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Beneteau is truly a world class yacht that can be found in the rugged world of the charter trade, at the most prestigious yacht clubs or in the winners circle at any racing event. Construction excellence coupled with proven designs from world premiere yacht designers like German Frers give all Beneteau sailboats easy handling characteristics and fun for your entire family.

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Alberg 30, Classic 28,000 Cape Dory, 1982 49,900 Mariner Ketch, 34,900 Traveller 43,950 Vanguard Offers 37,000 Allied, Ketch 64,900

36’ Pearson Cutter, Liveaboard 37’ Crealock, 37’ Flying Dutchman *37’ Gulfstar, loaded *37’ Islander, Great Cruiser *38’Ericson, 1982 38’Beneteau, Twin Aft Cabins 38’ Farallone Clipper, Restored 38’ Cabo Rico 39’ Lancer Motor Sailer 40’ Passport, Excellent buy 40’ Passport, 1985 Radar *40’ Lidgard, Performance *41’ Newport S, C&C Design *41’ Whitby Caribe 41’ Bounty, Bristol, Loaded 41’ Perry, Superbly Maint.

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* Come to Brickyard Cove to see these boats

Passport 40. Excellent value for this very popular Cruiser/ Liveaboard only $119,500. Sistership.

1972 Mariner 32 Ketch. A very attractive traditional style cruiser. Powerful Perkins 4-107 Diesel. $34,900.

1978 Pearson 323. Wheel steering. Hot &. cold water with shower. Quality by Pearson. Sistership. $39,500.

1982 Cape Dory 30. The discriminating yachtsman will appreciate the combination of Cape Dory quality and Carl Alberg’s graceful, timeless lines. The cutter rig, diesel engine, and wheel steering makes for an outstanding cruising yacht.

Originally a dealer demo. $49,900.

Ericson 27. This popular One-Design features a hard to find combination of diesel engine and wheel steering. Desirable additions include dodger, new sails by Kolius, and cold plate refrigeration. Very clean and inviting. $23,500.

1982 Ericson 38. This stylish.performance cruiser featuring auto-pilot, hood furling, S/ winches, and lines led aft is easily handled by two. Very comfortable interior with aft cabin and separate shower. $99,000. Sistership.

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Passages News from the World of Passport, Beneteau and Passage Yachts

Why the Passport 40 is the most popular 40' boat on the West Coast. subscriptions calendar letters loose lips sightings Q-cup: oil right! new for '87 Caribbean primer crew list on top of down under future of racing les harlander winners max ebb the racing sheet changes in latitudes classy classifieds advertiser's index brokerage

COVER PHOTO: LATITUDE 38/RICHARD Harding Rock Gonging in the New Year Graphic Design: K. Bengtsson Copyright 1986 Latitude 38 Publishing Co., Inc.

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ver 140 Passport 40’s have been built in its’ short history. The 40 has made its’ mark in the O.S.T. A.R. Has cruised the Caribbean and South Pacific and has become a comfortable liveaboard home for many.

The modem underbody gives stable fast sailing that is the delight of every sailor and the shorthanded crew. The deck layout makes her easy to handle. Superior craftsmanship in a performance cruiser at a very competitive price, that’s Passport Yachts.

Sizes range from 37’ to 51’.

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385 Pearson, ’84 . Reduced 125,000 38’ Cabo Rico, ’79.try 70,000 39’ Cal.5 frm 79,500 39’ Ericson, 1971 . 55,000 39’ Cal, tri cabin, 1980 . 89,500 40’ Mariner, ’70 .

68,800 40’ Pearson, 1979 . 84,950 40’ Endeavour, 1981 . 125,000 41’ Cooper, ’81 . 118,000 41’ Islander Freeport, '75 ... Offers 43’ Spencer 1330, 1979 .... 149,500 44’ Peterson . 120,000 49’ Transpac, 1982 . 220,000 50’ Trimaran . 235,000 POWERBOATS 22’ Cruiser, ’82, w/trlr. 18,500 24’ Caravelle . 15,000 245 Sea Ray, 1981 . 29,950 25’ Bayliner, 1985 . 29,500 25’ Bonum, diesel. 29,950 26’ Nordic Tug. 59,750 26’ Tolly, 1977 . 34,950 28’ Fiberform, 1977 . 29,500 30’ Sundowner, 1985 . 57,500 30’ Tolly, ’79 reduced. 49,950 34’ Tolly, 1985, tri cabin .. 109,500 35’ Viking, 1979 . 99,500 35’ Chris, 1977 . 59,500 40’ Egg Harbor, 1983 . 175,000 40’ Tolly, 1979 . 110,000 41’ Luhrs, 1974 . 89,000 41’ PT, diesel. 119,000 43’ Gulfstar, 1977 . 149,950 43’ DeFever, 1980 . 149,500 43’ Viking, 1979 . 210,000 44’ Gulfstar.2 frm 159,000 44’ Marine Trader, 1977 ... 122,500 58’ Hatteras, 1973 . 395,000

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The Fair Weather Mariner 39 is ... “the right boat at the right time.”

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Fair Weather Mariner 39 In a class by herself, at the dock or under sail, Robert Perry and Fair Weather Marine have teamed up to produce a winner! We have been saying this all along and people are beginning to notice: “The Fair Weather Mariner 39 is an extraordinarily handsome sloop or cutter that will make an ideal cruiser for two couples or a family.

“The deck is distinctive in that forward it is quite low, then stepped over the saloon with forward-facing windows. If you’ve never sailed on a boat with the ability to see forward from below, you don’t know what you’ve been missing. Especially at anchor at night, it is comforting to be able to view the surrounding area a full 360 degrees without going on deck ...

“Below, the Taiwan craftsmen have done a very nice job with the joiner work. Teak and modern, light materials are judiciously combined for an attractive, airy feel.

“Under sail she is well balanced, possesses a seakindly motion and tracks nicely. With the large cruising fin keel and skeg-mounted rudder, there is good protec-

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“The Fair Weather Mariner 39 is. .. the right boat at the right time. ” “Cruising World” December 1986 What is the price of a fine yacht of this caliber? An unbelieveable $114,000! That’s it! No hidden charges! No delivery charges! No dealer prep costs! All these costs are in our special “sailaway bonus package” which, for a limited time, will be included in the price at no charge.

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Continuing the quality craftsmanship of Stone Shipwrights.

Stone Boat Yard has new owners with new attitudes.

We offer quality craftsmanship and a facility that can handle the unusual jobs.

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We can accomodate boats up to 29.5-

Full machine shop Welding of all materials Sandblasting Carpentry

beam, 14-ft draft and 150-ft in length.

Call to reserve your next haulout dates.

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NOW — MORE QUIET THAN EVER! You bet! The Mariner line of compact diesel generators are small in size, big, on performance, easy on your ears, and light on your pocket book'! Ideal, for cruising sailboats where finding mounting space is often a problem. Simple installation. Sound shield included. Compare to any other diesel generator available today. Ask for Mariner, 4KW & 6KW the new standard in marine generators from: MARINE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Richmond, Virginia

For name of nearest dealer, contact: B. H. BALLARD COMPANY, INC. 200 Gate 5 Road. Sausalito, CA 94965 (415) 332-0105

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Whiting Yachts . the definitive tide book for San Francisco Bay! • ACCURATE • VISUAL

• ATTRACTIVE • BUILT TO LAST

Tidelog graphically shows tides, currents, sun & moon for each day of 1987. Includes the full set of NOAA current charts for S.F. Bay. A handsome, rugged logbook for recording your aquatic experiences.

Correction factors north to Mendocino, south to Monterey, inland to Sacramento. Adjusted for Daylight Saving Time, of course.

Available at enlightened marine suppliers & bookstores, or send $11.60 to Pacific Publishers, Box 272, Tiburon CA 94920. Phone (415) 868-2909 to charge to credit card. We also offer free personalizing!

Tidelog is also available for Puget Sound (Seattle).

MOVING SALE at outrageously LOW PRICES TREMENDOUS INVENTORY MUST BE LIQUIDATED, CALL FOR REDUCED RATE QUOTE OR INVENTORY LIST AUTOHELM AUTOPILOTS 5000 5000 5000 5000 3000 2000 1000

Rotary drive.SI025.

Linear drive.$1155.

Hydraulic heavy duty.. .$1475.

Linear heavy duty.$1475.

External wheel.$575.

Large tiller boats.$575.

Tiller boats to 30 ft.$329.

SHARP SEAPILOT mech. . . .$1250.

Mechanical heavy duty.$1525.

Used, several models... .from $600.

BINOCULARS

DISTANCE LOGS/KNOTMETERS

SHORT WAVE RECEIVER

by G.E.

SR MARINER KT 5-A, electr.. . .$95.

WASP S-10, mech. speed & dist.$89.

WALKER KOD economy pak. .$145.

10-BAND, slide rule dial.$66.

MONITOR, digital dial.$159.

LORAN C

SINGLE SIDEBAND TRANSCEIVER

PAL 99 waypoints, portable.. .$465.

KING 8000-01, big display.. . .$579.

MICROLOGIC EXPLORER, “new”.$682.

MICROLOGIC 8000, the “best”$999.

SMR SEALAB, 11 channels, 65 watt.$435.

ICOM M-700 marin-ham.$1399.

ALARM MODULE for M-700. . .$195.

NAVIGATION CALCULATORS

FUJINON MTRC w/compass. .$245.

FUJINON MTR-SX, 7x50.$305.

FUJINON MTRC-SWX with compass.$345.

STEINER 7x50 #176 rubber coated individual focus.$175.

STEINER 8x30P #181, most popular high power compact used for long distance and low light conditions.$119.

T-100 16 mi. raster scan.$1699.

T-100 w/alarm or Loran displ..$1795.

MAST BRACKET for above.. . .$115.

COMPASSES, Hand Bearing

RADIO DIRECTION FINDER

MINI compass.from $65.

PLASTIMO prism compass.. . .$65.

SESTREL small, prism.$59.

SESTREL large, prism.$180.

NASA radiofix w/compass.$79.

LOKATA 7, digital dial.$269.

CHRONOMETERS, Bulkhead Mount black dial quartz w/sweep second hand, silver color “o” ring sealed case, made by TAMAYA.$130.

Matching precision BAROMETER.$149.

DEPTHSOUNDERS SITEX flasher SH-1, to 120 ft.. .$85.

SR MARINER DDM-1, digital bulkhead mount, 2 ranges to 50 fath.$179.

TAMAYA NC-88, extremely easy to use prompting system, w/printer, in wooden box.$435.

RADAR by SITEX

REFRIGERATION

by ADLERBARBOUR

SOLAR PANELS by ARCO GENISIS 0.35 amp.$80.

M65, 42 watts.$349.

STEREO by CYBERNET Model 3000.$275.

SPEAKERS, all at huge discounts

VHF RADIOS RAY JEFFERSON 879.$174.

SEABOY handheld.$185.

KING 7000.$255.

ICOM M80.$475.

WARNING DEVICES TAMAYA radar check.$99.

COMBI Watchman radar det.. .$245.

WEATHER INSTRUMENTS

SAILCOMP PC 103, head-lift. .$695.

TAMAYA precision barometer.$149.

Barometer log, chart paper.$8.

Barometer log, 2-week erasable plotting board.$8.

GUARDIAN 1000 weather charter recorder, w/printer.$750.

GUARDIAN 2000 advanced model with RTTY decoder.$1200.

SEXTANTS

WIND VANE STEERERS

EBBCO Micrometer drum.$55.

FREIBERGER yacht 2.4xscope$299.

FREIBERGER drum 4xscope. .$350.

TAMAYA Venus.$435.

TAMAYA Jupiter.$555.

TAMAYA Spica, the “best”.... $640.

NAVIK, for tiller boats.$699.

ATOMS std., servo pendulum$1185.

ATOMS large model.$1250.

LEVANTER aux. rudder 350. .$1185.

LEVANTER 450, up to 52-ft. . . $1350.

SIRIUS servo pendulum.$1095.

WHEEL DRUM for Aries.$125.

COLD-MACHINE, small horiz.$459.

SUPER cold-machine.$659.

WATERCOOLED option.$125.

SAILBOAT INSTRUMENTS

This is Just a small cross section of SALE ITEMS. Call for your needs.

Prices limited to inventory on hand and may change without notice.

Phone orders welcome. Credit cards accepted at small surcharge.

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LOOK AT WHAT WE’VE DONE TO MAKE SAILING EASIER: Hanking sails into the headstay, gathering them on deck and wrestling with the mainsail are very labor-intensive and really not much fun. That’s fine if you have the patience, space, food and beer for a crew to help you get under way and stay ship-shape.

If you don’t, here are three products available from every HOOD loft that will make your sailing easier.

HOOD STARCRUISER A 135% Genoa jib with full radial construction from

HOOD STOWAY BOOM Reefing and furling the mainsail have always been busy jobs for several people. Now, the HOOD STOWAY BOOM gives you the safety, security and comfort of being able to reef quickly and infinitely with just one crew member. No longer are you tempted to postpone reefing because it’s too much trouble. Furling is also quick, convenient and ship shape; the sailcover is an integral part of the STOWAY BOOM. HOOD has been known for over three decades as the most innovative name in sails and sailhandling equipment. Here are three worksaving products that make sailing easier, safer and more fun.

of exclusive HOOD-manufactured fabrics for the widest usable wind range.

HOOD SEAFURL Roll a reef into your Genoa with a HOOD SEAFURL, or with the simpler SEAFURL LD. Furling and reefing are both fast and easy, leading to safer and more hassle-free sailing.

You’ll enjoy and use your boat more if you can reef and furl easily with fewer crew members.

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It's made only in the U.S. and includes a full set of percale sheets, color-coordinated tote bag, and a fiveyear warranty on materials and workmanship.

Colors: rust, brown and navy. Sizes: single, double, queen, king and V-Berth.

Custom colors, shapes and sizes are also available.

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SELECTED 1 BROKERAGE I

See a sumptuous gathering of •«

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fishers,

trawlers,

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For nine days, Moscone Center

OWN A LEGEND. CAL 40: $52,500 2 yr old, custom mast & boom, running/standing rigging, Perkins 4-107 dsl, thru bolted anodized toe rail, Navtec hydraulics, propane stove, cabin heater, new Sobstad sails, dodger, new batteries, 85 gal water, km, fatho, log, wd/ws, VHF, a.p., much more. Great boat, great buy SPARKMAN & STEPHENS 40: $165,000 Loaded! Cutter rig w/Hood furling on jibtop & stays’l, mechanical refer/freezer/electric windlass, dodger, SSB, VHF, knotmeter, fatho, log, much more. Ready to blue water cruise today. $125,000

EXPRESS 37: TransPac outfitted and ready to race or cruise.

will be home port for all of these plus marine accessories, trailerable boats, inflatables, dinghies, and service exhibits. For a convenient

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SANTANA 35’s: 3 from A great value!

$49,950 SOVEREL 33: 1984, best outfitted, best maintained, George Olson built Soverel 33. 1986 PHRF champion. Complete Sobstad racing inventory, km, log, VHF, Harken rudder bearings, micron bottom — great buy!

OLSON 30: ’85 Nat’l $26,750 Champion, North sail inventory new in ’85, Signet 1000, (2) Plath compasses, (6) Barient winches, 23AST primaries, full boat cover, many upgrades & extras, great buy.

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CAL 29: 1969, refer, shorepwr, $22,750 rebuilt engine Feb ’85, Sitex Loran, knotlog, AWI, VHF, headfoil, new standing rigging, midboom traveller, great first boat.

NEWPORT 28: 1984, great family 24,950 cruiser, diesel, H&C, pedestal, electronics.

1985 One-design champion.

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Aquabon

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RETAIL $39.14

Magic Wadding Polish For Cleaning & Polishing all metals RETAIL 2.5 oz. $1.45 eacl)

2 for 1

RETAIL $7.98 ea.

Seapower

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RETAIL S8 98 each. 16 oz

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LANOCOTE Long term protection against rust.

RETAIL SALE 7 oz. spray $4.95 ea.

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$4.75 ea.

NITE OWL

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HEATWAVE: A powerful, instant space heater.

RETAIL $35.99

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polyetheylene gasoline containers.

RETAIL $1 6.30

780 COMMANDER YACHT CHAIR Frame & Cover Assorted Canvas Colors RETAIL $34.29

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12-GAUGE ALERT/LOCATE KIT 12 gauge launcher with bandolier 3 12 gauge meteor flares 3 hand held red flares Watertight, flotable cannister with storage space for extra signals Compliance Seal included

NEWMAR RAILFAST ROD HOLDER A quality stainless steel pole holder that mounts in virtually any position with the unique RailFast mount on any 1" or 7/8" rail.

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CALENDAR Nonrace January 1 — Annual yacht cruise around Alameda Island sponsored by the Metropolitan Yacht Club. Starting time is noon from Jack London Square. 521-6330.

January 3-11 — International Boat Show, Moscone Center. See what’s new in the industry. Sightings has more information or call 521- 2558.

January, 1709 — After being marooned for four years and four months, Alexander Selkirk is rescued from Juan Fernandez Island off Chile. Daniel Defoe would later use him as the inspiration and model for his novel Robinson Crusoe.

January 5 — Coastal Piloting (course #004) class begins at College of Alameda. See Sightings for more information or call 748-2255 or 522-7221.

January 6 — Coastal Piloting and Navigation course, Alameda Adult School, Rm. 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m. This 12-week advanced course is for boaters who have completed either the Coast Guard Auxiliary or Power Squadron safe boating courses. 522-3858.

January 6 — Celestial Navigation (course #003) course begins at College of Alameda. The teacher is Sam Crabtree. 748-2255 or 522- 7221.

January 6 — Solar Navigation Course begins at UC Davis. Macey Casebeer is the instructor for this class. For information call (916) 756-3152. To register, call Dottie Moore at (916) 752-3098 afternoons or (800) 752-0881 for VISA/Mastercard registration.

January 7 — Six-Pac License Preparation Course begins at UC Davis. Classes run from 6 to 9 for ten weeks. (916) 756-3152.

January 7 — Twelve-week boating skills and seamanship course begins at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital facility, Bldg. 75A, Oakland, 7 p.m. Course is free; small materials charge. James Lucas, 531-3518.

January 7 — Sailing and Seamanship course at Alameda Adult School. 13 weeks of basic boating skills with sailing theory included.

Room 3, 7:30-9:30. 522-3858.

January 8 — Coastal piloting theory workshop. January 15, use of compass, DR position, etc. Sausalito Cruising Club. 7-9 p.m. both nights. 332-6789.

January 9-18 — San Francisco Sports and Boat Show, Cow Palace. See Sightings for more information or call 931-2500.

January 13 — Blue water gourmet. Cooking tips from Bonnie Rollyson of Meals on Keels. $20. Sausalito Cruising Club.

332-6789.

January 13 — Boating Skills and Seamanship class, Coast Guard Island, Alameda, 7:30-9:30 p.m. T-Th for six weeks. Class free, small materials fee. Abigail Wagg, 531-4055.

January 16 to February 6 — Orange Coast College’s “Sailing Adventure Series”. This traditionally excellent series features lectures by four different blue water cruisers on various aspects of The Big Cruise. Guests and subjects are: 1/16-17 - Lin and Larry Pardey, “The Second Time Around - Is It Still Fun?”; 1/23-24 - Robert Driscoll family, “Blue Water Odyssey”; 1/30/31 - Steve and Sharon Ticehurst, “Adventurous Voyage on a Shoestring”; and 2/5-6 — Earl and Betty Hines, “Meandering Through Micronesia”.

For more information, call organizer Walt Gleckler at (213) 598-6001.

January 17 - Marine Diesel Seminar covering repair and maintenance. Adjust valves, time engine, bleed fuel system. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Pt. San Pablo Yacht Harbor. 233-3623.

January 17, 1773 — Captain James Cook becomes the first navigator to pass the Antarctic Circle.

January 17-18 - “All Hands On Deck Festival” at the Exploratorium, a weekend dedicated to the science of sailing and the page 29

Now renting 30'-50' berths South Beach Harbor has everything you’re looking for in a marina: convenient location on the San Francisco waterfront, protection from City front storms, direct access to deep water, and plenty of parking. It’s located one-hall mile south of the Bay Bridge, at Pier 40, just around the corner from prime racing and cruising destinations.

Occupancy has begun, but there are still some 30-tt to 50-ft berths available in this new fully-secured marina.

Send for an application today and you’ll be able to select your berth from among those remaining.

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CALENDAR technology of the America’s Cup. Includes lectures by 12-Meter designers Heiner Meldner and Gary Mull, films, artifacts, even model sailboat racing on the Palace of Fine Arts Lagoon. 563-7337.

January 22 — National Maritime Museum presents the film “To Win At All Costs”, the story of the America’s Cup. Introduction by Golden Gate Challenge Manager of Operations Bob Keefe. Maritime Museum, foot of Polk in San Francisco, 8 p.m. Anne Worster, 556-9875.

January 26, 1896 — Joshua Slocum leaves Buenos Aires on his historic solo circumnavigation, bound for the Horn.

January 20 — Fast course on celestial navigation. Good refresher course. 7-9 p.m. Sausalito Cruising Club. $20. 332-6789.

January 27 — Spring semester of Boat Maintenance and Repair; back of Bradley School, Corralitos, Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday, 9-3. Instructor Walt Thomas covers all aspects of hands-on boat building and maintenance. No entry fee. (408) 662-0122.

January 28, 1596 — Sir Frances Drake dies of yellow fever off Porto Bello, forever taking with him the secret of whether or not he rea//y stopped in Drake’s Bay. January 28 — “Coastal Navigation” course, Stockdale Marine and Navigation Center, Sacramento. 16 weeks of classes taught by Gale Stockdale. (916) 332-0775.

January 29 — SODA (Santana 22 One Design Assoc.) presents Dr. Heiner Meldner, co-designer of 12-Meter USA, and Greg Dorland of North Sails in a slide presentation on the design of USA and 12-Meter sail design. Berkeley YC, bar opens 7:30, lecture 8 p.m. Donations to Golden Gate Challenge/SODA requested.

Seating limited; first come, first sit. Mark, 278-9320 evenings.

January 29 — Celestial Navigation class, Stockdale Marine and Navigation Center, Sacramento. 16 weeks. Taught by Gale Stockdale. (916) 332-0775.

March 11-15 — Sacramento Boat Show at Cal Expo. Admission $4. (916) 482-8190.

Racing January 11 — Start of the third leg of the BOC. This 8,250-mile jaunt from Sydney to Rio de Janeiro is the longest leg of the four-part Singlehanded Round the World Race.

January 23 — WRA (Womens Racing Association) annual membership meeting, elections and trophy presentations, 7 p.m., Berkeley YC. Sue Gombassy, 865-0957.

January 24 — Three Bridge Fiasco. The only three marks on this Singlehanded Sailing Society race are the Golden Gate, the Bay Bridge and the Richmond/San Rafael span. Round them in any order and get home first to win! Peter Hogg 332-5073.

February 7 — Marina Del Rey to Puerto Vallarta Race. For IOR or PHRF boats. Put up the chute and go! Del Rey YC, (213) 823-4664.

February 19 — MEXORC (Mexican Ocean Racing Series) begins. Contact the Mexican Sailing Federation, 227 Colton St., Newport Beach, CA 92663.

January 31 - First race of the Encinal YC Jack Frost Series.

Subsequent races on 2/21, 3/7, 3/21, 4/4. Great way to warm up for the coming season. Call EYC at 522-3272.

March 29 - Singlehanded Farallones Race. 332-5073.

March 29 to April 5 - Sea of Cortez Race Week, sometimes known as the “most fun you can have with your clothes on Race Week. Events for cruisers, racers, kids, dinghies, whatever. Lots of food, beer, sunshine, sailing and nice people. 383-8200.

April 11, 1987 - Guadalupe Single/Double Handed Race. A

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TACTICS Saturday, February 14 9 am-12 noon

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Performance Analysis Pre-Race Preparation Starts Upwind Strategy Upwind Tactics

Downwind Strategy Downwind Tactics Mark Rounding Finishing Special Topics Rules & Protests

TRIM & SPEED Sunday, February 15 9am-12 noon

1 pm-5 pm Crew Organization Boat Handling Boat Preparation Rig Tuning Optimizing Speed with

Sail Trim Concepts Genoa Trim Mainsail Trim Sail Combinations Spinnaker Trim Helmanship

Instruments & Polars

EXPERT INSTRUCTORS LARRY KLEIN 17 World & US Titles in 8 classes.

JEFF MADRIGALI Veteran Sailmaker, One-Design keel boat racer. 1986 San Fran Cup winner.

MALCOLM PARK TransPac, Mexico, & SORC racer; Glory helmsman.

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CALENDAR AMERICA'S Southern California classic put on by the Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association. The distance: 630 miles, the record: 5 days, 20V2 hours. Interested? Call Steve Boothe at (213) 823-8868 and leave a message.

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LETTERS □SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL - AND MAD! This letter is in response to an article on the Big Boat Series that appeared in the November issue.

Once again we readers were treated to a photograph of the ‘Twisted Sisters’; this time with words of wisdom added. It is with them in mind that we write this letter.

Could we please be enlightened as to what jobs young Heidi and Bonnie have onboard Shockwave that allows them to have perfectly coiffed hair at all times? Also, how do these leather halter tops hold

One of the Sisters checks her rigging. up in saltwater?

We are young, fun-loving sailor women ourselves and know that looking our best can be a real problem, particularly when out to sea for days at a time when using a blowdryer is out of the question. (Of course, when ya’ haven’t even washed it in days, what’s the point?!)

We also know how unattractive a girl can feel after a rough night at sea, with her head hanging over a bucket, one eye on lunch in reverse, the other on the radar, trying in vain not to “get any” on the Patagonia jacket. Or when taking her turn in the galley, rustling up grub for equally scruffy-looking mates, while the boat is heeled 25 degrees and food is flying everywhere.

We don’t lie awake at night on these passages wondering if we are still attractive to members of our crew just because our hairdos are shot, because we are wearing the same stinky clothes we had on three days before, and because our teeth have fur on them. No! We do, however, feel a sense of being part of the crew and of pulling our own weight (and not, thank you, Heidi, in a sexual manner) instead of standing onshore, a compact in one hand, lipstick on the other, waiting for our ‘men’ to return from the sea.

So it is a bit irritating to hear that men want to “be with women who look like women” after they have been out getting dirty with us!

P.S. And yes, we really are sisters, blond and brunette respectively!!

The Pissed Sisters Tanya and Phyllis Odyle Seattle, but enroute to the Sea of Cortez Tanya and Phyllis — You’re making a big mistake if you think someone has to participate in the heat of battle to contribute or feel part of an athletic endeavor.

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LETTERS used to have a guy by the name of Bundini in his corner. Bundini never threw a punch, but he was forever making up ‘Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’ type juvenile rhymes, that increased the chaos and thus distracted the competition from the task at hand. A psych out.

The way we see it, the Twisted Sisters serve much the same function. Part of the entire Shockwave program is to send shockwaves through what’s become the not-very-playful world of IOR racing.

The Sisters help create the Shockwave scene, which is that of a boat seemingly too interested in screwing around to do well on the course. The result is that when they do well — and they were outstanding in the top flight competition at the Kenwood Cup — some of the more ascetic competitors get frustrated and — just like Ali’s old opponents — start to come apart at the seams.

It might seem like such simple ploys couldn’t possibly work. But then you’ve got to remember what the ‘Ali Shuffle’ did to big, bad Sonny Liston, and what the ‘Rope a Dope’ did to George Foreman during the Rumble in the Jungle. And such psych jobs work on the course, too. After a couple of very fine races in Hawaii, Shockwave had a few of their competitors talking to themselves and getting frustrated — which, afteraU, had been the Twisted Sisters’ intent all along.

If we could offer you ladies just a little bit of advice, it would be not to make the same mistake a lot of men have made: assuming that a pretty face and an attractive figure portend a dull mind. For all we know, the Sisters are the brains behind Shockwave’s success.

□AUSTRALIAN ITINERARY I was first introduced to Latitude 38 with your September edition while here in Moss Landing. Yours is the most useful and helpful magazine I’ve found.

Two things. First, many of us cruisers are dreaming of visiting Australia for the Expo ’88 fair in Brisbane. Can you prepare an article for us beginners about planning a trip to Australia? Something similar to your Mexico Itinerary articles in the September and October editions.

Second, a book other cruisers might enjoy is Unlikely Passages by Palley. This is a book about the emotional end of cruising and crewing — it’s unlike any of the other books available. I’ve read it three times. It’s serious yet filled with lots of good laughs.

Stuart R. Cox Watsonville Stuart — Thanks for the nice words.

We published a ‘Milk Run’ feature a couple of years back, but perhaps it’s time we did another one. Hopefully, one of our readers who has made the trip will want to put such an article together.

While we wait for that to happen, you might be interested in the following information that appeared in the November Commodore’s Bulletin of the Seven Seas Cruising Association. These are the passage distances and times made by a Westsail 32 from Norfolk, Virginia to Sydney: Beaufort, North Carolina to St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands; 1,136 miles in 11 days, 21 hours.

Puerto Rico to Panama; 1,033 miles in nine days.

Panama to the Galapagos; 895 miles in 14 days and two hours.

Galapagos to the Marquesas; 2,605 miles in 23 days and three hours.

Marquesas to Rangiroa in the Tuamotus; 520 miles in 4 days and 23 hours.

Tuamotus to Tahiti; 170 miles in two days and four hours.

Bora Bora to Pago Pago, American Samoa; 1,190 miles in 12 page 47

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American Samoa to Tonga; 330 miles in three days and four hours.

Tonga to Fiji; 450 miles in four days.

Fiji to New Zealand’s Bay of Islands; 1,054 miles in 10 days and seven hours.

Whangaro Harbor, New Zealand to Sydney, Australia; 1,140 miles in 11 days and 17 hours.

The fastest average speed for any of these passages was the 4.78 knot average from Puerto Rico to Panama. The slowest was 2.65 from Panama to the Galapagos.

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□THE SAIL NUMBER WAS 8666 While having cocktails at Scott’s Seafood in Oakland, I saw a boat sailing on the Estuary with purple, pink, and silver sails. These are my favorite colors, and I would like to know where that person got those sails.

It was about a 30-ft boat and the sail number was 8666. Do you have any idea?

Belva Baker Glen Ellen Belva — We don’t know, but if forced to venture a guess we’d say it probably belonged to Liberace.

Maybe the owner will write in and solve this mystery for you.

□WE PROMISE I’m kind of at a dead end and maybe you or your readers can help.

I’m looking for medical and rescue insurance while travelling abroad for several years. Within the States this is really cheap (i.e. $3-400 per year, $1 million coverage). But it’s either impossible to find or very expensive (3-5% per year) for travelling abroad.

I’m not looking for coverage when I get Bali belly, but it would be nice to be covered if I got run over by a fishing boat. There must be some reasonable insurance out there.

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Keep up the good work and promise to never go glossy.

Phil — We don’t understand what you mean by “medical and rescue insurance”. Normal boat insurance would cover — minus the deductible, of course — damage to your boat and body if you were hit by a reckless fishing boat.

In United States waters, such insurance runs about one percent of the value of the boat, assuming it’s a fiberglass boat in reasonable condition. There are usually surcharges if you want to go to Mexico or Hawaii. Boat insurance for more distant waters is more difficult to get and often Lloyds is your only market. If you qualify — and it’s a big ‘if’ — you’re going to pay three to five percent. And, the deductible will be quite steep.

If you’re looking for completely separate medical insurance, that’s available from a number of sources. Most cruisers in good health, however, choose to self-insure. As for separate ‘rescue insurance’, to cover situations in which somebody has to pull you off the rocks, we don’t think it exists. Heck, there’s darn few places in the world with any kind of rescue service.

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wide seas there had to be a woman who could do it all, as well or better than many men. A woman who could design, build and sail a boat; who could build a house; fix plumbing, etc., etc.

Hurrah for her! My confidence in humanity has been set up a notch.

Now, after 20 years, 1 myself am still left looking for a woman similar to Miss Fleming — except with a few minor differences. Requisites for the description are: all wood construction, no racing (only rescue patrol and science-research sailing allowed), a history fanatic, one who possesses drawing and painting skills, and who is an environmental natural-fiber eco-freak.

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□PASS THE 38 AND SAVE A TREE Since we have been considering refitting our boat’s heating system, we anxiously awaited your article in the November issue.

Imagine our horror, however, when we opened to that article and saw a picture of Sandi Mikesell using an old Latitude 38 to start a fire.

Having spent many winter evenings rereading cherished past issues, we would choose to sit huddled in the dark freezing rather than sacrifice one.

As for Latitude 38 having superior burning characteristics, I am sure that the ‘slick’ publications are well aware of the measures they must take to prevent theirs from going in the stove the evening after they arrive.

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□FOUR POINTS I have finally collected enough reasons to feel compelled to write a letter. They are: 1. To thank you for the well-written and inspiring publication! Over the past five years I have progressed (or regressed?) from a lubberly sailing neophyte to a somewhat salty individual. I attribute much of the metamorphasis to severe Latitude 38 addiction.

2. To respond to Helena Sigman’s query (August 1986) about handling finances, etc., while cruising. There is an excellent book devoted to the subject, Managing Your Escape, by Katy Burke.

3. To express my fear: that you’ll lose Max Ebb to becoming a fulltime novelist or author of short stories! He is becoming a superb storyteller! I had to read his article about his impromptu race committee boat service twice; once for the thrill of the short story, and then a second time to pick out all the technical tips.

4. To send a Classy Classified. Despite somewhat successful attempts at reducing our inventory, we are still over-boated and must part with Liliput, the Royal Danish Yacht Club Junior we had so much fun sailing in the Encinal Friday night summer series.

P.S. Just read Bob of the North Bay’s letter regarding Valiant 40’s and blisters. During daily strolls through Svendsen’s yard for the past two years, I’ve noticed at least a few tiny blisters on nearly every fiberglass boat. But jf you rate ‘blister badness’ from 1 to 100, I’m afraid the Valiant 40’s get a 99, with the next worst single design being maybe a 30. For whatever reason, the Valiant’s seem to be the page 55

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□ DEAR MAX EBB: Thanks for launching the idea of an electronic bulletin board for the Yacht Racing Association. It’s an idea whose time has come. My only question is ‘What can I do to make it happen?’ ” While on the subject of computers, may 1 suggest try the Sailing Simulator advertised in recent Latitude 38’s? It’s easy to use, but, like the sport itself, requires that you take the time to do the R&D work on the ‘electronic boat’ in order to excell. In other words, you have to do the polar curves, sail selection charts, etc.

Any serious racer can profit from time spent with the program.

And, no, I don’t work for those guys, I’m just an enthusiastic user!

Kerry ‘the crewboss’ Myers San Francisco Kerry — Max Ebb had the following to say in response to your letter: “The YRA bulletin board may still be a year or two down the road.

Meanwhile, rumor has it that some of the race results and other files relating to the Metro Mid-Winters might find their way into a YRA conference on the WELL, a commerical computer bulletin board service. The board is located in Sausalito, but has a local access line for East Bay users. The cost is $8 per month, plus $3 per hour for online time. If you’d like to set up a user ID and password, the voice line is 332-4335.

□ SIMILAR THOUGHTS I really liked Max Ebb’s column in the December issue; it shows there is someone with similar thoughts on cruising yachts. For a long time, I have believed that a performance cruising boat could be built that points high yet can enter shallow water with the keel up.

My ideas were more on a single lifting keel, even though the bilgeboards on Hawkeye had me thinking for a long time. The two angled keel arrangement in Max Ebb’s article is very appealing. It splits the weight in two, making the lifting much easier. The keels should be bolted or wedged down when they are lowered. This is still one of the major engineering problems for lifting keels yet to be

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The keels on USA and Wildfire — which have short length — would waste less space for the trunks below deck. The big question though: what do they do to directional stability of the boat? Maybe someone can answer that.

Regarding the rudder, why stop with the keel, let s have two angled rudders. The BOC singlehander Credit Agricole has them.

Another BOC entry, Spirit of Sydney, has angled bilgeboards. The latter was designed by Ben Lexcen, famed for the winged keel on last America’s Cup winner.

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I expect more ideas from the BOC race to end up in cruising yachts, than from the America’s Cup. Unfortunately, only the latter gets good coverage. Couldn’t Latitude 38 at least report the final standing of the first leg BOC Round the World Race?

Another thing worries me. Is Max Ebb’s friend Lee Helm ever going to graduate?

Arno Rohloff Los Altos Arno — See the BOC race update in this issue. As for Lee Helm graduating, did you ever wonder why Dennis the Menace never grew up?

□WE’D LIKE IT BACK WHEN YOU’RE DONE WITH IT Sometime between 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 15 and noon on Saturday, November 21, someone ‘borrowed’ the whisker-pole from our boat. We have a Catalina 27 we keep down in the ‘banana belt’ of Dock II at Coyote Point Marina in San Mateo.

When I noticed our pole was missing, I reported it to Harbormaster Les Rahn. In discussing the matter, we pretty much concluded that trie person who ‘borrowed it’ must have needed it more than I did.

You know, maybe for an important race. Or maybe he was going on a nice cruise and needed it to wing out the jib on the way home.

While there, Les was nice enough to look up the cost of the pole in a marine catalog. The H.D. Forespar model is worth about $260.

Whew! That’s more than I can afford right now, and my insurance has a $250 deductible. I suppose I could make one out of wood or even 2-inch PVC pipe. The only thing is, I’m kind of fond of the old one.

Anyhow, I’m just sort of hoping that the urgency of the person’s need who took my pole has worn off and that maybe that person would feel better if he returned it. You see, my wife, Shirley, and I like to cruise the Bay, quite often on weekdays and holidays. And we really do make good use of our whisker pole. It’s like part of the family, if you know what I mean. We’d just like the pole back, period, and no trouble for whoever took it. We’d even be willing to let the person who borrowed it use it again sometime. Only, it would be kind of nice if he or she asked next time.

In fact, we’d like our pole back so much we’re even willing to offer a reward. A six-pak of Bud — or whatever — and $260 worth of gratitude.

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□ DON’T LET ANYBODY KNOW What I don’t want publicly known is that I cruised for two years and used a ham radio with a ‘pirate’ license.

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□A BAD MONTH Having read Mr. Kisling’s letter about Starboard’s responsibilities, in December issue, I am confused. Mr. Kisling states “It gives me the opportunity to explain to him and all the other readers of the most basic rules of right-of-way. Specifically, that when you are in the right and plan to exercise the privilege.” One must ask Mr. Kisling: What “right-of-way; what privilege”?

I can only suggest that Mr. Kisling should avail himself of a Coast Guard Auxiliary or Power Squadron Course in order that he may be better versed in state boating.

Dennis A. Greenberg Operations Manager, Small Boat Services Company, Inc. Dennis — You’ll have to excuse us, but we at Latitude 38 pulled a couple of jumbo bloopers in the December issue.

You remember the Sightings item about the ‘geek’ keel, where we supposedly compared the keels on John Clauser’s boat and the keel on USA? Morons that we are, they were both photos of Clauser’s keel.

In the Letters department we shanked a couple, too. First off, Mr. Kisling’s first name is spelled Niels, not ‘Nils’. We apologize to him for that. We apologize even more for screwing up the meaning of his letter when we attempted to make it read a little more smoothly.

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by Robert C. Doyle.

Due to a mis-print or mis-read or mis-write, please check my original letter, as we will no doubt receive some negative or confused feedback.

The second paragraph should read: “Mr. Doyle’s boat was on starboard or Mr. Doyle’s boat was to port.” Your title and the drawing clarify this for me, but Skip Allen asked me to explain it to him. If a man with Skip’s qualifications is confused by this, I’m sure others will be as well.

Another point brought to my attention is that in the inland waterway rules, it is stated that: Vessels off the wind, on any tack shall yield right of way to vessels hard on the wind, regardless of tack.

This was explained to me twice, second hand, so don’t quote me as to the exact words.

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□ SAILING, THE PARENTS INHERIT IT FROM THE KIDS I gladly submit $15 for a year’s subscription to your fine magazine.

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Are there camping facilities available for sailers without ships? What are the chances of being able to crew on some of the big boats for the races?

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yacht Orion out of Marina de La Paz, and some independents charter out of La Paz. Check the December issue display ads and Classy Classified business ads for phone numbers to call for rates.

The Moorings operates out of Puerto Escondido, about 100 easy miles away.

Other than some nice sand dunes to sleep on, there are no facilities for campers. You must bring everything you need. Each year there have been about 20 to 25 campers, and we expect they’ll be as many this year.

As for getting on one of the racing boats, you shouldn’t have any trouble because most people need crew. When you arrive in La Paz just let Race Week organizers know you’re looking for a racing berth.

□WHEELING ON DOWN TO BAJA-HA RACE WEEK I’ve been planning to trailer my Santa Cruz 27 to La Paz for Sea of Cortez Race Week since the very first one — and it looks like this year it’s actually gonna happen. However, I need some info which perhaps you or one of your readers could provide.

Your published accounts indicate that ramp launch/retrieval is possible, but difficult. The question is: Is it utterly impossible to hire a mobile crane in La Paz? How about cargo booms on freighters in port? A 27 only weighs 3,000 lbs, which oughta be a cinch for even a small truck crane. Are there no such animals in a town as big as La Paz? If ramp launching is really the only way, does anybody have any great system for mast erection without a hoist? Or any other suggestions that might be useful to such an obvious tenderfoot? Any help will be greatly appreciated. If I survive the experiment, I’ll try to pass on anything I learn.

Larry Weaver Santa Cruz Larry — Glad it looks like you’re going to make it! If you do, you won’t be alone. From what we hear, Bill Riley and Jack Adam are going to trailer the Olson 25, Pearl, down again. And, from the way things look now, we’re going to trailer our Olson 30, Little O down.

Maybe we can all get together for a little caravan.

In any event, Bill launched from Marina de La Paz last time and we’re sure he’s going to do it there again this year. It’s where we plan on dropping our 30 in.

La Paz certainly has its share of cranes and forklifts, but finding one — and even worse, scheduling it — might just about be impossible.

The other problem is we’re not sure if there’s a road or flat surface next to where the water drops off sharply enough for a crane to drop your boat in where it would float. Maybe at the Naval Pier, but they might not let you out there. Can anybody in La Paz help with these questions?

As for the hoisting of masts, generally you just use somebody else’s main halyard. Last year our Olson 30 mast was yanked with a halyard from a Santana 35. It’s not difficult.

We’ll try to pursue the crane business a little more, but with a 27 — and some other trailer folks to help - we’re sure you won’t have a problem.

□CARAVAN TO CORTEZ RACE WEEK We plan to trailer our Nor’Sea 27 to San Carlos on mainland Mexico. We are looking forward to enjoying a six-week sailing respite from Insane Diego. We ll check out the gunk holes north of San Carlos before heading over to enjoy Baja-Ha Race Week and then to some quieter spots.

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Don and Ellen Freeman San Diego Don and Ellen — Clad to hear you’re going to make Race Week.

We think you’ll have a great time.

The caravan is a great idea, hopefully you’ll get some response from others wanting to go to San Carlos. If anyone out there wants to caravan up for the run from San Diego to La Paz about the 25th or 26th of March, give us a call at the magazine, (415) 383-8200.

□BAJA-HA CONTRIBUTOR 1 was pleased to read of your intention to publicize firms contributing items to the 1987 Sea of Cortez Race Week activities.

In ’85 and ’86 as the Mexican representative for Red Wings Wind Generators, I contributed wind generator kits both years, hoping for a few kind words of print. I didn’t get any, but had a great time and very much enjoyed contributing as my way of saying thanks to the cruisers for their many years of support and friendship.

In early 1986 Jeco Industries — the holding company for Redwings — went backrupt. But Redwings reorganized under new ownership and is very much alive and well at present.

Right after the backruptcy, I formed my own wind generator company — Zephyr Wind Research. We sell and service in the States and in La Paz, Mexico.

Because of start up costs and other economics, our contribution to the Race Week ’87 treasure hunt will be modest compared to previous years, but we are pleased to give a Zephyr propeller, made of the finest Douglas Fir, and retailing for $95.00.

I would also much appreciate your getting out the word that anyone that bought a Redwing kit from me, Gemini, or Venus, in La Paz, Mexico is still covered on warranty, but by Zephyr Wind Research — not the new Red Wings.

Furthermore, we have recently improved the framework into which the wind generator slides, and I want to give the improved model to all owners of Zephyr products that still have the old mounts. This is free of charge on the condition that they turn the old ones in to Ken Crowe aboard the Shannon Two in La Paz, or by writing Zephyr Wind Research, 1620 Wagon Wheel Drive, Oceanside, CA 92056.

See you all at the wet t-shirt contest again.

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I would like to contribute The Wrecker, by Robert Louis Stevenson and a co-author, to your book list. It’s an around-the-world mysery romp featuring some great places like Nuvu Hiva, Australia, Paris, England and San Francisco.

I also liked Voyage by Sterling Hayden.

If you know a foreign language, try to get books in it. I enjoyed reading Taipee by Melville, and From the Earth to the Moon by Verne, among others, in French.

Speaking of the Bay Bridge fireworks, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many little boats in one place at one time. I thought it amazingly trouble-free considering the slight experience most pleasure sailors have with night sailing.

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The fireworks themselves were worth it all. I don’t think I’ve been so impressed since I saw my first, when I was a kid.

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□ SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR READING PLEASURE Regarding your Letters request for marine books, I have both a book and an author.

The book, The Boy, Me and the Cat, by Henry M. Plummer, was lent by a relative. This out of print book tells of a turn-of-the-century cruise from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to the state of Florida via the fledgling Intracoastal Waterway.

Written in the Downeast understated style reminiscent of Joshua Slocum, it is on one level a looking-through history to what I would call my ideal cruising/camping adventure, winding through cuts marked only by branches pounded into each side or towing the catboat with their outboard tender. Some scenes reminded me of the African Queen.

On another level it is a touching — and for a Downeaster — remarkably open account of a boy coming of age and a father who cared enough to give the boy time to discover himself through the challenges of the trip.

The book is now in reprint and available through International Marine Books.

A. Grove Day is my suggestion for an author. James Michener, in a forward to one of his books, gives credit to Mr. Day as the “foremost scholar in his field”, that field being Polynesian history.

The book I read, Rogues of the South Seas, was interesting in that the topics often were the clashes between the early European explorers and the native islanders.

Mr. Day has written or edited 24 books on the South Seas. I would think that a selection of his works would add relevancy and understanding to any Pacific cruise.

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□ I SEE NO REASON TO RETURN HOME IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS Just two things today.

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LETTERS The second matter I’d like to take up with the editors is the Morse Code requirement for ham radio. Right now I’d say there are at the very least 30 to 40 hams sailing through this part of the Pacific. Every single one of them had to pass the code part of their ham test. Every single one complained bitterly about having to do so. But, once they found that the only really accurate and scheduled weather information in the South Pacific is transmitted from New Zealand — and most of it at 22 words per minute — they all blessed the day they learned code and began building up speed. And now they are very happy they can copy code and make their own very accurate and reliable weather maps two to three times a day. The maps are much better than those by weatherfax, and don’t cost $2,000. All it costs is the learning of code and a good receiver.

My complaint with the ham test requirement is the Theory part. I found it to be on college level when it need not be. Although I have been able to diagnose the various problems in my own and others transcievers and repair them, I found nothing in the Theory part of the exam to be of much help.

I hope this finds all you well but not coming down so heavily on code.

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I live out in the desert 35 miles east of Reno in a hick town called Fernley. I believe my roommate and I are the only sailors in town.

We have a little Catalina 22 and I want you to know that I immediately purchased it from a Tahoe broker four years ago after your magazine had given me the fever.

I am also a motorcycle rider — Harley Davidson, of course — as well as a hunter and general outdoorsman. But I can truthfully say, I have never had more fun, thrills and parties, or made more good friends than with my little sloop.

Believe it or not — and I know it looks like a desolate desert out here when viewed from Highway 80 — there are some great lakes and reservoirs a short distance from here.

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LETTERS Afrril, J979 short sail let me take his competition hydroplane across the lake and back. What a thrill! But it used up a quarter of a tank of gas doing it!

Another good place to sail is Rye Patch Reservoir near Lovelock.

It’s another large desert lake offering great fishing and facilities.

And last but definitely not least is the lake where I spend most of my summer — Lake Tahoe. It’s truly one of the wonders of the world, one that no sailor should miss. This immense body of crystal clear water is something you will never forget. When taken in large doses, it becomes very addictive.

So if you need a change, come sail the ‘Silver State’ and experience a difference challenge than you are used to.

P.S. Yes, it’s my real name.

John Silver Fernley, Nevada

O wise and almost all-knowing Latitude 38, please tell me: 1. Why are they bothering to dredge a channel to Treasure Island for the battleship Missouri when there is a clear, deep channel (well over 50-ft) for her to go all the way to Hunter’s Point? Or does she draw over 50 feet?

2. I hesitate to even ask, since as I write this the Golden Gate Challenge is still soliciting donations, but if and when the America’s Cup comes to the Bay Area, do you seriously think it will be possible to have the races inside the Bay? Ray Conrady San Francisco Ray — It would be far cheaper for the military to base the Missouri at Hunters Point because, as you point out, they wouldn’t have to do any dredging or create a whole new facility as is the case with Treasure Island. But to do so would create a big budgetary problem; what to do with all the unspent money.

As for San Francisco Bay being a suitable site for America’s Cup competition, yes, we seriously believe that it’s not only possible to hold the races inside the Bay, but that it truly would be the greatest America’s Cup arena in the world. There’s been an unprecedented amount of hype over the America’s Cup, but the Bay being a great arena is not hype.

Some folks have noted that because of the strong tides, which would allow one competitor to ‘peel’ another off at certain times on certain parts of the course, such competition would not be completely fair. We say nonsense, since everybody has to sail on the same course, it’s fair — and more interesting than without it.

The one thing to remember, however, is that if the America’s Cup does come to San Francisco Bay — we’re writing this before the Semi-Finals — it would not be sailed in 12 Meters. The Defender, which in this case would be the Golden Gate Challenge, is allowed to change the deed which specifies what kind of boats will compete for the Cup in the next defense. Blackaller has already said if the Golden Gate wins, there will only be two rules for the new boats: that they be 60 feet long and that they only have one hull.

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LETTERS they call a ‘snuffer’. 1 asked Greg Dorland if there was any chance that the gennaker might be ready in ten days for a trip we were planning to Vallejo. He said it would be done.

You have to realize that I’m just a guy wanting to get some cruising sails made for my CS30, and I’m dealing with this sailmaker for the first time, a sailmaker that is busy making sails for USA down under. I was going to be surprised if the sail was ready on time, especially after three previous experiences with sailmakers. I had learned to be patient and expect minor problems.

Well, North did it. The gennaker was ready on time and tested out fine. But there was a minor problem; the douser didn’t get sent up from Huntington Beach. I was a little disappointed but not surprised because of my previous experience with sailmakers. Afterall, I did get the gennaker in about one third the time I had expected it.

But then I mentioned that we’d be sailing the next day with a crew that wasn’t familiar with spinnakers or gennakers and that it would sure be nice to have the douser for our cruise. That’s when the unexpected happened.

