dsl, vane, ap. In San Diego. OffersArades. $69,500. Jazz, 1561 Willow Park Rd. #305, Charlotte, NC 28205.

VALIANT 40 When you step aboard this yacht, you will discover why it has the reputation as the best cruising yacht ever built. This strong, heavily rigged cutter, comes with all you will need for a safe passage, anywhere. Perkins diesel, 5 sails, spinnaker, VHF, K/L, D/S, Wind S/D, Loran C, wide band receiver, ham radio, liferaft, sailing dinghy, anchor windlass, 3 anchors and many more cruising and liveaboard gear. Priced below market value at $95,000.

(408)724-3917.

LOW STRESS OPPORTUNITY Pristine racer/cruiser Islander 38 MKII. Spinnaker, 110, 130, 150, 6 winches, aft radio, depth, music system, new cushions, Electra-san, etc. is just what doc recommends now!

Call Dale (415) 376-5100; (415) 283-1511.

FOR SALE 36.5-foot Pearson '81 cutter. Full keel. Good condition. $70,000 or best offer.

445-7256 Susan, days 7-4.

PACIFIC 38 — NEW ZEALAND BUILT Fiberglass sloop. Powerful diesel, fridge, freezer, H&C pressure water, SSB, VHF, SatNav, autopilot, windvane, B&G instruments, 10 sails, and lots more. $66,000. P.O. Box 418, Sausalito, CA 94966.

(213)454-6026.

Cruising ready. Pick up in New Zealand.

1975 CRUISE READY CAVALIER 32 RACING SLOOP All new upgraded standing and running rigging, roller furling, chain plates, double stays, blocks, etc. Imron painted hull and mast, Micron bottom, wiring, lights, $3,000 worth of canvas; dodger, awnings, biminy etc. and batteries. 9 sails (some Hood Eclipse), 9 winches, spinnaker gear, 2 windvanes, Autohelm, windlass and rebuilt Yanmar diesel, VHF, RDF, SL/SL, spare parts, all USCG safety equipment. Just completed Japan, Honolulu to San Francisco crossing. $59,900 or trade for 39-43-ft aft cabin.

(415)658-3506.

ISLANDER 30 Sail & sleep on the Bay. S.F. Marina berth! 1968 MK1 sloop, f/g, full keel. New Honduras mahog. int., microwave & refrigerator.

Signet depth & speed indie., Marinetics AC/DC panel. Surveyed.

Asking $19,000. Tom, days 974-0138; eves. 359-5297.

“DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN!” U.S. Yachts 25, 1979. Like new cond. Loaded w/equipment. 4 bags of sails, spinnaker gear, VHF, ds, compass, galley, head, sleeps 5, 7.5 hp o.b. Coyote PL berth. Orig. owner desperate! $13,500 or offer.

Terry at (408) 733-9295 days.

TRADE Trade duplex equity ($30,000-$50,000) for fiberglass cruising sailboat. El Toro $300.

(707) 994-7421.

SANTANA 22 10 sails incl. spinnaker gear, new 150% genoa; Johnson deep shaft outboard, knotmeter, tabernacle mast, many extras, good condition, motivated seller. $4,500/make offer.

(415) 228-1848 eves/weekends; (415) 842-0358 days.

CRUISING GEAR Aries windvane, completely rebuilt, better than new, includes wheel adapter, kick-up rudder & spare parts: $900. NCS SatNav, 1-year-old, all hooked up to demonstrate: $1,050 or trade for good Loran or radar.

(415) 521-9222.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27 — F/G, DSL, IMMACULATE A classic yacht that has traditionally been a superb investment (historically, mint Offshore 27’s have been doubling in value roughly every 8 years). Warm Burmese teak interior. Loaded liveaboard world cruiser. $25,900.

(408) 379-5449.

CATALINA 30 '78, Atomic 4, wheel steering, 3 sails, stereo, VHF, halyards to cockpit, self-tailing winches, 2 anchors, cushions, stove. $29,950.

(408) 684-0413 evenings.

FOR SALE Classic Penguin class training dinghy, 11 '6'. Plywood kit, 1962.

Bright interior, burgundy hull. Very clean. Current registration.

Little Dude trailer. Ready to sail. $1,200. (707) 874-3146.

Box 382, Occidental, CA 95465.

FOR THE GOOD GAY LIFE AFLOAT The largest gay yacht club in northern California, the Barbary Coast Boating Club, welcomes both-sail boaters and power boaters. For membership info, call: (415) 753-5017 or (415) 237-1213.

HELP YOURSELF TO FUN 1/4 partner in Catalina 30. Exc. cond., new bottom paint, varnish, rblt Atomic 4, VHF, RDF, depth & knotmeter, backstay tensioner, bowsprit, tallmast, genoa, jib, 2 anchors, holding tank & head. $2,000 down and $125/mo.

After 6 p.m. call (916) 728-5171.

CATALINA 36 1983. Completely equipped and exceptional! well maintained.

Must sell. $59,500.

Evenings (408) 978-1757.

FARR 740 SPORT Ultra-light 24 ultra fast, very well equipped with trailer. $14,500.

Owner finance, low down, low interest or consider lease. , Eves. 532-1436.

“PRETENTIOUS” 28’ ’/4-ton Kofman design. 15 bags of sails, inboard. Must sell. $7,000.

Bill (415) 594-9723 eves; (415) 493-3414 days.

ISLANDER 28 PARTNER NEEDED Become a full vested 1/3 partner in a beautiful, well-kept 28-ft sailboat. Pedestal steering, VHF, depth, knot/log, 4 sails, sleeps 6, stereo, many extras. $170/month, 4G down.

Days 654-9175; evenings 254-4240.

SANTANA 27 This fast Gary Mull-designed sloop is in excellent condition. 10 hp electric start outboard (40 hours running), VHF, knots, depth, alcohol/electric stove, pressure, 6-ft headroom, sun dodger, 3 jibs and more. $12,000.

(415) 856-9146.

THERE’S A SCHOOL IN YOUR MAILBOX! Learn practical navigation directly from Solo TransPac vet Mike Pyzel. Home-study course has 8 concise, complete and enjoyable charting lessons.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Brochure. PYZEL NAVIGATION

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86 Olive Mill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108/(805) 969-4195.

TROPIC 58 and other TROPIC SERIES long distance, low DLR, aluminum cutters — custom set up and design services. Tropic Yachts, P.0. Box 6787, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677.

CHARTER A NEW PASSPORT 40 Sail the San Juan Islands. Fast, comfortable 40-ft dloop, dinghy, full instrumentation, rollerfurling headsail, two private staterooms, head w/shower, propane stove w/oven, refrigeration, VHF, stereo, and much more. Call (206) 821-1208 for more information.

— A-1 BRIGHTWORK SERVICE — Professional quality brightwork at very reasonable rates. No job too large or too small.

Satisfaction guaranteed. References available.

Michael Heiner (415) 868-1720 (home); (415) 331-8149 (message) page 203

HANDS-ON INSTRUCTIONAL CRUISES

Enjoy learning heavy weather sailing, anchorthg, navigation, spinnakers & cruising skills. Join Solo TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel on a personally tailored 3-5 day live-aboard instruction cruise in Santa Barbara’s offshore islands. Brochure. PYZEL NAVIGATION & CRUISING, 86 Olive Mill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

(805) 969-4195.

RENT MY CATALINA 30 I'm looking for someone to rent my boat two days a month, over the next six months.

1 charge $85 a day. Tl)p boat is well equipped, and berthed in Alameda.

(415) 523-6730, Dick Southworth.

STUART E. RIDDELL Marine surveyor and consultant

(415) 332-9036

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NOVA SCOTIA 250 ACRES WATERFRONT Cape Breton Island is one of the world's beautiful places. This acreage has waterfrontage, a pond & beautiful views. Many possibilities. Summer water temperature 69°. Swimming, fishing, whales, eagles. Unspoiled. $95,000.

