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subscriptions 19 calendar 31 letters 39 loose lips 93 sightings 102 master mariners 124 love the boat you're with 130 early berm 132 sailor of the decode 136 cruising with kids 144 val.lejo blow out 150 boot names 154 ontigua soiling week 158 max ebb 166 the racing sheet 170 changes in latitudes 182 classy classifieds 194 advertiser's index 205 brokerage 206 i

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A Developing a fast and responsive rk hull design and incorporating all the deck and interior features so desirable to the cruising sailor, Beneteau has created the FIRST 305, a boat developed on the oceans of the world and produced in the USA. BeneteaU, because the sea demands the best. LOA - 30'5" LWL - 26'9" Beam - 10' 7" Displacement - 8,157 lbs. approx. Ballast - 2,954 lbs. approx. Draft: Deep keel - 5'9" Short keel - 4'6"

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Beneteau, because the sea demands the best. Draft - deep draft - 7'1" - shoal draft - 5'7" Ballast - 7,694 lbs. approx.

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GULFSTAR 43. Big main & walk-in aft cabin. Off¬ shore equipment and history. 5 K bottom treatment in ’87. $89,500

CHALLENGER 32. Strong liveaboard/cruise. Full dodge w/rain collector, Avon, wind generator, big main cabin and big, big, diesel overpower. $36,500

■ COLUMBIA KETTENBURG 32. Quick and solid Columbia hull design with beautiful teak Kettenburg interior. Diesel, pressure water, performance in¬ struments and motivated seller. $34,900

HUNTER 33. Has been a well kept liveaboard. Stereo & TV, speed & depth. Yanmar diesel, Sutter 110, 150 & main. $39,500

BREWER 45. Step inside. Music plays softly as light from the fireplace flickers off the antique lamps. Repair to the master stateroom and hang your coat in the walk-in closet. Make yourself at home. $99,500

PACIFIC 38. The photo says it all. Cruise this boat south. Fine New Zealand construction. Cruising gear includes windvane, autopilot, liferaft, SSB radio, 200 gallons water. Asking $79,500

DANA 24. Virtually new yacht equipped by & for a dealer with first rate gear. Very low demo miles on top notch Pac. Seacraft quality. $49,500

BAHAMA 25 CUSTOM. Swan-like deck and interior by a Santa Cruz craftsman who sailed this amazing little yacht throughout the S. Pac. & back.

FREEDOM 21. As a way to sail the bay for pure fun and thrill with least hassle, these are it. 2 From $13,900

MORGAN 32. Give your family the vacation they deserve. This boat is an ideal family cruiser. Go to the Delta. All safety gear. Instrumentation, VHF, diesel, wheel. $49,500

FREEDOM 25. Slightly bigger, faster version of the 21 with the same easy handling features and weekender cabin. $21,900

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NORSEMAN 400 HIGH PERFORMANCE CRUISER

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LETTERS staid readers — we liked the pictures in the April issue — we would like to point out that religion was not all that triggered Spanish names. Three of the more famous rocks in Mexico are called Tetas de Cabra; they overlook Bahia de San Carlos. We would also like to suggest that rather than fighting your way around Pt. Arena, drop the hook in our cove and come ashore via our new pier which has a boat hoist and dinghy dock. You’ll like what you find in our area, and it isn’t always foggy. Hal and Nancy Cohn Barro de Arena Alta California Hal and Nancy — You jumped the gun, we hadn’t gotten that far back in the alphabet yet. In a similar vein, what about the phallic shaped island just outside Aqua Verde? They couldn’t print the real name on the charts.

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I have no qualms about your water balloon battles. However, 1 do object to your unprovoked attacks upon noncombatant vessels, my own included. What is necessary in this situation are two simple Rules of Engagement: Rule 1. Surprise attacks are permitted only upon vessels which have previously been observed in action or armed. Rule 2. A threatening move which produces a non-threatening response e.g., empty hands up, requires the aggressor to seek another target. My responses this year to such unprovoked attacks was to fire a 12 gauge white flare over the offending vessel. In all instances the balloon throwing ceased without my having to take proper aim. The fact that these rodents were dispersed with such a minor show of force made my day. Flint Westwood Sausalito F. W. — As you noted in your cover letter, the proposed legislation to punish water balloon chuckers is ridiculous, as nobody will be around to catch anybody and intent will be impossible to prove. Self-regulation — as you also suggested — is the best solution. So please, everyone — no water balloon attacks on vessels that want no part of it.

□ IN DEFENSE OF THE PARDEVS At the outset, my husband and I would like to congratulate you on the advent of the new Latitude 34 magazine. We’ve enjoyed Latitude 38 for years and welcome this new edition. We felt compelled to respond to Andy Kerr’s article in the May issue titled The Siren Son of the Pardeys. We stress, however, that we are replying to Mr. Kerr’s criticisms of the Pardeys on the basis of how we interpret their writings and apologize to them if we have misperceived their words. Mr. Kerr states that the Pardeys’ message is that the “only proper way to cruise is in a small wooden boat without an engine, head, electric lights, or electronic equipment .'. . those who depart from that criteria are viewed with condescension if not contempt.” Respectfully, we feel that Mr. Kerr has missed the entire point of the Pardeys’ cruising philosophy. We feel that the Pardeys would simply like to portray the cruising lifestyle as available to many “everyday” sailors, and remove it from the perceived realm of the independently wealthy. As we understand their writings, cruising need not be a dream delayed until later in life, page 41

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LETTERS but may be enjoyed by sailors of any age who do not necessarily have pension plans and/or thousands of dollars in the bank. There is a strong ideological belief that they propound — that Robert and 1 agree with — that is akin to campers or nature lovers who have been moved by the urge to remove themselves to the mountains, deserts or similar isolated locales to learn the true meaning of independent survival. Persons acting on this belief do not enter wilderness areas in 30-foot mobile homes replete with stereos, TVs, and Cuisinarts. Again, it’s a difference in philosophy. Mr. Kerr also states that Larry Pardey points out the “eighty per¬ cent of the readers of American yachting magazines own boats of under 28 feet, and so identify with the Pardeys. The implication is (sic) that these readers should not hesitate to go cruising in those or comparable boats.” The Pardeys are advocates of common sense, not foolish, im¬ pulsive behavior. They are not saying that any small, weekend sailing boat is appropriate for a circumnavigation. And while some potential cruisers may, as Mr. Kerr believes, find conditions on a boat under thirty feet to be “too cramped and uncomfortable for permanent liv¬ ing aboard”, those may be the same persons apt to call a week in a fully outfitted mobile home “camping” — those not able (or willing) to forego the luxuries of modern living in favor of the satisfaction of experiencing true survival and communion with nature on it§ own terms. On to the issue of wooden boats. Mr. Kerr says that he would rather have a wooden boat were it not for three problems: worms, leaks and rot. Worms can be prevented by coating the bottom with creosote. Dryrot and leaks and both be alleviated by a properly designed and ventilated boat. Granted, not all older wooden boats were built this painstakingly and the potential boat owner may indeed have to invest considerable time and energy shopping for the proper wooden cruiser. But since this boat presumably would be one’s home, one would hope that this requisite effort would be expended. Wooden boats have been around for hundreds of years and are still afloat. Just as fiberglass boats have their “ pox”, so do boats made of other materials. They can all be dealt with effectively with foresight and planning. Now, for engines. As we understand the Pardeys’ writings, engines are not so much disdained for their presence and use on sailboats as for their resulting expense. They can leave one tied to a harbor awaiting repairs, hardly a self-sufficient route to go. Mr. Kerr does agree that all cruising sailors should be prepared to handle their boats as if they had no engine. However, the reality of the situation often is that many sailboat owners with engines use them and not their sails to enter and exit slips and marinas, and to anchor and moor. Again, the prepared cruiser must actually sail in those and other situations the majority of the time to be ready for that occasion when the engine does fail. And it will. More important, however, may be the intrinsic satisfaction and validation one receives when relying on their own sailing abilities and not an engine. Now that’s true freedom! Mr. Kerr states also that “not everyone has the temperament to bob about in the doldrums for days or even weeks when they realize that with an engine they could power on through and get on with their cruise”. Gee, and all this time we’ve been thinking that the trip was in the travelling! Regarding modern devices such as SatNav, furling headsails, and self-tailing winches: Mr. Kerr says that a fair reading of the Pardeys’ writings compels the conclusion that their message (to forego such items) is not primarily economical. Respectfully, sir, perhaps a re¬ reading of their writing would be in order. Pardeys advocate simpli¬ city for both economic and philosophic reasons. Not only would the page 43

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LETTERS acquisition of these items result in delay in entering the cruising lifestyle (if not the elimination of it entirely due to costly upkeep), they preclude the paramount element of self-sufficiency and reliance on oneself that is crucial to survival. As for the benefits of a “proper” marine head vs. a bucket emptied over the side: the fewer the number of below-water thru-hulls, the better. We just had bur “proper” marine head removed, thru-hulls glassed over, and Robert built an attractive contraption that not only tastefully holds a bucket (which we scrupulously keep clean) but which has added much more storage space. We couldn’t be happier — that “proper” marine head was a pain! Regarding electric lights: I, too, greatly enjoy reading in our bunk at night. I guess I just prefer the soft but more than adequate glow of the oil lamp over the bright, antiseptic glare of electric lights. This is not to mention the other, more romantic purpose our bunk is used for. Call me crazy, but I don’t like ‘doing it’ under a spotlight. Modern technology is a touchy area. People abound who will argue that progress is an inherently beneficial thing. We have a dif¬ ficult time subscribing to the school of thought. Progress as we see it today is evidenced by pollution, psychic trauma, and mass ecological and environmental damage — all in the name of “quality of life”. This, we believe, is just another label for avoiding responsibility for oneself and one’s actions. The cruising lifestyle should not be relegated to the wealthy in floating hotel suites who are not able or in¬ clined to put forth the effort to survive- on the seas. Cruising can be for anyone who has a strong adventurous spirit, common sense, and a willingness to rely on one’s own self rather than on extrinsic and unnecessary devices. If people have the money to cruise in Farr 55’s with a washer, dryer and microwave oven, then the more power to them. May their sailing days be long and their electricity never fail. But for Mr. Kerr to criticize those of us who eschew such and other “modern” devices in favor of a self-reliant form of lifestyle, and to call cruising under simple methods and means “a blueprint for disaster” is unfair. The Pardeys do not encourage would-be cruisers to un¬ critically accept their ideas — on the contrary, they strongly push people to gain as comprehensive experience and knowledge possible and draw their own conclusions as to what works best. They simply stress that cruising can be and is available to not only the monied rich, but also to those rich in determination, self-reliance, and the belief in a simple and harmonious existence with our earth. Robert and Virginia Sudbury Scout Pacific Seacraft 25 Marina del Rey Virginia and Robert — We have the highest respect for the Pardeys spreading the word that you don’t have to have a lot of money, a lot of complex gear or a big and expensive boat to go cruis¬ ing. And they are absolutely correct. Our only knock against them is that perhaps they did too good a job of selling this philosophy to folks who’ve found they couldn’t live with it. For eleven years the Pardeys’ home was a 24-ft boat. And to be sure there are other folks in the world who suffer no discomfort by calling such a small boat home. But such people are in the small minority. Yet many others who couldn’t hack such a lifestyle bought the philosophy — and the corresponding small boat. And cruised to regret it. While in New Zealand two seasons ago, we ran into two separate couples whose inspiration to cruise on small boats had been the Pardeys. While both couples had become personal friends of the Pardeys, they were still a little burned up that they hadn’t been caupage 45

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LETTERS SUPPORT The Call of the Sea! tioned more about the hardships of such a spartan style of cruising. If we remember correctly, it was Socrates who admonished us all to know ourselves. It was sage advice for living 2,100 years ago, and it’s sage advice for deciding which cruising boat suits us.

□ NO ESCAPE Reference the letter of the McCandless’ in the May issue. The. waiver of liablity/responsibility in the proposed contract should be viewed as against public policy under general maritime law and in conflict with the statutory provision of the Jones Act that rules out an assumption of risk. A seaman, such as their crewmember is by that contract, tradi¬ tionally receives careful protection in maritime law against operators who attempt to circumvent his legal rights. The courts may not be perfect, but they should not be fooled by any of the sharp maneuvers discussed in the letter and your comment. As to the question of whether an owner could be sued for negligence when there was excellent maintenance, the answer is yes. The owner could be sued for unseaworthiness if a defect of the vessel caused an injury, even though the owner was not negligent. That suit would be under general maritime law. Suits under the Jones Act re¬ quire actual negligence, but that could be slight indeed, such as a statute violation. Both general maritime law and the Jones Act can apply to any vessel, any seaman, any sea. Even though the yacht, the victim or the owners are not American, a U.S. Court does not have to refuse its forum. The court would weigh many factors. Tactics on the part of owners to evade a United States court have led to unfavorable rulings in admiralty law. Apart from the risk of trying to outsmart the law, 1 suggest that it also does not make for good relations with the crew. The time spent on such maneuvers is better spent making sure that everything on the yacht is in good shape and that no one is negligent. If someone does not want to accept responsibility for the life and well-being of a crewmember, he should not take one on. Louk Wijsen Mechaieh Emery Cove Louk — We don’t want — and are sure the McCandless’ don’t want — to fool the courts. No, what we’re looking for is the simple recognition that there’s a world of difference between a professional seaman such as yourself working for a huge corporation in the pur¬ suit of profits as opposed to two private individuals seeking a wilderness adventure and who are willing to share it with an eager third party. As far as we’re concerned it’s just another condemning indictment of a legal system that it’s incapable of making such an obvious distinc¬ tion. It means that all of us are bound by contracts we never agreed to. contracts we can’t even extricate ourselves from. It’s a vicious and perverted sort of slavery to a principle we bet most of us don’t even believe in, a genuflection to mediocrity that would seem to hold ‘couch potatoes’ as the ideal citizens. It’s a tragedy. We agree, Louk, that efforts ought to be made to insure that everything on a boat is in good shape. But you know as well as we that the boat hasn’t been made on which somebody can’t be injured. So on what authority does the judicial system declare that we and others can’t agree to jointly assume certain risks each has calculated to be worth taking? It’s a freedom - because it doesn’t impose on anybody else — that each and every one of us deserves.

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LETTERS Last week I was boarded for inspection by the crew of a Coast Guard picket boat, and I feel compelled to write to you commending the diligence of your boarding patrols. My vessel, a 36-ft Grand Banks power cruiser, was departing Sausalito channel about 1:00 p.m. on Friday, May 1, 1987, when we were passed by a Coast Guard patrol boat entering the harbor area. At the time, three private vessles were underway within imme¬ diate visual range of the CG crew. My boat is properly equipped, numbered and “stickered”. The other two boats, both outboardpowered skiffs, displayed no CF numbers, registration stickers or life jackets in view. Yet the CG crew chose to ignore these violations of law and boarded my boat instead. It was clear that the young recruits had spotted something sug¬ gesting miscreant behavior, and with quick-minded judgment, they moved in for a closer look. I’m no expert in these matters, but I am sure they must have perceived a profile that might indicate drugs or contraband or the like. And for good reason. On board my boat was a crowd that would make anyone suspecious: my wife, attractive, mid-thirties, neatly dressed; o.ur guest, Mrs. Hugo, visiting from Boston, also attractive and dressed much the same; our two children, ages two and four years; and, of course, me. I am middleaged, a little overweight, and my friends say 1 look tired. (This is because of the aforementioned children, but I won’t bore you with that story.) Anyway, these CG fellows smelled something fishy and, armed with 45-caliber pistols, boarded our boat. I willingly went along with this procedure, and sure enough, after a thorough search of my per¬ sonal property, they found what they had suspected: No Pollution Placard! I am ashamed to admit my transgression. Mostly I live a clean life, respectful of the law, paying my taxes on time and in full. But — although I swear I wasn’t aware of the problem — the fact is 1 did not confirm the existence of a sign advising everyone in my engine room that they should not pump oil into the ocean. I’m guilty, and I accept whatever consequences this might bring. Well, after a good look around and some nice comments about my “yacht”, your officers issued the proper citation and, with full courtesy, returned to their own boat. All in all, the procedure took just enough time to prevent our giv¬ ing our guest the tour of San Francisco Bay we had in mind. But it’s okay because even though Mrs. Hugo had never been here before and really wanted to see the area from the water, she hopes to return sometime in the next few years. Besides, as I explained to my fouryear-old who questioned the sudden presence of armed “policemen” on our boat, whatever inconvenience is forced upon private citizens, despite the lack of probable cause or sound basis, is more than justified by the need to protect our nation’s coastline from the menace of boaters running around without those little signs in their engine rooms. Keep up the good work, Commander. Robert Wilkie Sausalito Robert — In other words you think that the Coast Guard should concentrate on stopping boats named Sea Smuggler whose occu¬ pants wear gold coke spoons around their necks, mirrored sunglasses to cover their wacked-out pupils, and jackets embroidered with marijuana plants. If that were the case all they’d be stopping were boats operated by. high school kids from the suburbs, which of course would be discrimination. Actually, you probably fit the ‘smuggler profile’ pretty closely. In our interview with Bruce Perlowin, the biggest maritime dope smugpage 49

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□REDUCTIO AD ABSLJRDEM I am a woman, a boatowner, and an avid sailor and reader of your magazine. I am not writing to you for the purpose of seeing my name in print, believe me. I am writing because I have an opinion which is probably shared by many of your women readers. My husband urged me to write to you, saying that he believes you are committed to fairness. * I sail because of the challenge; I read Latitude for its great stories, informational articles, and advertising about sailing. It’s folksy and fun. When, while turning from page 47 to page 48 of the April issue, I am suddenly presented with a woman posing nude and jokes about her breasts, it is like a slap in the face. Jokes are not funny when they reduce a woman to a pair of breasts. At least they are not funny to women. I urge you to use discretion in printing material that is distasteful to a majority of one sex or the other. You have the power to do that. I feel sure that your otherwise excellent magazine would not suffer from a lack of anti-woman photos and jokes. And a lot of readers would be very appreciative. Marsha S. Santa Cruz Marsha — Let’s see if we got this straight. A very active sailing cou¬ ple in their 40’s sends us a postcard just like thousands of others that are sold each day in the grocery and drug stores of Hawaii. The couple makes a pun between the America’s Cup and bra sizes. We caption it, “Having a swell time”. And now you’re trying to tell us that means we’re anti.-women? And that we’ve reduced females to a pair of breasts? Marsha, you’re being silly. And where the heck is your “committment to fairness”? Based on that scant evidence — no pun intended — you stand ready to convict us of misogyny. What is this, the new McCarthyism? Frankly Marsha, we think it would be illuminating for you to read between the lines of your first paragraph. For instead of just letting fly with your opinion, you waste an entire paragraph justifying why your opinion should even count; i.e. because you’re a boatowner, a sailor and a reader of the magazine. Then you use your husband for a crutch — “he urged me to write”. Next time you write — and we hope there is a next time — delete the inferiority crap. Your opinion counts because you have it; but no other justification is necessary.

□ CRUISING ON THE KIALOA II On April 12, through a haze induced by three margaritas on an empty stomach, sitting on a stool in the El Molino Bar in La Paz, Baja, 1 heard Frank Robben introduce himself as the skipper of Kialoa II, a legend in ocean racing history. So began an unforgettable sailing experience aboard this Rolls Royce of sailing yachts. page 51

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Kialoa II was designed by Sparkman & Stephens; constructed in 1964 by Yacht Dynamics in Harbor City for owner Jim Kilroy. At that time she was the largest aluminum sailing yacht constructed in the United States. She won many races and set ocean racing records until her replacement by Kialoa III in 1973. Frank and Marsha Robben purchased Kialoa II two years ago and converted her to charter service as the fulfillment of a long-standing dream. Since last January she has been sailing on the Sea of Cortez. Her homeport has been in Berkeley, Frank and Marsha’s home. She will return to the Bay Area in May to continue her charter service here. For the better part of a week, island hopping in the Sea of Cortez, I realized my fantasy by being a part of sailing this luxurious 73-ft yawl. To enhance the trip further, the Robbens and other crewmembers, Frank and Cindy Mackey — he races on Sir Issac — are charming as well as experienced sailors. In a short time a feeling of friendship developed as we shared the experience. Diving with sea lions, ex¬ ploring sea caves, enticing huge pods of dolphins to ride our wake, witnessing pelicans, mantas and sailfish, beaching the dinghy to dig clams on a white sand beach and collecting shells sum up an adventure that words cannot adequately describe. Whether you are an experienced skipper or crewmember, or a novice looking for the ultimate in moving with the wind, I highly recommend keeping in touch with Kialoa IPs agenda. You may leave your name, address and phone number at 486-1434 in Berkeley. Ask to be notified of her “open house” to be held in Richmond on her return. You will be impressed! Marilyn Bagshaw Marilyn — It’s a wonderful thing seeing fine mature boats like Kialoa II giving so much pleasure.

□ DOC’S SPRING LETTER It’s been a while since I’ve written a line. After my sailing buddy George Friederich died last October, I sort of lost heart. He always inspired a guy to do a good job of anything. I gave George his last boat ride aboard We. Everytime I go to my boat, I can almost see him sitting there. I learned a lot from him, so I guess he wouldn’t want me to quit sailing. The last few days I’ve been hard at it. The bottom has been cleaned, and now I’m repainting the cabin and deck. Once I complete a little trim work. I’ll be out on the water again with all you sailing folks. By the way, I just turned 75. Ye Olde Doc Schmidt Oakland

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□THOUGHTS ON LAWYERS I’ve been reading your comments about lawyers. The following are a couple of thoughts about lawyers that showed up in Chemical & Engineering News recently: 1. “David Fagerburg of Kingsport, Tenn., found in Chemistry International a suggestion ‘that lawyers should replace white mice in toxicology experiments . . there are more lawyers than white mice and also this development would solve the animal rights problems the main problem would probably be trying to extrapolate the results from lawyers to human beings’. 2. “Kenneth Simpson of Kingston, R.I. agrees with the idea of using lawyers instead of mice (and presumably rats) in toxicology experiments and makes the additional point You don t get page 53

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It’s a bit of a trip from Monterey to Alameda and Stone Boat Yard. The Diana has made the trip before, we were glad to see her again this visit, and we trust we’ll see her in the future. You may not have quite the pressure to tend to the proper upkeep of your boat as does an operation that keeps three fishing boats like the Diana busy - but when your boat does come to need a bit of boat yard time, we are hoping you might remember where they brought the Diana. Eat where the truckers eat.

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LETTERS attached to a lawyer like you do a rat.’ This advantage, says Dough Aldrich of Midland, Mich., compensates for the drawback that one needs for larger, more costly cages for lawyers.” As you can see, it’s not just sailors that are tired of the excessive number of lawyers running around. David Littlejohn Northern California David — You’re reading us all wrong if you think we’ve got anything against lawyers personally. And we’ve got nothing per se against the number of lawyers “running around” either. Our disgust is with the American legal system, which by comparison makes the Pentagon look like the paragon of humanity, thrift, efficiency and moral rectitude. Legal laff riot of the day. As we respond to your letter on May 7, we page through the Chronicle and find this legal brief: 21-year-old Toni Ann Costa has filed a suit against Miss Universe, Inc. She says she didn’t receive all the prizes she was promisedt causing her to become so distressed that she developed laryngitis, causing her to do poorly in the interview, causing her not to be selected as Miss USA. Four million dollars, her lawyer claims, will make everything allright.

□THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY To start with something positive, The Far Side of 12 Meters in the April issue was most stimulating, with Francis Clauser getting the lead out and putting the pointy end astern. Wow! Latitude is clearly meant to stimulate its readers, a worthy motive. Perhaps this was the plan behind rattling the stately yacht club doors by Max Ebb. Sadly, in my estimation, the whole flap comes through as a ploy by an aspiring young man to show that he is worthy of becoming a Berkeley politician — ho hum! This thing has been milked dry, please give it a rest. To return to something relatively informative, I’m thankful to learn that bananas are bad luck aboard. John Gibson Oakland John — No matter whether you’ve had enough, we’re going to publish a few responses to our ‘yacht club questionnaire’ in the hopes of dispelling some ridiculous myths. For example, you refer to “rattl¬ ing stately yacht club doors". If that doesn’t perpetuate a myopic perception of yacht clubs as being exclusive hangouts of the idle rich, we don’t know what would. But the truth is there are about 75 yacht clubs in Northern California, of which no more than ten could be described as “stately” by even the most blue-skying real estate agent. Heck, club houses at municipal golf courses look far more stately than the vast majority of private yacht clubs. Then, too, we think raising the question of the purpose of yacht clubs is both timely and important. The truth is that most yacht clubs are hurting for membership, yet most of their potential members have images of yacht clubs that turn them off. Doesn’t this indicate that something is out of kilter? That perhaps the potential members have a distorted view of what yacht clubs are? That perhaps clubs are a little out of touch with what potential members are looking for? We thought — and continue to think — it’s worthy of consideration.

□THE OLD CONVERSION BY SNAKE TRICK Regarding the naming of Greenland, I believe that it was Leif Erickson himself who entreated his father, Eric the Red, to name Greenland as such, since he said the name Iceland was keeping too many people away from Iceland, and they wanted better luck settling page 55

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□IT’S HARD TO TELL Pardeys or ‘Nurdeys’? Andy Kerr hit a lot of nails on the head and left some hammer dings in the wood with his May article on the Pardeys. Somewhere along the line, the Pardeys seem to have decided their feces doesn’t stink. Too bad. They used to be a fine couple. Maybe they still are, but it’s hard to tell. Big egos are endemic to ocean sailors and to writers; we should forgive a bit, but Kerr is cor¬ rect — the Pardeys ask too much. George Putz, author of a spoof of the Golden Couple a few years ago in a parody of Yachting put the pair in their place. Something about rearranging the Mid-East while serving chardonnay and brie in the cockpit . . . Kerr is correct in his assessment of the rigors involved in putting together the ‘proper yacht’ of the proper woods these days. He is right-on (as they say in Santa Cruz) about diesel engines. He could have gone further: word on the cruising circuit is that Lyn and Larry have aggravated plenty of others by requiring tows into or out of many harbors. That is a urination in that when the Pardeys were strutting their stuff at the Port Townsend Woodenboat Woodstock in the late 70’s, a Saab rep offered them a hand-crank one-lung diesel with variable pitch gear — free. I was a reporter on the scene at the time, and as I recall, Saab even offered said engine on a varnished oak bed with dark green pinstripes as a living room decoration in Lyn and Larry’s Costa Mesa living room while the couple built Taleisin. It would have meant grand publicity for the Swedes had the couple used the one-lung — and refutation of a point the Pardeys made a big deal about in their writings; that only wimps have engines. I depart from Kerr’s argument when it comes to roller-furling gear at-sea, being of the belief that if it can go haywire at the worst time it will. Twin headstays and a pair of hanked-on headsails of different sizes, each with downhauls, is better. Otherwise, Kerr’s comments on modem goodies rings true. Self-tailing winches are wonderful. Self¬ tailing wenches ain’t bad, either. As for the other stuff — pressure water, SatNav, autopilot or vane, etc. — for a poor cruiser it adds this way: How much time and energy does it take to maintain that stuff compared to the daily manual labor involved in doing without? I’ve got an electric reefer and hot water heater aboard because, all things considered, it’s worth it. If you’re so inclined, you can make your own goddamned tofu in the time saved hand-pumping water by simply installing pressure water. If the water pump craps out, there’s a hand pump right there, page 57

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pretty and polished. But it don’t matter if it’s green. Mostly, my kudos to Kerr for putting the Pardeys in perspective for many of your readers. Brooks Townes Sausalito Brooks — We specifically went out of our way to present Kerr’s article as a respectful disagreement with the Pardey’s ‘simple is better’ philosophy rather than a personal attack. We’d like to keep it that way. But just one thing. Suppose the Pardeys had accepted the diesel from Saab. It would have indicated to us that their belief’s weren’t sincere and that they were prepared to sell-out for almost any price. For integrity’s sake, we’re glad they didn’t. Your thoughts on roller furling happen to coincide with what we’ve always believed. But we just might be wrong. Over and over we’re hearing from extremely experienced sailors that are glad they finally saw the light and bought a roller furling system. One such sailor was Roy Jennings with the Freya 39, Foxglove. If we remember correctly it took him all the way to New Zealand or something before he broke down and bought a system. Now that he’s gone all the way on to England, he’s astounded that he’s been able to get on without it for so long. And he’s just one of many saying that. And in the Caribbean we’ve been speaking to captains of many of the larger boats that shuttle between Newport, the Med and the Caribbean each year. Their almost unanimous opinion is that you’ve got to be crazy not to have roller furling. As you know, we’re usually willing to fight a long time for our opinions. But now we think we’ve been dead wrong on roller furling.

□WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR DIGESTIVE SYSTEM IS WORKING PROPERLY? Shit Happens! So where are the pump-out stations on San Francisco Bay? We installed a holding tank; now what? Kelly Hall San Anselmo Kelly — Our old pal at BCDC, Margit Hind, lists the following locations: Alameda Marina Village, Alameda Yacht Harbor, Alviso Marina, Ballena Bay Yacht Harbor, City of Benicia Marina, City of Berkeley Marina, Coyote Point Marina, City of Emeryville Marina, Emery Cove Marina, Fortmann Basin Marina, Gashouse Cove in San Francisco, Glen Cove, Marina Yacht Harbor, Marina Bay Yacht Harbor, Martinez Marina, Oyster Point Marina, Pelican Yacht Har¬ bor, Peninsula Marina, Pier 39, Pittsburg Marina, Embarcadero Cove and Jack London Square in Oakland, Port Sonoma, Rich¬ mond Marina and Richmond Yacht Club, San Leandro Marina, South Beach Marina in San Francisco, Sausalito Yacht Harbor, Vallejo Municipal Marina and Kappa’s Marina. We’re certain there are other locations, too, as you can’t do anything with boats along the water these days without putting in a

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□ SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT With regard to your editorial comments about lawyers and lawsuits appearing in the May 1987 edition, on page 41 you indicate that in the Doublehanded Farallones Race lawsuit the St. Francis YC ended up paying. . -■ We represented both the Bay Area Multihull Association and the page 6!

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St. Francis YC. There was an overall settlement and release which included the St. Francis YC, but the St. Francis paid nothing. Mark O. Kasanin McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen San Francisco Readers — We apologize for the error. For years now, we’ve heard repeated reports from St. Francis members that the overall settlement was in the range of $500,000, of which the yacht club — which had nothing to do with the race but lend its race shack — was to have paid between $10,000-$25,000. We spoke with Mark Kasanin on the telephone, and while he couldn’t be specific about the amount of the settlement or the number of defendents who ended tip paying, he confirmed that neither the St. Francis — nor its insurance company — had to contribute to the settlement. It is true, however, that the St. Francis had been named as a defendent in the suit, and as a result the club has become significantly more restrictive in permitting the use of their starting line and race shack.

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□ DATUM OFFSETS EXPLAINED This letter is in reply to your request for an explanation of “datum offsets” and their significance. Since I don’t know how much detail you want, it will be fairly detailed. As every mariner knows, the earth is not flat. This simple fact has created opportunities — along with a few problems - for mankind ever since it was first noticed. Unfortunately, the earth isn’t exactly round, either. This fact has apparently created nothing but problems. Most people view the earth as a slightly flattened sphere — also known as an oblate sphere, an elipse of revolution, or a spheriod. A spheriod is normally specified by its semi-major axis (1/2 the equatorial diameter), and either it’s semi-minor axis (1/2 the polar diameter) or its flattening. A spheriod is a good rough approximation to the true shape of the earth (ignoring mountains, valleys, etc.), but is not quite accurate. The geoid (an imaginary surface essentially coinciding with the true mean sea level worldwide) is like a spheroid, but is warped slightly egg-shaped, and has a few bumps and hollows added because of “local” gravitational anomalies which create bumps and hollows in the actual mean sea level. When an organization sets out to make very accurate maps of an area, it must select a mathematical model of the earth which matches the geoid fairly closely over the area to be mapped. Selecting the wrong mathematical model can lead to fairly large errors in the maps produced. The mathematical model selected is known as a datum. This consists of a spheroid, with its center at a particular point in space (not necessarily the “true” center of the earth), and with its axis pointed in a particular direction (not always exactly parallel to the earth’s axis of rotation, or passing precisely through the Greenwich meridian). The spheroids used can differ drastically from each other, as can the origin points. The spheroid used for the Airy datum is over one nautical mile smaller (equatorial diameter) than the spheroid used for the WGS-72 datum. The center of the Tokyo datum is over 4,500-ft from the center of the Tristan Astro 1968 datum. (Incidentally, the map on page 22 of your premiere issue is a good example of the kind of oddities you can run into when working with various datums.) In most cases, map-making organizations attempt to cover a large area using only one datum. Unfortunately, this doesn t always work. As of 1976, United States military maps of Hawaii were based on a datum known as the “Old Hawaiian” datum (they probably still are, I page 63

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LETTERS just don’t have a more recent reference). When the islands were first surveyed, this was treated as a single datum. Since then, satellites and other tools have made it possible to accurately measure long distances between islands and continents, and have shown that the islands are not precisely where the maps said they were, relative to each other. Rather than throwing away all the maps (and presumably the land titles, etc. based on them), what was the Old Hawaiian datum is now treated as three separate datums. All three datums use the same spheroid (semi-major axis = 6,378,206.4 meters, semi¬ minor axis = 6,356,583.8 meters), but the spheroid centers are off¬ set as much as 24.86 meters (81.56 feet) from each other. As of 1976, the United States military used maps based on at least 39 different datums. When you are navigating with a sextant, which might provide an accuracy of one nautical mile or so, you can usually ignore the dif¬ ferences between datums. You don’t expect to use celestial naviga¬ tion to put you in the middle of a 300 foot wide channel, because it can’t and you know it. When you don’t have SatNav, you use references anchored to the earth to find narrow channels. With a Sat¬ Nav or GPS system, however, you expect to be able to find such small features just by using the navigation system. Unless either your maps and SatNav use the same datum, or you can convert from one datum to another, or you are extremely lucky, it won’t happen. If you wish to use any satellite navigation system for any really high-accuracy navigation, you must have charts that indicate offsets from the datum used by your SatNav (typically WGS-72). If a chart isn’t recent enough to specify this offset, I would have serious reser¬ vations about trusting it for this kind of use. I probably wouldn’t trust even a recent chart that much either, but then I can’t afford to replace a boat. Maybe you can. Whenever you enter a chart coordinate into your SatNav, and care about accuracy, you must convert the coordinate to the SatNav datum before entering it. Whenever, you want to find a SatNav coor¬ dinate on your chart, and care about accuracy, you must first convert it to the chart datum. If this qualifies for a Roving Reporter t-shirt (do you have them at Latitude 34?), I have a 40-inch chest. John Lull Fullerton John — Thanks so much for that explanation. We even think we halfway understand it. As for your Latitude 34 t-shirt, it should be arriving within two weeks.