Although already 3 p.m., North started burning up the phone lines to Los Angeles in order to get the douser flown up that evening. By 8:00 p.m. I had it in my hands. Now that was service!

We left the next morning as planned and had a great weekend cruise to Vallejo. The gennaker worked great, and the douser really helped. I was glad to have it.

The genoa arrived a week later with no problems.

When something goes wrong, how far a company will go to fix it is the measure of quality for me. This story may seem trivial to some, but I was impressed with North’s efforts and by the fact that they treated me as though I were one of the big guys. That’s not common these days.

Mike Dousman Newark

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Mike — With a name like yours we think it’s only appropriate that you got a ‘douser’ and not a ‘snuffer’.

□ IS THREE WEEKS ENOUGH? I read with interest and envy your stories of those who can spend two to four months sailing from San Francisco to the Sea of Cortez.

Unfortunately, my wife and I do not have the luxury of that kind of time. We wish to cruise our boat from San Francisco to Cabo, but we only have three weeks in which to do it. If we were to make arrangements to have our boat sailed back to the Bay Area, is three weeks for such a cruise realistic?

If so, what would be the best time of year for such a trip?

Do you have any thoughts on getting our boat back to San Francisco? A professional captain would be expensive.

Would your Crew List or an ad in Latitude 38 be an alternative?

I’m sure you have many readers who would enjoy an alternative to an extended coastal cruise.

I look forward to your comments and suggestions.

Harry Gordon Cupertino Harry — Were extremely sympathetic to your situation, but realistically, three weeks is not enough time to sail your boat to the Sea of Cortez and back. In fact, once you got there you’d have about 20 minutes to walk around Cabo San Lucas before you’d have to head home again. Ypu’d be missing 99 percent of what you travelled so far to experience.

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LETTERS sufficient is if you had somebody sail your boat down, turn it over to you for three weeks to sail from Cabo to Loreto, and then you gave it back to them to deliver back to the Bay Area. But at a couple of bucks a mile to deliver it down and back, you’re correct in assuming it would be prohibitively expensive.

(Incidentally, we’re making the assumption that you don’t have a trailerable boat. If you do, we believe that three weeks is just barely sufficient time to trailer your boat down to La Paz, sail between La Paz and Loreto, then trailer it home again.)

So what alternatives do you have? You can charter a boat in the Sea of Cortez. Sea of Cortez Yacht Charters, The Moorings, the yacht Orion out of Marina de La Paz and the three outfits we currently know of that have permits to legally be in business. There may be others. We’d hoped to have our Ocean 71, Big O for charter in Mexico later this year, but there’s been too much interest in the Caribbean.

A second alternative is to try and find several other people — be they berth neighbors, friends with the same design boat, or folks you might reach through the Classy Classifieds — and do a group arrangement. You’d agree to take one boat, and split time while the boat was in Mexico. Those willing to deliver the boat down — the easy part — or back — the hard part — would get a break in costs.

Or, if you had enough partners, perhaps the cost of a delivery captain would become reasonable. We realize that such joint ventures require a tremendous amount of trust, more than lots of owners are willing to shoulder.

If any of these plans were acceptable, we’d suggest you time your trip to be in the Sea of Cortez from the middle of March through late May.

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Klaus, who grew up in Schleswig, which is near the German border, says the ‘low German’ dialect translates as follows: Cold feet, And a northerly wind, Gives a wrinkled bag, And a small pecker.

We had to (blush!) pass this along in the interests of science.

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Ute and Klaus — We believe your translation as it’s very similar to those sent last month. But how do you explain the following translation? Perhaps it’s the PG version.

□A LITTLE PINT? With the aid of a Dutch colleague, Mrs. Victorine Braun, we identified the language on Dick Veasay’s plaque as Platt-Duetsch or Low German. The important dialect served as a lingua franca in the old Hanseatic days, from the Netherlands up into Scandanavian ports.

Here’s, the translation, courtesy of Mrs. Braun, University of California at Davis (and friends).

Cold feet And a north wind, Ask for a big bottle, And a little pint.

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LETTERS America call a shot glass. Schnapps is indeed warming, but potent.

My great Uncle Otto used to drain a whole shot glass at once. If you attempt to imitate him, be sure that you have a friend in your berth, and that you have no plans to go anywhere else that evening, by land or water. In other words, if you snort, don’t sail.

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□ BIG INTEREST IN LARGE NUMBERS I read your article in Sighting in the November issue on chartering in the Caribbean. I hope your future articles do a bit more justice to some of the other fine companies available so that your readers will know that more than one “fine outfit” (The Moorings) exists.

I am not a travel agent nor do I have any commercial interest in the charter industry. However, as one who has volunteered to put on group charters from my own yacht club and completed eleven such trips in as many years from the Grenadines all the way up through the Virgins, I feel a word should be put in for several additional charter companies in the Virgins.

I agree that The Moorings is outstanding. Actually most charter companies accept them as the leaders. However, since you lean to the British Virgins over the U.S., you have overlooked West Indies Yacht Charters on Tortola and North/South on Virgin Gorda. Both are well-financed, have excellent provisions, keep well-maintained boats and are definitely less expensive. This latter point could make the difference between going and not going for some folks.

You also dismiss the U.S. Virgins too quickly. Most of the “problems” editorialized are in St. Croix, not St. Thomas. In addition, it is a simple matter to sail to some of the beautiful harbors on St. John and then go directly to the B.V.I., clearing in and out in one operation. Clearing from the B.V.I. into the U.S. is out of the way and time-consuming. And that is the “good news”. You still must deal with U.S. Customs and Immigration personnel.

Bahamas Yachting Services and LaVida Yacht Charters are both excellent operations in St. Thomas. They have been around for many years, maintain newer boats in excellent condition and are less than a two-hour sail from the British Virgin Islands. They also are very competitively priced.

I suggest you research the advantages of group chartering in future issues. Our club just had 48 people on 12 boats with LaVida and BYS and the entire sixteen-day trip was a little over $1,300 for boats,, provisioning, airfare, ground transportation and two nights in hotels.

Check it out! You will find that the charter companies and airlines become very interested when you talk about five boats and twenty people.

Lew Spruance Corona del Mar Lew - Our intention in singling out The Moorings was to identify a top-rate, reliable outfit — not necessarily the least expensive or best value. Since you “agree that The Moorings is outstanding” and that “most charter companies accept them as the leader,” well rest assured that we chose well.

Perhaps you had an opportunity to read our December issue. In it we recommended several other good outfits, North/South one of your selections — among them. We continue to welcome charter recommendations from you and all our other readers. We want folks to hear about the good companies so they’re not stuck with picking a page 81

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As for the U.S. Virgins, St. Thomas may not have quite as many problems as it did a few years ago, but what a horrible place to spend a precious vacation. We think Don Street’s advice to take care of business quickly and get the hell out is as good now as it ever was.

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Despite being just a couple of miles away, St. John, as you point out, is an entirely different story. There’s a nicer pace, zillions less people, and many fine anchorages.

Nonetheless, if we just had a week, we’d spend it in the British Virgins, with an emphasis on Gorda Sound. What a terrific place!

As for group chartering, there are tremendous price advantages, particularly in the off season. We’ll see if we can’t put an article together on that attractive idea.

□LOOKING BACK ON FOUR TRIPS In your November issue you wrote about charters in the Caribbean. In the last seven years I have had four bareboat charter trips; one in the British Virgin Islands, two in the Grenadines and one where we sailed the complete Windward/Leeward chain from Bequia to Tortola.

I have used The Moorings for two of those trips and CSY for the other two. I have to assume that your “mystery” charter company you refer to in the story is CSY, because we had problems on both charter trips with CSY. One was of serious enough nature that I would never feel free to recommend them to any of my friends.

The Moorings, on the other hand, is a truly great company to charter a boat from. The boats are in top shape, their staff are knowledgeable and friendly, and they really know how to run their business.

If I were considering a boat charter I would call The Moorings. If they didn’t have a base in a particular area I would still call them to see if they could recommend a charter company.

That entire area is a great joy to sail, and to those of you who are just thinking about it, I say go for it!

Steve Kyle Hot Bottom, Freedom 36 Petaluma Steve — The ‘mystery’ charter company was Tortola Yacht Charters. We’re delighted to say that on a more recent trip — just prior to the height of the season — their boats had been spruced up a bit. Apparently there has been a lot of changes in the management recently.

A reader called to say he had a Tortola Yacht Charters boat for early December and that he’d let us know if there were problems.

Were delighted to say we haven’t heard from him.

As for CSY, we spent an evening in Spanishtown with a couple who have a multi-year package with CSY. Their opinion was that CSY was decent, but that charterers were somewhat expected to keep the systems running themselves. Interestingly enough, a very knowledgeable guy at The Moorings told us that CSY recently had an infusion of money and was really trying to make a go of it. He wished them — and all the other charter outfits — the best of luck.

□ CARIBBEAN CHARTERING I enjoyed your Sightings article about the Caribbean. Having just returned from a two-week charter there, I would like to add my twocents worth.

First of all, if you are going to charter in the Virgin Islands, it doesn’t really matter where you charter out of. If you don’t like where you are, then pull up the hook and in one to three hours you can be page 83

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For example, we chartered out of St. Thomas. Yes, it is more crowded, commercial and dirtier than most other spots, but there are advantages. First, after spending a full day making connections (Reno to Dallas, Dallas to Miami, Miami to St. Thomas), we weren’t about to make another one. All we wanted to do was jump on board and grab a healthy dose of Z’s. (Some charter companies, ours included, allow you the first night aboard the boat free, saving you the cost and trouble of a hotel room. Thus we received fifteen nights for the price of fourteen.) Second, after a quick and painless check-out the next morning, it was cast-off the dock lines and after a nice one and one-half hour beat we were dropping the hook in a much quieter anchorage with clean, clear water just inviting us for a swim. Third, by starting at the far western edge of the islands we were able to circumnavigate the area without doing any backtracking. Also, after about five days of going to weather we found ourselves at the Bitter End on Virgin Gorda and from there it’s downwind all the way home.

This is not to suggest that St. Thomas is the only place to start from. The point is it really doesn’t matter where you start: every spot has its advantages and disadvantages. The important thing is to take care in the selection of a charter company and boat. If the company is reputable and the boat is well-taken care, then you’re in for a great vacation.

We chartered with the Caribbean Yacht Owners Association (CYOA) in Charlotte Amalie and 1 highly recommend them. We chartered three Morgan 41 Out-Islands and found them to be clean and well-maintained. Of course, we knew they wouldn’t go to weather but they are great on a reach or run and they make a hell of a dive platform. At one point in the trip we found one of the boats had a wiring problem and would not charge the batteries. We were at Marina Cay, a short downwind sail away from Roadtown in the British Virgins. A quick call to CYCA and they had an on-call mechanic waiting for us when we got in. Two hours later the problem was fixed and we were on our way.

Remember, no matter how well a boat is maintained, shit happens. So make sure your charter company has a good network of on-call mechanics and sailmakers scattered throughout the islands — or a good fast chase boat. You don’t want to have to sail all the way back to your home base just to have a minor problem fixed.

We spent the winter of ’83-84 cruising our Columbia Contender in the Sea of Cortez and still think it’s the best. But you can’t beat the Virgin Islands for a great sailing vacation. Do your research and pick your charter company and boat with care, but don’t worry about where they are located. Remember, in the islands it’s only a hop, skip and a jump from where you were to where you are to where you wanna be next. Good sailing!!

Steve Browne Snowstorm Sierra Rainbow Sails So. Lake Tahoe, CA Steve — While we agree that picking a good charter company is the most important thing, we wouldn’t discount the importance of picking up a boat in a good location. If you’ve got 15 days — as you had — it doesn’t make nearly as much difference. But for someone who just has a week and wants to make the best out of their vacation, the last thing they want to face after a marathon airplane trip is 15 miles to weather in mostly unprotected water. And that’s what you get from Charlotte Amalie, which is just about the most leeward spot in either the American or British Virgins.

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LETTERS St. Thomas. It’s just a little longer taxi ride from the airport, it’s a little safer, and it means you don’t have to go through British Customs until later.

□ TWEAKED CURIOSITY It has been a few years since I wrote last, and three years since I left the Bay Area for a stint on the East Coast. However, I remain a hardcore subscriber and fan. Your mag and the British Yachting Monthly are the only ones I find worth the subscription price in terms of substance and pertinence to my sailing interests. Considering that the latter charges overseas subscribers 50 bucks a year, Latitude 38 is a runaway “best buy”.

My curiosity was tweaked by your plans to start “adverture chartering” in the Caribbean. I’ve heard enough horror stories about charter operations in this fine cruising area to look elsewhere for sailing kicks.

But you’re forcing me to reconsider. I’m seriously interested in a spot on one of your charters, especially if one of those staterooms is fitted with single berths — or an adventurous lass. I’d appreciate any information on departure dates and costs.

By the way, since you plan to extend your coverage to the Caribbean, I wonder if you’ve given any thought to casting an iconoclastic gaze at sailing activities on the Chesapeake Bay? There is nothing to compare to Latitude 38 available now.

I was a “member adrift” in a south bay club and used to get their monthly newsletter, but they’ve apparently lost track of me. So you remain my sole and sufficient source of news on the Bay/South Pacific/Mexico sailing scene. I read each issue cover to cover the day it arrives.

Here’s hoping that Blackaller and crew tame those twin rudders and bring the Cup back to San Francisco.

Cheers, Bill Moore Touchstone Reston, VA Bill — We don’t know about the “horror stories” in the Caribbean, our impression is that the vast majority of the charters are quite satisfactory.

As for Latitude 38’s ‘Adventure Charters’, we’re ready to roll.

We’ve done a lot of work on the boat systems, replacing the 6-cylinder diesel, rebuilding the generator and refrigeration, replacing the extensive pressure water system, replacing leaky hatches, etc.

Then in mid-December we acquired charter insurance from Lloyds for the entire Caribbean — and a trip to Venezuela.

We’re offering an introductory price of $4,200 a week until April 11, which works out to $100 a day per person with six people. After April 11 the price will be $120 a day. Included is the boat, prepared meals, a three person crew, an outboard powered Boston Whaler, an outboard powered Avon, and all the snorkeling goodies you’ll need. Rum, too! We’re also working with a charterboat association to be able to offer low-cost airfares as part of the package.

Charters early in the year will be out of the Virgin Islands, later on we’ll be offering them “down island” to places like St. Barts, Antigua, Martinque as well as the Grenadines and Grenada. If somebody wants to put together a custom itinerary, that’s no problem either.

If a ‘ringleader’ of a group of six calls us with a group, that’s fine.

We’re also going to be putting groups of six together from individuals or couples. See our ad on page 48 and 49 for details.

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LETTERS for giving you information. One was about a mistake you made with the beer bottle.

The reason we are writing is because you made two mistakes about our family in two different issues. The first one was during Partida Race Week in Mexico when Cember, Jennifer and I won the sandcastle contest. You listed Cember’s name, but not mine or Jennifer’s.

Besides that mistake, the lady that was at Race Week promised that my essay poem would be in the magazine and since they only had one copy, I don’t have another one.

Another mistake was in the story about cruising with kids. My Mom’s name is Lynn Webb, not Lynn Welb.

So my brother and 1 are hoping we qualify for Roving Reporter t-shirts. But please send them soon, as we will be sailing to Australia in April.

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Maryke and Brendan Webb Agio Ventura Maryke and Brendan — Allright, allright . . . the two shirts are in the mail. But remember, you promise to get on your boat and sail to Australia no later than April.

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boating publication, in it the boat yard advertised “bottom panting”. I assume this is a new method for treating blisters on the hull. They probably use a German shepard as a tool.

B. An item from the Examiner about “microbursts” being responsible for boating accidents.

Keep up the good front and thanks for the tip on the Treasure Island radar station tour. It’s highly recommended for those of us who are out on the Bay in fog and dark times.

Hugh Linn and Tarry Breeks Gashouse Cove Hugh and Tarry — The ‘German shepard as a tool’ bit is pretty damn funny; who thought that up?

As for the ‘microbursts’, several years ago somebody sent us a very scientific looking paper on how microbursts or downdrafts on the leeward side of Hawaii severely knocked down Scotch Mist, a Santa Cruz 50 being used as a charter boat out ofLahaina. It sounded very plausible then, and it sounds very plausible now.

□WHERE CAN I GET ONE FOR MYSELF? While looking through your October 1986 issue, I noticed a small page 89

Features: Genoa roller,furling recessed in deck Walk through transom for: Easy boarding and Man overboard recovery Swimming and diving Fast drainage Fractional rig for better sail control

Automatic mainsail flaking Battery charger & dual batteries CNG stove and broiler Microwave Entertainment center TV, VCR, AM/FM stereo VHF/knotmeter/df Cruise pac Much Much More!

Call for information on our Experienced Yachts!

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LETTERS reproduction of a poster on page 154.

Someone I know told me his son has the same poster and that it’s in color. I’m referring, of course, to the photograph of the girls, not one of the boats.

Would you tell me how 1 could obtain one for myself? It certainly would brighten up my otherwise drab surroundings.

D.L. Wright Represa, CA

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D.L. — That poster was photographed on the main bulkhead of the outstanding Kiwi Clipper/Kenwood Cup competitor, Exador.

Where the Kiwi’s got it is beyond us, although we’re not sure they allow such stuff in Auckland. As for that matter, if you’re biding time where we think you are, we’re not sure the warden allows that kind of stuff either. In any event, we’re unable to help you.

SELECT BROKERAGE

BUYERS MARKET Websters Dictionary definition a market in which goods (yachts) are plentiful, buyers have a wide range of choices and prices tend to be low.

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□ DINGHY RACERS TO TAKE THE CUP? Hey, let’s show a little respect!

Of all the world’s sailors, those from Northern California should know better than many which side their bread is buttered on. Iam referring to the fact that “we” are a little P.O.’ed about the Kiwi’s kicking butt in Fremantle, Western Australia.

But why should that surprise us? Central California is considered the homeland of the ULDB, but how many of us realize that the pioneer of the ULDB philosophy was none other than New Zealander John Spencer, who as early as the 1950’s had been cooking up hot-hot designs, both in dinghy classes and offshore? Ragtime was just one of his many brainstorms.

Only a little less amazing than finding Iain Murray, the unlimited 18-foot skiff genius, totally demoralizing stodgy Mr. Bond’s boys, is realizing that New Zealand has, since prehistoric times, been home to some of the world’s best sailors. We shouldn’t forget that the New Zealand Maoris, just by reaching those islands in their Pacific canoes, proved themselves to be superb seaman, even among the Polynesians in general, who were also no slouches at basic boat-handling.

Oddly, it was again Mr. Spencer’s 12-foot Cherub dinghy which helped revolutionize Southern Hemisphere skiff thinking, so that the ground was made fertile for people like Ben Lexan and Ian Murray to later dominate the 18-footers, with craft such as the rack-equipped Color 7.

So admit it, wouldn’t it be very fitting in a world gone soft to see the America’s Cup final come down to a real boat race between two syndicates that have a ‘drag-racing dinghy’ lineage?

Maybe this bodes well for changing the format of the America’s Cup to using boats which more truly reflect the modern era, such as Lake Garda-type boats.

In an ironic sidenote to the above matter, it was revealed recently by someone back East, that the original deed of gift for the America’s Cup, as it still stands, stipulates that “no centerboard boat shall be prohibited from racing”. This was in reference to the strong trend in the late 1800’s for American yachts to be equipped with centerboards. Not only does this mean that the whole 12 Meter era is bogus and illegal, but the way is still open to return to legitimacy by reinstating some type of authentic speed machine such as a ULDB or 18-foot skiff as the vehicle of competition.

Gary Blair Santa Cruz Gary — We don’t see how it would be any more fitting for for a former “skiff genius” like Iain Murray to win the America’s Cup than it was for him to be part of the Advance embarrassment in the last America’s Cup. page 91

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HAULOUT HAPPINESS The Chandlers and their 35-ft Ericson with Michael Craig, Seabreeze Boat Yard Proprietor during another happy launching at Seabreeze.

John Boscarelli spent the last 14 years building the 56-ft, 40+ ton BOSCO-BABY at Seabreeze.

We saved John a major crane company bill by launching her for him . . . you can bet he’s pleased!

Congratulations John!

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WE CARRY Z-SPAR MARINE FINISHES AND ALL THE OTHER MATERIALS FOR YOUR HAULOUT NEEDS

PLUS:

FREE WRITTEN SEAWORTHINESS & SAFETY SURVEY WITH EACH HAULOUT . . . performed by Michael Craig, Proprietor & Yard Manager

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Open Monday thru Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sunday by appointment

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Check out the classified ad that appeared the December 2 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle:

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1 COLUMBIA J300K. Call (415)«ta» dys DEALERSHIP Some folks might be willing to pay $300,000 for a Columbia 28, but we doubt there are many who would pay that for just a share of it. Of course, it does come with a San Francisco Marina berth.

Freedom is a funny thing. If you’ve got too much of it — as is the case with many people in the United States — it can lead to serious problems. Anxiety, confusion, listlessness and costly attempts at therapy are just a few.

By the same token, too little freedom — as is the case of most of the people in the rest of the world — has its deleterious aspects, also.

It leads to depression, anger, and getting shot in the back while trying to escape to the West.

In many respects it’s easier to overcome the problems of too little freedom than it is the problems associated with too much freedom.

You just go boardsailing.

At least that’s what two East Germans did in early December. They hopped on their trusty boards and set sail across the icy waters of the Baltic Sea toward Denmark. The first guy made it in just 4.5 hours.

The second fellow wasn’t so lucky. He had to endure the chilly air and water for 25 numbing hours before he was picked up by a Danish trawler.

After recuperating, both men split to West Germany.

If you think berth rates and haul-out prices are too steep for the services provided, you may not like the sound of the following item.

February 1 through 6 the International Marina Institute and the University of Rhode Island are sponsoring a “profit school” for marina and boatyard executives. In its third year, the seminar will give “experienced marina and boatyard executives an opportunity to learn profit-making techniques”.

Naturally we berth renters assume that the easiest way to increase profitability would be to charge more. But perhaps not. “The training . . . focuses on ways that profitability can be improved through new business management tools, legal planning, facility design, advertising, and public relations.” This according to Neil W. Ross, president of International Marina Institute, a non-profit organization offering services, training and research to the marina and boatyard industry.

The week long seminar will feature sessions on business management tools such as using financial ratio analysis, pricing and strategic planning. It will compare the advantages and disadvantages of continuing season slip rentals, converting to long term leases, or going dockominium. Other sessions cover such topics as stress management, legal planning, insurance, public relations, advertising and environmental considerations.

This seminar is not for freshmen. A prerequisite is that you have five or more years in the marina or boatyard business.

Tuition for the week-long program in Rhode Island is $1,395. For information, call (401) 849-5885.

Some boat names are just so appropriate.

Take, for example, the 28-ft boat which was busted December 7 while entering San Diego Bay with some $400,000 of pot. The boat’s name is High Hopes. /

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Is located in the Alameda Marina

by Svendsen's Boatyard travelift ways and Thomson Yachts.

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DEDICATED to the Volvo Penta products and their owners with spare parts in stock, publications, accessories, and technical assistance.

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UPKEEP IS EASIER WITH GENUINE VOLVO PENTA REPLACEMENT PARTS Monday through Friday 9 to 5 (closed 12 to 1) Saturday 10 to 2 Service work by appointment

Fraser Sails are Australia’s leading Racing Yacht Sailmaker who have built a reputation on performance and value for their clients.

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Fraser Sails have been actively involved in helping their owners improve their boats’ performance ... with fast sails.

For example Sagacious recently won her division (One Tonners) at the ‘Big Boat’ Series, plus she was awarded the Trophy for the Top Boat.

Our history doesn't end there, both winners of the ’84 and '85 Sydney to Hobart carried complete inventories of Fraser Sails.

Internationally Fraser Sails have been recognised in the

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You'll be amazed by the price, but you'll be even more amazed by your improved performance.

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LOOSE LIPS Deck the hulls . .

Every year for about the last five, Jerry Jensen and family invite a bunch of friends down to their Farr 48 Sangvind, one evening before Christmas to go a-carolling — BYOLJ (bring your own life jacket).

This year, rain during the day clogged roads and a few didn’t make it,

Shipping holiday cheer around the Bay.

but 36 people on a 48-ft boat isn’t bad. Jerry says he’s had as many as 45. Both participants and recipients — the folks who live along the water — have enjoyed the yearly outings so much that the last couple of years, Sangvind (“Song of the Wind” in Danish) has spread Christmas cheer in both the estuary and around Pt. Richmond on separate nights.

Now that’sa boom vang!

Navtec, a well-known manufacturer of hydraulic systems and rod rigging, sent us a photograph of the largest hydraulic cylinder ever produced specifically for sailboat use. We’d have reprinted the photograph here, but the vang was just too big to fit on the page.

Capable of developing 50,000 pounds of force, the cylinder is about 18 feet high. It will go on a 120-ft sailboat currently under construction in New Zealand. A similar vang will be installed on a 140-ft boat now under construction in Japan.

While delighted to build record size vangs, Navtec has not lost sight of their main business. They’d be more than happy to build a vang for your 35-footer.

Call for help, Number I. Jonathan T. Magoon of Salem, Oregon is trying to locate a Mr. Anderson “who responded to your article about Merle Petersen in the February issue”. Jonathan thinks Mr. Anderson owns Grendier, a 60-ft Alden ketch that the Magoon family formerly owned. If anybody knows where Mr. Anderson is, they could either leave a notice in Lips or try and contact Mr. Magoon in Salem.

Call for help, Number II. Peter Cameron says Lynn Olson’s Boat Cleaning Compound is the greatest stuff around. The problem is he can’t find it any longer.

Does anyone know where the stuff can be bought or borrowed?

Brewery news.

Pat Bobzin of the Long Beach-based Illusion reports that his — and Latitude 38’s — favorite beer is now available in the States. That beer, of course, would be Pacifico. It’s widely available in Southern California markets and liquor stores, and is distributed in Northern California by the Ezra Webb Company. page 95

Evinrude® Yachtwin™ motors are designed especially for sailing. So they deliver all the forward and reverse thrust you need around the harbor and when the wind slows. Plus Yachtwin outboards also give you a more efficient power-to-weight ratio than heavier 4-cycle auxiliaries.

We carry the complete line of Evinrudes from 2 hp to 300 hp. Call or drop by for our January Boat Show Special.

YUKON Rover 3.40 plus 1987 15 hp

Boat 3350 plus 1985 15 hp

$2,895 Also 8’, 9’, 10’ Models In Stock

$2,195 9’ Dinghy

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Factory Service For Evlnrude & Johnson Motors

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Stainless steel & chromed brass fittings, rustproof plastic packaging of survival gear & a simple self inspection system add up to survival, economy & long life for you and the liferaft.

You <Dwe it to yourself & your crew to get the “SeaVivor” facts before you buy any raft. Write or call for free brochure & prices.

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If fire breaks out on your boat, will your extinguishers handle the problem?

A brief fire equipment inspection can relieve any doubt about it.

Marine Fire Protection Services offers boat owners complete fire protection services including onsite inspections, sales, installations and servicing of dry chemical, Halon, and C02 extinguishers.

SELFSTEERING YOU: Really ... You don’t need salt water in your veins and a jungle of briny hair on your chest to qualify as a windvane user. Even in weekend and coastal cruising the vane gear is lots of fun and valuable help. It is much easier to install and use than you think. Especially in rough conditions it steers better and quicker than any autopilot. The vane gear does not require electricity and constant charging and continues to steer, even when your batteries are stone dead.

If there is a problem, you can usually fix the vane gear on board with available hand tools. Windvane self-steering is close to the essence of sailing. No wire, no noise, no stink, no gobbling of precious liquefied dinosaurs.

Those of us who have experienced windvane steering never want to be without.

US:

For the last 15 years or more we at SCANMAR MARINE have made vane steering our special area. Our business rests on a solid foundation of happy customers. We have the particulars of hundreds of boats on file and will help to make your installation and understanding of the vane gear as simple as possible. Our service remains after we have received your payment.

SCANMAR manufacturers the stainless MONITOR windvane. The MONITOR is the premier servo-pendulum type vane gear available today. We also make the SAYE’S RIG trim-tab gear, and we market the French NAVIK servo-pendulum gear for smaller yachts. We handle other vanes and autopilots as well, in order to be able to supply the right gear for every application.

Contact us today. The windvane self-steering on your boat will turn everyone on board into a fan. We are looking forward to assisting you.

For information on this NEW Bay Area service offered by yachtsmen, for yachtsmen, call.

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Products j for the New Year SALE $19.95/pr

NEW!

COLD WEATHER GLOVES

SALE $24.95/p r

NEW!

You'll feel like a cross between a scuba diver and an N.F.L. football player with these neoprene, leather, and nylon gloves. We believe that these are a breakthrough product because they’re the first boating glove to actually insulate your hands from wet and cold while retaining the duability of leather that you'll need.

List$26.95/pr

FENDER BAGS These versatile acrilan bags are ideal for fender storage and protection. Mount on pulpit, lifeline, bulkhead, or lazarefte.

Made of blue acrilan with non-corrosive ' fittings and zippers.

Two sizes to fit fenders to 10.5 in.

List $32.95/pr

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NEW! ENGINE NOISE REDUCTION KIT Reduce the noise in your boat with this Do- It-Yourself Kit. Includes everything need to cut down the noise by about 40%, Model 273847 List $59.95

SALE $44.95

Moscone, San Francisco Jan. 3-11

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West Marine Products

LEWMAR

SALE $29.95

NEW!

1EW! NORFLOAT FENDERS Though not ’’new”, we wanted to reintroduce these highest quality fenders because they’re our favorites. Whether you choose the round ones,(long favored by commercial fisherman for raftups), or the standard style cylindrical, you’ll know you're buying the best we have to offer.

Round style all at 40% off List example: 12inch dia. Model 161695 List $27.55 SALE $16.50 Standard style all at 40% off List example: 8“x25" Model 161760 List $37.70 SALE $22.50

1 ANGEL ISLAND FLEECE JACKET

SPINLOCK CLUTCHES

NEW!

From West Marine High performance fleece combined with great looks and an incredible price make this one of the great values around. Men's colors in Grey, Charcoal, and Navy.

Women’s in white only. Limited to stock on hand.

Comparitive value $59.95 to $75.00 Our regular Price $39.95

ROPE

Lewmar-made Spinlocks are ideal for any application where line sizes 5/16"-9/16” are used. Stong, lightweight, easy to release and engage, we feel Spinlocks are the best choice in rope clutches on the market today.

All Spinlocks on SALE AT 25% OFF LIST example...5/16" single Model 271155 List $38.50 SALE $28.95

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Our butane soldering iron is perfect for the boater's tool box because it doesn't need electricity. Powered by ordinary lighter fluid, it develops tip temperatures up to 400 degrees C. Operates up to 60 min. without refill.

Model 281816 List $29.95

LONGER WEARING DOCK LINES MEW!

With New Caprolan 2000 Our pre-spliced dock lines are now made with Allied's Caprolan 2000 SeaGard. This improvement over conventional nylon offers a 40% increase in wet abrasion resistance. Each of our dock lines is professionally spliced with a 12" eye and heat sealed on the other end.

ON SALE at 40% OFF LIST Braided Dock Lines example: 1/2" x 15' Model 138966 List $21.35 SALE $12.80 3-Strand Dock Lines example: 1/2" x 15“ Model 121707 List $11.35 SALE $6.80

FASTNET VEST STYLE HARNESS Not only is this Deluxe harness comfortable to wear and easy to get on and off, but the nylonweb vest disributes the load much better than a conventional strap harness.

List $58.00 Only $54.95 Optional Lanyard 6 ft. with two assymetrical S.S. hooks List $34.95 Only $32.95

NEW! SALE $7.95/pr.

40% OFF LIST

KNEEPADS Protect your knees while working on the foredeck, doing maintenance on the boat, or any time you're kneeling alot.

Comfortable, even while walking, our kneepads feature heavy duty foam and rubber construction with adjustable straps.

Model 277566 List$9.95/pr.

SITEm NEW! PORTABLE HEAT PACKS

NEW!

Place these packs against your skin and enjoy immediate warmth. 130 degree heat lasts two hours. Made from non-toxic materials, the Re-Heater is activated in only 10 seconds, and can be reused after boiling in water for just 20 minutes. 3 sizes to choose from: 3“x6" Mode) 280214 ONL Y $6.25 5"x9" Model 280222 ONLY$9.95 8"x18" Model 280230 ONLY$19.95

SALE $7.95 COMPACT 55 VHF This 25 watt VHF is one of the smallest' radiotelephones on the market today.

Only 21/4“Hx51/2”Wx6"D, it can fit almost anywhere.

Model 283853 List $399.00

ONLY $249.00

1987 ALMANAC We call ours the "Yachtsman’s" version, but to tell you the truth it's the same as the Nautical Almanac published by the Government, only less expensive.

Model 262691 List$10.95

13 Stores to Serve You from Seattle to San Diego Washington

Seattle

Seattle

Oregon

Portland

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6317 Seaview Ave. N.W.

2130 Westlake Ave. N.

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12055 N. Center Ave.

at Shilshole Marina

on Lake Union

Jantzen Beach next to McDonalds

(206) 789-4640

(206) 282-2021

(503) 289-9822

Northern California Southern California

Sausalito

Oakland

S. San Francisco

Palo Alto

Santa Cruz

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2200 Livingston St.

608 Dubuque

850 San Antonio Rd.

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23rd Av. Exit, Hwy. 17

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(415) 332-0202

(415) 532-5230

(415)873-4044

(415) 494-6660

(408) 476-1800

San Diego

Marina Del Rey

Long Beach

Newport Beach

Dana Point

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251 Marina Drive

900 W. Coast Hwy.

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Thursday nights 'til 8, Saturday and Sunday 9 to 5

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Catalog Sales Division for Telephone Sales Representatives Working in our catalog sales department, taking incoming phone orders and assisting customers with th-eir equipment needs.

Full and part-time positions.

Boating/sailing experience and knowledge of boat supplies required.

Type and/or data entry skills required.

Exciting, rapidly growing company.

Resume to: Curt Hamblin West Marine Products 2450 17th Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

RETAIL ADVERTISING MANAGER We are seeking an Advertising Manager with design and copywriting stalls for our 13 store retail division headquartered in beautiful Santa Cruz. We sell quality boating equipment and performance clothing, and are the leader in our industry on the West Coast.

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SIGHTINGS where are they now, part 1 You’d have to be an old hand from Redwood City with a good memory to recognize the gentleman and the boat in the photo below. He’s Dick Nichol and the boat is the 65-ft trimaran, Wanderlust.

Dick was still a college student when he and two partners began construction of the enormous multihull. They started with study plans from Arthur Piver who later did the offsets. Nichol says, “It’s basically a stretched Lodestar.” Construction began in a Redwood City warehouse and two years later the bare hull was dropped into the water at Pete’s Harbor. Few of the people who saw it then would recognize her now; she’s a lovely boat.

As time went on, the other two partners got married and dropped out of cont’d on next sightings page

boat show, Experienced hands in Northern California know that January means cool sailing weather — and two boat shows.

Chronologically, the first of two shows is the International Boat Show at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. The show runs from January 3 through 11.

According to the Northern California Marine Association, which organizes the show, there will be over 150 sail and power boats featured, as well as showcases for the

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Exactly what boats will be at the show is never quite certain — at least until the show starts.

Admission to the show is $5 per person;children under 12 are free when accompanied by an adult. That’s not a bad deal when you consider that each day there’ll be drawings for prizes ranging in value from $200 to $2,000.

part i — cont’d the project. But not Dick. He finished college and then took a sales position with Bostitch to support the boatbuilding habit. At times it must have seemed an endless addiction, for the boat really wasn’t completed for 12 long years.

You can’t begin to imagine how big the boat is — and why she took so long

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L O A.65 Feet Beam.32 Feet

Draft.5 Feet Rig.Yawl

Sail Area. 2,700 Sq.Ft.

'Wanderlust': born in Pete’s Harbor.

32-ft beam doesn’t convey it adequately. Basically she’s three 65-ft monohulls with a huge upstairs. Let’s just say she sleeps 22 in comfort.

Wanderlust was based at Pete’s Harbor until 1975, at which time Nichol and 11 others took off for a cruise. They sailed through Mexico, Central America and the Canal to Florida. During the cruise Nichol realized two things; that cruising such a big boat was expensive, and that if he wanted to charter it to make a living he’d have to make some modifications. So while in Florida he and the crew increased the ventilation, installed bigger freezers, and otherwise set her up for charter.

Then he sailed to the Virgin Islands and put the boat in the trade. One of his very first clients was Paul McCartney and family. At the time Paul was cutting an album on a larger motoryacht.

In the subsequent 11 years, Nichol has had all kinds of guests. Celebrities like McCartney, entertainers like The Muppets’ Jim Henson, princes and princesses, scores of CEO’s, successful doctors and lawyers, and other fascinating people. The owners of the Fresh Ketch restaurant at the edge of Lake Tahoe have been guests several times. The restaurant now offers a drink called ‘The Wanderlust’. Utilizing ten different rums, it’s served in a ceramic miniature of Wanderlust. “One of those and you’re bombed,” he says.

Nichol says the charters, which last anywhere from a week to several weeks, are interesting because you live with the people closely 24 hours a day. “In many cases we end up knowing them better than their own families.”

A And while Nichol has been catering to the successes of the world for more than a decade, he hasn’t forgotten where he came from. He remembers a lot of the other boatbuilders from Pete’s. Mac Shroyer, for example, who was building a trimaran at Pete’s at the same time. Shroyer eventually went to Mexico and built boats for the locals for awhile, and most recently he’s developed the highly respected Marina de La Paz in Mexico. Nichol is delighted by Shroyer’s adventures.

The accommodations on Wanderlust are superb and extensive. There’s a standup bar in the main salon, as well as a big leather couch and chairs. The big teak table is varnished to a glossy perfection. There’s all the electronic equipment you could ask for, as well as a full size xerox machine.

As for toys, the ‘Pete’s Harbor Special’ could give the Queen Mary a run cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS boat show part i — cont’d for her money. She comes with a 20-ft Seacraft tender for water-skiing, sportfishing and scuba excursions; there’s also a Laser and Hobie Cat, and two sailboards. Nichol is a certified scuba instructor, and the boat is completely equipped with all scuba gear and a compressor.

With all the gear addqd on, Wanderlust isn’t the speedster she once was.

Whereas she once did 16 knots on a close reach, she doesn’t fly a hull anymore or get much over 12 knots. Of course, there aren’t many sailboats in the world that get over 12 knots, with or without 22 guests.

Wanderlust has been Nichol’s vision for a quarter of a century, more than half his life. He says he’s working harder than ever now, but really enjoying it. A hardcore diver and sailor, he gets to do what he loves. And, he makes a little bit of money at it.

Nichol did 28 charters last year, the prices starting at $12,000 a week for six people. Not bad for a homebuilt boat from Pete’s Harbor.

The International Boat Show hours are from noon to 10:00 p.m. on weekdays; from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Saturdays; and, from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Sundays. If you really want to look, weekdays are best. Second best times are early on Saturday or Sunday. ' The second show is the San Francisco Sports and Boat Show which has been held at the Cow Palace since what seems like about the turn-of-the-century. The Sports and Boat Show is exactly what the name implies, a sports show with boats. Many times more people attend this show than the one at the Moscone Center, but many of them don’t know —■ or care — anything about

hong kong capitalists to invade baja?

If you’re cruising in Mexico you may have heard reports that entre- > preneurial Hong Kong Chinese have cut a backroom deal with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado that allows them to set up a “free enterprise zone” within a small area of Baja California.

If you took a great big knife and sliced from Scammon’s Lagoon down to Bahia Ballena and included Cedros Island, you’d have outlined that area that’s said to have been earmarked as the so-called “ZEN region”. This would mean that Turtle Bay, for example, would be included and eventually subject to what’s been termed “a neutral form of government”.

According to reports that have appeared in Mexico City newspapers, some half-million Chinese will soon be arriving at that forlorn and sparsely populated area of earth. Knowing the ambitious Chinese, it wouldn’t stay that way long. In fact there have already been reports of a proposed “deepwater port” and entire cities built from scratch. Some investors have even been said to have already purchased entire floors of highrise seafront condominiums that won’t start construction for several years. Of course, if you knew the history of Hong Kong real estate, you’d want to get in on the ground floor, too.

While details in the Mexico City papers have been sketchy, it’s said that the deal was put together by President Hurtado and the top officers of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. The deal basically grants the bankers aqd industrialists a 99-year lease to the land. As you probably already know, Hong Kong is scheduled to revert back to the Chinese in just ten years, its 99-year lease having come to an end.

The response of Mexicans has run from cool to very angry. They’re used to the government making shady deals with businesses in which government officials and businesses make out — but in which the country and citizens get the shaft.

While getting in at the start of any booming investment would be a good idea, if anyone from the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. offers to let you invest in a marina — or even a berth — we suggest you pass. You see, Mark Twain, who has been six feet under for more than 50 years, is the one who is behind all this. It’s a credit to his name that he’s been able to create as great an uproar from the grave as when he was among the walking.

Twain, you have to understand, started what perhaps was America’s most unique and certainly most admired style of journalism while working at San Francisco newspapers and the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. For lack of a better name, it might be called the ‘Make-It-Up’ school of reporting. When he didn’t like the news, he made it up. Massacres, mining strikes, whatever crossed his fertile mind. Such fabulous creations, even Hunter Thompson would blush.

Although Twain’s been long dead, his spirit lives on in the Territorial Enterprise’s current publisher, Tom Muzzio. It was Muzzio, who, in what cont’d on next sightings page

nifty november, As Northern California winters go, this has been a mild one. A couple of inches of rain at the most.

There’s been plenty of sushine and nice gentle days of sailing. In the photograph below, a Santana 22 sails past Yellow Bluff

SIGHTINGS cont’d boats. We mention this so you’ll be prepared for very long lines at the popular boats if you attend during peak hours.

There will, however, be plenty of boats on display.

The Sports and Boat Show is open on weekdays between 1:00 and 10:30 p.m.; Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.; and, Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Before going to either show this year, make sure you check out this month’s Max Ebb. He offers up his own ‘Boat Show Strategy’.

Our tip? See ’em both. But not on the same day!

hong kong capitalists — cont’d amounted to a salute to Twain, made up the whole nonsense about the Chinese cutting a secret deal with the Mexican President to take control of a part of Baja.

It’s unclear how the article in the small paper ever made it to Mexico, but it sure did. According the Wall Street Journal, parts of the fabricated article as well as maps of the proposed “ZEN zone” were splattered over the front pages of several Mexican publications. There ensued such a stir that various department ministers proclaimed that the story was a fraud. Unfortunately, the Mexican government has lied to the people over matters like this before, so the denials weren’t that effective.

As one congressman from the main opposition party told the Journal, “The more the govenment denies it, the more we know it’s true.”

While the story was a complete fabrication, the concept may have been one of Mexico’s best hopes for economic revival. Meanwhile, we’re printing cont’d on next sightings page

delightful december on the way to enjoying just such a day.

If the weather keeps up, make sure you get out and enjoy your boat. You’ll be glad you did, because being couped up inside all winter is not what life’s all about.

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hong kong capitalists — cont’d up some Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation business cards to pass out at Baja-Ha Race Week. Flash them around while in Mexico and you might end up in a lot of trouble.

balcltitha’s birthday present On December 9, the iron bark Balclutha turned 100. The celebration aboard the centerpiece of the Maritime Museum’s historic ship collection was “in house,” concerned mainly with honoring the volunteers who rescued the ship from the Sausalito mud flats in the ’50s and did the major restoration work on her. This was only the first step in a centennial event that will culminate next June with a public celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship’s first arrival in the Bay. The ship’s big birthday present and main attraction for the past couple months has been the new figurehead. Tucked up out of the weather under cont’d on next sightings page

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January 16-18 the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s renowned museum of science and art, will present the All Hands-on Deck Festival.

The weekend-long event — which was produced in cooperation with the Golden Gate Challenge, the Coast Guard, the San Francisco Maritime Museum and the Oceanic Society — will focus on the art and science of sailing.

There will be special exhibits, demonstrations, lectures and films that will explore the physical phenomena that make sailing possible.

Furthermore, there will be a behind-thescenes look at how the revolutionary USA

SIGHTINGS on deck! was developed. Dr. Heiner Meldner, chief scientist and designer of the Northern California challenger, consulted with the Expioratorium for the exhibit.

Judging from the Exploratorium’s past work, this festival should be excellent. Admission for adults is $3. The Expioratorium — it’s within easy walking distance of the St. Francis YC parking lot — is open from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays, and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekends.

If you decide to go, go early. The last major festival drew 20,000 people, and it was just about bubbles!

For further information, call 563-3200.

balclutha’s birthday — cont’d the quarterdeck, amidst a froth of wood shavings, sculptor Greg Powlesland works to transform an 8-ft, 900-pound block of laminated yellow cedar into an exact likeness of the original figurehead.

Curiously, no one knows who the original represents. The Museum’s Karl

'Balclutha', as she hits the century mark.

Kortum guesses it’s most likely a relative or major investor of original owner Robert McMillan. (In support of this contention, it’s obvious that the model for the figurehead was not exactly picked for her physical beauty. As one shipwright observed, “that is the ugliest bitch I ever saw.”) They don’t know what kind of wood she’s made of, either. What they do know is that she is, quite literally, rotten to the core.

Powlesland, an Englishman who paid his own way over to do the job, has worked for the museum before. In fact, he did some woodworking on the historic ships there not long after arriving in the States for the first time aboard the Golden Hinde replica in 1975. He made that trip as a rigger. Now he is a full fledged and respected artist back home, a sculptor who has a penchant for old ships and for doing the job right. His earnings here go to help fund the restoration of the 1892 Camper and Nicholson cutter Marigold.

The not-quite-lost art of carving a figurehead, much less copying one, is not as easy as Greg makes it look. Initial cuts on the big block were unromantically done with a chainsaw. Now all that remains is whittling the rest away to match the original. By the time he’s done, Greg reckons he’ll have removed about 400 pounds from the block. He began the project October 20 and plans to have it completed by Christmas. Once completed and painted, the new figurehead attaches to the ship by means of huge bolts in much the same manner as a fin keel attaches to a small sailboat. The old figurehead will retire to a more benign existance at the Maritime Museum at the foot of Polk in the City.

We’ll have updates on the June celebration as it draws nearer. For now, if you’ve never been, Balclutha is attraction enough herself. The ship is located just west of Fisherman’s Wharf and is open to the public almost every day of the year. The fee is nominal. Cheese her out.

where are they now, part ii Anyone remember Andiamo, the Swan 55 Tom Harney bought on the east coast and brought to Sausalito a few years ago to refurbish? Sure you do, nicknamed Big A, she raced in the Pacific Cup, Sauza Cup, a TransPac and even started a Manzanillo Race.

The last time we saw Tom on the boat was about four years ago in Cabo San Lucas. He said he was on his way to the Caribbean to charter the boat.

We not sure if he was giving us the big whopper or not, but the next thing we heard Andiamo had been busted in San Diego for running dope. cont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS part ii — cont’d We never did learn what happened to Tom or whether he was involved, but Andiamo was forfeited to the Feds and spent most of the last three years on the hard in Southern California. It’s a terrible thing to see such a fine boat like that sit unused, so we were delighted to hear that the old Swan has an active future in front of her. In fact, if you read all the ads in the December issue of Latitude 38, you’ll know that new owners Richard and Jeni Johnson will be chartering the boat out of Marina de La Paz this winter.

As well as a new future, she’s got a new name: Orion. We’ll all recall that Orion was the Boeotian hunter who consumated his pending marriage to Merope prematurely. Her enraged father blinded him until the mystical healing powers of the sun restored his vision. When Orion died, Artemis turned him into a constellation, which is why you can still see him on any clear night.

Be that as it may, the Johnson’s and Orion have already departed for Mexico and chartering. As per the new laws, they’ll be working legally out of Mac Shroyer’s Marina de La Paz, both of which we mentioned in the previous Sightings.

As we understand it, Orion will charter in Mexico this winter season, then in Hawaii during the summer, and then in the South Pacific starting in latq 1987. ‘ s Those of you who are sharp will say, “How is it a foreign built hull can charter in the United States?” According to Johnson, who outbid nearly 50 others for the boat, Orion is exempted from that Jones Act restriction because it was forfeited to and later sold by the Feds. Isn’t law fun?

The Johnson’s have been sailing professionally for many years now, doing deliveries as well as charters. In Orion, they have something new, a charter boat they own themselves. Best of luck to them and their lovely lady.

does anyone think this is funny?

At 5:03 p.m. on Sunday, November 30, the Coast Guard received a mayday call from the sailing vessel Serena. The caller said Serena was a 45-ft sloop, positioned about 3V2 miles northwest of Fort Bragg. The boat was taking on water, he said, and the crew was abandoning and taking to liferafts.

The Coast Guard acknowledged, and the talker came back on the line once to confirm their call. Then . . . silence.

Like they do upwards of 3,000 times a year in the 12th District (Morro Bay to the Oregon border), the Coast Guard’s Search and Rescue (SAR) unit swung into action. Within minutes, two helicopters were airborne. Within half and hour, a C-130 and Falcon Jet had begun a search of the area.'A Coast Guard patrol boat was on scene by 6 p.m. For the next 46 hours, the Coasties would comb some 500 square miles of sea and coastline — twice — for arty sign of wreckage. In clear weather, they searched by sea, air and land, with personnel walking local beaches looking for telltale flotsam. They found nothing. On Tuesday afternoon, the seach was finally suspended. The conclusion: the mayday was a hoax.

In the 12th Coast Guard District, such false alarms occur on the frequency of more than one a day. In fiscal year 1986, the coasties responded to 373 false alarms, which amounted to 12.5 percent of their total SAR caseload. In 1985 it was even worse: 433 false alarms; 13.1 percent of all the search and rescue missions were initiated by — and this is dignifying them — practical jokers.

Folks like “Serena” cost the taxpayers millions. Per-case costs vary, but the Ft. Bragg response described above was fairly typical. It cost $96,000. More importantly, many SAR events, false or not, put Coast Guard lives at risk. A good example was the lavish and imaginative hoax pulled by a Mission Bay man last February.

On a foggy February day, Robert McCombs — from the comfort of a docked boat — invented a collision at sea between two boats off the Mission Bay jetty. Playing the roles of three different people on the “third” boat trying to rescue survivors, he clogged channel 16 for the next hour or two with tales of drownings, people adrift, injuries and general mayhem. He had cont’d on next sightings page

sixIf there’s one thing that racers really hate, it’s missing marks. In recent years, the Yellow Bluff buoy has been the most notorious for deserting its post. Many a race day found boats approaching the bluff zigzagging back and forth, deep scowls on the skipper’s faces and the navigator going, “Gee, it was right here last weekend.”

This year, Yellow Bluff has remained dutifully chained to its post while buoy six was removed for a few months for upkeep and improvement. (Despite notification, several race committees forgot and sent boats there anyway. Grumble, grumble.) It was recently returned to station off Fort Mason sporting new paint and improved “visibility” — buoy six is the first of the 11 YRA buoys to be fixed with a radar reflector.