Evenings (415) 924-0735.

FREE TRIP TO HAWAII! When you purchase this 48-ft classic Moody sloop. Well maintained world cruiser. Many extras. Priced $20,000 below survey at $65,000. Robert Rupnow, P.0. Box 15532, Hono, HI 96815.

Call (808) 955-8785. Trade possible.

VALIANT 40 Immaculately outfitted for world cruising. Meticulously maintained. Many, many extras. Full inventory. $118,500. No sales tax, save $7,000. Will trade for larger multihull.

(602) 299-5920 evenings.

TRADE FOR MASERATI 1 have a 1983 Quatraporte and a 26-ft Ranger that 1 want to trade up for an Islander 36 or equivalent.

(415) 786-2300, 654-0733 Fred.

PEARSON 323 1979 French gray hull, Volvo diesel, h/c press shower, Lectra San head, 3-burner CNG w/oven, wheel steering, chrome hooded compass, dodger, VHF, km/depth, cushions, custom upholstery. Coyote Pt. berth avail. $47,000.

(415) 369-0943.

PRESENTING GRACE She's a 1977 Rhodes Traveller. 32’ fiberglass double-ender with full keel and tiller steering. Teak decks, Isuzu diesel, propane stove, monitor vane, Autohelm, SatNav, VHF, depthsounder, full dodger with sailing awning, full tropical awning, chain ground tackle, windlass, Avon liferaft, Zodiac dinghy, Johnson outboard, extensive spares. Grace is in Hawaii and ready to go. Send for 3-page list of equipment, specs, photos. $65,000.

Sandy Fontwit, P.O.B. 75476, Honolulu, HI 96836.

— MORA CHAMPION — Red Striae is for sale! 1984 fixed keel Sonoma 30. First overall 1984 Golden Hinde Series, first in division 1985 Doublehanded Farallons, second 1984 Trans-Tahoe, second in division 1985 Wheeler Regatta, second in division Swiftsure Inshore and fourth in the Swiftsure Cape Flattery Race to name only a few!

She comes fully equipped: new Sobstad sails, new rig, new outboard, new Loran, new depthsounder, new Speedo/log, VHF and all MORA equipment. $32,000.

Rob (916) 638-0593.

38-FT INGRID DOUBLE-ENDER Full keel, brass portholes, watertank, fuel tank, stainless steel galley & head sinks, custom made switch panel, 35 hp Starret diesel, velvet trans. 2 to 1 reduction. Must sell. Leaving state. $19,000/Best offer.

889-8225.

WESTSAIL 32 Beautiful condition, ready for cruise or liveaboard. Lots of extras including Aries vane, Autopilot, Loran, Avon w/motor, h&c press, water, etc. $55,000 or make offer.

(916) 383-6758.

WE RE ORIGINAL OWNERS Of this lovely, exceptionally clean, classic 1978 sloop. She’s well equipped and maintained. A fast, comfortable beauty with low hours on her reliable Atomic 4. A remarkable opportunity at $39,000.

(415) 493-7281 or (408) 425-5351.

RANGER 23, 1972 — PARTNERSHIP 1/2 INTEREST Don't miss this one! Changed jobs. Must sell interest in beautiful Ranger 23 with 10 sails, 6 Lewmar winches, bilge pump, PortaPotti, 6 hp Evinrude and many extras. Berkeley Marina. $4,500.

Charles (707) 255-8244 eves.

SANTANA 22 Dodger with full Delta canvas. Keel bolts, chainplates, standing rigging replaced 1984, all s/s. Sails new 1983. VHF radio, depthfinder, compass, 4% hp 1980 Johnson outboard. Martinez berth. $4,900.

(415)689-1066.

FJ SAILNETIC Sail #4301, race rigged Erickson mast, center traveler, Harkin blocks, includes EZ-Loader trailer, main/jib/spinnaker, nearly new. $3,500 firm.

487-7654,8-12 mornings.

CATALINA 36-FT 1983. Still like new because it is! Fully rigged. Divorce sale!

Rather give to you than her. Sacrifice $58,000. Cost me $72,000.

(408)462-3813.

PART-TIME INTERIOR MAINTENANCE POSITION 53-ft Motor Yacht and 48-ft Sailing Yacht located in Brisbane Marina Leave message for Jim Donovan. (415) 573-8041.

33-FT INTERNATIONAL CLASS 1C #95, 1937, partially restored, needs deck canvas and cap rails. Has new full cover, spinnaker and all hardware. $2,500.

(415) 388-2082, 388-1243 message. vx

SKIPPER NEEDED To crew on my cruise-equipped boat to Hawaii early, spring and return the boat to San Francisco. Must be insurable. Send qualifications, references and fee requirements to P.O. Box 660215, Sacramento, CA 95866-0215.

23-FT ERICSON Great condition. Built 1969. Perfect Bay/Delta sailboat. Sleeps 4.

Has Porta-potti, depthfinder, sink, icebox. 1985 survey & bottom paint. Survey value is $7,850.1 am desperate. Will sacrifice at $5,500.

Scott 665-5553 days.

57-FT LUEN KRE MOTORSAILING JUNK Twin Gardner dsl, red junk sails, large cargo hold. Would convert to great liveaboard or Mexico dive boat. Beautiful carvings, 12x14 aft cabin. $118,000.

(415) 588-4628; 439-2672.

31-FT BROWN SEARUNNER TRI Fixed wing, cutter rig, West epoxy, propane stove w/oven, Paloma w.h. shower, 110/12v elect. 4 sails, 4 winches, excellent condition. Must see. $25,000.

(916) 644-4135 eves.

HERRESHOFF 38-FT LAUNCH Perkins diesel, 10 kts at Igph, fiberglassed strip planked, transom gate, swim platform, VHF, CB, safety equipment, low hours, highway trailer. $18,500 or trade for repairable sports car(s), machine tools, etc.

Jim Rudholm (209) 897-2757.

BALTIC/MEDITERRANEAN Cruise through Sweden/Denmark/Holland/UK/Spain/ Portugal into Mediterranean. Mature, non-smoker, affluent, responsible crew wanted. Single or couple to share new 50-ft ketch. Wr: La Perouse, 2019 E. Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz, CA 95062.

ISLANDER 30-FT 1979, VHF, am/fm cassette stereo, auto bilge pumps, depthsounder, km, dodger, 5 sails, diesel, pedestal steering, shower, gas stove, new bottom paint, never raced. Must sell. $36,500.

Don (408) 732-8770 days; Walter (408) 266-3253 eves.

MOORE 24 1981. Excellent, hardly-been-used condition. Main, 3 jibs, 2 spinnakers, trailer, compass & knotmeter. 4 hp longshaft Evinrude used once. $17,500.

Phone (415) 322-4204.

CATALINA 27 1980 diesel inboard, exc. cond., side dinette model, 60%, tlO%, 150% headsails, jiffy reefing, vang, tabernacled mast, split backstay, 12/120v wiring, VHF, km, ds, 2 Danforths, plus lots of goodies. $22,900 must sell.

Call Gene (408) 354-5200.

MAJOR LOFT CRUISING SAILS FROM 44-FT YAWL 865-5209 after 5 p.m. 3 mainsails: $700, $400, $100. Luff 45’, foot 17’, 1 reef & jack line. 3 genoas: $700, $400, $100. Luff 50', leech 50’, FT 27’. Luff 41 ’, leech 34’, FT 19'5”. 2 mizzens: $100 each. Luff 20’, foot 8’.

PEARSON ARIEL 26-FT SLOOP 1964. Atomic 4 inboard, LPU paint tosides & deck, 6 bags of sails, 54 channel VHF, am/fm stereo, 110 hookup, battery charger, financing available.