□ FLOTATION AND FERROCEMENT One method for calculating required flotation for a sailboat can be found in Safety Hints for the Backyard Boatbuilder available from the U.S. Coast Guard Boating Safety Office. The basic idea is to add up the weight in water of everything on the boat and provide enough buoyancy to support that weight, plus a bit. The pamphlet provides weight in water tables for various materials. If an inflatable flotation system is required to save space, you will probably have to cobble one up. Large salvage bags designed to be inflated by a diver are available from Subsalve Industries somewhere In New England and probably through dive shops. Depending on the amount of air required a scuba tank or a Freon tank could be used to store air. (Freon refrigerant tank conversion kits are available through tool discount stores.) A scuba tank would store enough air to float about 4,000 pounds, a Freon tank considerably less. Note that the tank, particularly the Freon tank, has to be carefully handled and protected, especially against corrosion. It can be a bomb if it bursts. page 65

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JOIN THE H.G.S. TEAM I would advise use of fixed foam instead. There is almost certainly enough dead space to support most boats, and a mix of precut logs and foam-in-lace would cost much less and would be much more reliable than tanks. Another alternative to foam or air bags is watertight subdivision. By dividing the boat with a couple of watertight bulkheads, the two unflooded spaces will hold the flooded one above water. Determin¬ ing the best place for bulkheads and designing them requires the assistance of a naval architect and generally computer aid (no big deal now). Yacht bulkheads will not require the heavy watertight doors seen on a ship. In fact, careful — and lucky — placement of bulkheads may allow dogless doors (held closed by the pressure of flooding water one way and with the damage waterline below the sill the other) to do the trick. 1 also thought that I should respond to your reader interested in insurance on ferrocement boats. The Navy work was published by Dinsenbach some years ago in Marine Technology, and is a very in¬ teresting collection of information. There are also papers published by the University of Michigan (also in Marine Technology) and a paper by Porter (Civil Engineering, U.S. Berkeley) that was originally a Northern California SNAME Section paper on ferrocement canoes, with useful data on mixes, strengths and so forth. A main point of these papers is that tremendous variation in strength is possible based on differences in wire, cement, and so forth — just as in buildings. A completed ferro boat is thus a question mark, since even a good basic material specification can be ruined by poor practice but show no evidence. Also, the material specifications used in recreational boats is usually very poor compared to the possible advanced types of construction (see the tests in Dinsenbach), and the quality control is non-existent. If you want to insure a ferro boat, it would be best to have it built under the inspection of a knowledgeable independent third party such as a classification society. I would also question the basic idea of building in ferrocement, however. This material is at its best in regions where labor is very cheap and steel expensive, because ferrocement is more labor inten¬ sive than even traditional wood construction. If you think sanding fiberglass is fun, try grinding concrete. Given the choice, I would choose a steel hull over ferrocement for a sailboat, as a steel boat would almost certainly be lighter, stronger, easier to insure and cheaper. It is worth noting that many forms of ferro construction require welding pipe and rebar. This is considered a specialized and somewhat difficult skill as compared to standard plate and shape welding. 1 am planning to donate services to produce a design to the buyer’s requirements to the KQED auction again this year. It will be contract drawings for any noncommercial vessel up to 15 meters in FRP, steel, aluminum or timber, for professional or home construction, sail or power at owner’s option. If anyone is interested in contacting me as regards these matters, 1 can be reached at (408) 289-5093 during the day or (415) 681-5726

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LETTERS A better way to rig a spring line for brakes is running from a point nearly amidship. On racing boats this could be either through a hole in the rail or an outboard track car. I like to lead the line through a snatch block to a winch — two or three turns depending on the boat size — with just enough slack to get the eye over a cleat at the end of the dock. Once the eye is on the cleat you can surge the line around the winch, gradually slowing the boat to a stop. Volumes could be written about various spring lines and their uses, but there are a few other methods.that might prove handy to you and your readers. Ever been pinned to the dock by a strong wind? With a large boat, say 35-ft or more, this can be a serious problem, especially if there are boats close ahead and astern. All you have to do is rig a spring line from your bow aft to the dock, setting fenders foward. Then you go slow ahead on your engine, rudder toward the dock. Cast off all other lines and use as much power as necessary to get your stern well off the dock upwind. Always remember to go farther forward than you think you need to. Once you’re ‘twisted’ way off from the dock — somewhere between 45 and 90° — stop your engine, take the line off the cleat, and back away. Another handy method works well in crowded marinas with small or no crew. Say the wind is blowing strong off the dock and your neighbor’s boat — naturally without fenders — is just 18 inches to leeward. Just rig a spring line from amidship on your boat aft to a cleat on the dock. Put the eye of the line over the after horn on the cleat, then put your engine ahead using enough power to pull the line taut and ‘spring’ the boat right up against the dock. Experiment with the rudder angle until the boat lies parallel to the dock. Untie all other lines, reverse the engine, and back away with lots of power. The spring line will come off all by itself. This is an excellent method for a singlehander in all but the lightest winds. Clever use of spring lines can make quite a number of close manuever situations more controlled and less hair-raising. A good combination. A large t-shirt please. I burned a hole in the last one, dammit! John Tebbetts Ho Omaha Seattle

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LETTERS certainty in this uncertain world. The sad truth is nobody can tell you what the ‘real costs' are because they vary by hundreds of percent depending on the boat, the owner, the boat’s use, and where the boat is kept. For example, a liveaboard slip in Newport Beach is going to cost well more than double what a liveaboard slip would cost in the back tules of the Sacramento River Delta. And the relatively inexpensive dacron jib used for a monthly light air sail from Long Beach to Catalina is going to last many years longer than expensive mylar/kevlar jib that gets thrashed every week in IOR racing on San Francisco Bay. Maintenance is at least as great a variable. The handy person with a simple diesel powered 35-footer may have almost no maintenance expense, while an all thumbs fella with a 60-footer loaded to the gun¬ nels with sophisticated gear might have to print money to cover his upkeep. But now that you have some appreciation for the difficulty of the question you’re asking, we’ll do a quick run-through of the expenses for a typical liveaboard boat. Say it’s a used Ericson 35 or Islander 36, in reasonable condition. Figure the downpayment at 20 to 25%, and a monthly payment of around $10 per thousand on the balance. Insurance should be about 1 % per year. The berth cost depends on where you want it and if there’s a surcharge for living aboard. We’re going to assume that the boat you choose is equipped with a VHF, speedo, a depthsounder, a swung compass and a Loran. As far as we’re concerned, you don’t need anything else unless you’ve got big plans for distant ports or racing silver. The boat should have a main with at least two reef points, a small jib and a light air genny. If these sails are less than five years old and haven’t been abused, they should last for another five. You won’t be able to point as high as boats with new sails, but we’re talking about counting the smiles not the miles, right? If the boat has a diesel and the oil and filters have been changed regularly, it should have a lifetime of 10 to 15 years. Of course, if the filters and oil weren’t changed, all bets are off. You might have to cough up $5,000 for a replacement. Our experience is that gas engines are far more trouble. But if you live aboard and start your engine every day, you’re going to have less trouble than the once-amonth user. Since a clean bottom is absolutely the most important factor in a boat’s speed capability, it should be scrubbed once a month. If you have the bottom cleaned once a month, you can often go two years without a haulout and suffer no ill-effects. The only folks who have their bottoms cleaned more than once a month are racers; and if they’re serious, they’ll have them cleaned every day of a regatta. Some folks go three or four years without a haulout, the only prob¬ lem with that is that it would take a hurricane to move them through the water at more than three or four knots. Electronic gear is another tremendous variable. We’ve had stuff that never worked, and we’ve had stuff that hasn’t failed us in 12 years. But if you stick to the basic stuff such as the VFIF, speedo, depthsounder, and Loran, your expenses should be minimal. For example, if the speedo conks out and you can wait until the next haulout, figure about $350. The good news is that boat electronics are getting more reliable all the time. While we’re not going to quote you any dollars and cents figures, living aboard a basic boat is not expensive. Fleck, we started this magazine aboard a 15-year-old fiberglass boat with 15-year-old sails and a 15-year-old gas engine. Other than the boat, berth and insurance payments, virtually all the expenditures were discretionary. Yeah, that’s what really hits the wallet hard, the extras you can’t page 71

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□ CHOCOLATE MESS We’re former owners of the Cal 40, Anona, which Dennis Conner sailed to victory in the Congressional Cup. With two TransPac’s and two long Mexico cruises on our boat, two TransPac’s on other boats, and deliveries from Hawaii and Alaska and Mexico — as well as my being a practicing dentist — I feel we have the background to com¬ ment on the recent article Have Candy Bars, Will Travel. The crew on the Beija Flor sound like they are doing their homework and preparing well. So we had to wonder if they were putting everyone on in regard to the more than dozen cases of candy bars they were stashing on the Swan 65 before their departure. Now we have no quarrel if they wish to keep some friendly dentist busy repairing the damage caused by all those candy bars — six per per¬ son a day! In fact, I would like to offer my services. But forgetting the damage to their teeth, unless they have a huge freezer, the temperatures in the waters between here and Florida will turn all that chocolate into a gooey mess. On TransPac’s we had candy bars for the night watch, but usually they were for the first days before hitting the warmer trades. Besides, chocolate just isn’t that appetizing in hot weather. But the biggest potential problem of so many candy bars would be the effects of so much sugar on the body. Repeated jolts to the system can really mess up the metabolism. Swings between hyper and hypo glycemic states would make it hard to function. However, we’re certain the crew would lose their appetite for all those candy bars before things deteriorated that far. We suggest cruising with granola bars, cups of pudding, or nuts. Food that will give you nourishment as well as stand up to the environment. In regard to another matter, I wish to thank you for continuing to send the Latitudes to me so I can distribute them at the Discovery Bay YC. This is about the only place in the south Delta that distributes them, and since our membership stands at 500 with a waiting list, the copies go fast. True, we have more powerboats, but our sailing fleet is growing all the time. As for ourselves, once rag people, we always retain an interest. As you probably gathered, we are actively practicing dentistry aboard our 38-ft steel trawler. We have been doing this since return¬ ing from our last cruise, a seven-month trip to Mexico in 1983. It’s a layed-back practice. As we have only one chair, we really give per¬ sonalized service. Instead of waiting in another room while the novacain takes effect, we swap sea stories. Anona, my wife of 35 years and my first mate on all our voyages and two TransPacs, is my assis¬ tant. Our patients seem to enjoy the unique nature of our practice. Anyone visiting Discovery Bay, specifically Lido Bay, will find us on the west shore with the name across the blue and white trawler transom. Stop in and stay hello. Fred and Anona Leichtfuss •, Open Wide Discovery Bay

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□NO NEWS IS NOT ALWAYS GOOD NEWS Any news about the Edna, the cargo-carrying sailing ship that comes into San Francisco on occasion? I hear that they sometimes take on new crew while in the Bay Area and I’d like to investigate the possibility a little further. Any suggestions? Or perhaps a reader might be able to help me out. Dobie Dolphin Albion, CA Dobie — Last we heard of the Edna she had put into Palau — but

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□THE OLD EDITOR AIN’T GOT WHAT HE USED TO HAVE I am not a prude or an especially ardent feminist, but I did think the ‘T&A’ in the April issue was excessive. I don’t object to nudity per se, but the context in which it was presented was totally lacking in taste, class and maturity. Some of your captions and especially the fake ad for an automatic pilot read as if they’d been written by snickering 12-year-old boys. It made me particularly uncomfortable to find this crudeness in the same issue as my name and phone number (which were in the Crew List). Latitude 38 has been a great sailing magazine, but it’s not as much

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□ JEEZ! I enjoyed your article on California place names, but your editor is puh-thet-tick. Redwood City sailors do not beat their way north under the Dunbarton bridge to get up to the Central Bay. Check the map — it’s the San Mateo-Hayward bridge we go under. The Dunbarten bridge is south of Redwood City and joins Menlo Park to Fremont/Newark. Jeeeeez! I was interested to see where the name “Dunbarton” came from, though. Of course, all this just highlights the question — where does the “South Bay” really begin? According to San Francisco, Berkeley, Richmond and Sauslaito sailors, the dividing line is the Bay Bridge. Ah, but ask around Redwood City and the answer is more like the San Mateo-Hayward bridge. It’s one of the eternal questions. Hope to see you at the South Bay Discovery Regatta on June 13-14. Then you can get your South Bay geography straightened out! Alan Hebert Menlo Park Marine Ecological Institute Alan — Ease off a little. If we’re going to screw up, it might as well be a beauty!

□ BIG DIVORCE MEANS LITTLE BOAT As an avid Latitude 38 reader I was overjoyed to see the new Latitude 34 at Downwind Marine in San Diego. Very best wishes for

all the successes that I’m sure will be yours. I enjoyed the pieces on our system of jurisprudence. In a word, it sucks. Going through a (needlessly) protracted divorce a few years back, I had a front row seat on the clubhouse (ooops!) courthouse fandango. After four attorneys and three judges (who are all ex-attorneys) and numerous court appearances, I’m totally convinced that this pro¬ fession is without scruples or moral conscience. Economic gain is the only standard this bunch knows. It took me over a year to figure out how the judges got their share of the pie, but that’s another story. And besides, I’m getting a knot in my stomach again. Anyhow, I will never be able to cruise to all the fabled isles of paradise. Therefore, Gunkholing Around Mulege by Shirley and Bill Glasby put a gleam in my eye. It sounds like their 24-footer with retractable keel would be the ideal boat for me. Is there any way I can find out what make of boat it is? Any info on trailer sailing, particularly in Baja and the San Juans, would be greatly appreciated. Gerry Dawson San Diego

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SIGHTINGS great sail, swell boat, nice wedding, too The groom wore a tux but no shoes; the bride wore a lace dress and foulweather coat. It was the ideal wedding for Mike Nelson and Janie Kelly — anchored at Angelisland aboard the 1933 78-ft brigantine Rendezvous. Mike and Janie live aboard his 40-ft Danish wooden boat in Redwood

sailing for Paul O’Brien of Saratoga reports that a recent Latitude article on handicapped sailors “has resulted in some action for our Bay Area disabled”. For starters, he’s made his Freedom 21, Wild Irish, available for the Adaptive Physical Education program at West Valley s Community College. Furthermore, he hopes to start sessions out of the Pacific

Mike 3nd Janie ride the "Rendezvous" bowsprit on their sailing'wedding day.

Creek, and they’re both sailing enthusiasts. Mike’s boat is named Cham¬ pagne. and there was plenty of that aboard for the celebration. The 30 to 40 people in the wedding party cruised around the Bay on the chartered ship after the ceremony, enjoying good wind, clear skies and the singular experience of sailing a square-rigged ship. "It was great," said John Reynolds, the best man. “I got to steer for about 45 minutes. It was a pretty festive day.” John said Mike was heard to repeat his motto: "We went sailing again and lived!” Congratulations Mike and Janie!

modern maturity While sailing in Mexico last month we came across a rather crude and rusting 43-ft steel sloop. Never has the sighting of such a homely boat cont'd on next sightings page page 102

SIGHTINGS the handicapped Marina in Alameda. O Brien says that they’re just in the begin¬ ning stages, but if there are any disabled readers who would enjoy taking the helm, they should contact him. Drop him a line at Post Office Box 2182, Saratoga, CA 95070 and he’ll give you his phone number.

modern maturity — cont’d brought such delight to our eyes, for it meant that our hero Monte Walker was still alive and kicking — and warm. Walker is the 68-year-old self-proclaimed “hobo” and “oddball” we’d met five years ago in Cabo San Lucas. As we reported way back in volume 56, Walker said that after retiring as an ironworker he decided he never wanted to be cold again and that he’d like to do a little sailing. Short on money but long on ingenuity, Walker figured his only chance was to build his own boat. He decided on a steel design based loosely on the Col¬ umbia 43. If you use a lot of imagination, you can see a vague resemblence i

cont'd on next sighting page

SIGHTINGS modern maturity — cont’d between Walker’s Monte Bell and a Tripp-designed Columbia 43. Now a lot of guys build their own boats, but they mostly work with new parts and materials. But not the former resident of Vallejo, who obtained almost all of his materials from junkyards. The hull for example, was built with five tons of 3/16-inch scrap from the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The mast was not built by Sparcraft, but by Walker himself, who welded a series of four-inch diameter truck drive shafts (they’re 1/10-inch thick) together and supported it with FG&E guy wire. Laugh all you want, that darn thing is still standing after eight years. Barient had nothing to do with the winches on Monte Bell. No, Walker lathed the drums from walnut and drives them electrically-with Ford starter motors. Naturally all the cleats' and anchors were fabricated by Walker, as were the initial prop and an improved second version.

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Ever come back to your car in the parking lot and find little ding-marks from other cars’ doors that- weren’t there before? Ever wonder what you could do about it? Richard Leeds, a San Francisco dentist who knows the dangers of parking in the city and sails a Pearson 30 when he’s not filling cavities, may have come up with a nautical solution. Just tie some fenders over the side, like you do when you bring your boat into

So what did he buy new? Well, there was $2,500 of sails and a Kenyon stove. And in a certain sense the diesel was new; it’s a Continental that was new for the Korean War but had never been started. But the transmission is the piece de resistance. It’s the jumble of tires and belts you see in the accom¬ panying photograph. When Walker wants to put his boat in gear, he goes down below and throws a lever or tire or something to one side of the boat or the other and that darn Continental engages the drive shaft that turns the home-made prop and the darn boat starts going. Walker’s boat may not be the loveliest looking vessel in an anchorage, and hfe may have a personal shortcoming or two (if we remember correctly, he was negligent in keeping his eating utensils separate from his greasy box wrenches), but there wasn’t a boat we were happier to see. Unfortunately, because we were with our kids .and busy with other activi¬ ties, we only got to speak with Monte for a few minutes. He looked good, as did his boat in its own peculiar fashion. He said he’d been enjoying the tropics and that the boat w^s doing fine, which for Walker just about covers all the important stuff. Monte Walker, a senior citizen who makes you proud to be an American. May all his breezes be warm and gentle.

two upsets There were two big political surprises in the month of May. The first was when Democrat Gary Hart mortally wounded his Presidential aspirations. The second was when the Richardson Bay Regional Agency delayed a vote on proposed ordinances to rid Richardson Bay of anchor-outs. Both Hart and the regulations had previously been presumed to be shoo-ins by many observers. On May 14 the RBRA, made up of respresentatives of Tiburon, Mill Valley, Sausalito and Belvedere, held a 2.5 hour public meeting to discuss adopting a set of ordinances that would eliminate liveaboard anchor-outs, would close Belvedere Cove to even day anchoring, and would impose fees for anchoring for more than 72 hours in Richardson Bay. As could be expected, the 75 or so people who live on anchor-outs and would be displaced by the adoption of the ordinances turned out in force. And they were not hesistant to voice their displeasure with the proposed regulations. Criticism of the proposals drew loud applause from the mostly anti-ordinance audience. cont d on next sightings page page 104

SIGHTINGS popular demand

0 & <3 bumpercar blues the dock. It’s a simple adaptation of boating technology to highway problems. What’s next? Boat hooks to fend off cars that drift into your lane? Signal flares to get the attention of truck drivers? How about racing rules for freeways, so you could yell Mast abeam!” and “Starboard!” to offending drivers. We’ve seen a few highway bozos we’d like to cut off at the mark.

two upsets — cont’d Emotions reached a fevered pitch when Supervisor A1 Aramburu was accused of being a wealthy Tiburon resident who couldn’t identify with those less well off. Aramburu was infuriated by the charge. He angrily recalled his youth in a Los Angeles barrio and then advised his accuser: “Do not talk to me about having it rough, buster!” Aramburu s short temper on the subject of liveaboards is understandable. For reasons known only to him, he’s spent four long years spearheading drives to have liveaboards removed from Richardson Bay. And then several months ago his administrative assistant admitted to Latitude 38 that Aramburu’s soon-to-be ex-wife had become a liveaboard on a sailboat in Los Angeles. Had it been up to RBRA representatives Aramburu and Erwin Farley of Belvedere, the ordinances would have come up to a vote and been passed at the meeting. But in something of a surprise, the mayors of Sausalito (Ray Taber), Mill Valley (Alison Ruedy) and Tiburon (Stone Coxhead) endorsed holding off a vote until the next meeting on June 8. cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS thanks, I two upsets — cont’d

That’s just what Dick Berridge must have

It was Taber who suggested the delay. The former owner of Maritime Elec¬ tronics in Sausalito, Taber wants Richardson Bay to be orderly and clean, yet he’s also sympathetic and understanding of the liveaboards.

He had

been saying to himself when this photograph was taken late on Sunday, May 17. The circumstances were this: It was the final weather leg of the final race of the

previously met with liveaboards in an attempt to forge a compromise. We at Latitude 38 support virtually all of the goals sought by the RBRA

prestigious three-race Stone Cup. Mercury,

ordinances — but not the means proposed to achieve them. We feel the

the Berridge family’s 30-footer, was right in

goals can easily be attained without resorting to the ruthless displacement of

the running for class honors. .The wind was blowing nice, about 18 to

long-time

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superfluous enforcement agency. Such a solution, however, would require the cooperation of the anchor-

20 knots, and there was a strong flood. In such a situation there’s only one way to work

outs, a few of which seem to be suffering from Gary Hart’s disease: an inex¬

up to the St. Francis finish line: short tack up

plicable desire to be their own worst enemy. Had there been more coopera¬

the beach. That’s what Mercury was doing,

tion on their part years ago, Ray Taber might not be in the position of having

and

to try to mediate the Northern California’s version of Beirut.

Jeremiah O’Brien showed up.

was

working

just

fine

until

the

In order to celebrate something or the

easier than ever to get your ham license We at Latitude have been ranting and raving a little bit over the last year about how inappropriate the tests for ham licenses have been. Some folks think we’re creating a bunch of static, others think we’re on frequency. s ' Whatever the case, on March 21 the Federal Communication Commission made it somewhat easier to obtain voice-class ham radio licenses. They didn’t eliminate the Morse Code requirement, but they did slack off a little. If you’re going cruising, you want the General Class license. This allows you to legally talk on bands that offer worldwide communication capability. There is a Novice Class license that’s easier to get, but it’s not worth it because you can holler farther than you can transmit with it. To get the General Class license, you have to pass two tests. The first proports to be on radio theory. The FCC has now ruled that the test questions and answers are part of the public domain, and therefore all test questions and correct answers are available for applicants to memorize. So what’s really being tested is an applicant’s ability to memorize, not the understanding of radio theory. It makes you wonder if the FCC commis¬ sioners are sub-intelligent when they join or if they become progressively foolish while on the job. The second thing you need for the General license is to pass the Morse Code test at 13 words per minute. It used to be that you had to go down to the FCC at the right time and the right day to take the test. Now, however, the FCC has decided that Volunteer Ham Exam Coordinators can administer the test. That’s a big improvement in convenience for test applicants. Human nature being what it is, how long do you suppose it’s going to take for an unscrupulous — and perhaps down on his luck Volunteer Coordinator — to doctor up test results for an eager cruiser in return for a small ‘honorarium’? A year. Three months. A weekend. In any event, legitimate code tests now consist of computer-generated code transmissions from one ham to another. The license applicant need not be able to copy the transmission letter for letter; all that’s necessary is that he or she be able to answer ten multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions, getting seven of 10 correct. However, some of the questions require preci¬ sion: “What was transmitted: 1158 Elm St. or 1148 Elm St?’ If you dont know your numbers, you’ll just be stabbing in the dark. So the hard part of getting the ham license you want is still hard. Nonetheless, you can pass both parts of the test, get your General Class license, and still not know ham etiquette or even have a rudimentary knowledge of how to operate your radio. So while there have been pro¬ cedural improvements in the getting of a ham license, the licensing process remains as idiotically indefensible as ever. In the rapidly changing world, it’s nice to know that some things never change. As a postscript, we offer a couple of interesting comments on this topic by Gordon West, long-time licensed ham and mariner, that appeared in Ocean

Navigator. cont'd on next sightings page

other, the Victory ship had taken a large group of people out of her Fort Mason slip

SIGHTINGS needed that! for a putt-putt around the Bay. In the late afternoon, two tugs came alongside to ease

easier than ever — cont’d

her — beam to the wind and powerful cur¬

West said that the changes in ham licensing were “necessary because ham radio service was not attracting newcomers to the hobby”.

rent — back into her Fort Mason slip. It was slow going.

probably always stay because of emotional reasons from the old-timers . . .”

But it made for even slower going for Mer¬ cury. Not only did the little sloop have to go

He also reported, “Yes, the Morse Code requirement is still there and will Does anybody detect a possible link between the two comments?

around the ship, but she had to go out into the heavier current to do it. But those were

doing the unacceptable

the least of her problems; for the ship was

Brett Leach is worried. He’s worried that the government is going to feel

completely shielding Mercury from the wind.

forced to impose more restrictions on San Francsico Bay sailors. He’s even more worried that one of his fellow Bay sailors might get killed.

So there she was, her sails limp, her path blocked, losing ground to the flood, waiting for the/-!&’!! to get the -8d*l! out of the way.

The problem — as it’s been for years — is small boats getting in the way of unmanueverable large ships. Brett has a better perspective on the situation than most small boat sailors.

Were any other boats in the entire regatta

He s raced the Bay on his Santana 22 and more recently has become a

blocked by the O’Brien? Nope, just Mercury.

liveaboard in Alameda with his wife, Karen, on Limestone Cowbody, a

She took second, anyway.

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"It looks close but we’ll clear that ship easy, Babe."

“It just looks like it will be close, don’t worry.”

"Shut up! We’ll just be able to pass ahead!"

Cheoy Lee Offshore 36. So Brett knows what it’s like looking up at those big ships. But as a professional mariner, he also knows what things look like from a hundred feet off the water’s surface on the bridge of a big ship. And he doesn’t always like what he sees: cont’d on next sightings page

I first saw the Infinito Errante tied stern-to in the little harbor of Agios Nicolaos, Crete. A 51-ft Herreshoff designed center-cockpit ketch, she looked an interesting, though slightly ungainly, boat. Since sailboats on Crete are about as common as souvlaki shops in San Francisco, I immediately asked ' around. Agios is a small place during the winter, with the tourists gone, and it didn’t take long to get invited aboard. See if you can follow this: The Infinito was registered in Guernsey, Channel Islands, and owned by an Englishman living in the south of France. She had just been sold, via a Swiss corporation, to a Chilean working as a marine biologist in Zanzibar, where she was to be delivered by passage through the Suez. The delivery skipper was a Dutchman, the remaining crew a young German and an American from Boulder, Colorado. If you got all that, great, because it took me more than a day to work it all out. The first thing I noticed about the boat wasn’t the rigging, the brightwork or the deck layout. It was the way the crew moved around, like cats tip-toeing through water — slowly and with a measure of distaste. Every now and then, Jimmy, the American, hummed the theme of Outer Limits, “Dodo DOdo On the first leg of the delivery, from Fort de Beaulieu-Sur-Mer, France, the Infinito had run in to a gale that swamped the engine, bent the rudder shaft and kept everyone hanging their heads over the side. Skipper Hans van DeVenter — a man with a Master’s license and 30 years of experience — spent 48 straight hours at the helm. The boat limped into Crete, immediately lost an anchor on a lee shore — a snapped chain link — and blew out her VHF. By this time the crew was referring to her as the Infinito Problema. The new ownership papers for the Infinito hadn’t been delivered when she was due to leave France, and the broker promised to forward them to Crete. Of course the papers weren’t there when the boat arrived, and as the days slipped by still nothing was heard. A boat can’t be taken into Egyptian waters without complete papers. Hans was several times told the story of the last skipper to do so; the boat was impounded and the captain spent two weeks in jail until ownership could be proven. Contrary to tourist brochures, there are few decent harbors on Crete, and the cycle of winter storms — much like those that sweep over Northern California — was in¬ creasing. Hans decided to combine a trip for new parts (rudder shaft and VHF) with a page I 10

SIGHTINGS problema face-to-face confrontation with the broker. He flew to England, and there discovered the boat papers hadn’t been processed because the prior owner couldn’t be found. The prior owner couldn’t be found because he had “sold” the boat three times, collecting 20 percent deposits from two buyers and the full price from the biologist in Zanzibar. Meanwhile, Infinito broke loose of her moor¬ ings twice and managed to rather severely batter a Greek tour boat anchored for the winter. The two-man crew spent day after day on 4-hour watches. Hans, passing through France on his way back to Crete to check on his own boat lying at Beaulieu, had to declare the new VHF on the papers of his own vessel. (French customs will tax the bejesus out of any elec¬ tronics not officially registered to an extant boat, and the Infinito, remember, had no papers.) By the time Hans got to Agios Nicolaos his crew was a bit shell-shocked, as the Infinito had now lost her generator, burst a new 3-inch thick(!) warp and was causing the animosity of every fisherman in the harbor. Ownership problems meant the boat couldn’t continue on, and the weather meant the boat couldn’t stay. So Hans made the decision to find her a safe berth in Piraeus, the port for Athens since the 5th Century B.C. That’s when my wife and I were asked if we wanted to join the crew for the passage. Since nearly eight months had passed without having set foot on a sailboat, my withdrawl symptoms overcame my misgiv¬ ings. Besides, Hans inspired easy — and legitimate, it turned out — feelings of con¬ fidence. Only because Jimmy, the Colorado cowboy, kept mumbling “Dodo DOdo” did I have qualms. We left Crete on a bright, warm and windless day. A quarter of a mile out of Agios harbor the engine broke. Hans fixed it. Two miles later it broke again. He fixed it again. The autopilot failed. He fixed it. The heat exchange unit melted. Jimmy whistled “Dodo DOdo . . .” The two days northward through the Aegean were constantly interesting. There were wonderful parts: Sunrise off Santorini, the stark volcanic island that exploded in 1500 B.C. and wiped out the Minoan civilization; the brown beauty of Folegandros and Melos islands marking our passage through the Cyclades; the camaraderie of an international crew joined as strangers and quickly becoming friends; the efforts of my French wife — herself a hard-driving sailor cont'd center of next sightings page

“Last October 5, I was the Third Mate on the bridge of the Moku Pahu, bringing 35,000 tons of sugar from Hawaii bound for Crockett. When we entered the Bay we were met by hordes of SYRA class boats on what ap¬ parently was the last day of racing for the season. The Cal 20 fleet was on its way from Crissy to Harding Rock. Most of the crews faced forward and never cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS doing the unacceptable — cont’d saw us until we blew our whistle. This was a clear violation of the rules of the road on their part, because a proper lookout is required at all times. “Despite repeated whistle signals, several boats would not give way until we were almost on top of them. One boat passed down our side less than 40 feet away. Fortunately, no boats were damaged and no one was hurt. The pilot and captain were quite pissed off, however.” Brett’s conclusion i^simple: “People, this is unacceptable.” He’s damn right it’s unacceptable. A few months after the incident he describes, we went up on the Golden Gate Bridge and shot the six photographs accompanying this copy. Can anyone in their right mind defend the behavior of the Express 27 in the sequence? When pilots and captains see behavior such as displayed by the small boat in the sequence they get angry and confused. Brett says they ask themselves: “Why is this person trying to commit suicide on my watch!?!” Brett entreats all recreational sailors to heed the following suggestions: 1) Look around while you are out there. Peek behind the genoa, lqok over your shoulder, scan the whole 360°, and not well in advance if there are any ships headed your way. Do this often. 2) Take avoiding action early. Plan your course so you will be somewhere else when the ship gets here. • x ' 3) Make your actions apparent to those on the bridge of the ship. This is best done by making large course changes, say more than 30°. 4) If a ship makes the danger sign (5 or more short blasts on its whistle) and you are near its course, assume it is meant for you. The signal means someone is in danger or the pilot does not understand your intentions. Do something to get out of the way immediatelyWl 5) Give commercial vessels a wide berth. If something unexpected happens you will want plenty of room, so plan ahead. Failure to follow these suggestions is very likely to lead to restricted use of San Francsico Bay by sailors. But that’s not the worst thing that could happen. Lou Albano’s 30-ft Hurricane got hit by a ship on the Bay a couple of years back. Some of the ship’s crew heard him cursing from the water, but that was the last anybody ever heard of Lou or his crew. Folks, there’s way too many of us dying or coming close to dying on recreational boats because we’re being reckless and foolish. Please, let’s all be smart and avoid trouble rather than search for it.

new home for old metropolitan yc If you’ve ever lived in one place for 20 years and then packed up your accumulated junk and moved everything to a new house you can sympathize with the Metropolitan YC Oakland. After 20 years in their Jack London Square clubhouse under its familiar cupola, they’ve moved about two miles down the Estuary next to the Apple Inn. It took three weekends to move out and it’ll be another couple of months before things are in order, but the bar’s open, the club has already put on a Mother’s Day brunch for 100 people, and the transition was made without missing a single Friday night steak fry. “The amount of work put in by the members was unbelievable,” said Sharon Rintala, who was in charge of coordinating volunteers. About 50 members moved two decades worth of. club belongings, including the bar. which was too long for the new club so it was cut into a “U” shape. Members tore out walls, installed plumbing, put down carpets and replaced paneling. All the work was done by club members, some of whom are contractors as well as boaters. To commemorate the move, members wear T-shirts that read, “I survived the MYCO move.” There will be an open house when the new club’s finished in June. Commodore Joe Peters said the club’s community programs will continue, such as the bathtub fundraiser for Children’s Hospital, and youth sailing lessons. The club also puts on the Oakland-Catalina Race, a midcont'd on next sightings page

infinito — who rose to the cultural stereotype and prepared one elegant meal after another. The Infinite itself, however, was another story. The refrigeration was out (no big deal), the primary gear on the main halyard winch quit (only an exhausting 400 turns to get the main up) and the wheel nut kept coming loose (potentially a big deal). Nothing major, just a series of annoying, nagging problems that creates distrust about a boat. The Infinito seemed determined to deteriorate along with the weather, which by the time we reached the Saronic Gulf had turned into blustery winds and steady rain. Crawling our way into Piraeus after nightfall, a misplaced channel marker (misplaced accofdtng to the Infinito charts) led us aground. When a 51-ft boat touches bottom it goes “bumpbump” and the crew page 117

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new home — cont'd problema — cont'd goes “ohmygodohmygod”. Hans nursed her through the swells back into the channel, and somehow found the harbor lights in the confusion of traffic signals, disco signs and automobile tail lights. Jimmy, like the rest of us suddenly feeling confident and goodhumored, was humming “Dodo DOdo” when the anchor chain fouled. Three hours later we finally tied the stern to the quay. The following morning, as the crew squared away the boat, Hans left to make some phone calls. He returned pale and upset. Call number one: a small motorcycle lent to’ {he Infinito crew on Crete had been impounded by the Agios Nicolaos harbor police before its owner could arrive to pick it up, and the cops weren’t giving it back; call number two: the Infinito was now involved

winter series and Women On Water, or WOW, to help women members become better sailors. A long-standing rent dispute prompted the move. It took members five years to find a new location, which had to be on the Estuary and have access to slips. The new club is near Quinn’s Lighthouse, overlooking Brooklyn Basin, which was the center of Oakland when the city was founded in the mid-1800s. Now that a new home has been secured, the club is looking forward to some growth in membership. “It’s onward and upward from hexe,” Rintala said.

big mac 65’s Roger MacGregor is the Henry Ford of sailboats. Assembly line techniques are used on his MacGregor 65s more than on any other sailboat. “We have 200 people in our plant and not one guy has a tape measure,” MacGregor said during a visit with M/65 owners in San Francisco last month. “There are big heavy jigs for everything that show where to drill the holes. It’s a straight production boat. Every one’s the same.” cont'd on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS big mac 65’s — cont’d Small wonder that they’ve earned the nickname “K-Mart 65’s”. There are seven M/65s on the Bay, the owners of which met with MacGregor to discuss the boats and a possible one-design organization. The seven boats then raced in the Bay off Pier 39. Veteran racer Hal Nelson did a “horizon job” on the rest of the fleet with his Zeus. Responding to a claim by another designer that the raw materials for a Santa Cruz 50 cost more than a finished MacGregor 65, MacGregor responded by saying that production techniques and volume make the difference. cont'd on next sightings page

infinito in legal battles reaching from Guernsey to Geneva to Beaulieu-Sur-Mer; call number three: French customs, checking Hans’ own boat for the VHF, and not finding it, had thrown off his watchman and slapped a padlock on the vessel. An empiricist by nature, I am not a superstitious man. I don’t believe in evil spirits or trips to the twilight zone. But when Jimmy began to do his “Dodo DOdo”

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number I glared him into silence. Both my wife and I had a sudden urge to get back to Crete, so after trading addresses and sen¬ timental goodbyes with the others we left for the airport. Thirty minutes later we were back. The airport was on strike. Jimmy kept quiet, but my wife was now saying things like “you can check out anytime you like, but you can

“There isn’t a stick of wood on the boat, so there’s no expensive joiner work,” he said. “There aren’t many options. They’re all the same color. I buy resin by the tank car, so I get a volume discount. There’s no exotic materials like graphite or carbon fiber. The cabin liner is made in one piece. It’s a fairly simple boat. Nobody else is doing this in sailboats.” The M/65 is an interesting boat in other ways, too. Sixtythree feet long at the waterline, 11’9” beam, 23,500 pound dis¬ placement, mast 70 feet off the deck and a big sailplan, natu¬ rally they’re rocket fast. Claims are made that the M/65’s will do 11 knots to weather and as much as 30 knots off the wind. That may be stretching it, but not by that much. In any event, big boats traveling at such speeds demand skilled helmsmen and alert crews in cloased course racing — or even pleasure sailing — on places like the Bay. M/65’s are a mass-produced maxi built for guy who don’t care about handicaps but would rather go for first-to-finish honors. Unfortunately, they rate over 70.0 IOR, and therefore are ineligible for such races as the TransPac and some of the slides to Mexico. Nonetheless, Joss, considered by many to be the fastest “Bic Mac”, holds the Marina del Rey Roger MacGregor, to Puerto Vallarta course record, having bested SC70’s and Nelson-Marek 68’s to do it. That’s very impressive. To day an astounding 35 of the bqats have been sold. Certainly one big reason is the price. At $97,500 for the cruising version, it’s a fraction of the cost of custom maxi’s and compares with many 40-footers. The all-glass finish down below has a functional, futuristic look but doesn’t exude the warmth of teak. Yet the interor’s aren’t entirely spartan; the cruising version comes with a bathtub. And it’s likely that more M/65’s will be sold. MacGregor said that a new model will be coming out soon aimed at the charter trade, with an inside steering station and a shaol draft version for Florida. Some critics have wondered whether or not the M/65’s will prove durable enough for repeated exposure to heavy weather such as can sometimes be found off Northern California. Of course, the same question has been asked of lighter boats since the Cal 40 was introduced. In'the event of a problem, however, the M/65 has something^doing for it; positive flotation tucked behind the cabinets. MacGregor says it’s enough to support a Cadillac while completely awash. Last month’s fun race on the Bay demonstrated that the M/65’s have the acceleration and responsiveness of a 30-ft ultralight. And that they’re also just as tender. More than a few times during the fun race normal Bay gusts heeled the boats over so far — see the accompanying photograph — that their propellers came completely out of the water. As with light boats of any size, proper sail selection, trim and crew responses make all the difference in

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SIGHTINGS big mac 65’s — cont’d the world. The MacGregor 65, a new variation on an old theme that’s creating a stir in the sailing industry.

seven rescued in capsizings; man dies “One thing never gses wrong on a boat. It’s one thing, then another, and pretty soon you’re up the creek.” That’s how family friend Colin Case summed up events that led to the death of Jake Ricks, 33, May 2. Ricks and two women friends set out from China Camp State Park in Marin County about 4:30 p.m. on Ricks’ Hobie 18. A gust flipped the Hobie about an hour later just short of two miles west of the park. They got it upright, but somehow the boat got away and sailed off by itself. Ricks was wearing a “farmer john” wetsuit; one of the women was wearing a partial wetsuit and the other had on jeans and a sweatshirt. Ricks had the only lifejacket. He took it off, told the women to hang on and kick while he towed them to shore. Ricks was a former lifeguard and a strong swimmer, but about an hour and a half later, when they were only 200 yards from shore, he became delirious, lost consciousness, and the women started screaming for help. Bill Edinger, of Edinger Marine in Sausalito, heard them from his 40-foot sloop Spectra anchored off the park. He jumped into an inflatable, pulled the unconscious Ricks and the two women aboard, attempted to revive Ricks and took them ashore. Paramedics arrived and attempted CPR on Ricks, but Edinger said Ricks was blue, had no pulse and the women said he had been unconscious for 20 minutes. Ricks was later pronounced dead, apparently of hypothermia and a heart attack, at a hospital in Terra Linda. The two women recovered. “It was a pretty grim experience,” Edinger said. “The family wants to get the information out, to maybe prevent something like this from happening in the future,” said Case. No one knows if it would have prevented the fatality, but if all three had been wearing full wetsuits and lifejackets, Ricks would probably have had a better chance. Also, any cap¬ sized boat can get away from you when it comes up in strong wind, especially a powerful catamaran, so be extra careful. Case was to have met with Ricks the following Monday to discuss upcom¬ ing races. Instead, Case helped scatter his friend’s ashes. In a rescue that had a happier ending, four sailors were found clinging to an overturned 19-foot sailboat south of Santa Cruz after spending four hours in the water April 11. Here’s an account of the rescue written by Paul Donovan, the skipper who saved them:

infinito never leave,” and began humming those dreaded Out Limits notes. That afternoon I hosed down the boat. Although I’m sure I checked the ports, somehow one was left open. That night we slept in wet bunks. The next day the airport strike was over, but naturally all the flights Were completely booked. I grabbed my wife and fled, unashamed, to a large hotel. I wanted a hot shower, room service and a dry bed. Once in the room I turned on the lights, the shower and the radio, in that order. My

what’s behind the whale door?

it happened on april 11 Boaters exposed to our Northern California ocean environment may benefit from this reminder of their special need for safe boating habits. Late Saturday afternoon, April 11, five lucky sailors were plucked from the frigid (52° F.) waters of Monterey Bay about five miles southeast of Santa Cruz Harbor, and hoisted aboard our 42-ft ketch, the Antares. The three men and two women had set forth from Santa Cruz Harbor about mid-day in a 19-ft keel-less sailboat which had been trailered from the Sacramento Delta area. Small craft advisories were posted for NW winds to 30 knots, with seas of 8-10 feet. The Antares, a bluewater cruising vessel, had encountered 12-14 foot breaking swells enroute to Santa Cruz from the southern Monterey Bay. By the greatest of good fortune, a barely-visible floating object about 1/4 mile abeam was spotted at the top of a large swell by our sharp-eyed son, Brian. Further examination with binoculars revealed the possibility of a small craft in trouble. Dropping sail and turning 90 degrees, the Antares cont'd on next sighting page

You probably know by now what’s behind the green door, but the whale door in Vallejo is a different story. It’s an elaborate wood in¬ laid door complete with 3-D whales that we noticed while in town for the Vallejo Race. Behind the door is Yacht Masters, a spiffy new chandlery at 1 Harbor Way in Vallejo. The rest of the store’s interior design and huge new boat yard could probably make the cover of Better Chandleries and Boat Yards. page I 16

SIGHTINGS problema — cont’d wife began to laugh. The radio, tuned to a typically eclectic Greek station, was playing Gordon Lightfoot’s Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. My wife, between giggles, was making a sound I knew too well: “Dodo DOdo ...” — leonard sellars Editor’s note: A journalism professor at San Francisco State, Sellars is living in Greece while completing a book. Until recently, he owned the Aries 32, Freelancer.

sled wars: cal cup 1987 “We went from the tank to the bank,” quipped Citius helmsman Steve Grillon when describing the Santa Cruz 70’s im¬ probable come-from-behind victory in the 25th anniversary edition of the prestigious Cal Cup. After 75 rhumbline miles and 20 mark roundings on windward-leeward courses, the winner of this five race, level¬ rated, no-throwout buoy racing contest for eight maxi sleds wasn’t decided until the final minutes of the last weather leg of the last race. Mathematically, any of four boats could have won the regatta going into the final race, and with ten minutes left the guys on Cheetah were getting ready to pop the champagne corks. Citius had rounded the last mark in DFL. With only a three-mile beat to the finish, an otherwise beautiful series looked like it was going down the hopper. So they desperately banged the usually unfavored left-hand side of the course, so far back that no one bothered to cover. They went for broke, all the way to the port tack layline. But as the fleet came together in the final hundred yards at the finish, Citius passed three boats, pulling a gargantuan rabbit out of their hat, almost giving themselves — not to mention the assembled fleet of spectators — heart attacks. “We were talking directly to God on that one,” claimed crewmember Sam Heck, who denied rumors that the entire 18-man crew had gone to church together earlier that Sunday morning. “Actually, what else could we do?” Indeed, if there was ever a time to take a flyer, that was it. It was a thrilling finish to the closest Cal Cup ever — the first four boats ended up separated by one 1:5 points! Grillon, a North sailmaker out of Hun¬ tington Beach, did a masterful job of guiding Citius, arguably one of the lower tech and lower budget sleds, to victory. Like all of cont'd center of next sightings page

seven rescued — cont’d approached under power to find four people sitting awash on the inverted bottom of their capsized sailboat. Were it not for this chance encounter, the probability of rescue was very slight, since darkness was approaching and there were no other vessels within several miles. The swell was running at about 8-10 feet at their location, with a stiff 3-foot chop. They had been in this situation for about four hours, and were suffering from severe hypothermia. They were further exhausted from prior fruitless efforts to right their vessel. None had foul-weather gear or even warm clothing, nor did they carry any signaling devices on their persons or aboard. They did have PFDs — three among them, one having drifted away earlier. Although they were in too weakened a state to support their own weight or climb our swim ladder, we were able to pull each of them over to the Antares and hoist them on board using our LIFESLING man-overboard recovery apparatus. This process took about twenty minutes and, fortunately, was executed without mishap. Those who are familiar with the conduct of such rescue operations in a high sea-state know the substantial risk of loss or injury which is involved. During the course of the rescue operation, we learned that about two hours earlier another crewman, wearing a lifejacket, had left the overturned boat in an attempt to swim to shore in the direction of “the white spot” (La Selva Beach, about 4-5 miles distant). After wrapping our guests in warm blankets and notifying the Coast Guard and Harbor Patrol, we set out to look for the swimmer. We knew that in the increasing darkness there would be little chance of rescue unless he were found promptly. Estimating that a strong swimmer could have at best progressed about two miles under the prevailing conditions, we set out in the appropriate direction, making allowance for the set of seas and current and maintaining a careful watch. After progressing about two miles, Brian spotted a floating lifejacket (unoccupied). Concerned about the fate of the possible prior occupant, but encouraged that we might at least be proceeding in the right direction, we shut down the engine to listen. A distant muffled call was faintly heard, and the fifth survivor was soon found and hoisted aboard. He was suffering from