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SIGHTINGS back The reflector, which up close looks like a sailboat radar reflector and from a distance looks like “a funny seagull”, was not put there to help racers. Few race boats have radar. Rather, it was YRA’s way of complying with the Coast Guard request that all privately maintained buoys be made more visible. The healthy blip from six will mostly benefit the Coast Guard and commercial craft that transit this busy corridor off the City Front.

For racers, six was never too hard to find, especially with a landmark like Fort Mason.

But the new and improved version may be just a little more visible for them, too. All they have to do is steer for Fort Mason and look for a funny-looking seagull.

this is funny? — cont’d everybody going, the Coast Guard, Harbor Police, San Diego Police, lifeguards, fire department and even local flyers — all looking for a made up disaster.

As the charade continued, Coast Guard helicopters had to fly perilously low in growing darkness to see below the thick fog. It wasn’t until McCombs radioed that he was about to administer open heart surgery to one of the victims that everyone knew they’d been had. Ha ha. In this case, however, the authorities had the last laugh. A Mission Bay Harbor Patrol boat just happened to be passing McCombs’ boat and saw him speaking as they listened on their radio. McCombs is now serving the maximum five-year prison term for willfully and knowingly perpetrating a false alarm. Under the maximum sentence for such an offense, he could have also been charged $10,000, as well as being raked over the coals by the FCC and any other state laws he might have violated.

The key words in the preceding paragraph are “willfully and knowingly”.

Purposely perpetrating a hoax is different than electronically yelling “wolf’ through negligence, such as accidentally turning on an EPIRB. Since few of cont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS this is funny? — cont’d them have an audible signal (and who can see that stupid little red light during the day), the only way you know its happened to you is figuring out that the planes, helos and the rest of the cavalry is homing in on your boat. This is both embarrassing and costly; $1,000 is the going fine, and not even blaming it on the ship’s cat will get you out of paying it. Incidentally, the false alarm statistics mentioned earlier are only for those willfully and knowingly false alarms. They don’t include the accidental activation of EPIRB and ELT (the EPIRB equivalent for aircraft) units. Those are even more common. In fact, one Coast Guard spokesman estimated that only three out of 100 EPIRB/ELT alarms constitute real emergencies! (gag, choke).

At present, no one has been killed or seriously hurt answering a false alarm. On the flip side, false alarms have not taken away from responses to true emergencies, either. Sooner or later, however, tragedy due to somebody’s sick idea of a joke seems inevitable. When that time comes, all you can do is hope the “joke” is not on you.

latitude 38 quiz What better way to start the new year than with a Latitude 38 Quiz?

This month’s quiz is simple — identify the boat below.

A couple of hints: — She’s a maxi. Well, a mini-maxi.

— She only came to the Bay once, and that was several years ago.

— Although she herself had once been declared a total loss, she came to the Bay as

“the bcdc has gone insane” The Bay Conservation and Development Commission, having recently strayed off course in an attempt to regulate recreational boating, has now run aground on the shoals of another bureaucracy. The Office of Administrative Law (OAL) is an arm of state government which was set up to watchdog regulating agencies to ensure that their rules make at least some sense. OAL recently rejected BCDC’s controversial new definition of “liveaboard boat”.

In an attempt to salvage the definition, BCDC has come forth with an explanation which allows us to see a little more of her keel.

The liveaboard definition triggers BCDC’s unwelcome limitation on the number of boats in marinas which can be occupied for more than 60 days by humans. BCDC’s current problem with the English language began when it undertook in the first place to consider people living on boats as “fill”. Having made that mistake, it became necessary to force-fit more words in order to define living on a boat. The proposed definition of a liveaboard boat is a boat capable of navigation and which is occupied “with the intent of being used as a primary residence”. Since that phrase was confusing to OAL and everyone but the BCDC, the Commission now finds it necessary to explain what “intent” means in BCDC parlance.

In its apology to the OAL, BCDC reminds us that it is not so much the state of our minds but the functions of our bodies that endanger the Bay. If we stay around too long, some of our bodily fluids may drip down into the water. It follows that if we stay on our boats for 61 days or more, but we do not intend to make them our primary residences, somehow, we won’t drip. I plan to try it for 60 days and see if it works. I’ll be able to use the area now occupied by the head for a new rope locker.

If you follow this at all, you will now ask how BCDC will find out what our intent is. BCDC lists seven ways it can tell: 1. how often and how much one spends time on the boat; 2. what activities one does on the boat; 3. how much time one spends and what one does somewhere else; 4. where one receives one’s mail; 5. where one is registered to vote; 6. anything one has said about intending to use a boat as a primary residence; and 7. whether one has claimed a property tax exemption based on residency.

If you do any of these things and BCDC finds out, you are hurting the Bay . . . and BCDC will find out if you do number 7. The new tax law will force many boat owners to claim residency on their boats for tax purposes.

Although BCDC might not know what you are doing and for how long when you are not in their bay, it would not be difficult to find out what you told the IRS or the state tax people. If BCDC catches you on any one of the seven listed sins, BCDC can shift the burden to you to prove you don’t have the evil intent. If that happens, you may find it as difficult to prove your innocence as cont’d on next sightings page page 110

SIGHTINGS the bcdc — cont’d latitude 38 quiz a replacement for the owner’s other boat. A boat, by the way, with the same name as this one.

What do you say, do any of these clues ring a Bell?

If you’re the first one with the correct answer, you receive a Roving Reporter T-shirt. This quiz is open to everyone but pros.

it would have been for BCDC to prove your guilt, only now you have to do the proving, not them. Viewed in that light, it isn’t funny any more.

The reason why BCDC has gone insane is probably that it has nothing to do these days. The staff, being bright, well-meaning people have to think up imaginary threats to the Bay in order to justify their existence. Unfortunately, this has gone so far that BCDC has deluded itself into thinking people are fill, and to prove it, BCDC has chosen to use “intent”. Nobody 1 know intends to be fill. But “intent” is a very illusive and intangible thing, so I suppose it is the only thing BCDC could find to support its illusionary campaign against problems that don’t exist. The Commission staff never did show that liveaboards hurt the Bay, and by resorting to “intent” to define something that does not cont’d on next sightings page

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were we having bay

exist I thought that the whole affair was amusing but of no real consequence.

That, however, was before the tax reform.

We never could ignore the tax man; now we may not be able to continue to ignore the BCDC thought police.

— kenneth Wilson, attorney v missing children richmond, ca

yes!!

About the article last month on the Bay Bridge celebration: My condolences to the skipper and crew who provided a practice target for all the novice seamen. Without offending them, I would like to present the other side of the dabloon.

We are members of the Tiburon YC, which was having a cruise-in that night to the San Francisco YC. After a slow evening meal we welcomed fifty club members and our good cruising friends Bob and Gail Jensen, aboard our trawler, Provider.

Departing S.F.Y.C., it was about an hour’s trip, weaving our way through the maze, to the Cityfront. After finding the Coast Guard safety zone, we selected an area that looked barely large enough for our boat and dropped the pick in 60 feet of water. There was a 2V2 knot flood (sumlog)

magico gringo That translates to Gringo Magic, and no, it’s not the latest effort of Americans cruising in Mexico to recapture the America’s Cup. Magico Gringo is a 21-ft Victory Class sloop that nearly ended its career as a derelict in the Cal Sailing Club’s boat storage yard. Purchased by Paul Rosenthal of the Berkeley YC for a whopping $300 (including trailer), the boat was repaired, rebuilt, and transformed into a Sea of Cortez cruiser.

The major modification was decking over most of the large non self-bailing cockpit, to make the boat swamp-proof and add some stowage space below.

Paul also performed some major upgrades on the chainplates, bow, ^nd rigging.

The plan is for the boat to make a one-way trip only. After a month or so of sailing the Sea of Cortez in the La Paz area, Paul will find a secure place to store the boat — most likely on the trailer in some amigo’s back yard — and corn'd on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS magico gringo — cont’d bridge birthday fun? yes!! which kept our stern in full view of the show.

And what a show it was! There was music, explosions, lights, cheering, oohing, and ahhing. The presentation was more spectacular than the display for the opening of the 1984 Olympics, the Tall Ships parade on the 4th of July, or the display for the Los Angeles Street Scene. While anchored, several boats maneuvered very close but no contact was made. Two other boats drifted by dragging toy anchors. In the area where we were, we saw no stanchion bending or gelcoat chipping.

Under the light of a full moon and the air being very warm, all hands stayed on deck and not seeking shelter below. We returned to the bar at the S.F.Y.C. and toasted the pleasant experience we had just witnessed.

— dan higgins and jane hughes

then fly back to Berkeley. Magico Gringo will be ready and waiting for the next trip south.

Paul hasn’t been to specific about just who else he’ll let sail the boat while he’s back here in the upper 48. But around the Berkeley YC, there’s already a long waiting list for Sea of Cortez Race Week. The boat has a PHRF rating of 276, and a very big spinnaker.

What does all this prove? You don’t have to be rich to go yachting in Mexico. And you don’t have to be very crazy, either.

sea of cortez? baja-ha ha-ha!

For those of you who have forgotten or never got the word, the Fourth Annual Sea of Cortez (Baja-Ha) Race Week will start in La Paz on Sunday afternoon, March 29th. The following morning the fleet will race — or cruise — up to Caleta Partida some 24 miles away. Festivities will continue there until Sunday morning, April 5.

There are no fees for anyone, and everybody is invited. That means folks who just bought wracked up old Victory’s for $300 as well as million dollar Swan 651’s. Of course, you don’t even have to own a boat. If you want to show up and camp at Caleta Partida, you are quite welcome. And don’t worry, you’ll have a way out and back.

Campers must remember, however, there is nothing — and we mean nothing — at Caleta Partida but the temporary Corona/Pacifico beer concession. You must be totally self-sufficient by bringing everything you need.

As usual, there will be races on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entries will be separated into different divisions, broken down by how serious and equipped they are for racing. Loaded down cruising boats are not going to be in the same class with ultralight boats trailed down for the Week. Depending on the winds, the slower boats may sail shorter courses. The racing is for fun, as such there will be no protests.

If you’re not a racer, don’t think Baja-Ha isn’t for you. Historically, only about a fifth of the boats at Race Week actually race. Most come to make friends and renew old acquaintances. This is facilitated by group activities such as volleyball, horseshoes, boardsailing, dinghy races, spear fishing, beach beer drinking, sand scuplture, to say nothing of wet t-shirt, bikini and wet buns contests. And that’s not to mention the evening talent nights and barbecues on the beach. i Is there anything else that would make Race Week more fun? If you can think of anything, let us know, cause we’ll do our best to facilitate it.

Incidentally, there are only two things prohibited. One is public drunkeness; you can drink, but not to the point where you annoy others.

Two; you can’t go naked at Caleta Partida because it offends our hosts. If you need that all over tan, just slip around the corner to the next cove where others can’t see you. Baja-Ha is family style fun, in fact nobody has enjoyed them more than the kids.

Once again this year, the good folks from the Corona and Pacifico beer distributorship in La Paz will have lots of cold cerveza for sale on the beach.

They also graciously provide the tents, tables, ^chairs, generator, sound system and lights. They are our friends!

Over the years we’ve had lots of continuing Mexican sponsors, and this year we’re glad to say that some American companies will be chipping in to make Baja-Ha a bigger success. For example, the folks at West Marine Products are donating the pig that will be roasted on the beach. You bring a pot-luck dish and we’ll see that you get some of the pig. The pig will be cooked using the charcoal provided by Downwind Marine of San Diego. In fact, Downwind will be official Baja-Ha charcoal supplier for the entire week.

Patagonia, the company whose clothing just about all sailors wear, has donated foul weather outfits for the Queen and King of Race Week. We’ve never had a King before, so somebody is going to figure out how he’ll be selected. We’ll let the women handle that. Seabreeze Ltd in San Diego is also cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS baja-ha-ha-ha! — cont’d going to be donating something, as is Zephyr Wind Research.

Folks, Baja-Ha is a great place to meet people, cool your jets, learn to boardsail and have a little fun. See if you can make it, we’re certain you’ll be glad you did. Primary sponsors of Sea of Cortez Race Week are the La Paz YC, Sea of Cortez Xacht Charters, Corona Beer, and the Department of Tourism.

ace heads south In her day, she was the best.

The 1920’s: the war in Europe was over, “Silent Cal” Coolidge was in the White House and America was fast becoming a nation of sports nuts.

Baseball fans flocked to see New York’s slugger Babe Ruth. Horse racing aficionados paid homage to a strapping thoroughbred named Man ’O War. In the yacht clubs of San Francisco Bay, one of the favorite topics of conversation was the boat nobody could beat, Art Russo’s damnably fast Ace. Ace was an R-boat, a 43-ft sloop built to a formula of length, displacement and sail area in much the same way as today’s IOR boats. “R”, the smallest of five developmental classes delineated by the rule, designated boats whose measurements figured out to just under 20. (The largest and most famous racers built under the Universal Rule were the J-Boats. In fact, at 120-some feet each, they were largest class racing yachts ever built.) In the ’20s and early ’30s, R’s, or “20 raters” as they were also called, were the most widely distributed and active class of sloops in the country. Fleets were active up and down the east coast, Great Lakes and west coast.

When Art Russo had Ace built at the Madden and Lewis Yard in 1925-26, there was already a strong R-boat fleet in the Bay. But when the new Charlie Mower design hit the water, it instantly made them all obsolete. For the next dozen-odd years, Ace was at or near the top of everything she entered. She owned the prestigious San Francisco Perpetual Trophy from 1926 to 1928, and again in 1931 (the Perpetual Cup was raced in 6-Meters in ’29 and ’30.)

In the early ’40s, Jack Demantle bought the boat and kept winning with her.

Ironically, the boat was so good that she raced herself right out of competition (another similarity to IOR). With no hope of winning, competitors stopped coming out and the local R-boat fleet eventually disbanded in the late ’60s. Up until a few years ago, Jack and a core of faithful continued to race the old girl in handicap competition.

Recently, Ace was sold, fittingly, to another graying dreamer. “All I heard all my life growing up was ‘R-Boats’,” says John Langton, a Southern California doctor. “My father had one, but the boat everybody talked about up and down the coast was Ace. Ever since I was a young man, I dreamed about owning that boat.” That dream never died and about three years ago, Langton began a determined search to see if the boat still existed. Says veteran Ace crewman John Schutz, “He’d fly up here and check the marinas. I think he walked every dock in the whole Bay.” Langton finally found what he was looking for in a slip at the St. Francis YC. It took him two years to con vice Demantle to sell.

A deal was finally struck. Demantle let go of his dream and Langton embraced his. The day that Ace was loaded aboard a truck for her trip south, a small crowd — mostly older — came to say good-bye. Among the group were Schutz and other former crewmen, competitors; even 74-year-old Warren Jones, who as a young man helped build the boat.

And then she was gone. On the Long Beach end, Langton was so excited he reportedly started sanding almost before the truck stopped. Total restoration may be somewhere down the line, but Demantle kept the boat in fine shape and right now Langton wants to sail. By the time you read this, the boat will have new paint and varnish throughout, and will have her refinished original mast restepped and rigged. She’ll eventually be berthed in Newport Harbor.

Schutz watched from the Marin headlands as Ace made her last trip out of the Bay on a trailer. “For 50 years she raced under the Gate,” he says. cont’d on next sightings page page I I4

SIGHTINGS ace heads south — cont’d “Now, for the first time, she’s gone over it.”

The faithful will miss her. In her day, she was the best.

save time as well as wear and tear?

Let’s be honest. Going to weather in a small boat for an afternoon is allright. But going to weather in a small boat for a week, ten days, or a month is not so much fun.

The fact that the Pacific Northwest is to weather from San Francisco is one of the major reasons it’s not a primary destination for Northern California sailors. And the fact that California is upwind from Baja is one of the main reasons that disillusioned owners try to sell their boats down there.

The alternative to sailing your own boat to weather has always been getting someone else to do it. And it’s been an increasingly popular option over the years. But now it appears there will be yet another option: shipping your boat by ship. Only a few destinations will be covered, but they’re the most popular ones.

Boat Shippers of Newport Beach is the company that’s trying to pioneer this concept. Working with Mexico City industrialist, Jesus Silva Lopez, Boat Shippers is in the process of acquiring a 430-ft freighter that will be used to ship power and sailboats from Long Beach and San Diego to Cabo San Lucas this winter, and then from San Diego and Long Beach to San Francisco and Vancouver, British Columbia in June. They hope to offer service between San Francsico and Cabo San Lucas by next winter.

Boats will be lifted aboard and unloaded using the ship’s own slings. Each boat will be provided with a cradle. Sailboats will go as deck cargo, with all masts and rigging left standing.

Pete Maddox, who is in charge of marketing, says Boat Shippers is primarily looking to carry boats in the 20 to 50-foot range, although they can take boats up to 50 gross tons, and are looking for ways they can accommodate the maxi sleds that will be competing in the Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas races this spring. Approximately 80 to 100 pleasure boats can be carried on each trip.

Eventually, Boat Shippers envisions having their vessel serve as a floating boatyard. Thus while your boat is being delivered from Cabo San Lucas to Long Beach, you’ll be able to have a crew paint the bottom. But they’d better work fast. The run from Cabo to San Diego only takes 2.5 days.

The price for the service is competitive with having a delivery crew do the work. A round trip from Long Beach to Cabo for a 20-footer is $1,500; for a 30-footer it’s $2,700; for a 40-footer it’s $4,400; and for a 50-footer it’s $6,250.

Since most sailors enjoy the normal run down to Cabo San Lucas, it’s the one way price back you might be interested in. From Cabo to Long Beach, a 28-footer is $1,500; a 32-footer is $1,750; a 44-footer is $3,300; and, a 50-footer, $3,750. Prices include hauling the boat aboard, offloading, the cradle — everything but insurance. Maddox says that he’s talked to many insurance companies, and that extra insurance wouldn’t be necessary.

While fees for delivery crews vary, $2 a mile plus plane tickets and food is about average. Given the competitive pricing and the fact a shipped boat would endure far less wear than sailing to weather on its own bottom, Boat Shippers may have a viable alternative.

The first shipment of boats is scheduled to arrive in Cabo San Lucas on the 16th of January. We plan to have a direct report to see how it worked out.

After the initial shipment, there will be seven more before the season ends in June. Before the month of June is over, however, service will begin to San Francisco and Vancouver. This service will continue until September.

Thirty days advance reservation is needed to ship a boat.

As far as Boat Shippers knows, this idea has never been tried. Whether the concept’s time has come remains to be seen, but the company reports having already received 600 inquires.

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we’re on a road to nowhere Back when we were about 18, a successful San Francisco entrepreneur admonished us never to be a lender.

Naturally we asked why not.

He explained that about a year previously a friend had badgered him for a loan to start a business About six months later the business went under and the guy couldn’t pay the loan back.

Now our friend was pretty well off, so it wasn’t the loss of money that bothered him. No, what really got to him was that the guy who he’d lent the money to now hated him. “If you hadn’t have lent me the money,” the guy told him, “I never would have gone bankrupt. It’s all your fault.”

Well, thanks a lot.

We’re reminded of this by the lawsuits that have been filed by crewmembers against owners in the last several years. The latest of these was

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Speaking of seasons, the winter solstice was just a few days before Christmas. You know what that means, don’t you? Each day is a little longer than the one before. If that isn’t good news, we don’t know what is.

it’s 1987 a blood alcohol level count of .10 or higher.

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road to nowhere — cont’d filed on August 21 by William Weiss, a San Francisco attorney, on behalf of the plaintiff, Tory Burke, of Marin County. The defendent is J-Boats West, Don Trask, and the usual John Does 1 thru 20.

The suit is titled a “Seaman’s Complaint for Personal Injuries under the Jones Act and the General Maritime Law”. It was filed in State Superior Court in San Francisco.

According to those familiar with the incident, a couple of years back — February 22, 1984 to be specific — Don Trask let a group of eleven or so women use the J-35, Smokin’ J, in a Women’s Racing Association race on San Francisco Bay. A longtime supporter of youth, women’s, and senior’s racing — as well as a promoter of J-Boats — this was not the first or last time Trask had allowed women to use a J-Boats West sailboat in a race. In this particular instance his daughter, Jill, helped organize the crew. But according to a woman who had been lent boats previously and subsequently to the day in question, Jill’s participation was never a condition of the use of boats.

One of Northern California’s most experienced and successful racers, Trask has been an understanding lender. Sometimes boats hit buoys or one another and get damaged; and this happened to one of the J-Boats Trask lent out for a WRA race. According to an individual close to that situation, Trask didn’t get angry, become distant or deny the use of boats in the future.

In short, Trask has a reputation for being gracious with his boats to those who otherwise might not be able to race.

All that aside, on February 22 of 1984 the group of women took Smokin’ J racing in moderate weather. According to the suit filed, because the boat “was manned by an undersized and incompetent crew . . . Tory Burke . . . was caused to kneel down on an exposed cotter pin while attempting to collect a spinnaker which was in the water, injuring various parts of her body, including but not limited to, her right knee, which injuries have caused, and will continue to cause, her great mental, physical, and nervous pain and suffering ...”

In the suit’s Third Cause of Action, it’s alleged that Burke “was disabled from resuming any related employment, and is therefore entitled to maintenance, care, cure and wages for the duration of the disability.”

The exact extent of the plaintiffs injuries aren’t stated. Calls to attorney Weiss to ascertain this information were not returned. According to a crewmember on the boat at the time'of the incident, the cotter pin ripped a hole in Burke’s jeans. There was some blood. “Less than from a cut when shaving,” is how one witness described it.

Of course, bleeding is a poor indicator of how serious an injury might be.

One could damage tendons and ligaments without much loss of blood.

Burke did finish the race and walk off the boat without a noticeable problem.

Fellow sailors said she later wore a knee brace, but ironically would remove it when racing. Even more ironically, when racing on some J-Boats.

Getting sued is never fun, but for the defendent this case has to be even more unpleasant, for the suit is invoking what is known as The Jones Act’.

The Act was created back in the 1920’s to protect the right’s of professional mariners in what was then a very dangerous occupation. In general, the Jones Act offers greater protections and more generous ‘cures’ to plantiffs than do actions under other statu.

As the suit itself later notes, provisions of Maritime Law mean that the Defendents warrant to the plaintiff that the “vessel, its decks, equipment, tackle and apparel are seaworthy and reasonably fit for their intended use.”

Precedent has shown that what’s meant by “reasonably fit” is that every damn thing on the boat must be in letter perfect condition for every possible eventuality. We doubt that one boat in 100 on the Bay meets such a standard.

The Jones Act, however, was never created with recreational sailors in mind. Thus, in order to invoke it, it has to be shown that a plaintiff was an employee of the defendent. In this case that Tory Burke was employed by cont'd on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS road to nowhere — cont’d Don Trask or J-Boats West.

According to those familiar with Trask and J-Boats West, Burke never worked for either — at least in any normal sense of employment. Does this mean we’re seeing the old ‘soda and sandwiches’ argument? The one that goes ‘sandwiches were'provided, sandwiches are compensation, therefore 1 was an employee of yours’. Possibly. Part of the First Cause of Action reads, “At all times herein mentioned, Plaintiff was employed by Defendents as a member of the crew of said special purpose vessel.”

Later in the suit, it’s claimed that “Plaintiff was acting in the service of the vessel Smokin’ J, and was performing duties of the type traditionally performed by a seaman. This sounds an awful lot like the ‘if it looks, feels, walks, quacks and smells like a duck, then it is a duck’ line of reasoning. In other words, if you do everything a seaman would do, you are a seaman — even though you and your ‘employer’ don’t know it.

It’s unclear whether such arguments fly in court.

Whatever the line of reasoning, whatever the outcome, it doesn’t herald the greatest news for boatowners who have enjoyed lending their boats, or for those who’ve had to rely on boats being lent in order to race. All things equal, a sensible boatowner is going to have to think three or four times before lending his boat again.

Sure, the boatowner might have insurance, but that’s mostly beside the point. So is the fact that the defendent may eventually prevail in court. Plaintiffs have no trouble finding lawyers willing to take cases on a contingency basis, especially with so many cases being settled for the ‘nuisance value’. But just try and find a lawyer who will defend you on a contingency basis.

Naturally the animal doesn’t exist, because under our legal system, when you’re named a defendent in a suit you’ve already lost. It’s just a matter of how much.

In addition to the fact that getting sued is a royal pain in the butt and psyche, the lending boatowner is likely to face increased insurance premiums or even denial of coverage. All these wonderful things in return for being a gracious boatowner with a bent cotter pin.

Don’t get us wrong, we think there ought to be recourse for people injured on boats. But it ought to be tempered with the realization that crew have responsibilities, too. Like checking the boat out before using it, like not carelessly falling off the boat, like not standing up in the middle of a controlled jibe, like not getting drunk, etc. Perhaps doubly so when a boat is borrowed. x Sailboat racing can be a dangerous sport. Big bruises, blood, and fractured knuckles are par for the course. Getting decked with a spinnaker pole, falling through an open hatch, and similar more serious injuries aren’t uncommon.

Historically, most sailors have simply accepted such injuries as part of the game. But society has become more litigous, and since sailing is a part of society we’re seeing more sailing lawsuits.

What we’re likely to see less of is boat lending. When approached for the use of a boat, smart owners are going to say ‘no’. Or they could say: ‘Allright, if you get your own insurance,’ which is nothing more than the polite way to say ‘no’.

We’re not 18 anymore. We’re older, wiser — and sadder. For now it is our turn to admonish others not to lend.

while oh the legal front It’s worth noting that the Marine Retailers Association of America put together seven recommendations for tort-reform, the current tort system sometimes being referred to as “the social welfare system for lawyers”. Four of the major recommendations are: 1. liability based on fault.

2. sliding scale limits on lawyer contingency fees.

3. a $100,000 limit on non-economic (‘pain and suffering’) damages.

4. liability based on comparative responsibility and limited ‘deep pockets’ cont’d on next sightings page

wake up, affect judgement, decrease coordination and change moods and behavior).

— If you have been arrested under reasonable cause that you’re smashed, you may be requested to submit to a blood, V breath or urine test.

— If you cause an accident that results in a death, you may be charged with vessel manslaughter. Nobody knows this better than actor Ryan O’Neal’s son, who was at the wheel of a high powered dinghy when director Francis Coppola’s sdn was virtually decapitated by a tow line connecting two

winter A friendly reminder. Even though you don’t use your boat as much in the winter, don’t neglect it. Stop by once in a while to

SIGHTINGS — cont’d other boats. Young O’Neal was charged but not convicted.

— If you’re under 12 years of age — chronologically speaking — you can’t operate a vessel over 10 h.p. unless someone 18 or over accompanies you. There is one exception, however, and that’s when a dinghy is being used between a moored vessel and shore.

— And, last but not least, those under 12 years of age cannot operate a boat towing a skier or operate a jet-ski.

warning fire up the engine, turn on the electronics and check the pumps. Or else maybe . . .

while on the legal front — cont’d liability.

The chances of tort reform passing have been severely damaged, however, by two factors. The first is that with recently jacked up rates and a year short on catastrophes, insurance companies are now showing excellent profits. When they’re raking it in, it’s hard for them to push reform.

The second factor working against tort reform is the new make-up of the United States Senate. With the Democrats in control, Joe Biden and Fritz Hollings now chair the Judiciary Committee and Commerce Committees respectively. Both these committees are crucial to any tort reform, but heads Biden and Hollings are both former trial lawyers. Consequently, there’s a greater chance of the ousted America II winning the America’s Cup than meaningful tort reform in the United States.

On a statewide level, the same situation holds true. The vast majority of California legislators are lawyers, and since they’re not about to vote against their financial interests, reform bills never even get out of committee.

The expression “stuck between a rock and a hard place” has become a euphemism for being caught between the lawyers and the insurance companies. God help us all.

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hey got down to the short strokes in Perth, Australia, during the third round robin series from December 2nd to 15th. While the Kiwis rolled on unbeaten, the New York Yacht Club’s America II, considered one of the strongest contenders to vie for the Cup against the defending Australians, was shown the door. The Golden Gate Challenge’s USA, the long shot entry with the front rudder and geek keel, edged its way into third place overall to set up a grudge match with Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes. Many people who didn’t want to be home for Christmas were anyway. Those who stayed Down Under were glad to be there, and opened their presents with a cheery “G’Day, mate.”

For our home town heroes on USA,-the December series started shakily but skipper Tom Blackaller and the crew managed to pull through at the end. They had actually drawn a good schedule from the hat, starting off against weak opponents such as Italia and Challenge France. Their last heats were against the toughies: America II, French Kiss and New Zealand. The plan was to work more kinks out of the dual-rudder system in the early going and be at top speed by the end. Except for a few foul ups against the bunnies, that’s how it worked out.

USA was not the only 12 Meter to lose a sail overboard in Round Two, but their loss to Eagle during that series because of a jib that went into the drink was especially painful. They knew they could beat the Newport Harbor entry, and the loss of five points hurt as they battled White Crusader for the fourth and final semifinal berth. In the opener of Round Three, where each win counted 12 points, the embarrassment must have been acute as the chute got away from sewerman Bruce Epke during a takedown and ended

Kiss ‘Kiss’ goodbye.

Squash Big Dennis.

Pee Wee on the Kiwis, up around the keel. Imagine chewing gum and blowing a bubble as big as your head and having the sucker pop all over your face and hair. That was what it was like trying to extricate hundreds of yards of spinnaker

from under USA. Blackaller and the boys took off in hot pursuit, coming to within 1 minute, 36 seconds and then pulled out the s jib tack fitting. At the finish, the Italians were

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out loss, and the USA came back to win eight of the next nine. The only defeat came at the hands of Buddy Melges and his Heart Of America. The Zenda Zoomer had won

only five races out of 23 in the first two rounds. For the finale, his design team added some super wide wings on their keel.

So wide, in fact, that they reportedly broke the surface to windward when the yacht heeled over. (Which would make you think twice about trying to sail over HOA on a

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Buddy started Round Three with an upset win over America II, knocking the New Yorkers out of second place in the standings for the first time since October. In heat four, Heart Of America overcame USA by the third leg of the 24.5 mile course and stayed ahead for a 36 second win. USA’s mainsail zipper, which is released off the wind to increase the sail’s draft, let go during the second weather leg. Even though the crew was able to close it, no pressure could be applied, rendering the main less effective. The loss shoved USA down to sixth place overall and the climb back up looked gruesome.

Even though he may be at times brash and overbearing, you can’t fault Blackaller for lack of grit. A three-second win over White Crusader was followed by a spirited 42-second win over Dennis Conner and Stars & Stripes. The win was USA’s second out of three against the San Diego entry, whose skipper has wondered aloud how Blackaller can run a 12 Meter campaign “with the mind of a 12 year old.” That’s okay, Tommy thinks his old Star class rival has been “weird” ever since he became obsessed with sailing 12 Meters. His mother probably wears Army boots, too.

Conner had been telling the press during the December series that his yacht needed a

part of USA’s win, perhaps, was that it came in blustery 20 to 25 knots of “Fremantle Doctor” conditions. According to USA sailmaker Larry Herbig, who was on hand for the contest, “Dennis tried to drag race Tom upwind, but discovered he couldn’t pass him.”

USA began to confront gauntlets ashore as well as on the race course. On December 10th, White Crusader filed a protest saying that USA had changed rudders illegally during the third round, which violated the rules of the elimination series. In the second heat against Challenge France, the forward foil had cracked and partially disintegrated starting on the third weather leg. L^rry Herbig says that by the time they returned to the dock, “it looked like a brush made out of carbon fibers.”

The English protest was a desperation move. If USA could be penalized by taking away the four wins (and 48 points) they had achieved with the replacement rudder, the Brits would have a better chance of surviving for the semifinals. The protest was heard on December 11th, but after 11 hours it was thown out. The protest committee found that the crew of USA had consulted with the official measurer after the accident. He concluded that the rudder was damaged beyond repair. Without adequate time to build another one, they agreed to put the original blade from Round One back on. There was no reason to disqualify the San Francisco entry because of the accidental damage.

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In the critical race with ‘Kiss’, ‘USA’ trailed (above), but then stormed back (right) to win.

breeze to win, and most observers agreed that the blue hulled sloop went better in winds over 15 knots. The most impressive

eanwhile, back out on the water, another grudge match was shaping up.

Standing between USA and the magical fourth place was America II. The New York Yacht Club boys were beginning to realize that something was very wrong with their steed. Buddy Melges had whipped them and Canada II had given them a good scare.

America II was displaying some serious weaknesses and at precisely the wrong time.

Their two years of practicing in Perth had given them an early advantage, but other teams were reaching their potentials and gaining the upper hand.

The start was shaky for both USA and America II. Both were over early and USA had to clear herself twice before she could get underway, giving Kolius a 28 second head start. Blackaller cut that by five seconds at the first weather mark and then caught a shift on the run to take the lead and was never headed afterwards.

ALLRIGHT!!!

The final nail was driven in America Hs coffin the following day when they lost to New Zealand while USA beat French Kiss.

A jubilant Dennis Conner after ‘Stars & Stripes' edged ‘Kiss’ in their important battle.

Kolius led the Kiwis for five of eight legs and was only 15 seconds behind at the finish.

But it might as well have been 15 hours. For the first time in 132 years, the New York Yacht Club was not going to be part of the America’s Cup finals. Heartbroken, skipper Kolius faced the press and told them that the NYYC was not a nameless entity. “A lot of people shed tears on our dock tonight,” he said, holding back a few himself.

Blackaller revelled in the NYYC’s elimination. During his unsuccessful 1983 campaign aboard Defender, he felt the club’s top brass had screwed him over in favor of their pet Dennis Conner. Kolius and his tactician John Bertrand of San Francisco had been his sparring partners on Courageous and ended up beating Defender in the American eliminations. Blackaller had said that he thought the long, laborious America II campaign was an oppressive way to run a sailing campaign. Sitting down the press table from Kolius, Blackaller squealed with laughter and pounded the table in joy when Kolius said that if there was a next time he would “do it like Tom, with a minimum of preparation and relying on a gimmick.”

Back home at the St. Francis Yacht Club, the folks at the bar were equally festive. Tom

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reportedly sent them a telegram calling for free drinks and all they could eat, including the cooks. The return message to the USA crew was “Great going. Kiss French Kiss goodbye, squash big Dennis and Fee Wee on the Kiwis!”

T 1 he final pieces to the puzzle fell into place on the last day of Round Three. USA was pitted against New Zealand, the juggernaut that had won 32 of out 33 races and had lost none in Round Two or Three. The

Paul Cayard, who some think is the ‘USA’s best driver, ponders how to thwart the Kiwi’s, who have been on top since the beginning.

Kiwis led by 15 seconds at the first mark, losing a bit downwind and regaining ground upwind. Blackaller took the opportunity to

speed test against New Zealand, trying out different sail combinations with an eye towards the semifinals. If French Kiss had won their race against Italia, the San Franciscans would have ended up fourth overall and faced the Kiwis in the first round of the semis starting on December 28th. The French blew their race, however, putting them on the course with New Zealand while second place Stars & Stripes lined up with third place USA. The winner of those two matches then duke it out for the right to race against the Australians.

USA was not the only object of a technicality protest. The New Zealanders’ fiberglass hull had been suspect from the beginning of Round One, especially because they were so fast. Spectators noted that the glass boat moved through the waves better than the aluminum versions, and the Kiwi bowmen don’t get doused by waves as often the others. Dennis Conner wondered out loud why anyone would want to be the first to compete with a fiberglass 12 Meter “unless it were to cheat.” There were calls to have the boat “cored”, where holes are drilled into the hull to check the density. The fear on the part of Conner and others was that the boat was laid up light in the ends, which would account for its relative smooth ride in a seaway. Michael Fay, head of the New Zealand syndicate, said that such a surgery to his yacht would be “done over my dead body.”

All four yachts were remeasured after Round Three to make sure of their legality.

America II stayed fully rigged at the dock and their crew at the ready in case one of the four finalists failed the test and the New Yorkers could squeek in the back door. All four passed, however, including New Zealand.

Test holes were even drilled in her hull, but only after Michael Fay kept his word (sort of) and prostrated himself in front of the measurer with the drill in his hand.

On the eve of first race of the semi-finals, the French were still not content to let New Zealand rest. They argued that the tests were not accurate and were going to take their case to a court in New York City. The races, then, would be held under legal protest.

(Possible future scene on the Cityfront: “Hey, your mainsail is an inch over the black band. You’ll hear from my lawyer in the morning!”)

T he Australian defender eliminations have been no less contentious. Iain Murray’s Kookaburra III continued to roll along in the lead over Australia IV and Kookaburra II. Kill had a disturbing tendency to always win against KII, thereby gaining valuable points over Alan Bond’s Australia IV in the race for the final elimination. Kevin Parry is the king pin behind both Kookaburra’s, and he was being accused of team racing the boats by Australia IVs Alan Bond. The pugnacious Bond had been likewise charged when he had Australia III in the hunt as well. The latter, which won the 12 Meter Worlds only a year earlier, was retired for being out of date.

The biggest suprise in the Australian camp was Syd Fischer’s Steak ’N Kidney from Sydney. A new keel had turned the dog of the fleet into a greyhound. Going into the final elimination series before the sail off to determine the defender, however, Steak ’N Kidney had no mathematical chance of winning. The race committee changed the points system for the fourth round so at least the tail ender had a chance if they won every

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For the eight challenging syndicates that didn’t make the final cut, there was suddenly nothing more to do except pack up and try to get home for Christmas. John Kolius reportedly took off early, leaving tactician John Bertrand to handle the press and other details. The young Bertrand handled the stress well and appeared to have been better equipped to deal with the loss than his skipper. In contrast, the Eagle syndicate held a huge Irish wake for their campaign. Seven hundred people drank and carried on into the night. Ironically, the last piece of music to be played was the Australian band Men At Work’s “Do you come from the land Down Under?,” which had been the Aussie’s theme song in 1983 at Newport, Rhode Island.

.T or the four remaining challengers, the tension was building to a fever pitch. Stars & Stripes and French Kiss went in for immediate surgery after Round Three, the former to have her transom shortened, the latter for a rumored new keel. Conner practiced against Australia IV on December 26th and was reportedly faster upwind and even downwind in 30 knots of wind. The Kiwis continue their constant practice schedule, leaving the dock every day at nine a.m. (They also put in two hours on the water before each race.) Analysts figure that the winner of the challenger eliminations will beat the Australians, and the money still seems to be riding on Dennis Conner.

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‘Kiwi Magic’. Dedicated, well-financed, talented.

Unstoppable, too?

He has a score to settle from 1983 when Conner pounded him in Defender. He feels he’s got the crew and the boat to make it happen this time around. There were rumors of dissension among the San Francisco group during Round Three, sparked by the desire by some crewmembers for tactician Paul Cayard to take the helm. An excellent skipper in his own right, Cayard has also been a 12 Meter grunt (headsailer trimmer on Defender in 1983) and reportedly has a better rapport with the crew.

The friction appeared to work itself out once USA qualified for the semifinals. There was now a real chance to win the Cup and everyone began to rally around the cause.

There’s also no question that Blackaller has been one of the driving forces behind the USA campaign to date, and his presence is invaluable. Like Conner’s Stars & Stripes, USA is known as Blackaller’s boat, while French Kiss and New Zealand are identified more with the nations they represent.

USA still has the potential for quantum leaps forward, compared to incremental improvements available to the winged keel models. Larry Herbig says the San Fran-' ciscans are making substantial improvements. For example, by using relatively conservative foil shapes instead of the fine entry shapes, they can crank the rudders up to higher angles of attack and not stall out as they go through waves. This also allows them to keep the main trimmed tighter without as much fear of stalling out. The result is better velocity made good to windward.

All this requires endless hours of work,

both on and off the water. There are no fun and games for the crew anymore. No trips into the outback to be bushwhacked by fashion hungry kangaroos. The mood is one of serious business. Two USA crewmen, while working in the syndicate’s compound in the Fremantle harbor, speculated if they z

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would get a day off in the near future. “Probably not until we bring the Cup back to the White House,” they concluded, “and shake.

President Reagan’s hand!”

Wouldn’t that be exciting!

— shimon van collie

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t’s time to reflect on the year past and make resolutions for the year future. We thought it would be fun to check on the Bay Area’s designers and builders and see what was on their checklist for the coming year.

Chances are we’ll see the results on the

they can tow behind their Beamers (BMW’s),” he says. Called the ‘Redline Spyder,’ the Euro-styled craft will be so

Moore's next project is “hellaciously fast’’. water in 1987 or shortly thereafter, at which point you can say “Oh, yeah, 1 remember they were designing that boat back at the beginning of the year!”

Bill McMurray at Alsberg Brothers Boatworks in Santa Cruz says they’re busy with Express 37’s and 34’s right now. The latter is their new boat for 1987, although a few have already gone out the door. Hull #6 will be on display at the Moscone Center boat show.

They’re backlogged on orders through July and the 34’s initial take-off is reportedly even better than the one for the Express 37.

Alsberg is now up to Express 37 hull #55, which will go to Ted Hall, last year’s Santana 35 champion who plans to race his new yacht in the one design fleet and on the TransPac. Bill expects five or six 37’s in that race, as well as three in the IMS fleet for the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit and a one design fleet at Block Island Race Week.

The 37 and 34 are both Carl Schumacher designs, as is the original Express 27. This successful production ultralight has 35 boats in the S.F. Bay fleet, and their most recent fleet activity is at the Bay view YC on Michigan’s Lake St. Claire. Ten were delivered last year and the 1987 Nationals will be held at BYC. Ron Moore, one of the ultralight originals, along with Bill Lee and George Olson, is spending most of his time these days restoring Porsches and Corvettes, as well as restyling the front end of Kenworth Trucks. Production on his classic Moore 24 has slowed way down, although he expects a good turnout at the 1987 Nationals in Texas.

Ron got burned pretty badly with his Moore 30, the ultra light screamer with the winged decks. The 30-footer was too radical for the PHRF fleet, which banned its participation in Northern California. Ron’s orders all dried up after the ruling and he’s barely stayed one step ahead of disaster.

“The Moore 30 was about five years ahead of its time,” he says. His next — and last, if it doesn’t work out — sailboat project is a 25-foot, 1,000 pound “hellaciously fast” lake sailor. “It’ll be the yuppie’s yacht that

unusual, according to Ron, that folks will unload their old boats for it. The first one is scheduled to hit the water in March and cost $15,000. \ \

t nearby Pacific Boat Works, George Olson has created a new 34-footer for 1987.

You can see it first at the Cow Palace boat show starting January 9th. Company president John Day calls the latest addition to the Olson fleet a “high performance cruiser.” At 8200 pounds, it isn’t an ultralight like the original Olson 30, but it still qualifies as “light” with a displacement/length ratio of 175. They stopped building the 30 after hull #250, and the revamped version, called the Olson 29, is up to hull #25. Most popular right now are the Olson 25 (121 hulls in two years) and the Carl Schumacher-designed 91 IS. “We’re also in the early design stages of a high performance 39-footer as well,” adds Day. Up on the hill in Soquel, the main man of the ultralight generation, Bill Lee, is still filling orders for Santa Cruz 70’s. He’s currently working on hull #6, which will be called Showtime. She and three of her sisterships, Blondie, Kathmandu and Citius, will take part in this summer’s TransPac. The other two 70’s are sailing on the East Coast.

Up in Alameda, designer Chuck Burns just returned from a three month sail from Hawaii to Australia via Fiji. He was helping Rod Holt deliver his Burns 49 Sir Isaac Down Under for the start of the 6,000 mile doublehanded race from Melbourne to Osaka, which starts in March. The schooner won last year’s doublehanded division of the Pacific Cup and Rod will team up with Aussie Bob Goodie for the Osaka contest.

Chuck says that there’s lots of excitement about the race, which has drawn over 30 entries, including Mill Valley’s Commodore Tompkins sailing a Farr 53.

Chuck got back to work upon his return, drawing up plans for a new half-tonner for a local owner, as well as a 60-foot cruiser. He also picked up a commission Down Under

for a 40-footer which will compete in the first shorthanded race around Australia in 1988. s “It may be a doublehanded contest,” says Chuck. The fleet will circle the continent counterclockwise; making for upwind sailing on the calmer northern portion and lots of downwind surfing on the southern leg.

Ei ast Bay neighbor Carl Schumacher has likewise been doing some travelling. He recently conducted sea trials in England for the new Lightwave 48, a light displacement production racer/cruiser for Oyster Marine.

“Light boats are a new concept for the British,” says Carl. “They’re used to thinking that unless the boat is heavily ballasted, it will tip over in a breeze. We sailed the 48 for three days and didn’t capsize once.” Richard Matthews, owner of Oyster Marine, also commissioned Carl to draw up a Lightwave 39.5, which may become a one design class in England. Hopefully, the Brits will take a liking to the “California style” of sailing. Carl returns in early January for the London Boat Show.

On the home front, Carl has completed the drawings for Colin Case’s new 36-foot

FOR 1987!

IOR boat. Rating 29.0 feet, the boat will be raced locally and to Mexico. Construction should start soon. Carl is getting more into computer aided design (CAD) as well, which he feels will 1) cut down the number of hours he has to spend drawing and 2) allow him to explore more options. “CAD is the word processing program for draftsmen,” he says.

Also on the horizon for 1987 is a TransPac effort on the Express 37 Morning Star with owner Larry Doane, Rob Moore, Scott Owens, Kame Richards and Carl’s wife Marilyn.

Oakland’s Gary Mull recently took three weeks off, a much needed respite after the past year’s meat grinder of the America’s Cup. Gary put in some pretty intense months getting the Golden Gate Challenge’s El and R1 12 Meters afloat and sailing in addition to his other projects. They include a new production yacht for Freedom, some 8 and 6 Meters in Europe, a 100-foot Italian speedboat, a 20-foot multi-chine plywood boat and lots of structural consulting. The speedboat is scheduled for sea trials at the end of January, after which the owner will presumably, according to Gary, “go fast and get laid a lot.” What else would one do on a

100-foot speedboat?

Gary is quite excited about the plywood boat project. Dale Hoff of Andreason’s Boat Works in Tacoma, WA, approached him with the idea, which harks back to the days of kit built boats like the El Toro and the Spaulding 33. “We wondered if there wasn’t a way you could go sailing without having to spend $40,000,” says Gary. The Andreason 20, as the boat will be called, can be delivered complete or in kit form for the owner to finish off.

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arther up in the Oakland hills, Tom Wylie has completed a shop in his Canyon home and plans to start fabricating prototype rudders, spars, frames and other pieces using exotic glass and aluminum. He’s still very active in design work as well, currently wrapping up a three-year project of five semiproduction boats built by Westerly Marine called the Wylie 39. The hull, deck, keel and rudder all came out of one set of molds, but the interiors, freeboard, decks and rigs have all differed. Bay sailors would be most The sixth SC70, means four will race to Honolulu in July.

familiar with Jonathon Livingston’s Punk Dolphin which has, according to Tom, the clean, sparse “Santa Cruz” style interior.

Another couple from Southern California ordered theirs with a bath tub and shower so they could cruise to Catalina and back in hotel comfort.

Tom adds that clients both new and old also keep him busy. Some of the latter include Arlo Nish (Saga), Peter Sutter (Wild Spirit) and Skip Allan (Wildflower). Peter is still out on the Pacific and Skip plans to head out for New Zealand this spring. Some of the new projects include a 57-foot cruising cutter to be built in New Zealand for Joe McKeown and an ultralight 40-footer for Jeff Pearson of Santa Cruz. Chris Maas is also building a radical Wylie 34 in Richmond with a carbon mast and full roach mainsail. “Plastic spars could be the wave of the future,” says Tom. “They would give cruising boats a better righting moment, but right now the IOR and 12 Meter rules are holding back their development.”

Wylie’s old workshop is now North Coast Yachts in Alameda, where owner Kim Desenberg says there’s not much building going on but “we’re busy as bees doing repair work.” Big Boat Series winning Santa Cruz 50 Racy II just received a new eliptical keel designed by Bill Lee. Mike Burkitt’s Farr 36 Bimbo (ex-Wild Turkey) had her cockpit opened up like a new IOR boat as well as being repainted and getting a new rudder. The only building going on is a two-part nesting dinghy called the Rainbow 13.

And up in Marin, Bob Smith is working on a 30/31 footer for Stanford atom smasher David Sprague. The sloop will be able to compete in both MORA, which has an upper limit of 31 feet, and MORC, which has a max length of 30 feet, by virtue of a convertible one foot stern section. Pop it on for MORA, pop it off for MORC. The project came to Bob through Bruce Powell, who has organized a cooperative of builders, designers, maintenance and repair workers under the title of Master Yachts. Sprague told Powell what he wanted and Bruce referred him to Bob to do the drawings.

Bob’s also working on the preliminaries for an 80-foot motorsailor, which would be a good year’s worth of work if the project goes through.

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o that’s a peek at what to look for in 1987. Some of the above mentioned projects will no doubt be smash hits. Others will be ho-hum or never happen. But don’t let that keep you off the water.

— shimon van collie

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of Indians, the Caribs, came up from South America in lightweight dugout canoes. The Caribs were like the skinheads in England, V vicious and seemingly unprincipled. They enjoyed killing the Arawak men, as well as taking their women and food. Carib is Spanish for ‘cannibal’, and yes, they dabbled in that taboo. They’d like history to believe it was only done for ceremonial purposes, but v: ■ ■ who’s going to fall for that?

In any case, it wasn’t long before the pacifist Arawaks were virtually exterminated.

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-TTxT:': can be held against them, but all peoples M must be judged as a whole; on their conBig boats have always loved the little harbor at A Fractured History of the Caribbean tribution to civilization as well as their Gustavia, St. Barts.

The first arrivals in the islands were the pecadillos. ‘What contribution?’ you ask.

Arawak Indians from South America. These Well, the Caribs invented the hammock.

Where is the Caribbean? were peaceful folks who farmed and fished For the purposes of charterers and most industriously. Early hippies, you might say.

English Harbor, Antigua. What it once was to the sailors, “the Caribbean” consists of a cresTheir’s was a decent life until another band British Navy, it now is to cruising boats. cent of islands running north-south some ■ 600 miles between Puerto Rico and Venezuela. They’re properly known as the ' .

Lesser Antilles. Most notable among them, headed south, are the American Virgins, the ■ob British Virgins, St. Martin, St. Barts, Anv ■ mm tigua, Guadaloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, - ■ ■ppm Z', m$4 and — site of the United States most definitive military success since World War II — Grenada. w sSsSKSg i." ■■■■/' To be sure, there are many other superb sailing destinations in the Caribbean Sea, among them — and this might surprise you ~a ' &' < C M -" j'Wv. > l — Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Puerto Rico; Jamaica; the ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao; as well as Veneuzuela i§S|| and the countries of Central America. For ; now, however, we’re sticking with the Lesser Antilles.

Most West Coast sailors have a vague but incorrect idea of how far away the Caribbean is, assuming that it’s about an hour’s flight WmfWfrom Miami. That’s the Bahamas, folks. The U.S. Virgins, the westernmost tip of what we’re considering to be the Caribbean, is nearly 1,000 miles east of Miami.