(415) 583-2051.

1980 CAL 39 Must sell! $100,000 boat will be sacrificed for best offer over $65,000.

Contact Angel at (408) 288-6363.

WESTSAIL 32 Custom int., Ig midship galley, designed & equipped for comfortable living & serious cruising. Propane. Press, water system.

Sleeps 5. New 10 hp Saab dsl. Custom sails, Barient winches, Aries vane, dinghy, more. $52,000.

332-4929.

PEARSON COMMANDER Good stiff Bay boat. 26’, full keel, fiberglass, large cockpit, sleeps 3 to 4. S.F. Marina berth. $12,500. (415) 567-8880 days.

ISLANDER 36 Nearly new condition, fully equipped including Hook & Elliott sails and spinnakers, 10 Barient winches, Signet instruments, wheel, CNG, h&c pressure water., etc. $49,900. This boat is worth a trip to L.A. (213) 483-1446 days; (818) 336-9733 eves.

FRERS 44 — PERFORMANCE CRUISING KETCH (1981 F&C 44). Tri-cabin, 2 heads, Airex core, centerboard, teak decks, full Brooks & Gatehouse, SatNav, autopilot, 15 Barients.

Lying Virgin Islands. $169K. Will trade.

(619) 226-2898.

BRIAN O’DONOGHUE Appraiser Phone (415) 461-6347

OFFSHORE MEDICAL SEMINARS Conducted by Dr. D.L. Hill, experienced instructor in Maritime Medicine — currently instructor at California Maritime Academy — former U.S. Navy physician — U.S. Coast Guard licensed ship’s surgeon — small classes — personalized training.

(707) 745-3785.

801 E. 2nd St., Benicia, CA 94510

647 Pacific Avenue

(415) 523-9011 BOGART & GORING SAILMAKERS Alameda, California 94501

(415) 523-9011

LAW OFFICES OF CORY A. BIRNBERG, MARITIME ATTORNEY Emphasizing Admiralty, General Civil Litigation, Vessel Financing, Federal Practice, Fisheries, Bankruptcy, Offshore Activities, Marine Insurance. 261 World Trade Center, Ferry Building, San Francisco, California 94111. (415) 398-1040.

ENJOY A YACHTING VACATION on the Bay or Delta aboard my beautiful 43-ft sailboat Compass Rose.

Sleeps six. Shower, refrigeration, stereo, instruments. $175/day midweek. $200/day weekends. Special weekly rates.

Call Jon (415) 427-5499.

KALIC 40 BY GARY MULL This is the one you have been looking for. Never used, bristol condition. $60,000 in extras. Documentation and Emeryville slip included. Cost $155,000. Steal it at only $125,000.

Tony Mead 523-2900, owner.

EAST BAY SAIL CLEANING — ONE WEEK REPAIRS

MARINE SURVEYOR Consultant

PETERSON 25 Sleek flushdeck sloop. Good condition. 6 sails including 2 spinnakers. Inboard. Avon. Boom fent. VHF, RDF. $15,000.

567-8880 days.

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Soling 26 w/trlr.... .5,000* Ericson 27. .try 15,500* Catalina 27. .now 16,500 ★ Lancer 28. . .(2) 16,500 & 13,750 Morgan 0128. .29,500* San Juan 28. .28,000* Ericson 30. .39,000 Islander 30MkII\ ... .34,500 Pearson 31. .42,000 Dufour 31. .49,500* Coronado 32. .49,750* Westsail 32. .sale pend’g Tartan Ten. .34,000* S-2. ..75,000 CS 36. .sale pend’g Valiant. .116,500 Mo^an 46. .132,000 Alden Ketch. .95,000

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GULFSTAR 48.1979. Center cockpit, aft cabin. Air cond., heat, many amenities. Asking $165,000.

Teak planked 43’ GARDEN-DSGN Ketch, 75. Many extras for cruising in comfort. Asking $125,000.

LANDFALL 39. Cutter rigged, 1979, dual stations, comfortable as home. Asking $84,000.

57’ FLUSH DECK Yawl. '54. Designed by S&S, built in Germany of dbl planked mahogany; 19 ton world class yacht. Asking $189,000.

CHEOY LEE 36 Ketch. 1976. ComfdrtableNclassic lines, large inventory. Asking $85,000.

CORONADO 35. 1974. Center cockpit, aft cabin, beautifully maintained and loaded with equipment. Reduced to $35,000.

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33’ 34’ 35' 37’ 40’ 41’

1980 1980 1967 1981 1974 1981

Hunter sloop.

True North cutter.

Mariner Garden ketch.

Crealock sloop.

Challenger sloop.

Islander Freeport ketch.

$46,000 58,000 43,000 120,000 98,000 115,000

LOA 45' 46' 46’ 48’ 50’ 64’

Year 1983 1979 1979 1981 1976 1982

Design Lancer Power Sailer.

Sarratt Auxiliary Sloop.

Morgan Ketch.

Steel Motorsailer, licensed charter.

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Herreshoff Ketch.

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City Yachts.215,216 Cochran Films.88 Cooper, Hamon Group.43 Corlett & Blasier.24,25 Cruising Connection.173 Cruising World Yachts.12,13 D’Anna Sailing Co.205,207 Detco Marine.133 Dickerson, R.E., Insurance. .133 Downwind Designs.88 Dri Diver.90,91 Edgewater Yacht Sales.211 Edinger Marine Services. . . 88,173 Eagle Yacht Sales.40 Far West Charters.173 Farallon Yacht Sales.40 Feeney Wire and Rope.177 Ferrari Boatwright Svcs.88 Fifth Avenue Boatyard.98 Friendly Foam Shop, The. ... 148 Gianola & Sons.54 Glen Cove Marina.148 Glen Cove Yacht Sales.207 Golden State International. . . 209 Bill Gorman Yachts.87 Hall Spars.173 Harris, Joe, Clothing.67 Hatler, Don, Yachts.63 Haynes Sails.89 HCH Yachts.137 Hogin Sails.77 Hood Sailmakers.52,53 House of Fasteners.45 Humboldt Bay.64 Jim Irwin Brokers.210 Isomat Spars.49 J/Boats West.37

J.A.L. Enterprises.86 Johnson Hicks.27 Jones, Peter. Yacht Brokerage2IO Jones, Steve, Marine Services. 173 Kappas Marina. 96 Kensington Yacht & Ship Brokers. . .206 Kettenburg Marine.36 Larsen Sails.93 Bill Lee Yachts.99 Le Walder Boom Brake.30 Leading Edge Sails.57 Phil Lloyd.89 Loch Lomond Marine.62 Marin Custom Boat Repair.... 89 Marin Motorsports.30 Marina Bay Yacht Harbor.72 Marina de La Paz.177 Marina Yacht Center.41 Marine Electrical Service.66 Marine Engineering.64 Marine Heat Corp.65 Mariner Square Yachts.41 Mariners Insurance Group.89 Maritime Electronics.50 Maritime Store.65 McDonald Electronics.68 McGinnis Insurance.66 Medof Marine.30 Metal Magic.177 Milano Yachts.8,212,213 Sam L. Morse.73 Motorcycles Unlimited.133 Nau*T*Kol.68 Navigation & Marine.80 Nelson Marine.95 NCMA.9 NorCal Boatyard.80