Lifesling helped save lives off Santa Cruz.

extreme hypothermia and complete paralysis of his legs. He was later transferred (a hairy operation in the prevailing sea state) with one of his com¬ panions to a Santa Cruz Harbor Patrol vessel which we had earlier directed to our location. Our three remaining visitors, who were by then in better condi¬ tion, remained aboard the Antares. They were taken to Santa Cruz Harbor, and subsequently joined their companions for hospital treatment. We are told that all five have fully recovered from their harrowing experience. cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS seven rescued — cont’d Some lessons to be learned (once again!) from this episode are: Monterey Bay should be treated as an open-ocean environment. Boaters should dress accordingly, and in anticipation of unschedule immer¬ sion. Vessels not designed and equipped for ocean use should operate only in sheltered waters. ^ Small-craft advisories are serious warnings, not to be ignored. s It is vital that all Vessels (even rowboats) carry appropriate signaling devices. Your hand-held VHF will probably not work after immersion. Handlauched “pocket rockets”, which ascend to a height of over 500 feet, are the best signals in high sea-states, since surface-level signalling devices are not visible at any distance. These rockets can be seen for miles, day or night (ex¬ cept in heavy fog); they are waterproof and cost about $10 for a package of three. Be sure that a suitable horn is carried aboard, and that a whistle and an appropriate lighting device are on your person, or (preferably) attached to your lifejacket. v* Even absent a suitable signaling system, there are very few cir¬ cumstances in which it is appropriate for anyone to swim away from a cap¬ sized or disabled vessel which remains afloat. In cold ocean waters, this should never be done unless the sea conditions are calm and the shore is in easy reach. In 50° waters, a strong swimmer in top condition may have 4.5' minutes of useful swimming time available. In the situation described above, the swimmer was out of sight of his stranded companions within 50 yards, due to the sea conditions. s In addition to the normal rescue flotation gear, all vessels with a freeboard too high to easily pull a swimmer on board should carry an appro¬ priate sling and hoisting gear. The person overboard may be injured or ex¬ hausted, and thus quite unable to assist in the rescue process. — paul and kathy donovan

sled wars these jumbo surfboards, Citius had three distinct divisions of labor onboard. Forward of the mast in “Frontierland”, was Sam Heck’s department. Handling sail trim in the middle of the boat, “Adventureland”, was Bob Boyes. Behind the traveller, in “Fantasyland”, the cast included tactician Pete X Heck and three of the six owners of the boat -r John Messenger, Bill Wilson, and Addison Sawyer. Tied with Citius, looking like winners, but losing on the tiebreaker, was Dick Penning¬ ton’s Cheetah. Apparently, Cheetah, Dick and Paula Blackburne, Dick’s ubiquitous

the anchor-out squeeze in richardson bay Elsewhere in Sightings we tell you about the move to ban anchor-outs in Richardson Bay. Peter Bailey is one who will probably have to live elsewhere. He wrote us with an eloquent defense of people who work the seagoing trades and live on their boats. We think he makes some good points: , I reluctantly take pen in hand to comment on the proposed Richardson Bay Regional Agency “Anchor-Out” ordinance and its inevitable interference with local small-scale commerce. But first some background. For the last 5,000 years of recorded history and probably long before that, it has been possible for a poor person, a “homeless woodcutter”, to take trees from the forest, buy cheap iron from the blacksmith, rent and otherwise useless back lot, and build a small ship of 20 to 50 tons. A very simple craft, but of sophisticated, ancient, timelessly functional design. By combining vigorous labor with craftsmanship and an artful eye, the former social liability is now a sailor, Captain, small-scale businessman. His little ship gives him a home and job in one. He can stock the sushi bars with salmon and albacore, or deliver many tons of building material to some nervous shoreline homeowner who needs a seawall in a place no truck can go. This is just as true now as it was when Celts painted their bodies blue and fought Caesar’s troops. So the ship is built. Our proud craftsman registers her with the Govern¬ ment, moves aboard, and begins to make a living. He may set or overhaul heavy moorings for boat owners, move a piano to an inaccessible house, or use her as his shop and home as he builds or repairs other wooden vessels. Our ship is being used to support a family at a modest steady level. The woodcutter is the latest success story in a direct line of shared and taught ex¬ perience that goes back to the first starving naked hunter who used a floating log to cross the water to a game-rich island on some misty Pleistocene lake. This is commerce and part of our economic system. cont'd on next sightings page page I 18

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girlfriend, got a group discount on a little cosmetic surgery right before the Memorial Day Cal Cup regatta. These uplifting developments were the subject of much good-natured humor during the obligatory speeches — which rapidly degenerated into roasts of Dick and Pat Farrah, who took sec¬ ond and third place respectively in the threeday regatta.

Some years ago a builder of wood boats made $6,000 to $7,000 a year, and he probably owned a modest cottage in Sausalito, for which he paid under $10,000. Or he could rent at $50 a month. In 1987 our woodcutter can still make about the same amount of money but the same cottage, now termite ridden, is “worth” $185,000 or can be rented for $900 every month. If our small-ship owners wants a berth, his 65-ft vessel will cost him $6,000 a year. So he anchors out, picking some quiet place with a good holding ground, protected from surf and wind. Since the 1770’s Sausalito has sheltered small commercial vessels, so many that the sailors even had their own graveyard, near where the sewer plant now stands. As always, sailors liveaboard their vessels because their life is on the water, not because it’s something “free”. That’s just where their

— rob moore

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SIGHTINGS anchor-out squeeze — cont’d trade happens to be. Surely some anchor-outs do not practice the maritime trades, but what about those of us who do, and the boatyard and vessel owners who abso¬ lutely depend on us for repairs to their array of craft? When your $500,000 boat is sinking, you ne^d a skilled person now, not driving in tomorrow from Richmond, if you could get ahold of him at all. Boat work is sporadic, rigidly seasonal, and rarely produces a steady income. Living on our own boats at a mooring in what the chart says is “Special Anchorage 110.126a, 110.1 makes it possible to survive as we contribute an essential part of Sausalito’s economy, and are still instantly available when needed. The ignorant lands¬ men who make laws and have power are totally blind to the impact their bureaucratic meddling would have on Sausalito if this ordinance is adopted. Self-righteous fingers are pointed at the lash barges that wound up on the beach near Blackie’s Pasture. One nautical incompetent who can’t tell the dif¬ ference between anchor chain and sewing thread, does not represent all the unsung heroes who are out there, invisible from the land, saving some untended (non-liveaboard) yacht at 0200 on a December morning with the wind blowing 40 knots, assisted by on/y his lifelong accumulated skill and, knowledge. Tossing heavy anchors around on a slippery, plunging foreddck in the dark is not my idea of living for “free”. Maybe the boatowner grudg¬ ingly fishes out $20 from in between his credit cards. Maybe he never even finds out you saved his boat last winter. Now our woodcutter is returning to his mooring in the early evening after a day of labor. The stout small ship tacks up with the flood tide, her large, low sails producing many horsepower in absolute silence. With the Bay behind her and the warm light, she makes a breathtaking, timeless scene. On the shore of a waterfront town, herds of pale strangers stop, point, click their Nikons. About three weeks ago as I walked along, a new Mercedes stopped next to me, and a large, well-dressed man with a German accent said, “Excuse me, but where can we find the artists’ houseboats? All we’ve seen are some ter¬ ribly tacky shops.” I swear those were his exact words. All 1 could do was send them to Gate 5. I couldn’t bear to tell him that Art is dead. Hopefully, they found what they had come 8,000 miles to see. Peter Bailey Builder, Master/Owner, Commercial S/V Bertie “Anchor Out, Underway on the Bay, Every Day”

olson production stops; outlook uncertain Things don’t look good for Pacific Boats, the Santa Cruz builder of the ultralight Olson line — Olson 25, 29, 30 and the new 34. Nobody directly connected with the company is saying much, but from what we’ve been told by people close to the action, designer George Olson has sold his share of the company to John Day, who is looking for investors to keep the line going. Pacific workers were reportedly told to go home May 28 and all produc¬ tion stopped. Since then most of the dozen workers have found jobs with the other boat builders in Santa Cruz, Pacific’s phone has been disconnected, and bankruptcy rumors have been flying. It’s not that the boats aren’t in demand. Apparently Pacific had a backlog of orders, but the company ran into a cashflow crunch and couldn’t keep the wheels turning. We’re sure there will be more developments on this in months ahead, and we hope Pacific can find a way to resume business.' In the words of one of Pacific’s competitors, “It’s tough to be in the boat building business these days. A sailboat is a hell of a deal for the consumer. At least 50 percent of the cost is in raw materials and labor, more than almost any manufactured product. Nobody’s getting rich off building boats. Margins are thin for both manufacturers and dealers. A slight hiccup and you’re out of business.”

schooner sprouts “We started with just a parking lot. A year later we had the same parking lot and we had a beautiful schooner in the water beside it,” recalled Andy Davis, master shipwright of the Spirit of Massachusetts. The 140-ton replica of the famous Gloucester fishing '''■schooner Fredonia was built in Boston in 1983-84, mostly by volunteers. Andy Davis will show construction slides of the 125-foot ship Wednesday, June 17, at 7 p.m. at the Bay Model Visitors Center in Sausalito. It’s free and sponsored by Call of the Sea. Davis, 36, served as shipwright on both the Pride of Baltimore and the John F. Leavitt. Before that he apprenticed as a boatbuilder on the island of Dominica in the West Indies for three years with the Peace Corps. His most recent job was supervising the reconstruction of the 1934 America’s Cup challenger Endeavor. Now he’s living in the Bay Area because the windsurfing is great here and one of three schools in the U.S.. that offers naval

the worst marine and perhaps What is it about the maximum horsepower powerboat guys — particularly the Miami

SIGHTINGS in parking lot architecture is at UC Berkeley. This fall Davis will become an engineering student there. “It is rare today to find someone who absolutely knows what he wants to be doing with his life and is doing it,” Smith said. He’s a bright, energetic man who is doing just what he wants to do. “While building the Spirit we were all that way. In spite of the frustrations and the brutish long hours, we were all happy. “Building the Spirit is the best thing I’ve ever done. Now when I look out of my office and see just the empty parking lot I’m a little lonely.” Call of the Sea is a non-profit maritime association planning to build a tall ship for San Francisco Bay. Like the Spirit of Massachusetts she will be a replica of a local well-known vessel, the Galilee. She will serve as a sail training ship for Bay Area young people. For information on the June 17 lecture call the Bay Model at 332-3870 or Call of the Sea at 331-1882. — merlyn storm

lonely? run it up the flagpole In response to a letter from a Florida cruising couple who were having dif¬ ficulty making friends among California cruisers in Mexico, J. Dalton of Seattle offered a suggestion. What’s needed, he writes, is a set of flags indicating the disposition of cruisers to various activies, such as willingness to talk or party, or having need of information, etc. If these became as familiar as, for instance, the diver-down flag or the skull and crossbones, it would be a good way to communicate one’s desires and intentions. Here are Dalton’s suggestions. We can think of a few more, and we’re sure you can, too.

product of 1987 — the decade crowd — that makes them so . . . well, Miami l/ice-ish? All we can figure is that either they’re just plain star struck or perhaps they’ve been inhaling engine exhaust for too many years. The question arose in our mind after Donzi Marine announced the release of — you’re going to want to be sitting down when you read this — Donzi Colonge. Company spokesmen say — and reports are they tit¬ tered a bit when they said it — that it’s “the first high-performance cologne for men”. ‘High-performance cologne’? We’re not exactly sure what they mean by that, but we suspect it’s got something to do with hard¬ bodied young blondes. Of course, we could be wrong. Maybe they just mean you can pour it in a Donzi’s voracious tanks to good effect if they ever run dry. We have yet to sample the product, but someone who has describes it as smelling like a combination of Rose’s Lime Juice, li¬ quified Butch Wax, Bardahl and alcohol de cana with a hint of WD-40”. His evaluation is that it’s the kind of fragrance that will go well with Porsche sunglasses, a Playboy gold necklace, a bomber leather jacket from The Sharper Image, Air Jordan high top sneakers, and a Ferrari replica body over a VW chassis. “Go Fast; Smell Good”, say the folks at Donzi, who sound a little like they’ve been cont'd center of’next sightings page page 121

racer, cruiser, daysailer — these two are for you! ‘Better living through chemistry’. In the 1950’s that was the slogan of one of the big corporations; General cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS the worst racer, cruiser — cont’d

nipping at their fragrance. Donzi Marine, makers of Southern Florida-style glamour powerboats, already market such products as Donzi Lip Balm, Donzi suncreen, and the Donzi Dudz line of clothes. Spokesmen say the their next product will be a women’s fragrance. Liz Taylor,

Electric if we remember correctly. In the 60’s the Haight-Ashbury hippies adopted it in humorous reference to recreational drug taking. By the 1970 s the motto was orphaned. But perhaps nowhere during the last quarter of a century would the expression have been more applicable than to the world of sailing. The Sausalito-built BountySI’s in the late 50’s ushered in the age of fiberglass hulls and the industry has never been the same since. Even today’s wood boats are really chemical compositions, held together by epoxies. Cotton sails are long gone, having been replaced with test-tube babies such as dacron, nylon, kevlar and mylar. Spinnaker poles, hulls and sailboard masts are made of or reinforced with carbon fiber and other exotics. Hemp is smoked so yacht ropes are made of dacron, nylon, polypropylene, kevlar and other discoveries of the guys in white coats. In a way it’s sad things have become so ‘unnatural’, but the old alternatives just aren’t viable anymore. The natural products simply had less to offer in this go-go age; they weren’t as good, they cost more and didn t last as long. In the last few years, chemistry has most benefitted the average sailor in the area of clothing. Wool pants, sweaters and watch caps have mostly been replaced by similar garments made of various kinds of synthetics such as ^ polyester and polypropylene. And even these products are modified each year with improvements from the lab. But that’s not the end of it. Chemists and marketing experts are still creating new goodies of interest to sailors. As proof, we offer the following two products that you possibly haven’t seen yet. Both are sensational for sailing, no matter whether you’re a racer or cruiser. The first is the Sensei Sport Sponge, which makes towels on boats obso¬ lete. As you can tell by the one held by the model in the accompanying photograph, they aren’t very large, just 8 x 27-inches. But don t let their diminutive size fool you, these poly vinylacetate synthetic chamois absorb as much water as a big beach towel. If you’ve ever done a week’s trip to Catalina or spent a few months cruising in Mexico, you know one of the biggest irritants on a boat is towels. They get wet and stay wet — especially when caked with salt. Then they stink. And has anyone ever found a good place in a small boat to hang a towel? There s also the unpleasant matter of having to drag them ashore for a laundering. Imagine there was a substitute that came in five stylish colors, that took up l/24th the space of a normal towel, that never needed to be hung up to dry, and never required a visit to the laundry. That product is the Sensei Sport Sponge. Now brace yourself for the price: we found two for just $4.50 each. We first learned about the product in an issue of Sports Illustrated. The reviewer wrote: “. . .1 spent five days on a sailboat in the Virgin Islands, and it was the only towel I needed.’’ Having used ours a couple of times, we

believe it. The Sensei Sport Sponge is soft to the touch; we as well as our four and six year olds gave it high marks. The. office sensualist, however, didn t particu¬ larly care for the sensation, suggesting that it had a slight synthetic feel. But you know how some women can be with things that cost less, weigh less and conserve space on a boat. The way we see it, the major problem with the Sport Sponge is that they haven’t met with great success in the marketplace, and thus can be hard to find. Almost as good is the set of the Lexan utensils we purchased for our boat. If you’ve been around boats long, you know what salt air does to silver or what’s claimed to be ‘stainless’ utensils. In no time at all it has them rusting in the most unsightly — and unappetizing — way. Short of oiling them every few days, there’s little you can do. The Lexan utensils we bought — sold under the International Permanentware brand name — don’t rust. Made of the same stuff used on astronaut helmets and boat hatches, some of the other bad things they don’t do is chip, melt or break. These aren’t like the other plastic spoons you’ve used before. cont'd on next sightings page page 122

SIGHTINGS product — cont’d Catherine Deneune, and Diane Von Fuistenberg all of whom just released fragrances bearing their own names — are said to be shivering in their sea boots at the prospect of Donzi’s entrance into that market.

racer, cruiser — cont’d The forks don’t quiver under a heavy load of potato salad; the spoons don’t melt when used to stir hot coffee, and the serrated knives can handle all but the toughest came asada. You got a dishwasher on your boat? You’ve nothing to worry about with Lexan utensils. If you have to hand dry, try using your Sensei Sport Sponge — it works for that, too.

MASTER MARINER'S REGATTA 1987

he Master Mariner’s Regatta, usually a genteel old-timers’ outing on the Bay, had enough wind this year to make some of the senior citizens really get up and boogie. Groote Beer, a heavy Dutch cutter built in 1938, doesn’t even make it tdHhe finish line against the tide some years, but this year it won its division, riding upper 20s wind and a strong flood tide. Like most of the Master Mariner boats, Groote Beer has a story to tell. Commis¬ sioned by Nazi Air Marshall Herman Goering in 1938, the boat wasn’t completed until after the war because the workers figured as soon as the boat was finished they’d be sent off to a prison camp. So they took their time, and the detailed woodwork below shows what can be done if you’re really motivated to do careful, slow work. The wind and chop figured in a few inci¬ dents. Athene, which had sailed,as a sloop in recent years, had restored her mizzen

mast and was flying a bright red mizzen staysail when a line released at the wrong time during a tack. The mizzen mast snapped and left the sail flying like a flag. s. Athene also blew out a spinnaker on the last leg of'the race. Vintage 69, a 21-foot Atkin cutter com¬ pleted by its owner, Bud Shippley in 1969 (hence the name), was involved in a collision with a big fiberglass sailboat about an hour before the start, breaking the teak cockpit coaming and damaging the hull Vintage 69 still finished first in the Gaff III division. Despite the problems, Athene finished second (only 21 seconds behind) in her Ocean I division for retired ocean racers. Odyssey, a 58-foot yawl, won'fhe division. Odyssey was converted to a sloop for the 1961 TransPac and her mizzen mast was

Clockwise from right; Crewmembers try to haul in loc se yard on ‘California’; double-ended gaffer heads upwind; 'Yankee' 52-foot schooner, runs wing on wing; crew struggles to clear away broken mizzen mast on 'Athene'.

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Clockwise from left: Classes converge at mark; a little pole work on 'Santana'; 'Brigadoon' cuts through the chop; ‘Black Witch’ runs downwind.

stored in the back yard of the owner’s home in Long Beach for more than 20 years until the boat was rerigged to a yawl about two years ago.

11 was the biggest and fastest Master Mariner’s ever, according to race organizer Pat O’Daniels. Of the 125 entries, only 18 didn’t make it to the starting line. The Master Mariner’s race started as a contest between work boats in San Francisco Bay back in 1867, languished for more than 70 years, then was revived in 1965. Many of the boats in this year’s race also participated in the classic yacht parade the next day as part of the Golden Gate Bridge birthday party. page 127

Brigadoon, actor Sterling Hayden’s former boat, made it to the starting line, but barely. Owner Terry Klaus started ripping up the deck and replacing it with plywood and teak in January, swapping for a covered berth in Alameda to keep the rain off. He figured to have a week or two between the end of the work and the start of the race, but work on boats always seems to fill all the time allowed — and then some. Terry’s friends were still tying the mainsail to the mast hoops at 10 p.m. the night before the race. Briga¬ doon still managed to finish third in her class. The Ocean I class was cut in two by a con¬ tainer ship off Pier 39 on the last leg of the race; Santana and Adios had to tack out of the way. Santana managed to end up in

OCEAN I — 1) Odyssey, 2) Athene, 3) Santana, 4) Angelita, 5) White Cloud, 6) Adios, 7) Rowena. OCEAN II — 1) Caravel, 2) Chorus, 3) Pajara, 4) Vim, 5) Echo, 6) Debit, 7) Danzante, 8) Nautigal, 9) Mistress II, 10) Contenta. GAFF I — 1) Groote Beer, 2) Witch of Wood, 3) Brigadoon, 4) Yankee, 5) Bequia, 6) Nlghtwatcher. GAFF 11 — 1) Aunt Sara, 2) Anna Maria, 3) Makani Kai, 4) Freda, 5) Billiken, 6) Black Witch, 7) Polaris, 8) Cygnus, 9) Sadie, 10) Wilhelm H. Starck, 11) Reliance GAFF III - 1) Vintage 69, 2) Patty West, 3) Pilgrim, 4) Reunion, 5) Adelaide, 6) Dandy. MARCONI I — 1) Barbara, 2) Java Head, 3) Camarada, 4) Evening Star, 5) Anacapa, 6) Flying Cloud (tie) Volante 7) Taaroa, 8) Else, 9) Kandu, 10)

Astrea, 11) Annie II. MARCONI II — 1) Holganza, 2) Princess, 3) Pa¬ tience, 4) Trenayle, 5) Suzie Q, 6) Begone, 7) Genii, 8) Ingwe, 9) Sea Biscuit, 10) Sybaris, 11) Innisfree, 12) Delia, 13) M’Lady. MARCONI III — 1) Flirt, 2) Alia, 3) Mickey, 4) Lit¬ tle Packet, 5) Pampero, 6) Morena, 7) Tere, 8) Haven, 9) Eclipse, 10) Dark Star, 11) Calypso, 12) Toroa, Kaca. MARCONI IV - 1) Woodwind, 2) Pisces, 3) Ragnarok, 4) Uddi, 5) Serrafyn, 6) Sea Weed, 7) Goza, 8) Wizard of Bristol, 9) Westerly, 10) Tristan, 11) Vela, 12) Vandal, 13) Vim, 14) Tar Bab/, 15) Chiron, 16) Corsair, 17) Svenska Flica, 18) Freya, 19) Peer, 20) Sundowner.

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1987

Clockwise from left; 'Danzante' rolls with the swell; old-timer reaches up the Cityfront; ’Ingwe’ flies her chute; 'Freda’ shows her 102-year-old style; ‘Californian’ crewmembers ride the bowsprit.

third place, but it was goodbye to Adios — she finished sixth.

I n the big schooner showdown, the Californian, to no one’s surprise, ran away

from

the

Jacqueline,

even

though

the

Californian lost control of an upper yard for

a while and sent three crewmen aloft to cor¬ ral the flogging sail, yard and assorted gear. The 96-foot replica of the 1849 revenue cut¬ ter Lawrence showed what she could do

with enough" wind — she skedaddled, giving her crew of Pepperdine University cadets the ride of their lives. (They deserved it, after getting seasick while motoring up the coast.) Alma, the 59-foot hay scow that usually races against the big schooners, was out of the water to replace some rotted stern planks and missed the race. Fair Sarae, the 103-foot 1939 schooner berthed in Sausalito, was out cruising around the course, but didn’t participate in the race. — latitude 38 — bp

LOVE THE BOAT

omewhere there’s an old proverb about waiting and waiting for something you already have. If there isn’t one, there should be. Everybody hears stories about how great or worthwhile it is to cruise into Mexico or

but it took

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across the puddle to the South Seas. Most boat owners seem to hold that as a dream for the future, for a time when they have their Generic 35 paid off and can trade up to a “real” cruising boat. By the time they have that organized, if ever, they very seldom go anywhere. Ironically, they might already have a real cruising boat. Bob Casparian owns a Santana 35, hardly what most people think of as a cruiser. He didn’t think of it that way either two years ago, but then he got the cruising bug. Most local brokers will remember Bob as they spent many hours showing him everything from Peterson coastal cruisers to Santa Cruz 50’s. The problem for Bob was he wasn’t sure he would even like cruising, and he didn’t want to spend a lot of money on a boat built for an activity he might not even enjoy. Further, he enjoyed racing the Picaroon and wanted to continue after he’d tried cruising. Finally he decided to take the Santana to Mexico on a trial cruise, for both him and the boat. I went along with him, and to put it mildly, it was a great success on all counts. I want to pass along what we did to the boat, and a few things we should have done. First, we had the boat surveyed. She had been through five years of hard racing, prob¬ ably seeing much more stress than she would coastal cruising, yet she passed with flying colors. We avoided any structural changes, or anything that would mean changing the basic nature of the boat. Windlasses and vanes do very little for the resale value of one design racers so neither was added. We did take some of the sails off, but kept a 3/4 oz. spinnaker onboard just for fun. As it turned out, it was a sail we used a lot going down the coast.

not a treat. We insulated the backstay for an SSB, We lucked out in other areas too. The big added a SatNav, and purchased two Bruce dinghy and engine were great and increased anchors with 500 feet of line and 120 feet of our fun and range at anchor tremendously. chain. We had the liferaft checked, and bought an EPIRB. We also bought a big N The SatNav was a godsend at times, and the SSB was Bob’s favorite toy. The Santana did planing inflatable dinghy and a 7.5 hp a lot more than just get us there; I can’t outboard. remember better sailing than surfing down As we were short of fuel and water the coast, averaging 10 knots for hours at a stowage, we picked up 10 jerry cans, five time. hard plastic and five collapsible. We found The light displacement of the Santana pro¬ the appropriate charts, a lot of paperbacks, vided more than just great sailing. Our and spent a small fortune at Safeway. downwind speed meant making it from one Sounds pretty easy, but it took three months anchorage to the next a little quicker than to get organized. most. This often meant we were securely an¬ chored and sipping a cocktail while other boats were searching for the anchorage in e forgot lots of little things, but by darkness. the time we were in San Diego we pretty well Being able to use little anchors is nice, too. had it together. One of the best things we did Originally we used 50 feet of chain with 250 was buy a dozen boxes of wine. Admittedly, feet of nylon on a 22-lb. Bruce. In La Paz great wine doesn’t come in boxes, but boxes keep pretty well and never break. Cruisers tend to be social animals and having a little ‘Picaroon’ is a race boat, shown here doing the 1982 Santana 35 Nationals. wine with dinner is a treat. Mexican wine is

YOU'RE WITH Ericson’s, Columbia’s, and even one hardy soul that had sailed down the outside on his Montgomery 17! And they all looked like we did the infamous waltz and managed to wrap our anchor rode around the keel which tripped the Bruce and sent us on an unscheduled joyride around the harbor. Adding an extra 50 feet of chain seemed to take care of the problem. Santana 35’s don’t come with a bow roller, nor any space for one, and it was a few months before we figured out how to build one that would fit. Once south of the border, the VHF no longer brings you weather forecasts. Though it was occasionally used to phone home, the SSB was our main source of weather infor¬ mation. Most of our legs were planned around the predicted weather. We ignored this once and stayed in Turtle Bay for five days waiting for the 30 knot winds to pass, while the Ham nets and weather service predicted good sailing weather. Eventually we hailed a southbound boat on the VHF, and sure enough it was blowing just 12 knots five miles offshore. That was the last time the VHF helped us much. Ours was an older model with a limited number of channels. Once in Cabo and most other ports we found that officious Mexican authorities commandeer a half dozen channels for various purposes, usually including the few we had. A newer, multi channel radio would have helped.

e screwed up a few other things too. The worst mistake was not having any kind of self-steering. About the only dominoes games Bob won were played when I was steering and playing at the same time. A Tillermaster would have been a real treat. We provisioned in both Sausalito and San Diego and the under-settee compartments were crammed with food which floated around in the water deposited by the leaky collapsible water jugs. This was a double goof. Collapsible water jugs have a way of opening themselves, and just about any food you can buy here is available for far less in Mexico. We still have several cans of sauerkraut left from the trip. We never did go to weather much, but I suspect a dodger would have been worth¬ while. We did all our battery charging with the alternator which meant running the engine an hour a day. It didn’t bother Bob but I think solar panels or a wind generator would have been helpful. There’s no question we were out¬ numbered by boats with bowsprits, but I was surprised at how many stock production boats we did see. All kinds of Cal’s,

No, ‘Picaroon’ is a cruise boat, shown here lux¬ uriating in the Sea of Cortez in 1986.

they were having as much fun as the “real” cruisers. Several C&C’s and two Islander 36’s were headed for New Zealand. There is no easy way to get home from Mexico unless you can afford to have some¬ one else deliver your boat. We thought trailering would be easier than sailing home. Rounding the Horn would have been more pleasant than what we went through. Prob¬ ably with a smaller boat and a little luck it wouldn’t have been as bad. But the Picaroon is 12 feet wide and Mexico roads are generally 10 feet on each side. The truck broke down three times, we got shot at once, and the boat jammed between two pillars at the Mexico-U.S. border. It took eight days to do a three-day trip, and, we generally had a lousy time.

F •' L-< ventually,

we did make it back to Northern California unscathed. After throw¬ ing a few things in storage, the Picaroon was transformed from a cruiser to a one design racer in time for the 35 Nationals. Most likely she’ll stay a racer through the summer, but come the fall Bob’s planning another cruise; this time through the Panama Canal and up to the Caribbean and East Coast. He may never have a real cruiser, but he’s having a hell of a time cruising what he’s got. — dave reed

THE EARLY BOAT

f there’s a Delta run in your summer sailing itinerary, you might consider making it an early summer run. May’s hot weather and light mountain snow runoff make this year perfect for a June escape — especially if you’re looking to ayoid crowds. The Delta begins to become a nautical beehive in July. By that time all the kids are out of school and working parents try and parlay their the 4th of July holiday into a long vacation. Of course with the 4th falling on a Saturday this year, the latter isn’t going to work so well. July is also especially crowded because virtually all Bay racing is suspended — so the competitive crowd can make their run up the river.

way and establish new personal bests for the By late August and September the crowds elapsed time from the San Rafael Bridge to thin out again as the kids have to return to the Antioch Bridge. (If your elapsed time is a school and Bay and ocean racing has hot one, send it in so we can compare it with resumed. But the normal Delta breezes V others). diminish and it can be hotter than a two Since some of you may be relatively new dollar pistol. to the Delta, we’ve prevailed upon Hal June usually has the great breezes that Schell, author of three books on the Delta, make the downwind Delta run so easy on including Delta Dawdler, to recommend six novice sailors and so much fun for the gung‘first-timer’ anchorages. Naturally Schell ho folks who like to carry the chute all the understands that some of you may be skittish Typical Delta scene: water, weeds, trees and boats. about getting your keel stuck in the famous Delta mud, but recommends you don’t

GETS THE DERM

worry. You don t boat in the Delta long without running aground, no matter what you’re in,” Schell said, repeating the age-old saying: “If you haven’t run aground, you haven’t done the Delta.” The Delta’s a 1,000-mile

wonderland of channels, sloughs, obscure anchorages and good times, so it’s worth a minor grounding.

. t’s even worth a major grounding, something we’ve had more than a little ex¬ perience with. As your boat starts laying over at more than 30 degrees, just keep repeating ■to yourself: “Isn’t it wonderful we’re up here

in the Delta and not on a surf-pounded coral reef just outside Moorea!” Groundings in the Delta usually cause no more damage than a little bottom paint scraped off the helmsman’s pride. The following are Schell’s six recommen¬ dations for beginners: 1. Potato Slough. Schell says this an¬ chorage is perfect for Delta newcomers who may be a little nervous about getting out of deeper water. It’s practically within sight of the Stockton shipping channel, running east from light No. 51. Frequently there are 30 to 40 boats anchored along the shore during the summer, with Lasers, sailboards and dinghies darting between boats. It’s a great

THE EARLY BOAT

place to make friends and a lousy place for solitude. The two islands at Potato Slough are nicknamed Bedroom One and Bedroom Two, although one is officially Fig Island. There’s plenty of depth, lots of protection from the wind, and it’s close enough that you can see sailboat masts going by in the main channel. 2. Disappointment Slough. Six miles beyond Potato • Slough on the Stockton Channel, don’t let the name mislead you. There are about 25 little islands in the slough, most of them are just mud and weeds, not the kind you can go ashore on and tromp around. Schell says this is a real popular place, and some people leave their boats here all summer long. It’s within a mile or two of King Island Resort, Herman & Helen’s and Uncle Bobbie’s for supplies. 3. Horseshoe Bend. Five miles below Rio Vista on the Sacramento River behind Decker Island, this is the closest of Shell’s recommendations to San Francisco Bay. There are some sandy beaches along the shore, a rarity in the Delta. Horseshoe Bend has been a favorite anchorage for years, with plenty of depth, good holding ground and a pretty view of the Montezuma Hills. It’s particularly windy, however, even for the Delta. As such it’s become a very popular spot with accomplished sailboarders. 4. Steamboat Slough. A popular an¬ chorage for years, Schell says some families

Above, channel marker vs. boat — large boat. Left, saloon we enjoyed in Delta, but where? We're not sure.

have been vacationing there on boats for three generations. Two miles past Rio Vista and a half mile beyond where the Sacra¬ mento River forks to the right toward Isleton, the current is strong. Schell suggests anchor¬ ing parallel to the shoreline, with a side-tie to shore. This is a departure from the usual Delta anchoring practice of an anchor over the stern and a bowline tied to a bush on a berm. 5. The East Bank. There are a few an¬ chorages along the wooded east bank of the Sacramento just below the turnoff to Steam¬ boat Slough. These are pleasant and wellprotected, but again Shell recommends sideties because the current is so strong. 6. Mandeville Tip. Among the two or three most popular anchorages in the Delta, the Tip was formed when the Stockton Channel was dredged right through Mande¬ ville Island to straighten out a bend in the river. The entrance is two miles up from Potato Slough. The Tip used to be a county park, but it was abandoned a few years ago when maintenance and trash removal became unmanageable. There’s a big an¬ chorage that fills with up to 3,000 boats for the Fourth of July fireworks put on by hotel

GETS THE BERM

23. 4. S. Seattle 6.

magnate Barron Hilton.

T 1 hose are Shell’s recommendations for first-timers’; we hope none of them were your favorite spot. Incidentally, don’t head up the Delta without charts and a good guidebook. Shell’s yellow-covered Delta map with a complete list of all facilities and services is an excellent place to start. In fact, we’ve made many trips with this alone. In addition to the NOAA portfolio charts there’s also a $14 waterproof chart available at most chandleries. It’s a great idea except that for inexplicable reasons they’ve whacked off the Sacramento River below Walnut Grove, leaving you directionless for the favorite anchorages in that area. How long does it take to get up to the Delta from Alcatraz? Well, that’s obviously going to depend on how fast your boat is, how much attention you pay to sail trim, and if you know how to stay out of adverse cur¬ rent. When we used to sail our old Bounty II up to the Delta, we could always leave Sausalito at noon and be confident of reaching our favorite anchorage near Bruno’s Island by dark.

Denizen of the Delta, ("You're having barbecued WHAT for dinner!?). Also, our special map (not for navigation).

Disappointment Slough Horseshoe Siougn Steamboat Slough The East Bank Mandevtite Tip

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If you’ve got a smaller boat, you might want to consider overnighting at Mayberry Cut — not to be confused with Mayberry Slough. Just across from Antioch, this nar¬ row cut is a great place to tie up to the bushes in flat water for the night. Just whip up a cocktail, get the charcoal going on the BBQ, and enjoy the moment. If you make it a little farther along, you might want to spend the night at Fisherman’s 'Cut, the little north-south channel between Bradford Island and Webb Tract nine miles past Antioch. A little tricky to get in and out of without running aground, there’s always plenty of room. And if you enjoy flat water speed runs on your sailboard, this is a great place. Latitude’s final recommendation is just past the first berm on the port side as you enter Seven-Mile Slough. Sneak between the berms and throw your anchor up on the bank. It’s gre^t, and there’s usually room for three or four other boats to join you. A * 50-yard dinghy ride puts you on the road from which it’s an appetite-building 2.5 mile walk to Moore’s Riverboat Restaurant. Thinking about taking your dinghy down to Moore’s? Don’t. We did it once and almost died of hypothermia from getting drenched on the way back. The Delta. Take your ice, suntan oil, shades, hat, smile and beer. And we’ll see you there! — latitude 38 — bp

SAILOR OF THE DECADE:

e’ve been publishing Latitude for a little over ten years now, which means it’s only appropriate that we identify a ‘Sailor of the Decade’. Ideally, this individual would have made great contributions to the sport not only as a sailor, but as a designer, builder, and a shaper of opinion. \ ' As unlikely as it seems, there is just such an Individual who fits the bill. A person whose achievements as a sailor span the decade; a vi¬ sionary designer whose influence is appreciated now more than ever, a prolific builder of boats ranging in size and variety; an energetic iconoclast who has been instrumental in revising the way the west coast and much of the world enjoys sailing. And in the process, he’s pushed for and to some extent has been successful in trying to make sailing an activity that includes those traditional nautical orphans, women and youngsters. v As far as Latitude is concerned, there is only one possible choice for ‘Sailor of the Decade’, nobody else comes close. That person is ...

DILL LEE B

ill Lee’s hilltop boatyard in Soquel is one of the most unusual yacht building facilities anywhere. The ‘factory’, which has produced many of the fastest yachts ever to part the Pacific waters, used to be a chicken coop. The 200-foot long, low ceiling structure is the birthplace of the leg¬ endary Merlin, the 68-foot sloop that over the past decade broke most of the existing elapsed time records for races on the west coast of California and Mexico as well as both the Los Angeles to Honolulu and San Francsico to Kauai TransPac’s. Currently the coop is hatching Santa Cruz 70’s, Lee’s sec¬ ond generation maxi sleds, four of which are slated to compete in July 2nd’s TransPac to Honolulu. Next to the coop is a trailer office nestled

under a grove of trees. A few yards down the hill, which features a panoramic view of the Santa Cruz coastline and the blue Pacific beyond, is a similar structure. Formerly a milking shed, it now houses the welding operation for fabricating lightweight yacht parts. It also shelters a land-sailer that hasn’t seen much action in recent years, as well as a covered-up 1930 Rolls Royce with Merlin 1 license plates. This compound is the domain of Bill Lee, who at just 44 remains the premiere boatbuilder/designer/sailor/guru of the “Fast is

Fun” school of thinking. For the past 17 years, this bearded, bespectacled bohemian with a penchant for red socks, red sweaters and dockside parties has conceived and built sailboats that have proven to not only be extremely fast, but seaworthy, too. The impact of his efforts have spread like ripples in a pond, from Santa Cruz to San Francisco Bay to Southern California, to the rest of the sailing world. It would be incorrect to suggest that Lee was the only godfather of the California ultralight movement. In the early 70’s Santa Cruz was a hotbed of radical sailboat design, with both amatqurs and professionals prob¬ ing the outer limits of light displacement sailboat design and construction. There was plenty of co-mingling of ideas and construcpage 136

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tion techniques with such familiar names as Ron Moore and George Olson. There were other, lesser-known co-conspirators, too.

time he was seen as a rebel and that worked against him. But things have changed. He’s got such a record of success that people look up to him more than ever. Now, he’s even seen as something of a Mr. Conservative within light boats.” A former employee and crewmate said: “He may be unusual in some ways, but he’s great to work with and for. He’s very genu¬ ine and honest, especially in his business associations.” Indeed, long the biggest con¬ cern in Santa Cruz area boatbuilding, Lee is known for having assisted and encouraged some fledgling boatbuilders who could even¬ tually have become his primary competitors. >

Another Santa Cruz 70 being hatched in the old chicken coop.