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lot of years passed until Chris Columbus and the New World Explorers showed up on one of the later voyages. As always, the first thing on the Caribs’ mind upon seeing Chris and crew was to kill as many as possible. Smart enough to discover the New World, Columbus was also wise enough to sail away from trouble and to other islands.

By the 1500’s, Old World powers such as Spain, England, France and the Dutch made trips of exploration and plunder — but primarily to Mexico and the Spainish Main.

The Caribbean islands served as little more than staging grounds. As these forward bases were set up, there was a prodigious amount of fighting. Much of it was between the Old World forces and the crafty Caribs.

For example, the Caribs exterminated an entire English settlement on Grenada. A short time later, the French arrived for a little

Canadian Cruisic. Warm Caribbean sailing beats Montreal cold every time.

retaliation. Those Caribs that weren’t killed by the French jumped to their death. Pretty much the same thing happened in Marti¬

nique, where there is also a famous ‘suicide cliff.

However, much of the violence was among the Old World powers themselves.

It’s said that more French and English troops died fighting each other on St. Lucia than on any other battlefield than Flanders. Later, the entire French battlefleet in the Caribbean was sunk by the British near Les Saintes.

These are but two of many instances of massive bloodshed.

By the 1650’s, the sugar plantations were a roaring financial success, and more cheap labor was needed to work them. Thus began the slave trade from Africa, which soon became the specialty of the Portuguese.

The treatment of slaves — the descendents of whom have come to control the governments of the Caribbean — varied widely from island to island and from time to time. Some slaves were treated relatively well; some were even given the freedom to work their own plots and profit from them.

Other slaves were no more than animal labor. In fact, the island of Barbuda was once used to breed slaves. Given half an opportunity, however, the slaves naturally tried to revolt.

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Due to the different treatment of slaves — and other factors — some islands have a history of almost continual violent struggle.

St. Lucia is one that comes to mind. Over the years it’s had about as many inches of blood as rainfall. Somebody once said that “Violence is as American as apple pie.” If that’s true, then murder is as Caribbean as tradewinds.

With the stolen riches from the New World and the profits from sugar production, the plundering privateers and buccaneers contributed their share of the bloodletting. But when sugar prices tumbled and there were

no more countries left to plunder, the region of water; yet, not far away is lush Martinique, originally known as “the island of fell into an economic slump. The islands that flowers”. Columbus called it “the best, the have since recovered have done so primarily N' most fertile, the sweetest, the most charming through tourism.

Variety is the Spice of Life country in the world”.

The second most surprising fact about the While some islands are very flat and quiet Caribbean for west coast sailors is their vari— Anegada comes to mind — others are ety. If you sail down the 700-mile Baja high and active. St. Vincent, for example, California coast, you find it’s all the same. where the 4,000-ft Soufriere volcano That’s certainly not the case in the Lesser remains active. In 1902, St. Pierre on MartiAntilles, not physically or culturally. nique was known as the “Paris of the West”.

In the Caribbean you’ve got islands like Then in May of that year a huge volcanic Anguilla, which is low, dry, coral and sureruption smothered all but one of the rounded by reefs. Compare it with nearby 29,000 inhabitants.

Saba, a volcanic island that juts nearly There are also extreme social differences. straight up from the ocean depths'. There’s Some islands are prosperous, some poor.

Antigua, which is dry and perpetually'short Some islands have few European settlers, some — like St. Barts — hardly have any West Indians.

Nothing like a few friends, a good boat, and a warm breeze.

Some islands are English, some U.S.,

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some French, some Dutch, and many are independent. One, St. Martin, is half Dutch and half French.

Some islands accept English currency, some French, some U.S. and some the ‘EC’ or Eastern Caribbean dollar. In the British Virgins, they use United States currency and sell stamps in dollar denominations. But in the U.S. Virgins you drive on the left or ‘wrong’ side of the road.

Some islands are conservative. In the British Virgins, wearing short-shorts or revealing clothing is actively discouraged.

Yet on Gaudaloupe there is a government minister in charge of nude sun-bathing.

You’ve got to be flexible in the Caribbean or you can lose your mind.

sophistication of the people on the various islands. Some islands aren’t that far out of the Stone Age. Yet others are completely up

much. And it’s a warm 75, meaning that the only reason it isn’t hotter is because the northeast trades are blowing. When they stop it gets very warm.

Ah the trades, a major reason why the Caribbean is such a popular place to sail.

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to date. Many of those on the French islands, for example, don’t consider themselves to be West Indian at all, but French. Judging by the way some of them act, you’ve got to believe them.

Visitors themselves, other than those arriving on cruise ships, tend to be cosmopolitan. They come from South America, England, the Mediterranean countries, Sweden — the works. It’s not an American playground by any means.

It’s easy to identify Caucasians who arrived long ago and stayed, because they speak a strange language. A few weeks back we were at the Pusser’s Bar on Tortola with a group that included folks from Brazil, South Africa, France and Spain. They’d start a sentence in English, season it with a Portuguese verb, whip in a French adverb and wrap it up with a Spanish direct object. They don’t teach stuff like that in schools.

The Weather In fact, about the only thing the islands of the Lesser Antilles have in common is the weather. It’s warm all year round, never averaging much below 75 in the winter and 80 in the summer. All you ever need is a swimming suit, and often that feels like too

During the day it usually always blows between 10 and 20 knots. Winter winds can be stronger — sometimes a week or ten days of 30 to 35 — but they’re also more erratic.

Summer means pretty consistent 12 to 15 knot breezes, with variations depending upon the exact location. Incidentally, long time sailors consider summer, with it’s more consistent and slightly lighter winds, to be the ideal time to sail the Caribbean.

Well, almost ideal. Summer also means hurricanes, which from time to time have hit Caribbean islands with ferocity. The average number of hurricanes a year is six, far less than off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Fortunately, there are plenty of hurricane holes and most big blows develop farther to the north and west. Getting insurance for boats in the summer in the Caribbean is not a problem.

Fall — September and October — tend to be unpleasantly warm and humid.

Since there’s no fog in the Caribbean and the trades have brought the wind 3,500 unobstructed ocean miles from Africa, you know you can count on crystal clear weather every single day. Actually, you can’t. The trades also bring dust 3,500 across the Atlantic from the Sahara desert, and with the dust you get haze. Lots of folks think this is impossible; then they see it for themselves.

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The lowest the water temperature ever gets is the low 70’s, and by summer it’s in the high 70’s or even 80. Again, it seems even warmer because the air temperature is always so balmy.

Full length pajamas are popular daytime wear on sailboats for the simple reason that the tropical sun will burn pasty northerners to a crisp in one afternoon. Hats, sunglasses, and total sunblock are important accessories.

The Layout Besides having tropical weather, tradewinds, and a variety of islands to visit, the layout of the Lesser Antilles make them a great place to sail. Southbound, once you’ve made the beat from the Virgins to St. Martin, it’s a reach the rest of the way down to Grenada. Northbound, the wind is aft of the beam from Grenada all the way to the Virgins. Antigua is a popular place to start charters, because from there you can go either north or south and be reaching all the way.

Another thing that makes the Lesser Antilles such a great place to sail is that the islands are so close together. Other than the U.S. and British Virgins, which are huddled together away from the others, the islands of

The Language Depending on where you are in the Antilles, the locals may speak any number of languages and patois. There’s French, Dutch, Spanish, and who knows what else.

Many of the languages also undergo severe ‘creolization’ or other abuse, arid thus are completely unintelligible to those from the country of origin.

For example, a few people will tell you that many West Indians speak EhglisfuThis is complete nonsense. They speak West Indian, a tongue that has spawned billions of “Say that again’s” from white Americans.

You learn fast, however, or else you die of thirst.

lthough we’ve spent some time in the Lesser Antilles, it certainly hasn’t been enough so we could write intelligently about them. Thus we called on our compadre, 28-year-old Antonio Muniz of San Sebastian, Spain, to provide us with thumbnail evaluations of the islands.

To appreciate Antonio’s judgements, you have to understand that he’s a straightforward guy who can’t stand pretense. Typically, although his father owns several top-flight restaurants in Europe, South America and Africa, his favorite dish is bacalado or salt fish. “It’s boat worker’s food,” he explains.

“It goes best,” he says laughing loudly, “with a cote due Rhone wine and a girl con grand tetes y mucho peseasatas — whatever that means.

Enough fanfare, here are the ratings: United States Virgin Islands: “It’s babylon. It’s way too expensive, and there are too many people and too many terrorists. I don’t like it.”

(Incidentally, in Antonio’s Basque-erdized English, ‘tourist’ sounds like ‘terrorist’. It matters little, because he equates the two.)

In defense of the United States Virgin Islands, they are an excellent place for airline connections, provisions and boat parts.

Good buys are also available on precious stones and perfumes. Anybody remember Bill Collins, who did the first Singlehanded TransPac on the Robert Quinn? His Texas Deep-Pit BBQ outlets have made him the toast of St. Thomas.

The British Virgin Islands: “The water

is much nicer, and there is good seafood.

Although it’s also very expensive, the people are happier and have a nicer way of doing things.”

Two of the best spots in the British Virgins are Spanishtown, where a drink and a pizza at the Bath & Turtle make a beautiful end to a day of sailing; and, the Bitter End Yacht Club in the North Sound. The Bitter End is at the extreme windward end of the Virgins, but it’s worth the beat.

Anguilla: “This is a beautiful island for relaxing, to be on the beach alone. There are no terrorists and the local people are very friendly — and good sailors. Fishing is good around the island, and it’s not too expensive. Although almost completely flat, there is something magical about Anguilla.”

Seventy miles southeast of the Virgins, the ‘eel’ is a popular refuge for Caribbean residents who are looking to get away from tourists. Provisions and water are in short supply on this sparsely populated island.

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St. Martin: “The island is divided into two parts; half is French and half is Dutch.

“The Dutch part is polluted, stinks and has unfriendly people. However, there are very good buys on electronics and other duty-free items. It’s also possible to gamble in the casinos.

“The French side has the beautiful beaches and the beautiful French women.

The food is good, but too expensive. The big lagoon offers protection from bad weather and hurricanes.”

Something of a boomtown island in recent years, St. Martin handles big jets that fly in from all over the world with full loads of terrorists. Nonetheless, Marigot, on the French side has some charm. Big sailboats come right into the center of a dining plaza and serve as the centerpiece.

St. Barts: “This is the only ‘white’ island in the Caribbean. It has a very European atmosphere, with fine restaurants and topless women on the beaches. It’s very, very, very

expensive.”

Antonio’s not kidding when he says St. Barts is expensive. Whew! Nonetheless, the charming little harbor at Gustavia is always packed. Only 100 feet from the main dock is ‘Cheeseburgers in Paradise’ (over 56,000 sold) made famous by Jimmy Buffet who may or may not still live on a house at the top of the island. The $5 burger and fries is not only one of the best meals on the island, it’s about the cheapest.

A very small island, St. Barts draws enough well-heeled visitors to support stores selling expensive French perfumes, gowns, jewelry, etc.

Safe, clean, and dotted with surf spots, St. Barts is one of best spots in the Caribbean.

For economical fun, you can watch the little planes try to land at the airport; at one end is a steep hill, at the other the ocean.

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands is still the cruising king, both for ships and pleasure boats.

Saba: A volcano rising straight out of the sea. The fishing and diving are good, but there is no anchorage or dock.”

Nevis: “A beautiful island with monkeys, many flowers and much vegetation due to the rain forests in the mountains. The silky white beaches are very tranquil and the pace of the island very slow.”

Barbuda: “A very lovely island with hardly any people. There are lots of fish and turtles, but surrounded by reefs, it’s very dangerous for sailboats.”

Antigua: “Antigua has many of the best beaches in the Caribbean, but the locals aren’t too friendly and there is too much bureaucracy. In addition, the food is English, so you know what that means.”

“English Harbor, site of Antigua Race Week, is very pretty, but too formal. People there wear designer clothes, shoes, and things like that. And for me, it’s way too expensive.”

Antigua is one of the big yachting centers of the Caribbean, and with good reason.

Noted English Harbor is not only uniquely sheltered, but the restored remains of

Nelson’s Dockyard are genuinely fascinating.

Monserrat: “There are only two anchorages, and both are terrible! But the people are really nice and the island is very clean. 1 liked it, but it’s expensive!” (Editor’s note: the Monserrat review was provided by Erica Hansen, Anotonio’s sidekick. Antonio has not visited the island himself).

Guadaloupe: “This island looks like a butterfly, the two wings separated by a narrow river. One side, Basse-Terre, has waterfalls, rain forests and wonderful mountain views. The other side, Grande-Terre, is flat with hotels — and good beaches. A smart place to buy French wine and cheeses.”

Isles de Saintes: “For me, these little islands get five stars! This is the home of the ‘white rastas’; they have dark skin but blond dreadlocks and blue eyes! The people have a tradition of fishing and the men are excellent seamen. The diving and fishing are good, but best of all there are no hotels and cars are prohibited. This is where the people from Guadaloupe vacation.”

Dominica: “Wow! The beaches are \fery bad, but it rains so much there is a river for every day of the year. There are natural steam baths and fruit for the picking is everywhere. As you might expect, food is cheap. The people are wonderful, waiting to help you whenever they can.”

Martinique: “Home of the beautiful women.” (Erica: “They are stunning.”) In the days of slavery, the French sent the ugly women to Guadaloupe and the beautiful

Need to haul-out? The British used to use this spot in Antigua.

women here.

“The island has great beaches and anchorages. There is fresh food and fish, and lots of items sent over from France. It’s like a big piece of France stuck in the middle of the Caribbean. There are lots of people and lots of rum.”

St. Lucia: “Along with Dominica, I think this is the most beautiful of the Caribbean islands. It also has several good hurricane holes, including Marigot Lagoon. There is good fresh food and fish, and it’s not expensive. It’s an independent country.”

The Moorings has a charterboat center on St. Lucia.

St. Vincent: “Another independent country, St. Vincent is also mountainous and very beautiful. Lots of fruits and spices grow on the hillside. There is a great beach on the north side, but it’s not the best of islands for boats.

“The people are not friendly at all.”

Antonio is not alone in his feelings about the people of St. Vincent. In Hart & Stone’s Cruising Guide to the Caribbean and Bahamas, it says, “No doubt there are plenty of honest and polite souls amongst them, but alas, they are in the main a rude, surly, and greedy bunch.”

The Small Grenadines, including Bequia, Mustique, Petit St. Vincent, etc.: “For sailors, this is the paradise of the Carib¬

bean. There are many small beaches, the water is crystal clear, and there is hardly any people. Fish are plentiful and so are lobster.

There are few supplies of any kind, so you have to bring your own.

“The people of Bequia still whale in their little boats. I think they are the best people in the Caribbean.”

Grenada: “This is a very traditional English island, with lots of horses. There are plenty of fruits and spices and it’s not too expensive. It’s a good place for boats, with many beautiful anchorages and bays. The people are friendly. The island has more rastas than Jamaica; to them rasta is life and death.

I I aving gone over the thumbnail evaluations with Antonio, we asked for his “best three” ranking, as well as the “worst”.

The worst was easy. That honor goes to St. Vincent primarily for its very unfriendly people.

Antonio ranks Martinique as the top place for a boat in the Caribbean. Number two is the Grenadines. Number three is a tie between St. Barts and Antigua.

We welcome all conflicting or concurring opinions, and once again request that those of you with good charter experiences in the Caribbean share them with the other readers.

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Here’s how it works. Simply find the right application, fill it out legibly and send it in with our small advertising fee. In the March, April and May issues, we will run ybur name, phone number and vital statistics (as they relate to sailing), as well as those of the people looking for what you offer. The active types can then hit the phones to find what they’re looking for. The more passive among you can just wait for the phone to ring.

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The deadline for Crew List applications is February 15 for racers, whose names will then appear in the March issue. The YRA racing season begins in April. You laid-back, do-it-manana cruiser types can wait until March 15. Your names will appear in the April issue. If there’s more than one sailor in ' / \ > O /the household (unless you’re filling out the * V 0* /' "J application as a couple), please Xerox or simply write out another application rather - r.x;/, than try to put several names on one. All W/i'" submissions, and this is very important, must v /! \ s 1 > • be filled out legibly. If we can’t read them, * I -' we’ll send them and your money right back. x 4vl>‘|S' Sometime in early April — exact date and place to be announced — all Crew Listees are invited to attend the Crew List Parties.

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If you can’t point out your name in either our March or April issues, you’ll be fined. The fine is $5 for crew, $1 for boat owners. Once through the door, you’ll get color coded name tags to identify you as crew looking for a boat or boat owner looking for crew.

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This is not a huge problem and we don’t mean to put anyone off by it. We just want you to know that some of the people who use this List have other things in mind besides sailing.

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Crew incompatibility and rebuffing unwarranted come-ons are one thing. Drugging and possible rape —- both of which may have occurred once as a result of using the List — are quite another. And that’s just on the interpersonal level.

Let’s face it, sailing ain’t croquet. It’s a dangerous sport and you can be injured or even killed in any number of distasteful ways. So, to spell it out once again, the Latitude 38 Crew List is an advertising supplement for information purposes only.

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ADVERTISING FORMS times) before putting yourself up to crew on a long-distance cruise. No amount of reading or telling can illustrate what ocean sailing is really like until you’ve been “out there” yourself. Behind every romantic tale of sailing into the sunset are untold stories of endless preparation, boredom, hard work, frequent discomfort and moments of shear terror — and that’s before you even get where you’re going! Your existence is often spartan, you can’t always bathe as often as you like, privacy is minimal, and even a 50 or 60-ft boat will sometimes remind you of a lab cage full of neurotic, overcrowded mice.

We recommend that novices sign up for a local ocean racing series, or a short cruise, say to the Channel Islands. It’s often been said that if you can sail a small boat in and around San Francisco in typical summer weather you can deal with conditions anywhere in the world. If you enjoy it, you’ll love cruising. If you don’t, better to find out now than halfway to Alaska.

Lastly, sign up for what really interests you. If you check every box, you look like a professional checker, not a serious sailor.

Good luck and happy sailing!

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tion of the boats or vagaries of weather you may encounter as a result of using this list.

You must judge those things for yourself.

If you are willing to accept the risks, fantastic! We wish you the most rewarding adventure of your lives. Before we let you have at it, though, a few final helpful hints are in order. First, don’t sign up for either the cruising or racing lists unless you are prepared to make a big commitment. Racers need to depend on crew for at least ten weekends every summer. Long distance cruisers need to depend on crew sometimes for months.

Second, don’t exaggerate your skills. You cannot BS your way onto a sailboat. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, someone who does can recognize it instantly.

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Darwin, the city of the Northern Territory, was our jumping off point for the final leg to Perth. It’s a new sprawling center with modern highrises, landscaped malls, and a newly developed industrial and trade park.

Despite its new face, Darwin has a colorful history. The newness dates back only to Christmas of 1974, when cyclone Tracy claimed 50 lives and wiped the area out. So little survived the devastation that they virtually started over again.

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In 1942, Darwin was bombed regularly.

Australia. Memorials and museums to the heroes and heroics of World War II are very much in evidence all over the Northern Territory. Along the highway from Darwin to Alice Springs are signs indicating various airstrips used by the Royal Australian Air Force from 1943 until the end of the war. It’s interesting to see that the airstrips are named for American pilots that served in the Army

serving in Europe and Africa to defend Britain, unable to protect their own homeland.

But back to Darwin. We found this shiny new city to be filled with some of Australia’s most entertaining and fun-loving folks. Most of them have come from other states or countries to make Darwin their home. Thus everybody is automatically a “mate” and the friendship sealed after just one stubbie.

For cruisers, the Darwin Sailing Club offers a great anchorage with excellent facilities that include showers, laundry, restaurant, bar, small chandlery and transportation to town. For $5 per person, you are an honorary member and extended full privileges for two weeks.

Some of you are already saying, “Oh geez, Darwin?!?” Yes, Virginia, there is a small problem that can’t be overlooked. The tide. Not just your ordinary San Francisco Bay eight foot tide, but eight meters! That’s about 24 feet.

While the tide apparently ruins Darwin for some cruisers, it actually just presents an interesting challenge. We solved it by putting wheels on the transom of our Zodiac so that if the tide was a half-mile out, we could still pull it to the water. The other more sensible — and very Australian — solution is to sit at the club and have a few more rounds until the water comes back in. Either way, the tide was not a detraction for us.

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interesting approaches to boat maintenance.

During our first afternoon at the Darwin Sailing Club, we noticed kids jumping from what appeared to be a partial pier. The next day we discovered it was in reality a their haulout facility. At high tide, forty-footers motor up and tie to the ‘fence’. When the tide goes out they are high and dry. Water hoses from the club are used to squirt off the bottoms that are then painted. When all the work is completed — be it one or several tide changes later — the skipper just casts off the lines at high tide and motors off. Multihulls and multikeels don’t even bother with the careening fence. They just power up on the beach and sit until the tide goes out.

If someone wants to find a genuine reason to avoid Darwin, it could be found in the movie Crocodile Dundee. There were — and still are — estuarine (saltwater) crocodiles in all the tropic waters of Australia — east, west and north. The crocodiles grow to substantial size, and they are killers. We went to a local “croc farm” and saw ‘Bert’, who is about the size of Dundee’s adversary: 24 feet! Traps are used to catch and relocate the wild crocs to such farms. If the current scheme of relocation and farming works as planned, reptile skin goods will once again be exported from Australia.

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A “croc trap” was set in front of the Darwin Sailing Club while we were there. The trap consists of pontoon cages with a dead chicken suspended inside, just above water level. When the croc grabs the “chook” — Zap! down comes the door and a radio alarm goes off. Lots of non-locals are critical of the

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traps, but these people probably haven’t seen the human remains that are left by a crocodile.

A much more pleasant subject in Darwin is beer! The local Northern Territory Stubbie is legendary in Australia. Stubbies are typically 12 oz. bottles, but in Darwin, the Northern Territory Stubbie is a two-litre bottle. See the accompanying photograph to appreciate the difference. You don’t chug beer here without A youthful-looking Jim Jessie tries to find the water at Darwin.

practice. The N.T. Stubbie costs $10. That may seem like a lot for a beer, but it’s a lot of beer. Besides, a single martini is six dollars.

The moral is clear; drink beer.

Surrounding Darwin is the real outback.

Just a few kilometers outside of town on the way to Alice Springs — the nearest city and about 1,000 miles away — you have to avoid the wildlife hazards. Just as we have problems with deer and jackrabbits on U.S. highways, they have problems with wallabies and kangaroos.

An entirely different kind of highway hazard is the Road Train. This is a tractor trailer rig that hauls fuel, ore or livestock.

The hazard is that most of these Road Trains are three trailers long and cruise at 100 kilometers an hour. Just the suction from their draft is enough to get your attention.

Most vehicles here — other than Road Trains — are four wheel drive. The roads are good in Darwin, and the highways are good.

The rest of the territory is your basic dirt track. We mention driving because a Mini Moke — a motorized baby carriage the size of a dune buggy — is only $20 a day. It’s ideal for sightingseeing and provisioning.

aking on fuel and water in Darwin is

Is your liver tough enough for the N.T. Stubbie?

no easy task because of the tides and currents. There is an accessible wharf that requires no more than a phone call to set up an appointment. But negotiating the inside of a wharf with unprotected pilings and the fuel and water 30 feet above deck is tricky. If only a few gallons of water and fuel are needed, jerry cans would be a lot better on boats and dispositions.

During our first morning at anchor, the quarantine boat came alongside. We filled out a couple of forms and exchanged Cup remarks. They gave us a plastic covered notebook with tide information, bus schedules, tourist maps, and information on other destinations like the Cocos Islands, Papua New Guinea and others. The helpful packet was dog-earred before we departed Darwin.

For some reason hat-wearing is frowned upon in Australian yacht clubs. If you come in with a hat on the bartender will ring a bell requiring that you “shout the bar”. Covering the rest of your anatomy isn’t necessary. No one gets too excited about bikinis, G-strings or barefootin’. Most of the males have consumed far too much beer to wear G-strings, but they persist.

Cruising between Darwin and the town of Broome offers some of the best scenery and hairiest tides imaginable. Although not highly publicized, a just-published book,

ON TOP OF DOWN UNDER Cruising West by Kevin Lane, promises to open up the secrets of local coastal cruising.

Crocodile Creek is one such place popular der was really 25 feet long! And next to the ladder was a new waterfall down to the pond where our boat was now totally landlocked!!!

we held even with the shore but could not make any progress. Ultimately, we turned back and selected a wider channel at “slack tide” and were able to escape.

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The Indian Ocean had a deleterious effect on ‘Nalu IV’s rigging. Jim does the honors.

with knowledgeable cruisers. Hard to locate without local help or the guide book, we found this side trip well worth the effort. You motor up the creek — which is only 75 to 125 feet wide — at high tide. About threequarters of a mile up there’s a narrow pass beyond which you can see a waterfall, swimming hole, picnic area and barbeque. Just outside the gap we moored to large boulders. The surroundings reminded us of some of the badlands of Mexico and Southern California.

Having secured the boat, we collected towels, barbeque goodies, and laundry and took the dinghy through the gap that was about 45 feet away. Once ashore we did the laundry, ate and swam. And then before our very eyes we saw the mast of our 48-footer slowly sink with the tide. The captain and crew dinghied back to slack the mooring lines. Upon their return to the picnic area they tied the dinghy to a ladder on the wall of a lower pool which was forming. An hour earlier we had no idea a ladder even existed; now we could see four or five feet of it.

We spent another two hours goofing around while the tide retreated even more.

When we came to the dinghy for the return trip to Nalu IV, we found the Zodiac hanging at the very end of her 16-foot painter. Surprise! And by now we could see that the lad¬

Of the 13,000 miles covered to date, Diana found the last 600 to Perth to be the most difficult.

And the tide was still going out!!!!

Before our night was over we had gone down 24 feet, up 24 feet, and on the ebb the next morning down another 20 feet. During the night flood tide a local family motored in with their 20-foot 1-0 and were stunned to find the whole pond filled with one oceangoing sailboat from California.

Leaving Crocodile Creek — ah, at high tide — we encountered the other half of the tidal combination: ferocious current. The worst spring runoff tides in the Golden Gate Channel were nothing compared to this.

Riptide Islands and Whirlpool Pass were not

rom Crocodile Creek we headed southwest to the town of Broome. The town, which consists of 3000 locals — and during the winter 7000 tourists — is reminiscent of Barstow. There is a multi-cultural feel, as many Japanese and Chinese from the pearl industry settled here. The local shopping center looks like something from Grant Avenue in San Francisco.

Broome has grown in recent years as people move north to enjoy the warm, dry climate, but the harbor is not yet geared to yachts. Fuel and water must be taken at slack tide with no wind. The jetty and pier are about 10 kilometers from town, so as yet provisioning requires a $10 cab ride. At high tide it is possible to take a dinghy in through the mudflats to the southside of town. The disadvantage is of course tides don’t always coordinate with store hours and suitable sea conditions.

At Broome we encountered a local, Dave Inall, who hopes to establish a yacht service facility. A professional diver, Dave befriended us and provided transportation and local information. He is a one-man chamber of commerce for Broome and is delighted with the stops by Perth-bound yachts. There is a Broome yacht club on paper, but the reality is probably a year away.

From Broome we sailed southwest through the Dampier Archipelago. In that 400 miles we used every sail except our drifter and 1.5 ounce chute. We went through a .75 chute, a light 150, the heavy 150 jib top, #2 jib top, #3 jib top, staysail and finally the new and never used storm staysail Punky Mitchell made for us. Our last 24

The surroundings reminded us of the badlands of Mexico and Southern California. misnamed. And, unlike the fairly regular ebb and flow of San Francisco Bay, we encountered continuous unpredictable cross currents and floods which never change direction; they only increase and decrease in velocity. At 2000 rpm on our Perkins 4-107,

hours before Dampier we sailed doublereefed with the new storm staysail in 45-50 knot winds on tfie “bloody bow”. Just into our fourth day, we finally anchored on the edge of the Dampier Channel. At 0300 we ate a ham dinner and crashed. page 142

CRUISING THE NORTHWEST COAST been watching the water in the bilge recycle.

The next day we cleared Mary, Ann Passage, a fairly tricky piece of water, and What a surprise at 1100 that morning to look out and see smelters, huge ore carriers, and red dirt everywhere. Although we had anchored in the lee of a small island, we still had 25 knots of wind and a fine red dust was everywhere. Our brand new storm staysail was covered with the powder. The new cloth still had a static charge and the red dust was from iron ore.

With the assistance of a very genial port captain we found our way to the Hampton Harbor Boat and Sailing Club. In the middle of an area that looked like Arizona’s Lake Mead, we found a friendly club with hot showers, a bar, and a floating fuel jetty.

What a pleasure to take on fuel without the gymnastics of fending off 30 feet overhead.

This was the first floating jetty we used in Australia and it was great.

Anchoring off the HHBSC was handy to the shopping center and hotel. Dampier is a company town run by Helmsley Iron, so the facilities are geared to Helmsley employees.

The only drawback that presents to the cruiser is the lack of a laundromat or reasonable facsimile. The nice secretary at HHBSC took pity on us, however, and we were able to do the laundry in the sink behind the bar. We’ll take hot water laundry anywhere we can get it!

Earlier we mentioned Kevin Lane’s new book, Cruising West. This is about the only good resource currently available for the region. Charts for the west coast are plentiful, but indicate that many areas are unexamined. The most accurate charting is within ten miles of ship channels. The charts do present a problem in that they jump back and forth between meters and fathoms from chart to chart. Just about the time you are comfortable with depths in one measure it changes with the next chart. The other navigational consideration is the everchanging correction factor for true to magnetic. The factor is different almost daily.

Yet another difference is that we are now going to westerly corrections after several decades of navigating with easterly correction habits.

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rom Dampier we began — we thought — our last leg to Perth. The currents and tides still presented a problem as did magnetic anomolies which showed our compass was as much as 15 degrees off at times.

These were small problems, however, compared with the next 600 miles of headwinds.

We sailed for 19 hours, finally anchoring

in the lee of a small island. After bouncing on the uncharted coral, having winds of 45-50 knots, and being in a difficult narrow passage, we decided a few hours of rest until daylight made good sense.

Just as we motored into the lee we hit bot-

Same place, same camera view, but at low water.

Still Crocodile Creek, still the same camera angle, but now it’s low water._

tom hard and the bilge alarm went off. Our first thought was that the engine was leaking water again. When the bilge alarm didn’t stop we pulled the sole boards to discover water gushing up at a rapid rate. A mental checklist began flashing — liferaft, EPIRB, flares, radio, emergency rations. Almost simultaneously we shut off the bilge pump and the gusher stopped. As the gusher stopped, hearts returned to normal rates and locations. The jolt from grounding had knocked the pump hose loose, and we had /

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What a difference a tide makes. High water at Crocodile Creek. Note the ladder in right foreground.

again anchored for the night with the wind again kicking up to 40-50 knots.

The next morning we cleared the island

and headed out to the Northwest Cape and the Indian Ocean. By early evening winds were again'at 40 knots gusting to 50. The swells grew and soon we were encountering large waves. As the night wore on we blew a block on the running backstay on a pound that jolted the off watch out of bed. Large rollers broke across the bow periodically, and in sets of three we would get a big one in the cockpit. A constant spray caked each helmsperson in salt so that the skipper finally agreed it was time for the dodger. Unfortunately, it did little to protect anyone from the roaring seas.

When the sun came up our heavy number

ON TOP OF DOWN UNDER one jib top was missing from the deck. This 150-pound sail and its bag had been torn away and washed overboard. There was no sign of it breaking the lifeline netting, so it must have been carried off by the green water on the bow. v Hearing stories from other sailors and watching Hollywood’s version of heavy seas, is still not enough to prepare you for the feelings that you experience. Terror comes first when green water washes over you. Then anger at being soaked to the skin with another 30 minutes to go at the wheel. Yet, when you look at the anenometer and it’s a steady 50 knots, you have a sense of exhilaration and relief because you’re still alive and still aboard. Unlike a storm, we had brilliant blue skies during the days and glittering starry nights. Storms pass, but this pattern lasted over two weeks without let up.

As the wind went to 50 knots again the following midnight, our mainsail tore, leaving us with about 120 square feet of sail on our 48-foot boat. We made 4.5 to 5 knots for awhile and then put up the jib to get back control with six knots of speed.

At sunrise the wind dropped to 35 knots and we bent on our alternate mainsail. This main, 16 years old, had only two reef areas so we decided if the wind went our 40 again we would drop it.

Exhausted from hanging on while changing mains, we noticed that port lower shroud had lost three strands and was not going to

last. Hoisting the skipper up the mast while we were on a starboard tack, the shroud was replaced with a hunk of anchor chain, a shackle, spare wire and cable clamps. \ Because of the temporary shroud and the return of 40-plus knots of wind, we dropped

the main and pounded through another grim night with winds gusting to 56 knots. ATairly definite pattern had been established: 35-40 knots from 0600-1800; 40-45 knots from 1800-2100; and, 45-55 knots from 2100-0600. We knew the enemy.

At the beginning of the fourth day we had a new enemy, gear failure. The starboard lower began to pop wires with more pounding. We had not planned to stop at the small town of Carnarvan but the rigging failures, the torn mainsail, the state of exhaustion and a sick crew member dictated the need to change. Fortunately, the tide was in as we negotiated the tiny channel and found refuge on the fishing docks.

At 2:30 that afternoon we ordered new rigging and had it the next morning at 8:30.

(Air courier from Perth’s Roily Tasker.) By the next day we were rigged, our mainsail repaired, and we were underway again.

Less than 24 hours out of Carnarvan the main had ripped again! It was dropped and repaired on deck, once again getting lots of TLC. The winds continued as before and two days later we limped into Geraldton.

It may sound monotonous, but upon leaving Geraldton — the last stop before Perth — we tore the main in yet another spot. The last 243 miles took two days and five hours, still to weather. As we motored into Fremantle that Thursday afternoon, October 2, we ate boatmade chocolate ice cream, looked at an anenometer that only registered seven knots, and saw our first 12 Meter. Actually, we saw 13 of them at once.

ur first 13,000 miles had been a piece of cake. The last 600 miles to Perth to weather was a nightmare! The pilot chart shows winds from the south at 25-30 knots.

The boats preceeding us by 30 days had conditions similar to ours, even 300 miles offshore.

We decided that if the wind in Fremantle is called the doctor, then what we experienced had to be “the whole damn hospital!” Was it worth it? We almost never doubted it.

— diana green jessie

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HIDDEN HARBOR MARINA Sailboats from the Bay and the world’s oceans come to ply the myriad waterways of the California Delta. Many come for the summer months seeking the warmth and tranquility that sunny days and warm nights have to offer. Some stay on through the fall enjoying the cool still morning and light air that each shortening day brings. Spectacular sunsets, which have always been a Delta trademark, are especially beautiful throughout the fall.

With winter comes solitude and peace that is absolute. A flourish of blossoms and greenery turn into spring as the Delta once again cloaks itself with wildgrape and blackberry intermingled among the oaks and alders along its banks.

Through the seasons, sailors cruising the Delta waters pass by a potpourri of marinas and harbors. Though all these facilities offer a place to keep their boat, only one offers the pleasures of the Delta without a break in its natural continuity.

Located in a more tranquil portion of an already peaceful region, Hidden Harbor Marina preserves the atmosphere while offering comfortable and secure accomodations. The churning activity and noise that powerboats bring in is not present, as berths are offered to sailboats only. One powerboat, a 24-ft Skipjack, is owned and operated by the marina as a tow vessel. Knowing this free service is available 24 hours a day gives Hidden Harbor patrons confidence and peace of mind as they explore secluded anchorages or race with the steady winds that are indigenous to the area.

The marinas two protected harbors lie at the mouth of scenic Steamboat Slough. These waters are the cleanest in the Delta, with the northern mountains feeding a fresh flow continually throughout the seasons. With the clean waters and peaceful beauty of the marina it is not hard to understand why many boaters occasionally choose to remain in their slip through an entire weekend, swimming in the harbors and making use of the quality fa-

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THE DELTA AT ITS BEST cilities. Bar-B-Que areas blend in with the natural surroundings and the restroom buildings, which contain tiled showers and laundry rooms, are the best any marina has to offer.

The harbormasters at Hidden Harbor are owners as well as residents of the marina.

One of them is always present both day and night. A card-lock gate on the land side allows entry to boat owners only. Hidden Harbor’s fuel dock and other facilities are not open to the general public so those people you see at the marina are either berthers or their guests.

The marina’s geographic location provides some welcome benefits that other portions of the Delta do not share. Farmland that makes up the islands in our area consist of heavy soils which are not carried on the winds.

Clouds of dust associated with much of the Delta’s peat soils do not exist. The river just outside the mouth of Steamboat is deep and wide. Wind crosses this vast expanse of water delivering a steady broad reach throughout the summer, providing some of the best sailing in the Delta. Sailing north out of the marina takes you up Cache Slough to secluded deep water anchorages in the labyrinth of sloughs made up of Lindsey, Hass, Shag, Prospect, Miner and Cache itself. This is an area where the levees serve as private farming access. Boaters who choose to “get away from it all” need only to take the one hour cruise to their favorite anchorage and drop the hook.

Hidden Harbor’s geographic location has given it an added benefit: 310-ft down is an aqua strata that runs clean and pure. A well put down in 1983 tapped into this source and provides the marina with quality water. The proximity of Rio Vista, just two miles down the river, is also fortuitous. If your needs are something other than the fuel and ice that the marina offers, then you have only a five minute drive to find everything from groceries to teak. The retailers in this Delta community offer everything the boaters needs with selection and prices that no marina chandlery can

match. The closeness of Rio Vista affords sailors in the marina the best of both worlds.

The privacy of Hidden Harbor is not disturbed by the crowds of people needed to support retail sales, while the patrons of the harbors have a virtual cornucopia of goods only moments away. Berthers in need of marine supplies receive and added benefit: the marina has an account with one of the west coasts largest wholesalers and passes their cost directly on to the boater. No money is made on the transaction by the marina but resulting well maintained vessels and satisfied patrons are a definite benefit.

Wakes from passing vessels and wind blown waves are held out of the enclosed harbors.

The tree covered peninsulas that curl around the marina allow the sailboats within to rest calmly in their slips. Shade and parking within feet of your boat are added pleasures these breakwaters provide. Hidden Harbor and its adjoining neighbor, Ryer Island, go through the winds and waters of winter — year after year — unscathed. Ryer Island, and Grand Island just across Steamboat Slough from the marina, do not even appear in a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study showing the likelihood of levee failure within the Delta. All other islands fall into categories of projected failure likely after 25 years or more to projected failure likely in ten years or less.

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here’s a fair amount of talk going around these days about “getting the pros out of racing,” a statement that creates strong statements pro and con as well as a fair amount of head scratching. Any period of transition — and sailboat facing is definitely going through such a stage — creates charges and countercharges and a certain amount of confusion.

We became aware that something was go-

some changes are made soon.”

Following the chronology, the next big sailing news was the beginning of the America’s Cup in Perth, Australia. More than $150 million worth of yachts, sails and sailors were gathering to vie for the auld mug. Many stories were generated about the high tech, high profile campaigns, including pieces that some of the crews, especially skippers, were being paid handsomely for

'Shockwave’s Cavelli is trying to change the face of racing. First, the Twisted Sisters, now driving his own IOR boat.

ing on last fall during a conversation with Dick Deaver, the veteran sailmaker/champion skipper from Huntington Beach. He was serving as tactician aboard the Frers 43 Schockwave during the St. Francis Yacht Club Big Boat Series, which wasn’t unusual.

What was novel was that the yacht’s owner, Richard Cavalli of Marina del Rey, was helming the yacht for the series. Deaver is easily a better driver than Cavalli, but the latter had had enough of deferring to rock stars for the past two years and decided “If 1 pay the bills, then I get to drive.” Deaver agreed wholeheartedly.

“We just lost Wayne Willenberg (owner of the Nelson/Marek 41, Revenge) from the IOR fleet down south,” said Deaver. “He decided he couldn’t do anything on the boat

Dick Deaver realized the seriousness of the problem, and applauds Cavelli’s decision to drive.

their time and energy. Rumors pegged “consulting fees” at six figures for the top skippers. The underlying message seemed clear: America’s Cup racing, which once represented the pinnacle of Corinthian yachting, has become a major international sporting event and some of its participants are being paid accordingly.

Next, Southern California sailmaker/racer Dave Ullman wrote a story for Sailing World advocating throwing “professional” sailors, including -himself, out of racing. A professional was defined as anyone actively pursuing a business in the marine industry, from rock star sailors to the fellow down at the

"Sailboat racing is definitely going through a transition." as well as anyone else, and he didn’t want to just be along for the ride. So he’s going to try some other recreation.” Pointing to the 53 racing yachts berthed at the St. Francis docks, Deaver went on to warn that “these are the last vestiges of the IOR fleet unless

marina who services your outboard engine.

Oi vey! was the reaction of some people.

Others gave the idea a hearty round of applause. In fact, the Southern California Performance Handicap (PH) racing committee resolved to ban all pros from their racing

effective January 1, 1987. The PH committee has since backed off that stand, and are now polling their members about the idea of allowing only one pro onboard during a race.

o what’s going on here? The upheaval may not be as significant as selling arms to Iran to support the Contras, but it does have broad reaching implications for the sport of sailing. Can yachting, as some people suggest, no longer live within the confines of being a “country club” sport? Have we finally reached the point where professional sailing and sailors are not only appropriate, but desirable? Can we still keep sailing “pure”, or are we refusing to see the reality of the situation and making the needed changes?

In polling several key players both in Northern and Southern California, we found

WHAT'S GOING ON?

Dave Ullman proposed the pro ban. Below, ‘Boomerang’ winner Clipper Cup. Owner not only didn’t drive, he wasn’t even in Hawaii.

ten years ago in the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit, with the new Grand Prix entries in one fleet and the production/older boats in another. It lasted for a couple of years, but the guys who won the production/older boat division felt like second class citizens.”

Roger Hall, Richmond former IOR owner/skipper (Serendipity 43 Wings): “The fun went out of racing in 1982 when I drove Wings in the Big Boat Series. There was only one other owner/driver in a fleet of 20 boats. So the next year I brought on the

varied responses. There was little question, though, that something is definitely up.

Steve Taft, Alameda sailmaker: “The picture isn’t quite as black and white as Dave Ullman says. There are owners in the IOR fleet who couldn’t get into the sport as deeply as they want to without the professionals to prepare and sail their boats. On the other hand, saying that ‘I’m going to drive your boat for you’ is unhealthy for the sport.

The pros are at the leading edge, but the marginal guys are seeing that they can’t compete. They don’t have the time or the budget, so they drop out. In that sense the sport is a victim of itself.

“One possibility would be to have certain races, either in the IOR or PHRF fleets, where pros aren’t allowed. Then it becomes racing between peers. The only problem is that if you don’t beat the best guys, the victory is kind of hollow.They tried that about

Steve Taft: "The picture isn’t black and white.”

pros, too, but it wasn’t worth the money, time or emotional commitment. I was spending $30,000 a year just to keep the boat , prepared, which is hard to justify if you’re working for a living.

“In 19831 suggested we try a sail limitation rule for IOR boats here on the Bay. There would be fewer sails to buy and it would be easier for Corinthian crews to handle them. I requested that we try out such a system for a year, but I was told ‘If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.’ So I did, and others have too. Now I’m windsurfing and the emotional return on my dollar is infinitely greater.” , :

Southern California banned all pros. tj im Pugh, San Diego yacht designer: “In 1984, I recall there were more than a dozen IOR yachts being built around the country in preparation for the 1985 Admiral’s Cup series. This year there are

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only three. Something is very wrong, and 1 think it’s because the sport has become so expensive. The pros are the root of the prob-

Jim Pugh thinks the pro ban would work for Performance Handicap racing, but not IOR racing.

lem. Very few true amateurs can afford the time for an amateur program anymore. The ban on pros in Performance Handicap racing is a good idea, although it wouldn’t work well in grand prix IOR racing. Not having professionals onboard wouldn’t make it any less expensive.

“There will be rapid changes in the next two years. The International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) has opened things up for more sponsorship. In England there are already some boats with corporate backing.

The United States is ready for it too.”

Jocelyn Nash, Richmond sailmaker: “We need excellent sailors to show us how good we could be, but it’s tough to sail against the best. I’m a C-/D + tennis player and I usually compete against others of similar ability or slightly better. There’s no way, though, that I could ever play against Martina Navratilova. Some sailors enjoy testing themselves against the best, but if you don’t want to be beaten all the time, you have to sail in a different class.

“Some classes have an anti-ringer rule to prevent the pros from coming in for certain regattas. There was one class national championships where each boat had to be driven upwind by an owner or co-owner. Some guys bought a new suit of sails and sold a half interest in their boat to the loft’s rock star for fifty cents to get around the restriction. If you’re going to make an anti-ringer rule, make one that will stick.

“We also have to define what is a profes¬

sional. I’ve been in the business for a long x when guys like Rod Davis and Paul Cayard come back from Australia, they’ll be ready to time and if I’m onboard, I can make a difjump into another high powered IOR camference. But I’m never going to sail better than John Kostecki, and I get beaten all the paign. We may be forced to break more time. They don’t need a law to prevent me ground for a professional circuit, like the Forfrom sailing!” mula 40 tour in Europe. They’ve got sponBob Smith. Mill Valley naval architect: sors standing in line over there to get in on “Ullman’s got the right idea, because even if the action and their purses are $25,000 for the presence of the pros is only perceived as each of ten regattas next summer. a problem by owners, then it is a problem.

“We also need to analyze the professionals I’ve heard many reasons why owners have situation more. I don’t have a problem if they gotten out, like their boats are no longer want to exclude me from PHRF racing. I competitive, it takes too long to mgke sanddon’t need more sailboat races to attend. But wiches in the morning for the cr&w, rhy sails what about the seamstress who works in my are blown out . . . We’re looking for ways to loft? Would the ban mean that she can’t go get more boats out next season, maybe by out with her friends on the weekend? There having a mixed fleet of IOR yachts and are also a lot of amateurs who get a thrill out others measured under the International of sailing against guys like Tom Blackaller Measurement System (IMS).” and Dennis Conner.”

Gary Weisman, San Diego sailmaker: “Calling for the removal of pros from rac'ng is a sour grapes idea. Racing isn’t flourishing ave Ullman, San Diego sailmaker: now because it costs too much to be com“I’ve been getting a lot of support since callpetitive. It’s getting absurd! There’s a full case of 12 Meter-itis going on, with huge amounts Can anything be done to keep the IOR ranks pack of money being spent on campaigns. And from thinning out?

WHAT'S GOING ON?

Jeff Madrigali thinks the pro ban is bogus.

ing for the pro ban. I’ve been concerned about this for a long time, and now I’m very enthused. The presence of professionals isn’t the only reason for the decline of the sport of sailing. People have less spendable income and they are seeking out easier forms of recreation. You can’t change those factors

the fleets where they shouldn’t be sailing.

“With a ban I could still go sailing in the IOR, the Olympic classes and some one designs. The pros give the sport a high profile and maybe we’d force the formation of a pro circuit, which would be great. Many sports have gone through this transition, such as golf and tennis, and they ended up with pro and amateur divisions.

“The IOR needs a good old age allowance, maybe so good that the older boats can’t lose except for the grand prix regattas. We need heavier sail limitations, like four jibs, a dacron main and two spinnakers. And we need reasonable restrictions on exotic building materials. Spending $150,000 for an extra tenth of a knot is ridiculous!”

Jeff Madrigali, Oakland sailmaker: “The pro ban has some merit, but basically it’s bullshit. It’s going to hurt as many people as it helps. I would just as soon sail with my customers on Thursday or Friday and tell them ‘Good Luck’ on the weekend while I go play golf. Most pros don’t enjoy beating up other sailors in club races, but we have to service our clients.

“Competition makes the sport of sailing evolve. You can’t get a higher level of performance without rewarding those who make the commitment to produce it. There’s no plot on the part of the professionals to make sailing more expensive. We become sailmakers or sparmakers or designers because we love the sport. We could be selling insurance if we wanted to make more money.”

Bill Twist, San Francisco IOR owner/skipper (Reichel/Pugh 48, Bladerunner): “I don’t mind the pros. In fact, I want to race with them and against them. But banking them may be too steep a penalty for Bay racing. I want to see more boats out there on the weekend having a good time.

“We’re not being generous enough with the old age allowance, because the older boats aren’t winning. And even if we rate them more favorably, they still need crews who can sail the boat well. One idea we have for next season is to put the professionals into a pool for one series, like the Big Daddy, and have owners draw their names out of a hat. The good guys would get spread around more and everyone would benefit.

“I also want to eliminate crew limitations for Bay racing. We could limit the number of bodies on the rail so you couldn’t pile people up there on windy days, and the other peo-

pie onboard would have to stay on or near the centerline. Of course, people would have to live by the intent of the rule in order for it to work.”

Jim Mizell, Sacramento IOR owner (Smith 43, High Risk): “For major regattas like the Big Boat Series, it’s the owner’s decision

An IOR oddity, Bill Twist. He owns, drives and wins big with ‘Bladerunner’.

1 whether or not to put a professional at the helm. My talent is no where near theirs, and I know I need them to do well. But not for lesser regattas. I do give a damn how we finish in Bay races, but I’ve decided to drive this year. I’m going to have some fun!”

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rls you can see, there’s really no consensus about what to do about professionals.

There is general agreement that racing, especially in the IOR fleet, has become prohibitively expensive. The spiraling costs may force the emergence of a pro tour with corporate sponsorship and big time prize purses. The large numbers of crew needed to sail big boats would probably necessitate allowing amateurs to sail as well. And such a pro tour would take some of the pressure off local fleet racing, allowing recreational sailors to compete amongst themselves. While upsetting, the current furor over professionals and the state of racing today may very well lead to constructive changes.

— shimon van collie

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es Harlander is not one to go shooting off at the mouth. You could sit in the same room with him for half an hour and not generate much more conversation than a ‘Hello, how are you?’ Or perhaps he’ll chuckle impishly, as he does occasionally.

Les Harlander, with his idiosyncratic cigar.

You’d probably spend most of your time trying to figure out what was on his mind while he chewed the end of his long cigar. Don’t worry, even if you knew, you probably wouldn’t understand much of it.

When Les Harlander’s brain synapses start firing behind his blue eyes and beneath the greying hair on his scalp, the result is usually pretty advanced stuff. Like how to revolutionize the shipping industry or design a nuclear reactor system for power generation.

In his spare time he might be cogitating new plans for a house or a chicken ranch or a yacht. Over the past 63 years he’s actualized all of the above, so these are not the idle thoughts of a dreamer. When it comes to designing and building, especially things that move through the water, Les Harlander is considered a genius.

the East Coast. In the late 1940’s, the fleet An outstanding skipper and one of the few Bay Area helmsmen to ever beat Dave x grew to a dozen or more members on the Bay, with their headquarters in Richmond.