NorCal Yachts.108,109 North Sails.60 North Star Yachts.31 Ocean Yachts.38 O’Connell’s.92 O’Neill’s Yachts.10 Olympic Circle Sailing Club.... 86 Owen & Co.14 Oyster Cove.16 Pacific Coast Canvas.86 Pacific Delta Insurance.70 Pacific Marine Supply.82 Pacific Publishers.73 Palo Alto Harbor Association . 205 Parker, Kermit, Yacht Sales. .211 Passage Yachts.4,5,6,7 Personal House.85 Peninsula Marine Services.96 Bob Pinkus Marine.74 Pioneer.34 Pitchometer.94 Pointe Ballena.29 Portobello Condos.92 Pryde Sails.55 Pyramid Boat Works.98 Railmakers.43 Repo Hotline.214 Richards & van Heeckeren.3 Richmond Boat Works.47 Richmond Yacht Service.86 Sailboat Shop, The.2 Sailing Set, The.92 S.F. Bay Boat Brokers.207 San Francisco Boat works. ... 133 San Francisco Yacht Service. .205 San Leandro Marine Center... 84 Sanford-Wood.51 Sara’s Marine.177 Sausalito Yacht Sales.*210 SAWCO.98 Scanmar Marine Products.33 Sea of Cortez Yacht Charters . 96 Seabird Sailing School.153

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Seapower Marine.32 Ships Chandlery.57 Si-Tex.96 Slocum Yachts.48 Smith & Co.84 Sobstad Sails.19,94 South Beach Harbor.44 South Harbor.177 Spinnaker City.82 Spinnaker Shop, The.33 Stanford University.70 Starbuck Canvas Works.£9 Stockdale Marine & Nav.205 Sun ★ Fan/KelTech Inc.71 Sunset Yachts.15 Survival Technologies.82 Svendsen’s Boat Works. . . . 20,21 System Three Resins/ Montery Bay Fiberglass.43 Tatoosh Marine.42 Tedrick-Higbee Insurance.70 Chuck Thomson Yachts Ltd. 88,89 Tradewind Instruments Ltd. ... 17 TransPak Insurance.8 Twin Pines Sailing Club.177 Ulmer Kolius Sails.35,84 U.S. Yacht Bureau.72 Vallejo Marine.62 Vancouver Yacht Co.75 Voyager Marine.76 Walnut Creek Honda.76 West Marine Prod.100,101 Western Chrome Plating. ... 177 Whale Point Marine.28 Whale Point Yacht Sales.28 Willard Marine.98 Wilson, Don, Yachts.79 Windjammer Sails.45 Windships. 39,209 World Yacht Center.22 Yacht Registry.58 Yacht 55-ft Ketch.205 Yacht Second Offense.97 Yacht Zambateaux.85 Yegen Marine.23

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12,000 27’ Westerly, diesel.16,700 28’ Columbia, (2) from.16,000 30’ Lancer, autopilot.25,000 30'Catalina, 1983.

36,500 32’Westsall cutter...55,000 37’Tayana pilothouse.80,000

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Swift aft cabin.139,900 Formosa, autopilot.60,000 Gulfstar, brlstol.75,000 Columbia, 1972.70,000 Cement ketch.45,000 POWER 26' Sea Ray w/trailer.39,000 27’ Uniflite '65, brlstol cond.17,000 28’ Fiberform cruiser.23,400 28’ Bayliner “Contessa”.29,995 30’ Fjord, f/g, 2 diesel.33,400 31’ Trojan, (3) from.18,500 32’ Chris Pilothouse.16,900 32’ Chris “Connie”.18,000 34’ CHB Trawler sedan.61,200 35’ Owens Sportflsh.25,000 36' Chris “Connie”, bristol.43,900 38’ Higgins, salmon permit.14,500 39’ Labruzzie, diesel, needs work10,000 40' CT trawler, will deal.95,000 40' Crulse-a-Home. 45,000 42’ Grand Banks.79,500 43’ Chris “Corinthian”.75,000

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6.900 Falmouth Cutter.

23,500 O'Day w/trailer.

12,500 Santana .

5,500 Ericson. . 2 from 5,950 NorthAmer. w/trlr .■,...

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Col. Challenger '64 . . . . . MustSell Col. Contender'66 . . . .

Offers Lapworth '69 .

5.300 Farr'81.

12,900 Vashon Trailer '80.

24,950 Yankee Dolphin '67 . . . .

12,500 Capri '80.

9,750 Meridian'61 .

12,500 O'Day 76.

11,500 Yamaha. 2 from 19,500 Balboa 74.

12.500 Catamaran 74 . .. .3,900 Chrysler 79.

13,500 Columbia 70.

12,500 Ericson'67 .

11.000 15,000 Lapworth.

T/4 "Summertime Dream”. Offers 10,750 Bristol '65.

Catalina. 2 from 16,500 C&C71 .

19.950 Islander . 2 from 32,000 19,500 Pearson Triton'62.

SeaFarer'74.

12,000 28.500 Herreshoff Sloop.

Pacific 72.

12,500 Sonoma'82.

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Farr 78.

Catalina .

Santana .

Angleman Sloop'57.

Aries '82 ..

Ericson 76 .

Nantucket Clipper 71 .

Islander Cutter 75 .

Westsail 79.

Yamaha .

Peterson'81 .

Chris Craft 72.

Ericson 70 .

Columbia '68.

Union Polaris 78.

Ericson 77 .

Cheoy Lee 76 .

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Alden Ketch '36.

Crealock'81 .

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Tayana 79 .

Olson '83.

Valiant 76.

Gauntlet Cutter '36.

Alden Schooner 79.

Bluenose Schooner'47.

Westsail 76.

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Omega 79.

Stephens Motor Yacht'31 . .

Columbia 72.

Custom Ketch'81 .

Herreshoff'82 .

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ERICSON sloop, ’75, 110%, 130%. Extra clean. $6,500 MOORE sloop, ’82, race ready w/trailer.

21,000 FOX sloop, ’79, G.Mull design, owner anxious!

11,000 US sip, ’82, Autohelm, spin/gear, full electr. Loaded! 14,000 HUNTER sloop, ’76, new Evinrude.

8,500 CATALINA sloop, ’75. Atomic 4.

16,500 CAL 3-27 sloop, ’83, dsl aux, full electronics, H/C pressure water, 110 AC, shower. Beautiful!

29,500 28’ ISLANDER sloop, ’76, Perry design, Volvo diesel.

28,000 30’ HUNTER sloop, ’83, dsl aux, h/c pres wtr, shower, electronics, wheel steering 31,500 30’ COLUMBIA sloop, ’72, lots of sails, with (2) spinnakers & gear plus much more!

22,500 30 ERICSON 30’+ sloop, ’82, ST winches, dsl aux., North sails, electronics. Absolutely immaculate!

49,500 32’ DREADNAUGHT cutter, ’78, windvane, dsl aux., set up for cruising.

52,500 33’ RANGER, sip, ’78, G.Mull dsgn, dsl, electronics 47,500 33’ PEARSON Vanguard sloop, ’66, race rig and loaded!

31,000 34’ NASSAU cutter, ’85, full keel, dbl-ender, dsl aux, electronics, propane stove, dodger.

Owner moving up . . . Try 63,500 35’ ERICSON sip, ’70, 140%, 150%, very clean! Make Offer!

36’ MARINER cutter, ’79, Wllm Garden, Isuzu diesel, dodger, many extras!

66,000 36’ ISLANDER sloop, ’79, Westerbeke dsl, Harken furling jib, ST winches, electronics, bottom just painted.

54,500 37’ TAYANA cutter, ’79, full electronics, battery charger, dsl heater, Perkins 4-108, brightwork just finished, set up for cruising or liveaboard. .

82,500 37’ TAYANA cutter, ’82, Yanmar diesel, teak house, tanbark sails, very traditional and well maintained.

86,000 37’ TAYANA MKII cutter, ’83, aft cabin, separate shower, Loran C, bat. chrgr, spray dodger. Owner anxious!

Reduced to sell!

82,500 48’ MARINER ketch, ’80, cntr ckpt, wonderful aft cabin, Perkins 4-236, a.p., + much more. Spacious! 139,000 52’ TAYANA cutter, ’84, Perry design, Loran C, a.p., SatNav, 7.5 kw, teak decks, central heat & vacuum, refrig, microwave. Too much to list!!