Some of the more radical efforts went too far and tragically lives were lost. And some of the early boats were crude. But by the middle 70’s trial and error had yielded some excellent boats and the Santa Cruz region had earned a well-deserved reputation for simple but superbly crafted boats. The shy Olson, the localist Moore and the later-arriving Terry Alsberg of Express boats, however, never achieved the personal aura of Bill Lee. For Lee is a unique mixture of seeming opposites. He’s both party animal and egghead scientist; a difficult interview who enjoys wearing a magician’s garb and being the center of attention; a light displacment evangelist yet a successful entreprenuer. With his thick glasses and odd twang in his voice/ he’s the last person you’d expect to revolutionize the yachting set or prosper with one of the oldest and most ac¬ tive sailboat-building concerns in California. Steve Taft of North Sails characterizes Lee this way; “Bill’s never been the basic establishment boatbuilder or yacht club type. He’s always done things a little different, marched to a different drummer. For a long

rained as an engineer at Cal Poly, Bill came to Santa Cruz in 1968 to work for Sylvania. That didn’t last long, and he started messing around with boats. The 505 World Championships on Monterey Bay in 1970 set off sparks in the local boatbuilding community. Bill, George Olson and Ron Moore followed the ultralight, planing, 505 path but on a grander scale. Lee’s first real boat was Magic, a 30-ft ver¬ sion of a 505, after which came the 35-foot Witchcraft, which was cruised through the South Pacific. Then there were the TransPac racers Panache, a 40-footer, and Chutzpah, a 35-footer. To the extreme consternation of the yachting establishment, Chutzpah took corrected-time honors in the TransPac twice, in 1973 and 1975. Despite the success of these boats, there were few other owners and builders who jumped on the ultralight bandwagon. Many were skeptical of the light boat concept and IOR and racer/cruisers were still king. Lee had sailed Panache in both the ’73 and ’75 TransPac’s, where he learned that one of the most enjoyable aspects of the ex¬ perience was the post-race parties at the Ala Wai. No matter if you arrived at 0200 or . 1400, volunteer Hawaiian hosts were sure to be there with gallons of mai-tais and beer and lavish spreads of mouth-watering edibles for their ocean warriors. And naturally everybody was welcomed to everybody else’s post-race party. Bill’s only regret in sailing Panache was that he’d missed the parties of the boats — although there weren’t many — that had finished ahead of him. The only remedy was a longer, faster boat. Bill acknowledges that he first came up with the idea for his next boat, the radical Merlin, way back in November of 1973. He

had raced Panache, a wide, shallow ultralight, to La Paz where the narrow, hardchined Spencer 62, Ragtime was already at anchor. After seeing the boat Bill thought to himself; “Hey, that’s neat, but we ought to build a modern version, one that’s longer, has more beam for stability and a rounded bottom.” Resources for such a project, however, wouldn’t be available for several years. In fact it wasn’t until 1977, four years later, that Bill’s ‘get-me-to-Honolulu-in-time-fora//-the-TransPac-parties’ fantasy boat was nearing reality. He was building it for himself on a shoestring, and without benefit of all the exotic materials available today. It was a ballsy gamble, because Lee was building an ultralight on a scale that had never been attempted with such materials before. Word of the outrageous 68-ft sled that would displace just 23,000 pounds spread up and down the coast, attracting the atten¬ tion of Harry Moloshco of Southern Califor¬ nia. Moloshco, looking for more attention

DILL LEE

than is usually afforded a manufacturer of cardboard boxes, approached Lee with an offer to buy Merlin. But Lee, who was prob¬ ably gambling his company on his fantasy boat, said Merlin wouldn’t be for sale until after the TransPac. Rebuffed, Moloscho returned to Southern California where he quickly had a very similar ultralight rushed to completion. After Merlin was launched at Moss Land¬ ing (a photograph of the event appeared in Volume 1 of Latitude 38) word of the boat’s tremendous speed potential spread throughout Monterey Bay. “Merlin was a special boat from the begin¬ ning,” says Dave Wahle, who signed on as one of the eight crewmembers for the historic 1977 TransPac. “We knew that records would be broken.”

13 efore the July TransPac, though, Bill put his baby through some sea trials. After sailing the Ano Nuevo Race and the Dan-

Above, 'Merlin’s' long and thin; below, she’s prob¬

ably also covered more ocean miles than any boat in the last decade.

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forth series with a crew, he decided to do the first-ever Singlehanded Farallones Race. More than a few salty veterans thought the idea of such a race foolhardy in most boats and downright suicidal on a 68-footer. But Bill was excited to try everything. And he got everything. Even though the fleet was nearly becalmed on a glassy Bay near the Alacatraz starting line, by 0900( it was already blowing 25 knots outside the Gate with the wind and seas still building. By the afternoon it was blowing a solid 40 to 45 knots, scattering the 70 boat fleet all over the approaches to the Gate and giving the Coast Guard rescue boats all they could handle. Starting in very light winds with just a #4 and a double-reefed main, Bill and Merlin trailed a couple of multihulls out the Gate. But they soon overtook the other boats and dished out the ultimate horizon job. It took both belief in his design and construction and a lot of courage for Lee not to bail out of such a rough race when singlehanding such a radical and untried big boat. Although Lee later conceded, “1 realized I was never going to be Eric Taberly” (the famous French singlehander), he persisted in those most adverse of conditions. The ride back from the Farallones was exhilarating to say the least. One of Lee’s conditions of entering the 'race was that a helper be ready to hop aboard and help take down sails at the 5th Avenue finish line in the Estuary. That job fell to the publisher of Latitude 38. After the sails were stowed and the boat put away, Bill and his helper sat down at the nav station , where Bill did a few time and distance calculations. Singlehanded, he’d covered the first 28 miles back from the Farallones in just two hours. That meant he’d averaged 14 knots carrying just a double-reefed mainsail and a #4! The race had proved two things prior to the start of the TransPac; Merlin was very fast, and she could take heavy wind and seas. Merlin has always had an aura of magic about her, but never was her name more ap¬ propriate than during in the 1977 TransPac. * For in that race everything gelled in an almost fairy-tale fashion. The 34-year-old iconoclast, sailing the radical dream boat he designed and built, with a home grown San¬ ta Cruz crew, got the consistent winds necessary to smash Windward Passage’s old course record by a remarkable 22 hours. And in the process he nipped the man that would have purchased his dream. Moloscho and Drifter finished 15 minutes after Merlin in perhaps what has been the most exciting TransPac finish ever.

SAI LOR OF THE DECADE Ten years later, Merlin’s elapsed time record still stands. The race had been an eye-opening exhere to get organized, I came here to party!” Bill also came to later TransPac finishes to check out his newest creations, the Santa Cruz 33’s, 40’s, and 50’s, all smaller versions of Merlin with the distinctive squared off stern, boxy cabin house and clean, light in¬ terior. By 1983, TransPac Row at the Ala Wai was beginning to look like a Bill Lee boat yard. Sixteen of the 66-boat fleet were his creations. Many others were obvious derivations. As often as Merlin was chartered, she did spend some time back in Santa Cruz. But even there she was busy, as Bill frequently took her out on daysails and on the famous Wednesday night beer races. He made it a practice to invite loads of people out for a ride; young, old, women, kids, friends of strangers — people who would obviously never buy one of his boats. But he wanted them all to share a bit of the magic. His message was clear; sailing was something to be enjoyed by everyone, not just a select few. Sharing the coop with boats under construction is the Rolls-Royce Bill’s restoring.

perience for the skipper and crew. For almost 8.5 days the long, low sloop literall charged across the Pacific, often submarin¬ ing the bow through the waves in front of it. “It was like riding in a planing motorboat,” recalls Dave Wahle, “with a constant bam, bam, bam vibration. I brought along a paper¬ back copy of Shogun to read, but it was too hard to keep steady. I eventually ripped the book in half so I could focus on the print!” Harvey Kilpatrick, the chef and social director, adds that sailing so fast was a totally new experience for everyone onboard. “It was like driving down Highway 101 at night in the middle of a rainstorm with no headlights,” he says. The finish was something special, too. The drama had been long abuilding, for midway into the race it was clear that barring a com¬ plete disaster a new record would be established. But who would set it, the Magi¬ cian or the cardboard box king who tried to buy the dream? When Merlin pulled into TransPac row to the wild greetings of a tumultuous crowd, Bill was decked out in his star-covered magi¬ cian’s robes and hat, as un-yachtsman like apparel as could be found. But it was new, different, magical and a hit! The party raged on and on; in fact there hasn’t been a TransPac party that’s come close to touching it since.

nd thus the legend of Merlin y was born, with the TransPac becoming her per¬ sonal showcase for the next six years. True, in 1979 she was beaten by Drifter for first-tofinish honors, but it had been one of the slowest races in history. In 1981 Nick Frazee’s chartered Merlin and missed break¬ ing her own record by just 44 seconds — after 2,200 miles of racing. Frazee professed not to be disappointed, but later said he’d never do another TransPac on a normal displacement boat again. He later built the ultralight Swiftsure III and finished first in the last TransPac. Of course Merlin wasn’t limiting herself to just the TransPac. She was setting new records in Vic-to-Maui races, Mexico races, and competitions all up and down the west coast. She’s been the elapsed time victor in all of the San Francisco to Kauai Pacific Cups as well. Having chartered the boat out. Bill has missed those later TransPac rides on Merlin. He didn’t miss the welcoming parties, however, flying over to Honolulu to greet the fleet as they tied up in the Ala Wai har¬ bor. We vividly remember one year when Bill was driving the humanity-covered Merlin up and down the harbor after the race and one of the race committee people got on the public address system and pleaded: “Bill! Bill! We’ve got to get organized.” To which Lee shouted the response, “I didn’t come page 140

DILL LEE mark the 10th anniversary of Norton Smith’s establishing the monohull elapsed time record in the Singlehanded TransPac with During the fun sails, Bill, a diet soda in one hand, would preside over the crew, cracking one-liners and making recommen¬ dations for sail selection. He has no idea how many people were his guests during the five years he owned Merlin (he sold it to Sunnyvale’s Donn Campion in 1982), but he knows they were rides few people will ever forget. “I wish we’d kept a log book,” he now says wistfully. Bill’s inclusion of women was no hap¬ penstance. “I think women should be more involved in sailing,” he says. “They’re good sailors and they enjoy it.” Bill fondly recalls Merlin’s record run to Manzanillo in 1978 when the eight person crew included two women. When Blondie won the Big Boat Series in 1985, she was mostly crewed by couples. Ultralights, it could be said, are women-friendly because they require less sail area and hence less brute force to trim So far, 28 Santa Cruz 50's have been built. Lee figures with the change in rating maybe another 10 or 12 will sell.

page 141

s message was clear: Sailing was something to be enjoyed by everyone, not just a select few. and grind.

I n addition to his work as an innovative designer, Bill also managed to run a specialty boatbuilding business during a decade when many such outfits went to the bottom. Numerically, the Santa Cruz 27 was Bill’s most successful production boat, topping out at 150 units built and sold in the mid-1970’s. Santa Cruz 27’s are still extremely popular on Monterey Bay, well-known for their finoertip control when surfing. Next year will

his Santa Cruz 27, Solitaire. Like Merlin’s Honolulu record, it’s yet to be beaten. After the Santa Cruz 27’s and Merlin came 15 Santa Cruz 33’s, 15 Santa Cruz 40’s, and the Santa Cruz 50’s. Of these, the Santa Cruz 50, of which an astounding 28 have been built, has been the most successful. Twice in the last five years the 50’s have raced one-design in the St. Francis Big Boat Series. Class B in the TransPac is virtually Santa Cruz 50 onedesign racing. Over the years there have been many distance races when several 50’s have crossed the finish line overlapped. While always popular, the Santa Cruz 50’s seem to be enjoying something of a revival, being excellent sleds for races to Hawaii, Mexico, Catalina, Ensenada, Santa Cruz and other downwind destinations. Several 50’s are even in charter service in Maui, and Hal Roth just completed the Singlehanded Around the World Race in another. Current production at the former chicken coop factory is devoted to the Santa Cruz 70’s. The sixth, Hotel California was launched not too long ago, and participated in the Cal Cup sled wars Memorial Day Weekend. Right now Santa Cruz 70 *7, Mongoose II, is being built for Northern Californian Paul Simonson, who like some other 70 buyers owned a Santa Cruz 50 when he ordered his big boat. Simonsen’s boat should be ready in August for the St. Francis Big Boat Series. Bill sailed the first SC 70, Blondie, in the 1985 TransPac, but what proved to be a tac¬ tical mistake left them behind an avalanche of Nelson/Marek 68’s. The loss was avenged in the Long Beach to Cabo Race two years ago, when Blondie, with Bill and his wife Lu as last minute crewmembers, smashed the old course record, and took first-to-finish, and corrected time honors in class and fleet. Bill will be racing the TransPac on Hotel California this year, in an attempt to make amends for the last one. Bill’s business acumen and reputation for delivering a quality product are well known

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5AI LOR OF THE DECADE

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in the sailing world. Most of his yachts are finished on time, a minor miracle in itself. As sailmaker Taft says, “I’ve dealt with a lot of longer and lighter boats. The stabilizing in¬ fluence of the maximum IOR limit led direct¬ ly to the success of the Santa Cruz 70’s and

the

Nelson-Marek 68’s.

The rating limit

turned out to be good for both business and the TransPac.

1—• asily recognizable,

Bill enjoys great

popularity in the Santa Cruz community. Strangers walk up to him to shake his hand when he goes out to lunch. Three years ago he was elected to serve on the Port Commis¬ sion, and he’s been a key player in dealing with the shoaling problem at the Small Boat Harbor. Bill ran on a platform of keeping the harbor open year round, and his inclusion on the commission swung the tide in favor of getting their own dredge rather than relying on the federal government. For the first time in almost 30 years, Santa Cruz now has a M tacucai decision put the banta Cruz 70 Blondie’ out of the running in the last TransPac. Lee will try again on ‘Hotel California’ this July.

created

“funny”

boats

with

bumps

and

distorted hull shapes that sacrifice speed for rating benefits. “I don’t think the fathers of

boatbuilder’s, and Bill is the only one I know

the IOR saw/ the modern One Ton as a result

who consistently gets his boats completed on schedule.”

the new International Measurement System

Those that are a little late are still done right rather than being slapped together.

single-purpose boats than did the IOR.

“We don’t promise the moon,” says Bill,

of their efforts,” he explains. Lee feels that (IMS) has the potential to encourage less

Merlin was built to go through the water

“and we hit most of the dates we’re sup¬

quickly with noble disregard for the IOR rule

posed

to.

Olaf

Harken

(of

Wisconsin’s

Harken Brothers, boat builders and block

and other measurement systems. When the TransPac Race Committee placed an upper

makers) once told me that if a boat is two

rating

weeks late, the owner will be pissed for two

speedster suffered heavily and has had to

weeks. If it’s on time but screwed up, the

compete in a severely truncated form since

owner will be mad at you forever!”

limit

70.0

all

entries,

the

1983. Bill has since devoted tremendous energy to understanding the IOR rule, and

I n predictably atypical fashion, Bill never offered his boats through dealerships. “We

while while he hasn’t drastically changed his boats to conform to it, he knows exactly how

don’t make that many boats,” he explains.

to get the biggest bang for the buck optimiz¬ ing them in that direction.

He tried offering the SC 27 to dealers, but

“Bill is a researcher,” explains Harvey

the boat’s popularity was tailing off at the

Kilpatrick, who became a close friend of

time and the plan never took off. Since then

Lee’s after the 1977 TransPac on Merlin.

the most popular boat has been the SC 50,

He s not afraid to say he doesn’t understand

which offers the thrill of maxi-ULDB sailing

and ask for more information. He didn’t

and proven quality without the maxi price

understand the IOR ten years ago, but now

tag. Bill expects even more interest in the

he’s writing letters to the TransPac Race

boat now that the International Offshore

Committee advising them about the rules.”

Rule (IOR) has granted the design two feet of old age allowance and two more for other

Committee,

rule changes. “I think we’ll have enough

seemed to smooth out that relationship. The

interest to do ten speculates.

or twelve

more,” he

publicized.

He’s

time

and

serendipity

and

serendipitous occurence was the setting of a top limit of 70.0 IOR on TransPac entries.

Bill’s differences with the IOR have been well

Once at loggerheads with the TransPac

long

decried

—

Certainly this was a smack in the face to

Merlin, but suddenly maxi boat buyers no

although in a more conciliatory tone than in

longer faced the uncertainty of keeping up

previous years — the way the IOR has

with competitors who might keep building

DILL LEE Other areas of the sport that excite Bill are windsurfing and Formula 40 catamarans. “You would think that the world was out of year-round harbor (although Bill points out

America’s Cup!” Some might be surprised to

that a big storm could dump enough sand to

learn that Bill’s already built meter boats; he

close it within 24 hours).

built St. Francis VII, the Six Meter that the

Santa Cruz has been mentioned as a possible site for the 1990 America’s Cup.

St. Francis YC used to thrash the Aussies. The thought of Bill Lee involved with 12

The Canadian and Chicago syndicates prac¬

Meters,

ticed

boats (each 67-footer weighs three times as

there

last

spring

and

found

the

the ultimate

heavy displacement’

Monterey Bay waters great for 12 Meter sail¬

much as Merlin), rattles the brain. But he has

ing. Bill’s already been talking to others on

that overview of the sport to appreciate

the Port Commission and in town about

what’s next and what will be hot. The televi¬

what would have to be done to make that

sion coverage of the recent America’s Cup,

happen. “You’d need about half an acre to

for

handle

through for sponsorship, he says. He would

each

boat

and

their

support

example,

was

tremendous break¬

facilities,” he says with an engineer’s train¬

like to see a change in the boats, however. A

ing. “For twenty boats that would mean ten

60-foot monohull with few limits to design

land.

and construction would be his choice. “They

We’ve got some places around here that

should have pedestal winches and trapezes

might work. It would be great to host the

to intrigue the viewers,” he says. “And they

acres

undeveloped

waterfront

Will be required to carry six video cameras Lee believes that everyone should enjoy the magic

from the mast to the stern. You need the pic¬

of fast sailing.

tures!” Dennis Conner are you listening? Lee in the renowned magician's costume he sports for important occasions

— like

new TransPac

records.

things to invent,” he says, “and now look at windsurfing. It’s a breakthrough sport. There are no doubt other things that we haven’t thought of yet either.” The Formula 40’s are popular in Europe right now, and they are drawing large sponsorship dollars. Bill hopes they catch on here too, allowing the profes¬ sionals a forum to really strut their stuff. At the same time he doesn’t want to see the pros damage club racing, which is where most sailors take part.

hether Bill Lee, with his inquisitive

mind and his ability to make things happen, can influence these areas in the next ten years as much as he has impacted ocean rac¬ ing and ultralight designs in the previous ten remains to be seen. He certainly has made a mark, both locally and in the sailing world. His boats combine revolutionary design and exceptional craftsmanship. He has helped put Santa Cruz on the map as a major center for the development of the sport. Hundreds, if not thousands, of sailors have come to not only understand, but espouse, his sailing philosophy. Fast really is fun, and men, women and youngsters have. Bill Lee to thank

for

making

that

obvious

and

available. For

his

contributions

designer,

builder, sailor, and custodian of the sport, Bill Lee is Latitude’s runaway choice for Sailor of the Decade.

— shimon van collie & latitude

CRUISING WITH KIDS

was happily directing potential buyers to the last of the hanging plants and pic¬

ture frames. Within the week our family would be moved aboard La Gitana, our For¬

vious benefits. The mere logistics of gather-

Then there were their social lives to con¬

mosa 46, and preparing her for an open-

ing the four corners of our large house and

sider. Our children never seemed so happy

ended cruise into Mexico aftd the South

fitting it within the space the size of our din-

as when they had hordes of kids to play with.

All kids love the beach.

Pacific! 1 was so excited about the prospect that 1 almost didn’t notice my eight-year-old daughter standing in the middle of the family room,

staring

at the

empty

walls

as if

stunned. “I thought it was only a dream!” she said, then burst into tears. It was “only a dream” — a dream-cometrue for Dale and I; but, no doubt, it seemed more

nightmare

our

children,

Christopher and Kelli, as they watched the bits

and

pieces

their

lives

being

disassembled before their very eyes and hauled away by strangers. The fantasy 'we had been handfeeding them of sailing off to tropical islands where they could go swim¬ diving and fishing every day was

ing room alone required some creative men¬

rapidly losing its influence. When tasted with

ming,

tal maneuvering. Trying to envision some

the very bitter sacrifices that were being re¬

semblance of tranquility and order within

quired of them, such fantasies did not seem so sweet.

such a jumble seemed beyond the stretch of my imagination. How could the four of us

Surely it was grossly unfair of us to deprive them of their peers and of the opportunities

Dale and I had spent many blissful hours

truly be happy living together in such close

and enjoyment that organized sports and

convincing ourselves that what we would be

quarters? Wouldn’t the lack of space and

recreations

offering the children in a life at sea would

privacy release hidden demons within us that

myself closely watching my two children as

more than compensate for the things that

would reduce our cruising dream into a nightmare? ^

they moved about their daily activities — the

they would be giving up. We thought of the wonderful experience they would have of

took

would

find

very activities of which we would soon be

traveling, the great cultural and environmen¬

ominous dimensions as I tried to mentally

fully enmeshed in that preadolescent social

tal education, the challenges and oppor¬

delete them from our lives. While it seemed

scene of soccer and baseball, rock music and

tunities

self-

we ought to be able to live happily-ever-after

video-games. It was a life-style in which he

reliance, and simply the adventure of it all. It

without the benefits of television, indoor

felt quite comfortable, and even while Dale

all sounded so good, so true, and yet — a

showers and baths, and a washing machine

and I felt that the life we were offering him

— what if we couldn’t? Who knew what

was better, the question remained: Would

and

luxuries

depriving them. Christopher, at eleven, was

self-development

simple

Often,

new

for

Even

offered.

trivial monkeywrench could throw the whole dream askew?

One of my secret fears was that we might

Wouldn’t the lack of space and privacy release hidden demons?

he think so, say ten years down the line? Or would he feel cheated of the normal activities of adolescence?

all become extremely bored with our cruising

At eight years old, Kelli’s life was so much

life. I tried imaginging day after day, week

simpler, and yet such simplicity seemed all

after week of nothing but bright skies, warm

the more wretched to deprive her:

seas and white sand, and found the effort

houses and baby cribs, roller skates and her

becoming tedious. After all, just how much

first two-wheel bike, gymnastic classes and

doll

swimming, fishing and snorkeling could one

dance lessons. Was she a budding ballerina

endure? Even boredom factor.

whose career was being cut to the quick?

heaven

must

have

its

What other new talents and skills would be left umplumbed as we dragged her away

from future softball games, piano lessons

1T X ost ot my worries were centered on

and Girl Scout activities? Really, just how

the children. Chief among these and cer¬

much were we truly asking our children to

tainly the one most on the minds of the

give up dream?

grandparents was the question of safety.

order

accommodate

our

Were Dale and I being irresponsible in taking

Out of Kelli’s tears that bright June morn¬

the kids off into the unknown danger that

perhaps too good to be true. I began to

ing, all of these questions and doubts came

seemed integral in such long-distance cruis¬

bubbling back to Nthe surface, bringing into

consider the darker side of life at sea.

ing? Who knew what deadly storms or hur¬

sharp focus the final analysis of our quan-

perverse

thought

kept

plaguing

—

Simply moving aboard and sailing off into the world was going to require some drastic changes in lifestyle quite apart from the ob¬

ricanes,

shark

and

appendicitus

pirates or revolutionaries exposing them to?

attacks,

would

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DREAM OR NIGHTMARE?

dary: Would this cruising life that Dale and I so clearly envisioned reach in reality the ex¬ pectation of our dreams; or would it fray somehow and wear thin under the wear and tear of everyday living, dissolving into the nightmare our children half-expected? The trouble was that we would never know until we had lived it. And it seemed to Dale and 1 that, regardless of the outcome, this life we so clearly envisioned seemed worth the effort and the risk. We had this singular opportunity to draw together as a family and pit our strengths, our skills, and our spirits against an unknown life and, just perhaps, come out the better for it. It was a chance we could not pass up.

o amid tears and protests, we moved aboard La Gitana where she lay patiently at her slip in Ventura, California. There Dale and I gave up the roomy aft cabin to the children with their collections of stuffed animals, Barbie dolls and Star War Empires. Then we settled back to await the inevitable bouts of tears and sulkiness that must accom¬ pany this new adjustment period in our lives. But it never happened. Chris was too busy learning to sail our dinghy, while Kelli was totally enchanted with her new, tiny inflata¬ ble and was happily rowing off backwards to visit friends. Soon surfing became the favored pasttime, and the children were heaving boards to heads and going off to ex¬ plore the waves together. By the time January and our much-delayed departure date rolled around, the children had made new lives and new friends for themselves at the marina. But there were no tears at departing this time — they were as ready to head out as we were. Already they had learned that they could adapt to a new envi¬ ronment and make their own places in it, wherever that place might be. This easy acceptance of and adjustment to the cruising life continued. We spent two delightful weeks at Catalina Island before heading farther south. Even in that short time, the children’s sense of independence and self-reliance increased as they rowed themselves ashore each day to explore the little town of Avalon by themselves or took their places at the fishing dock among all the old-timers there. Chris became so adept at working the oars that he became the family’s official rower. Whenever the four of us went

page 145

“ Christopher and Kelli Brasket land a fish for dinner.

to shore together, it was his strong back and broad smile that transported us there. I’ll never forget one twilight evening when Kelli offered to row the trash ashore, and, despite my doubts, Dale said she could han¬ dle it. I watched, transfixed, as my little eight-year-old daughter threw the large bag into our ten-foot Montgomery, untied the painter and shoved off, manning the heavy

wooden oars that 1 myself had trouble handl¬ ing. She rowed, not backwards this time, but like a good seaman with her back to the future as the gathering twilight slowly hid her from view. Kelli won more than a bit of in¬ dependence that day — she won my respect and admiration for she rowed far better than I. By the time we reached Cabo San Lucas and rounded the tip of Baja into the Sea of Cortez, we had discovered that many of the more trivial concerns that, nonetheless,

CRUISING WITH KIDS $

loomed so large in our completely disappeared.

minds

had

Schoolwork is a challenge.

> &

ow it’s hard to imagine why we once thought that lack or privacy or cramped quarters would become a problem. Our forty-six foot Formosa with its large center cockpit and forward and aft cabins has pro¬ vided us with all the privacy and living space that we seem to need. We live as peaceably here as we did in our house and perhaps more so. Not only are our cramped quarters not a problem, but they have often proved a

Campfire on the beach in Mexico.

blessing. Now when the children bring the Legos out to the salon table to build spaceships, Dale or I are often drawn into

Mom becomes the

teacher.

the creative enterprise. And it is easy to supervise school lessons from the galley while in the midst of kneading sourdough or canning chicken. Then, when we do need that time to “be by ourselves”, we’ve found that cooperation rather than space is the prime factor. And cooperation is readily available. Why we once thought otherwise seems a mystery now. The simple luxuries of a daily shower, a washing machine and TV are no longer missed. While the privacy of a good, hot shower is still a luxury that we would readily welcome, we’ve found that it’s only just that — a luxury, not a necessity. Its absence does not affect the quality of life or well-being in the least. Fresh water sponge baths and seabucket showers are enough to keep us feel¬ ing as fresh and clean as the humidity per¬ mits. Then, when we are in a port where fresh water is plentiful, nothing compares with a fresh-water sun shower during the heat of day or within the warm caress of a starry night. I’ve discovered that washing laundry in buckets of salt water and rinsing them in a lit¬ tle fresh water keeps our clothes as clean and soft as they need to be. It is not the drudgery that I had anticipated. At the house, doing laundry for me was always a rather tedious task performed alone in the semi-gloom of our garage. Now I do the laundry in a bikini on the bow of the boat with the brilliant sun¬ shine and wind refreshing my spirits while panoramic views of bush harbors or lovely anchorages enchant my mind. And never

am I alone. There is always Chris to haul up buckets of water for me, Dale to help rinse and wring, and Kelli to hang the clothes on the life lines. The absence of TV has been one of our greatest blessings. It opened the fascinating world of books to our children who, until we began cruising, had scarcely looked at one. We were only a week into our cruise when Chris, quickly drying the last of the dishes so I could begin our nightly reading session of The Hobbit, exclaimed, “This beats watching TV any day!” And this from a boy who had suffered the cruelest deprivation of his life only months before when we cut the cable to MTV! Since we’ve been cruising, I’ve ceased to worry about depriving the children of their involvement in organized sports and clubs. We’ve found that this life at sea provides ample opportunities for developing skills, independence and self-reliance that more than compensate for that lack. These cruis¬ ing activities seem to be more holistic in scope, encompassing many aspects of a

DREAM OR NIGHTMARE?

single theme. Fishing, for example, has become a favored pastime for the children, but this passion involves far more than cast a line into the sea. Each child catches and salts down his own bait, rigs and cares for his own poles, then cleans and fillets his own catch. They both spend many enjoyable hours making lures out of feathers, bits of colored string, and other odds and ends. Chris, especially, actively seeks out and devours any articles or books on the sport of fishing that he can find, and he spends hours pour¬ ing through our charts and cruisfng guides, looking for the best fishing and diving spots. Our fish identification book has been worn to tatters by constant perusals. Now, whenever 1 am puzzled by the identify of an unfamiliar fish, 1 have only to describe it to the kids to find my answer. Even the children’s artwork nowadays includes many finely detailed and colored drawings of the fish they admire.

Kids find life can go on without TV.

I n cruising, we’ve found that many of the skills that the children learn provide as much practical use as they do play. Rowing, sail¬ ing, and working the outboard motor are not only fun but are the children’s means of transportation to and from shore. Swim¬ ming, snorkeling, and diving provide ex¬ cellent recreation as well as dinner. Chris has become quite proficient at hunting and spearing fish and lobster, often free-diving to thirty feet to stalk a grouper or free an an¬ chor. *Kelli, too, is learning to spear fish. But even her snorkeling and diving produces clams and scallops for supper, as well as a myriad of pretty shells for creating jewelry. A cruising life does provide less opportu¬ nity for the children to play with their own peers, but even this lack does have its com¬ pensations. The children have been forced to seek companionship in unexpected places, including each other. Their many ex¬ peditions to shore to explore the beaches and towns together has fostered a growing sense of responsibility, cooperation, protec-

Cleaning fish becomes a daily chore.

tiveness and consideration between the two. It is often commented on how close they seem to be — comment rarely merited in the highly separate lives they led ashore. In addition, both children have become quite adept at striking up friendships with many of the adults they meet. These adults have included not only other cruisers or vacationing Americans, but many of the local Mexicans as well. Some of these friend¬ ships have become very special and lasting, i while others have led to some unique experi¬ ences. The children’s increasing command of Spanish has allowed them to become .

The children have been forced to seek companionship with each other.

friends with many of the Mexican shopkeepers and fishermen. In the process, they have waited on tables, made signs in English, and helped out their friends in other small ways, as well as enjoyed several tours of local commercial fishing boats. One

CRUISING WITH KIDS: DREAM OR NIGHTMARE?

special friendship with a young American couple working down here led Chris to work and pay for his own diving instructions, allowing him to become a certified scuba diver at the age of twelve. When the kids do happen to come into contact with other cruising children, these friendships tend to be swift and deep, bonded as they are by their shared, unique experiences. They are learning that friend¬ ships need not be limited to one’s own peer group or even to one’s own nationality but are to be nurtured and savored wherever they are found. One of the very special aspects of cruising has been the increased opportunities it pro¬ vides for children and parents to play together. The few bouts with boredom aboard our boat have only led to the discovery and sometimes rediscovery of en¬ joyable pursuits. I’ve discovered the joys of sewing, an activity I had formerly shunned, when Kelli and I began to design and handsew doll’s clothes. Dale, after a lifetime of avoiding most games and cards of any sort, now enthusiastically plays both with his fam¬ ily. The children’s love of drawing has caused me to rediscover my own love for it and Dale to discover it for the first time. Most notable, I believe, is the rediscovery of the child within the adult, as Dale and I find an increasing sense of whimsy and nonsense pervading La Gitana. It is not only the play and pleasures, however, that are shared aboard a cruising boat, but the work, the responsibilities, and the learning as well. Aboard La Gitana, all of the water and fuel hauling, the grocery shop¬ ping, the laundering and cooking, mending and sewing, and the bottom cleaning are joint activities, shared by all to some degree. Chris and Kelli are a great help when it comes to sailing the boat. They handle much of the foredeck work as well as all of the anchoring now.

chool, however, is our most challeng¬ ing responsibility. I have been very pleased with the quality and content of the Calvert correspondence lessons, but it has taken some time for all of us to adjust to the children-as-pupils and mother-as-teacher relationship. Having taught school a bit in the past, I had no qualms about teaching my own children. I have since discovered that there is an emotional bond, or perhaps ten¬ sion, between mothers and their children that does not exist in the normal classroom

Cruising kids make friends quickly wherever they go-

and does not facilitate the learning process. It seems to make the “goofing off and the squabbling, the stricter expectations and shorter tempers all the more prevalent. The children somehow feel much freer to criticize their own mother’s teaching standards and techniques than they ever did their former teachers. I, in turn, find my own children’s sloppy work habits and inattentiveness much more exasperating than I did with my former students. Even normal shipboard activities seem to confound our best efforts as Dale tears apart the salon looking for some tool while working on one of his own projects, or friendly neighbors row by for a chat. Underway there is always a herd of dolphin, a caught fish or a call to tack to upset our lessons. And yet, I keep reminding myself, isn’t this what we imagined cruising to be all about — pitting ourselves against the unknown challenges in the world, in each other, and in ourselves, grappling with it and coming out the better? And so, we’ve grap¬ pled with our schooling these past two years, and, in fact, have seemed to have made some progress. School is now a much more orderly process. The disruptions, still occur, but I’m learning when to be firm and when to be flexible. The children are learning to accept my standards, and I’m learning to handle the highs and lows of teaching with more equilibrium. The satisfaction of per¬ sonally supervising their studies and watch¬ ing each child acquire new skills and concepts now outweighs the times of temper

and frustration. Dale and I feel more than ever that the children are receiving a more comprehensive and individualized education than they would have received ashore. It’s a learning experience shared by all. We have been cruising aboard La Gitana in Mexico and the South Pacific for over three years now, and I still wouldn’t trade this life for any other. Not all of it has been easy or pleasant, and there are always risks. I haven’t mentioned the time our drinking water turned a gunky brown and all of us were laid sick flat on our backs for a week, or the time 1 set the kid’s bunk Cushions ablaze trying to dry them with the portable heater, or the time a sixty-ton schooner drug loose and came hurtling down on us one wild, stormy night . . . And there have been other times like these, but what life is without them? To me, one of the magical things about cruising is this meshing of the ordinary with the extraordinary, the dreadful with the delightful. This life, we’ve discovered, is not an extended vacation, an action-packed adventure, nor an escape from reality. It’s neither dream nor nightmare but simply a way of life — of living from day to day — that we find very satisfying. The doubts that once plagued me have now been thoroughly tested and disspelled — at least for the time being. I’ve learned that this life can be all of the things that we dreamed it to be, and more, and sometimes less. In fact, it’s a wonderful life; but this one, like any other, has its great unknown — and that’s the magic of it. — deborah brasket page 148

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THE 1987 t CT t doesn’t get any better than this,” one 1 racer yelled across to a friend on a competing boat as they made the turn up the Napa River — along with more than 500 other boats. “This is like Woodstock.” He was right. This year’s Vallejo Race, May 2-3, was like the Woodstock rock festival crossed with New Year’s Eve — big crowds of both boats and people, loud music and lots of hard partying. How big was it? There were so many spin¬ nakers jammed together at the finish line Sunday most people couldn’t see the com¬ mittee boat. “It was like being in some Medieval hall surrounded by tapestries,” said Pat Lane of the Vallejo YC race committee. “The committee boat was 15 feet away but we couldn’t see it. You couldn’t -see anywhere except straight up.” It took three hours to start the 25 classes from YRA mark 14 off the Berkeley Circle. Wind was light to medium on the upwind leg, and chutes \k/ere set at the No. 4 green channel marker east of Pt. Blunt. From there it was a 20-mile downwind ride to the Napa River. Holes developed, as usual, between the San Rafael Bridge and the Brothers, and some of the late-starting classes spent a few hours there. But most boats were able to sneak around Point San Pablo, settle back and break out the suntan lotion for a long, smooth down¬ wind ride through San Pablo Bay. The funnel-effect at the Napa River turn pro¬ duced lots of shouting and near-collisions, but no damage that we saw. Hundreds of crackling sails blended into a roar as chutes came down and jibs went up. The Vallejo Race is often decided on the two-mile run up the Napa River. Wind gusting between the buildings on Mare Island favored boats that raised medium headsails for the last leg of the race, while some who tried to carry 150s found themselves over¬ powered and rounding-up in heavy traffic. Once over the line, priorities rapidly shifted from winning the race to getting a good spot in the Vallejo YC harbor. “Overflow” dock space was a 20-minute walk upriver at the Municipal Marina, and early finishers generally chose to tie up near the center of the action. Smaller boats hitched tows from inboards rather than strug¬ gle with outboards, but then found themselves fending off in all directions as 50 boats tried to cram through a channel wide enough for two or three. With fenders out and dock lines stretched like spider webs between boats and every available square foot of harbor space filled with boats, beers were passed between crews and the layover party began in earnest.

The statistics: Lane said there were 600 entries, 415 starters, and probably a hundred or so boats that raced without officially entering. With that many boats it’s tough to keep track of details. Some boats were missed at the finish line. The race committee was up until 4 a.m. Monday getting the results in order. Racers drank 10 kegs of draft beer, plus all the canned and bottled beer in the

How many boats will fit into Vallejo YC harbor? This many.

clubhouse. The club sold 700 spaghetti din¬ ners Saturday night. Sunday morning 634 breakfasts and at-deast 1,500 gin fizzes were served. Coffee was free all weekend. "Jo Mamma”, a band that looks like it came out of a Lite Beer commercial, kept the crowd boogalooing until about 1 a.m. to page 150

VALLEJO BLOWOUT

trouble was practically nonexistant, although two racers apparently got a little too rowdy and spent the night in jail.

aturday s race was exhilarating, but it’s the Sunday race back to the Bay and the

last. By the time the last class started a flood tide was running strong at the mouth of the river, and a huge jam develped just as the speedsters like the MacGregor 65 Ahaas came slicing through. The flood caught some boats just short of the opening and car¬ ried them back upstream — several times. Once into San Pablo Bay the wind held fairly strong to the Brothers, and then prac¬ tically died. Some boats spent several hours

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rusn-nour timsh that people will be talking View from the Richmond-San Rafael bridge as the about until the next Vallejo Race. Vallejo fleet heads north. After groggy racers revived themselves with the Vallejo YC’s scrambled eggs and fighting the flood under the bridge, riding a ham, a Vallejo club officer got on the puff almost to the other side, then getting loudspeaker and started patiently talking swept back to start over. boats out of the harbor, intending to get Most of the fleet was bunched under the everybody out in mid-river by 10 a.m. before , southern end of the span near Point Rich¬ the falling tide made the entrance too mond when the wind finally filled in around shallow for deep keels. But it took longer 6 p.m., resulting in a huge clot of boats than expected to untangle the 200 boats under spinnaker at the finish line. “It was the jammed together. The announcer threat¬ craziest race I’ve ever been in,” said Hal ened to auction off unattended boats if their Nelson, whose MacGregor 65 Zeus was crews didn’t get aboard in a hurry and move among the first to finish both days. them out of the way. Most got out without running aground and rafted up in mid-river to await the start of 1 rom all reports we’ve heard the boats their division. But the last couple of dozen in the finish jam put out fenders, there was carried up to 10 extra people leaning over lots of yelling for room and some fending off the rail to heel the boat and lift the keel for by crew on -{he rail, but no real collisions. minimum draft. Despite that, five or six ran * “There was no bumping, said Dick Horn, aground and had to be towed off with power whose Cal 34 Pussyjootin was right in the boats. One stuck boat tried the unusual middle of the crowd. “Nobody hit us. People technique of having its crew run from one were yelling, but they were jovial. Nobody side to the other to rock the keel free. It hit anybody.” didn’t work. The jam lasted until 7 p.m. or so, and “It was kind of a show,” Lane said. then most boats dropped their sails and “Nobody stayed stuck very long.” He said cranked up engines for a faster trip home. next year the Sunday race may be started Priorities shifted from cold beers to warm sooner to shorten the three-hour raft-up that showers as another Vallejo Race, traditional some of the late-starters had this year. kickoff of yacht racing season on the Bay, Saturday’s starting order was reversed for faded into the record books. Sunday, so the generally faster boats started _— latitude 38 — bp

what seemed like every danceable hit from the last three decades. “The club shobk so much I think it pounded the pilings in a little more,” Lane said. All 700 commemorative T-shirts were sold, featuring a picture of the 1901 gaffrigged sloop Helen, the first Vallejo YC boat to race on the Bay. At least 2,400 people jammed the clubhouse Saturday night, but Lane said page 151

THE 1987

Clockwise from right: Close action in the Olson 30 fleet; party time in Vallejo; thick jam at Sunday finish; running aground outside club Sunday morning; time to relax after Saturday leg.