Allen’s legendary Imp in a big race, Les has Besides Don and Les, the group included never been a vociferous kind of a guy. “You some talented sailors such as Lon Price, can always tell his disposition, though,” says Gordon Rule, Ted Vincent, Alan Clarke, long time friend, crewmember and comBob Klein and Red Tompkins. Being a few petitor Bob Klein, “by the way he rolls the years older than most of the other fleet cigar from one side of his mouth to the members in the Small Boat Racing Associaother.” tion (SBRA), the 110’ers may have been exThose who know Les well, such as Bob and Doris Klein, Charlie Reid, Lon Price and Wes Beckett, have a rich backlog of stories about him dating back to the 1930’s. Born in Crockett in 1923, Les grew up in Oakland.

As a teenager, he and his brother Do’n> who is two years younger, were crazy about sailing and begged their dad to buy a boat. They ended up converting an open 28-foot Alaskan packers fishboat into a ketch with a keel, cabin and sprit rig, and calling it the Valhalla. During high school vacations, the boys would take off, not just around the Bay, but out the Gate and down the coast to the Channel Islands!

According to Doris Klein, a big storm hit one year as they were making the passage north. Frantic for their safety, their father drove down to the Santa Cruz Coast Guard station, hoping to see the little vessel pass by.

After hours of waiting, he was advised to go home and get some rest. When the Valhalla reached San Francisco safely, Don reported that he was on watch when the blow hit.

Yes, he said, they were the biggest waves he had ever seen, and yes, it was rougher than anything they had ever been through.

However, Don never thought it was worth waking up Les for just that!

In 1942, Les graduated from Vallejo’s California Maritime Academy and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. Among his shipmates were another Bay sailor, Bob Potter, and his brother Don. By 1948, Les had his Masters license, which meant he could skipper any type of vessel of any size anywhere in the world. During those years he circumnavigated the globe three times, with many stopovers in the Pacific.

When it comes to designing and building, Les is considered a genius.

The cigar adds an idiosyncratic touch. For years, Bay sailors instantly recognized the slight, powerfully-built figure at the helm of his black C&C 40 sloop, Mirage, his Optimo Admiral stogie clamped between his teeth.

It was during this post-war period that Les became part of a group which formed the local International 110 fleet. This 24-foot sloop, with an overlapping jib and only 4’2” of beam, was a popular one-design racer on

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pected to set an example with their behavior.

All reports indicate that was not the case.

“We tore up a few restaurants in our day,” says Lon Price. Their favorite group activity, especially after a few gins, was to see who could walk the farthest on their hands. Don, whose forearms still resemble Popeye’s, was one of the champs, as were Don and Bob Klein. The latter recalls one year in Long Beach they were out on the street in the mid-

die of the night after a big party. The handwalkers were covering the better part of a block when one of the wives decided to join in the fun and started pelting the sailors with raw eggs. Ah, the good old days!

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n the water, Les and Don were a formidable combination. Sailing Hot Breath, they won the 110 national championships in

inset; the 110 ‘Hot Breath’ winning in Seattle.

Spread; the C&C 40 ‘Mirage’ racing on the Bay.

LE5 HARLAN DER 1950 on the Bay and then repeated their win two years later in San Diego. Don also pulled off some daring cruising adventures. In the

winter of 1949, he told his wife June that he was sailing 70 miles down the coast to Santa Cruz. “It was just for fun,” he said. In 20 knots of breeze, the flat-bottomed 110 surfed for miles until the wind shut down at Davenport. “The sea followed the coastline,” recalls Les, “and we kept riding the waves, only now the apparent wind was dead ahead.” Les repeated the feat the next year, “because it seemed natural at the time.”

Now, however, he admits it may have been a little risky.

A couple of years later, Les and Don were joined by Lon Price, Bob Klein and Red Tompkins to deliver the 63-foot yawl Adios from San Francisco to her new owner in Seattle. Les earned the nickname “Captain Blood” on that trip, skippering and navigating the yacht through some pretty fierce Aleutian storms. “There were times,” recalls Klein, “when I thought we would never see dry land again.” A day out of the Straits of Juan de Fuca, though, Les radioed in their ETA and hit it on the nose. They were greeted by the new owner carrying a bucket of Olympia oysters as a reward for their efforts.

It wasn’t as if Les needed to venture offshore because of his humdrum life on land.

During this period he was starting a family, attending UC Berkeley, working a 12,000 bird chicken farm in Alamo and designing and building his own house in Orinda. The latter three activities were all done together with Don. Friends say the synergistic relationship between the brothers was unique.

“They have a remarkable kinship,” says Doris Klein. “Don is more outgoing, and Les is the quiet one, but they were always tremendously loyal to one another.”

Selling 1,000 fryers a week, Les and Don

The old 110 gang. Les is fifth from left sitting on the boat. Long time friend and competitor, Bob Klein, is top right.

supported themselves as they completed the UC mechanical engineering course, earning top grades. In 1951, Les became a hull design draftsman at Oakland’s Moore Drydock Co. After three years, he received a scholarship to pursue a masters in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at MIT in Boston. Graduating first in his class a year later, he was offered a position at Matson

Navigation and returned to their headquarters in San Francisco. . Les says he would have enjoyed designing yachts for a living, but there were more opportunities in ship design. He also considered the need for some security. The Harlander family was growing, with the addition of son George and daughters Penny and Leslie. Les’s daring sailing adventures were put on hold for a while, although he did crew on others’ yachts, including Wes Beckett’s 44-foot sloop Pajara.

Matson’s first assignment for Les was to attend the school of nuclear science and engineering at Illinois’ Argonne National Laboratories. After eight months he completed his final project, which was to design a reactor system for power generation. He then moved on to Portland, Oregon, to convert the cargo vessels Mariposa and Monterey into passenger ships. You can still see them today as the ply the Pacific route from the West Coast to Hawaii.

In 1957, Les was promoted to manager of engineering development and became responsible for Matson’s new container systems program. Instead of loading and Matson containerships were the first built from the keel up for that purpose. Previous container ships were conversions.

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Les had harbored the dream of sailing in the TransPac race for many years. In 1959 he started building one of his own designs, a 39-foot yawl called Tyboon. He had shown the drawings to some builders in Los Angeles, but they were too busy to take on the light weight, wide stern yacht with the unique hull interior (no frames, just bulkheads to hold its shape). No big deal.

Les and Don figured they would do the job themselves, so they set up shop on a hilltop near Don’s home in Orinda. Designed to the old CCA rule, Tyboon showed her speed during the 1961 TransPac, taking second in Class B. Her sails were made by a young Richmond sailor who would soon gain his own share of fame —- Jim DeWitt.

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n the passage across the Pacific, the idea for another yacht took shape. This one was a 45-foot, 23,000-pound sloop which became known as Isobar. Built in Hong Kong, she, too, was relatively light, but her traditional keel design with the rudder hanging off the end was soon eclipsed by the separated fin keel and spade rudder. Isobar could never rise above the middle of the fleet in the 1963 and 1965 TransPacs, but she did well in the Bay and in the local offshore races. Les kept Isobar for ten years before moving on to the C&C 41 Wind Bag. On the work front, Les’s corporate career kept advancing during this period. He dealt with phases of ship containerization, including ships, cranes, containers and terminal equipment. His papers appeared in numerous technical publications, and he coinvented several container related patents. In 1964, Matson promoted him to vice president of engineering and fleet maintenance.

In 1963, that title was changed to engineering and marine operations. He travelled extensively, especially to Hawaii and the Far East, and oversaw the conversion and building of ships in Japan and Germany. In 1971, he moved over to the American President Line, becoming vice president of operations.

In 1972, Les and his buddy, the gregarious Charlie Reid, travelled to Toronto to sail the unsuccessful Canada’s Cup defender Mirage with George Cassian, one half of the C&C (Cassian & Cutchbertson) design team. Les fell in love with the Cana-

deck), a longer waterline length and less sail area than most IOR boats at the time.

On San Francisco Bay, Mirage proved to be a terror. She won the Lipton Cup for Richmond Yacht Club three times, including the memorable victory over Imp in 1978. A year before, the breakthrough Ron Hollanddesigned 40-footer had won yachting’s triple crown (SORC, Admiral’s Cup and Big Boat Series). She was humbled by the local heroes on Mirage, many of them, again, the same group that had sailed with Les in the 110 class. Mirage also won the Rheem division of the Big Boat Series twice between 1975 and 1980, and did well in the Mexico races, winning class honors during a heavy air contest to Manzanillo.

Charlie Reid considers Les, who he’s known for 30 years, to be his oldest and dearest friend. Their discussions range from business to politics (“Barry Goldwater is a liberal as far as we’re concerned.”) to why people sail. As a skipper, Charlie says Les possesses the qualities of assertiveness, aggressiveness and sagacity that are hard to beat. He also gathers sailors who can work together as & team, and he doesn’t rant and rave out on the water. “We had a guy onboard once who was screaming at the foredeckers,” recalls Charlie, “and Les cut the fellow off by saying ‘Shut up! They’re doing the best they can!’ ” Reid adds that Mirage, like Isobar and Tyboon, was rigged with some unique systems. One of them was even named after him. Before the days of the dip-pole jibe, Les attached an extra sheet to each of the spinnaker clews and ran it first to a block near the bow and then back to the cockpit. When jibing from a heavy air run to a reach (a frequent Big Boat Series maneuver at Blossom

LES HARLANDER Rock), Reid’s job was to crank in on the leeward clew using the “Charlie Change Line”. With that corner of the sail stabilized near the pulpit, the bowman’s job of clipping the spinnaker pole into the newMack during an end for end jibe was greatly simplified. No lost seconds — or minutes — trying to snare a gyrating chute while the competition thundered by.

In addition to his cronies, Les often had a team of Richmond junior sailors onboard.

For many, it was their initial taste of big boat sailing, an important transition from the world of El Toros and Lasers. Don Peters recalls his first such ride was on Isobar. “Don Harlander ran the front end,” he recalls, “and Les was in the back. Typically, he would sit and chew on his cigar and do a competent job.” Craig Healy, Mike Trimble, John Gilmour and Pat Vincent were a few of the others who cut their teeth with the Harlander program.

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y 1977, Les had tired of the corporate life. He resigned from APL and started Cal Coast Marine, a full service yard in the Richmond harbor. His former employers were loathe to release him however, and finally lured him back to oversee the building of their C-9 vessels, the largest container ships ever built in the U.S. These 860-foot monsters, the President LincolnPresident Washington and President Monroe, were also the first such ships to use low speed diesel propulsion, generating 43,200 horsepower. Their load capacity .is an incredible 2,500 20-foot containers. The

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project took four years to complete.

Cal Coast continued to operate, first under manager A1 Milani and then Don Peters. (Don has since gone into real estate and the yard is now managed by Rich Biller.)

Les’s job required him to travel to the C-9 building site in New Orleans. Obviously, he didn’t have enough to keep himself busy, so he designed himself another Mirage and had it built at Cal Coast. Looking beyond racing, he wanted a 40-footer that could cruise anywhere while still being competitive under the IOR rule. “The main conflict,” he Says, “is the amount of lead you need. IOR racing requires live ballast, while a cruiser needs more internal stability. The new Mirage, which weighs 18,000 pounds altogether, page 154

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ended up with 10,000 pounds of lead in her keel.”

As usual, there were some unique design features in her as well. The hull features a novel longitudinal framing system with stringers molded into the fiberglass skin. This technique eliminated the need for a foam core, and Mirage is very light for her length.

Don Peters was in charge of building the yacht, and he adds that “Les is a terrific guy to work with on a project like this. He’s a practical engineer and he can deal with problems that other designers wouldn’t even want to hear about.. Mirage is very well engineered and she doesn’t have the ‘come aparts’ that plague many other racing yachts.”

The latest ‘Mirage’. Designed by Les and built in 1982 by his Cal-Coast Marine. He plans to sail her around the Horn._

The pretty blue and white sloop also sports a fractional rig, which was a moderately radical move back in the early 1980’s. Les saw the advantages of that configuration under the IOR rule (as have other designers since then) as well as being able to rig an easy tacking club-footed jib for cruising.

Launched in 1982, Mirage took 5th in the Big Boat Series that year. She never reached the heights of her predecessor, however. Les has had to absorb a chain of events in the meantime, including the death of his wife Jupe and his brother’s moving to Idaho. He has since remarried, and had planned to set

off on an around-the-world cruise a year ago with his bride Rowena. The trip had to be postponed, however, because of some investments which needed attention.

Fear not, though. The cruise plans are still very much alive. And it won’t be a Milk Run, either. Don and Les are keeping themselves in good shape for at least one more adventure: sailing around South America’s Cape Horn, first one way and then the other.

“We’ve got lots of guys who want to crew with us when we make that part of the trip,” says Les. No doubt they include some of his 110 buddies. And just for fun, they’ll probably have handwalking contests on deck as they pass Tierra del Fuego!

— shimon van collie

MORA/IOiyPHRO Ocean Yacht Racing Association Just about anyone who has sailed any of the various ocean series will give anyone who will listen an earful of reasons why ocean racing is preferable texbay racing.

Among them: less crowded; not as hard on the boat, gear or crew; minimal concern with current; the “wide open spaces” feeling; excellent training for anyone contemplating “The Big Cruise” someday; more relaxing; closer to nature; more challenging; more light air sailing; more fulfilling; and on and on.

So it is with some wonder that we once again report that OYRA — the ocean contingent of the Yacht Racing Association — experienced yet another decline in participation this year. While numbers in the 10R and PHRO organizations remained essentially unchanged, MORA was down slightly and the Santana 35s and Singlehanders never got enough participants out to even qualify for a season. To be fair, Bay racing was also slightly down in some divisions from previous years. The whys and wherefores of this trend are unclear, though most people trace it eventually to the economy. These days, they say, the potential racers don’t have the discretionary bucks to spend on boats; and a lot of the boaters don’t have the time to spend on a season campaign. It should be interesting to see what impact the new tax law has on the 1987 racing season.

Midget Ocean Racing Association Of all the ocean racing organizations, MORA is the one that seems to confuse most of the people most of the time. The only thing we can figure out is that folks see “Midget” and immediately envision a bunch of dwarfs sailing around out there. While we have nothing against little people, rest assured that "Midget” refers only to the fact that this is the ocean racing organization for PHRF boats 31 feet and under. The racers themselves are of normal size and disposition — or at least as normal as anyone who calls getting cold, wet, often terrified and sometimes exhilarated “fun”.

Although it doesn’t count in the season standings, a high point of the MORA year is the 440-mile Long Distance race to( San Diego in July. Locally, the highlight of the 10-race season was the fantastic “All You Can Eat” feed put on by the Half Moon Bay YC on Memorial Day weekend. For 135 ocean racers, it was most welcome after a day of racing down from the Bay. Outgoing Commodore Roger Heath invites all interested boat owners and crews to give MORA a try, and issues a challenge to the rest. “When you sail MORA, you sail

the most competitive ocean series in Northern California. If anyone with a 30-ft boat thinks differently, come out and show us.”

For more information on MORA, call the X YRA office at 771-9500.

International Offshore Rule This year, as last, 10R fielded about 40 active boats for their ocean series. The season consisted of four races and no throwouts for the spring Danforth Series, and five races and one throwout for the fall Gulf of the Farallones Series. For the first time, the latter included the Ocean-Vallejo race as an official part of the season. Another change this year was the return to cumulative' scoring.

Last year, as an experiment, there were no “overall” season winners. The idea was to race each race for itself, and thereby eliminate late season attrition of boats that weren’t doing well in the standings. The idea didn’t go over well.

The old age allowance, a rating break for pre-1982 designs, did prove popular. It will likely be back next year if it gets the expected vote at the spring meeting. The other major proposal due for discussion and vote then is the batten allowance (longer battens keep expensive sails from wearing out so fast).

For more information on IOR racing, call Clauser at 652-7302.

Pacific Handicap Rating — Ocean PHRO registered 30 boats this year, and ran eight events with two throwouts. Except for the season champion and slightly lighter winds overall, the year was almost a mirror image of 1985.

Next year, however, big changes are in store. For one, the number of races will go up to 10. The Ocean-Vallejo race will now count in season totals and the grueling Montara-Farallones Race will be chucked in favor of an early Half Moon Bay up-andback race. Also, PHRO racers are finally going to have a social life afloat. There will be something like five or six weekend races with overnight raft-ups so folks can get together and swap food, drink, lies, whatever. The biggest of these pow-wows will be the new, improved three-day long Corlett. It will now stop overnight in both Drakes Bay and Half Moon Bay before returning to San Francisco.

If you’re an interested, low-key racer with a boat 30-ft or larger, PHRO is an ideal way to break into ocean racing. For more information on the organization, call Alex Malaccorto at (408) 997-7818 or Dennis Robbins at 954-6757 (W) or 527-5569 (H).

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Carl and Mark Ondry Sequoia YC If there’s one thing almost all race boat owners insist upon, it’s that you leave the driving to them. Not so aboard MORA’s Division I season champion, Bloom County.

Although Mark Ondry does most of the helming, “we try to get everyone on the helm at one time or another,” says Carl Ondry, Mark’s father and boat partner.

Of course, most of the crew aboard this season are fine sailors in their own rights.

The regulars were John Dukat and Pam Eldridge. Others rounding out the usual fiveperson compliment included Matt Soderer, Mark Stevens, Joe Wilson, Susan Lorraine and, for the first half, the boat’s designer, Dave Mancebo. Dukat and Mancebo were aboard to keep the edge while they refurbished their own Critical Mass for next year’s MORA season. Carl Ondry hopes they’re behind schedule. “I’d hate to lose John,” he says. “He’s the best fordeck around.”

Bloom County, got its name when Mrs. Ondry (Carl’s wife, Mark’s mom) observed, “That boat is just like the comic strip. It’s full of nuts, too.” Their toughest competition in the ocean (they also raced most of the HDA season in the Bay) came from overall MORA winner Rhonda Fleming on Kitty Hawk.

“Racing head to head with Kitty Hawk was a lot of fun. They are just such good racers,” says Carl, a pharmacist. In the true spirit of friendly rivalry, Bloom County and Kitty Hawk even exchanged congratulatory bottles of wine for races well sailed during the season.

2) Kitty Hawk, Sonoma 30, Rhonda Fleming, SCC; 3) New Wave, Express 27, Hill Blackett III, RYC.

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MORA II “Potsticker” J/29

MORA — OVERALL “Kitty Hawk” Sonoma 30

IOR I “High Risk” Smith 43

Kirk Denebeim/Ron Losch St. Francis YC

Rhonda Fleming Sausalito Cruising Club

Jim Mizell St. Francis YC

One of the big tests of Potsticker s season was not a trial by wind, it was trial by fog.

During the Corlett, it closed in soon after the fleet rounded the Drakes Bay buoy. From there to the Farallones, “It was totally LORAN,” says Kirk Denebeim. When they heard and finally saw surf, they tacked out, skirting the island by keying on the barks of seals and the smell of birds. Then it was black box sailing all the way home. “We couldn’t even see lights of the Golden Gate until we were right under it,” says Kirk. Not all boats out that day fared so well. A fishing boat, the Jack Jr., never came home.

Most of the rest of the ocean series was first rate racing and sailing, says Kirk; lots of sun and the wind rarely got out of the teens.

The commercial insurance broker attributes the win primarly to the consistency, talent and “good chemistry” of partner Ron Losch and crew Roark Smith, Lauren Hoffman, Laurie Jacobs and Dudley Fornier.

Before the start of next season, Kirk and his J/29 peers plan a determined crusade to stabilize the ratings of their boats. J/29s come from the factory in four possible configurations: fractional or masthead rigs, and inboard auxiliary or outboard engines. By reducing sail area and pole length where necessary, the J/29 Association has made the Bay Area boats essentially equal. Yet, the PHRF rating committee continues to handicap the boats with “factory” ratings. “If we can convince them to give all the J/29s a 120 rating, it will help the J/29 and it will help MORA,” says Denebeim.

Normally, it’s one or the other division winners that also enjoys the “overall” season championship in MORA. This year, though, the numbers crunched out in favor of Kitty Hawk and Rhonda Fleming, the first woman to ever win the MORA season.

Rhonda gives most of the credit to Kitty Hawk and its hard-working crew: Rick Mozer, Bill McGee, Jack Adam, Bill Riley, Jerry Block, occasionally Steve Fletcher and especially Jim Gannon. “We couldn’t have done it without Jim,” says Rhonda of her seasoned tactician. “His experience out in the ocean was invaluable.” She also had special praise for the Schumacher-designed Sonoma 30 — “A good all around boat, and a rocketship downwind in a breeze.”

A cabinetmaker by trade, Rhonda has never been one to capitalize on being a member of the “weaker sex”. On the race course, she asks no quarter and gives none.

Still, it’s nice to know that chivalry is not dead . . .

“We were tied with Bloom County going into the last race of the series. The night before, the outboard had konked out. The next morning, there was no wind. 1 normally sail from Sausalito to the Cityfront to pick up my crew, but I wasn’t going to make it. I thought we were going to blow the series until I saw a guy coming along in a motorboat with a white poodle on the bow. 1 did my best ‘damsel in distress’ — jumping and yelling ‘Please help me. I’m tied for the series!’

He towed us over to the City where I got my crew and we just made it to the start.

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“This was a year of search and find,” says Jim Mizell of racing his newest High Risk.

“We found the weak points and the strong points and overall decided we’re very, very happy with the boat.”

Launched in February of this year, High Risk immediately showed potential. In the first eight races, she took four firsts, three seconds and a third. On the Grand Prix circuit, the yearling yacht took thirds in class at Long Beach Race Week and Big Boat ' Series, and a respectable fifth at Kenwood Cup. Of course, the best boats can’t do a thing without good crew, and High Risk had that in spades. There’s not space to list them all, but the regulars included helmsman Steve Taft, Paul Ferrarese, Jim Gettys and the boat’s designer, Bob Smith.

High Risk, whose name spins off from Mizell’s career as an insurance broker, likes going upwind in flat water and a moderate breeze best, says her owner. But she can boogie in th§ rough stuff, too. A highlight of the year for Mizell was coming around the * back side of the islands during the Farallones race, and hitting 14 on the knotmeter. “That was an incredible day,” he says.

2) Bladerunner, R/P 47, Bill Twist, STFYC; 3) Clockwork, N/M 41, Lee Otterson/Ray Pingree, SFYC.

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PHRO “Bones VII” Contessa 43 SERIES STANDINGS IOR Danforth Series Division I: 1) High Risk, Smith I - aderunner, Bill Twist, RP 47, STFYC: 3i Clockwork, N/M 41, Lee

Keith Buck, CYC; 2) Killer Duck, Wylie 34, George Creamer, RYC; 3) Leading Edge, Wylie 34, Joe Siarritt, TYC.

Gulf of the Faraffones Series

George Creamer Richmond YC

Bill Chapman San Francisco YC

George Creamer arranged for a boat name painter soon after he bought his Wylie 34 in 1980. But up until the night before it was to be put on, no name had been decided upon. “I remember I was reading an interview with Ted Turner about his 1980 America’s Cup campaign. One of the questions regarded boatspeed and the reporter said ‘Won’t you be a sitting duck?’ Turner’s reply was ‘No, we’ll be a killer duck!’ ” And Creamer’s boat had a name.

Killer Duck has lived up to her name many times over the last six years, but few have been as satisfying as 1986 for Creamer and his crew Rick Schuldt, Verle Craven, Peter Fosdiak, Chris Wyman, John Knox, Chip and Cliff Nelson and John Chrisman. “It helps to have a good boat, but there’s no question that the crew’s enthusiasm and hard work were the deciding factor this year,” says George. Special thanks in that department goes to Janet Wittkopf, Cindy Wright and Langston. George’s fellow employees at a major computer manufacturer were short on experience but long on enthusiasm when Killer Duck came up seriously shorthanded one weekend. With help from the elements on the way to Drakes Bay, “They kept the momentum going,” says Creamer.

If there were ever a “Guiness Book of Records” for sailing in and around the Bay, Bill Chapman would be in it. As far as we know, no one else comes near his 15 seasons of racing the ocean. No one else' we know makes quite the committment to the series, either. For each of the 10 races, Bill brought the boat down from Stockton on Thursday evening/Friday morning, raced the weekend and brought it home Monday.

Bones VII has chalked up an interesting record herself. Built in England, the boat competed in the ill-fated 1979 Fastnet race.

She got to within 30 miles of the Rock, when a man went overboard and they dropped out of the race to retrieve him.

Chapman’s crew are Mike McGowan, Mike and Tom Warren, John Green, Tom Mason, Tom Flarrington, Larry Mangeli, Steve Trimble, Mark Hogan and Bill’s wife and the boat’s namesake, Diana “Bones” Chapman. Most are “second generation crew,” says Bill. “Their parents used to race with me. When they stopped, I picked up the kids.” Going to weather in a blow is the Contessa’s strong suit, and for that reason, this year’s Drake’s Bay race was one of Chapman’s favorites. “We started 15 minutes behind the IOR 1 boats and finished five minutes in front of Wall Street Duck. I know it’s just that we picked the right way to go, but it still felt awfully good.”

2) Petard, Farr 36, Keith Buck, CYC; 3) Sorcerer, C&C 1/2-ton, Greg Cody, SMYC.

2) Ringmaster, Express 37, Leigh Brite, RYC; 3) Amateur Hour, Santana 37, Deidre Fraser/Paul Lampley, VYC.

Division t: 1) Wall Street Duck, Schumacher 38, Jim Robinson, STFYC. (Only qualifying yacht.)

Division H - 1) Killer Duck, Wylie 34. George Creamer, RYC; 2) Wildfire, Ranger 37 (modified), John Clauser, BYC; 3) Sorcerer, C&C 1/2-ton, Greg Cody, SMYC.

MORA Pete Smith Series OVERALL - 1) Bloom County, Mancebo 31 (L div.), Mark and Cart Ondry. Sequoia YC; 2) Kitty Hawk, Sonoma 30 (L div.), Rhonda Fleming.

SCC; 3) Friday, Express 27 (L div.), John Uebenberg, RYC.

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PHRO Hal Nelson Series OVERALL — 1) Bones VII, Contessa 43, Bill Chapman, SFYC; 2) Ringmaster, Express 37, Leigh Brite, RYC; 3) Amateur Hour, Santana 37, Deidre Lampley/Paui Fraser, VYC.

George Jester Series OVERALL — 1) Rocinante, Beneteau 42, Alex Malaccorto, 1YC;

Option, Esprit 37, Richard Leute, 88YC.

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Small Yacht Racing Association We hate to be the purveyors of bad tidings at this time of the year, but this will be our last report on SYR A. Without “new blood”, and with primary support coming from only its two strongest fleets — the Santana 22s and Cal 20s — SYRA has been slowly declining over the past several years. After the 1986 season, it was decided to disband rather than try to wring one more year out.

Begun in 1957, SYRA would have celebrated its 30th birthday next year.

The Santana 22s and Cal 20s will race next season in YRA’s One Design Class Association. Numerically, those two fleets are second only to the J/24s and Knarrs in size, and the move is not expected to be too traumatic for them. As of presstime, the fate of SYRA’s remaining fleets, the Venture 24/25s, Catalina 25s and Rhodes 19s was not certain, although at least some of the boats could end up racing HDA (YRA’s handicap division) next year.

Small Boat Racing Association In contrast to SYRA, business is booming over at the Small Boat Racing Association.

In 1986, they registered 295 boats in 15 divisions. That’s up 20 boats and one division from last year. And speaking of birthdays, SBRA is planning it’s 50th bash next year.

The organization began in 1937 with three j classes.

To maintain a one-design status, classes must put at least five boats on the line in at least 60 percent of the races. The three SBRA divisions are broken down this way: Division A is for singlehanded dinghies and most of the racing takes place in protected 1 water. Division B is a competitive daysailor i class. Division C is for the high-tech designs.

Most spinnaker and trapeze boats are in this class. SBRA also runs an “open” division for probationary classes or fleets with less than the required five boats. SBRA boats raced between nine and 12 days last season, which translates to 18 to 22 races per class.

SBRA will be back next year with few changes. They’ll permit racers to either sign up for the whole year for $25 or do individual events for $5 apiece. They will also continue to provide SBRA delegates to various host clubs to help races progress smoothly. And as always, says Scott, “We’ll bend over backwards to accommodate what our members want.” For more information on SBRA, call Rovanpera at 939-4069 (W) or 674-8090 (H — let it ring at least seven times), or Chairperson Paula Klipfel at 569-0361.

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SYRA “Seascape” Santana 22

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Jim Lindsey Richmond YC

Mary Jo Foote Island YC

In the 14 years Jim Lindsey has been racing Santana 22s, he has lost the season championship only twice. In fact, he’s won so often and we’ve interviewed him about it so many times that we feel we know Jim like our own brother. Yet we’ve never met the guy. Jim is one of those people who simply would rather not have a photo taken. As you can see, we once again respect that wish, but we sure would like to attach a face to the voice just for our own sensibilities.

Almost as enviable as Jim’s racing record is his crew attendance record. For all 14 of those seasons, Howard Canfield and Jim’s wife, Sally, have faithfully pulled the strings on Seascape. Jim’s strategy has also remained essentially unchanged: “Get a clean start, keep boatspeed up in all conditions and then just wait for them to drop.” This works so well that he’s had few “squeaker” seasons, usually securing top spot early in the season. But he might actually have to work for the win one of these years. “The fleet is getting faster and smarter all the time,” says Jim. Lindsey’s Bay savvy and talent for winning has not gone unnoticed in bigger boat circles. His last foray into the fray, that of tactician on Lu Taylor’s Santa Cruz 50 Racy II at the Big Boat Series, turned out to be “the high point of the season,” says Jim. Racy II took first in the prestigious St. Francis Perpetual Division.

According to Mary Jo Foote, the keys to winning a season championship in a fleet as competitive as the Cal 20s are consistency, teamwork, clear air if possible and “not falling apart when you screw up.”

Mary Jo gives credit for holding all four qualities in perfect balance through the season to her “absolutely superb” crew, Bill Hansen and Ross Craig. “Our personalities are very compatible,” she says. “When we get out there, we focus on winning and we ' never look on mistakes as bad. If we do something wrong, we recover and keep going.” As a result, Hana Pau developed quite a reputation this year for come-frombehind wins. “Of course, the more we did that, the more it built our confidence. Near the end of the season, we were beginning to focus in the car before we even got to the marina.”

Hana Pau’s best race was one of the first along the City Front. “It was one of those ‘rich get richer’ races,” says Mary Jo, a San Francisco ya"cht broker. “We were lining up for the start and there was a fishing boat, the Bass Tub, close to the line near shore. At the start, we went inside between him and the shore, while everyone else tacked out into the flood. I guess we disturbed the fish because a couple fishermen said ‘I hope that boat sinks.’ But the move worked. We went on to beat the second boat in by five minutes.”

2) Kemo Sabe, Vern Neff, 3) Diane, John Ski/iner.

2) Great Egret, R. Von Ehrenkrook/Charles Gay; 3) Tension II, John Nooteboom, CYC.

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Barbara Criswell grew up sailing aboard her father’s 38-ft wooden ketch in Monterey, dreaming of the day that the family might sail into the sunset. The reality was that Dad spent considerably more time working on the boat than sailing it. “That,” says Barbara, “is now why I have a fiberglass boat.”

Barbara got into competitive dinghy racing while attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, but admits that she hated sailing FJs there.

Back in San Jose, though, she ran into a friend in the local FJ fleet, sailed a few races with him and soon got hooked. Four years ago, she bought her own boat. She is now, as her mother accuses, “totally obsessed” with sailboat racing. “I can’t help it,” laughs Barbara. ' “It’s so complicated, yet so incredibly interesting — like a chess game.”

Coached and helped at every turn by other FJ sailors — “The people are terrific,” she says — Barbara has improved steadily.

She didn’t know how much, she says, “until I realized that this year people were covering me.” When it became apparent that she had a shot at the top spot, she became a confirmed points counter, focusing even more intensely on clean starts, consistency, finding clear air — and beating Steve D’Angelo, her closest competition. “My main strategy was to keep calm, ” she says, “and my crew (Sally Applin was the most regular) helped a lot.

When D’Angelo was behind me, they kept telling me, ‘Don’t look back!’ When he was ahead, they told me to stop whining and concentrate on sailing my own damn boat. I owe all my crew a big thanks.”

After 14 years of racing, and the last several seasons of playing bridesmaid to perennial champion Dennis Silva, Steve Briggman has finally made Top Gun in the El Toro Senior Division. And it wasn’t )ust that Silva raced an abbreviated season.

“Even when Dennis did show up, I still beat him most of the time,” says Briggman, who works for Entel Corporation.

Like many of us, Steve’s parents got him started in sailing. But they took it one step further. “I had some friends who were also starting out, so they and my parents went in together, made a mold and started making boats for all of us.” Steve continues to use that same mold to pop out his own boats every few years.

Although a lot of the ’86 season was sailed in light breeze, Steve prefers heavy air sailing (that’s 15 to 18 for an El Toro). In fact, he does so well in a breeze it’s embarassing.

When it blew on the twice-around course at San Jose this year, he lapped at least two boats before finishing.

Another high point of the year was taking third in the El Toro Nationals, held this year on Clear Lake. This was the 13th Nationals the loyal dinghy sailor has attended. Steve says that he does sail other boats from time to time, but always comes back to the El Toro — for the camaraderie, the first-rate competition, and mostly for the freedom. “I like not having to worry about crew and I like singlehanding,” he says. “I don’t even have

2) Steve D’Angelo, Folsom Sailing Club; 3) Karl Paulsen, Folsom Sailing Club.

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Sometimes I wonder why I still go to the boat show every year. The boats all look the same, the food’s terrible, and I usually end up with sore feet.

Maybe it’s the interesting people I meet.

But come to think of it, I’ll probably just run into the same people I talked to last year.

How about all the innovative products and accessories? There’s always something new and exciting on display. Then again, I can’t remember anything from last year’s show that had any real impact.

So then, why do I go to the boat show? I guess I just enjoy going through the same old routine, year after year. Especially since I’ve learned a few basic strategic considerations that make the boat show a much more rewarding experience — like finding a nice quiet cabin to rest in after a few hours in the crowds.

I was looking for a moderately large cruiser-racer, well-appointed down below, and preferably with an aft cabin. 1 spotted a 40-footer, one of the less popular models, and decided it would fit my requirements perfectly. I walked up the stairs, took off my shoes, nodded politely to the dealer and climbed aboard.

But when I opened the door to the aft cabin, I was shocked to find a woman sleeping in the quarter berth!

Talk about chutzpah! I thought I was bad, coming up here to find a quiet place to rest my feet for a few minutes and maybe read through some of the brochures I had picked up. But there she was, just as cozy as you could ever imagine, curled up on the quarter berth with her backpack as a pillow and a Patagonia jacket pulled up over her head. 1 was about to turn around and close the door quietly when I suddenly realized ... I know that woman. It had to be Lee Helm.

“All hands!” I shouted. “All hands on deck!”

“Uh . . . what course are we . . .” she

“We’ve been lifted thirty degrees in this squall!”

“Freak me out totally, okay?” she said with a heavy yawn. “How did you ever find

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“It seemed like a good place to rest for a while,” I said. “Obviously you had the same idea, but, ahem . . . took things to extremes.”

“Neat little aft cabin, isn’t it, Max? Just thought I’d like, check it out.” She yawned

The International Boat Show January 3-1 I Moscone Center mumbled as she pushed the jacket away and squinted in the light. But in another second she had her bearings.

“Max! What are you doing here?”

“All hands on deck for a jibe,” I repeated.

“Nothing too important, Max. What have you found that turns you on?”

“Same old stuff,” I said. “Somehow the v new designs aren’t nearly as interesting as they were a few years ago.”

“They’re a lot faster and better built than they used to be, I mean on the average,” she said.

“But what ever happened to the old ‘racer-cruiser’ concept: the production boat that could win races but had a nice interior?”

“That’s ancient history, Max, when racing just wasn’t as competitive.”

“I don’t know, Lee. We used to have boats like the Cal 40 and Ranger 37 winning TransPac’s and SORC’s. Now look at the kind of machine it takes to win an IOR race.”

I looked down at the pile of brochures in my hand. “I don’t think there’s a single boat in this building that could do it.”

After discussing a few more examples, Lee finally had to agree with me. The racercruiser, at least as far as IOR was concerned, was an extinct species. And PHRF was a thoroughly unsatisfying substitute.

again and stretched her arms. “I’ve been doing the show since it opened this morning, Max.” “Anything new and exciting this year?” I asked as I sat down on the end of the berth.

ith all the technology we have available,” I speculated, “it really should be possible to come up with an accurate measurement rule.”

“Right,” said Lee. “Quantifying yacht performance really isn’t that far out of reach, as a purely technical problem. I mean, the obstacles have always been political and economic. That’s why there’s so much interest in IMS. It could turn out to be a huge step in the right direction for handicap racing.”

“IMS? What’s that?”

“International Measurement System, it used to be called MHS, and it’s the new handicap system to come out of the speed prediction work done at MIT between 1976 and 1977. They spent something like $400,000!”

“Isn’t that the scheme where each boat has a whole table of different ratings, and the race committee decides which ratings to use on the basis of the wind speed and points of sail encountered during the race? Sounds like a big mess, if you ask me.”

“That was like, only part of it, Max. The idea of a ‘rating matrix’, as they call it, could be applied to any type of handicap rule. I think it’s too bad that it’s become so strongly associated with IMS. What IMS really has going for it is the possibility of combining the best features of IOR and PHRF in one international rule.”

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“IOR is a strict measurement rule,” Lee explained. “They try to keep the formula as stable as possible, so as designers get more experience with it, all the designs tend to converge slowly on the same optimal set of parameters. The new boats are always just a little bit faster than the old ones, so they throw in an age allowance. But in general, there’s very little tolerance for divergent types. I mean, look at all the one-tonners at the last Big Boat Series — it could have been a one-design fleet!”

“Except that the boats all have funny bumps and hollows at the measurement points,” 1 added.

“For sure. That’s because when IOR was conceived, it wasn’t considered economically feasible to measure the hull at more than a few discrete points. And now that all the boats have the same funny bumps and hollows, they’re stuck with maintaining that system of measurement or else all the boats become obsolete.

“With PHRF,” she continued, “you have a committee making subjective decisions about the speed potential of each class of boat, supposedly based on actual race data. I mean, it works okay for large classes, where there’s lots of data available to derive an accurate rating. But for a one-of-a-kind?

Give it up!”

“So how can IMS combine the two?” I asked for a second time.

“First, IMS measures the complete hull lines. No bumps or hollows, because every point on the hull is a measurement point.

There’s an expensive machine that does this.

The sailplan, stability, and freeboards are measured pretty much the same as in IOR. (Note that if you know the freeboards and the lines, you also have displacement without any approximations.) Then, using the results of the MIT research, the IMS formula predicts the yacht’s speed on each point of sail for a range of wind speeds. And this set of predicted speeds can be turned into a rating matrix, or converted to one of several different kinds of single-value ratings.”

“Well so far, Lee,” I said, “it sounds like another IOR without the bumps.”

“There’s one very important philosophical difference, Max. The intent is to continually modify the formulas so that no one type of yacht ever has a clear advantage. This part has to be based on race results, and has to be administered with some subjectivity, just like FHRF (Even though the people back at page 163

Newport don’t like to admit this part.) But because the formulas deal with general hull characteristics rather than with individual boats’ ratings, the one-of-a-kind or few-of-a-

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And even better, if it’s determined in the future that new parameters need to be considered in the formulas, these can be derived any time after measurement because the full hull lines are on file for every measured yacht.”

Council — may become much too conservative in administering it, and not incorporate improvements as they become available. There are also some very important measurements that are left out. Pitch movement of inertia, for example, otherwise known as weight in the ends. Boats with light ends are significantly faster than boats with heavy ends, whether the weight is due to structure or interior fixtures. So here’s one thing that could go wrong: Boats with very light ends are more likely to be modern racing machines with IOR type hull shapes, while boats with heavy ends are generally older cruising types. The speed increment due to weight distribution could become wrongly associated with some characteristic of hull shape, and reflected that way in the rule. I mean, a designer could easily exploit this with a hull shape that resembled the older boats, but with very light structure in the bow and stern. And IMS will be powerless to do anything about it unless they incorporate some means of measuring weight distribution into the rule.”

“Is there a practical way to do that?” I asked.

“The Finn class has done it for years by suspending the boat in air and swinging it like a pendulum. 1 think the technique is practical for big boats as long as you can find a crane big enough to lift the boat on one hook. But remember, this is a problem that won’t come up for a few years at least, assuming IMS takes off. The point is, it will be necessary for IMS to make fairly radical changes in the , future as the competition heats up. Right now all they need to do is rate the existing fleet, which is always relatively easy.”

“Won’t that kind of measurement be prohibitively expensive?”

“What’s prohibitive? The way they’re setting it up now, it will cost about $450 plus the cost of a haul-out for an IMS rating. Less if you have an IOR certificate, or if your hull is a standard hull with lines on file. When they have to start measuring mass properties also — and I’m convinced they will — the

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VV ill it work? Have they really come up with a ‘designer-proof rule?”

“There are some pitfalls. The biggest one is that the ORC — that’s the Offshore Racing

cost of measurement could easily double.

But we’re still talking, like, less,than the cost of one new sail. That’s why I can say that the obstacles are economic and political, not technical. We know how to figure out very

MAX EBB accurate handicaps for any type of yacht — it just takes a little more money than we’re used to paying for rating certificates.”

“So you do think it’s going to work, at least short-term?” x For sure, Max. We have obsolete 10R racers, ultralights, traditional cruisers, and even the racer-cruiser type you seem to like so much. They all have a chance of becoming competitive again in high-level handicap racing. IMS will overtake IOR in two seasons. After that, it’s up to the ORC to upgrade the IMS as necessary to keep ahead of the designers. That means more expensive measurement, and probably another few million sent in MIT’s direction for a more thorough series of tank tests.”

“Should be very interesting if you’re right,” I said.

“Expensive, but worth it! And still less than one percent of the cost of racing. Anyway, for now it’s back to the boat show,” said Lee as she stretched again and collected her backpack and jacket.

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“So what should I look at next, Lee?” I asked as I followed her to the ladder (careful

to avoid eye contact with the rather suspicious yacht dealer, who could only guess what I had been doing in the aft cabin for so long, or where Lee had appeared from).

“Don’t miss the sailing simulator.

Awesome! And the underwater microphone that connects to your boat’s audio system.

I’ve always wondered why nobody was marketing a device like that. Also don’t miss the new wave sailing video at one of the sailboard exhibits. I’m going over to one of the electronics booths to see if I can get some information on a new weatherfax-tocomputer interface.”

“Okay, have fun. I’ll probably see you out on the Bay next weekend.”

I set out for the accessories area to find one of the exhibits Lee had mentioned, but on the way I bought a hot dog, and then got sidetracked by a demonstration of a new low-cost radar.

“Well, maybe the boat show still has something to offer after all,” I thought to myself — even though the food is worse than I remembered!

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While visions of sugar plums occupied the thoughts of some last month, others^ were envisioning new boats, upcoming races, or winning the races they; were in. We have reports on a few of them in the BOC ’Round the World Race, the Route du Rhum and the Golden Gate and Metro/Berkeley Midwinters. We also have a Puerto Vallarta update, a report on a new IOR boat due next fall, a peek into Larry Harvey’s racing stable, and lots more.

BOC Update In what was reported to be the largest send off ever for a South African yachting event, 19 boats started the second leg of the BOC ’Round the World Race on November 19.

Biscuits Lu was first across the line, followed closely by Belmont Finland and Let’s Go. The next stop: Sydney, Australia, 7,000 miles hence.

Several boats developed problems within three days of the start and returned to port

Warren Luhrs’ Thursday’s Child' (foreground) was once again delayed by steering problems.

for repairs: Joseph Young and Let’s Go both had rig damage. The third boat to turn back — again — was Warren Luhrs’ Thursday's Child. You’ll recall that Luhr’s boat was damaged at the start in Newport, Rhode Island, when it was tail-ended by Ecureuil D’ Aquitaine. This time, Luhr’s autopilot was “going haywire”. All boats were back out sailing within days, with Thursday’s Child making the fastest time through the water of

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The worst news so far is the loss and presumed drowning of Division II leader Jacques de Roux, whose 50-ft Skoiern IV was found December 19. The boat w^s sailing erratically with one of the sails halfway hoisted and no one aboard.

Ironically, De Roux was saved from his sinking boat on the first BOC in one of the most dramatic rescues ever. His Skoiern III had been rolled, dismasted and holed, and

De Roux bailed for three days before fellow competitor Richard Broadhead found him and got him off. The boat sank within 30 minutes. De Roux’s death was the first fatality in the running of the BOC. At last report, Division I’s Titouan Lamazou on Ecureuil D’Aquitaine was barely holding off defending ’82-’83 BOC winner Phillip Jeantot aboard Credit Agricole III. It’s come at a dear price in terms of gear.

Lamazou has suffered two knockdowns that destroyed two spinnaker poles and broke the full length battens in the main. Following

seas also swept overboard a sail and some deck gear, including the ARGOS satellite transponder. That gave officials quite a scare, since they track the yachts with ARGOS. They saw the beacon was only making one or two knots, far too slow for a 60-ft ketch in the Roaring Forties, and thought they’d lost another competitor. They were relieved when Lamazou reestablished radio contact.

With the unfortunate loss of Jacques de Roux, American Mike Plant assumes the lead in Division II aboard Airco Distributor.

The tail-end Charlies so far this round are Hal Roth on American Flag and Britain’s Harry Mitchell on Double Cross. The first boats were expected to arrive in Sydney about Christmas.

Route du Rhum Mayhem Eight days of gales took their toll on the singlehanded competitors in the recent Route Du Rhum race from St. Malo, France, to Guadalupe, West Indies. Within the first page 166

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trimaran Nems Luang collided with a ship.

The 60-ft tri Apricot lost part of a float after hitting something, limped toward Ft. de Minou and was wrecked on the rocks when her anchor dragged. Due to a mix up, the towboat arrived late, just in time to see skipper Tony Bullimore jump for his life as the force 8 gale slammed the boat into the rocks.

Eric Taberly’s 75-ft tri Cote d’Orr II broke up and was lost. Herve Cleris’ 40-ft cat FNAC, capsized and was abandoned. The 75-ft cat Jean Stalaven and trimaran Calcialment Laiterie St. Michel both slammed into ships and were lost, and Theirry Caroni abandoned his 54-ft cat Challenge Grundig when pumps couldn’t keep up with the leaks it developed in both hulls.

And that’s just the boats that didn’t make it. In one of the most disaster-ridden races in quite awhile, many others retired due to damage or illness. We’ll try to have a more complete report on the actual race next month.

Puerto Vallarta This year’s entry list for the February 7 Puerto Vallarta Race is the biggest ever: more than 30 boats will compete in the IOR

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two weeks, one life had been lost, and 15 other entries, nearly half the fleet, had dropped out or been abandoned.

Loic Caradec, the 38-year-old skipper of the catamaran Royale is the missing/presumed drowned man. His 85-ft wing-masted cat, which set a new Trans Atlantic sailing record earlier last year, was found capsized in mid-Atlantic by another competitor. In the last recorded conversation, Caradec reported that despite sailing under bare poles (the wing mast alone had an area of 600 square feet), the “excessive heel angle” alarm was sounding nonstop, Winds ip the area at the time were estimated at 45 steady with gusts to 50 and 15 to 18 foot seas.

It’s a wonder more people weren’t lost. In force 6 winds, the 54-ft cat Lada Poch was dismasted within 20 minutes of the start.

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and PHRF divisions, with more than half over 50 feet. And you can bet all of them are hoping for the right wind to beat the record set in 1985 when Dick and Camille Daniels’ MacGregor 65 Joss made the 1,125 mile passage in 4 days, 23 hours, 14 seconds.

The 1987 event will mark the ninth running of the Puerta Vallarta Race.

Joss will be back to defend her first to finish time against some tough competition.

Big guys in the chocks this go-around include the sleds Blondie, Cheetah, Kathmandu and Citius, and five other MacGregor 65s: Lean Machine, September Madness, Shenanigan, Cheval and Fast

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winner Lu Taylor will have his Santa Cruz 50 Racy II on the line. Other SC50s include Tribute II and Rocket, both out of Del Rey YC. Other northern California competitors are Lon Price’s Luffe 44 Mary Jane, Sy Kleinman’s Frers 58 Swiftsure and Santa Cruz YC’s Leonard Hewitt aboard the Peterson 41 Irrational. Look for a complete report on the race in the March issue.

Defensive Sailing It never fails to amaze us how many crashes and near crashes we see between racers and nonracers. Maybe it’s just that

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Blondie Cheetah Cheval Citius Conquest Dust ’Em Fast Track Intrepid Irrational Joss Jubilation Kathmandu Lean Machine Mary Jane Merlin Miramar No Illusion (no name) Perlcus Perdlclous Racy II Rocket September Madness Shenanigan Shoo Fly Sorcery Swiftsure Tribute II White Knight Willpower Whlstlewind

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SC70 Peterson 66 MacGregor 65 SC70 Serendipity 43 Peterson 38 MacGregor 65 Baltic 37 Peterson 41 MacGregor 65 Frers 54 SC70 MacGregor 65 Luffe 44 Lee 67 -■ Swan 44 Farr 58 Centurion 47 Baltic 48 SC50 SC50 MacGregor 65 MacGregor 65 Custom 41 Mull 82 Frers 58 SC50 Farr 40 Custom 57

Pat Farrah Dick Pennington Hal Ward Del Rey YC syndicate Art Marino Fred Bestall Mike Renkow Everett DeLoura Leonard Hewitt Camille & Dick Daniels Jack James John landon Thomas O’Keefe Lon Price Timothy J. Clark John Scrlpps Ed McDowell Mike Campbell John Williamson Jr. Arnold Nelson Lu Taylor Mark Bleiweis Fred Lelbhart John Grlndley Dick Squire Jake Wood Sy Kleinman James Feuersteln Phil Freidman William Phillips John Graham |

Long Beach Long Beach California Del Rey Long Beach South Bay Yacht Racing Del Rey Capistrano Beach Santa Cruz Long Beach Santa Barbara San Diego Capistrano Beach Richmond Corinthian _

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Track. And don’t discount Jake Wood’s 82-ft maxi Sorcery. At this writing, the participation of Roy Disney’s new Nelson/Marek 70 Pyewacket is still iffy.

Work is progressing at a frenzied pace for a target January 30 launch date, but no formal entry has yet been received.

B and C fleets feature some high-power competitors, too. Big Boat Series division

King Harbor Long Beach San Francisco Del Rey St. Francis Los Angeles San Diego Capistrano Beach California California St. Francis Del Rey Del Rey California Royal Vancouver

some people don’t know what’s happening when they see a group of identical boats all headed for the same place. Maybe they don’t even think about it. Maybe, as Linda Newland diplomatically ventured in the October Sail magazine, “most of the unpleasantness results from cruisers who don’t understand how their position on the course interferes with the tactical considera¬

tions of the racer.” Whatever the reason, hardly a weekend goes by when we don’t see at least one boat barge blindly through a group of racers, sending the latter diving for the sheets and losing valuable race time to maneuver out of the way.