298,000 POWER 27’ CONCORDE Sportfisher w/flybridge, 1969. Try 17,500 35’ EAGLE trawler, aft cabin, 1977.

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Ericson, strong. .Try Columbia Mkll, must see!....

Folkboat, 1970.

Santana, Volvo dsl, much gear Catalina, outboard, must see!.

O’Day. (2) from Albin Cumulus. .Try Ranger, G.Mull design.

Pearson, 1978.. .Try Cstm racer, ‘Kiwi’.

Whitby, 1966./.. .Try Cutter rigged sip, 1947.

Islander, loaded!.

Ben ford cutter.

MacGregor cat, 1979.

Ericson, flush deck.

Fly’g Dutchman racer/cruiser.

Ericson, 1980.

Hans Christian..Try Westerly, Perry design.

Irwin, fast..Try Pearson, 1979.

Olson, ‘Fastbreak’.

Endeavour, 1980.

CT cruising ketch.

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COLUMBIA, 6 hp o/b, sturdy Bay boat for beginners. . .$4K HUNTER, o/b, custom interior, over equipped ,\..8K COLUMBIA, o/b, modern classic, several available. .9/1 IK ERICSON o/b, great weekender North or South Bay. 9/1 IK PEARSON,'o/b, owner offers lessons if needed.. 12.5/1 IK CATALINA inbd power, the most popular boat.. 14.9K COLUMBIA/CORONADO, inbd pwr, sleeps six. .. 15.5K up ISLANDER, inbd, one of a large and friendly class. . . 28.5K PEARSON, inbd, Porsche owners appreciate these. .31.5K COLUMBIA, inbd, gifted cruiser, 1 sailed to Sydney.26/27/31K 30ft HUNTER, inbd, looks like new, hot wtr shower.29K 32ft ARIES, modern update on famous classic.39/45K 32ft FUJI, inbd British type, Japanese crafted glass & wood45K 32ft COLUMBIA, the Commodore’s yacht, likes bluewtr. .39.5K 32ft COLUMBIA, same as above but fully race equipt (3). . .37K 34ft COLUMBIA, inbd, this will go to a liveaboard berth31 K firm 35ft COLUMBIA, big sister to the Sydney Cruiser.57.5K 35’ DUFOUR, builder said certified to circumnavigate. . . . .89K 36ft PEARSON, special cutter version of famous ketch.... 71K 39ft CUSTOM Italy, Portugal, Panama, and snglhand to S.F.85K 41ft COLUMBIA, limited edition, could be home and office.65K As a special service you may engage me to be your agent in the search and negotiations for a specific type of yacht. The seller pays the usual fees.

BUYERS: !f you’re looking for a boat & don’t see it here, or if you don't know which boat among the many alternatives will satisfy your sailing needs, then please call. My listings change constantly, & 1 may have some suggestions if you haven’t decided on a specific boat.

44’ LAFETTE ’80. Cutter rigged sloop. Extremely well-equipt and well rigged luxurious cruiser w/many custom features. 175,000.

44’ GULFSTAR ’74. Cntr ckpt aft cabin M/S; ideally suited for lvabrd/cruis w/ Perkins dsl, Onan gen., large fuel/water tanks; gd inventory. $85,000.

43’ ALDEN SCHOONER ’79. Well built, seaworthy, well equipt classic design of cold-molded mahogany. Back from world cruise & ready. 95,000.

40’ HINCKLEY. Burmuda 40 classic with recent refit. Inquire.

37’ TAYANA ’81. Very well equipped cruising cutter with Loran, autopilot, radar, refrigeration, shower, propane, dinghy, dodger and more. $87,000.

36’ LOD ATKIN ’77. Cold-molded junk-rigged cruising boat. $42,500.

33’ NOR’WEST. Strongly built, fast, Burns design with nice interior, diesel, wheel, Rover dinghy^and more. Ideal world cruiser. $49,950.

33’ PEARSON 323 ’77. Really nice w/brand new bottom & BARGAIN PRICE. 32’ VANGUARD ’65. Clean w/autopilot, VHF, cabin heater & more. $32,500.

31’ CHEOY LEE ’73. Clean sloop, good inventory & Volvo dsl. $34,900.

30’ ISLANDER ’68. Liveable custom interior, fridge, etc. S.F. berth. $19,000.

30’ RAWSON ’62. Strong cruiser, 7 sails & much recent work. $29,900.

30’ IRWIN CITATION ’80. Yanmar dsl., whl, HP water, dodger. $40,000.

30’ CORONADO ’72. Roomy with wheel, VHF, Palmer i.b., & spin. $24,000.

30’ CATALINA ’78. Loaded with gear, whl, dsl., etc. Inquire.

30’ NEWPORT ’79. Phase II with VHF, Loran, autopilot, knotmeter, wheel, dodger, pressure hot water, Volvo diesel, spinnaker and more. Inquire.

30’ SANTANA ’77. (2) of these racer/cruisers w/diesel & good gear. Inquire.

29’ CAL 2-29. Clean roomy Lapworth one-design. $29,900.

28’ BRITISH TWISTER ’69. Repowered, re-equipt pckt ocean cruiser. $29,000.

28’ ISLANDER ’76. (2) available. Both with recent LP & dsls. Inquire.

27’ VEGA ’73. Clean pocket cruiser w/dsl, dodger, cabin heater, etc. $22,000.

27’ CATALINA ’72. Rcomy with o.b. and 2 jibs. $14,000.

27’ SANTA’qRUZ ’75. Well equipped ultralight. Fast! $16,000.

26’ RANGER ’72. Super clean and nicely equipped. $15,500.

20-26 FIBERGLASS SLOOPS. I have a number of boats in this size range.

WOOD BOATS. Many sizes and many prices.

27’ CORONADO. Clean & roomy w/VHF, depth and more. $12,500.

23’ ERICSON ’69. Evinrude outboard. $68,500.

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SAUSALITO YACHT SALTS SELECTED BROKERAGE SAIL 47’ Gulfstar, ketch rig, lg aft cabin, beaut, teak interior, nice liveaboard .180,000 45’ Brewer, 1978, dsl, ctr ckpt ketch, teak int-110,000 44’ Cheoy Lee, 1980, aft cockpit ketch, spinnaker rigged .139,500 41’ Freeport, 1981, bristol cond., just hauled-115,000 41’ Gulfstar, 1974, Perkins dsl, lots of gear, ready to travel .74,500 40’ C&C, 1981,13 bags sails &2pages equip ... .110,000 38’ C.T. Princess, 1981, diesel, fast, great sail inventory great cond., a giveaway. Asking.67,000 38’ Hans Christian, 1979, Perkins dsl, new dodger, selftailing winches, well cared for inside & out. Asking 105,000 32’ Aires, Westerbeke dsl, 2 clean boats to choose from starting at.45,000 30’ Pearson, 1977, Atomic 4, showroom fresh... .29,500 30’ Fisher Motorsailer, 1975, diesel, furling jib, new paint, very clean...„.. 59,500 28’ Islander, Volvo dsl, self-tail winches, v. clean .31,500 27’ Orion, Pacific Sea Craft quality, full keel ....41,000 27’ Ericson, 1977, wheel steering, excep. cond... .25,000

POWER 65’ Romsdal Trawler, twGMC dsls, rec. refit ..$320,000 42’ Grand Banks, 1972, Ford dsls, gen., just hauled, owner anxious.

92,500 38’ Bayliner, twin diesels, 1984 sport cruiser, elegant, fast, economical.110,000 32’ Grand Banks, 1968, Ford dsl, generator, loaded with electronics, all new inside & out .59,500

BAY & HUMBOLDT STREETS, SAUSALITO

(415) 332-5000

The Aries 32 is a fiberglass version of a wooden classic. The traditional style round bottom, double ended hull is constructed of rugged, hand-laid fiberglass.