••

ARIEL - SATURDAY - 1) Jubilee, Don Morrison; 2) Pathfinder, Ernest Rideout; 3) Tempest, Gary Gast/William Heaty. SUNDAY — 1) Sin Bin, Wally Graham; 2) Tempest, Gary Gast/William Healy; 3) Jubilee, Don Morrison. CAL 20 — SATURDAY — t) Puff, Jerry Leth; 2) Spllsh-Splash, John Greene; 3) Audacious, George Blackman. SUNDAY — No results. CAL 25 - SATURDAY - 1) Wiki Wiki, Dave Corbin; 2) Rainshadow, Brian Battuello; 3) Cinnabar, Edward Shirk. SUNDAY — 1) Cinnabar, Edward Shirk; 2) Whimsical, Rebecca Danskin/David Stone; 3) Amistar, Jock Speh. CAL 2-27 - SATURDAY - 1) Party line, N. Barnhill/Art Graham; 2) Zephyr, Bruce Nesbit; 3) Splash, Donald Waider. SUNDAY — 1) Check Out, Misha Orloff; 2) Zephyr, Bruce Nesbit; 3) Party Line, N- Barnhill/Art Graham. CAL 29 - SATURDAY - 1) 20/20, Philip Gardner; 2} Boog-a-loo, Nancy Rogers; 3) Fantasy, Bob Ctark/Doug Clark. SUNDAY — 1) Boog-a-loo, Nancy Rogers; 2) Grand Slam, Fred Minning; 3) 20/20, Philip Gardner. CATALINA 27 - SATURDAY - 1) Catalyst, Edward Durbin; 2) Freyja, Ray Nelson; 3) II Shay, John Jacobs. SUNDAY — 1) Freyja, Ray Nelson; 2) Catalyst, Edward Durbin; 3) II Shay, John Jacobs. CATALINA 30 - SATURDAY - 1) Biophilia, David, Charles Gallup; 2) Thirty Fifth Ave., Gregory Greunke; 3) Lochan Ora, Paul Harwood. SUNDAY — 1) Thirty Fifth Ave., Gregory Greunke; 2) Biophilia, David, Charles Gallup; 3) Revi¬ sion, David Jacoby. COLUMBIA CHALLENGER - 1) Shay, Rich Stuart; 2) Libertine, Wayne Nygren; 3) Murphy’s Law, William Murphy. SUNDAY — t) Shay, Rich Stuart; 2) Osprey, Jim Adams; 3) Libertine, Wayne Nygren. CORONADO 25 - SATURDAY and SUNDAY - 1) Ventura, Ernest Dickson. No other results. ERICSON 35 — SATURDAY - 1) Rainbow, Craig Brown; 2) Good Times II, Barry Bevan; 3) Harmony, John White. SUNDAY — 1) Good Times II, Barry Bevan; 2} Blythe Spirit, Keith Thomson; 3) Rainbow, Craig Brown.

EXCALiBUR - SATURDAY - 1) Howlin’ Owl, i; 2) Mertin, Adam ; Gambet; 3) Perezoso, Denny Sargent, SUNDAY — 1) Merlin, Adam Gambel; 2) Howlin’ Owl, Van Jepson; 3) Perezoso, Oenny Sargent. EXPRESS 27 — SATURDAY — 1) Desperado, Mike Bruzzone; 2) Leon Russell, Johnson/Daniels; 3) Great White, William Wordew. SUNDAY — 1) Whirlwind, Michael Reynolds; 2) Yeofy, Etiei Redstone; 3) Desperado, Mike Bruzzone. EXPRESS 37—1) Sleeper, Tom Gettman; 2) Pazzo Express, Bill Ormond; 3) Flamingo, Rod Seivers. SUNDAY — 1) Warpath, Fred Howe; 2) Free Spirit, Neil Ross; 3) Blitz, George Neill. GOLDEN GATE — SATURDAY — 1) Fledgling, Michael Bonner; 2) Sanderling, Anderson/Counts; 3) Pajarita, Robert MacDonald. SUNDAY - 1) Sanderling, Anderson/Counts; 2) Pajarita, Robert MacDonald; 3) Fledgling, Michael Bonner. • HAWKFARM — SATURDAY — 1) Cannonball, Rick Schuidt; 2) El Gavilan, Jocelyn Nash; 3) Notorious, James Hirano. SUNDAY — i)EI Gavilan, Jocelyn Nash, 2) Cannonball, Rick Schuidt; 3) Osprey, Closner/Brereton/Mulcare. ISLANDER BAHAMA — SATURDAY — 1) Artesian, Kenneth Speer; 2) Alter¬ native, Michael Sheets; 3) Menehune, Sandi Harris. SUNDAY — 1) Artesian, Kenneth Speer; 2) Constellation, Super/Lincoin; 3) Cahada, Henneman/Bjork. ISLANDER 28 — SATURDAY — 1) Summertime, Bruce Sams; 2) Jose Cuervo, Sam Hock; 3) Sagitta, Fred Conta. SUNDAY - 1) Sagitta, Fred Conta; 2) Shanghai, Ken Jesmore; 3) Gabbiano, Chuck Kosiosky. ISLANDER 30 — SATURDAY — 1) Current Asset, John Bowen; 2) Antares, Larry Telford; 3) Bianca, Bruce Wallace. SUNDAY - 1) Wildwind, Douglas McVae; 2) Antares, Larry Telford, 3) Kilindini II, D. Drummond. ISLANDER 36 — SATURDAY — 1} Shenanigan, Michael Fitzgerald; 2) Wild Onion, Allan Schuman; 3) Prtma Donna, Eric Warner. SUNDAY - 1) Shenanigan, Michael Fitzgerald; 2) Valbari ill, John Ruberg; 3) Blockbuster, Bruce Block. ' page 152

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VALLEJO BLOWOUT

|. J/i?4 — SATURDAY — 1) Frick N Frack, Claussen/Lindsey; 2i Chicks Dig It, rskow.

■ JOT - SATURDAY - ti Blaxw, Michael Lamoert-2) J-Spo*, Tom Fancner: | ' '

Paul Kamen; 3) Paddy Murphy, Jim Reed, SUNDAY - 1) Paddy Murphy, Jim ■ ■ :, ■

Force, Gail Kinstler; 3) Gull Wing. Larry. Nancy Olsen. SUNDAY — 1> Wet

;chard Bates; 2} Sportin’ Life, Greg Pfeiffer; 3} Finest Hour, Lambert Thom. SUNDAY — 1) Sportin’ Life, Greg Pfeiffer; 2) QEi, Richard Bates; 3} Non Sequitor, Rudolf Binnewies. THUNDER BIRO SATURDAY — 1) Windjimmer. James Graham; 2) Crazy Jane, Douglas Carroff; 3} lyric, James Newport, SUNDAY — i) Windjammer, James Grah3m; 2) Lyric, James Newport; 3) Ouzel, Michael Sheets. TRITON — SATURDAY - 1) Sleepyhead, Paul Wells; 2) Captain Hooke Tom. Dave Newton: 3) Hutakai, Alex Chenq SUNDAY - i) Sleepyhead Paul HOA-F - SATURDAY — 1) Aahs; 2) Punk Dolphin; 3) Wolfpack. SUNDAY — HDA-H — SATURDAY — 1) Mesmerize;^) Louise; 3) Gratia. SUNDAY - t) Mesmerize; 2} Wild Goose; 3) Gratia. HDA-J — SATURDAY *- i) Madhatter, 2) B.A.W.T.; 3i Desperado SUNDAY - D Desperado; 2} Madhatter. 3) Sundance.

man, 2) Cygnet, Nick Abitsch, 3i Minlaka, Gerry Brown

' : ’/0H,/6'fi 2} Think Past!, Albert Holt: 3) Vorlicity, Jeffrey Gethtng.

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; George Mordli 3} Twisted. Don Weineke. SUNDAY 1} Smokey, John Nelson; 2) Twisted, Don Weineke; 3) Snow Storm, George Morns. RANGER 26 SATURDAY — 1) Mariner, D. Bruce Darby; 2} Kemo Sabe, .

' Roxanne, Hay/Bruno; 3) High Hopes, Aidan Collins.

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BOAT NAMES S

akespeare asked “What’s in a name?” but Will may not have known many sailors. For many, deciding which boat to buy is a piece of cake compared to the men¬ tal gymnastics of picking a narhe. However, once that name is chosen —

Indians,” said Ysidro. “1 also had another boat over in Moss Landing. I’m still not a very good sailor, so s

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■n that’s it. No other will do. Where do all these names for all the boats that sit in marinas throughout the Bay come from? There’s a million stories in the naked city and each one is different. Some sailors like to link their boats with their family history and heritage. In Alameda, Jonathan Miles, his wife and two sons, live aboard Legal Tender, their 46-foot pilothouse cutter designed by Ted Brewer. Do you think Miles is a banker, a lawyer or a corrections officer and the name refers to his profession? Wrong. Jonathan is a dentist who practices on board his boat. Legal Tender was the name of a schooner that his grandmother’s father skippered out of Massachusetts. The boat was originally named Sierra, but when the Miles family bought it . . . “Legal Tender chose itself. We have a watercolor of the boat on board that the cap¬ tain drew supposedly when they were becalmed for a long time, like 30 days. “We don’t know if it was a tender for a larger ship. I think the name was a spoof — a tender being an auxiliary boat and legal tender being currency for all debts public and private,” said Miles. The name Legal Tender takes on another meaning, too. The Miles’ are planning to head south to Mexico next year and use Jonathan’s professional dentistry skills on the boat to keep them in tortillas. Some sailors dig into their cultural background for a boatname. Ysidro Perez lives in Soquel, but keeps his boat Yaqui, a Cheoy Lee 36, in Sausalito. “Yaqui is a Mexican Indian from Sonora and on my mother’s side they are all Yaqui

Yaqui Indian topknot points the way on bow of Cheoy Lee 36.

this friend of mine, the acting harbormaster at the time, used to worry about me whenever I’d go out. One day he said,

“Ysidro, you ought to write a book and name it The Yaqui Way of Sailing. Perez knew he wanted a picture of a Vaqui to decorate the side of his boat, so he asked the folks at Pintail Graphics in Sausalito to come up with a design. They took a close-up shot of Ysidro and researched how a Yaqui Indian might decorate his hair. The results on the side of Yaqui are Ysidro’s profile with a unique Indian topknot. Do you have a nutzy aunt, a grumpy wife, a tough as nails persuasion? Probably if you had a new boat, their names would come to mind. Since most people still refer to boats as “she”, it is no wonder women’s names are among the most prevalent on transoms. Robert Woodward took three days to salvage an abandoned Rhodes 19 that sunk outside his marina in Sausalito. It took months to put it in spit and polish shape. But once he did, he named it after his southern momma, Jimmie Ruth. There are no saints in the Heckman family or none that they will admit to, so why did

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they name their Olson 30, Saint Anne? All of the mothers and grandmothers on both sides of my family and wife’s family were named Anne. We have two boys, Mark and Bruce, but if we ever had a girl, we were going to call her Anne. Just Anne seemed to short, so we called the boat Saint Anne," said Dick Heckman who lives in Castro Valley.

are found in Central America and now are very rare. But you can see them at the San Diego Zoo,” said Heckman

depicted as throwing a thunderbolt, this gives a boat an awful lot to live up to. “My son, Carl and his wife, Karen, came up with that idea. Zeus was the big guy and seeing this was a large boat, the name fit. MacGregor being Scottish, we thought of

Before Saint Anne, Dick had a Santana 27 that he named Quetzal. For this boat, he looked into another popular source for names, legends, mythology and science fiction. “There is an old Aztec legend about a bird that would not live in captivity but only in freedom. These birds were worshipped by the Aztecs. Their emperors all had capes and headdresses made out of feathers of the quetzal bird. The male is about as large as a good-sized woodpecker and they have a tail feather that is three to four feet long. They Sometimes people live out their fantasies through their boat names.

Then there is the big MacGregor 65 called Zeus. According to Greek mythology, Zeus

was the main man, the head honcho, the CEO of the heavens. He presided over the Greek pantheon and was father to the other gods, as well as mere mortal heros. Often

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names like that for a while. But when they said 'what do you think about Zeus?’, I said 'great, call the sign painter’,” said Hal Nelson of Alameda. Nelson also liked the name because it was short and easy to remember, qualities that his previous boat, Axelheist, a one-off 50-ft coldmolded sloop, didn’t have. Named after a fictional character who hung around the Caribbean, Hal was often asked what it meant. “Rather than explain it, I would just say it was a star. There must be some star out there named Axelheist,” said Nelson.

. oger Heath of San Francisco is an Ursula LeGuin fan. LeGuin is a prolific science fiction author who wrote three books called the Earth Sea trilogy. This is a fantasy world of islands where sailors use square sails and the wizards can adjust the winds so that all voyages are downwind. In the trilogy, a young man learns to be a wizard and his knickname from his master is Sparrowhawk, the name Roger gave to his Moore 24. “The Sparrowhawk is also the smallest member of the falcon family and the Moore 24 is one of the smallest ultralights, so the name fit really well. It is a fast bird and the only hawk that can hover. It can sit waiting for ideal conditions and when it’s ready, it dives,” said Heath. Place names are favorite choices for boatnames. They recall a location that means

BOAT NAMES something special. Rhonda Fleming of Greenbrae named her Sonoma 30, Kitty Hawk, after a beautiful beach with pretty white sand dunes in North Carolina — a spot where she often surfed, ^camped and skateboarded. That Kitty Hawk was also the home of the Wright Brothers first flight isn’t quite as important to Rhonda as her own beach memories. Jim Fair’s decision to call his Merit 25 Chesapeake just kind of evolved, so he says. He did grow up in Maryland and although he didn’t sail as a kid, he was well aware of the nautical history of the Chesapeak Bay. However, Chesapeake wasn’t Chesapeak from the start. It took Jim a while to decide on a name, so the powers that be chose one for him. “When 1 first got the boat I entered it in the Metropolitan Midwinters. Where the registration form said boat name, I wrote down ‘No name yet’.” Well, Kirk Brooks doesn’t like to have loose ends lying around and if a boat doesn’t come with a name, he gives it one. So I was entered as Not Yet courtesy of Kirk Brooks. That stuck for about a year and then the crew revolted. They said it was a jinx not to have a real name,” said Jim. Even then the name Chesapeake didn’t surface. For a long time, Jim was thinking about naming his boat Terminator, after the Arnold Schwarzenegger film. “There was a classic line at the very end of the movie. The woman leans over to the robot after it has gotten crunched and goes, 'You- are terminated, fucker’. I’ve always wanted to go up to somebody after a race and say that,” laughed Jim. The. cinema is responsible for another

well-known Bay Area boat. Bill Twist has his kids to thank for the name of his IOR racer, Blade Runner. They saw the movie, liked it,

and brought it up first when Dad had a 41-foot Peterson IOR boat. He eventually named that Salute. s “When I sold it and started building Blade Runner, the name popped up again. Just the combination of the words sounded like it was for a full-out racing machine,” said Twist. Before Blade Runner and Salute, there was another boat, a Peterson 3/4-ton named Stuff, which was a reference to all the things needed to make a sailbdat go. “Suddenly I had all this stuff that I had to deal with — the sails, the gear, the lines, rigging, cushions,” said Twist. \ \

IB ill Twist wasn’t the first sailor to use the makings of a sailboat for a name. Hank Easom found himself with Etchell hull number 600, so he named the boat 600. Five-and-a-half years ago, John Liebenberg had a choice of hull number 15 or hull number 13 for his Express 27. Not being superstitious, he took number 13 and dou¬ bled his chance of bad luck by calling it Friday. Sometimes boat colors help in picking out the right name. Bob Marshall’s Newport 30 has a light blue and white house with a dark blue hull. “Rosie and I and two or three of my children were sitting in a pizza place in Sausalito. We had bought the boat but hadn’t taken delivery of it. So we were thinkIt's names like this that worry wives.

ing about things that we liked that were blue. Blue cheese (as a boat name) had been taken. We went from that to Roquefort,”

said Marshall. Not long after they named their boat, a Zinfindel appeared in the Newport 30 fleet. With wine and cheese, all that was missing was a boat named Crackers. If you can’t think of a good boat name, there is really no law saying you can’t make one up. Don and Betty Lessley of Novato spent a considerable amount of time developing the name Freewind for their Cal 9.2. “My wife particularly likes seagulls and en¬ joys ocean birds. How were we to get a bird into our name, other than calling the boat The Bird? I saw a T:shirt that had a bird on it and used the word, free. Birds, free, wind — it was all related and kind of pretty,” said Don. If you look at the name on the transom of the boat, the F in Freewind is in the shape of an albatross with its big long wings outstretched. Now let’s go from the lyrical and poetic to the leering world of the double entendre. Do you think Ev Lester of Walnut Creek really named his Ericson 30 Concubine because it was easy to remember? He swears he did. “It is a good name for the radio. A lot of names are real cute, but over the radio, they don’t mean much. There is nothing tricky about Concubine. 1 felt the Coast Guard could remember it very easily,” said Lester. Sure, Ev. And what about David Jackson’s Islander 37, The Other Woman? Come on, confess Dave. “I was getting divorced about the time I bought the boat and my girlfriend was the

other woman. But it also refers to the ex¬ pense of refitting a boat that was originally built in 1971 and has had four owners. The page 156

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boat becomes the other woman,” Jackson, who lives in Sausalito

said

i ast, but not least, have you heard about Leather to Weather, a Pearson 385 kept in Sausalito and owned by John Mourrailie? Is this some sailor’s S&M fantasy or what? You decide.

1 bought the boat in 1984 and it was in

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the water, but hadn’t been named. I took a bunch of buddies to Sam’s in Tiburon and we were on the dock drinking. A friend came up with the name Leather to Weather. A year later, I thought of the graphics with the lady kneeling and cracking a whip,’ ” said Mourraille. This name can’t possibly be that innocent.

But John said he’d make up a story if I wanted something juicier. ‘It could mean you’re whipping the wind and going at it or there could be other con¬ notations, if you wish,” said Mourraille. I think John will only tell us the real story if we can guarantee him complete immunity. Know of a good boat name and the story to go with it? We’d love to hear about it. — glenda ganny carroll

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n the world of sailing there is no event that so evokes the combined images of hedonism and competition as does Antigua Sailing Week. Imagine, if you will, an inter¬ national regatta with twice the entries of the St. Francis Big Boat Series, held in an idyllic tropical setting seeped in nautical history, with plenty of rum punch for all hands. As if that weren’t enough, the event enjoys the unique status of being endorsed by the island’s citizens, government and businesses. Antigua, for those of you who didn’t ma¬ jor in geography, is about one third of the way down the Lesser Antilles, the tropical chain of islands that stretches from Puerto Rico to Trinidad. Basking year-round in the

warm southeast trades and blessed with two of the finest natural small boat harbors in the% world, this 10 by 12-mile island has been a ' prime Atlantic cruising destination for nearly 30 years. Well-travelled Caribbean salts equate its appeal to that of the fabled Grenadines Once part of the British Commonwealth, in 1981 Antigua became a fully independent Jim Ktlroy's 'Kialoa iV’ from Los Angeles. Except for a navigation error, she Would have Won heU Antigua Sailing Week title.

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many as 65 boats representing 22 nations were competing.

■ 11 wasn’t until 1982, however, that Antigua Sailing Week really got on the map, attracting a strong fleet, half of them serious racers. For not only did Jim Kilroy of Los Angeles show up with Kialoa IV to take honors in the largest — 130 boats — fleet ever, but the shoreside activities at Nelson’s Dockyard and the Antigua YC reached new libinous heights. The wet t-shirt contests became no t-shirt contests and got lots of play in the sailing press. So, too, did dis¬ qualified SORC winner and sailing ‘bad boy’ Tom “Coon Ass” Dreyfuss of New Orleans. The Mardi Gras veteran romped around in a Superman costume with a dildo protruding from the waistband. The ‘tray lady’ and ‘tray man’ doing their BBQ-thing on the beach at Dickenson Bay.

nation ruled by a parlimentary government. Understandably, however, the British in¬ fluence remains, for other than when con¬ trolled by the French in 1666-67, the British had ruled since the early 1600’s. There is no animosity between England and Antigua; in fact British Airways 747’s arrive almost daily from London during the high season. While Antigua’s rolling hills aren’t ugly, the Brits, like the other tourists, come primarily for the exclusive waterfront resorts, the 365 travelposter beaches, and the fabulous cruising Sailing — both for military and recrea¬ tional purposes — has long been a mainstay of Antiguan life. During the first 200 years, the arid island was of exceptional strategic value to the British Crown. Horatio Nelson fortified the already well-protected English Harbor and based his squadron there. When you climb the steps of Fort Berkeley to overlook-the Antigua Sailing Week finish line, you’ve climbed the steps worn down by the boots of Nelson and his men. When you drink at Limeys, you’re relaxing in the old officer’s quarters. Many other fascinating historical structures remain, including capstans used to careen the warships. Par¬ tially rather than plastically preserved, they convey a powerful sense of nautical tradition. As for Antigua’s pleasure sailing history, it begins with Cdr. V.E.B. Nicholson, his wife, and two sons who arrived from England in 1948 aboard the schooner Mollihawk. Having intended to sail to Australia, the family

You’d think the Caribbean was always clear as a bell. But some sunsets are like those off Marina del Rey.

Yes, the word was out. If you were look¬ ing for the wildest and craziest — but nonetheless organized — regatta on the planet, you need look no further than Antigua Sailing Week. It’s no wonder then, that for the last five years entries have averaged 115 boats. The

fell in love with English Harbor, whose buildings at the time were abandoned and withering toward oblivion. The Nicholsons spent the winter refitting their boat, accepted an offer to do a charter, and have been there ever since. Their family has grown and so has the charter fleet; upwards of 75 large charter vessels call English Harbor their winter home. While many others have subsequently come and established businesses, the wellliked Nicholson clan retains a strong presence. In fact it was Desmond Nicholson who co-founded Antigua Sailing Week 20 years ago with Howard Hulford and the An¬ tigua Hotel Association. Unlike San Fran¬ cisco’s Summer of Love which didn’t even survive the winter, The Antiguans clever scheme to extend the high tourist season has not only endured but thrived. Twenty-four entries, 17 of them charter boats, competed in the inaugural three-race event. Dr. Cesar Berrios of Puerto Rico, headed on a cruise down island, entered on a lark — and won. It was a fortuitous occur¬ rence, for when he returned to win the next two years also, he brought other Puerto Rican entries with him. By 1970 the series was lengthened to a week; in the mid-70’s the then associated state of the Com¬ monwealth of Antigua and Barbuda issued a stamp to commemorate the fact that now as f ?:

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breakdown of entries by country has been remarkably consistent. The United States normally fields about 35 boats, England about 15, Antigua 10, the British Virgins about eight, the rest being a smattering from 44 other countries ranging from Abajan (which isn t listed in our National Geographic Atlas) to that traditional ocean racing power, Zimbabwe. For whatever reasons, entries for this year’s 20th Antigua Sailing Week tumbled to just 80 boats. The dwindling participation is of great concern to the scores of ‘tray ladys’ who are ready day and night with Johnny Cakes, fish cakes, BBQ chicken and beef, as well as any cocktail or ‘conch water’ you desire. The government is concerned, too. With a per capita income of less than $1,000 a year U.S. — there are lots of children among the 75,000 Antiguans — Sailing Week is now relied on to be a major earner of much-needed foreign currency. The tumbling attendence, however, could not be blamed on Californians, who made a Dee Smith, David Hulse and crew went out on a limb with 'Eclipse', but had to settle for third place.

respectable numerical showing. Jim Kilroy of Los Angeles was the sole representative of Southern California, back with Kialoa IV. Arch Marez of Santa Cruz and St. Lucia brought his two boats; the Swan 44 Auril and Eclipse, the Carl Schumacher-designed 44-ft open dinghy that had literally been ‘sailed under’ six months previously on Monterey Bay. Jim Bledsole of the St. Francis YC was there with his Swan 46, Mr. Bullfrog. Northern California was represented in the cruising divisions by V. Dedomonico’s Fife 79, Mariella, an elegant old wood boat in lovely condition. We at Latitude were there, too, with charterers from San Francisco, the Peninsula, Santa Barbara and Texas on our Ocean 71, Big O. Of course Antigua Sailing Week always at¬ tracts plenty of voyeurs, for both the action on the course and the shore. For example, there were five Ocean 71 sisterships to our Big O; not a one of which entered the com¬ petition. Other notable boats included the 110-ft, 40-knot Never Say Never, which has been co-star in Bond movies and Miami Vice. Then there was the enormous ketch Lac/y Gull, which made the 80-ft Kialoa IV

Some of the spectators and racers formed a mutual admiration society.

look like an Olson 30. You don’t know the meaning of big pleasure boats until you’ve been to the Caribbean. California boats held up their end of the spectator fleet, also. Claude Rothe and Roberta Chan, midway through a clockwise circumnavigation of the Caribbean with their , steel sloop Quetzel from Sausalito were there, as were the San Francisco-based Freeport 41, Zip a Dee Doo Da, and the Ocean 60, Ocean Mistress.

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hat’s Antigua Sailing Week real/y like?” everybody wants to know. We can’t speak for previous incarnations, but judging from this year we’d have to say that Antigua Sailing Week is either dramatically changing or has a terribly distorted reputation. First off, this was no sensual Dionysian fest. Possibly the presence of topless women crew, spectators and sun-bathers constitutes unbridled hedonism to bluebloods of New England and the reserved British, but it rated three yawns from Californians and was no naughtier than the most pedestrian after¬ noon on any of the French Islands. Perhaps organizers had made a deliberate attempt to de-sensualize the Week. “I heard that last year’s wet t-shirt contest got way out of hand,” snarled one middle-aged woman shoving her way to the front of the lay-day

THE 20TH ANNUAL crowd. “Yes,” said her lookalike compan¬ ion, visciously elbowing her way to a better vantage point for the anticipated prowoman. Sure it was possible for men to make friends, but with the ratio at about 10 to 1, the odds didn’t favor it. In Antigua, as V in the entire sailing world except for Thailand, it’s wisest to bring companionship with you.

One of the four Swan 65’s that competed.

ceedings, “it was just disgusting!” When the officials announced there would be no wet t-shirt contest, the crowd — including the women — roared their displeasure. A big group of Texans on an Irwin 52 tried to take up the slack when they motored by the assemblage, alternately flashing and mooning the spectators. Had everyone in the crowd a pair of binoculars they might have been able to catch the Texan’s drift. There was an exceedingly boring couples 'lascivious legs’ contest, during which the only spark of life was provided by two guys wearing no more than Heineken boxes around their waists and clothes pins on their nipples. They were hilarious! But so much for Antigua’s sexual reputa¬ tion. As for the boozing, one long-time An¬ tigua veteran advised us to “bring another liver”. Unable to locate one on short notice, we came without. But we didn’t seem to miss it. Despite having the most conducive climate for heavy drinking and the availabil¬ ity of cocktails every 30 feet, very few people were getting bombed. Despite a fleet of several hundred boats and thousands of ac¬ tive sailors, we never once saw anything resembling an obnoxious drunk. What we did see was a couple of alcoholic friends who’d given up the bottle entirely. We’re not complaining about any of this, mind you, just pointing out the dramatic dif¬ ference between the Week’s social reputa¬ tion and reality. If you’re thinking about going to Antigua for wild, wild times, you’d better think again. As one of our charter

guests said, “If I’d known it was like this, I would have brought my girlfriend.” And we’d have brought our family. It was a very pleasant, sober, civilized week of sailing fun. It was also a great place to meet sailors from all over the world, something you rarely find in the Pacific, and a great place to find a berth back to the States or to the Med. There was also” plenty of opportunity to meet eligible singles — provided you were a

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I f the wild and crazy social aspects of An¬ tigua have been way overblown, then the racing has similarly been underrated. Because the courses are designed to make a grand tour of the island, they might leave something to be desired for gold cup course sailors. But for fun racers and the cruising divisions, the conditions, the courses, and the race committee work was just outstanding. We’re not certain who has the right con¬ nections, but for the five days of racing the warm trades blew between 12 and 20 knots with light seas. After the races were over the winds would drop and the seas moderate so there was never the least bit of rolling at an¬ chor. It was uncanny — and about as perfect conditions as you could ever imagine for Burt Keenan of New Orleans. The former SORC participant has taken to Antigua with a Frers cat ketch.

ANTIGUA RACE WEEK of the five race series takes the fleet halfway around the island to Dickenson Bay. There’s pleasure racing. Think of the best day you’ve ever had sailing in your life; stick six of them together in a row, and you’d have Antigua Sailing Week conditions. Scenery? This is the Caribbean you see in the travel posters. Blue sky, puffy white clouds, unbelieveable shades of blue water, fine white sand beaches, dramatic surfpounded cliffs along the south shore — it was almost enough to make you get over being homesick for California fog. Antigua Sailing Week uses a special West Indies Yachting Association handicap system, one that’s fallen out of favor everywhere but at Antigua. We didn’t have the time to ever figure it out. What we didn’t have the intelligence to figure out was think¬ ing behind the make-up of some of the classes. Why on earth, for example, would they have Swan 65’s racing with Capri 25’s in one cruising division and Irwin 65’s racing with 23-footers in another cruising division? What seemed to us to be the obvious folly of such class splitting was made evident when just the second start of Race Week began with a resound BLAM! A Capri 25 skipper thought he could nimbly dip inside the starting pin and thus ace out the Swan 65, Expectation

which was charging for the line at hull speed. It was like a kid on a motor scooter trying to duck across a railroad crossing in front of the AmTrac Starlight. And not making it. The Swan smashed into that Carpi broad¬ side, sprawling the smaller boat’s crew across the cockpit and dropping their rig about their shoulders. But it didn’t end there. Swan 65’s tip the scales at about 75,000 pounds; the little Capri 25 less than a tenth of that. Hav¬ ing dug a nice little hole in the Capri with her bow, the Swan and the Capri tango’d off toward the first mark at Mill Reef. It seemed like about half a mile before the drag of the Capri on the Swan’s bow killed the larger boat’s momentum. They’ll be a foot of snow in Antigua before the Capri owner tries to barge the starting line again. Remarkably, the Week’s video had been following the Capri the entire time just before the start. Thus the collsion was captured in the most dramatic possible fashion, with the Swan suddenly appearing out of nowhere to t-bone the little boat. The sequence was replayed hundreds of times on video, much to the delight of onlookers. In fact, it was the second most popular sight at Antigua, the first being a young lady’s pretty fanny on which a San Diegan had painted two sets of ‘kisses’. Given the mix of different size boats, dif¬ ferent crew skills, unfamiliarity with charter boats, and short-handed crews, it’s a wonder there weren’t many more collisions. There were a few, but none as dramatic as the Swan and Capri.

ntigua’s five races cover 130 miles for racers and 98 miles for cruisers. The first race /

Nelson's Dockyard conveys a fabulous sense of history.

rest of the way around the island to English Harbor the following day. After a lay day, there are two more ‘triangle-ish’ races to conclude the series. What made the racing all the more ex¬ citing for the cruising division was that on the longer races the slower, spinnakerless cruis-

'Wild Child', for getting t-bbned by the Swan on the other side of the page, came out in relatively good shape.

ing boats got to start first. So, for example, in the 25-mile Dickenson Bay to English Har¬ bor Race, for a short while we were able to lead the entire 80-boat fleet, seeing how long

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we could hold off boats like Kialoa IV,

On lay days some of the cruisers would take advan¬

Mistress Quickly, three Swan 65’s, a Martin

tage of the humidity and levitate for minutes at a

Francis 80, and a Frers 81. When a Sunday hacker gets overtaken by two or three of these boats at a time, the little heart can-go pitter-pat. Holding off Kilroy and any of the Kialoa’s has always been a problem for racers. And while Kilroy had only brought K IV and not the newer K V to Antigua, the old Holland design was in flawless condition. And she was fast. Under a rating system that primarily favors smaller boats, the superbly sailed Kialoa IV was just the killer she’d been at Antigua in 1983. Her class and fleet finishes for the first three races were as follows: 1-5; 1-2; 1-1. In the fifth and final race it was 1-3. So what about the fourth race? The fourth race was the controversial one. The water off the south shore of Antigua is deep so the buoy can shift position with the wind and current. Half-Moon, for example, is described as “a buoyed mark in about 30 fathoms about 4 miles 135° true from Hud¬ son Point”. As such, it was somewhat in the same vicinity as St. James Buoy. In any event, Kialoa calculated they had rounded Half Moon and continued on to the next mark. Assuming that navigators on Kialoa simply don’t make mistakes, half of

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the racing boats simply followed her around the wrong buoy. Much later boats apparently recognized the error and sailed the correct course.

But with half the racing fleet having sailed the wrong course, there was a hub-bub and a protest. Kialoa attempted to demonstrate that they had rounded the correct mark. The Race Committee didn’t buy it, however, so Kialoa was stuck DSQ. Even Jim Bledsole’s Bullfrog, which dropped out of the race, got less points than did Kialoa. Saddled with an 8th in class and 43rd in fleet, Kilroy’s chances for another overall Antigua Sailing Week title went out the nav station porthole. Taking up the slack was Titan IV, a 43-ft Joubert/Nivelt sailed by T. Hill of Puerto Rico. This skipper and this boat are no slouches, having won overall the year before. Under the name Abracadabra, the 43-footer had won overall honors in the SORC back in 1986.

econd in fleet went to Immigrant, by a bunch of Canadian and Kookaburra 12 Meter guys. Actually the very successful Farr 40 was lucky to even get to Antigua. Our crew on Big O was anchored sailed

‘Mariella', a beautiful wood Fife ketch owned by a couple from San Francisco. At right, playday at the Dockyard.

in St. Martin, about to leave for Antigua, when Immigrant and her delivery skipper, Bob Holmes sailed by. Singlehanding, he didn’t look too good. Then he said it would

be nice if he had some food. And water. And charts. Such musings are never a good sign. Several days later, 12 miles from Antigua and without a functioning VHF, he set off his EPIRB. At 0300 the back of the keel was starting to come off. They got him in, fixed the boat, and sailed a good series. Reverie, a Beneteau 34 from Martinique, took third overall. Other notable finishes. Kialoa was second to Mistress Quickly, the old Ben Lexan 72-footer in Class A. Dee Smith of Oakland drove Arch Marez’ Eclipse to third in Class A. Connie D, a J-35 from the Virgin Islands, took third in Class B and 4th in fleet. Second in Class C went to Cold Beer, Rudy Thompson’s modified 30-ft Pearson Flyer. Modified in what way? The two-time Antigua winner didn’t like the boat’s high freeboard, so he removed the deck, sawed a couple inches off the top of the hull, and put the deck back on. He finished 8th in fleet. The 20 Class B cruising class was interest¬ ing for two things. Sara, an old Ericson 41 took second; and Acadia, a Frers 49 cat ketch owned by Burt Keenan of New

ANTIGUA RACE WEEK afternoon reach away. An overnight broad reach puts you at lovely St. Barts. Sweet, sweet, sailing.

Orleans took third. Racers will remember Keenan as a former SORC winner who got chucked — with several others — for having a ‘funny’ IOR certificate. Class C was notable because Ted Irwin’s mylar-sailed, staysail equipped Irwin 65 was able to beat our Big O by just two measely points. We won’t bother you with how each of us placed, other than to say those wellsailed smaller boats that can deftly short tack up the beach did just fine. Should you do Antigua Sailing Week? Heck yeah, if you’re a racer you should. The

Mistress Quickly’, which years ago raced in the Big Boat Series, took Class A.

sailing conditions are as pleasant as you can imagine, and the anchorages at English and Falmouth harbors are both secure and historic. The people of Antigua were genu¬ inely friendly and there wasn’t a hint of a hassle. Sure you ought to do it. If you’re not as race crazy, Antigua Sailing Week can still be fun. Charter a boat and follow the fleet for a day or two, then head off to other attractions. Guadaloupe is just an

13 ut those who did Antigua’s 20th Anni¬ versary Sailing Week will never forget it — although not for the finest of reasons. At best we can figure it out, three young Antiguans have bought all the amplifers on the island — three stories worth — so only they can play rock and roll. Tragically, these are the only three Antiguans not blessed with the gift of rhythm. What they lack in talent they com¬ pensate for in volume. Furthermore, their repetoire is limited to just two songs, each of which lasts three hours. And somehow, they seemed to have gotten the exclusive contract to play all Sailing Week bashes. The lyrics to half their repetoire consists of Climb Aboard” followed by the sound of a train whistle — repeated for three hours. Geez, there isn’t even a train in the entire Caribbean! If this band played the last three Sailing Weeks, we think we’ve discovered the reason for the big drop-off in entries this

In its quaint way, English Harbor can handle all a sailor's needs.

year. It’s our humble suggestion that the An¬ tiguan Parliment give these fellows a travel grant to someplace where they have trains, for they’d all make better conductors than they do musicians. — latitude 38

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omehow, I had a feeling I’d run into her. 1 was spending a day on the University campus, attending the conference on Engineering Management Economics that my company sends me to every year. It was lunch break, and the course I was steer¬ ing to get to a nearby off-campus restaurant took me perilously close to the Naval Ar¬ chitecture building. These were her stomping grounds, all right. But the chances of being spotted by one particular student out of 30,000 were astronomically low. I studied the exterior of the aging Naval Architecture building, as I walked past. “What a beautiful campus,” I thought to myself, as I slipped into nostalgic memories of the remote past, when I was a student at another college. But the sound of two screaching bicycle tires jolted me back to reality. 1 just barely jumped out of the way in time, and turned around to see a rather shapely young female rider execute a skidding 180 degree turn on the narrow footpath. “Max!” she yelled in astonishment. “What are you doing here?” It was, of course, Lee Helm. “Just on my way to lunch,” I answered casually. “On campus? Like, I thought you worked in the city.” “This is on company time, Lee. They send me to this conference every year. Can I buy you lunch? (It’s on my expense account.)” “For sure, Max. I know just the place. But first I have to download an output file. It should only take a minute, why don’t you come with me?” We walked over to a highrise building of classrooms and offices, and Lee locked her bicycle to a railing along with several hun¬ dred others. She lead me inside, down two flights of stairs, and into a large room con¬ taining nothing but perhaps 50 or 60 desktop computers. A student was sitting in front of practically every one of them, com¬ pletely absorbed in what was on their screen. I followed Lee to the far corner of the room, where she had located two vacant work stations. “This will just take a minute, Max,” she promised as she slid her backpack off her shoulders and searched for something inside it. “Meanwhile, I think you’ll be entertained by this.” She pulled a floppy disk out of the backpack. Then she turned on one of the computers, waiting a few seconds for it to boot from the hard disk, and inserted her floppy. She typed something on the keyboard, some musical notes came out of the computer until they were suppressed by

some more keystrokes. “Go for it, Max,” she said as she moved over to the machine that she would use.