And you know what puzzles us even more? Only about one time out of five is a powerboater the culprit! Most of the time, it’s sailboats, some apparently taking the starboard tack rule as license to rain on all porttackers’ parades, racers or not. Racers aren’t blameless, either. It’s one thing to motion a

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Solutions? Keep your eyes open. Know the rules of the road, and at least the rudimentary rules of racing, but use courtesy and common sense, too. Pleasure sailors in Linda Newland’s navigation class suggested flourescent streamers attached to the page 169

backstays of racing boats to make them more conspicuous.

Unlike many old western towns, San Francisco Bay is big enough for all types of sailors to have a good time. Let’s work on helping each other do just that.

Case Study of an IOR Boat IOR racer Colin Case and naval architect Carl Schumacher began their working relationship about the turn of the decade. In 1980, Carl drew a lightweight 30-footer that Case and co-owner Bill Mittendorf named

Felony. Another Schumacher boat was ^already on the drawing board when Felony met an untimely end against the rocks under Pt. Bonita during the disastrous 1983 Doublehanded Farallones Race (Mittendorf and his crewman narrowly escaped with their lives. Like its predecessor, the 31-ft Second Offense went on to amass an impressive record in the IOR division of MORA. Case’s newest boat once again originated on the drawing boards at Schumacher’s Alameda office. In a sense, this boat

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For Case, it is out of the frying pan and into the fire of IOR. The third boat, now out for builder bids, is a 36-ft full-on IOR Grand Prix racing machine, which also happens to be very light — 8,500 lbs. (As opposed to his other two boats, which were ultralights with concessions to IOR.) The new boat, sche¬

eight-man design team on the Golden Gate 12-Meter USA, the boat is an evolution of his ever-expanding ULDB and IOR design experience. This will be Carl’s third “pure IOR” effort. If it’s anything like the first two — the 24-ft Summertime Dream and the 38-ft Wall Street Duck — it will be the boat to watch in 1988. Schumacher says the frac¬

Above, flat water, good wind and lots of sun — a perfect midwinters day. Left, Colin Case’s new Schumacher custom.

duled to be sailing by next fall, will rate about 28.5. Although a name has not been definitely chosen, building will progress under the working name Recidivist — a habitual criminal. Case, an architect by profession, insists there is no truth to the rumor the boat will be named Capital Punishment.

For Schumacher, who formed part of the

tionally rigged boat is “a cross between Second Offense and Wall Street Duck,” with a “typical modern underbody: strut with a bulb, forward rudder . . .”

Just kidding. The normally positioned keel and rudder will be elliptical. Construction, the necessary high-tech divinycell core.

Keep an eye out for it next year.

Calling all Ericson 35s The first Ericson 35 was launched in 1968. If you count the MKII version introduced with a new underbody in 1982, it is probably the longest running production model boat ever built. Curiously, though, it’s been awhile since there was an active organization for these boats in the Bay. Barry Bevin and a core of Ericson 35 faithful are out to change that. They’ve got six or eight other owners interested, and if they can round up 10 to 12, the fleet can race as a class in the upcoming One Design season. Bevin is looking for those remaining boats to show up for the Corinthian midwinter series, which runs January 17/18 and February 21/22. You can race spinnaker, non-spinnaker, whatever. The main point is to show up and get a healthy class page 170

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organization going for this venerable, but still competitive class. Sound interesting? Call Bruce Munro at 327-4200; Craig Brown at 332-3890; or Barry Bevin at (916) 972-1155.

Old Horse, New Cowboys Crazy Horse, Larry Harvey’s Nelson/Marek 49, is arguably the hottest IOR boat on the West Coast, and certainly is on anybody’s list of the top ten offshore boats in America. This three-year-old beauty was built in Connecticut by John Heineman’s Hi-Tech Yachts (which recently opened a branch in Huntington Beach), and came into life as Brooke Ann. So many things broke on it initially that the boat was known affectionately as “Broke Again”, and needless to say it didn’t wind much back then. But, in the last two years, the boat underwent a name change and added a new elliptical underbody and uoila! — great things began to happen. Highlights of Crazy Horse’s enviable race record in the last few years include winning Class A at the 1985 Long Beach Race Week with four straight bullets (courtesy of Paul Cayard), winning Class B at the 1985 Big Boat Series, and being the top scoring boat in the 1986 Kenwood Cup. , Recently, Larry Harvey cashed out of the IOR scene, selling Crazy Horse back to the

MIDWINTER RESULTS Golden Gate YC With winds 10 to 15 out of the north, it was a reaching start for the 150 boats racing the Golden Gate YC midwinters December 7. About an hour after the last start, the wind died, clocked to the west, and then resumed its leisurely pace on a clear, crisp beautiful winter day. Not nearly the amount of pileups and protests this month as last, when lots of holes caused the fleets to repeatedly pile up on each other.

IOR I — 1) Bladerunner, Reichel/Pugh 47, Bill Twist; 2) Skedaddle, Reichel/Pugh 40, Lee Otterson/Ray Pingree; 3) High Risk, Smith Custom, Jim Mizell.

IOR II — 1) Yucca, 8-Meter, Hank Easom; 2) Annalise, Wylie 34, Paul Altman; 3) Wildfire, modified Ranger 37, John.Clauser.

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Custom, Bill Erkelins.

PHRF II — 1) Flying Bear, Catalina 38, Robert Johnson; 2) Power Play, J/29, Peter Cunningham; 3) Virago, C&C 37, Cal DeYoung.

PHRF III — 1) Lipstick, Express 27, Peter Lane; 2) Sundance, SC27, Rob Moore; 3) Hot Flash, SC27, Bren Meyer.

PHRF IV — 1) Magic Jammies, Wavelength 24, Charles Witcher/Nick Rau; 2) High Frequency, Wavelength 24, Craig Bell/Roger Merle; 3) Elixir, Wavelength 24, Chuck Von Schalscha.

PHRF V — 1) Suzi, Davidson 1/4-ton, Rod Eldredge; 2) 20/20, Cal 29, Phil Gardner; 3) Mona Too, Catalina 30, Dave Halaby.

PHRF VI — 1) Freyja, Catalina 27, Ray Nelson; 2) Wanika, Cal 2-27, Steve Wilson; 3) Mariner, Ranger 26, Brude Darby.

PHRF VII — 1) Freya, Folkboat, Ed Welch; 2) Caliban, Cal 20, David Green; 3) Reluctant Spinster, Ariel, Bill O’Connor.

EXPRESS 37 — 1) Blitz, George Neil; 2) Free Spirit, Neil Ross; 3) Sleeper, Tom Gettman.

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THUNDERBIRD — 1) Crazy Jane, Doug Carroll; 2) Shanghai, Dave Miller; 3) Windjimmer, Jim Graham.

TARTAN T£N - 1) QE III, Dick Bates; 2) Waverunner, Krawiec/Campbell; 3) Abba Zabba, Matt Copenhaver.

Metropolitan/Berkeley Midwinters Though rain fell heavily the evening before this second of four Metro/Berkeley midwinters, the rain gods lightened up for racers on the Berkeley Circle. Heck, by 2 p.m. Saturday, December 13, most racers were chasing sunlight around the course in 10 to 12 knot breezes. On Saturday, the skies closed up again in the afternoon and many sailed home in rain and heavy over¬

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state it was built in. Bill Ziegler, of Darien, Connecticut, took the “Ted Turner approach” of buying the best boat on the

market, and will debut the boat at the upcoming SORC. Ziegler, or Zig to his friends, is a well-known Eastern yachtsman who has owned a series of moderately successful big boats called Gem, most of which were designed (and subsequently redesigned) by Scott Kaufman or Bill Cooke. The Ziegler family is something of a sailing dynasty on the East Coast and it will be interesting to see how they do with the Horse. Will they name it Crazy Gem'? Will they erase t^ieMpdian girl on the transom? And what is this mysterious “Z Factor” all about? Answers available in March.

Harvey just cashed out of what is arguably the hottest small boat on the west coast as well. Cowboy, another Nelson/Marek and Hi-Tech collaboration, is now owned by Steve and Betty Cook of Long Beach. It is famous for two things: winning Class A at the 1986 Internationals and for being probably the most expensive 30-foot boat ever built. Harvey already has a refinement of Cowboy in the works at the N/M office, this one just a little lighter and wider. The new boat’s aimed at the 1988 MORC Internationals in Newport Beach. Harvey apparently is going to pass on the IOR scene for awhile.

MIDWINTER RESULTS - CONT'D cast. Hot showers felt good. On Sunday, the 14th, the weather stayed more benevolent throughout, with periods of slightly more breeze.

These are big fleets. There are 15 starts on Saturday, 13 on Sunday, and the lead classes seem to finish only a short time after the last ones start. The group from the office was back and made a dazzling comeback from our terrible showing last month — we weren’t last.

The following are preliminary results.

Standings could change pending the outcome of protests.

SATURDAY, 12/13 DIVISION 1—1) Sparky, Mull/Donovan 30, Bill McCluen; 2) F.A.D., Olson 29, George Olson/Chip Bern; 3) Humboit Pie, Humbolt 30, Gilbert Sloan.

DIVISION II — 1) Absolute 80, Wylie 33, Keith MacBeth; 2) Swell Dancer, Santana 35, Jim Graham; 3) Nidaros II, Santana 30/30, Bjarne Junge.

DIVISION III — 1) Bloody Mary, Santa Cruz 27,

Franz Klitza; 2) (no name), Santa Cruz 27, Dave Peddy; 3) Mesmerize, C&C 35, Todd Lee. DIVISION IV — 1) Madhatter, Wylie Wabbit, Colin Moore; 2) Savoy Truffle, 1/2-tonner, Peggy Hickman; 3) Cookie Jar, Moore 24, Irving Rubin.

DIVISION V — 1) Cannonball, Hawkfarm, Rick Schuldt; 2) Araminta, Herreshoff 33, Emily Hogan; 3) Honcho II, Santana 27, Paul Rosenthal.

DIVISION VI — 1) Jubilee, Ariel, Don Morrison; 2) Cinnabar, Cal 25, Ed Shirk; 3) Roxanne, Santana 22, Susan Hay/ Mike Bruno.

CAL 2-27 — 1) Party Line, Nick Barnhill/Art Graham; 2) Ragtime, Gary McNair; 3) Zephyr, Bruce Nesbit.

EXPRESS 27 — 1) Abigail Morgan, Ron Kell; 2) Summer Palace, Brian Goepfrich; 3) Trimmer, Skip Shapiro.

J/24 — 1) (no name), Mr. LaHorgue; 2) Cigar Man, John Kostecki; 3) Dejavu, Chris Perkins.

J/29 — 1) Advantage II, Pat Benedict; 2) Power Play, Peter Cunningham; 3) J-Spot, Tom Fancher.

NEWPORT30— 1) Topgallant, Frank Hinman;2) Mintaka, Gerry Brown; 3) Achates, Bill Shultz/Bob Shock.

OLSON 25—1) Fast Freddie, Wyatt Matthews; 2) Pearl, Bill Riley; 3) Fastlane, Norman Williams. .

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OLSON 30— 1) Think Fast!, A! Holt; 2) Vorticity, Jeff Gething; 3) Saint Anne, Dick Heckman RANGER 23 — 1) Snow Storm, George Morris; 2) Smokey, John Nelson; 3) Nightwind, Richard Sloan.

SANTANA 22 — 1) Buffalo Honey, Lou Fields; 2) Jowen, Robert Ward; 3) Tara, Howard Brunn.

SUNDAY, 12/14 DIVISION A — 1) Something Special, Soverel 33, Alex Tchick; 2) Gemini, Baltic 38, Dave Fair; 3) Good And Plenty, Soverel 33, Seth Neiman.

DIVISION B — 1) Smokin’ J, J/29, Don Trask; 2) Killer Duck, Wylie 34, George Creamer; 3) Christie Lee, Santana 30/30, Christopher Bruno.

DIVISION C — 1) Peppermint, Santana 30/30, Larry Calhoun; 2) Wave Train, Olson 911S, Rick Caskey; 3) Dancer, Tiffany Jane, Dick Packard.

DIVISION D — 1) Magic Jammies, Nick Rau/ Charles Witcher; 2) Loose, custom, Jerry Fisher; 3) High Frequencyrvyavelength 24, C. Bell/ R. Merle.

DIVISION E — 1) Grand Slam, Cal 29, Fred Minning; 2) Hurrah, Yankee 30, John Wright; 3) Blackhawk, CS 30, Art Ball.

DIVISION F — 1) Double Expresso, Catalina 27, Alex Fisenko; 2) III Sheets, Sprinta Sport, Tony Soter; 3) Williwaw, Cal 2-27, Alan and Christine Hunter.

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INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT — 1) Svea, Terry Manchester; 2) Lycka, Susan Lewis; 3) Xanadu, Tom Federico.

ISLANDER 30 — 1) Current Asset, John Bowen; 2) Antares, Larry Telford; 3) Wildwind, Doug McVae. ISLANDER 36 — 1) Tom Cat, Allan and Candy Sebastiani; 2) Grumpy Dog, Cyndy Hessenbruch; 3) Prima Donna, Eric Warner.

3124 — 1) Mr. Magoo, Robert Lee; 2) Downtown Uproar, Wayne Clough; 3) Phantom, John Guilliford.

SANTANA 22 — 1) Limestone Cowboy; Brett Leach; 2) Bantana, Lloyd Banta; 2) Tara, Howard Brunn.

WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Madhatter, Colin Moore; 2) Ricochet, Gene Harris; 3) Mr. McGregor, Kim Desenberg.

Sausalito Cruising Club Sorry, but we were unable to obtain results for the December 6 race by press time. page 173

Race Notes The BOC Group has announced that it will sponsor a Trans Atlantic Race for monohulls from New York to Plymouth next year. The start will be June 4, about a month after the expected completion of the BOC 'Round the World Race now in progress.

The Blue Riband Challenge, as it is called, is aimed at breaking the monohull Trans Atlantic sailing record of just over 12 days. That record was set in 1906 by the 185-ft three-masted schooner Atlantic. Want to know more? Contact Patricia Secrist, The BOC Group, 85 Chestnut Ridge Rd., Montvale, NJ 07645.

Closer to home, the Encinal YC’s Jack Frost Warm-Up Series is right around the corner. This five-race series starting January 31 is designed to get everybody tuned up for the/coming racing season. It’s also a good way to break into racing in a relaxed

atmosphere. For more, contact EYC at 522-3272 or write to Rear Commodore Mike Sweeney c/o Encinal YC, P.O. Box 2953, Alameda, CA 94501.

Entries are arriving at the rate of four to eight a day for the 1987 TransPac, and it doesn’t even start until July 2. That’s not unusual for this most popular ocean classic on the west coast, though. Hopefuls among the 50 to 70 entries are Don Ayres Drumbeat, Abraham/Rowe’s Pandemonium, Roy Disney’s Pywacket and a whole slew of Bill Lee sleds. Last year, Nick Frazee’s Swiftsure III took line honors, with the corrected trophy going to overall winner Jim Denning on his 20-year-old Cal 40 Montgomery Street.

Once again, the Ancient Mariners Sailing Society of San Diego will sponsor the annual San Diego to Lahaina, Maui Race for Classic Yachts. This fifth race is set to start June 20. The race is open to all traditional yachts built before 1950, or newer boats built to older designs. If you want to make sure your oldie fits the bill, contact Lonnie Lynch at (619) 295-3744 days or (619) 224-7515 evenings.

It seems like we just got done with fall and all of a sudden the 1987 SORC is only two 'short months away. The Boca Raton Race on February 26 gets the Southern Ocean Racing Conference going. Subsequent SORC events are the St. Petersburg to Ft. Lauderdale Race (March 1); the Lipton Cup (March 12); the Ocean Triangle (March 14); the Miami-Nassau Cup (March 17); and the Nassau Cup (March 20). We’ll have a complete preview of this colorful IOR kick-off event in the next issue.

Another big-time event, the Congres-i isional Cup-, already has nine confirmed skippers coming, and seven more that would like to compete in this premier West Coast match-racing event. Among the confirmed are Harold Cudmore, late of the British America’s Cup effort White Crusader; Terry Nielsen of the Canadian 12-Meter syndicate; Chris Dickson, who might very well win the next America’s Cup for New Zealand; Ian Murray, who might very well keep the Cup in Australia; Buddy Melges of the defunct Heart of America 12-Meter syndicate; and on and on. Skippers and crew at the Congressional Cup race on identical Catalina 38’s in the ocean off Long Beach.

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With reports this month from cruisers in Idaho Falls; Wild Spirit in Mbengga, Fiji; the Cruising Kick-Off Party in San Diego; Winter News from Mexico; Shadowfox on the Milk Run; the Loss of Zubenubi; a Pichilinque Thanksgiving; Amazing Grace doing the Milk Run backwards; a Second Opinion on Ensenada; New Marinas for La Paz?; Akavavit in Opua, New Zealand; Quark home after four pears; and, Cruise Notes.

Cruising Idaho Marian and Ron Crom (Idaho Falls, Idaho) We haven’t got many Changes from Idaho, so when we get one we like to make sure it sees print.

Our Idaho report comes from Ron Crom who does business at Cruise Quarters in Idaho Falls, selling sailboats, parts and accessories. He sent us a photograph of his sailboat, which looks to be about a 22 to 24-footer.

He also sent us a photo of the Snake River Boat Club’s caretaker cabin. “Note the deer on the hill behind the car. We see as many as 20 a day along with elk and moose, beaver and eagle, as well as osprey”.

Ron also reports that it’s pretty hard to

Oops! We misplaced Ron's photo of Snake River sailing and had to replace it with this shot of Suva.

hang on to Latitude 38’s in that neck of the country. “When one does show up, it probably goes through at least 20 people before it’s discarded.

— latitude 38 Wild Spirit - Wylie 36 Peter Sutter, David Beatty, and Kathleen Jackson Mbengga Island, Fiji (Sausalito)

It’s been a long time since you folks heard from Wild Spirit, so here goes.

After almost five months of sheer bliss, we left the Vavau group of islands in Tonga and had to fine sail to Fiji with not-too-normal southeast trades all the way. We entered the country on the 29th of July and only now, the middle of November, are^we ready to depart for New Zealand. Despite the fact that we’ve been here for months, we’ve hardly touched this great cruising area.

One of the nice things about not being on a strict schedule is that we can change our plans anytime. And we do. We’ve decided not to go to Australia, but to spend the cyclone season in New Zealand instead.

When it’s over we’ll return to Tonga and Fiji to visit the places we missed.

While in Fiji this time, we spent a week in Suva and then headed off for the northeastern groups and the northeastern Lau group. We visited Ngua, Koro and Taviuni on the way to Ngamea Island. At Ngamea we spent a couple of weeks visiting with Frank and Jo Kloss of Sausalito, who have built a fabulous resort in the old Fijian manner. During this time we were cruising in company with Tpche, Ted and Susan’s boat from San Francisco.

Our next stop was the Exploring Islands of the Lau Group; we spent all our time at wonderful Vanu Balavu. Since the Lau Group is restricted to all vessels without permits, we had to secure one. Permits are obtained in Suva from the Prime Minister’s Office. We’d heard that some folks had spent weeks getting their permits, which isn’t suprising when you realize that the Prime Minister himself reviews all applications.

Luckily we caught him in his office, and we got the necessary permits after just a couple of hours.

We learned that we were only the third yacht to visit the area this year. What discourages most yachties is what’s normally a 200-mile bash to windward; most cruisers aren’t into that.

Vanua Balavu is fantastic. Its Bay of Islands is completely landlocked and is said to contain 600 islands. It’s considered to be the South Pacific’s perfect hurricane hole.

While there we fished, snorkeled, board-

sailed and hiked up to a nearby plantation to visit the local Fijians and the Kiwi’s who own it.

Because the island group is only 15 miles long and two miles wide, you would think that we could see it all in just a couple of days. Well, we had five weeks of fabulous cruising and gunkholing but still didn’t get to see it all. We’ve gotta come back next year to see more and to visit the friends we’ve made.

Our return trip to Suva took 30 hours in rainy southeast weather with many squalls.

We spent two weeks around Suva and then two really fine weeks cruising south to the Astrolabe and Kandavu groups. And most recently we’ve had a week here in the Mbengga group.

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like race horses at the starting line, to run with the wind for warmer climes. Pacific Marine Supply’s party, held each year on the last Saturday of October, is like the starting gun.

It’s typical for most parties that the majority of yachties attending are headed south on their first bluewater cruise. And thus some are justifiably nervous. Apprehensive yet excited about the unknown future, the party provides an ideal spot to discuss plans and itineraries with others ‘in the same boat’: “I’m going to stick with my radar and the coastline, what about you?”

“Not me, we’re headed out 50 or 60 miles, away from the rocks and ships. There should be some decent wind out there.”

“Mary and 1 hope to anchor almost every night, if possible, and do some trading with the Pescadores.”

“Not me, I’m goin’ non-stop to Cabo for warm weather and water. I can’t wait to get out there on my own.”

“Well, our buddy-boat has SatNav so we’re going to travel with them; what better

Do you ever have days like this? You wake up hungry to get to shore, and . . . the dinghy’s got a flat?

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change; so far yachts enroute have reported mostly light airs. The passage takes about ten to 12 days, and you have to be ready for any kind of weather as fast moving fronts and pressure groups that pass below Australia head directly across the track of yachts headed for New Zealand.

It’s amazing how many sailboats are heading there and have arrived already. My estimate is that there at least 100, a good portion of them Kiwi boats returning home from winter (southern hemisphere winter) up north.

That’s all for now. 1 don’t imagine this will get to you until after the holidays, so I hope everyone enjoyed a pleasant holiday season.

We’re sure looking forward to ours in New

Zealand, —

petter suiter 11/15/86

Cruising Kick-Off Party Pacific Marine Supply San Diego Crews and cruising — that’s what Pacific Marine Supply’s Annual Cruising Kick-Off Party in San Diego is all about.

This year’s bash seemed more reserved, but at the same time more successful than last year’s. There weren’t so many rowdies, but more serious cruisers and folks looking for crew positions. Also, Pat and Joan Falkosky, Pacific Marine Supply’s owners, are now old hands at throwing parties, this being their third Kick-Off. With the hurricane season ending in Mexico/ on November 1, many boats are mustered in San Diego, anxiously waiting

Lorraine and Rob Coleman. They first cruised out of Berkeley on their Columbia 30.

way to check my celestial navigation.”

“Hey, you have a safe trip and we’ll see you in Cabo. Take care.”

And so it goes. In addition to the first-time bluewater cruisers, many former cruisers

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stopped by to see old friends and enjoy the camaraderie. And some cruisers and wouldbe cruisers came from as far as Alaska, Canada, Europe and even the more remote regions of Marina del Rey. Lonely captains and first mates were hoping to find one another, and young world travellers hoping to make it to Perth tried to find positions on undermanned vessels. It was fantastic!

For land-locked cruisers like myself, working like the dickens to save ‘cruising chips’, the party gave renewed impetus to keep going until our turn came again.

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robert j. coleman 12/1/86

Winter in Mexico With News from Nuevo Vallarta and Cabo Terese Pencak Schwartz Ralph Naines on The Trip was one of several captains who spent the summer in N

The Port Captain’s office at Ensenada Chacala. If you got to work in an office, this is the kind to have.

the hot Sea of Cortez but couldn’t bear the thought of cold winter Northers. “Baja is too cold for me in the winter,” said Ralph, “I’m headed south to the mainland for warmer

waters and tropical sunsets.”

Ralph had planned to leave on the full moon in hopes of getting a good breeze across the Gulf, but ran two days late in departing. His plan was to stop at tiny Isla Isabella for a couple of days of diving, but somehow the Irwin 37 ketch sailed right by the island during the night.

“We weren’t lost,” said an confident Ralph, “we just weren’t sure where we were.”

When The Trip finally made landfall 78 hours after leaving La Paz, it was at Ensenada Chacala, a beautiful anchorage between San Bias and Banderas Bay. Chacala is a small fishing village surrounded by palm trees and green hills. The only tourists were a handful of tent campers. The Port Captain’s office is just a few yards off the little panga pier. If you go ashore it’s necessary that you clear with him.

The following day Ralph dropped the hook in the cove at Punta de Mita, which is at the north end of Banderas Bay. After just 20 minutes of snorkeling, Ralph put his spear through a triggerfish. Within 30 minutes it was cleaned, skinned and eaten.

The next destination was Nuevo Vallarta, further along Banderas Bay, but not quite as far as Puerto Vallarta. Ralph said it would be easy to find the opening to the marina using the composite photograph taken by Bill and Lou on Providence and reproduced in the November issue of Latitude 38.

Just as The Trip turned the corner into the channel to Nuevo Vallarta, she was joined by two Hans Christian 43’s from the Metro YC in Oakland: Bill and Debbie on Vouvray and Leo and Jeannie on Affinity. Both were just in from Cabo. Also at the entrance was Ben and Margaret and newlyweds Phil and Jana on Sea Mint; they had just come in from La Paz on the full moon.

As of early December, there were only about a dozen sailboats and three powerboats in the harbor.

The bad news is that the rates have gone us dramatically at Nuevo Vallarta. Only recently they were $4 a day; now they’re 25 cents a foot per night. Owl That was an unpleasant surprise for larger boats like the 50-ft Sea Mint, which had planned to stay several months. With the new rates, they must pay $12.50 a night or about $360 a month.

The price increase might not have been such a shock had the bathrooms, showers or telephones been installed. But as yet they haven’t. A large gazebo with many lights is all that’s new.

Nonetheless, Ralph confesses that it’s convenient to be in a marina again. It’s been three full years since The Trip was last tied to a dock at Marina del Rey. In fact, Ralph almost couldn’t find the dock lines. While Ralph is settling in for a few month’s stay, he doubts that the marina is going to get many takers if they insist on the 25 cents per foot per night rate. He thinks most of the 250 berths will go empty.

Having gotten settled in Nuevo Vallarta, the first business on Monday morning for the new arrivals was getting the paperwork taken care of. As everybody knows by now, Nuevo Vallarta is a few miles from Puerto Vallarta, and even worse* it’s a couple of kilometers from the marina to the highway that runs to Puerto Vallarta. Occasionally there are taxis at the marina, but more often than not, you have to hike the two kilometers to the road. page 176

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Ralph, however, is a veteran of Mexican transportation. So when a Mexican couple in an old green pick-up came by, Ralph extended his thumb. No problemo, the coupie was glad to stop and give the six gringos a ride to the main road. From the highway it was a $6 cab fare to town.

Compared to Cabo San Lucas, clearing the Port Captain and Immigration at Puerto Vallarta was a snap. This according to Leo and Bill. The Port Captain is located in the round building at the edge of the harbor where the cruise ships and ferries tie up. The three skippers were able to clear there in a total of 15 minutes. Naturally, Immigration is located at the other side of town. But once there, it took the three captains just three minutes! Officials at both the Port Captain and Immigration offices were courteous and smiling.

Bill from Vouvray made 20 copies of the map of P.V. provided by Providence, so the

first 20 cruisers can knock on his hull — with a cold cerveza — and get a copy.

All three boats, Vouvray, The Trip and Affinity plan on being back in La Paz by March 29 for the start of Sea of Cortez / Baja Ha Race Week. Especially Vouvray, which took the Scotts to Scotts Race, the Cruisers Race, and the Hans Christian championship. The boat wants more trophies!

Other boats in Nuevo Vallarta in early December included Faith, with Jerry Johnson and Bonnie from Anchorage; Providence, with Lou and Bill from San Francisco; Chinook Wind, with Phil and Paula from Anchorage; Sail away, with Scott and Cathy from Juneau; Hana Lee on her way back from Costa Rica; Tai Ping, with Joanna and Mike from Canada; Pursuit, with Dave and Chris and two sons from Sausalito; and, Nereus, with Alvaro and Pam returning to Brickyard Cove from Spain.

The great news from Cabo San Lucas is that sailors have finally gotten some real friends in this town of sportfishing boats. I’m speaking of Karen and Gil, owners of Papi’s

Deli and Ice Cream Shop. The shop is easy to find, just across the street from the famous Broken Surfboard Tacqueria.

Gil and Karen have been in business for about a year, during which time the former United States residents have been busy helping cruisers. For example, just last month they helped one yachtie by translating a medical problem at the pharmacy. Gil has also been known to drive yachties around town in his truck. “It’s a small town,” Gil advises, “I couldn’t do it in La Paz.” Another instance when Gil helped was when Artie Tern stopped in Cabo on her way back to Alaska. Gil picked up John and drove him to the Port Captain. Then there was the time Bob on Margarget pulled into Cabo while lying flat on his back as a result of a nasty fall. He was able to reach Papi’s, which monitors channel 71, and they arranged for a doctor to come aboard and provide care.

Papi’s is offering free mail service to all cruisers. Mail should be addressed to the person you’re writing, the name of the boat, then: c/o Papi’s Deli, Calle Hidalgo y Zapata, Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S. Mexico.

As a place to pick up mail, this is much more convenient to the marina than is the Port Captain’s office. Furthermore, you can have ’the best ice cream in town while you read your mail. They also make sensational BLT and club sandwiches.

And that’s not all. They also have a book

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There’s also a crew list and a bulletin board.

In addition to monitoring channel 71, Karen was net control in early December.

Yachties enjoying life at Neiafu, Tonga. For cruising fun, Tonga rates very high with almost all cruisers.

Some of the boats in Cabo by early December included Helen’s Toy, Betty Boop, Magellan, Marica, Tangent, Naome, Valhalla, Cindy Ann, Typhoon, Oasis, Sophia, Del Viento, Amistad, Taeping, Casa del Mar, Synergy, Good Wind, Artie Tern, Miss Eola, Mabuhay, Chena, Fowl Wind, and Serenity.

Still early in the season, there really weren’t that many boats in Cabo. It was an entirely different story in La Paz, which was already packed with nearly 80 boats. The Marina de La Paz is always full and both anchorages were crowded. Already a few

Northers had come through, so it’s likely many boats would be moving south.

Up at Puerto Escondido there were still about 30 boats, not counting The Moorings charter fleet.

— terese pencak schwartz 12/6/86 Shadowfox — Carlsen 29 Mark and Kay Rudiger On the Milk Run (Sausalito) All too much time has gone, by since we wrote you last from Pago Pago 2V2 months ago. From there we had a three-day passage to the Vava’u Group, Tonga, which was only notable for an attack of the ‘Samoan Flu’ and variable weather. As we arrived in Tonga our friends from the singlehanded TransPac on the trimaran Bullfrog were just leaving bound for New Zealand, so we rendezvoused at Mariner’s Cave for an underwater thrill and to catch up on all the latest news.

Tonga turned out to be the highlight of our journey. A yachting playground of many small islands with over 40 anchorages marked on the cruising chart, you can literally be in a different place every day. Even though there were at least fifty cruisers, it wasn’t unusual to find locations where we’d be completely alone.

The climate in Tonga is more temperate than the rest of the islands we’ve visited, the weather more changeable, with a front passing through every week or so. It offered a great opportunity to fill the water tanks, as the water available at the dock isn’t the best.

The snorkeling and diving are excellent, with lots of reefs to explore and shells to collect.

The water is clear and clean, even in Neiafu, the major town and port of entry.

Neiafu has two stores and a produce market, all reasonably priced and with a fair selection of goods. Don Coleman’s boatyard has haulout facilities and fuel. Robyn’s cafe and gift store is the social center, and she makes delicious hamburgers, homemade pie and ice cream, and has fresh drinking coconuts and watermelon juice. The gift store has a great selection of basketry.

The Paradise International Hotel makes yachties very welcome, with a dinghy dock, water, showers, a swimming pool, happy hour daily (except Sunday) and movies.

They only charge a nomial fee for the use of

their facilities. Across the street from the Paradise is the Vava’u Guest House where you can get a wonderful dinner served boardinghouse style by the smiling staff.

There’s also a charter company, The Moorings, for anyone wishing to experience the South Pacific without having to sail all the way there — or more importantly — all the way back.

We enjoyed ourselves so much in Tonga that we stayed there more than three weeks, eventually deciding to skip Fiji and head straight for New Zealand. We made it in 11 days: three days of speedy downwind bliss, three days of frustrating calms, three days of too much wind on the nose — isn’t too much wind always on the nose? — and the last two days within sight of land in variable winds and lumpy seas in which we could make little headway.

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So while we’re working on our ‘house’ we’ve moved ashore (oh, no!) and are playing house within walking/bicycling distance to the shop, which, unfortunately, isn’t anywhere near the water. We really miss the contant activity of marina life, the racers going out and cruisers coming in, but we’re being very productive in tearing Shadowfox apart. Of course as we proceed with the “destruction” we’re coming up with more things we want to do, so we expect she’ll be out of the water four to six months. But if our plans and ideas are any indication, you won’t believe us when you see us!

Our only sightseeing trip thus far was up to Opua, Bay of Islands, for the third Annual Cruisers Thanksgiving Feast and General Reunion (or something like that). Over 200 people attended, seeing old friends and meeting ones who had only been call signs and voices on the radio before this.

Everybody ate too much and had a great time.

When we got back to Auckland we found we’d received a letter from Cathy Hawkins

Admiralty Steps, Auckland, New Zealand. It’s what Auckland has instead of Pier 39.

intermittent lightening and thunder.

Wonderful weather to be tied up at a dock!

New Zealand is everything we’d heard it would be; friendly people, lots of sheep, climate not unlike San Francisco, and lots of sailing, boating, boatbuilding, designing, and racing and cruising going on. Especially with Kiwi Magic’s success in the America’s Cup trials. People here are very aware of yachting as a sport and as a lifestyle.

It’s more expensive than we anticipated, however, with a 10 percent goods and services tax having been instituted October 1st.

This is levied on everything except rentals.

What with general cost of living increases, prices have probably gone up closer to 15 percent overall.

Shadowfox is now on the hard at Lidgard Yachts in Glen Eden, being stripped down to a ‘shadow’ of her former self in preparation for the extensive renovation we’ve planned.

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days after arriving we’d found a car, and within four days we’d gotten a storage unit so we could begin putting away all the cruising toys.

We made the rounds of the boatbuilders getting lost along the way, learning how to drive on the left side of the road and how to negotiate roundabouts as we went. A week later we found one that was just right for us, primarily involved with wood rather than fiberglass, with an impressive, clean shop, and with innovative design ideas.

Among many, many others, Lidgard Yachts has built Defiance (now racing in the Bay) and the 1986 Kenwood Cup competitor Final Approach. John and Heather Lidgard will be competing in the MelbourneOsaka doublehanded race in their 44-foot Reward this spring, their son Duthie and his wife Sharon are running the business, and their other son Kevin and his wife Sue are starting a new Lidgard enterprise at Westpark Marina in Auckland with a travelift and yard, planning eventually to expand into design and boatbuilding as well.

Mark and Kay Rudiger in Hawaii, just before leaving for New Zealand.

on Bullfrog about the final leg of Bullfrog’s journey back to Aussieland. Cathy wanted to do it solo as a race qualifier. I’m sending it along as it’s a great finale.

And as we’re dying for news, gossip and general trivia from home, here’s our address for anyone who wants to write and say

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“Gudday!”: 2/27 Nikau Street, New Lynn, Auckland 7, New Zealand.

— mark and kay 11/29/86 Readers — The following is Cathy Hawkins letter: Mark & Kathy — The day we left you in Tonga, I insisted on doing everything during the passage to New Zealand. As a result, by the time I got there 1 was burned out. The wind had come from everywhere!

We arrived in Opua at 0700. Customs came down and told us we had to leave straight away. I had planned to singlehand the boat back to Australia as my solo qualifier, but I felt so ucky and unready that I decided to sign Ian on as crew again. When I regained my strength, I was devastated by the fact I wouldn’t be doing my qualifer.

Then I had an idea! I decided I could do my trans-Tasman qualifer afterall if I dropped Ian off at Norfolk Island which is 400 miles NNW of New Zealand. So we headed there.

The passage to Norfolk gave me a chance to relax, heal and settle in. Once there, we rowed Ian ashore and signed him off the crew list. I’m sure the Customs officer assumed we’d had a big fight, because earlier I had cracked my cheekbone and given myself a huge black eye as a result of the winch handle popping out of a winch while under load. But we explained what happened and then I left at 1700.

For the first two days I had headwinds, then an intense low came out of Brisbane and brought with it a 50-knot easterly gale. I carried a seabrake and went under bare poles for 40 hours. Another ten hours I only carried a reefed staysail or staysail. During that blow I experienced the worst seas we’ve ever encountered with Bullfrog. The boat handled it well, although I would have been in trouble without the seabrake.

After the gale I got light easterlies. 'How ironic! I had to work all day to get the spinnaker to fill.

On the morning of my landfall I got headed and set south, so I ended up beating up the last 20 miles of coast. Never mind, I was glad to get in after six days with Bullfrogstill in three pieces and undamaged by chafe or other problems.

Ian and I had a lovely reunion. He was buzzing around the harbor in a rubber ducky

and ferried the doctor and Customs out to me. The doctor said my cheek was a depressed fracture. Finally, Ian was allowed onboard. It was good to have a big long hug; you miss hugs when sailing solo!

All in all, I was pleased with how I handled the conditions. It’s helped my selfconfidence a lot.

— cath\) hawkins 11/22/86 The Loss of Zubenubi Reported by Nick Coates, of Expectation — Peterson 44 Colon, Panama On November 25 at 8:00 p.m., Zubenubi was lost when she struck a rock off the north coast of Panama. All five crewmembers were rescued without injury.

The 52-ft (71-ft if you include the bowsprit) junk cutter ketch was a familiar

A 'Caribbean Cooler’. The only danger is sharks; they pop out of the water and chomp the ‘coolee’s’ head off.

sight along the west coast of the United States and in the Sea of Cortez where she had cruised for many years. Her present owner, Jon Trout, had helped build her at a yard near Bangkok, Thailand. She was completed in 1977 at which time Jon helped sail her to British Columbia.

Because of Jon’s personality and the boat’s unusual design, she was widely known in the Sea of Cortez. Ironically, it was Zubenubi that picked up the first distress signal from Firehorse II when that Garden 41 went on the rocks outside of La Paz. They had the only VHF radio in the harbor that could reach Firehorse II, and Barbara who was on the boat at the time, worked the radio almost continuously for 24 hours page 180

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to be a fine arrangement. The slip with unlimited power and water for our Petersen 44 was only $132 a month. The six-day haulout in the fall came to $176. We found lots of good, honest people that work around the yacht club for very reasonable wages.

The bar at the club goes practically nonstop, and the food at the restaurant is very good. The only problem is that you’ve got to be very careful if you go into Colon; almost everyone who’s been here for any length of time has been mugged at least once.

We had planned to leave here next month for Honduras, Guatamala, Belize and Florida, but we like Panama so well that we may spend another year here. It would be great to go back through the Canal and spent more time in the Perlas Islands and the islands on the western part of the Pacific side. There’s also plenty to see in the San Bias area, which we visited too briefly last year.

— nick coates 12/10/86

directing rescue efforts.

Zubenubi had left Colon on November 24 ; bound for the San Bias Island, the Yucatan i and Florida. She struck Escribano Reef I approximately 15 miles west of Punta San ■ Bias just 24 hours later. John reported they j switched on their Class B EPIRB for almost 24 hours with no response. The crew also talked by radio with the Panamanian Coast Guard, who are reported to have refused assistance because no lives were threatened.

During the night Jon fired flares at three different passing ships, none of which responded.

Finally, with nightfall approaching, the crew removed the electronics and abandoned Zubenubi to the sea and waiting scavengers.

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Pichilinque Thanksgiving C.J. Walker It was your typical Baja Thanksgiving — with a twist. The Turkey Express, normally known as the Seuen G’s, bounced out of La Paz into the teeth of a Norther, bound for nearby Pichilinque and a clutch of other craft swinging at anchor. There the aroma of roast turkey arose, and the sand and sage ashore blended with the stuffings in the floating ovens.

It was here that nearly two score yachties gathered to renew old friendships, make new ones and dive daylong into the traditional fixin’s. And no doubt give thanks that they’d all survived another scorcher in the Sea of Cortez.

As such, it was just one of a dozen or more gatherings to celebrate the day in and around the crowded La Paz roadstead, where upwards of 100 yachts waltzed at anchor.

Arriving at Pichilinque, Chuck and Dee Brake’s big Monk-designed trawler and company rafted up to Be Gentle, a roomy, canary-tinted ferro out of Moss Landing, crewed by Ralph and Floydean Dommer.

And that’s when all other recent fiestas were forgotten and the new one began.

Above the babble you could hear the pssst of

Pacifico caps and the clink of ice in glasses — sort of a “damn-the-northers-and-full-pourahead”.

High point of the day came when the capacious catamaran Thundercloud, Tom Shearer and Jerry Lang, nudged alongside the big tri T’n’ Honey, Mel and Thelma Langley, to provide the room for the crowd that sprawled aboard from surrounding boats.

Aside from the traditional turkeys, with potatoes and yams and salads and stuff, the topper came with a couple of gallons of ice cream conjured up by “Russ” Russell from Maverick.

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separate celebration for Bill Long, who turned 38 for the occasion. “Pancho” Lara sort of sneaked up on Bill and skewered his left earlobe for a tiny gold sailor’s stud, something he’d been earning for the last couple of years.

It was way after dark when the Turkey Express delivered its passengers back at Marina de La Paz, while those left behind picked the bones of the occasion.

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Here are the folks who signed aboard for last Thanksgiving Day in Pichilinque: Ralph and Floydean Dommer, Be Gentle; Bob and Peggy Phillips, Freudian Slip; Felix and Corrie Klardie, Indian Summer; C.J. and Joan Walker, Kahela, Chuck and Dee Brake, Seven G’s; Bill Long, Lovely Lady; Dick and Mary Me Corkel, Mary T; Marguerite Venus Brosing; Ted and Ruth McConville, Majestic; Daphne and Barrie Hartley, Sirocco; Barb and Rick Halstead, China Doll; Frank “Pancho” and Judy Lara, Amistad; Winfield and Rosemary Dublin, Wind Rose; Ray Richardson, Climax; Jack and Jacquie Randall, Halcyon; Mel and Thelma Langley, T’n’ Honey with guests Cliff and Millie Albright; Tom Shearer and Jerry Lang, Thundercloud; Warren “Russ” Russell, Maverick; and Rainey and Sam Norton, Silk Hat. Amazing Grace — Farr 55 Willy Stigglebout & Crew New Zealand to California (Lafayette, CA) You may remember Cindy and 1 from the sail aboard Jim Hill’s sistership, Spellbound last year in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands.

(Or should I say ‘swamping’?).

At any rate, Cindy and I along with my brother John and two good mates are currently half way to San Francisco from New Zealand with the second Tompkins/Farr 55, Tom Riggs’ Amazing Grace.

The story that follows is true. The names have not been changed to incriminate the guilty. As you reported in your October issue within the item on Spellbound, we left New Zealand in late June. However, we feel obligated to correct a few details. Because, although the weather stunk, the seas were not really as high as you were told, the winds not so fierce, and it’s not true that we lost the dodger. The windsurfers did, however, bend the stanchions, but greenwater was to blame rather than strong winds. We’re always amused at how sea stories grow more impressive with each telling.

Since leaving Auckland we’ve renamed the boat several times. While at sea, she’s known as Abrasive Face, for obvious reasons. While in harbor amongst other yachts by the same name, she is known as Looney Bin. During the course of our delivery, she has

‘Amazing Grace’, a rocket among cruising boats.

The Farr 55 made it from the Marquesas to Cabo in 20 da/s.

Fallen From Grace as a luxury yacht to become a ‘high maintenance’ yacht. Amazing Grace, like Spellbound, is full of goodies.

John, our engineer, spends at least 50 percent of his time with different parts of his body in the bilges or engine compartment.

Lately, I’ve spent more time aloft than on deck. The rest of the crews seems to be content to repair leaks, rewire electronics, and keep the boat liveable. We are pleased to report, however, that all the ‘goodies’ still work, and that all of our guests think of Amazing Grace as a luxury yacht.

For future reference, you may refer to our delivery as the “Sour Milk Run”. If 1 were to rate our stops and our passages, my ratings would — unlike John Neal’s milk bottles — have to be in broken milk bottles. We’ve spent more than our share of the time on the wind. For example, after dinner at sea, we enjoy crashing off big steep waves for desert.

We call it ‘pound cake’. Then we all gather in the cockpit for a singalong: On the wind again, Just can’t wait to get on the wind again, I find love is pounding big waves with my friends, Just can’t wait to get on the wind again.

Yeah, Willy!

The boat is the percussion section, while Tim and Stu, in the string section, strum away on the runners and checkstays.

A few words of caution to those anticipating a Milk Run, sour or fresh. In Fiji, beware of Manassa. He lives on Vio Island, in fact, he has the only light there, and will consult with you on any Fijian problem.

In the Cook Islands, watch your back. The

natives of Aitutaki are likely as not to load you til your legs buckle with free bananas and paw-paws. While off Aitutaki, remember to watch your dinghy when the moon is full. Your dinghy, like ours, might take a devilish turn, untie a clove hitch, and go for a stroll. If this happens between 0130 and 0330 while anchored outside the reef, as it happened to us, it could take five hours of hunting before yacht and dink are reunited.

And watch your eyes in the Tuamotus; the beauty can be blinding. These motus are some of the most beautiful spots on earth.

The sharks are kinda cute, too, particularly those with little white tips on their fins.

Finally, we caution cruisers not to miss Niue. A very small island about 200 miles east of Tonga, Niue is loaded with friendly natives who don’t get to see many visiting yachts. The seasnake that lives in the floating tire you moor to is also likely to swim out and greet you.

We had counted on eating endless meals of tuna and mahi on the way, but despite having dragged our lures for over 4,000 miles, Captain Tom Riggs still holds the dubious honor of landing our only dinner.

The fish hit his lure within 15 seconds of it being dropped in. The crew got quite a yuck out of his cries for help to land the 35-lb brute. Initially, we thought he was just feeling the tug of his massive lure, but by the time Ron Byrd helped land the fish, Tom got the last laugh. No one had laughed since. We pray (and will prey) for more fish on the upcoming voyage to Mexico.

For those readers heading this way, we come to the following conclusions about the cost of provisioning in these locations: New Zealand food prices are half of U.S. prices.

Raratonga was next lowest, with food 80 percent of what it costs in the United States.

Suva and Neaifu were about the equivalent of United States prices. Tahiti is the highest, about double stateside prices.

Our conclusions so far: We are loving the beautiful South Pacific island paradises, but could do without all the upwind passages.

The boat is fantastic. The only thing that’s been lacking-is. our wonderful owner, Tom Riggs.

See you in San Francisco in February.

- willy 11/12/86

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Readers — In mid-December we received word from owner Tom Riggs that his crew completed a passage that “everybody” said “couldn’t be done”: from the Marquesas to Cabo San Lucas. Amazing Grace not only made the upwind and upcurrent passage, she did it in the remarkable time of just 20 days. In the drizzle of Cabo San Lucas, the crew was trying to put the boat back in shape after the long voyage from New Zealand.

From Cabo the boat will go to Los Angeles for work on the rig, and then is scheduled for arrival in San Francisco Bay sometime in February.

Ensenada — A Second Opinion Una - Mas Dennis Johnson (Dana Point) This is in response to the Ensenada Low Down item that appeared in the November Changes.

February will mark the fourth year we have gone down the Pacific side of Mexico.

Since we only have two weeks each year, we have never been further south than Cedros Island. On each of our trips we have cleared into Mexico at Ensenada.

During our first trip to Ensenada, Jesus, who is criticized by J. Metheany, met us inside the harbor and tied us to a buoy — actually I believe it was a floating beer keg — at a cost of $5.

The Changes said the Port Captain says the buoys are free. Well, what are you going to do if a Mexican fishing boat comes in and says that you are tied to his buoy?

Tying up to any buoy without permission in any country is like parking your car in an apartment complex parking lot. Chances are you’ve parked in someone else’s space.

The fact is, I have never seen an officiallooking person around the Ensenada Harbor, but I always see Jesus. In my opinion, Jesus plays an important role in Ensenada Harbor. You are not obligated to use his water taxi, fuel, or water services, but you can if you wish.

Eight miles after departing Ensenada on our first trip, our engine mounts broke. So with very little wind, we headed back to Ensenada. Just before entering the harbor the wind completely died, and we prepared to drop anchor. But then there was Jesus, who for $10 towed us in and tied us to a

buoy!

1 will be returning to Ensenada again in February, and 1 hope to see Jesus again. If I do, I will gladly pay him for this use of his buoy. I think it’s a bargain. So will you if your time is worth anything; figure on a threehour job to clean the slimey shit off your anchor, chain and boat if you anchor.

And by the way, if you are ever at Catalina’s Avalon in the winter, just go tie up to one of the 100 or so empty buoys over there. The Harbor Patrol gets a big laugh over that. Tell them you heard that they were free.

— dennis johnson 11/26/86 Two New Marinas For La Paz? Two new grande marina complexes are under construction in La Paz. When completed, they will add 500 berths to this popular cruising destination.

(Currently, La Paz has two marinas; the Gran Baja Marina and Marina de La Paz. The combined capacity of the two marinas is less than 70 boats).

“When completed”, however, is a big condition when spoken in Spanish. Things rarely — if ever — get completed on schedule in Mexico.

It’s true that the infrastructure consisting of streets with lamp posts, seawalls, and sidewalks is in place at both locations.

However, private investors are still being sought for the actual on-site construction.

The Palmira Marina on the outskirts of La Paz. Will it be done in a couple of months? Or a couple of years?

Ricardo Garcia Sota, Tourism Director of Baja California Sur and the man who ‘opens’ and ‘closes’ Sea of Cortez Race Week each year, says he is confident that when the new government takes over in April — the elections will be in February — they will be

prepared to give all sorts of concessions in order to attract foreign investors. He notes that the new administration in Baja California Sur will certainly be interested in attracting more foreign investors and travellers.

“Our goal,” he says, “is to make La Paz, which is already a natural harbor, into a nautical city . . . into the ‘Gateway to the Sea of Cortez’.”

One of the two marinas in progress is Marina FidePaz, part of the 52-acre complex that will include residential and commerical space, two hotels and the 260-berth marina.

All boat-related paperwork such as Port Captain, Immigration, etc., will be handled on site. This according to Alfonso Olachea, director of the FidePaz project.

Marina FidePaz is located at the southwest end of La Paz harbor, about five miles from town and nearly out to the airport. The water is naturally shallow down there, but will be dredged to more than eight feet at mean low tide.

The other marina project, Marina Palmira, is located on the other side of the city and much closer to the open water of the Sea of Cortez. In fact boats returning from the gulf and berthed at Palmira would save much of the long trip down the channel to downtown La Paz and the even longer trip down to Marina FidePaz. Can La Paz support 500 new berths? Certainly there is demand for berths, as demonstrated by the fact that Mac & Mary

Shroyer’s 42-berth Marina de La Paz has been so full they’ve added on another 14 berths with a floating breakwater. And more and more Americans are cruising Mexico in the winter and leaving their boats in places like La Paz for the summer while they return home to the States. Yet at this time there certainly isn’t demand for as many as 500 berths. It’s likely for the first few years it will

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be like the marina at Nuevo Vallarta; only partly utilized.