Standard equipment includes aluminum spars, lifelines, bow & stern pulpits, & sail covers. Stainless steel watertank. The interior is beautifully finished in teak. A Westerbeke 4 cylinder diesel furnishes a powerful “iron wind” when needed.

The Aries traditional deck & cabin layout reflects the combined experience of many demanding yachtsmen. With 34 Aries cruisers delivered on San Francisco Bay, there’s established a solid reputation for owner satisfaction & resale value. Let us show you why . . . Available for inspection at our dock. $52,500.

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42’ CHAPPELLE SCHOONER 1981 Fir on oak, varnished out, very classy.

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37’ RAFIKI. 79, dodger, Aries vane, dsl cabin heater, LaFiel mast, quality construction thruout. $79,000.00

33’ ALDEN. Sloop. Strip planked mahogany, Yanmar dsl, well maintained. $25,000.00

H-28 Original. New sails, dinghy, autopilot, vane, Sumlog, ready to cruise now. $21,000.00

38’ RHODES Sloop. Over 80K invested, now asking only $28,000.00.

Owner desperate!

23’ BEAR BOAT. Maintained in excellent condition. Proven Mexican cruiser. Asking $10,000.00 /

43’ GARDEN Design. Teak planked, in excellent condition. Ready to cruise. $115,000.00

42’ WINTHROP WARNER M/S by Paul Luke. Salmon tags/gear. Cat dsl — great tax advantages. Offers.

39’ KOALA. 74, custom Italian sloop with Swan lines. Teak decks, $75,000.00 or offers.

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C & C 40 Tall rig, deep keel ... a full up competition equipped C & C. Has the right gear installed by a knowledgeable racing skipper.

She is loaded and has had excellent maintenance. $120,000.

32’ELITE A tri-cabin delight from the board of Philippe Harle. Pure speed and quick responsive handling are combined nicely in this French built yacht. Seller is ready to take his lumps at $55,000 A must see!

DISTINCTIVE NEW & PRE-OWNED CRUISING YACHTS GREAT STARTER — CRUISING BOATS — IB/OB ★ 17’ LEISURE Twin keels, new sails.$ 3,500 ★ 20’ NEWPORT 6 sails, SNG handled, LPU top’s-now 3,500 ★ 20’ CAL Good starter, all led aft, active class.

3,750 ★ 21’VICTORY w/trailer, good starter.

2,500 ★ 22’ CHRYSLER SK. 8,000 ★ 22’ SANTANA Lg active 1 dsn.2 from 5,500 ★ 22’MacGREGOR Trl., VHF. 6,000 ★ 22’ CATALINA Sk, 3 sails, trl.2 from 4,500 ★ 23’ CORONADO Fixed keel, v/good sails, o/b.

5,000 ★ 23’ ERICSON New o/b, trailerable, swingkeel.

6,500 23’ ERICSON Fixed keel, electrosan, very clean.

9,950 ★ 24’J24 Class sails, spinnaker gear, priced right.

10,500 ★ 24’ WINDWARD SLOOP Full keel, good sailer, classic 7,400 24’ YANKEE DOLPHIN 7 sails, very clean.3 from 12,500 ★ 25’CORONADO Roomy starter.

5,600 ★ 25’ O’DAY Sk, trailerable, gd. equip.

12,900 ★ 25’ HUNTER 7 sails, spin, new o/b.

9,000 ★ 25’ NORTHSTAR 500 'At', lots of sails.

12,000 ★ 26’PEARSON Ariel.

11,900 26’ CHRYLSER Sk, trl.

12,950 ★ 26’ DAWSON CC, dsl, wheel.

18,000 ★ 26’ ISLANDER Sun cover, 4 sails, Bristol Condition . .

23,500 ★ 26’ CONTESSA fk, auto pilot, bit. to Lloyds specs. . . .

15,750 ★ 26’COLUMBIA MK II “The Perfect 26”.3 from 10,000 26’INT FOLKBOAT Classic Scandinavian Design ....

15,500 ★ 26’ EXCALIBUR nice, spin, pop top, km, VHF .... NOW 9,500 ★ 26’ PEARSON Clean, 3 sails.3 from 11,500 ★ 27’BUCCANEER OB, Roomy family boat.

12,500 ★ 27’ ISLANDER Recent survey, nice condition.

10,000 ★ 27' CAL 2-27 Big 1 dsn class, nice., .

23,900 ★ 27’ CATALINA 1 with inboard..2 from.

13,500 ★ 27’ ERICSON.3 from 17,500 27’MORGAN BMW diesel, 5 sails w/spinn.

20,250 ★ 27’ NEWPORT Fresh water, good gear.2 from 18,000 ★ 27’O’DAY Dsl. good family boat.

16,000 ★ 27’ CORONADO Needs a nice home.2 from 10,000 28’ COLUMBIA O/B, Spnk, dodger.

15,000 ★ 29’ GULF Pilothouse, dsl, st.2 from 28,500 29’ CAL 4 sails, CNG, Lines aft, I/B. 30,000 29’ COLUMBIA I/B, 7 sails w/2 spinn.2 from 18,000 ★ 30’LANCER Dodger, wheel, wp/ws.

30,500 ★ 30’ CATALINA Light & modern, dsl.

38,000 30’ ISLANDER MK II Dsl., SP, stereo.

34,500 ★ 30’ SEIDELMANN dsl, tiller, dodger.

33,900 ★ 30’ RAWSON Lots of room/w dsls.2 from 27,500 LIVEABOARD EXPERIENCED OFF-SHORE CRUISERS

PEARSON 30 Exceptionally clean 1976 version with dodger, autopilot, great instrumentation. Quick and responsive — a very enjoyable boat. $32,500

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32’ WESTSAIL Teak int, late model, excellant. $62,500 ★ 33’ FREEDOM Cat Ketch, easy to sail.

84,000 ★ 35’ FANTASIA Cruise equip, cc.

67,500 ★ 36’GULFSTAR CC Refer, gd liveaboard.

65,000 37’ TAYANA AP, dsl heater, reefer.

87,500 38’ DOWNEAST CUTTER Auto pilot, WP, WS 2 fr. 67,500 ★ 38’ CABO RICO Ctr. dsl, CNG, reefer.

89,500 ★ 39’ CAL CORINTHIAN Rod Rig., Dsl heater.

80,000 ★ 39’ LANCER m/s Roomy, great liveaboard. 105,000 40’ NEWPORTER KETCH Wood, Lot’s elec. & sails . .

79,500 41 ’ YANKEE CLIPPER Restored, below mkt.

49,500 ★ 41’ CHEOY LEE Radar, Auto Helm, Loran, Generator 99,500 42’ PEARSON 424 Roller furl, st winches. 119,500 44’ HARDIN KETCH A&C cab, passage maker. 129,000 45’COLUMBIA Loaded, canvas, liveaboard. 110,000 ★ 47’ KAUFMAN & LADD Twin aft. cab, cutter.149,000 47’ PERRY KETCH 80 hp dsl, aft cbn, reefer. 100,000 48’ CT PERRY KETCH Full keel, loaded. 175,000 ★ 50’ GULFSTAR So. Pacific Vet., loaded, like new .... 149,000

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15^000 30’ BRISTOL 29-9 FK, I/B, Autopilot.

23,900 30’ BRISTOL 29.9 Dsl., full instr., comfortable sailr 44,000 ★ 32’ BRISTOL Full keel, Hood dsn, roller furl ....

37,500 ★ 35’BRISTOL 35 5 Dsl., gd. inst., rugged cruiser 2 fr 70,000 ★ 45’ BRISTOL 45 5 Like new, Outstanding quality 205,000 CLASSIC CRUISERS ★ 23’BEAR BOAT Full interior, clean. $ 8,000 ★ 25’ NORDIC FOLKBOAT Full cover, new sails.