What I saw on the monitor was the deck of a sailboat, as viewed from the cockpit. There was the deck, mast, boom, and mainsail in approximately correct perspective, and an instrument panel with basic wind angle and speed readouts. One of the instruments also showed tiller and boom positions. There was brilliant blue water up to the horizon, with a moving white textured pattern that sug¬ gested small whitecaps. The sky was pale blue with some thin clouds. My knotmeter said minus 0.3 knots, and the message “sit¬ ting in irons” flashed across the screen.

“[v_yI se the cursor controls —

left/right arrows to move the tiller, up/down arrows • to adjust the sheet,” advised Lee as she looked over from her screen. My backwards speed had now built up to

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I fell off on port tack, letting the main out as I turned, until I was down to almost a beam reach. Then I sheeted in watching the speed

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come up to zero. At this point I neutralized the helm, and the speed went up into the positive range. The horizon started to tilt over to one side, and instinctively I shifted my weight over to the high side of my chair. Lee looked over again to see how I was doing. “Good work, Max. That’s a difficult boat to handle on the first time out.” I nodded, and tried to concentrate on keeping the boat pointing high and moving fast. Even though the computer I was using was a fast AT clone, there was an annoying delay between hitting the steering keys and seeing the results appear as tiller position adjustments on screen. “Keep this card next to the keyboard. It tells what the special function keys do.” Lee handed me a small card designed to stand up next to the keyboard. It "indicated that I had access to several other screens — a nav station, a chart, a “lookout”, and a sail selection screen. I pressed F7 for the nav station. The cockpit view was replaced by a more complete instrument panel, but I still had a tiller and boom position display to make it possible to keep sailng. There was also a radar screen, showing the outline of a large bay. Since I was getting close to land, page 166

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according to the radar, l pressed F8 to see the chart.

told me I was swinging around into the wind and slowing down.

The chart screen was a pleasant surprise. I was in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, approaching Thomas Point of Annapolis, with the Chesapeake Bay bridge astern. It was an area I had once cruised. “Time to tack,” I thought, so I switched back to the cockpit view, and put the helm down to turn into the wind.

“It’s a commercial product, the Dolphin Sailing System from BCI software in Ringwood, New Jersey. This is the only sail¬ ing simulator I know of for MS-DOS machines that tries to model the steering responses of a sailboat. But as you can see, it

The clouds swung to the right as my boat turned to port and the horizon straightened, but before I could fill the sail on starboard tack, I had lost all my way on and was in irons again. It took several tries this time, but by sailing backward I was finally able to get the boat moving again on port tack. Then I switched back to the chart to check my posi¬ tion again, and then to the nav station to check the radar. I altered course to a broad reach that would take me under the bridge, and then switched back to cockpit mode. The bridge should have been right in front of me, but all I saw was clear horizon and blue sky. Maybe “lookout” mode would help. to recover. “Sitting in irons” again. This time, my attempts to recover ended with “Illegal function call at address 1C17:479.4,” and the system locked up.

Sure enough, there was the bridge as seen through binoculars. The cursor controls now had the function of sweeping the binoculars around the horizon for a full view of the sur¬ rounding shoreline, but I had no control of steering. The compass and speed readings

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can still stand a lot of improvement.” “I’m surprised that the control response is so slow,” I complained. “And there’s never anything to look at on the horizon, so you can’t sail it without chasing the compass or the wind instruments.” “I agree, Max. I mean, this program is mainly valuable as a teaching tool for begin¬ ners, and it’s really important to steer by aim¬ ing at a shore reference. But that’s very hard to program, for a number of reasons.” “What about Microsoft’s Flight Simulator? I’ve played with that a little bit, and it seems to do significantly more with a less powerful computer.” “For sure. Flight Simulator has set a very high standard for simulation programs, and unfortunately none of the current sailing simulators really measure up. But they’re still a lot of fun, and I think it’s only a matter of time before better hardware and high-level graphics tools make it easier to write highquality simulators.” “Well, let’s start it up again, Lee. Does it have a race mode?” “Not yet, Max. This is just the first module of a series. This module includes a sailing adventure, with sailing lessons and flashcard type drills built in. 1 thought it was kind of hokey, but maybe it would be good for

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beginners. Hopefully the more advanced modules will be better. Meanwhile, if you want to race, try this one.” She hit control-alt-delete on my machine, and while it was rebooting took another disk out of her backpack. v “Try this one.” Lee ran through a series of menus on the screen, until I saw an aerial view of a starting line, with eight boats maneuvering for position. “You’re the red boat,” she explained. “Use the seven and eight numeric keys to change course. There are only two screens to worry about — close view and wide view. Use the C and W keys to switch between them.” While I attempted to maneuver up to the starting line, Lee found a sheet of pape.r in her backpack that summarized about a dozen other single-key commands. The most useful ones proved to be the ones that maintain course at various pre-set apparent wind angles, or change tacks. “This one’s called the Gold Cup Challenge, by Posey Yacht Design in Haddam, Connecticut. It’s very simple compared to some of the others, but like, that also means it’s faster to learn.” My first start attempt was a disaster. I didn’t know the controls well enough to react to the other boats, and got penalized for crashing through half the fleet on port tack. So I exited the race and started through the sequence of optidn setting screens again, this time choosing a 12-meter on a lake course. “The animation is still pretty poor,” I remarked to Lee as I reached down the start¬ ing line. The screen updates were three seconds apart, with still pictures in between. Anticipation was critical. But with more than a little luck, I managed to pull off a daring port-tack dip start that put me near the top of the fleet. Then by carefully watching the oscillations in the big wind arrow at the up¬ per right of the screen and tacking on the shifts, I was in a close third place at the windward mark. That’s when I hit the “tack” key instead of the “bear off” key, and five boats went by while I re-read the instructions.

F ive races later, 1 had forgotten all about lunch. I was addicted. “I hope you’re keeping yourself enter¬ tained,” said Lee. “My output file has some problems, so I’m trying to run the program again. It could be a while.” “No problem at all,” I answered without looking away from the screen. A few minutes later, Lee had finished

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... entering her job (it would run on the campus mainframe, and had to wait its turn on the system), and she could turn her attention back to my progress as a computer sailor. “You’ve had enough of this one,” she said as she pulled out the disk and re-booted my computer. “There’s one more simulator pro¬ gram that I think you might enjoy.” I must have looked like a child being dragged away from a favorite video game. “Really, you’ll like this one,” she reassured me. The third program was called simply The Sailing Simulator, by SailTech, out of Toledo, Ohio, and I think the complexity of the program reflects the long winters they have back there. It turned out to be another racing simulator, and like Gold Cup II, all you can do to maneuver is change your boat’s direction. There’s no control of the tiller. What I saw when Lee started it up for me

Comparison of the three sailing programs.

was another starting line and course viewed from above, but the animation was a good deal faster and smoother. Evidently the trade-off is much cruder pictures of the boats — just two lines for each boat representing the hull and boom position. Finally 1 had something resembling anima¬ tion on my screen. The cursor keys in¬ cremented the heading by one or ten degrees, and if 1 held them down the boat turned smoothly, and stopped turning as soon as the key was lifted. But the pre-race tactics were missing. The rest of the fleet sits luffing on the starting line right from the warning gun, and if you sail right through them nothing happens. I got a bad start, since I kept trying to use the Gold Cup II controls, and then decided to investigate some of the other screens and controls that the programs provides. Switching to the sail trim screens, I was surprised to see reasonably good perspective page 168

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views up the jib and mainsail, complete with camber stripes and fluttering telltails. “Needs more Cunningham,” was my first thought when 1 examined the main. Sure enough, once I figured out how to apply Cunningham, the camber stripes changed shape and the trim efficiency number displayed on the screen went up. Then I went for more backstay, for another in¬ crease. The jib trim was just as realistic, but easier to optimize than the main. Just like the real thing.

T 1 hen I flipped back to the sailing screen, and then to the instruments, then to the chart, and then to the weather report. Here is where it gets really interesting, because you get a plot of predicted wind strength and direction for the next few hours of race time. 1 noticed a big shift to the right was coming, so I went back to the sailing screen and tacked over to port. That’s when I ran into a serious difficulty

with the program. There’s a time control, to match the action to the speed of the com¬ puter, or to accelerate time during a long straight leg of the race. But every time you use the zoom feature to change the field of view of the sailing screen, the clock resets to default value, and then speeds up if you zoom up. This caused me to overstand badly on the first beat. Just when 1 thought I might be getting near the lay line I zoomed up to have a look, and before I had a chance to even find the mark, time was running so fast 1 was a mile beyond the lay line. Maybe the problem isn’t so bad on a slower computer — but I had to learn to use the chart screen to get an overall view, and leave the zoom view feature alone. As 1 taught myself the ins and outs of the simulator, Lee was getting increasingly ab¬ sorbed in her own work. At one point I heard her mumble something to the effect of

“just one teeny change, and for sure . . .” As for me, 1 wasn’t leaving until I won a race on this thing. And not on the “easy” setting, either. Finally, after a particularly good call on the windshifts and tides, I got to the weather mark in first place, held onto it through the reaches, and was neck and neck with another boat up the second beat. Ap¬ proaching the mark I should have had them cold on a port-starboard, but the boats just sailed through each other and they got around first. On the last run I out-jibed the other boats on the shifts, and just barely crossed in front. Now for the next higher level of difficulty . . . Lee interrupted me. “It worked! Finis! Let’s go to lunch, Max.” 1 realized that I was actually very hungry, so 1 reluctantly pushed the keyboard away and let Lee remove the disk from the com¬ puter. Besides, there were students waiting to use the machines. We walked out of the room, up the stairs, and out of the building. It was dark outside. — max ebb

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This month we have reports from the Stone Cup, the Bullship

Race, the Folkboat Internationals, the Wooden Boat Associa¬ tion series, the Half Moon Bay/Montara Races, the Jesse Carr Eliminations, the Worrell 1000, plus a new column by world-class sailor John Kostecki to help you improve your racing skills.

The Boob Protest Those sailors familiar with racing rules know that Rule 26 bans advertising. The basic rule reads: “Unless permitted in accordance with rules 26.2 or 26.3, no advertising shall be displayed on the hulls, spars, sails or equip¬ ment of a yacht while rule 26 is in effect, or on the clothing and equipment worn by the crew when the yacht is under way, except that:’’ What follows in the rule book is a short list of exceptions, such as small sailmakers The owner of this boat is a plastic surgeon. Can you guess what his specialty is?

logo, sparmakers logo, etc. Now here’s the situation. We were racing at Antigua Sailing Week against a boat called Galatea of Tortola, a sweet-looking and wellsailed little ketch. As we passed Hose-by her topless crew, a couple of the women on our boat said, “Hey, their boobs are too perfect, they can’t be real!” We didn’t think another thing about it until later in the week when the fleet was an¬ chored off the the Curtain Bluff Hotel and a couple of female tourists standing on the beach pointed to Galatea of Tortola’s battle flag, and said if you looked carefully it looked like a bunch of boobs. See for yourself in the accompanying photograph. A gentleman standing next to them Said, “Well yes, it is a boob flag because the owner of the boat is a plastic surgeon who does breast implants. As we swam back to our boat, we hailed Galatea of Tortola and asked if it was true that the owner was a plastic surgeon. The girls confessed that he was. Given the facts, we ask you to make a ruK ing. Were the topless women on the rail advertising? Was Galatea of Tortola then in violation of Rule 26? Should we have protested?

year that the class winners, Sidewinder, Coyote, Smokin’ J, and Echo, stomped on their competition, each turning in three straight bullets. As much as we’d like to report otherwise, the ’87 Stone Cup, held May 16-17, was numerically a mere shadow of its former self. Some J/24 foredeck scrambling during a one-design series on the Berkeley Circle.

Stone Cup Since 1973 — way back when the Inter¬ national Offshore Rule was still wearing diapers — St. Francis YC’s Frank Stone Perpetual Trophy Regatta has been a prestigious, hard-fought affair, second only in importance to the Big Boat Series later in the year. This two-day, three-race spr¬ ingtime IOR jamboree traditionally features crash-and-burn type Cityfront racing. Crew lists used to be drawn up months before, practices were held, and ringers were flown in, such as John Kolius on Scarlett O’Hara in 1984 or Bill Buchan on High Risk in 1985. As recently as last year, 34 boats in four divisions duked it out in conditions that were heavy enough to dismast the Farr 40 Sun¬ dance and the X-102 Abracadabra. The ’86 regatta will also go down in history as the page 170

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Only 22 IOR boats, many of them well past their prime, competed in only two divisions. In an effort to fill out the fleet, St. Francis, for the first time, concurrently ran a separate regatta for 10 Express 37’s racing as one designs. But despite the lowest attendance ever, it turned out to be a fine weekend of racing. The long floodtide courses (18, 11 and 13 miles) were held in winds from under 10 to over 30 knots. It was a good and fair

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test of sailors and boats. At the end of the weekend, to no one’s complete surprise, it was Irv Loube’s current One Ton North American champ, Coyote, that was the big winner, taking the nine-boat Division I class with three bullets. Armed with reigning Soling world champion John Kostecki at the helm, Billy George calling the shots, and a new suit of North sails, Coyote in fact finished first boat-for-boat in each

race. Finishing second was Malcolm and Rod Park’s one-tonner Jazz, which looked like they had the entire Ulmer-Kolius loft on board. High Risk, Jim Mizell’s Smith 43, came in third despite sailing in her “L.A. mode”. High Risk has recently undergone modifications, mainly the removal of 1,000 pounds of lead from the keel, in anticipation of hitting the Southern California race circuit during the next few months.

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Division II, which consisted of 12 boats rating 27 to 28.99 feet under the IOR rule, was dominated by Paul Altman’s modified Wylie 34 Annalise. Altman’s near perfect score of 1,2,1 was broken by Stan and Wayne Behrens’ newly-refurbished Wylie 31 Moonshadow, which grabbed the top spot in the second race and third in class overall. The 14-year-old red battlewagon is sailing faster than ever with a new rig — a foot higher on the mast and 18 inches longer on the boom — and a full set of Fraser sails.- But it was another father-son team, Dick and Erik

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tonner, the Ragnar Hawkansan designed Mercury, that grabbed second place. Moonshadow and Mercury have one more thing in common: they both did well in the SORC back in the ’70s. Chris and Christine Baldwin’s Express 37 Mainframe, with “Raymo” Delrich acting as tactician, put together a good series (1-1-3) to beat Bill Ormond’s Pazzo Express and eight other sisterships. This series counted as three of the 15 races towards the class cham¬ pionship and, as always, the race was sailed using their “owner-driver rule”, wherein the owner must steer the start and the windward leg, and basically half of the race from there on.

Loosely translated, this is an “anti-

rockstar” rule, and it has served this popular class well. Third place would have gone to Neil Ross’s Free Spirit, but they were DSQ’ed after winning the last race for making contact with Sleeper at the first windward mark. Free Spirit tactician

Bruce

Munro,

apparently

fearing a third party protest, filed a protest against Sleeper, which had decided to drop their own protest against Free Spirit after a less than stellar race. Benefitting from Free Spirit’s ill-advised action after the race was Leigh Brite’s Ringmaster, which unexpect¬ edly moved into third place overall despite a DSQ of their own in the second race.

As for the IOR rule locally, all we can figure out is that it’s alive but not well.

Race. The wind eventually picked up and everybody

Despite incentives like generous old age

made it across the Gate.

allowances, relaxed crew limits, longervbattens, and one-year interim certificates, the ranks continue to thin at an alarming rate — and it’s not just happening here. Arguably, the IOR rule is wearing diapers again, this time because it’s old and senile. The Chroni¬ cle even published an obituary of sorts on May 15 in an article that began, “This may be remembered as the year the-International Ocean Racing fleet of San Francisco Bay just up and died.” Participation in IOR racing, as evidenced by the Stone Cup this year, is way off — but as the saying goes, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. — rob moore DIVISION I — 1) Coyote, Beneteau One Ton, Irv Loube; 2) Jazz, Beneteau One Ton, Roderic Park; 3) High Risk, Smith 43, James Mizell. DIVISION II — 1) Annalise, Wylie 34 mod., Paul Altman; 2) Mercury, Hawkanson 1/2 Ton, Dick Ber¬ ridge; 3) Moonshadow, Wylie 31, Stan Behrens.

Dennis Silva crossed the Golden Gate in

of IOR racing on the Bay in general? Like the

his El Toro in less than two hours April 25 to

Big Boat Series — which this year will have a

win the 34th annual Bullship Race.

class for ULDB 70 raters, a class for Santa

Rock. This year all 67 starters finished. Silva won the race once before, in 1978, and is also active in the Santana 22 fleet. In second place was A1 Anderson, and Ron Locke finished first. First woman finisher was Vicky Gilmour, and Gary Gramoulx won the firsttimer division. Bullship -races start early to avoid typically strong mid-day wind, which might be too much for El Toros. This year’s race started at 8 a.m. off Ondine’s restaurant in Sausalito and finished

off the

St.

Francis YC,

distance of about seven miles.

Bullship Race

What of the future of the Stone Cup, and

Slow start for El Toros off Sausalito in the Bullship

Folkboat Internationals Folkboat owners from six countries were treated to good wind on the Bay for their sixrace international regatta during the last week of April, but the highlight may have been the full-glitz reception at the St. Francis YC, complete with ice sculpture, consuls from each country and national anthems played by the Navy band. “It was perfect,” said Laureen Carlisle,

It was the first time in three years that

YRA executive secretary and Folkboat fleet

Cruz 50’s, and only three IOR classes — the

anyone actually finished the race. Last year it

secretary. “I don’t know if it’ll ever work out

Stone

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— 1) Robin, D.G. Drath; 2) Kittywake, Lowden Jessup; 3) Curlew, Robert Rogers. IOD - SATURDAY FIRST RACE - 1) Profit, Henry Mettier Jr.; 2) Quickstep, George Degnan; 3) Accounts Payable, Mark, Rich Pearce. SATURDAY

Ireland, Finland and Denmark. Winning skippers and the countries they represented: 1) Mats Hodfors, Sweden; 2) Torsten Cedablad, Finland; 3) J. Langkammerer, U.S.A.; 4) Svend Svendsen, U.S.A.; 5) S. Noukkarinen, Finland.

Woodeil Boat Association While nearly 600 other boats swarmed up San Pablo Bay in the Vallejo Race May 2-3, the Wooden Boat Racing Association continued its season in mid-Bay. The wind was zero to flimsy in Saturday’s first race, with some boats taking 45 minutes to get from Knox to Yellow Bluff. The wind filled in a little for the second race, and Sun¬ day’s 15-miler was a honker, according to fleet race chairman Jim Skaar, who won despite a close encounter with a tanker that cut his big lead in half. For the Knarrs, the biggest one-design class on the Bay, the series is part of the 15-race eliminations to choose entrants for the Knarr Internationals to be held in Oslo August 1-8. The results: BEAR — SATURDAY FIRST RACE — 1) Chance, Glenn Treser; 2) Smokey, Steve, Josselyn Robert¬ son; 3) Trigger, W.S. Cauchois. SATURDAY SEC¬ OND RACE CANCELED. SUNDAY - 1> Trigger, W.S. Cauchois; 2) Smokey, Steve, Josselyn Robertson; 3) Chance, Glenn Treser. BIRD - SATURDAY FIRST RACE - 1) Robin, D. G. Drath; 2) Kittywake, Lowden Jessup; 3) Kookaburra, Jim Van Dyke. SATURDAY SECOND RACE — 1) Robin, D.W. Drath; 2) Kookaburra, Jim Van Dyke; 3) Kittywake, Lowden Jessup. SUNDAY page 173 /

Commodore Tompkins crosses finish line in Melbourne-Osaka Race. The second-place boat was 320 miles behind.

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SECOND RACE — 1) Profit, Henry Mettier Jr.; 2) Quickstep, George Degnan; 3) Whitecap, Tom Allen. SATURDAY — 1) Profit, Henry Mettier Jr.; 2) Quickstep, George Degnan; 3) Accounts Payable, Mark, Rich Pearce. KNARR - SATURDAY FIRST RACE - 1) Silk Purse, Mark Adams/Matt Blake; 2) Lykken, A. Robert Fisher; 3) Svalen, Larry Drew. SATURDAY SECOND RACE — 1) Silk Purse, Mark Adams/Matt Blake; 3) (tie) Kestrel II, Hans Williams; and 3) Lyk¬ ken, A. Robert Fisher. SUNDAY — 1) Peer Gynt, Jim Skaar; 2) Kestrel II, Hans Williams; 3) Wintersmoon, Sryan Kemnitzer.

Half Moon Bay/Montara Races For most of its 14-year history, the 72-mile Montara-Farallones Race was rioted for its stiff winds, rough seas, broken gear, sick people and slow finishes against the tide. “One year we sat looking at the South Tower for four hours,” said race chairman Bobbi Tosse of the sponsoring Berkeley YC. “God had locked the Gate.” It was dawn before the last boats were able to overcome the tide and finish in front of the Golden Gate YC. “The race started over again under the Gate,” Tosse said. “We finished 15 boats in one minute. For an ocean race, that’s gross.” The Montara-Farallones was called the M-F for more than one reason. This year’s race was shortened to 57 miles and the Farallones leg was dropped. But the race apparently has a reputation, and only seven boats showed up at the starting line. Tosse said it was a smooth race and everybody finished before midnight. Maybe the word will get around that the old M-F is. dead and the new race is much improved. The Montara Race and the Half Moon Bay Race traditionally start together. This year both groups hit the line May 9, and we know of only one boat that got confused and did the wrong race. The crew reportedly thought they were way ahead when they crossed the line, only to find out the rest of the fleet was in Half Moon Bay. Oh well. Wait until next year. Half Moon Bay race chairman Seth Bailey said the fleet didn’t have the usual Pillar Point fog or high seas to deal with this year, and the weather held for the whole weekend. The race is sponsored by the Island YC and the Half Moon Bay YC. The 42 boats that finished the first leg were put up in Pillar Point Harbor and the Half Moon Bay club put on a barbecue for racers. Bailey said the wind was light for Sunday’s start, but the chop was missing. “I’ve seen

the waves so big off the breakwater that you couldn’t see the pin from the committee boat,” he said. The last of the 40 boats finished well before dark on Sunday. The results: MONTARA RACE IOR A — 1) Skedaddle, one-ton, Otterson/ Pingree; 2) Sweet Okole, Farr 36, Dean Treadway; 3) Bandit, Ericson 33, Lawrence Carr. IOR B — 1) Petard, Farr 36, Keith Buck; 2) Abracadabra, X-102, Jeffrey Samuels; 3) Mercury, David Steed, Hawkanson. HALF MOON BAY RACE MORA I SATURDAY — 1) Bloom County,

'Bondi Tram’ and 'Leading Lady’ set chutes in the Stone Cup on the Cityfront.

Mancebo 31, Carl Ondry; 2) New Wave, Express 27, Buzz Blackett; 3) Kitty Hawk, Sonoma 30, Rhonda Fleming. SUNDAY — 1) Bloom County, Mancebo 31, Carl Ondry; 2) Bloody Mary, Santa Cruz 27, Franz Klitza; 3) New Wave, Express 27, Buzz Blackett. MORA II SATURDAY — I) Roulette, Ranger 28, Jerry Ingalls; 2) Unity, Capo 26, Bud Fraze; 3) Freewind, Cal 9.2, Donald Lessley. SUNDAY — 1) Roulette, Ranger 28, Jerry Ingalls; 2) Unity, Capo 26, Bud Fraze; 3) Power Play, J/29, Peter Cunningham. page 174

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8 with a 30-minute start delay because of light winds. Racers barely made way against the ebb, and what wind there was faded as late finishers struggled over the line. The results: DIVISION I — 1) Slippery, J/24, Terry Flannery; 2) Little O, Olson 30, Karen Bengtsson; 3) Misfit, Islander 36, Tim Stapleton. DIVISION II — 1) Twisted, Ranger 23, Don Wieneke; 2) Vena Azul, Ranger 23, Jack Piazza; 3) Albacore, Santana 22, David Demarest. DIVISION III — 1) Makai, Coronado 25, Jane Piereth; 2) Great Expectations, Santana 22, Mike Kanese; 3) Bombay Girl, Coronado 25, Jack Ferrari.

PHRO SATURDAY — 1) Mesmerize, C&C 35, Todd Lee; 2) Punk Dolphin, Wylie 39, Jonathan Liv¬ ingston; 3) Rocinante, Yankee 30, Tom Tighe. SUN¬ DAY — 1) Caerthan, C&C 35, David Benefiel; 2) Zeus, MacGreggor 65, Hal Nelson; 3) Amateur Hour, Santana 37, Lampley/Fraser. SSS SATURDAY — 1) Club Dead, Yankee 30, Geoffrey Faraghan; 2) XXXX, Farr 10/20, Paul Steinert; 3) Surf, SprinterSport, John Hendricks. SUNDAY - 1) XXXX, Farr 10/20, Paul Steinert; 2) Club Dead, Yankee 30, Geoffrey Faraghan; 3) Moonshadow, custom, Dean Minix.

SCC Friday Night Sausalito Cruising Club’s Friday Night Series got off to a slow start in mid-Bay May page 175

Jesse Carr Eliminations The ‘grey panthers’ of St. Francis YC, led by 53-year-old Don Trask, dominated the recent qualifying series which determined the Bay Area representives in next month’s Pacific Coast Yachting Association’s Carr Trophy Regatta. On June 26-27, nine J/24’s, all flogged around the course by skippers over 50 and crews over 40, will compete in that event for the right to become the unofficial “old fart” champions of the West Coast. The field will potentially consist of two boats each from the Bay, Seattle, L.A., and San Diego, plus the defending champion, Tom Goodfellow from Seattle. Trask, the popular Alameda J-Boat dealer, sailed his suspiciously named J/24 Rhythm Method to victory despite being handicapped by a crew that consisted of 47-year-old sheet trimmer Tom Blackaller, a cockpit crew featuring former Olympic Finn representative Ed Bennett and ex-Thistle/ 505 sailor John Niesley, and the relatively spry 40-year-old Chris Boome on the foredeck. Trask, who is training for the 100 boat J/27 NA’s to be held on the Bay July 25-31, outsailed a five-boat fleet in two short, windy races, although he ended up tied with J.D. Vincent from the Richmond YC. Due to a missing mark in the first race, Trask ended up covering a lot of un¬ necessary ground, dropping from first to third. No one cared enough to actually protest. Don’t confuse this with the other regatta on the “old fart” circuit, the annual Masters Regatta put on by St. Francis for skippers over 55 and crews over 45. That gathering of elder statesmen is arguably a bigger deal — between 10 and 13 J/24’s compete every fall in an invitational regatta for the best oldtimers in the country, not just the West /

Coast. But the Carr regatta could rival the Masters Regatta this year if even half of the rumors we’ve heard about possible par¬ ticipants and ESPN coverage come true. Supposedly, former Star sailors Bill Ficker, Bill Buchan, and Barton Beek may drop in as skippers, and — we’ll believe this when we see it — Dennis Connor may perch his considerable bulk on the rail as a crewmember for the San Diego YC contingent. If Trask could get Blackaller out on his teeny-weeny J-boat, anything is possible. We imagined that Trask duped the erstwhile USA skipper into crewing for him by telling him that the regatta would be held in “real” J boats, as in the magnificent Cup racers of the 1930’s. Actually, he was cashing in on a crewing favor from a few years ago — about 20 years ago to be exact, when Trask crewed for Blackaller in the Mallory Cup in New Orleans. Apparently, Blackaller had a fine time. According to Trask, he kept the crew in stitches by spending most of the day polishing his television commentator per¬ sona (“see how these little J boats slide ef¬ fortlessly through the water . . . observe the sun glaring off the bald man’s head . . . yes, folks, it’s just a perfect day of sailing out here on the Berkeley Circle”, etc.) Chris Boome recalls that the conversation also covered such subjects as the merits of bifocals, who got divorced recently, prostate operations, and the like. Our heroes are getting older. Come to think of it, so are we. The results: 1. (tie) St. FYC — Don Trask — 3,1. 1. (tie) Richmond Yc — J.D. Vincent — 1,3. 3. (tie) Diablo SC — Chuck Wilson — 4,2. 3. (tie) Sausalito YC — Gil Oliver — 2,4. 5. Golden Gate YC — Mike Schnapp — DNF, DNS.

— rob moore

Newport-to-Ensenada Race High-tech catamarans battled for the lead in the 40th annual Newport-to-Ensenada race, with Rudy Choy’s 62-foot Aikane X-5 edging out Wind Warrior by less than an hour over the 125-mile course. The two boats were close during the entire race, with gusts and shifts determining the leader at any given moment. Rudy Choy’s Aikane X-5 features the largest winged mast in the United States, built like a glider wing of

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spruce and thin plywood. Choy’s boat won three of the 31 trophies presented to the more than 500 finishers. The first 10 over the finish line: 1) Aikane X-5, Rudy Choy; 2) Wind Warrior, Steve Shidler; 3) Kathmandu, Robert Doughty; 4) Blondie, Robert McNulty; 5) Pyewacket, Roy Disney; 6) Viva, Bowie Houghton; 7) Drumbeat, Don Ayres; 8) Minette, Michael Leneman; 9) Ragtime, Pat Farrah; and 10) Banana Split, Bill Forsythe.

One-Design Series May 16 was not a particularly good day for Moore 24s on the Berkeley Circle. During the one-design series one Moore 24 rounded up into another boat, a second was anchored when an Islander 36 careened past and snagged the lights, antenna and spar fly off the top of its mast with the Islander’s forestay, and a third was closehauled on starboard way out in front of the rest of the fleet when an Ariel came blasting through the 150, mashing the toe rail and punching a hole in the boat. The shrouds let go, the mast broke in two, the main ripped, the 150 disintegrated and the ultralight’s hull-deck seam buckled. The Ariel, one of Pearson’s lead-mine designs from the 1960s, suffered chipped gelcoat. All this happened in light air, before the

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wind came up in the afternoon. The owner of the T-boned Equinox, Cliff McGuire, was away on a business trip and his crew was racing the boat. McGuire said it will probably cost $10,000 to fix the boat. “We will be out there to do battle again,” he said, “but maybe this time we will arm the boat with torpedoes.” The wind produced some close and heavy action around the marks later in the day, especially among the big J/24 fleet. The results: CATALINA 27 — FIRST RACE 1)11 Shay, John Jacobs; 2) Catalyst, Edward Durbin; 3) Freyja, Ray Nelson. SECOND RACE — 1) Izod, John Miller; 2) Four Little Ducks, Tom Walsh. CORONADO 25 — 1) Ventura, Ernest Dickson; 2) Meniscus, Karl Aube; 3) Erin, Byrne/Wahl. J/24 — FIRST RACE 1) Storm Trooper, Dinny Watters; 2) Bearna Baoghail, Grandin/Titus; 3) Darvon, Matthew Taylor. SECOND RACE 1) Chicks Dig It, J. Peter Young; 2) Exocet, Keith Milne; 3) Bearna Baoghail, Grandin/Titus. SUNDAY RACE 1) Chicks Dig It, J. Peter Young; 2) Dejavu, Chris Perkins; 3) Bearna Baoghail, Grandin/Titus. MERIT 25 — FIRST RACE 1) Chesapeake, James Fair; 2) Redline, Gerald McNutt; 3) Paddy Murphy, Jim Reed. SECOND RACE — 1) Catalina 27s cross the starting line on the Berkeley Circle in one-design elimination series for upcoming nationals in Southern California.

Hard Chine Regatta Seam-ripping wind May 16-17 forced the Richmond YC Hard Chine Regatta orga¬ nizers to move the three Saturday races off the Berkeley Circle and into Keller’s Cove between the Richmond Channel and the Chevron pier. The seventh annual event drew 38 boats, mostly from Northern California, but including five from San Diego and at least one from Michigan. The results: LIGHTNING — 1) John Lyon, Lynnette Northrop

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and Larry Swearingen; 2) Scott Finkbonner, Rand Arnold, Audrey Matteson; 3) Charles Ellery. SNIPE — 1) John and Hillary Andron, 2) Aad and Jolanda Rommelse; 3) Warren and Mary Wheaton. MERCURY — 1) Chris Lanzafame, Robert Hu; 2) Doug Baird, Earl Stutz; 3) John Zazrivy, John Skinner.

Melbourne/Osaka Race When Commodore Tompkins of Mill Valley won the 5,500-mile double-handed Melbourne-Osaka race April 21 he became a media hero in Japan on a scale somewhere between modest and big — front-page headlines in the tabloids, four-color spreads in the regional sailing mags and lots of prime¬ time TV exposure. People recognized him on the street and asked for his autograph. Commodore’s boat was placed on display in front of the department store that sponsored him. But even after 31 days and 19 hours in one of the toughest ocean races in that part of the world, Commodore was more inter¬ ested in sailing than being a celebrity. His big interest after finishing the race was — another race. This one was in 15-foot dinghies instead of 50-foot ocean machines, and his crew was his wife, Jan, flown over from Mill Valley for the celebration in Osaka. It was an international goodwill race and competitors were supposed to choose crew by drawing numbers, but Commodore said by phone from Japan that he “cooked” the drawing so he could sail with his wife. Commodore won the dinghy race, too, helped out by prop¬ wash from a news helicopter overhead. In the big race, Tompkins and his Japanese partner, Kaoru Orgimi, sailed their Nakiri Daio, a modified Fam 55, to a runaway win, finishing 320 miles ahead of the second-place boat. Tompkins described the race as somewhat lonely, as he was far in the lead and saw few other boats. “There were more light airs and headwinds than I expected,” he said. “There was some beautiful sailing on the course, but too much with nobody in sight. After the first afternoon it was 31 days of racing against your mind.” One racer was lost when New Zealand’s Castaway Fiji lost its keel and overturned April 2 while in second place about 30 miles behind Tompkins. The boat’s designer, Colin Akhurst was rescued after 14 hours in

the water with no lifejacket, but crew member Digby Taylor was never fodnd. Tompkins said the winds were “boisterous” when the accident occurred, reaching 30 knots and the seas were nasty, “but nothing unusual. The boat was rushed to completion for the race, terribly rushed. I thought Digby was nuts to try it. They had only two days in Melbourne before the start.” Rod Holt of Piedmont finished fifth in the race, sailing a 49-foot cold-molded schooner designed by Chuck Burns of Alameda. The boat is named Sir Isaac, a reference to Holt’s former employer, Apple Computer (Sir Isaac Newton and the apple-on-the-noggin in¬ spiration, get it?). Holt returned to the Bay Area for knee surgery after the race and then went back to Japan to sail the boat home. Burns said Holt was in second place but then got becalmed for two days within sight of the finish line. The boat has fully-battened sails and two masts of equal height. After helping Holt bring the boat home, Burns plans to move after 16 years in the Bay Area and return to the East Coast. He’ll set up shop in the coastal Maine town of Kennebunkport. Worrell 1000 “We did well in the race but we lost the boat” is something like “the operation was a success but the patient died.” In Mike

Bender’s case, he was lucky the crew didn’t get smashed up with the boat. The Worrell 1000 is a race on the grand scale — 1,000 miles up the Atlantic coast from Fort Lauderdale to Virginia Beach in 13 days in beach cats like the Hobie 16s used in the first race in 1976. Bender’s crash-and-burn was also on the grand scale. On day 11, just short of the finish about 9 p.m. in thick fog and zero wind. Bender and his crewmate, Wayne Mooneyham, saw what they thought was a freighter steaming toward them. It wasn’t. It was a low bridge. The bridge wasn’t moving, but they were being swept under it by a seven-knot tide. Sensing big trouble, they switched on the EPRIB and tipped the boat so maybe the mast would slide under, but that didn’t work. They threw a line up to the bridge structure and climbed to safety as their $16,000 custom boat was smashed to bits against the bridge pilings. They had been two miles out, cutting in¬ side a shoal, when the flood tide sucked them up Oregon Inlet and made high-tech trash out of their boat. It had been quite a day. They rounded Cape Hatteras in 12-foot breaking, confused seas — a “piece of cake,” Bender said, compared to current in Oregon Inlet. At that point they were leading their Forpage 178

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by the Metropolitan YC in Oakland, with assistance at the finish line by the Naval YC, Long Beach. The Catalina-Long Beach race is being sponsored by Nelson’s Boat Yard in Alameda and the Marine Directories of Northern and Southern California. Hal Nelson not only intends to have his MacGregor 65 Zeus there for both races, but is even scheming on a third leg. This one would involve racing the Southern California boats from Long Beach to Catalina before the race back to the mainland. This could be the start of a whole series of shuttle races! First to finish in last year’s OaklandCatalina Race was Hana Ho, a Santa Cruz 50, at 53 hours, 23 minutes and 32 seconds, but an Express 37 won on corrected time. If you’re interested in entering the ninth annual Oakland-Catalina Race, contact the Oakland club at 832-6757.