Even though the majority of cruisers have historically preferred to anchor out, the desire for the convenience and security of a marina berth seems to be increasing. Furthermore, all of the marinas will be able to offer recinto fiscalizado, which allows owners to legally leave their yachts unattended in Mexico for as many as five years.

Another interesting trend is the number of Americans more or less settling down in La Paz. Some, like Jim and Gayle off Popeye, have come to like La Paz so much they’ve bought real estate. And there’s even talk — in jest — that the Metro Oakland YC is going to open up a Mexican chaper. MYCO boats in Mexico this season include Leo and Jeannie’s Affinity, Patience and Debbie on Vouvray; Teri and Grant on Serenity; Steve, Lorraine, Loui and Enrique on Quiche Lorraine; Mike and Barb on Naute Enuff; and Bob on Lucifer.

Not all of the above are in La Paz, but Mike and Barb sure are. In fact, they recently purchased the ‘Ciao Italia’ restaurant. You’ll love their special this week: spaghetti and meatballs for $2.30, with Corona chica at 15 cents a bottle. While all of Baja is a bargain, this is a real deal! Another La Paz restaurant partly owned by an American family is ‘Los Amigos Club de Yates’.

A further indication that many American cruisers are here to stay is the number of them who now have cars. Last year only a few cruisers had cars, now many do. As Floydean on Moss Landing’s Be Gentle reports, “When you offer someone a ride this year, they respond, ‘No thanks, I have a car, too.

So let that be a reminder to those of you sailing to La Paz. Once you get here, you may not be able to leave.

— terese schwartz 12/24/86 Akavavit — Roberts 53 Harrison Smith & Lorrie Haight Opua, New Zealand (Sitka, Alaska) While wandering around Papeete on October 5, we met a nice couple from Northern California who were passengers on the cruise ship Liberte. When we told them that we were cruising around on our homebuilt, steel, salmon trawler sailing yacht, they got

all excited and explained they had this sailing' magazine with them that friends from Alameda had given to them. Along with the magazine they’d been given instructions to pass it along to American yachties who would be “oh so happy” to get it.

The couple couldn’t remember the name of the magazine, so we asked, “Is it Latitude 35?” They then remembered that it was, and we agreed that we would indeed like to have it. So they brought it by Akavavit the following day. In this manner we were delighted to receive the September 1986 isspe’, thanks to Bev and Bob Partridge who thoughtfully sent it with their friends.

After four wonderful months of cruising French Polynesia, we have just arrived in Opua to spend the hurricane season. Our 18-day passage from Bora Bora was terrible.

First we had to motor for a day and a half with no wind, then there were a couple of days of strong headwinds. Finally, we had good sailing from the 5th to 10th day of the passage. But by the 10th day it started getting cold, after which followed a week of rain and storms.

Eventually we wound up right in the middle of a low as we crossed the date line.

Then while sailing into 40 knot winds in the middle of the night, a big wave took out one of the front windows. This really freaked us out, so we hove-to and tried to get organized.

The last day was delightful, and we were so glad to have arrived here safe. Everyone we have met — from the officials, to the locals to the other yachties — has been so friendly. And, it’s great to be able to speak English again.

— harrison and lorrie 12/12/86 Harrison and Lorrie — We haven’t been everywhere — not by a long shot — but based on our limited experience, as a country the Kiwi’s have their heads more properly screwed on then anybody else. It never surprises us to hear folks rave about the people down there.

If somebody happens to pass along this issue of Latitude 38 — and thank you Bev and Bob — maybe you could do us a little favor. First off, we’d love to know the specs on the window (port?) that broke. Secondly, we’d love it if you could write a little something about how your 53-ft ketch works

out as a salmon trawler. Were not about to give it a try, we’re just curious.

Quark — Bodega 30 Dave Symonds and Dianne Tirado Sausalito (Sausalito) Season’s Greetings — this time from Sausalito. Quark is back home in the same marina from which she sailed four years ago.

Our last letter was from New Caledonia last July; this one will follow our track over the intervening 5,000 miles.

We spent six weeks in New Caledonia, most in the capital city of Noumea. While there we took several mini-cruises to some of the outlying anchorages that dot the coast of the third largest island in the South Pacific.

However, the murky water and cold nights finally got to us and late July saw us heading northeast on a 300-mile trip to Port Vila in Vanuatu (New Hebrides).

Twenty-four hours out, heavy seas caused the tillerhead to break. We jury-rigged a steering arrangement and headed for Uvea, a nearby island in the Loyalty group, hoping to find a welder. We did find one, and in the process discovered that Uvea has one of the prettiest beaches and nicest lagoons we’ve ever encountered.

But after a four-day stop we moved on to Port Vila. The trip also involved heavy following seas. These caused our Aries selfsteering rudder to break off, necessitating a day of hand-steering — tiring and boring — and subsequently several telephone calls to England for replacement parts.

It was in Port Vila that ‘The Decision’ was made. We decided that four years had been enough, that we missed the folks back home, and that it was time for a new chapter. So with Tony Bennett’s words (“I left my heart . . .”) ringing in our ears, and against the advice of all the waterfront salts who called our contemplated trip the ultimate masochism, we decided to attempt the upwind and up-current thrash to Honolulu, some 3,000 miles northeast. Further, if the weather permitted, we intended to sail another 2,000 miles beyond Honolulu to San Francisco.

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A day later we departed once again for Honolulu. It was a daunting but nonetheless interesting trip marked by these highlights: i^It took 42 days. ►'We sailed 3,712 miles through the water, to make good 3,100 rhumbline miles. *^Only one ship was sighted. s' We went through a 9-day blow during which 1 was seasick the entire time. There was one cracked rib — mine, not the boat’s; our water tanks ruptured from severe sloshing; various electrical problems occurred (mostly at night); the violent pitching roiled sediment in the fuel tank causing a blockage in the lines and stalled the engine; and, a big sea caved-in the canvas dodger covering the companion way. ^Land was sighted only once, and that by moonlight. It was Gardner Island in the Phoenix group. i^We caught no fish at all to break up the really tiresome 6-week regimen of canned food. <^The passage entailed 40 days of sailing, with the wind always forward of the beam.

There jwere just two days of flat calm. By motoring on the calm days and motorsailing on the light days, we accumulated 162 hours of engine time. ►''The good news was that both of us lost a lot of weight.

We tied up at the Texaco Dock at the Ala Wai on October 7, grateful to be there, skinny from the trip, and with a list of 26 fairly major repair and/or modification projects to be done before Quark would really be ready to leave for San Francisco.

The required two weeks to complete the “to do list”, during which time we also did some dining out, movie-going, and visiting with friends. The weather was hot and humid, which among other things called for running the fan all night in order to sleep.

Finally on October 21 we were as ready as we were ever going to be for the trip to San Francisco. Compared to the first leg of our trip home, this passage was a breeze! ►^It took only 27 days. r *^We sailed through the water to cover 2,094 rhumbline miles. ^Evading areas of high atmospheric pressure and their light winds required that we sail as far north as 41 degrees, about even with Eureka. *^We encountered no gales or storms. page 185

►'We caught one small albacore. It was delicious. s'Quark suffered just one breakdown, a torn mainsail. Consequently, we went under jib only for several days, waiting for calm enough seas to break out the sewing machine. ►'No land was sighted. Obviously. But we did see five ships and spoke with two over the VHF. ►'There were no days of flat calm, but motorsailing added 155 hours of diesel time to the log. ►'Once again, the wind was never aft of the beam. ►►'The most remarkable aspect of the trip was the cold! Starting about a week out of Honolulu it got plain raw, necessitating plenty of woolies day and night.

We passed under the Golden Gate at 9:30 p.m. on November 16 — it was a beautiful night, cloudless and with a full moon. The approach, the passing into the Bay, the lighted city — it was a sight for sore eyes. It was great to go, and it was great to be back.

— daue symonds 12/6/86 Cruise Notes: According to the Seven Seas Cruising Club, boats under 65-ft will only be able to transit the Panama Canal on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Because of the overnight anchoring that will be required, the transit will thus take anywhere from 24 to 48 hours.

According to Bill Speed, Commodore of the Panama Canal YC, this became effective late last year.

It didn’t make front page headlines, but last November 3, the Northern Marianas became a commonwealth of the United States, with its 17,000 resident citizens. The Northern Marianas consist of about a dozen small islands covering some 300 miles of the Western Pacific just north of Guam. The best known of the Marianas are Saipan and Tinian, the latter having the airstrip from which the United States bomber departed to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan.

Although the trades blow consistently at 12 to 15 knots and the water and air temperatures are warm, the Marianas aren’t a popular cruising area. A lack of mooring facilities is a big problem since most of the water is too deep for anchoring. Suppose, for example, you wanted to set the hook in

the Mariana Trench, which is 35,000 feet deep. Let’s see, for seven to one scope you’d need approximately 240,000 feet of chain. At 2.5 pounds per foot, that means the necessary ground tackle would weigh nearly 500,000 pounds — And that’s not including the anchor! You still want to cruise with a manual windlass?

The Northern Marianas are a tragedy we’re likely to hear much more about in the near future. Prior to World War II the population was self-sufficient. Now the primary occupation of the population is collecting aid from Uncle Sam or having a government job — which is about the same thing. What’s the first thing that happened after the Northern Marianas gained commonwealth status? The Governor asked for more federal aid.

We don’t know if it still goes on, but not long ago one of the biggest industries in the Northern Marianas was driving brand new Japanese cars off car carrying ships and then right back on again. The deal was that by driving them for a few feet on what at the time had been U.S. Trust Territory soil, they could subsequently be imported to the mainland United States without counting as part of the Japanese quota. Great moments in productivity! Another big business was the final assembly of sweaters whose parts had been made in Hong Kong. If the few stitches needed to put them together were done on U.S. Trust Territory soil, no duty would be due.

Who is to blame for the situation? Probably everybody involved to some degree or another. Unfortunately, it’s not an isolated case. Look at Cuba. Twenty-five years ago Venezuela and Argentina were the two richest countries in Latin America, with Cuba third. Thanks to the generosity of the Russians and the englightened economics of El Eider Maxfmo, Cuba is struggling to stay ahead of Haiti, which had always had a firm grasp on Latin America’s financial cellar.

It seems the only reasonable conclusion is that no matter what the ideology, superpowers are bad buddies for small island nations. Being monumental money drains, small island nations aren’t much good for the superpowers, either.

Happy 1987 to everyone cruising out there. May all your winds be tropical and aft of the beam.

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26-FT CHEOY LEE FRISCO FLYER Great Bay and coastal, full keel, cruiser. 5 sails, fiberglass hull, teak decks and cabin, sleeps 4. Sink, icebox, head. Yanmar diesel (needs work). Owner relocated. Priced to sell. $10,500/OBO. (408) 973-0163.

CLEAR THE FOREPEAK TRADE CUSTOM HOME & 36 AC. FOR SAILBOAT Desperately want 44-60' fiberglass sailboat in good condition. $120,000 to $175,000 range. Will trade 36 acs in Oroville, CA w/custom built 3-bdrm home. $133,500 equity, $172,500 total value. Prefer clear title but will consider other options for right vessel. Bob Lipkin, Box 668, Redondo Beach, CA 90277 (213) 374-7134; (213) 374-2176.

For sale: 3/4 oz. spinnaker, 135% jib and 110% jib at $375, $300 and $175 respectively. Used on Ranger 29; J=12.3, P=31 and 1=37. Also 200 lbs lead ingots 50-cents/pound (415) 941-3705.

MONTGOMERY 17 1985. Perfect small cruiser, over 12,000 invested. Galv. trailer, new 5 hp w/charger, all electrics. Dark green hull, loads of extra stuff. $9,000.

(408)426-3211.

RENO — LAKE TAHOE Vivacious German-American lady, 50, 5’3”, 115, loves skiing and sailing. Likes to plan her next Caribbean sailing vacation with non-smoking gentleman on a Windjammer or charter yacht. Write to: P.0. Box 9516, Reno, NV 89507.

RANGER 28-FT 1/2-TON Mitchell sails, main, 120, 90, blooper, tri-radial spinnaker.

Inboard motor just overhauled. Just reupholstered. New paint.

Excellent in all respects. Diligently maintained. Knotmeter, compass, radio. $25.5.

(415) 540-7434 leave message.

SEEKING SPECIAL LADY Sailor, surfer, diver, liveaboard, 42, seeks lady to share paradise.

No photo or phone number please. Ocean awareness a must.

Send self-addressed envelope to: Jon Olson, P.O. Box 122, Kaneohe, HI 96744.

P.S. Kids okay.

SANTANA 28 WITH SANTA BARBARA SLIP FOR FUN AND SUN LOVERS Cruise S.F. to La Paz for Baja Race Week via Channel Isles, San Diego & Cabo late February — early April '87. If you are interested in all or part of this adventure, want to sail a modern 50-ft yacht equipped with all the amenities including an experienced fun-loving Skipper & 1st Mate, you are ready to share expenses, you are 35-plus years, like to explore & enjoy the company of warm people — reply soon. Couples & nonsmokers preferred. Must be healthy. No illegal drugs. No pets.

No children. Send brief sailing and personal resume with phone number to: Suite 138, 1025 Jefferson St., Santa Clara, CA 95050.

Great boat for club racing or Channel Islands cruising. 1977 sloop. Volvo diesel, wheel steering, roller furling, knotlog, depthsounder, Avon dinghy, VHF, RDF, am/fm, spinnaker, safety gear, etc. Excellent condition. $32,000.

(805) 963-5030.

1978 ISLANDER 36 Superbly equipped. North sails, 3-spd Barient primaries, custom boom, Harken traveler, foil, backstay adj. vang, folding prop, spinnaker equipment, diesel, propane, ready for Midwinters. Sell with slip. $55,000. No reasonable offer refused.

332-6921.

35-FT ROUGHWATER AFT CABIN TRAWLER 1973. Lehman 120, low hours. Shower, 2 heads, fridge, freezer.

Excellent condition. Good liveaboard. $52,500.

365-2077 leave message.

CATALINA 22 / HULL NO. 11777 1983 with swing keel, trailer w/new brakes, Honda 7.5,3 North racing sails, pop-top. All options, original owner, like new. $8,350. Evenings (916) 933-2497; days (916) 442-2942 mssg.

DAY SAIL CREW AVAILABLE 40-year novice female sailor ASA certified needs weekend Bay sailing experience. Planned trips or last minute call okay. San Jose to SF — Alameda. Call Mardi for details: (415) 494-2791.

STEEL SAILBOAT WANTED FREYA 41 — HALVORSEN DESIGN No expense spared constructing/equipping this red hulled beauty. Custom built 1982 Alameda, CA. Easyrider has been professionally maintained, new condition. Gorgeous hardwood interior. Partial equip: 8 sails, Pathfinder diesel, Barients, CNG stove, heated water, windlass, Hi-Seas heater, depthsounder, knotmeter, VHF, Loran, radar, heavy rigging. Offered at $125,000.

(408) 385-4781; (408) 385-6460.

SEA GULL Outboard engine. 4'/2 hp long stem. Mint condition. $200.

(415) 695-1705 evenings, Giorgio.

$85,000 = 1983 43’ IOR GRAND PRIX RACING YACHTI Rare opportunity to acquire recent competitive design, lightly used with no expense spared in construction and equipment.

Designed by O.H. Rodgers and custom built by Kiwi, she is loaded with full race Ullmer inventory, Ockam interfaced electronics, Sparcraft triple spreader rig, Navtec System VI hydraulics, etc. The specifications and condition of this yacht will astound you. She is seriously for sale. Please call Jim Schrager and leave message at (415) 893-9196.

ERICSON 23 — 1970 Fixed keel, 4 berths, Marine head, sink, icebox, Johnson 4.5 o.b., 4 sails, compass, winch, tiller and mainsail covers and a lot more all in very good condition. $6,200/OBO. P.S. Motivated, I see a new boat in my future.

(415) 625-1427.

SABOT 8-ft fiberglass dinghy. Row or sail. Includes: compact aluminum extension mast with boom, nylon sail, rubber bumper rail, mahogany leeboard, rudder and hand-carved tiller. 6-ft ash oars, oarlocks and stops. $450. Leave message (415) 521-9312.

19V2-FT CUDDY BAYLINER 1985 Excellent condition. 225 OMC. Many extras.

Must sell. $9,000.

Days 442-6907; eves. 362-7559.

FUN YET 30-ft Chinese Junk. Teak, Volvo diesel, 2 masts, Tanbark sails, propane, sailing dinghy, etc. Comfortable, well-equipped Bay cruiser. Roomy liveaboard or party boat. Good value.

Rob, (415) 652-9095.

40-FT WORLD CRUISER

23-FT CLIPPER MARINE SLOOP Great for Bay, Delta & Tahoe. Includes trailer w/brakes. Boat has Pop-top, galley, Porta-potti, 4 sails, 6 hp o.b., VHF and much more. Excellent condition. Try $6,500.

(415) 548-1593.

2 BERTHS FOR SALE — PIER 39 40-ft: $34,000; 50-ft: $44,000.

Best berths in marina.

(415) 964-0500.

WANTED

1980 FREEPORT 36

Partners (3) in a to-be-purchased 44'-54' f/g, tw. dsl. trawler to be berthed at Santa Cruz, lower harbor. Approx. 5K down + payments. Wanted: 44’-54’ Trawler. Twin diesel, fiberglass.

Call: E. Kirk (415) 948-3477.

Liveaboard or cruise in luxury. This boat is a dream. Lots of room, easy to sail, stern folds down for boarding ladder. 6 sails, autopilot, roller furling and much more. Trade for real estate.

Asking $75,000.

Call (707) 823-1151.

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“Successfully Used for Years” Call Bill Paulson: 453-8722 454-9285 Western Sales Mfg. Co., San Rafael, CA

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NEW AND USED MOTORS Inflatable Dinghies and Tenders 9 to 5

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Skipper with yacht in So. Pacific seeks 30ish female crew to explore paradise. Love of outdoors, intelligence and good nature more important than extensive sailing experience.

(408) 997-6451 for details.

Imagine the ideal equipment list. This 1977 burgandy Valiant has it. Magnavox SatNav, Micrologic Loran, Horizon 78 VHF, Alpha autopilot, Aries windvane, Mariner stove, excellent Hood sails, superb ground tackle, Barient winches, Sta-Loc rigging, Givens liferaft. Custom carpentry. Custom stainless. Custom electronic charging. Much, much more. A 1985 New Zealand refit makes her the best-looking, strongest Valiant in the Bay. Unfortunately I must sell to best offer by early summer or $110,000.

Call (415) 769-3963; (303) 476-3142.

on the Bay or Delta aboard my beautiful 43-ft sailboat Compass Rose.

Sleeps six. Shower, refrigeration, stereo, instruments. $250/day. Weekly rates available.

Call Jon (415) 427-5499.

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1972 RANGER 29 at 20% BELOW MARKET! Unusual opportunity to own a fresh water Ranger 29, loaded with 17 sails, full electronics, etc., at about 20% below the typical asking prices of $25,000.

Leave message: (415) 893-9196.

CREW WANTED

1984 CATALINA 36 Partner forces sale. Full equipment, hauled in March '86.

Berthed in Marina Village, Alameda. $60,000. (408) 247-3520.

Looking for 38-40 foot bluewater liveaboard for South Seas cruising. Sloop or cutter rigging and a pilothouse possible modification would be ideal. Send photo & equipment inventory to: G.J.B., Box 30541, Tucson, AZ 85751.

BEAUTIFUL, LONG LASTING & REASONABLY PRICED CALL FOR OUR CONVENIENT ORDER FORM

1. Boat Remains in Berth.

(415) 552-2441

Dick Loomis

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Magneutotm System Exclusively 2. Owner’s Presence Not Necessary.

3. Eliminate Deviation.

(415) 453-3923 days or eves.

MUST SELL LIFE-SINGLE MEMBERSHIP IN CLUB NAUTIQUE Alameda. Current value: $2,195. Asking $1,865. Call Rod at (415) 723-2672. For info on Club Nautique call Cheri (415) 865-4700. Both the club and the price are good deals!

CAPRI 22 1985. Flawless cond. Light use, never raced. All options, 5 sails, Johnson 4 hp, knotlog, painted spars, Trailrite trailer with brakes, extendable tongue. $7,500 or trade. Coyote Pt. berth.

(408) 779-1950.

ALBIN AD-2 MARINE DIESEL BUCANEER 24 Clean boat, inside re-done, separate head, standing headroom; galley has water, ice box and gas stove. Also Honda 10 motor and double axle trailer. Sleeps 6 easily, great family Delta & Bay boat. Many extras. Bought new Catalina 36 for family is reason why selling. Has berth available at Stockton Sailing Club.

Reduced to $6,950.

Call Paul, work (209) 952-3133; home (209) 478-6006.

COLUMBIA 50 CUTTER Sleek cruiser. Radar, SatNav, custom cockpit cushions. Extensive storage, beautiful teak below, easy-care topsides. Ready to go anywhere in style. Birth of twins forced change of plans. $89,500.

(415) 592-0793 or (206) 378-3259.

NEW AUTOHELM 2000: $550 CNG Tank: $100 Catalina 30 65% storm jib: $75 Call Dick Southworth, (415) 523-6730.

BRISTOL 32 F/g cruising sloop. 1976 diesel. Wheel, radio, loran," autopilot, digital depth & knotmeter. AWI, furling jib, Lewmar 40ST winches, etc. Rigged for singlehanding. Shorepower. $39,500/best offer.

(415) 581-7810.

SAILBOAT WANTED — MOTORCYCLES TO TRADE Will trade the following item(s) for cruising-style sailboat: 1980 Harley Davidson Lowrider with rebuilt 1340cc engine & trans.; 1977 BMW R100RS; Seahawk 200 hangglider; ’68 Mercury Cougar.

Rich, (408) 971-8414 days.

77 SEA SPRITE 23-FT

FEMALE SAILING MATE NEEDED Wife and family no longer interested in sailing. 43-year-old, professional male, tired of solo sailing, needs 30-40-year-old^ discrete, petite, mature, college educated, adventuresome, professional lady for daysailing, weekending, vacation sailing and other boating related activities in the Bay Area. One-on-one relationship. No drugs. No diseases. 100% straight. Reply with current photo and resume to: Sailor, P.O. Box 2353, Vacaville, CA 95696-2353.

37-FT TRIMARAN C/B 7 new Barient S/T. New Harken F/S. New main & Geni. New Harken trav. VHF, ADF, depth, wind, log. Must see.

Jack, (408) 279-4141.

2 cyl., 20 hp, 4 cycle, direct drive w/reverse. Indestructable! Can demo. $750/best offer. Must sell.

Bruce (408) 996-7747.

Traditional full keel sloop by Carl Alberg. LOA 22’6”; beam 7’; displ. 3,350 lbs. Sink, 20 gal water, 2 alcohol burners. Working sails, Seagull o.b. Hauled & bottom painted 10/86. $7,600.

Bob (408) 374-0195.

SAIL MEXICO Wanted: Female companion age 20-40 to sail the waters of Mexico for one week in Jan. or Feb. Sailing experience helpful.

Bob Thomas, P.O. Box 1892, Pleasanton, CA 93466.

CATALINA 27 HEALTH REASONS! Immaculate 1975 family yacht. New diesel Islander 36. Bay sailed only. Not raced. Plow anchor with winch. Special club with pedestal, 110, 150, spinnaker. Epoxied bottom. Beautiful teak throughout. Yellow hull, black stick & Barient winches. $47,500.

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1982, inboard Atomic 4, excellent condition, 3 sails, Sausalito berth. Take over $17,000 loan, no down payment. 441-1271.

PEARSON COMMANDER 26-ft fiberglass sloop including berth in S.F. Marina. 9-ft cockpit, 4 berths, long keel, knotmeter, VHF radio, bow pulpit, Honda outboard. Price $9,000. Tel. (415) 322-1561; (415) 948-9310.

ISLANDER 28

50-FT OFFSHORE CUTTER

Classy and clean! Sleeps 6, meticulously maintained 78/79 Robert Perry design with Atomic 4 engine: knot, depth, radio, stereo & Hood “Sea Furl" system. Can be seen at Brickyard Cove B-38. $27,500.

Call (916) 663-2444.

Fiberglass, 1979, center cockpit. Perkins 154, 2 heads with shower, exceptional headroom, great liveaboard, solid teak interior. Excellent financing in place with 20% cash down. No qualifying. $78,500.

(415) 851-1411.

FANTASTIC LIVEABOARD 65-ft Monk cockpit FDMY, twin 671 's, 2 gen’s, all electronics. 4 staterooms, 2 baths, new on deck, galley, washer, dryer, dishwasher, 1986 refit, April survey 200K. Must sell. 95K. Ventura Harbor.

(805) 642-4597.

’84 ERCISON 36 SLOOP BY RON HOLLAND Fast offshore cruiser. Excellent condition. LOA 357”; beam ll'IO”; draft 6’3”; displacement 11,600 lbs; ballast 5,230 lbs.

Sails: Horizon main, 80,120; North genaker. 23 hp diesel, 50 gat fuel. Pressure hot & cold fresh water, 70 gal s.s. tank. Head, shower, sinks, stove with oven. VHF, RDF, Combi depth/speed/ log. Sell or trade at book value +'k- $ for good, clean bluewater cruiser.

Bob (408) 374-0195.

WANTED: LIVEABOARD Professional, married couple, mid-30’s, looking for owner financed liveaboard. Longtime residents of Sausalito. Excellent credit history. Would like to reach an arrangement to purchase your power or sail on a monthly basis. Let’s talk. J.P. 332-5111.

1982 C&C 40 TALL RIG

ORIGINAL H-28

’87 TRANSPAC SC50

Race or cruise in luxury aboard a strong, fast C&C 40. Professionally maintained, 9 Sobstad sails, B&G computer, Espar furnace, Navtec hydraulics, Pathfinder diesel, Stearns roller furling, excellent condition, huge inventory. $99,500. (206) 784-8429.

New plywood & fiberglass deck, mahogany cap & rub rails.

Masts stripped & varnished. Engine rebuilt 1/86. New cushions & paint. 6 sails, Delta cover, 2 boat covers, Sausalito berth.

552-5580 weekdays; 585-2291 evenings.

Forming syndicate to race SC50 on ’87 TransPac. Must have ocean racing experience, shipboard skills desireable. Share in boat prep., crew practice and preliminary races. $4,000 per man excluding personal expenses.

Call Randy, (408) 353-2045.

SELF-STEERING Sailomat New. $1,295.

(619) 454-6191.

HOLDER 20 Good condition. 8 sets of sails. Great day sailer. Planing hull.

Great racer. Mostly dry sailed in fresh water. Knotmeter. Compass. $6,500.

(209)298-1596.

NACRA 5.5

MUST SELL! 1981-82 FLICKA 10 hp outboard. Factory finished with 3 sails, VHF, depthsounder and much more. Excellent condition. Recent haulout.

Asking $19,500. Berkeley slip.

(707) 448-1147 evenings.

18 sq-meter racing catamaran. Barely used, included custom built (expensive!) expanding trailer with extra-wide beach tires.

Hulls, hardware, rig, in excellent condition. Sail crackles like new (it is!). Sacrifice $2,995. sail-away. (415) 571-7460 Steve.

SELF-STEERING GEAR — SAILOMAT

31-FT PERFORMANCE TRIMARAN

New servo-pendulum Sailomat 536 & Sailomat 500 units. 4 exhib. never-sailed systems avail, for 30 -55’ cruising yachts. Unmatched perf., simple attach., inst. removal, emrg. rddr. Fac. wrnty. P.O. Box 1952, LaJolla, CA 92038. (619) 454-9866. eves.

2000-lb disp. foam core f/g. Trailerable, beachable, unfinished boat is ready to launch but needs rig, sails, hardware & interior finish. Looks like Newick Moxie. $9,500/O.B.O. Dan, 423-3138, before noon weekdays.

INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT 25-FT

65-FT ALDEN CLASSIC

1978 fiberglass full keel cruiser. Teak interior. Volvo diesel inboard. Fathometer, radio, lifelines, anchor, etc., etc. New cushions and sail covers. Very good shape throughout. $20,000.

(415) 933-2448.

Marconi ketch. Conn, built 1926. Nearly rebuilt, teak deck, stainless rigging, self-furling jib, oak interior. New stove, frig., elec., plumb., fireplace, excl. sail/liveaboard. Sell/partnership, Flex price/terms.

Call eves. (916) 758-0741.

CUSTOM-BUILT FOR SINGLEHANDED TRANSPAC Moore 24 has 10 sails, windvane, outboard motor, trailer with surge brakes, recent survey. Excellent condition. $16,500.

Call Don, (415) 854-0544.

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516 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame, CA 94010 (415) 347-2778

41’ Morgan "Out Island" bareboat or skippered, fully equipped Boston Whaler, Windsurfer, Snorkel gear, 71/2 outboard, etc. Sleeps 7 in 3 cabins — mid cockpit.

From $750/week off-season to $1,250/week — 10% off on second time.

Jan. $1,250 — Feb. $1,250.

Bob Moore (415) 382-8259; wk 456-2913.

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LANDFALL 39 PILOTHOUSE CUTTER

1 WANNA SAIL Just once between Hawaii and mainland. One way, either way.

Experienced with own boat in Atlantic/Caribbean. Will deliver your boat with my crew, charter, or crew on your boat in May/ June 1987. Call Dr. Gil Pear, (313) 335-7459 or write: 275 Applewood Lane, Bloomfield Hills, Ml 48013.

EVEDUR BRONZE WOOD SCREWS I'/t" — #10 FH slotted: $5.00 lb. 10-lb minimum.

305 1st St., Benicia.

(707) 745-4629.

Incredibly equipped, with $28,000 refit in 1985 in preparation for Alaskan cruise. Since returning she is for sale to a discriminating buyer looking for an incredible liveaboard or cruising boat. Sleeps 6 in 3 cabins, workshop, 5 sails, Dickensen diesel stove, 3 dinghys, Avon cannister raft, excellent ground tackle, radar, loran, hydraulic autopilot with remote & auxiliary, 2 ds with cockpit repeater, wind instruments, VHF, CB, digital stereo with equalizer, refrigeration, TDX, separate shower, 110v inverter teak interior teak decks multiple custom skylights. 70 hp diesel, crab and shrimp pots and far too much more too list.

Perfect for an incredible dream and ready to leave tomorrow.

Offered at $77,000.

(415)635-5168.

KEEP SAN FRANCISCO BOATS #1 In Australia and So. Cal. Wind Warrior is undefeated. Desires fellow U.SA. supported as partner. TransPac, Ensenada, Farallones record attempts. $45,000 1/2 interest, terms. Steve (415) 567-2273.

SEIDELMANN 30 1979 in great condition. Working sails, 150% genoa. Spin, pole & topping lift. VHF, KML, ds & much more. You must see & sail to appreciate. Then you will be surprised at the deal 1 can offer.

(415) 352-0610.

JAMES WAINWRIGHT — WHERE ARE YOU???

Long lost friend wants to find you. Judy Randall, May 20,1963, New York. Please call (619) 589-8608; (619) 789-9187 or write P.O. Box 1726, Lemon Grove, CA 92045.

OCEAN SAILORS The PHRF in the ocean fleet invites you to participate in the fun and excitement of racing in the Gulf of the Farallones. Many raftups and other activities at day’s end. For more info call: Alex Malacorto: (408) 997-7818; Dennis Robbins: (415) 954-6757 or (415) 527-5569.

CIRCUMNAVIGATION — $500 PER MONTH Experienced owner/skipper looking to share expenses with a male or female crewperson for a one to two year cruise around the world. 1 am 44, easygoing, liberal. Boat is a fast, fully equipped, 40-ft sloop. Your share will be $500 per month. Please, serious inquiries only. Call Edward at (213) 459-6619 or write: Worldcruise, 1530 Palisades Dr., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.

CATALINA 30

COLUMBIA 26 Bristol cond. Recent haulout. Knotmeter, depthsounder, spin., inflatable, Honda 7.5, new cushions. Sausalito berth. $6,450/best offer.

(415) 457-3184.

CAL 29

Better cond. than when left factory. New freshwater cooled dsl engine. Bottom completely redone, including thru-hull valves & shaft. Recently surveyed. In mint cond. Loaded with electronics & many extras. Asking $32,000.

Judie (415) 283-3837.

CAL 40 Pices 40 hp diesel. Modern cabin design, very clean, new paint inside/outside, many sails, dodger, tiller, cruiser/race/liveaboard. $39,0G0/offer.

Eves. (805) 647-9668.

COLUMBIA 28 — $11,000 All new standing and running rigging, bronze opening ports, new inboard, recent cushions, etc. Owner planning to shoot Niagara Falls this winter and needs the money for a suitable barrel and a good helmet. Desperation has set in. Boat located Channel Islands Harbor. Bring your billfold and can goods — she’s ready for Catalina and the Channel Islands. Cash would greatly enhance your bargaining position.

(805) 985-1414.

WESTSAIL 42 AND ST. FRANCIS SLIP

5 sails, outboard and full cover. $12,000.

(415) 458-3774.

Outstanding liveaboard and bluewater cruiser. Professionally completed in 1981 but never cruised. Pathfinder 85 hp dsl with only 190 eng. hrs. Sails like new. All winches self-tailing.

Gorgeous teak interior w/many custom features. Stall shower, microwave oven, Dynamote AC inverter, hyd. steering, Datamarine electronics, Polaris radio, Benmar autopilot, Sony stereo system, Nelsson windlass. Too many features to list. Cost over $200,000 to complete. A steal at $95,000. Plus 60-ft S.F. Marina slip. Call for spec, sheet.

Gail 775-0157.

Long shaft outboard motor. 5 hp.

556-0296 days; 346-2001 eves.

WANT NOR’SEA 27 TRAILER TO BUY OR RENT Leave message at: (800) 348-5464 days; (619) 477-2159.

ERICSON 27

'83 SPRINTA SPORT

WANTED

Experienced yacht in excellent condition. VHF, speed, depth, am/fm cassette stereo, all extras. 4 sails, including berth. $23,500.

(415)574-7740.

Must sell very clean boat with new outboard. Ideal for Bay sailing. $17,000 or offer. Convenient Richmond berth.

(408) 241-3559.

VENTURE 222 F/G SLOOP 1971 MacGregor built. Sleeps 5. 4 jibs, 4 winches, Pop-top, 15 hp outboard. Well-equipped for the Bay. Swing keel & comes with its own trailer. $3,500 or offer. Must sell.

Call Bob, 944-5737 evenings and weekends.

FOR SALE 37-FT TAYANA PILOTHOUSE 1981 Sharp. Excellent cruiser. Good liveaboard. Many extras. Perkins 4-108. 80K/B.0. Emery Cove Marina berth E45 or P.O. Box 31422, Oakland, CA 94604.

CREW WANTED 1 am returning my sailboat to San Francisco from Tampa Bay, FL. 1 need three crewpersons for the entire trip which will require approximately three months, beginning March 1, 1987.

Expenses paid.

Telephone: (415) 522-2874.

ITEMS FOR SALE New whisker pole forespar 12-17 feet: $150; Radar reflector: $10; Schaffer blocks, two 200.03, new: $5; Schaffer stancheon blocks ten- $3 each; Tohatsu outboard 3.5 hp: $100; Binocular holder (white plastic): $10; Kenyon staysail boom, 13 feet with slide: $150; Toilet seat for marine toilet.

Call (415) 283-2753, ask for Jim.

38-FT STEEL SLOOP Round bilged. Built 1967 Beister-Werft. Just hauled, new paint in & out. Lots of cruising gear. Mercedes 636,10 sails, some electronics, propane, dodger, Aries. $40,000 or best offer.

R. Tanner, P.O. Box 29271, Honolulu, HI 96820

CONDO IN SUN VALLEY Escape from the doldrums. Rent our 2-bdrm + loft condo in Sun Valley. Fully furnished including TV, stereo, microwave. Just bring a toothbrush. Hot tub. Great skiing. $115/night or $700/week.

(415)941-3705.

SACRIFICE — 9-FT BOSTON WHALER

CATALINA 27 Very nice condition, well-equipped. $10,000 firm. Might consider partnership. Vallejo (707) 643-2276 after 6 p.m.

MARINE SURVEYOR

Sailing dinghy. Used once.

Cost; $2,000. Sale: $1,000.

Dave, 392-6747 or 235-5773 after 10 a.m.

MOORING EOR RENT — MORRO BAY, CA.

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1975 Westsail 42 cutter factory built (#26). Recent refit after Pacific cruise. New s.s. rigging, lifelines, sails, autopilot, windvane, cockpit cover, all cruising extras. Quick sale $99,950.

Call Larry (619) 277-6352 or Ken Laymon (206) 466-3047.

Beautiful, calm, safe harbor. Ideal for permanent liveaboard. Heavy-duty Call Leon (415) 366-5336 anytime.

3,600 lbs.

Phone (415) 461-6347

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Electrical. Mechancial. Carpentry. Rigging. Surveys. Deliveries.

Over 25 years experience. Reliable. Reasonable.

Call Alan Olson 331-1282.

Enjoy a beautiful day on the Bay on a 32-ft sloop.

Sailing lessons, skippered rentals, bareboat rentals & catered cruises.

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YACHT & SHIP BR0KERS

Sheldon R. Caughey 15 St. Lucia Place, Tiburon, California 94920.

(415)435-2920 Calif. Lie. #B-2428. Representing buyers of prestige and larger yachts.

ISLANDER 30MK II

32-FT DOWNEAST CUTTER Excellent condition, recent survey, new Yanmar diesel. Perfect coastal cruiser, good liveaboard, Sausalito berth. $60,000.

Days (415) 476-1625 Tom; Eves. (707) 996-8208.

1985 PEARSON 34 Excellent racer/cruiser. 90% + 120% sails, jiffy reefing main.

Yanmar diesel, hot/cold water, shower, whisker pole, Combi stereo, propane stove, many more accessories. Just reduced to $72,000!

Call (415) 969-8521 or (415) 496-9298.

TARTAN 37 Superior fast cruising boat outfitted with finest equipment: Monitor windvane, Alpha pilot, Magnavox SatNav, Sitex Loran, propane stove/Margas, 5 sails incl. spinnaker, Micron 33, Avon liferaft, windlass, refrig., complete ground tackle, self-tailing winches, km, ds, VHF and more. Call for equipment list.

Monterey berth available. Will consider trade of smaller boat.

Must sell. Don’t miss this super boat in bristol condition. $76,000/offer.

(408)458-4199

CHAMBERLAIN DORY Built by Rowing Crafters. Sail rig, sliding seat, custom boat cover, Sea King hailer, 2 sets oars. Excellent condition. Asking $2,750.

387-1229.

AUTOHELM 2000 New in box, never mounted, with vane attachment: $375.

Sharp 9” color tube ac/dc. Electronic tuner gets 10+ channels clearly. 1-yr-old: $200.1 live in Tahoe, will deliver either to Bay. (916) 587-8115, Paul.

FOR SALE — SACRIFICE

RHODES DESIGNED — PEARSON BUILT Below market price ocean equipped sloop, diesel powered, immaculate throughout and ready to>pruise with a long list of extras.

For details call (415) 658-3392.

Excellent condition. Good racer/cruiser. Delta rigged. New sails, covers and bottom. Shore power, spinnaker, stereo, feathering prop, pressure water, refrigeration, ds, km. Many features.

Priced to sell. 26K. Call: Bob Brown, Stockton (209) 477-8201.

OPPORTUNITY FLOATS If world cruising or larger profits appeal; if you are a carpenter or boatwright; if you long to live on a luxurious yacht, read bn.

All others stop here. World cruising ketch Sagahi is for sale.

Garden designed original Force 50 prototype. This lady needs lots of work, mostly cosmetic. If you have time, money, skill and the desire to make your dream come true, call David Benson 392-6747 or 235-5773 after 10 a m.

Anchor chain, 310 feet 1/2” galvanized. Excellent condition.

S450/0B0.

Phone (805) 995-3864.

COLUMBIA 26 MKII Roller furling, VHF, stereo, ds, km, new Suzuki 4. New bottom.

Creature comfort in a very clean cabin. Extras. $9,750.

Nathan, days (415) 591-9608; eves. (415) 591-9540.

MAST TRAILER WANTED

New Offshore spar for 35' sailboat, slightly damaged in transit from factory. Dimensions: length = 50’ 2-3/4"; oval section = 7-5/8" x 4-11/16” x 5/32"; double spreaders. Call for more particulars. Cost new: $3,500. Accepting offers. (415) 931-4384.

42-FT PEARSON

For 28-ft 7000# fin keel sailboat. Can modify. Aesthetics not important.

Call Skip (916) 273-4822 days.

1981 ketch.

Excellent condition.

Original owner.

Never in charter service.

Berkeley berth, (408) 274-5784. s ’

CLUB NAUTIOUE SINGLE LIFE MEMBERSHIP Lessons, seminars, basic to bluewater. Free use of training boats. Discount charters. Off season discounts. Social calendar.

Locations in Alameda, Sausalito. Must sell, bought my own boat.

Save $400. Asking $1,295.

(415) 276-9123.

1981 CATALINA 30 Busy schedule forces sale of this fuliy-equipped coastal cruiser.

Has all factory options, Loran C, storm jib, cruising spinnaker, dodger, refrigeration, forced air heating & more. Call for details!

Brent: work (415) 685-4424; home (415) 228-8470.

PIVER 41 TRIMARAN

C&C 25 — 1974

SLIP SWAP OR SUBLET

New Famet mast, new standing rigging, Volvo 75 hp diesel, loran, EPIRB, Avon liferaft, hard dinghy, windlass, much more. $24,000/B.0. Write: Paul Mumma, P.0. Box 601121, South Lake Tahoe, CA 95761-1121.

Motivated & reduced to $13,900. Quality boat in excellent condition. Pampered. Standing headroom. Full instrumentation & sail inventory. Race, cruise, singlehand. Many extras.

Evenings 924-6366.

We have 55’ slip in sunny Brickyard Cove Marina, Pt. Richmond.

Great sailing & exposure if you’re selling. Want 50-ft slip Santa Cruz Harbor. Sooner the better. Call Dave or Bonnie, (408) 727-6111 or 243-8997.

EOUIPMENT NEEDED! Building a 30-ft cutter & need any equipment you can spare; winches, windlass, propane stove, sails, etc. Poor sailor can’t afford new equip. Buy new equip for Christmas and sell me your old.

Call Rob after 8 p.m. (415) 961-1292.

CORONADO 25 One of the nicest. Good sails, Honda 10 engine. 1983 National champion, but lightly raced. You must see this boat. J. Piereth, 441-5970. Strong, friendly class association. $5,500.

SAILBOAT WANTED 30-38' sloop or cutter rigged f/g offshore cruiser with full keel and diesel.

Call (408) 688-7251.

CT-41

INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT — 26-FT SLOOP

BUCANEER 24

Cruising ketch, diesel 75 hp, fiberglass, full keel, 6'6" headroom, teak interior, well-equipped, Montgomery sailing dinghy, original owner, A-1 maintained. July survey. Would be a great liveaboard. $72,400.

(415) 357-2245; (408) 779-7885.

This beautiful Swedish-built fiberglass sloop has everything: good sails, (including spinnaker), new dodger, full cover, lots of gear. Cruise, race, go anywhere in this boat. $9,950.

Jane Piereth 441-5970.

Liveaboard! 1 did for 2 years. Evinrude 15 hp w/cockpit controls, Litton microwave, VHF, stereo, 3 anchors, 2 gas tanks, very roomy. $5,500 or trade + $25k for Columbia 34.

(408) 378-4299 eves; (408) 370-8061 days.

RANGER 20 — 1977

RANGER (MULL) 22

4 sails and E-Z Loader trailer. Boat is loaded w/dodger, o.b., head, reinforced rig, black mast, queen berth & anchor. Other extras also. Excellent shape. Compare at $5,800. Now $4,300!

Call 523-7286, leave message for Armen.

2 mains, 5 jibs, spinnaker. Pulpits & lifelines. Barient winches. 6 hp Johnson o.b. Anchor/chain & rode. Battery, VHF, ds.

Loaded!! Many extras! New bottom paint Aug. Richmond berth. $8,500.

(415) 663-1500 eves.

PRICE REDUCED To $14,000 for my fully equipped, raised deck, 1974 Newport 27. Inboard, 3 headsails, awning, VHF, ds, fully instrumented, new interior. Exc. cond. Fast & stable Bay & offshore sailer. Sell or trade down.

Work (707) 585-8700; home (707) 875-2624.

PIVER TRIMARAN 23-FT 9.9 Evinrude w/electric start, 4 sails, anchor, spare rudder, new paint. $975. (408) 378-2499 eves; (408) 370-8061 days.

OLSON 30

CATALINA 22 Great Bay boat in fine condition. Has fin keel, Honda 71/2 outboard and North sails. Berthed in Sausalito. Asking $3,900.

Call (415) 332-4645.

Immaculate performance vessel with custom LPU cabinsides, 9 bags of sails, new Johnson outboard, VHF, knotmeter, compass, RDF, battery charger, man-overboard pole, float cushions, ground tackle & recent survey. $21,950.

(415) 522-5900.

WANT REAL ESTATE — TRADE BOAT

COLUMBIA 34 CUSTOM CRUISING EQUIPMENT

We have 30 boats to trade for real estate, trust deeds, etc., anywhere.

New Power Boats; New Sail.

Dave, Royal Yachts, 865-1035.

And B.O.B. for liveaboard.

Will consider small boat trade.

Brkr JIM IRWIN, 883-9750.

DESOLATION SOUND CHARTERS Ideal location, low prices (Catalina 27's from $US 294 week), Exc. yachts (sail & power 25 to 38-ft.), Great Facilities, Personal Service, Visa & MasterCard. Gordon Greer Ltd., 201-1797 Comox Ave., Comox, B.C., Canada V9N 4A1. (604) 339-4914/339-7222.

Lon Woodrum 415/332-5970

MARINE CARPENTRY Woodrum Marino — Boat Builders —

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Now boat construction or major restoration specializing in interior & exterior alterations All phases of wood and glass repair.

— A-1 YACHT SERVICE —

THINK MEXICO THIS WINTER

Professional quality brightwork and painting, interior or exterior. Expert repairs and renovation on wood and fiberglass. Satisfaction guaranteed. Refs available. Serving the Bay Area.

Michael Heiner 868-1720.

Ever dreamed of running away to sea?

Fly to La Paz and board 73-ft sailing yacht Kialoa II for a vacation sailing the Sea of Cortez. Four to seven-day trips starting at $450. Sailaway Adventures (415) 486-1434.

-UFFSHUKE MEDICAL SEMINARSBy Dr. D.L. Hill, USCG Ship’s Surgeon, Calif. Maritime Faculty, former U.S. Navy Phys. Small classes, personalized training, will travel. 2 courses: Medicine Chest I & II, each comprising a weekend of lab & lectures, covering topics such as: Tropical Med., Nutrition, CPR, Emergency & Gen. Med., some dentistry, Minor Surgery, & equipping the Med. Chest. 801 East 2nd St., #102. Benicia. CA 94510. 17071 745-3785

WANT BOAT — TRADE REAL ESTATE Have several real estate parcels, trust deeds, etc. for your boat. Some are excellent ranches.

Karen, 865-1035.

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CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 28 Full keel, f/g hull, teak decks, mahog. interior, Volvo diesel, heat exchanger, press, h/c water, shower, stove w/oven, wheel steering, Sails: 100,130, drifter, new main, VHF, knot, depth, wind. $27,750 or plus cash in trade up to 38'.

(209) 634-8752.

KETTENBURG 40 — $25,000 Cheap, good cruising boat.

Derek, 485-6776.

FREE BOAT? 30-FT CHEOY LEE 1982 CATALINA 25 Fixed keel, tall rig, trailer, Evinrude 9.9, 3 jibs, spinnaker, Poptop, lines lead aft, knotlog, depth, compass, midnight blue hull, light blue & white topsides, extra goodies. This boat always a winner against other Catalina 25s in competition. Cruising vet; singlehanded from Seattle to north side of Vancouver Island and back, great boat! $15,900.

(707) 994-5869.

Highest bid opening at zero. Saturday, January 17, 1987. Slip B153, Alameda Marina at 2:00 p.m. Boat sold as is. December 1986 survey and boat shown then. Bring life jacket, rain coat and cashier’s check.

1987 CATALINA 22 USED? Trading up is why we’re selling so soon. This mini-yacht has established our love for sailing. Inch genoa, trailer, motor, compass & options. Epoxy bottom. Freshwater sailed. $14,000 new. $11,900/offer. Jeff (916) 989-0351 eves; 1-800 237-1419 days.

PEARSON 28

UNION 36

1975, well-loved and maintained, new interior cushions, 3 sails, jiffy reefing, sleeps 5, Lectra San head, Atomic 4, depth, knot, stove, VHF, compass, MOB pole, battery charger. $26,000.

Contact Bob Taylor at wk (415) 856-9400; hm (415) 538-7089.

SANTANA 22 Good boat, condition good. 3 jibs, all sailing line lead aft for singlehanding. Alameda berth. $4,500/B.0. Call Jerry before 1 p.m. (408) 251-6436; after 4 p.m. (415) 960-5212.

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TRIMBLE 300 LORAN Top of the line in Loran performance. Includes interfacing for autopilots, knotmeters, digital compasses and computers. Even an HP-IL option for connection to HP calculators! Extensive computation modes. For example, set and drift of current. A full function system Loran that can help you be more competitive.

Also a good system for Bay or Coastal cruisers. Only one year old. List price over $4,700. Must sell. $2,500 or offer Call (415) 593-7780 message.

Victress trimaran sailboat berthed Sacramento area. Will trade for later model van or ? plus cash. $15,000 value.

(805) 434-1693

Fast, cruise ready dbl-ender, ’84. Alum, spars, Signet 1000 & 1500, Hvy. worm gear steering, Autohelm 5000 AP, VHF, propane galley & heat, 2 anch., 3 banks batts/chrgr, barrier coated hull, Perkins 4.108. $77K or assume 9% loan. (415) 793-3121.

ERICSON 29 Beaut, cruiser. New LPU paint, bottom, wheel, ds, km, ws/wd, compass, am/fm, Delta cover, custom int. & ext. cushions, batt. chrgr, 110v, 12 hp Gray Marine, mid-boom sheeting, Seafurl 130,2 Danforths. Saus. berth. $25,000.388-7570 eves/wkends.

RARE OPPORTUNITY One-fifth interest in beautiful Yamaha ’33. Mint condition with many new extras. Great co-owners, all responsible and friendly.

Only $7,250. Call (415) 548-0524 and ask for Joe. Must see to believe.

ISLANDER 30 II Set up for Bay & Delta cruising. Includes radio, depth, knot, pedestal steering, 5 winches, dodger, 150, spinnaker plus working sails. Dinette interior, cockpit cushions & sun shade. Coyote Pt. berth. $23,500.

Eves. 948-6935; days 365-0412.

MALE CREW AVAILABLE — SAILING/RACING 1 have time and desire to get heavily involved in sailing. My experience is limited to skippering chartered Ericsons and Columbias over last three years.

(415) 331 -5640. .