9,500 ★ 26’ NORDIC M/S FK Inside steering, Dsl. 25,000 28’TRITON LPU Topsides, new rigging.

17,500 ★ 30’ CHOEY LEE KETCH Diesel, shore power, teak . . .

19,500 ★ 30’ McGREGOR Wd, inb Automic 4 .

25 000 31’ CHOEY LEE KETCH Dsl, Roller furl ... ^ 3(y000 31’ DASHER Easom built, L-32, new rig, clean.

20^000 ★ 33’WINDWARD Almost restored.

18,000 36‘ ANGLEMAN KETCH dsl., wd., pac, vet., ready to gd 36,000 40’ PACIFIC YAWL European Quantity, BMW dsl . . . '.

74,500 41’FORMOSA KETCH Just reconditioned.

49,950 ★ 43’KETTENBURG Aluminum hull, beautiful.

79,000 45’ CUSTOM NZ KETCH Center cockpit, extensive gear 90,000 ★ 46’ GARDEN KETCH Loaded, 6 sails, ksl.

98,500 55’ALDEN C/B YAWL B&G inst., cruise equip. 120 000 ★ 60’ GAFF RIGGED CUTTER APPT. ONLY. 175^000 65’ ALDEN KETCH Loaded.

95,000 EXHILARATING HIGH PERFORMANCE — RACE READY ★ 27’CONTEST Custom Zaal dsn, racer/cruiser. $ 19,750 27’ SANTA CRUZ Trl, 11 bags, new standing & running 16,500 29’BUCCANEER 295 Spin gear, 4 sails local loft 2 frm.

27,500 ★ 30’ CAL 2-30 Dsl, full race, lines lead aft.

25,000 30’ PEARSON FLYER BMW dsl, Spin gear, st ....... .

38,500 ★ 30’ J 30 Very clean, lots of sails, ready to go.

41,500 ★ 30’WYLIE CUSTOM Cold mold, %T, HulseRig. 35,000 ★ 30’ OLSON 8 sails, fast and light.

27,500 ★ 34’ DASH Fast Davidson dsn., 8 sails, Loran.

38,500 34’ WYLIE Class sails, good electronics.2 from 56,500 35’ SANTANA Class equipped . . <.2 from 58,000 36’ PETERSON Dsl, 19 bags, B&G inst., sleeps 8 .

69,500 MOVING UP — COASTAL CRUISERS ★ 27’NORSEA CC Aft cabin, dsl.2 from $37,500 27’ CHOEY LEE OS Dsl, Spinnaker.

27,000 29’CASCADE Dsl., custom finish.

27,500 ★ 29’ GULF COAST 6’ + headroom, DS, VHF, Roller Furl 21,000 30’ BODEGA Burns dsgn.

27,500 ★ 30’ PEARSON Autopilot, dodger, clean . . . NOW 2 from 26,800 ★ 30’ISLANDER BAHAMA Wheel, Signet, 2 from. 41,500 30’ ERICSON Well equipped, 3 sails, inb.

27,000 ★ 30’ WILLARD 8 ton f/k, cutter, wheel, dsl.

55,000 ★ 30’TARTAN Nice cond., owner anxious.

27,000 ★ 31’ PEARSON DS, WP, Spinn, will trade dn.

42,000 ★ 31’ COLUMBIA 9.6 dsl, 4 sails, heater.

36,000 ★ 32’ ELITE Roll furl, H&C pressure water.

55,000 32’MARIEHOLM FOLK/BOAT Dodger.

41,000 ★ 32’ERICSON Inboard, well kept. 31,000 33’ KALIK New BP, teak decks, Swan Qualt.OFFER 36’ ISLANDER Full spin gear, avon.

47,500 C & C’s GALORE — RACE OR CRUISE C&C 30 Vi ton^ custom, 12 sails.$ 33,000 C&C 34 4 Sails, dsl, wheel.

59,500 C & C 35 MKII Lots of gear. 64,500 C & C 36 Custom rig, loaded, Loran C. 89,500 ★ C & C 36 Dodger, Loran, all canvas.

79,950 ★ C & C 38 Full hydraulics, Loran C, New LPU ....

79,500 ★ C& C 40’ As new, spinn., good elect, full race . . . 120,000

TARTAN 30 S&S design. Inboard Gas engine. Has recent surveys. Needs some work. Seller has had it! Will sell “as is” $22,000

32’ WESTSAIL If you think you have seen all the Westsails, think again! This beauty sports a quarter berth with a “sit-down” chart table.

One of the last factory finished boats worth seeing. $62,500

DEALERS FO»R BRISTOL YACHTS

BROKERAGE is our

BUSINESS We have 85 + boats from 17* to 60* at our location for your inspection.

Why suffer the NEW BOAT DEPRECIATION BLUES when you can invest small dollars and receive large values when purchasing a pre-owned yacht.

ED MILANO — BROKER JACK MEAGHER — SALES MIKE CLAUSEN — SALES

1535 BUENA VISTA AVE.* ALAMEDA

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BROKERAGE — ’84 Freedom Wilderness (2) ’83 J/Boat Santana (2) 74 Ericson '81 Sprinta Sport, 76 Farr '68 Gladiator J/Boat (4) ’80 Moore ’85 Olson 74 American '80 Merit 77 Chrysler 70 Columbia

14,900 frm $7,500 12,000 frm 6,500 7,900 14,500 12,000 5,000 frm 12,000 12,000 24,900 9,000 21,950 Offers 10,500

2415 Mariner Square Dr., Alameda, California 94501 (415)523-8500 v

Attention wood lovers! 1984 Custom design cold-molded (cedar) beauty.

U.LDB performance (PHRF 102) with stunnin’g interior accomodations for

six 26’ 26’ 26’ 27’ 27’ 29’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 32’ 32’

Excallbur Pearson San Juan Cal 2-27 J/Boat Ranger Sunwind Benford Bodega Lancer Santana Tartan Angleman Ericson

7,950 15,500 21,000 24,950 29,500 24,900 34,900 45,000 27,500 30,000 41,000 57,500 25,000 32,000

Pearson 323 Wylie Coronado Ericson Hunter Islander hoi!

Islander J/Boat Perry Union Crealock Irwin Ranger S&S Downeast Dubois

79 ’80 71 70 ’80 75 78 (2) 78 ’81 ’82 '82 73 '80 76 79

50,000 59,000 43,500 38,000 58,500 Offers 64,500 from 78,250 73,000 87,000 120,000 79,500 Offers 75,000 67,000 98,000

Has everything one could possibly want as a cozy one couple liveaboard or sturdy .coastal cruiser. P.H. design offers 2nd helm station for protection/safety. Owner moving to J/40.

SACRIFICE: $75,550

$48,000. ’66 76 79 76 ’84 73 '82 78 77 78 79 ’82 ’57 74

32’ 34’ 35’ 35’ 36’ 36' 36’ 36’ 36’ 36' 37' 37’ 37' 37’ 38' 40’

Olson from 109,500 (2) Morgan 78 125,000 Cal 2-46 73 128,500 Santa Cruz ’81 170,000 Alden ’26 100,000 Gaff rigged cttr ’11 175,000 BROKERAGE - POWER Wellcraft Offers Mainship 79 53,000 T rojan ’68 39,900 Comm, fish '40 25,000 Hatteras 77 150,000 MMC Trawler ’84 115,000 Express cruiser ’66 68,500 Chris Craft ’54 95,000

FOR SAIL? 30’-36’ range Do you own a sailboat in the 30’-36’ range?

Are you looking for another boat, but unsure of what to do with your present boat? Is it time to trade up OR down? If “yes”, come down to our new location and let an experienced broker help you get the most return on your investment.