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muia 20 division and had a shot at second place overall. It took the Coast Guard a cou¬ ple of hours to come after them in a 25-foot inflatable with a big inboard motor. “They said they lose about one boat a week at that bridge,” Bender said. Then, after talking to the press until 2:30 a.m., some people might have called it a race and found a bunk somewhere. But a glitch in the rules allows entrants to switch boats, so Bender started calling around to rent a replacement at 3 in the morning. The smashed boat had a $6,000 wing mast, mylar sails, carbon-fiber com¬ ponents and leading-edge technology everywhere. The best they could come up with on short notice was a battered Supercat 17 with duct tape over the stress cracks and blown-out sails. “It was not a great boat,” Bender said, in his typical understatement. Despite all that. Bender and Mooneyham managed to hold on to their win in Formula 20s and second overall during the final two legs of the race. For the Worrell they were the Graphiti Team, named for a sponsoring graphics company in Mountain View. They were the only Bay Area team in the race. Now they’re back in the South Bay area and looking ahead. Bender has a couple of hot page 179

new boats on order and he hopes to take a shot at the 1988 Olympics in Tornados. He said the Worrell was “a neat race. You have to race it like a buoy race, even though it s 1,000 miles. If you don’t, you’ll get eaten alive. We never stopped. Even if we were 25 miles offshore and there weren’t any other boats in sight, we’d still eat lunch out on the wire.” Oakland-Catalina Race About 70 boats are expected for this year’s Oakland-Catalina Race, 392 miles of usually wild sailing, as the crow flies. After the start July 6 off Baker Beach, racers will have the choice of either the short, slow route straight down the coast inside the Channel Islands or the longer, faster route in better winds 40 to 50 miles offshore and out¬ side the islands. Both routes, of course, round Point Conception, land of big wind and steep waves. The objective for most of the racers is to not be late for the party, which promises to be better than ever. This year there’ll be a second race from Catalina to Long Beach which will draw Southern California boats eager to test their Northern California counterparts. Since the race starts Saturday, you can bet they’ll all be at the party in Avalon. The Oakland-Catalina Race is sponsored /

Encinal Friday Nighters In addition to the evening race series we outlined last month, the Encinal YC in Alameda will start their summer Friday night series July 24 in the Oakland Estuary. The series continues August 7,21, September 11 and 25. Entry fee is $21. For information and registration contact Mike Sweeney at (408) , 265-8440. Olson 30 Nationals The Olson 30 Nationals will be held June 20-25 in Channel Islands Harbor in Ventura. Organizers expect 25 to 30 boats. If you’re interested contact class president Clay Schmock at 4025 South Saviers Road, Oxnard, CA 93033. Race Notes “Professional racers” were restricted by the Bay Are6 Islander 36 Association in April to “keep the sport competitive for the owners and to keep the fleet Corinthian,” said Commodore Dave Borton. Professional racers were defined as “marine employed,” such as sailmakers, rig tuners, boat yard employees and so on. Because a lot of those people are a long way from professional racers, the fleet’s govern¬ ing board can give exemptions for individuals. Since fleet rules allow only owners, season charterers, their families and regular crew-

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N. members to drive, the new limits apply mostly to crewmembers. The new rule reads, “Each boat may utilize one marine-employed person on its crew for no more than one 1/36 class race during a 12-month period. That person’s presence shall be signalled by a yellow “Q” flag flown from the back stay during that one race. Exemptions must be presented to and approved by the governing board in advance, and the board may interpret ‘marine-employed’ as it wishes in each case.” The Catalina 27 Nationals will be hosted by the Seal Beach YC in Long Beach over Labor Day weekend. About three crews from the Bay Area will attend, according to fleet race chairman Ray Nelson. The 6,000th Catalina 27 was produced last year, making it one of the largest onedesign fleets in Northern California. It was designed in 1970 and has maintained 9 steady popularity ever since. Nelson estimates there are 500 on the Bay. There will be about 25 boats on the starting line for the nationals, all loaned by Long Beach sailors. Eight races are being held on the Bay to pick crews for the nationals. The nationals will be held on the Bay in 1989. Next year they’ll be in Toledo. The U.S. Speedsailing Grand Prix will be held June 13-14 in Long Beach, featur¬ ing open and unlimited racing for monohulls and multihulls. This is European-style racing, with no ratings or handicaps. The fleet is divided into classes according to length. Courses are set up close to shore to draw spectators. Entries will include Rudy Choy’s 62-foot catamaran AiKane X-5, first-to-finish in this year’s Ensenada race; Merlin, Bill Lee’s 67-foot ultralight prototype; plus the 84-foot sled Christine. A similar event, World Cup of Speedsail¬ ing, will be held in San Francisco Bay September 26. The third annual Plastic Classic for boats designed before 1970 and made of fiberglass will be held July 25, sponsored by the Islander Bahama fleet and the Bay View Boat Club. Race organizer John Super guarantees flat water and 15 knots of wind on the course off

China Basin at 12:45 p.m. — not 12:44 — or he’ll buy you a beer in the club. He says the emphasis is mostly on the party later and having fun. “Race protests are frowned upon,” he says. There will also be a display of cherry mid-70s boats. If you’re interested in the race, the party, or John’s beer guarantee, call him at 826-8370 or Sandi Harris at 648-5530. Tom Reiter of Santa Cruz is into OK Dinghies and wants to revitalise thexclass. Anyone out there have one or want to start racing? Contact Tom at 777 Happy Valley Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95065. What happens when you ignore ocean race instructions to check in by radio with the race committee before the start? For 18 boats in the Schoonmaker-Stewart Race April 18, it meant a big fat DNS. The Ocean Yacht Racing Association sail¬ ing instructions read, “After arriving in the starting area, but before starting, each yacht shall be responsible for successfully notifying the Race Committee of her intention to race by hailing her sail number and receiving an acknowledgment. VHF Channel 68 may be used for this purpose. A yacht failing to suc¬ cessfully notify the Committee will be scored “Did Not Start.” Apparently 18 crews either didn’t read or didn’t heed the instructions and sailed a pretty rugged race for nothing. Lauren Car¬ lisle of the Yacht Racing Association said the check-in is pretty important in an ocean race. The committee needs to know for sure who’s in the race to avoid unnecessary Coast Guard searches. Although some of the DNS crews were heard grumbling about unnecessary strict¬ ness, Carlisle emphasized “it was not meant to be vindictive. It’s strictly a safety thing. We’d feel bad if we lost a boat out there.” The Schoonmaker-Stewart Race was the first of the season for OYRA. For the next event, the combined Montara and Half Moon Bay Races, everybody checked in. Winners of the Women’s Racing Association fall series, which ended April 18, are: DIVISION A - 1)Peppermint Pattie, Gayle Vial; 2)Skedaddle, Nancy Farnum; and 3) Hot Spunk, Vivki Sodaro.

DIVISION B — 1) American Express, Linda Ardleigh. The top four boats raced in the Perpetual Cup Season Championship and Hot Spunk won. There are two women’s racing seminars coming up. One is put on by the Women’s Racing Association. It features Matt Ciesicke and Larry Klein July 18-19 at the Olympic Circle Sailing School and the Berkeley Cir¬ cle. Ciesicke is former director of J-World Sailing Schools and Klein is a sailmaker, former Thistle champ and now runs a racing seminar business. There will be classes on such things as starting strategies, sail trim, boat speed, etc. For information contact Sara Evers at 523-3333 by June 20. The second women’s racing seminar is an offshore clinic and racing series October 12-18 at the San Francisco Yacht Club in Tiburon sponsored® by the United States Yacht Racing Union. There will be six days of instruction and races on J/29s, designed for intermediate or advanced racers who want to improve their offshore skills. Speakers will include Steve Taft, Greg Dorland and John Kostecki, all nationallyranked sailors. For information write Inshore Director Lee Parks at the USYRU office, Box 209, Newport, RI 02840, or call (401) 849-5200. There’s new life in the Pacific Cup, and a new finish for the San Francisco-Hawaii race. From now on the finish will be at Kaneohe YC, about 20 minutes from Honolulu on the island of Oahu, instead of Nawiliwili Bay on Kauai. Race organizer Marina Eisenzimmer said Kaneohe has better facilities and should draw some new entries. The Pacific Cup is held on odd-numbered years, alternating with the TransPac. Marina said moving the Pacific Cup to Oahu will make it a feeder race for the Kenwood Cup, which is held a few weeks later in the same years out of Honolulu. Marina is forming an organization similar to the Transpacific Yacht Club formed to put on the TransPac. She hopes several Bay Area clubs will join to help put on the Pacific Cup. The Ballena Bay YC, previous sole sponsor of the Pacific Cup, has shown some interest in helping out, she said. page 180

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With reports this month on the Chagos Archipelago; Beija Flor on the iuay to England; Panamanian Yacht Club mascots; Topaz in New Zealand; Southbound in Tel Aviv, Tavarua on remembering flags, the Baja Naval in Ensenada, Insurance in Mexico, Dazzler on the wap to Costa Rica, and, Cruise Notes.

Paradise Discovered According to David Thurston & Emmanuelle Of The Boats Wonce Time & Johanna Looking for the perfect place to cruise or live off the sea? Imagine then that you could find a place with the following qualities: a chain of 20 tropical islands, a chain in the tradewind belt but free from hurricanes. is an island chain with literally hundreds of secure anchorages behind a barrier reef. s an island chain that’s been virtually uninhabited for years. s a place where you can pick oranges, lemons and limes and other fruits for free. s a place where coconut crabs grow to three feet across and kingfish are caught to 150 pounds. ✓ a place where sea turtles still abound. v* a place where obtaining heart of palm

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salad is as easy as cutting down and stripping a three-year-old coconut palm. a place where beans, pumpkins, as well as other fruits and vegetables grow easily.

a place where there is plenty of sweet water free of charge. a place where woods such as cedar, spruce and oak are free for the taking. a place where cruisers have lived for three years and more without spending a cent. v* a place where you need npt'clqeck in or out, and there are no officials to bothfer you. a place where the world’s most wellequipped and generous rescue service is but a few miles away. t* a place where the rumor of hidden treasure is so strong that even the English crown sponsored a year-long hunt. The good news is that there really is such a place and that it’s on this planet. The bad news is that it’s on the other side of the world, specifically smack dab in the center of the Indian Ocean. The Maldives, you guess? Close, but not quite. It’s the Chagos Ar¬ chipelago, 275 miles south of the Maldives. David Thurston of Mooloolaba, Australia and the sloop Wonce Time and Emmanuelle of the Camper Nicholson 32, Johanna swear that the aforementioned description of the 20-island archipelago is not only true, but somewhat understates how pleasant it really is. Both should know, having each spent several years there on their boats. Thurston, for example, clearly favors “paradise” to Palma de Mallorca, where on October 1 of last year his ferro cement boat was one of 135 damaged by unusually high winds and seas. In fact, Thurston’s boat was completely smashed in on one side. A man of action, while others bickered with in¬ surance companies, he got some rods and cement, pushed the boat on its side, and set out to repair it. Two weeks later he was sail¬ ing across the Atlantic to Antigua, where he and Emmanuelle told us about this seeming¬ ly very attractive Indian Ocean destination. Where do the oranges, lemons and limes come from? From all the abandoned planta¬ tions. The same places you can find all the tools, hardwoods and other goodies. If this place is so great, why were all the plantations willingly abandoned? They weren’t really. This is where the United States military enters the picture.

Between the late 1800’s and 1965 the Maldives were a British Protectorate that in¬ cluded the Chagos Archipelago. When the tossing off of colonial ties became the in thing in the mid-60’s, the Maldives took their full independence as an ad-Din dynasty sultantate. But as part of the deal they handed the Chagos Archipelago over to the British, who now call it the British Indian Ocean Territory. As for the former residents of the Chagos Ar¬ chipelago, they got sold out and had to leave their homeland. The increasingly insolvent British im¬ mediately rented the largest of the Chagos Islands, Diego Garcia, to the United States government for a naval base. Of tremendous strategic importance, we’re told that the arrival of the United States Navy coincided with the forced departure of all the natives. Because of the'base’s importance, we’re also told that charts of the waters are no longer available. This is not to say that the Navy hassles or page 182

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ing them up and returning them to their environment in a healthier state. The diving in the waters of the archipe¬ lago’s barrier reef is said to be fantastic — ex¬ cept for the presence of sharks. For either you make your peace with ‘the men in the gray suits’ or you stay out of the water. They are everywhere. But so are delicious cray¬ fish, huge manta rays, and all sorts of sealife in between. Perhaps the only big fly in the oinment of the Chagos — so to speak — are the mos¬ quitoes. There are billions of them. And they like your blood. The Chagos. You might want to check them out. — latitude 38

refuses to help yachties. To the contrary, i David and Emmanuelle report they had no i problems with the Navy in the years they were there, and if a cruiser ever got in trou¬ ble the U.S. Navy was more than delighted to come to the rescue. In particular they recall the ‘Ta Chao’ inci¬ dent. A sailor aboard a CT boat of one type or another had run out of everything; food, water, money, etc.. The generous folks at Diego Garcia were only too happy to take care of all his food and water needs. And for good measure they tossed in a case of high proof Barcardi rum, which naturally the yachtie shared with all the other cruisers. Certainly one of the biggest blowouts in Chagos history, the wild events of the eve¬ ning the rum was consumed are known to this day as ‘Ta Chao Disco Night’. Other than Diego Garcia, the islands are for all intents and purposes uninhabited, the huge copra plantations having been aban¬ doned almost instantly. But as mentioned 1

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David and Emmanuelle in Antigua, dreaming of their beloved Chagos.

before, the fruits trees still bear, the soil is fer¬ tile enough to support the growing of vegetables, and much imported lumber and tools lay about. In fact, David envisions returning there and building a new boat from what was left. Located just five degrees below the equator, the Chagos Archipelago hasn’t been visited by a hurricane in nearly a cen¬ tury. The southeast trades blow at 20 knots and as are most places near the equator — except the Galapagos — it’s quite warm. As much as it might digust a few of our readers, many of the cruisers arriving on the 20 to 25 boats that pass through each year are inclined to run about in the altogether. As reprehensible as that might be, they have a few redeeming intentions. David, for example, is dedicated to the saving of turtles. He spent a lot of time clean¬

Beija Flor — Swan 65 (Formerly Cygnus) Peter Clutterbuck et al Sausalito to England As we’re on delivery to England, we’re covering the miles a lot quicker than the other yachts we meet, so we’re relying on Latitude to keep in touch. We have 20 copies onboard to barter with. We left Sausalito on the tail of a cold front, the whole crew wearing thermal underwear, woolens, hats and gloves night and day. The trip started ominously, with just a storm forestaysail in 15 foot seas. The hoisting of the double-reefed main got us surfing at 13 to 17 knots! Sailing a Swan 65 in a gale is a wonderful experience; we didn’t take a drop of water down below and there was no pounding or crashing through seas. We overnighted in Avalon then continued on to Kettenbergs in San Diego for a final night before entering the Third World. Ket¬ tenbergs reminds me more of a multinational corporation than a boatyard; the staff is uniformed, th6re are many separate depart¬ ments, etc. But they did a good job at a fair price. While in San Diego, we were granted the use of the San Diego YC’s excellent facilities, including the guest berth vacated by Swiftsure III. While at the club, we saw the America’s Cup on display. It was an emo¬ tional experience for our six-person crew, as we represent four nations that battled for the mug (Australia, England, Canada and the United States). Like a lot of cruisers, we had an interesting

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experience with Mexican customs. We wanted to make a stop at Isla Socorro, and decided we’d check into the country at Cabo rather than Ensenada. But when we got to the Cape, we were told that we would not be allowed into Mexico because the letter of authorization from the owner for us to take the boat was not notarized. How could they tell whether we had stolen the boat? Ap¬ parently, Cabo is pretty sticky about this. They advised us not to clear in until Acapulco! So we sailed to Isla de San Benedicto, a rugged volcano which erupted in 1950. Finding it without wrecking the boat presented an interesting navigational challenge since the charts advise that the group of Revillagigedos islands are one to two miles off their charted position. We con¬ firmed this when our SatNav fix put us right in the center of the volcano. Furthermore the volcanic eruption means the shoreline is not necessarily the same as recorded in the centuries-old British, French and American surveys. The chart of the shore is now based on a “sketch” made by Scripps Institute back in 1954. To add insult to injury, Benedicto “is of unknown height”. One pilot saying it’s 297 meters or 295 feet! One pilot says there might be detached rocks on the west side; another says the ‘rocks’ are 60 to 200 feet high. Apparently nobody goes there often enough to know if the rocks are still there or not. We checked out the hair-raising an¬ chorages while a six-foot swell was slamming onto the lava flow ‘beaches’. We quickly decided to stop at Bahia Braithwaite on Socorro instead, entering with radar under a moonlit sky. All the islands down here are majestic, rugged, and not often frequented by cruisers or sportsfishermen. This despite the fantastic fishing. We’ve been catching more yellowtail, mahi-mahi, and tuna than we can eat. And that’s good, because we’re trying to be self-sufficient all the way to England. We’re even making our own water. Self-sufficient, that is, except for diesel and beer which re¬ quire a port of call entry every week or two. — peter clutterbuck Peter — Your Mexico check-in problem

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daughter couldn’t check in because they didn’t have notarized permission from us. How could they tell she wasn’t running off with the child? The solution? Get in the next line and deny being married. Itt worked.

Topaz — C&C 38 Bob Peterson and Jane Baldwin Great Barrier Island, N.Z. (Sausalito) And it seemed like such a nice evening, too. After a great dinner of fresh caught tuna a la Bob and much wind, we lay our weary bones to rest for the night. But the wind piped up and whistled through the lovely fjiord-like bay on Great Barrier Island. While I slept the barometer dropped two millibars, and it blew like stink. I woke to hear the wind howling and the rain pound-

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ing the boat in buckets. Topaz heeled and pulled hard at her anchorline as 50 knot gusts blasted down the gulch at the head of the bay. We’d set our anchor four times that morn¬ ing before we’d been satisfied that we had a good grip. “Well,” I said to myself as Topaz lay over yet again, “we’ll see how well we anchored afteraH.”

Yacht Club Mascots Expectation — Peterson 44 Nick Coates (Aspen, Colorado)

Our old friend Nick Coates sent us the photo you see above. It’s an iguana, one of approximately 20 that serve as the mascots of the Panana Canal YC in Cristobal, Panama. Most of the iguanas live around the Pier 1 area of the club, where liveaboards have been feeding them food scraps for years. Nick, a Sea of Cortez Race Week veteran, who has been out cruising with his wife most of the last four years, is currently working on an article for Latitude that might be of in¬ terest to many cruisers. It’s titled Yesterday’s luxuries, Today’s necessities. Yep, it’s seems the older we get and the longer we’re on boats, the more cpmfort we’re willing to ac¬ cept. That’s even true for the Pardeys, who after so many years moved up to a 30 foot boat from a 24 footer. — latitude 38

We were in and out of sleep when sud¬ denly “KAR-UMPH!” A motorboat had dragged anchor and drifted into us. “Get up!” Bob yelled, as he dashed back on deck with no knickers on. I made it on deck just in time to see a fat-bellied stinkpotter pooping away in the driving rain. “Assholes.” Fat lotta good it did us to have our anchor hold fast with clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right. There we were, it was a drag in the night. I suppose it was about 0330, maybe 0430, when Bob decided to catch a few winks while I stood watch. Fifteen minutes later I called him up to help me fend off a 28-ft sailboat whose anchor had dragged and whose line was now hooked under ours. Our anchor still held fast, however. With plenty of scrambling, fending, grunt¬ ing and cussing, we managed to untwine the anchorlines, with sheets of rain driving down all the while. But somehow in the interlude, our dinghy, Little Jewel had become attached to their boat. I proved a poor cowboy, as I threw a line toward the other boat in order to retrieve our dinghy. Time and again the line fell short. Finally, our Kiwi friend took the line and rowed it over, allowing us to pull Little Jewel back to Topaz.' The 28-footer continued to drag all over Rarowharo Bay all night long. And when light began to break over the mountains, did page 184

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he re-anchor as his boat continued to swing into Topaz? No, he did not. Instead, he took out his fishing pole, lighted his pipe, smiled and gave us a wave. Things are definitely more layed back in Kiwiland. I’m all for that, mate, but when the local entertainment includes things that go bump in the night, I’ll say, “Bugger that!” — jane d. baldwin 3/10/87 Southbound — N/A Stephen Brown Tel Aviv, Israel (Santa Cruz) Last time I dropped you a note I was in Thailand. Well, this Santa Cruz boat has since crossed the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and gone up the Red Sea to Tel Aviv. All of this singlehanded. The crossing from Thailand to Sri Lanka was relatively smooth. Since Southbound keeps a very poor watch — especially at night — I opted to sail a degree north of the heavily transited Malacca Strait — Europe shipping lane. And a good thing I did. As soon as I’d dip down to the rhumb line, I’d see ships every few hours, 24 hours a day. I found Sri Lanka to be a real dump. The port fees were a veritable rip-off and Don Windsor, liked by some, to be a thinly disguised crook getting rich off round-theworld yachties. So I left-for Aden, after just a three-day rest. I arrived in Aden, Democratic Yemen, 20 page 185

days later. The northeast monsoon was faithful the entire time, so there were no major dramas. Once again I kept north of the shipping lane to the Med. Given that Southbound doesn’t eat up the windward miles like an ocean-going greyhound, I opted to work the northeast monsoon as far as possible. This meant sail¬ ing 3,400 miles between Thailand and the Red Sea with only three days rest in between. No big deal, it beats going to weather. And after reaching Aden, once again I left quickly, after only two days at anchor, up the Strait of the Bal-el-Mandab to the ‘dreaded’ Red Sea. My strategy paid off. In¬ deed, the monsoon granted me an intense southerly all the way to Port Sudan. Yachts lagging behind in India and Sri Lanka strug¬ gled against headwinds into Aden. By March, northerlies ran the entire gamut of the Red Sea. One yacht, Debonair, was late leaving Galle, Sri Lanka and had a slow crossing to Djibouti. Once there, a civil uprising closed the port for a week. Battling headwinds into Port Sudan, Henry’s Debonair was hit by lightning. His electronics — SatNav included — were wiped out by the shock load. Then the boat hit Sagneb Reef just outside Port Sudan. Salvage efforts were unsuccessful as a flotation pontoon came loose from the rest of the boat; she sank in 15 meters. Other Red Sea casualties for 1987

included Genelle and Polonaise. They were hit by commerical shipping, one month apart. Both yachts survived, but with serious damage to their rigging. They have been repaired and have since continued on their way. Incidentally, all of the yachts damaged this year have been from California! Meanwhile, Southbound arrived in the Med well ahead of most other boats. More because of fortuitous circumstance than anything else. Knowing I had to make the best of what I was given, I chose to continue sailing night after night, leaving many an¬ chorages in the middle of the night to take advantage of any ‘window’ in the weather. Despite this I still faced times when the north wind would build to 40 knots from a flat calm in less than five minutes! Ripppp... went the main and other sails. In the Gulf of Suez a southerly came round to be a 45 knot northerly in less than 30 minutes. So I spent another night hove to between a Dante’s Inferno of flaming oil rigs and endless tankers powering into the Per¬ sian Gulf. Yes, it’s true, ‘Shit Happens’. Thanks to Stan on Marinka, a Westsail 43 from Sacramento, I got excellent weather reports most of the year. To sail the Red Sea you have to ‘work the lows’. The leading , edge of the low pressure cells assure nice southeast winds of up to 40 knots. But you don’t dare to get caught by the trailing edge of such a cell! The wind would be northeast and with the same intensify! Likewise, a ris¬ ing barometer guarantees a northeast to maybe 30 knots; not as bad as a low, but beware! You want to keep convenient an¬ chorages as close to your beam as possible. The Suez Canal transit was basically drama-free. The Egyptians were the most friendly and .helpful people I’ve met since Mexico. Much, much more friendly than the * Israeli’s around here! P.S. I last got some of your magazines in Fiji — dynamite! — Stephen brown 4/20/87 Don’t Forget Those Flags Tavarua - Downeast 32 Rex and Joan Allen (Vallejo) Just a word of advice for those who plan to go cruising; don’t forget those flags! It is much easier to purchase flags here in Califor¬ nia for all the countries you intend to visit

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than to wait until you arrive there. These can usually be found at the major chandleries in California. If not, they can be ordered for you. For those who are not familiar with cruis¬ ing to foreign ports, they should know that a yellow quarantine flag and a courtesy flag are required for each country visited. While circumnavigating in our 32-ft Downeast, Tavarua, we soon learned that it was an insult to the host country if we didn’t hoist their flag. We arrived at Vanuatu — formerly New Hebrides — one week after they gained their independence. After rowing ashore we discovered that there were no available flags to be found in Vila, the capital. We decided to make a flag but couldn’t find the material needed in any of the little stores. Walking back to our dinghy we passed a tiny seamstress shop. Peeking in the window we noticed scraps of green, yellow, and black on the floor — all the colors of the Vanuatu flag. After telling the Chinese proprietress why we needed her scraps, she smiled warmly and told us to help ourselves. We worked all that evening and all the next morning stitching the flag by hand, making sure it would pass inspection by the curious natives lined up along the sea wall where we were tied. If you plan to stop at Bali, be sure your In¬ donesian flag is larger than your American flag. They expect it. Fortunately, we learned of this in Fremantle, Western Australia, while preparing for the Fremantle to Bali race. Before leaving Western Australia we had a large Indonesian flag made. It is red over white and when you display it — and others — make sure it isn’t upside down. In Brazil, Rex, the skipper, painted the flag on a piece of old dacron sail. It is a com¬ plicated design which I wasn’t about to sew by hand. The finished product looked very professional and who would guess it was painted as it swung in the breeze from our halyard? The Barbados flag was easy to make, just two colors, blue and gold. For the gold I cut up a pillow case and for the blue a shirt. The logo in the center was easily made with a black marking pen. We arrived in Puerto Madero, Mexico on a Sunday afternoon. You guessed it, we had no flag! Soon the harbormaster was yelling

X for us to come ashore. We inflated our dinghy and rowed over to the dock. The first thing he asked was, “Where is your bandera?” We had to confess we didn’t have one. He immediately arranged for us to drive to the city of Tapachula, with one of his workers, early the next morning. In Tapachula we searched frantically, but could not find one Mexican flag in this city of 90,000 people. When we returned to Tavarua I knew I had to make a flag and have it finished by morning. I snipped 18 inches off the end of the Indonesian flag for the red and white, and a remnant from a green bed sheet completed the flag. When the harbormaster came on duty next morn¬ ing he was pleased and said, “Now you have respect for my country by displaying our flag.” Next time we go cruising, we will definitely buy our courtesy flags, material and a sewing machine before we leave the USA. We will also take along an extra American flag. By the time we arrived half-way around the world an Australian friend referred tp our American flag as the “Stars and Strips”. Tattered as it was we were still proud of it. — rex and joan Rex and Joan — Our understanding is that as a general rule, the smaller the country the more importance they put on courtesy flags. Of course, local knowledge is important too. If you were to arrive in Mexico, hoist your quarantine flag and wait for port offi¬ cials to come to your boat, you’d never ever get checked in. Procedures vary by country.

Baja Naval Ensenada Marina Jack Williams (Sausalito) Trust me. I have seen it with my own eyes. A modern, pleasure craft-oriented marina is actually under construction in the Ensenada inner harbor. I have been taking my Cal 2^46 ketch into the breakwater enclosed harbor at Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico for over ten years. On the first trip in 1976 the water surface was filthy and we rode out a fierce southwest storm that battered the shoreline’s few, small piers into splinters. On subsequent visits the quality of the

water has greatly improved and on each trip there were reports of a marina to come. But south of the border one learns that plans often do not materialize into finished projects. On May 15, 1 Iayed over in Ensenada near the end of a 10-day airborne circumnaviga¬ tion of the Baja peninsula, during which I took aerial photos for the Baja Boater’s Guide I hope to publish in the fall of 1988. And there, under construction, was Baja Naval.

The project’s manager is Miguel Gonzalez, a naval architect from Spain. An interview with Miguel produced the following details: The new marina is being developed by a private Mexican company, and will bear the name Baja Naval. It is located between the sportsfishing piers and the naval base in the northwest corner of the habor. The principal components will be two floating piers an¬ chored with concrete pilings. The southern page 186

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for the building were poured. Many workers were busy at various tasks. 1 have personally seen the plans for the entire project, and Sr. Gonzales impresses one as a man who is dispensing realistic information. Let’s hope that the optimism I am conveying is fully warranted. I believe it will be. — jack williams 5/15/87 Readers — Latitude and Jack Williams will be working together to provide increased accurate information — with aerial photos — in the coming seasons.

i pier will contain 22 slips for vessels of 40 to 50 feet. North of this will be a pier with 20 slips for 30 to 40 foot craft. There will be hook-ups for water and power. These facilities should be completed by November 1987. The three-year plan calls for additional docks making for a total of 150 slips, I am assured that most of the space will be made available for short-term transient vessels rather than being filled by commercial ! fishermen or San Diego boat owners t attempting to escape the tax collector. At the landward end of the northern pier - will be the travel ways for a Travelift capable of lifting vessels up to 150,000 pounds. A mobile crane will launch boats to five tons. A fuel dock will adjoin the lift and will dispense i both gasoline and diesel. In addition, there I will be repair shops ashore, with space for 15-20 vessels in the yard. Boat owners will i be permitted to work on their own vessels or I obtain the services of Mexican specialists at ..

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prices substantially below those north of the border. The Travelift and repair facilities are scheduled for completion by June 1987. The marina staff will also act as agent in securing ship’s papers. This will eliminate the skipper’s having to trudge back and forth between Immigration and the Port Captain’s office. A restaurant and bar will be located atop the repair building where mariners may also repair body and soul after the rigors of the day. Toilet, shower and laundry facilities will be nearby. We have all heard so many plans for marina facilities in Baja, that I’m sure you are saying “I’ll believe it when I see it”. In this case I assure you that as of May 10, 1987 the Travelift was on-site, and its ways were par¬ tially completed. The concrete foundations

Insurance In Mexico Another Look A couple of folks have written us about a response we made to a Letter on page 75 of the May issue in regard to boat insurance for Mexico. The whole subject needs some clarification, which we’re going to take a stab at now. When you go to Mexico by car it’s almost essential you have Mexican Civil Liability in¬ surance. This is because if you’re involved in an accident — whether it’s your fault or not — you must demonstrate you can satisfy any potential claims against you. The way you demonstrate it is by showing your Mexican insurance policy. If you don’t have one, you can be hauled off to the slammer. In the short run it doesn’t matter if you have a policy from an American company that will cover you in Mexico, because the Mexican government only recognizes Mex¬ ican insurance. So while your American company might satisfy your obligations in the long run, you may have spent six months in a Mexican jail waiting for it to happen. You can get civil liability insurance from Mexican companies while in the States or at the border. If you’re trailering your boat down by car, you want liability insurance for the car, the boat on the trailer, and the trailer. What about if you sail down or when you have your trailered boat on the water? If you’re sailing it’s far less likely you’re going to have an accident with a Mexican vessel. But it’s possible. Or someone might get their foot crunched by your boat next to a dock. If an accident happens, it’s just like with a car, you had better be ready to prove you have Mex¬ ican insurance or they can seize your boat and toss you in the slammer.

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X The truth is that most cruisers in Mexico don’t carry such insurance. We’ve never car¬ ried Mexican civil liability insurance for our boats while they were in the water. Like everybody else, we were willing to take the risk. If you don’t want to take that risk, get the appropriate insurance from a Mexican company. California agents can do it for you. I* Mexican civil liability insurance, however, doesn’t cover your boat if you run up on some rocks and sink. For that you need hull and liability insurance from an American company or from Lloyds. So yes, if you want to be completely pro¬ tected in Mexico, you need two kinds of insurance for your boat. In our reponse to the Letter we said that some Mexican companies were starting to offer hull and liability insurance for boats. In other words the same stuff you usually get from American companies or Lloyds. Our source in Mexico, who is heavily involved in the operation of boats in that country, recommends you not get that hull insurance from a Mexican company. The civil liability from a Mexican company? Yes. The hull and liability from a Mexican company? No. We hope this clarifies a few things. We’re getting a lot of mail on the topic, so we’ll have more to report next month. — latitude Dazzler — Offshore 47 Cary Johnston-Crane, Charlie Crane Southern California to Costa Rica (Marina del Rey) After leaving Marina del Rey on New Year’s Day, we spent 2.5 months sailing south along the Mexican coast. Our first stop was Isla San Martin, where we spent two nights waiting for a front to move through so we could navigate the bar at San Quintin and head up the channel to the ‘Old Mill’. We carried two 30-gallon water heaters in the pilot berths that were meant for our friends ashore, Dorothy and A1 Vela. Unfortunately, the swells never did subside, so we off loaded the water-heaters in pangas and bee-lined it for Cabo. There was nothing unusual about our sleigh ride south, except that we lost our autopilot then our engine. No big deal, we just short-tacked our relatively heavy 47-foot ketch into the inner harbor and dropped the

hook. Phew!! Drills like that really keep us on our toes, but we were proud of ourselves. Once we got the engine going again, we reprovisioned — beer and toilet paper and took off for Puerto Vallarta with a crew of six. We drank too much beer, caught lots of fish, and finally found Puerto Vallarta at night. It had been raining for,a week before we got there and continued to rain the whole two weeks we were there. So we were delighted to get underway for Las Hadas, harbor hopping at all the traditional spots: Yelapa, Ipala, Chamela, Careyitos and Tenacatita. But Las Hadas proved to be our oasis. We cleaned all the Puerto Vallarta mud off our decks and then took off to do some inland travelling, finally ending up in Mexico City. We can’t say enough about that wonderful city and its people. While there we stopped at the Costa Rican consulate and got fouryear multiple-entry visas. We made a non-stop passage from Las Hadas to Z-town, where we were greeted by a ‘Welcome Wagon’ of cruisers who invited us to a pot-luck on the beach later that day. Unfortunately, theft at Z-town was at an alltime high, one boat getting hit twice. Although we locked and bolted everything twice, we never felt completely secure going ashore. We did, however, spend two fan¬ tastic days at nearby Isla Grande where we were hosted to a great ‘happy hour’ by Gloria and Rollin on Josephine, also out of Marina del Rey. Had we known about Isla Grande, we would have spent the bulk of our time there rather than Z-town. Having blown an indecent amount of our cruising kitty to tie up at Las Hadas, we decided to anchor ofl at the Acapulco YC. Contrary to popular lore, there’s a great breeze that blows through the anchorage — at least there was when we were there. We did all the tourist things like seeing the cliffdivers (well worth the time!); seeing the mercado (it’s great and has the best pozole in town); and slummed through the high-rise hotel district. Deciding to do our checking out paper¬ work a few days early, we went to the commerical dock to see Servicios de Puerto. Tied up to the dock was the Russian oceano¬ graphic research vessel, Dimitri Mendeleu. Charlie, a ‘never give up guy’, finally obtained permission from the Chief Officer,

Alexander Brygin, to come aboard and have a tour. Later we invited him to see Dazzler. Alexander came with two other crew and we spent the day at the yacht club. All three of the Russians were itching to get in the pool, so in they went. They splashed around in it for hours. Alexander later explained that it was a very special treat for them as they are not accustomed to being hosted in such a fine manner. He then invited us and cruisers from two other boats — Jack and Renee on Bio-Hard and Dennis on Pioneer Spirit aboard the Mendeleev later that evening. Alexander hosted a first-class party for us in his cabin. We were introduced to several other officers and crew who partied with us. There were many vodka toasts and loads of Russian meats, cheeses and breads. When the Russian ship departed for Los Angeles and San Francisco the next day, we and BioHard escorted them out of Acapulco. Alex came on the'radio and we exchanged many words of truly heart-felt good wishes. Hoisted on the Mendeleev’s spreader were signal flags wishing us “good sailing”. We page 188

bad tears in our eyes as the last goodbyes were said; it had been one of the highlights of our trip so far. Someday we hope to see Alexander again. We now turned our attention toward ‘Tehuantepeckering’ the boat in anticipation of the big jump across the gulf to Costa Rica. Hatches were made as watertight as possi¬ ble, junk that had not seen a home in months was stowed away, the drifter and spinnaker were thrown in the bottom of the lazarette and the storm jib made its way on deck. We prepared one-pot meals and froze them, topped off the water and fuel, and departed Acapulco. Charlie kept a close watch on United States east coast weather as well as west coast weather which is specifically supposed to indicate if a gale is coming or not. Unfor¬ tunately, the weather is always dated by a few hours so some interpreting must be done. Nancy on Kontika also clued us in on some visible signs that might indicate a com¬ ing gale. These included ‘fingers of fog’ and others signs. page 189

Americans in New Zealand discussing the morning's assignments on the blister-elimination detail.

In any event, there was a gale in progress, so we stopped at Puerto Escondido, a great place if you don’t mind anchoring 75-ft off the beach. The pangas had taken up the en¬ tire left side of the anchorage where the guides all tell you to anchor; Some say this is destined to be the next Z-town. Let’s hope not. As for fuel and water — they both involve a taxi ride. Monitoring the weather became our prime occupation. It was still blowing in the Gulf, so we tip-toed down to Puerto Angel and came to regret it. This was the only Mexican port in which we were hassled. Not much, but enough so that after Salvatore, a representative of the Port Captain’s office, presented himself uninvited on our decks at 0700 one morning asking for whiskey and paint, we bee-lined it to the Port Captain’s office. When we got there, the Port Captain himself asked for whiskey and paint. So we checked in and out and left for Hualtaxco.

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Finally the weather reports indicated that the gale was weakening, so we took off. All our frugal calculating and watching paid off as we slid past the Gulf of Tehuantepec with only 90 minutes of 20 knot winds off Salina Cruz, a place that’s said to always have at least 20 knots of wind. Our tactic was to stay as close to shore as possible should a gale whip up. We played it very conservative all the way to Puerto Madero, thinking that every time we rounded a corner it was going to blow like snot. But it never did and we had to motor a couple of times. We were also lucky to be able to plan our departure so that we passed the lagoon en¬ trances during daylight. Lord help those who are trying to hug the shore at night; we qould see breakers up to .75 miles offshore! After Puerto Madero, the rest of the way to Punta Elena, Costa Rica was divided between spinnaker, drifter and engine. We never were more than 35 miles offshore of the war-torn countries of Central America. On March 16 we celebrated our second wedding anniversary with pancakes, mimosas and showers! Upon arrival at Playas del Coco, Maury Gladson swam out to meet us while we were being boarded by the Costa Rican Maritima. Unfortunately, we never saw the 82-year-old ’ best friend of cruisers and motored off to find a place to anchor. Later we spent many en¬ joyable hours with Maury, and got to see slides of his cruises on Dubloon out to Cocos Island in the 50’s. — carey johnston-crane 4/5/87 Cruise Notes: They say you want a revolution? If so, Fiji was the place to be on May 11, as Lieuten¬ ant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka and some of his troops mutirved by walking into Parliament and seizing the Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra and his eleven-man cabinet. The Colonel Rabuka’s beef is that after the recent election, ethnic Fijians had lost control of the government to Indians. According to the most recent figures, Indians account for 49 percent of the population and Fijians just 47 percent. This is another one of those paying-thepiper deals for century old colonial activity. Under British rule, cotton and later sugar had become prosperous crops, but ones that

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required intense labor. By all accounts the Fijians — who were voracious cannibals until Christianized and later highly respected World War II combat troops — lacked the motivation to be good plantation workers. So the British began indenturing Indians to do the work; Indians who later gained the tenant farmer status they enjoy today. Over the years enterprising Indians — in¬ cluding Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus — con¬ tinued to pour into Fiji and procreate. By the end of World War II ethnic Fijians were a minority in their homeland. Also con¬ tributing to the racial tension is the fact that most Indians are are Hindus who live in ur¬ ban areas, while ethnic Fijians are mostly Methodist and live in the countryside. Fur¬ thermore, ethnic Fijians are predominantly pro-Western while most Indians favor nonaligned status and bans on nuclear-powered vessels. The Alliance Party of ethnic Fijians had ruled Fiji since 1970 when it won indepen¬ dence from Britain until Bavarda and his ethnic Indian party were voted into office this year. Ten days after the coup, there had been only minor violence and the Prime Minister and his cabinet had been released. The fate of Fiji seemed to lay in the hands of the Council of Chiefs, who have no constitu¬ tional authority, but have tremendous influence with ethnic Fijians. Located halfway between Sampa and New Caledonia, the 332 islands that make up Fiji offer some of the best cruising grounds in the South Pacific. The greatest concentration of yachties, however, is at the

Roy Gannt, preparing for easing back in the Islands.