36-FT STEEL SLOOP FREEDOM 45 GARDEN DESIGN Fiberglass hull, 101 hp Detroit diesel. Center cockpit, teak decks and interior, spacious aft stateroom, new rig & sails, new winches, all new electrical plumbing and force air heating system. Rigged perfectly for liveaboard or cruising in classic elegance and comfort.

This month only reduced to $120,000.

Full specs. Call (415) 332-6120.

German built, recently hauled. New engine, s.s. fuel tank, propane stove, many extras. Sacrifice at 16K. Santa Barbara slip available for 10K more. (805) 968-1571 eves; 964-3153.

30-FT PIVER NIMBLE TRIMARAN Must sell, going south on a larger trimaran. 3 sails, VHF, depthsounder, loran, autohelm, OMC inboard engine. $11,000.

(415) 589-1033

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CLASSIC 1929 WOODEN POWERBOAT FOR SALE

VOLVO DIESEL WANTED

In a legal liveaboard slip in Sausalito. 37-ft long. Comfortable.

Rosewood-oak interior. Large cabin. Runs. Must sell! $8,500.

Call Maria M. 435-3844.

Sailer on limited budget. 1 need a good used Volvo diesel model MD2 or MD2B. Will consider other quality small diesel over 20 hp with gearbox.

(415) 897-8209.

CORONADO 35 1974 sloop. Diesel, dodger, VHF, depthsounder, RDF, knotmeter, wheel steering, anchor roller, tabernacled rig, 4 sails. New upholstery, h/c pressure water w/shower. Excl. cond. Great liveaboard, cruiser. $45,000. (408) 429-9349; (916) 583-2017.

MOODY 34 1984 liveaboard & bluewater cruiser. Recently returned from South Pacific. English-built sloop equipped for bluewater cruising, includes Aries vane, electronic pilot, extensive ground tackle and more. Asking $61,500. Bill (408) 427-2233 eves/wkends; 438-6100 days.

WESTERLY NOMAD 22-FT LIVEABOARD CRUISER

WANTED: TRAILER

HUNTER 37-FT

In need of a trailer to pull a Cal 20.

Days: (415) 962-8165 Ray; Eves: (408) 255-5806.

Take over partnership payments. Small cash down plus $250 month includes all fees, insurance, slip at Tiburon. Great way to own and sail maintenance free!

(415) 531-1955.

Management potential.

Peninsula Canvas, (415) 368-7855.

New Zealand-built performance cruiser, 12,500-lb. Cold-molded kauri wood encased in epoxy saturated fiberglass. Custom 1969 37-ft sloop. Rod rigging, B&G gauges, tapered mast, vane, ap, Barients, etc. Mexico & HI vet. $44,500.

(805) 642-2254.

1973 Ericson 32 w/new rigging, pulpits, stantions, lifelines, interior, refrigeration, opening ports. An immaculate boat with many more improvements. $35,500.

(415) 368-7855.

MARINE SERVICES

— LICENSED NAVIGATOR Delivery — Crew — Outfitting Claes Olsson c/o 1614 Astoria St., Davis, CA 95616.

Phone: (916) 758-4660.

World-wide sailing experience. Written references available.

Twin-keel sloop. New: i.b. dsl, epoxy bottom, wiring, propane, stereo, icebox, cushions, potti, rigging, 15 gal. fuel/water, forward v-berth 78". 2 pilot berths 82". Pace VHF, 2 anchors, Autohelm, trailer. $12,900.

(415) 420-8978.

NZ 37

BRAND NEW EXPERIENCED CANVAS MAKER NEEDED

1978 CAPE DORY 27 Well-built. Quality through-out. Full keel cruising sloop designed

by Carl Alberg. Equipped for cruising. $28,500. Call for details.

(408) 973-1530 Mac.

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For the Highest Quality, Dependability and Lowest Prices In Marine, Automotive and Industrial Batteries Call San Rafael Welding Supply (415) 457-0550.

"Don't Leave Port Without It. Mail forwarding, Parts/Ships agent Messages and/or Bill Paying 945 Neal Ave., Wahiawa, HI 96786 (808) 621-9694

CELESTIAL NAVIGATION BOOK

CHARTER A PASSPORT 40 SAILBOAT

A step by step procedure for the complete idiot. With my $15 sextant and 27' sloop, 1 navigated my way from California to Hawaii — Hilo, LaHaina, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, Line IslandsPalmyra, Samoa-Apia, Fiji Isles, French Caledonia, Australia. So can you. Send $12.50 (credit cards OK) to K. Kenny, 13953 Panay Way “L”, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292.

Sail the San Juan Islands Fast, comfortable 40’ sloop, dinghy, full instrumentation, roller-furling headsail, 2 private staterooms, head w/shower, propane stove w/oven, refrigeration, VHF, stereo, and much more.

Call (206) 821-1208 for more information.

CRUISING CUISINE The perfect answer to those culinary problems afloat. Whether for a day or 50 days eat like a gourmet. For a sample meal that feeds 4 and is easy to prepare, send $5.95 to R. Sampson, 416 El Cerrito Ave., Piedmont, CA 94611. page 193

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RANGER 33 1974. 9 sails, 9 Barients. Spinnaker gear, VHF, km, windpoint, windspeed, depthsounders, stereo, CNG oven, wheel. New bottom paint, interior & mainsail. Atomic 4. Excl. fast, stiff S.F. Bay racer/cruiser w/Saus. berth. Must sell. $36,500/060.345-3001.

37-FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN West epoxy, teak hatches, oak interior, propane stove, Lewmar winches, Stalocks, stainless cutter rigged, 30# CQR, 30# Danforth. Edson steering, roller furling jib, genoa. Currently hauled out $39K. (916)726-2835.

STEAL MY BOAT Catalina 27, 1973. Great shape. 10 hp o.b. w/electric start.

Horizon knotmeter. Horizon depthssunder. 3 sails. Ground tackle, cockpit cushions, trad. int. New galley, batteries, wiring.

Marina Bay berth. Must sell. $11 .OOO/OBO. (408) 448-1853.

CATALINA 25 1984 swing keel. Well cared for beauty. Tall rig, like new main & jib. 7% Honda longshaft, 25 watt marine radio, Pop-top, traditional interior. 2 axle trailer, mint condition. Asking $15,900.

(916) 865-5577 days; (916) 865-3826 nights.

RANGER 29

Crescendo is a fast, cozy boat set up for living aboard and CAL 34 — S28.900 B.0 Buy or lease/option this 1968 sloop. She has furling headsail, Loran C, unifridge, auto-battery charger, VHF radio, am/fm cassette, 3-burner alcohol stove w/oven, Tillermaster, Atomic 4 engine, 110/12 volt system, plus much more. Sleeps 6. Will consider trades for down payment or for real estate.

Call Wayne at 485-5412 nights or 398-2465 days.

USED SAILS FOR SAIL .

Islander 32 155% genoa, seldom used as boat had roller furling installed 4 years ago and 155% was never altered for roller furling. Dimensions: 155% luff = 42.0; foot = 22.5; leech = 40.1; LP = 21.5; weight = 5.0 dacron. 155%: $650; jib bag: $25.

Call (415) 332-4104 days.

coastal cruising. Rigging, Atomic 4 and Lexan windows recently replaced. 6 sails inch full spinnaker gear & lots of electronics. $24,500. Chris, days (415) 723-7526; eves. (415) 367-7822.

86 CATALINA 22 — CAPRI 30 Must sell one of these superb yachts. Both well-equipped with trailers & motors. In like-new fresh water condition. Cat 22: $11,500/offer. Capri 30: $26,000/offer.

Lee (916) 891 -8736.

MOORE 24 Outrageous buy! Loaded & in excellent condition. Forward hatch, lifelines, speedo, am/fm, 9 bags, 5 new sails. Cash price $10,800. Call (415) 521-6171 ask for Bob; or call (209) 533-4030 ask for Jay. COLD, FOGGY NIGHTS Warm things up with a metal constructed wood-burning fireplace. Ceramic tile facing on this free-standing unit, stands 36” high, 18” deep, 16” wide, w/electric fan for air circulation. $300.

(415)459-7292. ..

GREAT LIVEABOARD/PRICE REDUCED For sale: 71 Columbia 39. Very roomy. Lots of headroom.

Rebuilt 30 hp Atomic runs great. Head w/shower, stove, oven, refrig., VHF, depthfinder, 10 sails, sleeps 7, clean. $45,000/make an offer.

(415) 487-8955.

31-FT TRIMARAN 1983 Brown Searunner Chartreuse. Custom built with the finest craftsmanship. Fully equipped. Heavy duty winches and rigging.

7 sails. 10 hp Honda. Includes cradle for haulouts. $42,000.

(415) 726-2282 eves.

HANS CHRISTIAN 38 — $81,000 Biggest bargain in Bay Area. Beautifully maintained yacht ready for cruising or liveaboard. Interior is custom designed. Good electronics.

Call (415) 879-0579 eves/weekends.

CRUISING KNARR #104 w/longer cab. Excl. cond. Real perform, boat-w/cruising int. Sleeps 4. 30’4"x7’x4’3”. Norway-bit ’59. Mahog. on oak.

Km, ds, 6 Barients, full cover. Head, spin., '83 mast, rigging, 7V2 hp Evinrude. Reduced to $11,500.

(415) 641-4421.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 30-FT 1980. Absolutely like new condition, custojn ihterior. Low hour Volvo diesel, wheel steering, self-tail winches, North sails, full instruments, hot/cold water, shower, many extras. August survey & bottom job. $27,900.

(415) 228-0946.

PEARSON ARIEL Imagine it’s a new year & you can own a classic Pearson! She’s loaded with a 6-sail inventory, VHF, depth/knotmeter, compass, self-steering, custom dodger, inflatable raft & much more.

Asking $13,500.

Call Jim at 435-6163 home.

CATALINA 27 — $9,250/TERMS VHF, km, am/fm cassette, CB, 6 sails, 6 winches, spinnaker gear, 15 hp Chrysler, interior & canvas 2 years old. New bottom/topsides paint. Adj. backstay, jiffy reefing, vang, MOB pole, PFD’s, dinette interior. Hurry!

(415) 726-5898.

YANKEE 30 BEAUTIFUL CONDITION The yacht lone, S&S designed f/g cruising-racing sloop, 5 year South Pacific veteran, fully cruise equipped. 9 bags sails, 5 anchors, Lewmar winches, 3 compasses, Avon inflatable, depthsounder, knotmeter. $33,000.

234-3399.

WASHINGTON 1915 46-FT WOOD Loran, VHF, CB, wood-Freeman, paper machine & flasher, sink, stove, 471. Good work boat or fish boat. $7,500.

(707) 552-2659.

CATALINA 27 Custom dodger, inboard diesel, excellent condition, Sausalito berth, main, 2 jibs (170%, 110%), VHF, alcohol stove, must sell.

332-7245.

J/29 — J/29 — J/29 Seriously for sale! Fully race equipped, 2 suits of sails, new bottom paint & refurbished standing rigging. Buy now, practice in the mid-winter series before the wind & prices go up in the spring. Best price around!

(415) 321 -4074.

EXPRESS 37 50% partnership for $30,000.

(415) 383-4390.

1983 NEWPORT 33 Perform, cruiser. Excl. cond. Lots of extra equipment w/Harken Roller furling, 95% & 130% jib, cruising spin., Signet windpoint & speed, Loran C, stereo, refig., dodger & much more. $43,900.

Priced to sell. Days (408) 423-4411; (408) 438-3778 eves.

1/4 LEASE OF MORGAN 38 Use only, no hassle, % interest in a great Bay boat. A solid bluewater cruiser makes an excellent weekender or daysailer.

Fully equipped & maintained. An alternative to the high cost of owning. Must be qualified. $250/month.

(415) 328-2408.

STEAL A CATALINA 36 1983 model in excellent condition. Larsen sails. Good ground tackle. Great cruiser or liveaboard. 60K/best offer.

(408) 429-8276 home; (408) 257-3840 message.

MOVING EAST — MUST SELL! 1 30-ft classic Herreshoff ketch. Mahogany hull & cabin. Very good condition. VHF, depthfinder, 6 sails, wooden dinghy & more. Will consider trailerable sailboat as partial payment. $14,500 or reasonable offer. (415)654-0556; (415)793-7477.

MUST SELL 1968 28-ft Columbia sloop. Good condition. Berthed in Bay Area, 1980 Honda 7.5 engine, VHF, Signet depthsounder, spinnaker sail. $16,000.

Call Lynn at (707) 778-8600 ext. 258.

MAST — PROPANE TANK — TV For sale: wood mast w/spreaders, steps & rigging. 32-ft 9-in.

5’/2”x4y4”: $650; Tank 2.5 gal Horiz w/gage: $60; TV AC/DC B & W Magnavox w/am-fm: $60.

Michael (415) 763-3804.

JIM BROWN SEARUNNER 25 Two boats is too many! So, for $6,500 you can own this professionally built trimaran. Cutter rigged with roller reefing and 5 sails, 2 anchors, kerosene 2-burner stove, 4 hp Johnson outboard.

Call Steve (415) 525-8962.

CLASSIC EL TORO All mahog., wood boom & mast, built in flotation, new sail, complete redo last spring. $700. Leave message (415) 825-2969.

CAL 2-27 MAIN Two seasons old, 2 reef points, flattener w/shelf. This sail is in excellent condition. $500. Leave message, (415) 825-2969.

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— JANUARY SPECIAL Energizing and Relaxing Sessions include light and deep bodywork, stretching and reposturing self-help techniques.

Also available, nutritional alkalizing consultation. With Jaya Haver, M.A., a massage therapist.

In Sausalito 331-3767

BOAT REPAIR AND BUILDING Wood GRP Cement Interior Remodeling Custom Woodworking Doors, hatches, drawers, moldings, plugs.

Painting. Varnishing.

Wood spar repair.

ALEXANDERS BOATWORKS (415) 368-1499

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NAUTICAL BOOKSTORE FOR SALE In Dana Point, CA. Six years in business. Located on main highway, 1/2-mile from Marina.

Priced at only $20,000 over net value of inventory. Will consider trade for proper cruising boat under 34 feet. (714) 661-3926.

YACHT DELIVERY Capt. Jim Demske

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(415)331-3828 SclUSclIitO Blvd.

Ssusalito, CA 94965 SinC6 1969 ®

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MARINE DIESEL ENGINE SEMINAR

The ultimate steel yacht designed by Ted Brewer.

Now available for demonstration.

KELLY MARINE (415) 620-0330.

Learn how to operate, maintain, and repair your diesel engine. Get hands-on experience adjusting valves, timing an engine, bleeding the fuel system, diagnosing problems and making repairs. Programs held on Saturdays. For more information, phone Technical Education Institute, (415) 233-3623. ' '

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135 HP BMW DIESEL 1983. Runs absolutely perfect.

(408) 737-7411; (408) 867-1593.

26-FT JAPAN BUILT THUNDERBIRD

NAUTOR SWAN 43 CATALINA 30 Well-maintained, Atomic 4, new rigging, mast & boom newly painted. 110,130,150 and 2 mains, VHF, depth, knot-log, windspeed, am/fm stereo, autopilot. $31,500. (415) 948-4567 eves and weekends or (415) 557-0878 days.

TRANSPAC RACERSI Sitex SatNav, used 1986 Vic-Maui only: $1,100; Sea 112 SSB plus coupler, 1980 & 1986 Vic-Maui: $1,250. Both in good working order. $2,200 for the pair. Call John Kelly at (206) 281-0871.

Nautor Swan 43 Nautor Swan 43 One of the best yachts afloat. Superb quality. Lots of equipment.

Mint condition. Very roomy and seaworthy. New boat price about $350,000 and worth every penny of it. This boat is an incredible bargain at $142,000/OBO. Why settle for a Westsail, Hans Christian, Norseman or Nordic when you could own the ultimate?

(415)527-5523.

BEST BUYI 1973 ISLANDER 44 Perkins dsl, Furuno radar & loran. 8-man Zodiac, autopilot, Crosby coldplate refrig., new halyards, blocks & traveler & more. $59,500.

(916) 453-1956 eves.

CATALINA 27 — $16,900 Best buy on Bay. Wheel, Atomic 4, windangle, windspeed, knot & depth meters, VHF, oversized winches, new mast, rigging & bronze thruhulls, 150, 130, 110, 90. Beautiful teak cabin. Too much to list.

Call 892-0445.

Incredibly stiff boat in excellent condition. Full boat cover protects brightwork. Honda 10 with alternator and new battery. 7 bags including genoa and spinnaker. New halyards and sheets.

VHF, CB and knotmeter. Good ground tackle and safety gear. Recent haulout and $6,200 appraisal. First $4,800 takes this readyto-go Bay boat.

331-9189.

17-FT SLOOP Sidney Co. fiberglass over ply. Very stable Bay boat. Recent repairs and new cockpit seats. Seagull outboard, good sails. May leave in Berkeley Marina. $650 or offer.

Ron, 540-6741.

BRISTOL 35.5 1982. Beautiful yacht with teak interior, sleeps 7. Professional maintenance. One owner. $57,500.

Days (415) 354-4154.

COLUMBIA 26 — MARK 1 Excellent condition. Sparkman/Stephens design. New BMW diesel. New electronics (radio, depthsounder, knotmeter). New windows. L.P. painted spars. Canvas covers. Sleeps 4. Head.

Stereo/cassette. Considering condition and equipment, this is a sacrifice at $10,000.

Joe (415) 949-1794.

1978 HUNTER 30 — SACRIFICE Too loaded to list. Must sell. Please make an offer. Moved out of state. Asking $24,000/B.0.

(415) 268-9289 & leave message.

SAILS 4 SALE

1978 NOR’SEA 27 AFT CABIN SLOOP

Like new, used 10X's. Fits Pearson Triton 30'. Mitchell Sails.

Main 30’8.5"x39’9.75”x11'9.5" (7.25oz): $1,150; jib 38' x 24'9.5" x 10'4.5” (7.25oz): $600; Genoa 26'11" x 27'6.75" x 18’3” (6.5oz): $700. All $1,960. (415) 459-6099 Richard.

Yanmar diesel, SatNav, full dodger, EPIRB, VHF, ADF, Signet 1000A, Autohelm, Monitor. Loaded! Easily singlehanded. Cruise ready. $37,950 or best offer.

Jim Sherman (805) 543-9416 or (805) 772-8085.

RANGER 23 SPOOK Full race equipped, built 1976. Fair hull with proven speed, 2 sets North sails. Evinrude 6 hp outboard. Immaculate condition.

Brickyard Cove berth.

376-1692 eves. & weekends.

MULL CUSTOM 27 Fast and fun. Current IOR certificate. Upgrades in Sept. ’85 include: Baltoplate bottom, LPU hull, deck and mast, Datamarine LX-360 wind inst. Yanmar 9 hp diesel. 13 bags sails including 2 spinnakers, blooper, Mylar 150 and 125 genoas. Includes scads of gear. Will discuss financing. $18,500/B.0. Call for info sheet and photos.

258-9527.

LONDON BUS 1961 original bristol English double-decker bus. Completely rebuilt diesel, fully licensed, clean & ready to go. Great for promotions, tour group or camper conversion. Asking $20,000 or trade for sailboat or equal value.

John 332-9231.

LIVEABOARD POWER BOAT 1963 custom-built 34’ flybridge cabin cruiser. Teak decks, Honduras mahogany hull, oak frames. Twin Palmer V-8 FWC engines. Loaded w/equipment inch pressure h/c water & shower. $12,500/highest cash offer.

332-9231, message.

BEAUTIFUL BAY AREA CLASSIC BEST BU Y OF ’87 Warm spring weekends at Angel Island. Exciting ocean sailing to Half Moon Bay. Sparkling cryst al clear lights of San Francisco across the evening water of the Bay. Year ’round sailing in the best area of the world. All th is with your own Ericson 30.

Universal diesel, extra headsai , wheel steering, VHF. Combi depth, knotmeter, windspread, AWI. Excellent, ready to enjoy, (415) 820-5109. condition. $47,500.

HUNTER 34 ’83. Comf. cruiser, good club racer, large galley & icebox, sleeps 7, am/fm stereo/tape, VHF, depth/knotlog, oversized ST winches, Martec headfoil, 150,110, 85, 2 spin. New Eliptical rudder, dsl, much more. Ready for Bay, Delta, Mexico. $52,000. 924-6014.

Nunes Big Bear 29-ft cutter rigged sloop. Built in '39. Cruise rigged. $17,500.

(408) 373-6245 leave mess, box 3748.

50-FT KETCH F/C $130,000 invested, $95,000 market value. Custom interior, SatNav, Loran C, VHF, etc. Freezer, refrig., diesel heater, Hawaii vet, 5 anchors, great cruiser & liveaboard. Open to offers, trade, can help finance, let's talk.

(415) 461 -8425.

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UNUSUAL HANS CHRISTIAN For sale by owner. 43’ 0.0. Mark II ketch, perf. keel, radar, loran, etc. Asking $130,000. Covers & dodger, spacious galley & salon, 2 dbl. staterooms, recent survey. Immac. cond.

(415) 332-2344 ext. 607 or 332-6319 eves.

STEEL SAILBOAT WANTED 38-40’ Aft cockpit only. Professionally-built only, 1978 or later. Must survey well. Please send specifications to Richard Lewis, 550 East Channel Rd, Santa Monica, 90402 or call (213) 454-3734 home; (213) 829-2929 work. Have cash for the right boat.

SINGLES SAILING Marina Sailing Society, a single sailing group in S.F. for years, but seeking new members, is f aving a get acquainted party at City Yacht Club on January 6 at 8 p.m., Pier 33 (correction from Pier 39 in last issue). A boat is not necessary for membership, but an active interest in sailing is. New skippers welcome, too.

For more information, contact C.K. Whitehurst at 110 6th Avenue #, S.F., CA 94118.

1974. Full keel fiberglass performance sloop. Swedish built with Volyo Penta diesel. 6 sails, knot, ds, VHF, compass, log, windpoint, RDF, 2 anchors, kerosene stove & lots more. $18,500 or best offer.

(415) 372-0610.

BEAR NO. 65 MAGIC Probably the finest racing or cruising 23-ft Bear. YRA Champion 4 times, 3rd in 86 Perpetual. Evinrude 6, knotmeter, Richie compass, Danforth, spinnaker, club jib, Alameda slip. Bristol, ready to race or cruise. Price reduced/offer.

(408) 377-5123.

MARITIME ATTORNEY DAVE’S DIVING SERVICE My team is offering special winter rates. For ,70V per foot we’ll clean your hull, prop, shaft and change your zincs. Don’t forget about your yacht this winter, call 331-3612.

CHARTER BUSINESS

& LOCATION — PIER 39 Slip A-1 (east side) at Pier 39. A 36-ft 50-year lease includes "sailboat rides", name, existing ads graphics and liquor license. Excellent access to walk-by traffic. Must sell, best offer.

John Tansley, (415) 282-6198.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM UPGRADES Installations, repairs and problem solving for all onboard systems: Electrical — Mechanical — Hydraulic DEAN A. CARMINE, U.S.C.G. Licensed Chief Engineer ROSE MARINE SERVICE (415) 435-3831 TIBURON,

CHARTERS — SAN JUAN ISLANDS & BEYOND Cruise the islands and Canadian waters, 7 nights, 6'/2 days. Catalina 27s $550; Irwin 30 $600, Catalina 30s $650; Hunter 33 $690; Mariner 36 ketch $830; Tayana 37 $890; Nordic 40s, CT-41 ketch $1,230; Nordic 44s $1,450. More. Spring/fall discounts. ’From S R or San Jose fly Alaska or P.S.A.’ Chuckanut Charters, P.O.B. 5361, Bellingham, WA 98227. (206) 733-2125 page 195

Resolving Warranty, purchase/sale charter, construction, repair, collision, injury and lien problems for over 21 years. Practical experience counts; Over 37 years of Bay/ocean racing and cruising! William E. Vaughan, Esq., 17 Embarcadero Cove, Oakland.

(415) 532-1786.

WORLD CLASS CRUISER 43’ custom C.B. design & construction. Asking $149,500 w/7-year circumnavigation just completed. Cruise Europe's canals w/tabernacle mast and shallow draft. Excellent gear & condition.

Call Dennis Greathouse, owner’s agent, in Seattle (206) 633-5521.

SAILBOAT DELIVERY With patience and love.

Low rates for a professional job with no owner liability and a guarantee. U.S.C.G. Ocean Operator and ASA Sailing Instructor. The longer the trip the lower the rate.

Capt. Greg Booth, San Francisco (415) 658-7303

% BOAT GRAPHICS WITH PERSONALITY! in pressure sensitive adhesive vinyl/mylar.

From the simplest to the most elaborate we do it your way!

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HAWAII: 1980 47-FT PERRY CUTTER Roller furl jib & main. SatNav and many extras.

Boat 99K; boat, slip & charter business $129K — offer.

(808) 329-2865.

PARTNER WANTED Hunter 33, Richmond, 1/4 share $4,000 down & $150/mo.

Will sell 1/2 share for only slightly more.

Weekdays (408) 737-0124; Weekends (916) 333-4211.

CREW WANTED Get the best of both! 78-ft Norwegian motoryacht that also carries 3 sails. Need crew for weekend s^iling/maint. No experience required, just fun & hard work. Especially need navigator, engineer, electronics wiz & sail expert. John 543-0301 eves.

SANTANA 22 — SALE/TRADE New spars, standing rigging, plexiglass. Lines aft, race rigged.

Laser or laser-type as part payment or $4,950 cash only.

(415) 467-2235

NOR’SEA 27 — BUENA VISTA Former demo boat, has always had TLC. 1976 aft cabin model, VHF, compass, ds, km, fm cassette stereo, wood heater, new stove/oven, diesel eng. A quality cruising boat. Was $34,900.

Reduced to sell now, $32,500.

(408) 779-2334.

83 MILLIMETER 12’ LOA miniature 12 Meter, white fiberglass hull, blue & white spinnaker, roller furling genoa. First $1,200. Also Club Nautique lifetime family membership. We pay transfer fee, you pay $1,200 and save a grand.

(408) 379-2238.

BRIGHT STAR 1935 Schock design 53' cutter. Currently being totally & professionally rebuilt to the highest standards. Classic yacht with efficient rig & new electronics. Act now have the interior built to your specs. $120,000.

(415) 233-5441, Jeff.

BELIEVE THIS! I'm a 4-boat owner with 3 fine cruising boats available. 1 must sell: trailerable Polaris Tripp designed f/g European seaworthy cruising cutter, 26’ LOD, 30’ LOA, extensive refit '84, new spars, rigging, interior, electrical, instruments, Imron paint, Honda 10 hp o.b., 4 sails, walk on bowsprit, $10,500/offer. 25 Nordic Folkboat, 1 owner, rarely raced, exc. cond., full cover, 5 hp o.b., $5,700/offer/financing. 26-ft Cheoy Lee f/g ocean worthy cruising Frisco Flyer, Yanmar diesel, 4 sails, teak decks & house, $12,995/B.O. Call Tim, message, (415) 331 -4535.

Serious inquiries only.

1980 S2 36-FT SLOOP Opportunity. That’s what you get when a partnership dissolves.

Our pride & joy Decadence, a yacht built in Holland, Mich., is for sale $59,900 Call John, days (415) 467-1242; Eves. (415) 924-2743.

CAL 25 — $4,500 Fast and roomy. Enclosed head, Honda outboard, new berth cushions. Needs some cosmetic work inside and out.

Paul, 540-7968.

TRADE O’DAY 28 FOR SAILBOAT IN TAMPA x1980 O’Day 28 sloop, good condition, diesel, on San Francisco Bay. Trade up/down for your sailboat in the Tampa, Florida area.

Call Carl at (813) 863-2583.

CAL 2-24 — $6,000 Very good condition, interior like new. Outboard, lifelines.

Paul, 540-7968.

REVISITING SHANGRI-LA Owner planning return to Samoa via Hawaii early 1987 on his 60-ft ketch. Desires compatible crew, male/female, with some cruising experience. Must have current Passport or birth certificate and return passage available. If interested, please contact Col. G.B. Little III, Ballena Isel Marina, Box 83, Alameda, CA 94501.

47-FT VAGABOND 1976 Wm. Garden design, prof, maintained, world cruise equipped, sleeps 8 comfortably, recent survey, ideal charter/timeshare. Reduced to $189,000.

(415) 232-7779.

48-FT 1921 CLASSIC MOTORYACHT Liveaboard. Cedar & oak construction. Twin Chrysler Royal 8 engines. 2 staterooms. Partially restored. New canvas work, paint. $17,000.

331 -4535.

HEAVY DUTY PROVEN CRUISER & LIVEABOARD Beautiful, well-maintained sloop with over 20,000 cruising miles under her keel & a home for 2 for 4 great years. $34,900. Also Monitor windvane with spare parts kit. $1,000.

Call (415) 236-7116.

3-BURNER CNG SYSTEM Complete system with oven, box, regulator and two full tanks.

What are you waiting for?

Offers.

(415) 331-6234.

CAMPER NICHOLSON 32 — ERINMORE Beautiful, seaworthy cruising yacht. 10 sails excellent condition.

B&G instruments, VHF, Ham radios, Loran, autopilot, vane, new raft and more. 54K. Contact Bob Warfield, days (415) 479-4740; evenings (415) 457-4901.

1/3 PARTNERSHIP IN CRUISING ERICSON 32 Excellent condition with new Yanmar diesel, new electronics and great interior. Low monthly payments. Berkeley berth.

(415) 548-0456 or 525-3572.

NAVIK WINDVANE Excellent condition. $650 or ? Trade ?

Also, trailer wanted for 17-ft sailboat.

461-5451 evenings & weekends.

PEARSON COMMANDER Great first boat. 25’, fiberglass, large cockpit. Will sleep 3-4.

Perfect Bay daysailer. Stiff, full keel design. Located in 30’ berth S.F. Marina Green. $7,500 or best offer.

(415) 454-6327 or (707) 996-7176.

TRAILER WANTED FOR CAL 25 Rent or temporary (3-month) swap preferred.

Sale or lease O.K. Call (805) 963-8020.

CAL 25 '66, good condition. 3 jibs, equipped for spinnaker, ds, 7.5 hp Johnson outboard almost new, head, sink, water tank, etc. Good performer, good Bay boat, well-equipped. (415) 851-7348 eves. $7,000/0BO.

CREW WANTED Sail from Puerto Vallarta to San Diego starting approximately on January 25 in fast, comfortable 45-ft cutter returning now from Europe. Non-seasick, experienced, good disposition crew preferred.

527-5523.

CAL 34 — $28,900 1969 Passepartout includes RVG windvane, Guppy sailing dinghy, am/fm cassette, battery charger, 4 headsails, sun cover, backstay adjuster, 110 and 12 volt lights, spare parts and more.

Call Bob at (415) 284-4124 days; (707) 644-6178 eves.

34-FT SEAFARER F/g Rhodes design. Wheel steering, h&c pressure water, shower, 3 very good sails, MSD diesel engine. $25,000/offer.

(415) 841-2673 evenings.

SAIL AN ERICSON 38 IN 1987 Without the worries of ownership, without the uncertainty of rental. Know and use this fine yacht as your own with a year's leased share for only $240/month! Call George (703) 528-6158 or Paul (415) 522-5080. _

CATALINA SAILAWAY PRICES

SAN JUAN IS. BED & BREAKFAST/CHARTER VESSEL FOR SALE

New '87 Catalina 25, trailer, motor, sails+. $17 995 CHICO SAILING CENTER 1-800-237-1419

Exclusive business rights in beautiful harbor. Unique opportunity to live and work aboard.

60-ft ketch with established clientele, world-wide publicity.

Sue Abbott, Windworks, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. (206) 378-2393.

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New '87 Catalina 22, trailer, motor, sails+. $8,995 CHICO SAILING CENTER 1-800-237-1419

1975 cutter with classic lines. Equipment includes roller furling jib, main, 44 hp diesel, shower, Hi-Seas diesel heater, Hillerange w/oven. Ready for cruising or liveaboard. Asking $75,000.

Ask for Gale at Stockdale Marina (916) 332-0776.

NEW MACGREGOR CRZ MODEL — FAST & FUN Refrigeration and extras. Now available for immediate delivery. $97,500 base price.

(415) 523-9292; (808) 329-2865.

HUNTER 27 1977 sloop, fixed keel, diesel inboard. Very well equipped with jib, main, genoa. Force 10 heater, VHF, RDF, and 1981 trailer. Asking $19,500.

Ask for Gale at Stockdale Marine (916) 332-0776.

WINTER HAULOUT SPECIAL Grayson Marine is offering reduced labor rates on haulouts. Most 30-footers only $198.00.

Also includes polishing and waxing of topsides and delivery to yard. Expert dockside repairs and restorations since 1971. Fiberglass and gel coat specialists. Call (415) 892-4805. ____

WOOD VARNISHED OR OILED Detailing. Hulls and Decks Compounded and Waxed.

(Remember me at Haulout Time) Washdowns. Upkeep programs tailored to your needs.

(1 cover the entire Bay Area.) AUDRE BEAUCHAMP (408) 736-1637 • Painting & Refinishing jfjg JOURNEYMEN * Prop and Shaft Work • Gel Coat/Blister Repair . complete Mobile shop • # Mechanical Repairs • Fiberglass Repair The comprehensive yacht * Interior Design & Fabrication service at a substantial savings & Repair • Marine Wiring (415) 461-5487 • Maintenance Contracts

— MAZATLAN YACHT CLUB — Needs 30' to 45' sailboats for our charter lease-back program. No bareboat leasing. Skippered daysails only. 100% insured. Professional yachtsman advisors. We’ll take good care of your vessel & earn you some cash! Call David Kindoff, (707) 462-0555 or write to 1001 Bridgeway #560, Sausalito, CA. page 196

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1985. Twin Cat diesels, immaculate. Loaded w/quality equipment. ready for world cruising in comfort. Asking $575,000.

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Generator, refrigeration, aft stateroom w/dbl bed, inside & cockpit controls, fin keel w/skeg rudder, Isomat spars, Lewmar winches, Nicro Fico/Sc'haefer deck hardware, PAR water system, Bomar hatches & more! $138,500.

32’ CHRIS CONNIE. 1965. Com¬ 35’ ELCO. Large, beamy and pletely refinished and refur¬ great liveaboard. Fresh bished. Engines just rebuilt. engines. Asking $22,500.

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1972. Two large staterooms, fully equipped liveaboard.

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47’ Gulfstar Sailmaster Sloop, generator, radar, many extras. Ask for Sandy 1981 O’Day 28 sloop, our trade, diesel, very roomy and clean. Reduced to $28,500 or B/O 1981 Crealock Excalibur 42 flush deck sloop, Volvo Saildrive, Airex construction, lead keel, hi-performance.

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Berkeley berth. Asking $9,500.

39’ HANS CHRISTIAN CUTTER, 1981. A bristol cruise-equipped liveaboard with all the creative-comforts. Asking $119,000.

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SELECT LISTINGS ★ 24’MOORE sloop. (5) sails, Evinrude aux, Trailrite trlr, electronics.

Very fast for lake, river. Bay! Super clean, little used.

See this one!

Reduced to 17,500 ★ 25’ CORONADO ’66. (4) sails incld’g 2 new ones, 6 hp aux Try 6,950 ★ 25’ERICSON+ ’79. 15 hp Volvo diesel, electronics, super clean, attractive interior.

Try 19,900 ★ 25’PACIFIC SEACRAFT sloop, ’77. Diesel auxiliary, electronics plus other equipment.

Make Offer ★ 27’CATALINA ’75 sloop. (5) sails, Atomic 4, owner anxious.

Try 12,500 ★ 27’CAL MARK III ’83 sloop. Need to move this one! Beautiful spacious interior, Yanmar dsl aux, shower, water heater, pressure water, loaded w/equipment. See this one! Reduced from $34,500 to 26,900 ★ 28’O’DAY sip, ’81. Very roomy & clean. Good headroom! Diesel auxiliary, good equipment.

31,500 ★ 28’ISLANDER ’76, Volvo dsl, Perry dsgn, well-equipped.Make Offer ★ 28’SEAFARER sloop. Rhodes design, (5) sails, outboard auxMake Offer ★ 30’CAL sloop, ’64. Repowered Yanmar diesel, (5) sails including spin, full electronics. Strong boat.

Try 21,500 ★ 30’HUNTER, 1983 sloop, wheel steering, 15 hp Yanmar dsl, shower, pres, wtr, refrig., electronics. Nice condition.

Only 29,500 ★ 32‘DREADNAUGHT cutter, ’78. An honest cruising offshore dblender — go anywhere! Diesel aux, owner anxious.

Try 42,500 ★ 33’RANGER ’78. Dsl aux, (5) sails, electronics, lots of other equipment. Clean and well kept. (We have two of these — 42,000 one is gas po wered — one dieselpo wered.)

Asking (gas) 39,800 33’PEARSON VANGUARD sloop. (4) sails including spinnaker.

Atomic 4 aux, excellent cruising boat.

Try 29,500 35’ ERICSON ’70, sloop. (3) sails. Atomic 4 aux.

Try 37,500 ★ 37’TAYANA ’79 Mkl cutter. Full electronics including a.p. Set up for liveaboard. Diesel aux.

Reduced to 67,500 ★ 37’TAYANA ’82 Mkl. Full electronics, one owner, bristol condition.

Yanmar 33 hp diesel. Owner anxious.

69,500 ★ 37’TAYANA ’84 Mkll cutter, Perry design, full keel, just like new!

Seperate shower, refrig, electronics, S.T. winches, go anywhere!

Alum, spars, Yanmar 33 hp aux.

Reduced to 79,500 ★ 37’TAYANA 1985 ketch. Has all the right equipment for cruising and liveaboard. See for yourself!

82,000 if 40’LOWMAN ’46 M/S sloop. (3) sails incld’g spinnaker, new BMW 50 hp aux. Nice condition, good liveaboard.

Try 55,000 ★ 42’TAYANA ’85 center cockpit cutter. Perkins 49 hp aux. Hood roller furling jib & stays’l, dodger, windless, electronics, teak interior.

Great cruising boat. Like new!

Only 128,000 ★ 48’MARINER ketch, ’80, Perkins 75 hp aux, full electr, super spacious liveaboard! See this one!

Make Offer ★ 55’TAYANA cutter, ’86. Like new! State-of-the-art customization.1 Discontinuous rod rigging, bow thruster, hyd. vang/backstays, windscreen, upgraded S.T. winches, reverse cycle air conditioning, freezer & refrig, B&G electronics. Sleek and fast!

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303 PEARSON_59,000 34’ ALNILAM_ 105,000 35’SANTANA *..55,000 10.7 COLUMBIA... 49,000 36'ISLANDER '74.47,500 36’ISLANDER '77.60,000 36’ WRIGHT allied.65,000 37’ EXPRESS * . .125,000 37’ BALTIC. 122,000 38' CATALINA .... 80,000 38' H.C.95,000 39’ H.C. p.h.139,000 41' PERRY. 105,000 41' ERICSON * (2).54,900 43' SWAN. 142,000 43' CHEOY LEE. .149,500

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44’ LAFITTE ’80. Cutter rigged sloop. Extremely well-equipt and well rigged luxurious cruiser w/many custom features. 175,000.

41’ RHODES BOUNTY ’60. Pacific vet ready to cruise anywhere. $54,000.

40’ CAL. Good equipment, needs new engine. $38,900.

37’ SOVEREL ’72. Super cruis’g sip. Dsl, vane, SSB, Loran + more. Inquire.

36’ ISLANDER ’74. Wheel, Signet electronics, clean. Great Price!

36’ YAMAHA ’81. (7) sails, hydraulics, whl, electronics. Clean. Inquire.

36’ OKOMOTO kch ’56. Mahog on oak, bronze fastened, recent refit. $29,500.

36’ PEARSON 365 ’76. Well maintained ketch w/lots of extras. $62,500.

35’ MARINER ketch ’66. Mahog on oak, Perkins dsl, recent work $35,000.

34’ COLUMBIA MKH ’73. Very clean, Irg interior, S.F. Marina slip. $37,500.

33’ MORGAN ’68. Recent refit, new diesel and sails. Inquire.

33’ NOR’WEST. Strongly built, fast. Burns design with nice interior, diesel, wheel. Rover dinghy and more. Ideal world cruiser. $49,950.

32’ CRUISING SLOOP ’72. Superbly built NZ kauri. Must see! $35,000.

31’ CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE ’67. Clean ketch. Good gear, hard dink. $24,000.

30’ CORONADO ’72. Roomy boat w/extras. Owner will sell all/part. INQUIRE. 30’ IRWIN CITATION ’80. Diesel, refrigeration, roomy. $35,500.

30’ YANKEE ’71. S&S design. 9 winches, 6 sails, L.P. hull. $25,000.

30’ ISLANDER MKII ’71. Call for a great price!

30’ NEWPORT MK11 ’77. TillerMaster, race rigged, nice! $31,000.

27’ ERICSON ’74. Clean with possible S.F. marina berth. Inquire.

27’ NEWPORT 27S ’77. Very clean. Depth, VHF, 6 sails, dsl + more. $15,500.

27’ CATALINA ’71. All new rig. Clean. Evinrude 6 hp. $16,500.

27’ SANTANA ’67. O.B., 6 sails, autopilot, etc. Honda. Good deal.

27’ VEGA ’73. Clean pocket cruiser w/dsl, dodger, cabin heater, etc. Inquire.

27’ SAl^TA CRUZ ’75. Well equipped ultralight. Fast! Inquire.

26’ CHRYSLER ’78. Large trailerable boat with o.b. $10,950.

25’ CAL 2-25 ’77. Buy this boat! Inquire.

24’ NIGHTENGALE ’74. Great well-equipped little racer/cruiser. CHEAP. 22’ WESTERLY CIRRUS ’72. British pocket cruiser. Yanmar dsl. Call.

20-26 FIBERGLASS SLOOPS. 1 have a number of boats in this size range.

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PRECISION CUSTOM INTERIOR FULL WORKSHOP PIANO 8 1/2 FT SAILING DINGHY HYSEAS 55 VHF FORUNO LORAN C SELF STEERING VANE SIGNET DEPTH,SPEED,LOG ONAN GENERATOR JABSCO BRONZE 90 GPM NAKAMICHI STEREO SYSTEM DICKENSON ARCTIC HEATER AUTOPILOT TEN BAGS SAILS NEW DODGER & BIMINI SOLAR PANELS 60 LB AXTON PLOW 45 LB DANFORTH 300 FT BBB CHAIN PAGES OF EQUIPMENT & SPARES

ASKING $110,000 (415) 530-4456 (415) 521 -5303

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SELLERS: If you own any well-built boat in good condition & want an honest and capable person to represent you during the problems of negotiation, financing, sea trial, survey, title transfer, insurance, property tax proration & the inevitable Snafu, please call & list your boat.

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SAUSALITO. CA Size Manufacturer

Year

Description / Comments

Value

High Bid 7,150

POWERBOATS '85

open bow, 302 0MC, trlr, more,

sold 8,700

18' Bayliner

'83

open bow, 140 Merc, trlr, more

9,000

5,150

18' Seaswirl

'83

open bow, 120 Merc, trlr, more

9,000

3,500

19' Ebko

'84

cuddy, 185 V6 Merc, trlr, more

12,500

7,500

19' Melhart Success

'86

open, 185 V6 Merc, trlr, more

18,000

10,300

34' Wellcraft

'85

96,000

60,000

16' Reinell

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loaded with goodies!! Brown/gold Gran Sport, twin 340 Merc

125,000

custom sportfisher w/flybridge

55' Rose Brothers

SAILBOATS 7,000

'77

3 sails, 7.5 Evinrude, VHF, more sold 12,000

'80

5 sails, speedo, head

12,000

7,000

28' Newport Mkll sold'83

2 soils, 15 Univ dsl, speedo, sold

35,000

22,000

30' U.S. Yachts

'82

Main, 13 Volvo diesel, wheel

32,500

18,000

32' Aries

sold

74

traditional cruiser

38,000

24,000

33' Ranger

sold

24' C&C

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25' Santana

74

3 soils, Atomic 4, stereo

33,000

21,900

39' Soverel cstm

'80

I0R race machine!

65,000

20,000

40' Choate

'82

13 sails, 44 Path diesel.

65,000

47,000

76

4 sails, 100 Oirys diesel

99,000

65,000

sold

41' Islander Freeport

sold

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. $7,000.00 Cape Dory Typhoon. 1980 . . .

Santana.2 available. '69, ’79. . frm . . . 5,000.00 1972 . . . . 10,500.00 Ranger.

Columbia MKII.2 available. '70, ’71. . frm . . 12,500.00 Catalina.2 available. ’71,78 .. frm . . 16,500.00 . 22,000.00 Vega Sloop. 1972 . . .

1968 . . . . 12,500.00 Santana. . 27,900.00 Cal 2-29..

1975 ...

1972 .. . frm . , 30,000.00 Offshore 31 Ketch .

2 available ..

1971 ,30,000.00 Mariner 31 Ketch Center Cockpit Ketch.. 1932 , 19,000.00 Traveller ..

2 available . .

'77/79.. frm . , 49,500.00 Islander .30,000.00 1975...

Cal 34. ...

2 available. '60/69.. fftYi V (32,000.00 Islander,, ,...... ,, 1976... '/ *■ 4 l 51,000.00 1980... 11§ 105,000.00 Frey3 0. ., Hinckley Bermuda 40 Yawl... * 97,500.00 1963...

1984... m W. 125,000.00 Farr 40 “SAGACIOUS”. ........ .

Cheoy Lee Midshipman Ketch.

1975 . . 84,000.00 King’s Legend Cruiser.. .......

119,000.00 North Sea Pilot Cutter M3,.,„ r 1973 . . . . 95,000.00 Freeport Islander. ... 2 available . ’76/77. . frm . 108,000.00 Pearson 424 Ketch.

1980 . . .

125,000.00 Garden Porpoise Ketch..

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145,000.00 STEEL Custom Cutter.

1983 . . .

240,000.00 Hallberg P-28.

1958 . . . . 9,000.00 Tumlare Sloop. fifiP* 1948 . . . . 29,000.00 Garden Aux. Cruising Cutter.

1979 . . .

55,000.00 Cheoy Lee ‘‘Lion’’ Sloop.

1956 . . . . 38,000.00 Sparkman&Stephens Aux. Yawl.

1960 . . . . 57,000.00 Kettenburg K-40.

1964 . . .

29,000.00 Concordia Yawl.

1957. . . . 75,000.00 Classic Cabin Cruiser. s1948 . . .

12,000.00 Chris Craft Sedan.

29,000.00 Hunter Sedan Cruiser.

1954 . .. . 17,000.00 Hunter Express Cruiser.

1960 . . . . 38,000.00

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“SHIP OF HOYS” NORSEMAN 447 MID-COCKPIT Designed by Robert Perry

LOA .44'7" DWL.37'6" BEAM. 13'0" DISP. 28,000 lbs.

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SISTERSHIP

This luxurious live-aboard yacht effortlessly combines speed, handling ease, and overall performance in a superbly coordinated blue water passage maker. Extremely stable yet very responsive, this 447 has been equipped with Hood seafurl for the Mainsail, Staysail and Jib providing a powerful sail plan that can be sailed by two. A partial equipment list includes: Autopilot, Loran, Charger, Dodger, Self Tailing Winches, Microwave, Refrigeration, Windlass. You can see no expense was spared to make her just right. A quality yacht, very well priced.$210,000 For additional information contact Ed Milano at 523-7474.

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56’ GARDEN Ketch. Traditional world cruiser loaded with gear. Perkins 4-236 diesel with 1,200 mile range. Impressive construction. A good value at $87,000.

37’ BANJER Motorsailer. Perkins 4-236 diesel 200 hrs, DS, RDF, AP, tanbark sails. Good liveaboard, excellent condition. Asking $67,000.

25’ CUSTOM HUNTER. 1978, VHF, DS, AP, furling jib, forced-air heating. Galvanized trailer with extension tongue. All in excellent condition. $16,400.

30’ MODIFIED H-28 ketch double planked. Yanmar diesel ’85, VHF, DS/KM, RDF, AP, full cover. Excellent condition. Try $25,000.

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22’ FALMOUTH Cutter. 1981, famous Lyle Hess designed pocket cruiser. Needs interior finished, but ready to sail. Must sell. $19,000 or

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32’ MARINER F/G Ketch. Famous Herreshoff design. Perkins dsl, VHF, DS. Strong ocean cruiser. Asking $29,000.

32’ ATKINS/COLIN ARCHER gaff ketch. IV4” cedar on oak. Sabb diesel. Constructed under Lloyds supervision. Excellent condition.

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VHF, KM, 2 sets sails. 5’ 11 ” headroom. Great deal! $4,500.

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1986

BOAT OF THE YEAR THE EXPRESS 34 The EXPRESS 34 has been selected by Sailing World* magazine’s prestigeous panel of judges as 1986 Boat Of The Year.

THE FIELD: The title is meaningful. This years’ nominees included such first rate competition as the Hinckley 41 and the Sabre 42.

THE BOTTOM LINE: The Sailing World judges confirmed to the rest of the “sailing world” what Express owners have long known. For the attributes that make a truly outstanding yacht: Versatility, effortless speed, ease of handling, engineering and aesthetic elegance, superb construction and first class outfitting You can’t heat the Express!

THE TOUGHEST JUDGES: The Express 34 will be on display at the Moscone Center Boat Show, January 3-11. If you are looking for a boat to daysail, cruise, race — or better yet — a little of each, come make the Express 34 your boat of the year.

ONE-DESIGN FLEET PACKAGE: Just as with the Express 37, we are offering a five boat one-design fleet package during the show. Along with the dramatic savings in this five boat package, you have the full support of the CorlettBlasier team to make the 34 one-design fleet the same great success as the 37. 'formerly Yacht Racing & Cruising

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mmm VALIANT 32. Bob Perry design.

Sturdy cruising boat used very little. In excellent condition, recent epoxy bottom job, seller will consider a smaller boat on trade or property. Asking $62,500.

NORDIC 40. Bob Perry design.

Considered the “Ultimate Performance Cruiser”; Loran, furling system, Navtec hydraulics, full instruments, prime San Francisco berth included. Asking only $140,000.

FREYA 39. Veteran of Hawaii & Pacific Northwest cruises; windvane, windlass, autopilot, dinghy, dodger. Incredible buy at $79,500 makes this the best buy on the We^t Coast. Don’t let this one getaway! sistership

SWAN 431. Excellent condition & very well equipped with B&G, 10 sails, dodger, centra! heat, SSB, Loran, etc. This boat is ready to go & well priced at only $159,000.

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GRAND BANKS 42. 1978 model.

Bristol throughout, radar, autopilot, wetbar/icemaker, microwave; absolutely the cleanest and best equipped 42 on the market. Asking only $158,500.

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WESTSAIL 42. Well equipped for long distance cruising; central heat, windlass, furling system, holding plate refrigeration, autopilot, the list goes on! 60-ft S.F. berth included. At only $105,000 it won’t last!

FARR 43 ‘EQUITY’. Hottest IOR boat around! She cleaned up at Kenwood Cup, now it’s your turn.

Ockam system w/computer, SatNav, SSB, full kevlar sail inventory. Available at our docks for inspection. Only $220,00.

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