A service for smart boat buyers.

If you’re looking for real value, REPO HOTLINE may have the key Just for you.

We represent major banks and lenders, helping them sell repossessed boats and aircraft, often at substantial savings.

You may make offers with a 10% deposit, held uncashed until the lender informs us whether your offer has been accepted, usually within 24 hours. All offers are given to the lender. When accepted, your deposit is placed in our trust account. T.he balance is due within 15 days.

Size Manufacturer 16' CHRIS CRAFT 18' MARLIN 19’ CHRIS CRAFT 19' CENTURION 20' INVADER 21' GALAXIE 22' CENTURY 25' WELLCRAFT 26’ SLEEKCRAFT 35' HUNTER 36' VEGA 52’ GOLDCOAST SAILBOATS 25' SANTANA 26' S-2 28' DUFOUR 30' CATALINA 32’ ERICSON 33' HUNTER 36' COLUMBIA 38’ HOOD 48’ MAPLELEAF 78' CUSTOM PIRATE PENDING 53' CHEOYLEE

Yr '85 79 '85 '85 '84 '83 '79 78 '84 '64 62 79

Type run ski run run cru cru cru cru cru sedan trwl cru

Power i/o o/b i/o i/o i/o i/o I/O t/g i/o t/g i/d t/d

'80 78 '84 , '77

sloop sloop sloop sloop

no i/d i/d i/d

74 '80 '69 '82 72 '33

sloop sloop sloop sloop sloop brig

'83

ketch

Trailer yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no no no

Const. fiber fiber fiber fiber fiber fiber fiber fiber fiber wood fiber fiber

Cond excl good excl excl good excl good good excl poor good fair

Extras avg avg avg avg avg loaded avg avg avg bare avg avg

Location Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda

Value 10.000 6.000 18.000 15.000 15,000 10.000 12.000 13,000 22.000 5.000 60,000 157,000

no no no no

fiber fiber fiber fiber

good good excl good

avg avg avg avg

Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda

13,500 22,000 40,000 32,000

•/g i/d i/d i/d i/d i/d

no no no no no no

fiber fiber fiber fiber fiber wood

fair good good new fair fair

avg avg avg avg avg avg

Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Alameda Oakland

32,000 41,000 40,000 109,000 150,000

i/d

no

fiber

excl

loaded

Alameda

6,500 6,000 5,000 3,000 75,000 6,000 21.000 24,000 16,000 26,500 18,000 79,500 37,000

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25' YAMAHA

26'ARIEL by PEARSON 13 000 26'PEARSON COMMANDOR 12,500 26'INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT 15,500 26' COLUMBIA 3 from 10.000 26’ EXCALIBUR 13 900 26'RANGER 12.000 27'CAL 2-27 2 from 22,500 27'SANTA CRUZ 13,500 27' MULL CUSTOM 2 from 9,900 27' NEWPORT 27 S-ll 16,600 27'CATALINA 3 from 17,000 28' HALBERG Sloop 7,990 28' ATKINS ENSENADA (F/G) 29,900 28'MAIR 7/8th SLP 24,500 28'ISLANDER 5 from 25,000 28'TRITON 17,500 29' BRISTOL 45,000 29'CAL Best Offer/25,000 29' RANGER 22,500 29 SUNWIND RACER/CRUISER 34,900 30' ERICSON 25,000 30'BIRD CLASS 2 from 4,750 30' NONSUCH 69,500 30'COLUMBIA 2 from 23,000 30' ISLANDER MK II 4 from 29,500 30'RAWSON .* 29,800 30'TARTAN 2 from 24,000 30' ERICSON 49,950 30' FISHER M/S 59,500 30' NEWPORT PH II 3 frm 28,000 30' ALBERG 32,000 30'HUNTER 34,900 30'CHEOY LEE 19,900 30' SANTANA 36,900 30' CATALINA Trade/35,000 30' US 33,500 3V CHEOY LEE 34,900 32' CENTURION 49,500 32 WESTSAIL Cttr ' 59,900 32'ISLANDER MKI 38,000 32' VALIANT 58,000 32' MULL (COLD MOLD) 27,500 32' BENETEAU..40,000 33'TARTAN 10 2 from 24,900 33’APHRODITE 34,900 33' COLUMBIA 5.5.10,000 33'WYLIE 65,000 33'INTERNATIONAL ONE-DSGN 24.000 34' WYLIE 59,000 34' CAL 35,000 35' CORONADO 44,000 35'SANTANA 2 from 49,900 35' C&C 41,800 35' ERICSON 2 from 38,000 35' ERICSON 44,000 35' CUTTER 75,000 36' CHEOY LEE LUDERS 55,000 36'ISLANDER FREEPORT 2 frm 89,000 36'ISLANDER 2 from 49,995 36'MARINER POLARIS Cutter 74,500 36'RAVAGE 52,500 36'ERICSON 2 from 79,900 37 CREALOCK 2 from 120,000 37'ISLAND TRADER 63,000 37'RANGER 53,000 38'BALTIC 157,000 38 FARALLONE CLIPPER 45,000 38' MORGAN 88,000 38'ERICSON Offers/112,500 39' FREYA 120,000 39'ROGERS‘SALT SHAKER' 99,500 39'LANDFALL Culler 79,000 39' LANCER 105,000 40' YAWL 59,000 40'ONE-TONNER FEVER' 85,000 40'PEARSON 105,000 40'OLSON ,109,500 40' KETTENBURG Sip B.0,/29,900 4V NEWPORT 70,000 41' COOPER 416 127,500 41'CT AUX Ketch 68,500 41'ISLANDER FREEPORT 2 from 85,000 41 MORGAN OUT ISLAND 2 frm 79,950 41'PETERSON RACE Sloop 118,000 41' GULFSTAR 75,000 42' DUBOIS 99,500 42’PEARSON 424 119,500 42' STEWART 89,000 43'GULFSTAR 98,000 44'BOUNTY Ketch 129,000 44'SWAN 441 2 from 185.000 44' PETERSON 135,000 44’ LAFITTE 175,000 44'ALDEN Kch Trades/Offers/45,000 44’ CHEOY LEE. 162,500 45’VAN DER 59,500 45' OMEGA .107,000 45' MORGAN 140,000 46' FISHER MOTORSAILER 245,000 46' MOTORSAILER 160,000 47'VAGABOND Ketch 125,000 47’SWAN, 1982 230,000 49' CUTTER 58,500 50'GULFSTAR 2 from 149,500 50’SANTA CRUZ 175.000 51'ISLAND TRADER Offers/145.000 59' PILOTHOUSE Ketch 295,000 64'HUNTINGFORD Ketch 215,000 65’ SWAN 651 795,000

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VALIANT 32. Bob Perry design, dodger, furling system, cruising spinnaker, very strong and proven offshore cruiser. Priced below market at $58,000.

ETERSON 25. Custom flush deck ersion, functional interior ideal for ffshore sailing and singlehandig. Extensive sail inventory. Askig $15,000.

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LAFITTE 44. Immaculate condition, Navtec hydraulics, B&G instruments, radar, microwave, central . heating, autopilot, the list goes on & on! A must see. Asking $175,000.

p*gtg| SANTANA 35. Absolutely the best on the Bay! National Champion.

Loaded with sails and electronics.

Many custom features. Huge price slash to $49,900 can’t be beat!

CHEOY LEE 31. 1973 sloop. Superbly maintained, veteran of Mexico cruise, diesel, CNG, wheel, full boat cover and much more. Ready to go again. Only $34,900.

Seller has anxious

SWAN 441. Ron I superb condition, B&G instruments, tory. Very low price

RANGER 29. Inboard, full sail inventory including spinnaker, full safety gear. Seller will consider small power or sail boat in trade.

Make offer.

Dealers For: Moore, Laser 28, Nordic and Sceptre 41 j

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