Tradewinds Hotel in Suva on the island of Viti Levu. Since the trouble in Fiji has been primarily a civil one between the Indians and ethnic Fijians, there was little immediate concern for the safety of cruisers in the area. The air¬ ports, however, had been temporarily closed. We hope to get further reports from cruisers on the scene in Fiji. After an America’s Cup stay in Fremantle, Jim and Diana Jessie sailed Nalu IV across the Great Australian Bight on the bottom of that continent to Hobart, Tasmania. There’s wind in that part of the world; while crossing the Bight they set a new speed record while in cruising mode: 16.4 knots carrying just the #2 jib-top! Before continuing on to Sydney, the Jessies put in at Australia’s famous island state, Tasmania. Specifically at the “modern, sophisticated, yet traditional” capital of Hobart, which we all know as the finish line of the Sydney to Hobart classic. “Tasmania is a jewel,” they write, “we could have spent a year there.” Time considerations being what they are, the Jessie’s continued on to Sydney where they left their boat and grabbed the “silver sling-shot” to New Zealand, “land of the long white cloud”. After covering both the North and South islands by motor vehicle, they returned to Sydney and are now headed up to Brisbane. The passing of the berth near Perth. When the Jessies finally gave up their berth in

Fremantle, it was taken by Jim Hill of Palo Alto and his Farr 55, Spellbound. Norm and Lois Anderson on the Tartan 37 Sisu sent us a Changes to report that the 200-boat ‘class of ’86-’87’ in New Zealand became nearly “hysterical” over boat pox. They write that foreign and American boats alike were suffering from osmosis, pox and or blisters. Among the American boats at Half Moon Bay Marina showing ill-effects were Oriana, Ed and Bernie’s Acapulco 40 from Oregon; Cassopea, a Cheoy Lee 40 owned by Hugh and Dennis from Montana; Silver Cloud, a Lord Nelson 41 with Hugh and Liz from California; Freedom, a Freedom 44 with Roger and Jody from Washington; Companion, a Carib 33 with Jeff and Mary from Washington; and,/.0., a Westsail 32 with George and Jan from New Mexico. New Zealand pox repair generally consist of grinding off the gelcoat and blisters, then drying the hull down to a 15 to 16 percent reading on the Sovereign Moisture Meter. Later the hull is faired, several coats of epoxy are rolled on, two coats of Altex-Devoe Devran (primer) are sprayed, and then several coats of anti-fouing paint applied. The area manager for Altex-Devoe was said to be good about visiting the yards regularly and offering advice. The Anderson’s also report that Devoe’s anti-fouling had lasted them for two years. With so many yachties having blister prob¬ lems so far from home, it was common for them to band together and work on one boat at a time. The Anderson’s saved their boat for the end, by which time they were experts in the process. The photograph earlier in Changes shows a morning work planning session, including Tom & Trudy King from King’s Ransom; Jeff and Mary Holt of Com¬ panion; and Jim Piggford of Little Bear. As many others have discovered, Half Moon Bay is a great place for a lengthy haulout in the South Pacific. To quote the Anderson’s: “All facilities are new and wellmaintained; the hard is asphalt and they have a big Travel-Lift with good cradles. It’s well lit, there are security guards and no problems with theft. The bathrooms are clean and they’ve got the best hot water showers we’ve seen since Anacortes, Washington.” All necessary supplies, from groceries to post offices are nearby. The page 190

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haulout was $73.20, the cradle $12.20, and lay days $3.35, all in Kiwi dollars, which convert to the United States dollar at 1.64 N.Z. Wisely, the Andersons took a month to see New Zealand by car and loved it. Their impressions of the people: “Kiwi’s are the friendliest people: they invite you in, show you around, and will give you more things than anybody we’ve known. We’ve been in¬ vited to tea (dinner) by new acquaintances, invited to stay with them, and to bring our wash to do in their washer. Even as I write we’re enjoying a two week stay in a Kiwi’s flat while he is off travelling. Kiwi’s are the greatest people — until they get behind the wheel of an automobile.” On May 1 the Andersons were scheduled to depart for Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Australia, afterwhich they’ll decide on whether to continue by way of the Red Sea or Africa. In a response to a request by Latitude, Jeffery Littell offers the following report on Teacapan on mainland Mexico: “Teacapan is located on the border of the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Nayarit. 1 visit some cattle ranching pals in the area four or five times a year, and have rarely seen the entrance bar in passable condition. The locals cross the bar in pangas or small out¬ board, boats, but anything else is out of the question.” The fellow on the whisker-pole rigged hammock in the photograph on the opposite page. That’s Roy Gannt on he and his wife Shirley’s KU-U-E-PO, a Lancer 36. The picture was taken during a May 9-10 Caledonia, Australia, after which they’ll decide on whether to continue by way of the ‘kicking-back’, for if all went to plan, he and his bride headed out across the Pacific on June 1, bound for their new home at Keehi Lagoon, Oahu. The folks at the Treasure Island YC held a bon voyage party for the Gannt’s. Cruising Captain Rich Utter says the two “super people” will be missed by fellow club members. * Ed Howland aboard the yacht Pacific reports that there’s a relatively new but nonetheless excellent ‘full-service’ store at Taiohae Bay, Nuku Hiva. Called Inter Ices, it’s run by a “young, energetic, and very helpful” French couple, Francios and Marie. Howland says these folks know and under¬ page 191

Claude and Roberta, enjoying their Caribbean basin circumnavigation.

stand the needs of cruisers because they are cruisers, having sailed to the Marquesas from France not long ago. Inter Ices has groceries, propane, a laundry facility and will deliver right to your boat! Francios is capable of do¬ ing some repairs or can direct you where to get them done. Phyllis and Robert Smith on Viking were cruising Mexico on their 65-year-old Colin Archer-type wood boat when it began leak¬ ing so bad the bilge pump was coming on every eight to 16 minutes. When friends in Manzanillo suggested they contact the Mex¬ ican Navy about the possibility of using their floating drydock, Robert went to see Captain Del Rio de Soto. The Captain — who has an M.S. in Engineering from Michigan State — agreed to do the work and let them use the drydock. Here’s what they had to say about the experience: “We were in the drydock for a month and had excellent work done. Now that we’re back in the water we haven’t heard the bilge pump for three days. The drydock is not for minor work like bottom painting — unless you want to spend about $1,500 (U.S.) for the in and out. However, our total bill for the month worked out to $2.50/hr (U.S.) in labor costs, with the total bill being double the haul-out fees. We felt the price was quite fair and the work well done. “At least three other cruising boats used the drydock while we were in Manzanillo, and we didn’t hear any complaints except about the long time spent in drydock. /

Although it's not mandatory, it does help if you can speak Spanish and therefore converse meaningfully with the workers. We hope nobody else needs to make these kinds of repairs, but if an emergency arises around here, it’s nice to know there is an excellent drydock available.” The Smith’s report they’ll be in Costa Rica until December 1. If Dr. Atomic of San Quintin, Baja is tuned in, the Smith’s would like you to drop them a line: Yate ‘Viking’, Capitaina del Puerto, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America. ’ Who’s where? Rita Greb on Cameo in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands gave the following report on May 5: Wild Spirit, Empassant, Topaz are already in Tonga while Little Bear, Dirigo, Windago and Sisu are in transit there. Wikiwin, Easy Street, Kitaro, Jolisia, Sanctuary and Nooshka were about to leave for Tonga, obviously a popular spot. As of May 5, Invictus, and Aetheria were in soon to be chaotic Fiji, with Silver Heels, Rovin’ Stone, Tamarack II, Zorana, Onrust and Shadowfox (which is in the Suva Race) on their way. King’s Ransom, Cameo, * Whalesong, Paul Bunyan and Misty III were scheduled to have left for Fiji in early May but might have changed plans. In addition to the poor political climate in Fiji, the weather between New Zealand and Fiji hasn’t been so good either. The group that left the first week in May got hit by days of 40 to 60 knot winds. No fun at all! Farniente and Colibri have already left for Australia. Remaining in New Zealand are Unicorn, Armorel, Gensing, Odin, Pou Sto,

Kandarik, Oceaneer, Long Horn, La Bam-

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European to visit these lovely islands.

Folks up Stockton way no doubt remember Jack and Lura Francis, who in October of ’84 left on the ‘Milk Run’ aboard their Westsail 32, Tamarac II. Having had a wonderful time so far in the South Pacifc, Jack and Lura are about to head to increas¬ ingly less-visited places: Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, through the Torres Strait to Gove, Bali, Cocos Keeling, the Solomon Islands, the Seychelles, perhaps the Com¬ ores and finally Mombasa. That’s right, Mombasa, Kenya, Africa. We’ll be waiting for a report on that port. Jane de Ridder, the ‘Dragon-Lady’ reports that she, her husband and Magic Dragon were to have left Manzanillo for the South Seas in May. Veteran cruisers, the de Ridders spent nearly five months in Mexico this winter, the most enjoyable times being spent in an area few cruisers visit: “The highlight of our cruise was living with the whales up near Boca de Soledad. We ventured up the ‘inside passage’ north of Puerto San Carlos (Mag Bay) for nearly 50 miles. Sheer bliss. Unforgettable. The jux¬ taposition of coyotes, whales, dunes and isolation was very special. We don’t recom¬ mend the Hull Canal or Devil’s Bend for other than the stout of heart and hull; but it is rewarding for those with a bit of river naviga¬ tion experience and a spirit of adventure. It wasn’t easy, but it was fun. (Sounds like cruising!).”

While in Antigua, we met up with long¬ time contributors, Claude Rothe and Roberta Chan, who have been doing a leisurely clockwise circumnavigation of the Caribbean basin. They’ve been visiting places like Belize, Honduras, the Cayman Islands, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. We’ll have more details on their travels in a future issue, but leave you with this: “Puerto Rico sound dull? Well, let me tell you, after putting 7,300 miles on the log of our 40-ft steel Quetzal, and going through 12 courtesy flags since Sausalito, Puerto Rico has been the big surprise. Bar none, these were the friendliest, the most helpful and pleasant people we have ever met. No exceptions! We don’t know about the more populated north coast — which may be like New York — but the south coast was heaven. Lovely anchorages dot the shore every 20 miles or so, where there are un¬ crowded layed-back villages. A little ways in¬ land is access to all the provisioning you might desire: supermarkets like in Marin County, fresh veggies and good milk, apples and ice cream. There’s even K-Mart and Sears, as well as next-day U.P.S. delivery from the United States! “The climate is perfect, of course. The sail¬ ing is ideal and the prices very low. The navigation aids work, as do the telephones,

and for the first time in years we’ve had no hassles checking in and out. In fact, when we first arrived in Puerto Rico we anchored at a place that was 30 miles from the port of en¬ try. We told the official we were pretty beat up from the sail and wondered if there was something that could be done. He called his superior at the port of entry, who instructed him to drive us up to the port of entry so we could check in and then take the rest of the day off to give us a sighting-seeing tour!!!

“But of all of the wonderful aspects of the south coast of Puerto Rico, the best was the people, the wonderful people of Puerto Rico. Never, ever, ever for a moment did we experience the slightest negative experience while there. It was just lovely. By com¬ parison we are now in St. Thomas, the United States Virgin Islands. If there aren’t 500 boats right around us, there isn’t one. Seven cruise ships are in port today. Despite all the people on boats and all the people on shore, we’ve yet to experience a friendly smile. However, we will keep an open mind.” That’s the thing about cruising, you never know what to expect. Last minute update: Peter Clutterbuck and crew on Beija Flor, the Swan 65 that was formerly Cygnus, were in Florida for Memorial Day and about to head for Ber¬ muda and across the Atlantic pond. We don’t know if their candy bars melted, but we do know they’ve been moving. page 192

RITA GREB

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UFERAFTS & DINGHIES AVON 6-MAN LIFERAFT. Double bottom floor, soft pack, used once. Like new. Will have fresh Certification, ready to use. $1,950. Rick (408) 479-8092, after 5 p.m. LIFERAFT FOR SALE OR RENT. Valise, E-pack, new 83/84, current certification. (415) 931-4384.

AVON 4-MAN LIFERAFT. Requires reinspec¬ tion and repacking. Fiberglass container, self-inflating. $700. (415) 935-8262 Bill.

Rigged for racing or singlehanding. Excellent condition. 2 sets sails & spinnaker. 6 hp Evinrude o.b., 7 winches, spin. & whisker poles. Will include all extras with purchase. 362-1880 days; 254-9087 eves.

25-FT & UNOER MERIT 25,1984. Race/cruise. Excellent Bay boat. All new North sails. New epoxy & Micron 33 bottom. All Harkin with 212 traveler, fresh water (Tahoe), excellent con¬ dition, includes trailer. $18,500. Call Bill days (702) 588-2724; eves. (916) 577-2525.

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jib. 6 hp o.b. Berkeley berth. Excellent condi¬ tion. $5,000/best offer. (415) 549-1707.

MOORE 24 — S9.500/OFFERS. Sails, trailer, motor, everything you need to go sailing. Cruising or racing, this ULDB is the ultimate in performance sailing. Must sell soon, call Roger (415) 387-4590 days or (415) 681-4150 eves. J/24. Race ready, 9 sails, new North main, outboard, computer faired keel, VHF radio, digital knot/log. Sausalito berth. $8,500. (415) 461-2369.

BRISTOL 24,1977. Excellent dry Bay boat. 4 sails, Yanmar dsl, VHF, depth gauge, sleeps 4. $11,000 offer. Consider partner $2,000 down, share monthly expenses $160 + YC membership. 381-8536 days; 924-7699 eves. Tiburon berth. FISH/SKI. 18.5-ft Glastron tri hull. 150 hp Merc, tandem wheel trailer with power winch. $6,500/B.0. Eves. (415) 383-5260.

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1983 BOSTON WHALER: 15'. 70 hp Merc, trailer, custom boat cover, compass, VHF, bow & side rails, custom seat cushions, an¬ chor & line & more. Excellent condition! Call Rick, work (415) 495-0700 ext. 217; home (415) 332-0746. \

SEAFARER 24. Great Bay boat. Safe, fast, roomy. 1974 sloop rig. Sleeps 5.6 hp o.b., 2 burner stove, depthsounder, enclosed head. 6’ hdrm in center. 12/110v wiring. B&S pulpits w/fully safety lines. Alameda berth. Much more. $5,000. (408) 281-4559.

DOLPHIN 16.16-ft f/g sailboat w/trailer. Fun, fast & easy to sail. Good for lake or reservoir sailing (or experienced Bay sailor). Well cared for. Call Paul (415) 583-1640. $850/B.0. MacGREGOR 25-FT. Depthsounder, knotmeter, VHF, Evinrude 9.9 w/elect. start, full galley, enclosed head, teak cockpit grating, 12 gal. water tank. Fully equipped for cruising including trailer. Dodge %-ton pickup also avail. $6,900. (415) 383-0432.

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Maoneutolm System Exclusively 2. Owner's Presence Not Necessary. 3. Eliminate Deviation. (415) 453-3923 days or eves.

15. Excellent condition. Trailer w/spare, Hon¬ da 2, potti, compass, windex, vent. $4,500. (209) 592-2337.

CATALINA 25. 1982. Swing keel, on trailer. Pulpit-mounted device to step the mast the easy way. Like-new condition. Many options incl: Signet speed/log, safety gear, Honda 10 hp motor. $13,900. (408) 255-4219.

CAL 24 W/TRAILER. 1965, excellent condi¬ tion, solid, shoal draft w/centerboard, 4 sails, VHF, ds, km, compass, head, sink, battery system, 1979 4 hp Johnston. Sleeps 4. Dinghy. (408) 772-6903. $7,000/B.0. CRUISE IN BAJA. Anchored in Puerto Escon¬ dido. 1973 20-ft Newport. 4 sails, 2 anchors, Seagull o.b., VHF, safety equipment, plus much more. Sleeps 4+. All for $4,200. Wr: E. Davitt, Postal #134, Loreto, Baja Califor¬ nia Sur, 23880 Mexico. 1983 RANGER 20. Very nice condition, on E-Z Loader trailer. Bottom paint, jib, genoa, spinnaker, extras. Ready to sail away. Asking

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EXPERIENCE SPEED SAILING with 20-ft Tornado Catamaran Olympic Class. Good condition with hull covers & tilt trailer. North jib, Smyth main. Asking $3,400 or best offer. Call Joe (408) 375-0583, leave message. GREAT POCKET CRUISER. '85 Montgomery

SANTANA 22.1971. Main, storm jib, working

SAILING DINGHY WITH OUTBOARD. Dyer 9-ft dinghy with oars and sail. 12 years old, reasonable condition: $400. Tohatsu 3.5 hp long shaft, 1 yr., excellent: $300. (415) 383-6601.

RANGER 22. Great condition. Full spinnaker gear, 3/4 oz. spinnaker, 110 genoa, vang, Cunningham, backstay adjuster, 4 hp o.b., new battery, new bottom paint, anchor/chain & line, stereo. New Trailrite trailer. $5,500. (209) 431-9314 weekends & Monday.

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Complete selection of ocean cruisers to day sailers, predominantly 30’+ to 48’ catamarans & trimarans. 85+ to choose from. Call for our in-the-crate prices on new cats & tris. (206) 367-0252 2412 First Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98134-1422 page 194

MERIT 25. New: Pineapple main, jib & Honda o.b. Mint condition! Also includes 155%, 130% & 110%, spinnaker w/full spinnaker gear. Perfect for family cruising or racing. Sleeps 4. $14,900/OBO. Call Steve 656-2880 or (415) 659-8313. 13-FT SAILBOAT FOR SALE. Coast 13, a wonderful wooden sailboat can be all yours including trailer & gear only $750. For details call (415) 641-7647. COLUMBIA 22. Divorce forces sale of nice boat. 2 anchors, chain, alcohol stove, boom tent, VHF, compass, ice chest, good sails & motor. Has slept 5 (cozy but legal). Will con¬ sider all offers, including partnerships. $3,995/best offer. (415) 457-1723. BEAR BOAT NO. 35. Dancing Bear, one of the finest & well-equipped of the class. Navik vane, 2 mains, genoa, spinnaker, jib & storm jib, full cover, boom tent, RDF, cassette, solar panels, masthead light, many extras. Asking $8,000. (415) 461-5451. FREEDOM 25. Easy to sail, no crew needed! Just hauled, bottom painted w/micron. Catrigged but jib & spinnaker. New 12/83. Wellmaintained. Full instrumentation. Great for Bay or Delta. 10 hp Honda. $23,000. At Brickyard Cove. (916) 756-4536. CHEOY LEE 25-FT PACIFIC CLIPPER. A classic! All teak. Copper riveted. Natural finish hull. Yanmar dsl w/under 50 hours. 2 sets of sails. Berkeley slip. In near-Bristol condition. $12,800/offer. (415) 376-8370. ERICSON 23! Good condition. 10 hp o.b., head, galley, dinette, 5 berths, lifelines, an¬ chor, Ritchie compass, dinghy, L.A. berth. Transferred, must sell ASAP! $5,200/OBO or owner finance. (415) 752-4994. MacGREGOR VENTURE 23. F/g cutter with retractable keel, Pop-top. 5 sails, VHF, depth, knot & compass. 6 hp Evinrude, Porta-potti & trailer. Many extra amenities. A nice boat at home on Bay or Delta. $4,300. (415) 524-2954 or 526-5988. 24-FT YANKEE DOLPHIN. Exc. boat for Bay or Delta. Recent new sails 1985. 7.5 hp Evinrude ('83), VHF, depthsounder, Signet knot/log, etc. A very reasonable slip avail, in Alameda. $11,000/OBO. (408) 925-5921 days: (408) 972-8565 eves. Jerry. DIVORCE FORCES SALE. 1980 Vashon Pocketcruiser. 23’3” f/g dbl-ender. 22 hp Volvo dsl. 6'4” hdrm. Sleeps 2. Economical. Suited for off-season cruising/fishing. Perfect Bay/Delta boat. Orig. owner. Sell for loan amount. $13,500 firm. 435-4982. C&C 25.1974. Fully equipped in excl. cond. 10 hp Honda o.b. Asking $12,500. Will con¬ sider trade for Jeep Cherokee or equivalent or vessel in Florida. Call (904) 825-1161 or (415) 388-2537.

CATALINA 22. Hull #1 3, built 1971, fixed keel, North sails, Honda 7'N o.b. Great Bay boat in fine condition, berthed in Sausalito $3,900. Call (415) 332-4645. INTERNATIONAL 14. Hand-built mahogany. Beautiful boat with tilt bed trailer. Avila Beach. $600/OBO. (805) 595-7244 Tom. CUSTOMIZED CORONADO 25. Roller reefing main (Famet). Full dodger, 15 hp Johnson elec, start. VHF/ds, Princess propane stove & much, much more. (415) 494-6792. Sacrifice. $7,900. * 1946 CLASSIC FOLKBOAT. 25-ft wood sloop, 2 good sails, full keel, Seagull o.b. 5.5 hp. Great channel & Bay boat. Peninsula Marina slip. Redwood City. $3,800. (415) 728-3578 eves. CAPE DORY 19-FT SLOOP. Extremely seaworthy, very good condition, 3-4 sails, 4 hp o.b., running lights, older VHF, spinnaker pole, can sleep 4. Priced low to sell fast. $3,500. (408) 265-5117. DRASTICALLY REDUCED — MUST SELL '78 Venture 25 w/trailer, lifelines, compass, Honda 7.5 o.b., Porta-potti, man-overboard kit, Jiffy reefing. Good condition, many extras! Reduced from $7,200 to $4,900 or offer. Eves. (408) 257-4440.

AMF FORCE 5. Similar to Laser II. Superb condition, Li'I Dude trailer, cover, dolly. $1,050. (707) 224-5570, leave msg, Napa. ‘FLASH CADALAC’ 14-ft Skiff w/covered bow, newly painted, sealed, etc. Fishing, yacht tender, whatever. $450/B.0. or with 7.5 hp Evinrude (less than 50 hrs) o.b. $1,200. Such a deal! Must sell. (415) 236-5136 anytime. MOORE 24. First offer over $6,000 takes this classic racer. Running & standing rig is 2 yrs. old. Baltoplate bottom last fall. No motor or trailer. Lovingly cared for. (415) 843-6023 evenings.

12-FT SAN FRANCISCO PELICAN. Prof, built by Smith Bros., trailer, mahogany stern, oars, Harken blocks. Active class assoc. $1,400. Call Bob Shepard (408) 375-2736 eves; 242-7292 days. SPIRIT 23K. 1978, like new, sleek lines, Poptop, new Honda o.b. w/gen. New VHF, stereo, ds, 4 sails, recent survey. Fun 3,200-lb Bay sailer, Jack London berth. Can’t go wrong at $8,500. (408) 985-0255. CATALINA 25.1984. Swing keel. Well cared for beauty. Tall rig, like new main & jib. 7'/2 hp 4-cycle Honda longshaft, 25-watt marine radio. Pop-top, trad. int. 2-axle trailer, mint condition. Asking $15,750. (916) 791-4311. 22-FT TREASURE ISLAND. Sound & stiff, great Bay sailer. 2 jibs, 2 mains, spinnaker gear, all in good condition! Upwind Berkeley berth. $1,200 or make offer. 268-9198 after 6 p.m. CAL 20. Upwind Berkeley berth. Good condi¬ tion: new motor, sails, rigging. Must sell! $2,800/B.0. Bill 284-2714; John 524-1532. 1982 SPRINTA SPORT. 23' Van de Stadt designed racer/cruiser w/galv. trailer. Equip¬ ped for ocean racing. Sleeps 4. Classy Euro¬ pean design. Exceptional construction. $10,000. Ray or Betsi (415) 540-7154 office; (415) 465-4490 eves. RANGER 23. 1975. Super clean. Evinrude o.b. New sail & hatch covers. Sausalito berth. Clipper Basin 2, berth 229. $8,500. 457-9721.

WILDERNESS 21 MUST SELL! Make offer. Great condition. Owner may finance. (415) 454-2150. INT’L 505. 16' high-performance daysailer w/trailer. Rhondar hull #5508, Proctor spars, top & bottom covers. 3 sets of sails, 2 spinnakers, extra centerboard, rudder, etc. Very good cond. Asking $1,650. Pis. Iv. msg. (408) 737-2099.

SAILBOAT BARGAIN! 1972 Newport 20. Ex¬ cellent condition, solid & clean. VHF, ds, Barients & 6 hp Evinrude o.b. Hauled & painted 3/87. We got a new boat, must sell! First $2,000. (415) 924-0240. ATKINS DESIGNED 18-FT CENTERBOARD SLOOP. Teak decks, a classic, very good condition. Asking $2,150. 663-8384. 25-FT MacGREGOR 1984. Excellent cond. All original equipment plus extras incl: Honda 100 o.b. & power winch to raise mast. With trailer. $7,000. (415) 889-1901 or (415) 538-4580. ’86 CATALINA 22. New design of this classic. Fresh water boat is equipped with motor, trailer, all deluxe cabin options. Boarding lad¬ der & VHF. $10,000. Lee (916) 891-8736; (916) 891-1841. LIDO 14. 1980. Fully equipped, E-Z Loader trailer, canvas cover. New 2 hp Johnson o.b. Roller furling jib. 2-tone blue on white. In¬ defatigable daysailer, immac. cond. $2,695 or best offer. Must see to appreciate. (415) 828-0275.

17-FT O’DAY DAYSAILER. Fully equipped, excl. cond. Includes Evinrude o.b. & trailer. Great family and/or starter boat. $2,700 or best offer. (707) 255-7029. LIDO 14. With trailer: $1,200. Without trailer: $900. Days (408) 288-5363 after 5. (408) 985-6476. Ask for Sandy or Peggy. MOORE 24. Best boat. Best buy. $10,500. Excellent condition. Includes: trailer, radio, 6 bags of sails, outboard motor & much more. Call Jim 435-1213 days; 435-9341 evenings.

VENTURE 22. 22-ft sloop including trailer & 7.5 hp Chrysler o.b. w/gen. Pop-top, Portapotti, sink unit, 3 sails & more. Excl. cond. 2 boat owner. Must sell. Call (707) 643-3441.

ROSANNA SANTANA FOR SALE. Some peo¬ ple think this is one of the best looking San¬ tana 22’s in the fleet. Probably not, but maybe you'll like the LPU, micron, graphics, spinnaker, 5 Barients, etc. Drysailed. $6,950. (415) 388-6531 eves.

COMFORTABLE POCKET CRUISER for the Bay & Delta. 25’ Bristol sailboat with a berth at Marina Green in S.F. This boat has the equipment you will need to comfortably han¬ dle it by yourself. $12,000/offer (415) 931-4012.

CORONADO 15. Very clean, many extras, easy to sail. Lots of fun. Gary (415) 944-9388.

CAL 20. F/g, fixed keel sloop, sleeps 4. Great Bay sailer, good cond. 3 jibs/main, 6 hp Evin¬ rude o.b., VHF radio, ds, km, head. Berkeley berth. $3,250. (415) 283-1929 eves/ weekends. (415) 546-2320 days.

SANTANA 22 #581. Pineapple sails in excl. cond. Stainless chainplates & keel bolts. VHF. 6 hp Evinrude. New bottom paint. 5-yrold standing rigging. Many extras. $4,500. (415) 381-9640.

25-FT TRIMARAN WINSOME. Excellent Bay boat, outfitted to the max with all top gear. VHF, depth, knotmeter, 5 sails & spinnaker. 7.5 Johnson o.b., trailer & much more. $7,500/offer. (408) 432-0450 wkdays 8-5.

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1985 INTERNATIONAL FJ. U S. 4337, Sailnetics roll tank model, race rigged, all spinnaker gear, Pineapple sails, Balko trailer. Excellent condition! $2,50O/OBO. 841-1445.

PEARSON ELECTRA 23-FT. 3/4 full keel sloop, #99. Excellent Bay boat, 3 sails, lifelines, cockpit/int. cushions. Bottom paint 10/86, anchor & line, 4 hp Evinrude, Portapotti. $3,300/B.0. 532-4405.

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COLUMBIA 22. Good condition. Brand new main & jib custom made by Sutter Sails, Sausalito. Honda 75 o.b. motor, bought new with only 10 hrs. use. Hull 258. Easy access berth, Port Sonoma. Asking $3,800. (707) 938-1782.

BOAT GRAPHICS WITH PERSONALITY! In pressure sensitive adhesive vinyl/mylar. From the s'mPlest toe most elaborate we do it your way!’ * And you can afford it. SeaScript (415) 651-7326.

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WIND & WAVE SCHOOL OF SAILING — RENT ALL!!! Enjoy a beautiful day on the Bay on a 32-ft sloop. Sailing lessons, skippered rentals, bareboat rentals & catered cruises. For more info, call (707) 745-4271.

CAPRI 18 — 1987. Fixed keel, draft 2.0'. Large cockpit. Comfortable cabin w/fabric cushions. Sharp blue hull. Trailer, motor & extras. Full warranty. $6,900. Steve, (916) 891-8736; (916) 891-1841. 16-FT PELICAN FAMILY BAY SAILER. Oneof-a-kind prototype of Pacific Pelican. Plywood-epoxy construction. Cuddy cabin, flip-up rudder, custom cover, trailer, other extras. Ideal for shallow rough water. Kid safe & beautiful. Good cond. $3,200 or offer. (707) 255-6769. WOODEN FOLKBOAT. Pocket cruiser set up for singlehanded sailing. Extended cfcbin, gimballed 2-burner stove, self-bailing cockpit, sleeps 3. Very seakindly & forgiving. Wounded Seagull, but oar works everytime. $5,000. Eves. (415) 237-8790 or wr: Box 184, Garberviller, CA 95440. LOW PROFILE — VERY TRAILERABLE. 81 Santana 23. Deluxe trailer, o.b„ 4 Pineapple sails, all lines aft, many options, deluxe int., multi-stripped hull, bristol thru-out. Over $20K new. First $11.5K takes all. (916) 723-5731.

SANTANA 22, 1969. Good sails, 6 hp, Sausalito berth. $4,500. 327-7079; 780-2475. CATALINA 22. A well-equipped swing-keel Bay/Delta cruiser w/trailer. Has 150,110,90, main w/2 reefs, 4.5 hp Evinrude, sailing dodger, galley w/stove & sink. All lines lead aft. Boat is in excellent condition. $5,000. (408) 842-1787. 25-FT NORDIC FOLKBOAT. Race or cruise this traditional lapstrake one-design. Built '60 Denmark, Nordic pine on oak. New racing sails, cruising main & 2 jibs. 4 hp Evinrude o.b., full cover, LPU topsides, excellent cond. $6,500. (415) 769-8447 evenings. CAL 25. Fully equipped and ready to sail. VHF, 6 hp o.b., self-tending jib, spinnaker, galley, head, etc. Coyote Pt. berth. $5,400. (415) 726-3342. FOLKBOAT. Classic 1957 25-ft Nordic Folkboat. Excellent cond. Well-maintained. Very sound & tight lapstrake hull. Redwood City slip. Seagull o.b. Must sell. $6,5O0/OBO. (415) 321-9419 or (415) 361-1281. C&C 24, 1978. Clean, new upholstery, new epoxy bottom, VHF, sleeps 4. Must see to ap¬ preciate. Asking $13,000. Will trade up. (408) 946-4570. FOLKBOAT. 1951 racing-type sloop with Seagull o.b. motor, nearly new main & jib. Boat in very good overall cond. Hull struc¬ turally sound. Includes deluxe full boat cover. Going to Europe, must sell soon. First $4,950 steals this beauty. Call 332-9231 days/mssg. or 331-7470 eves.

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TRAILERABLE 21. Fun for cheap. 21’ Ven¬ ture: $3,000. British Seagull o.b., new sails & spinnaker, head, sink, anchor, Sausalito berth. Patricia 331-9145.

CORONADO 15. Exciting trapeze dinghy. Fully race rigged, 2 sets of sails, cover, trailer. $2,000/OBO. Bill Shideler, days (415) 896-0615; eves. (415) 331-8120.

CAL 20. Great condition. Pineapples, 2 mains, 1 jib, spinnaker, many racing extras. Magic Box, dual main sheet, sail cover, Evin¬ rude, head. Lots more. Sausalito berth. $3,100. (707) 996-5830.

YAMAHA 25 II. Cruise/liveaboard. Diesel, dodger, Harken roller furling, lots of sails, all mint condition. $17,500. (415) 522-1561 after 1800 hours.

CATALINA 22. Swing keel, Pop-top, trailer, new mast, new interior, 6 hrs. Evinrude, 3 sails, VHF, stereo, very good condition. Ready for Baja & Tahoe. $5,500 firm. Greg (415) 930-9729. COLUMBIA 26 MKII. Excellent Bay sailer. Sleeps 5. 2-burner stove. New 1'k o.b. Has compass, VHF radio, lifelines, etc. Excellent Berkeley berth. $9,000. New bottom paint, survey. Call (415) 284-7547. MacGREGOR 25. 1982. Swing keel, trailer, outboard, 4 sails, anchor & safety gear. Good condition. $7,000 or B.O. (415) 644-0123. MAYA NO. 15. 23-ft of classic wood. Great condition. Comes with 7 sails, spinnaker & club boom, 3 anchors, inflatable, stove, sink, W/T. Must seel! (415) 673-2245. 25-FT SCHOCK F/G SLOOP. New bottom paint, new Evinrude 8 hp o.b. All sails plus spinnaker. Full cover, life jackets & Portapotti. Sausalito deep water berth. Asking $2,900. Must sell immed. (415) 897-6445. CORONADO 25. New Sutter sails, new Evinrude 9.9 w/alternator. Long list of ac¬ cessories that make a safe & comfortable Bay boat. May include Sausalito berth. $7,500/offer. 924-8525; 381-3188. RHODES 19.19' daysailer, 4 hp Johnson, 2 sets of sails (1 new); 2 spinnakers (1 new). Many extras, super condition. $1,800. Bruce, days (415) 956-7077 ext. 8269; eves. (415) 573-0981. COLUMBIA 22 & AQUARIUS 21. A21: 4 sails, 4 winches, Pop-top, stove, Porta-potti, 5 hp o.b. Popular family cruiser, 1976; $2,500; Col.22: 3 sails, head, dinette, Vk hp Merc o.b: $1,950. Summer Delta berth for either. (415) 824-6099 eves. FOLKBOAT. 25’ classic cruising version in good cond. w/full boat cover, Evinrude 6. This is the great Bay sailor with the aesthetics & romance which drew you to sailing in the first place. $6,800. (415) 221-0638. FOR SALE: PEARSON ELECTRA 23-FT. SYRA champ. Classic design. F/g, mahogany, brass. New mast, new sails, spinnaker, new 5 hp Seagull o.b. w/roll-out bracket. Upwind 24-ft berth in Berkeley Marina. $3,400. Call Dave (415) 526-9257 eves, or (707) 576-2354 days.

1979 BAYLINER 18-FT DAYSAILER SLOOP w/lockable cuddy cabin & self-bailing cock¬ pit. Yellow hujl with cast iron swing keel & colored sails. Foam bunk cushions. Complete with trailer & 4 hp motor. $2,500. (415) 793-1642. NORDIC FOLKBOAT. FRP amJwood. Partially finished. Best offer or trade. 522-2705. RANGER 23. Absolutely desperate. We moved to L.A. last Oct. & our excellent, fully equipped Ranger 23 is still sitting at Brick¬ yard. We can’t move her to L.A. & will con¬ sider any offer to get her sailing again. She is ready for racing or cruising with a great fleet. Excellent sails, Johnson 6 hp, new rigging, more. Cqll (818) 883-4342. 1968 ISLANDER BAHAMA 24. Great Bay & first boat. Outstanding racer/cruiser with ac¬ tive club association. Sleeps 5. Bristol throughout.s Too many extras to mention, incl. newt 7 hp-Jphnson o.b. $6,000. Home (415) 758-0565; work (415) 674-3670. S2 7.3 PERFORMANCE CRUISER. Fast, well-balanced 24' w/7.5 Honda. Bristol cond. Sleeps 4 w/galley & head. New: standing rig¬ ging, working jib, Datamarine knotmeter, Newmar battery charger, interior cushions, etc. Upgraded winches. Teak interior. $12,000. (408) 288-5092. 18-FT AMIGA A DANISH CLASSIC. In beautiful condition, this Master Mariner vet is a lapstrake, double-ended Helsingor Jollen class sloop designed by Utzon, built by Rassmussen in 1946. Sausalito berth. Call Mike at (415) 972-3070 days; (415) 488-4153 eves.

SANTANA 20 — $5,000. Excellent condition. Ready to race or cruise S.F. Bay. 4.5 hp o.b. (415) 939-5852; 236-1662. MONTGOMERY 17. Sale! If you want a Montgomery 17, you won’t get a better boat or deal. Was asking $8,400; now you name it! Spinnaker, o.b., trailer & much more. (916) 481-3199. CAL 25. Great racing/cruising boat. Active one-design class. Good condition. 7 sails incl: 3 jibs, spinnaker. Evinrude o.b., 7 winches. Many extras. Must sell. $6,995. (415) 339-8389. FOLKSY LADY. 1985 custom wood Folkboat 25’ mahogany/oak cruising design. Raised foredeck, self-bailing, self-steering, RDF, o.b., 3 anchors, misc. gear. A rare young beauty. Marin berth. Consider car in part trade. $7,900. (707) 857-3868. J/24. Must sell, race ready, all new Sobstad sails (by John Kostecki), trailer, lots of extras a steal at $10,950. And, Laser, good condi¬ tion, red/orange color, never raced. $750/0BO. 376-5175 after 5. CAL 20. Berthed in Berkeley, great first boat. Priced for immediate sale: $2,600. 5 sails, Seagull o.b. motor, bow pulpit, new keel bolts, good cond. Howard (415) 673-4319. MacGREGOR 25’, 1980. Swing keel trailerable sailboat. 7.5 hp, Honda o.b. Portapotti, sleeps 5, dinette, Pop-top, main, 90 & 150 jib. Trailer. $6,000. (415) 523-7132. SANTANA 525, 1978. Great condition. 110%, 150% & 3/4 oz. spinnaker. 6.5 hp outboard. South Beach Marina berth. $9,000 firm. Call Jose res: 826-9438; office495-8270. SANTANA 525. Immaculate condition. Fresh water boat. New Micron/LPU, compass, km, o.b., main, 110,150,150 Warp Knit Pineap¬ ple tri-radial spin., am/fm cassette w/booster. Covers, anchor, much more. Delta. $10,500. (916) 333-1586.

CASH AND A RANGER (KENT, WA) 24. Loaded with gear. For your 40’ to 52' f/g cruising sailboat or just make an offer on this great family sailboat. Ask for Jim (707) 528-2510; (707) 875-2370. 1972 25-FT LUGER F/G SPORTFISHER. Twin 130 Volvo I/Os, hyd. trim tabs, VHF, ds, flybridge, frig, stove, enclosed head, fish hold, live bait tank, extra props, on trailer. We used it in the Delta & pulled skiers. $10,000. (408) 926-8636. MAGIC BEAR NO. 65.23-ft 4-season champ. Probably the finest racing or cruising Bear on the Bay. Race ready for the serious winner. Evinrude 6, km, compass, Alameda slip. $8,900. Al Webb (408) 377-5123.

26-FT—35-FT WANT TO SAIL? It’s yours for $250/mo. Isis: 32’ sloop, one-off, Gary Mull design. De¬ signed for singlehanded TransPac. Full com¬ plement of sails and elec. Diesel. Perfect for race or cruising. (707) 745-4271. 1984 CATALINA 27. $19,900. Mint condition. Only used one season. Owner transferred. Mid-cockpit traveller, boom vang, adj. back¬ stay, halyards lead aft, drifter, depthsounder, berthed at Brisbane Marina. (415) 347-1433.

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HAWKFARM PREDATOR IS FOR SALE! Predator is one of S.F. Bay’s most successful offshore racers under 30'. Winner MORA I 1985, MORA Long Distance Race, Golden Gate and Metro Midwinters. One of the active 28’ Hawkfarm one-design racing fleet. Ex¬ cellent condition, top-quality construction. Complete instrumentation and offshore equipment. Sails mostly mylar, some mylarkevlar combination built by sailmaker-owner. Many extras. A performance sailor’s yacht. $23,000. Call Dan or Linda Newland, (415) 521-7172. Wylie design. CORONADO 27. Inboard eng., cockpit cush¬ ions, 3 headsails, stove, sink, VHF, 6' hdrm, enclosed head, anchor. See at Emeryville. Asking $12,000. (408) 996-0964 or (408) 730-9763 evenings. FRISCO FLYER III. 1967, 26-ft Cheoy Lee sloop, superb cond. & lovingly maintained, f/g hulled cruiser w/teak trim & int. Penta i.b. dsl, boat cover, VHF, depthsounder, com¬ pass. Sleeps 4 with galley & head. Asking $17,800/B.0. (415) 883-9049. STEAL MY ISLANDER 34. 1969. Factory built boat. Ped. steering, depthsounder, knotmeter, VHF, good Atomic 4. This is a good, clean, cruising sloop with a warm wood interior. Owner will finance to respon¬ sible party w/substantial down payment. $28,000 firm! (408) 264-0750. COLUMBIA 26 MARK II. Great beginner boat, pocketcruiser or one-design. Beautiful new interior, cushions, carpet, drapes & custom mahogany cabinets. Shorepower - refrig., reblt stove & head. Bottom painted 7/86. Nicest boat for money on Bay. $7,800. Bob 680-7531 hm; 232-0371 work. COLUMBIA 9.6 (32'). Sausalito. 1/4 interest. Great partners, new job forces sale. $9,000 full share/150 p/m or $2,000 down/$200 p/m (includes everything: principle, int., ins., slip, yearly haul). Use every 4th week plus when not being used. 258-9631. 1957 DRAGON. 29-ft classic all wood racing sloop. 3 mains, 3 jibs, 1 spinnaker, & trailer. Bilder, Tuckrbrwn, condition fair. Price great. $1,000/8.0. John Caryl (415) 341-2329. RANGER 26. Gorgeous! All brand new equip¬ ment, incl: dbl. lifelines & stainless keelbolts. Beautiful cond. 929-1348. $10,950.

ONE OF 22 IN THE WORLD. Alden 32 by Cheoy Lee f/g. Completely refurbished by Yachtmaster. 50 hrs on Perkins 4-107. New Awlgrip, fresh decks, new standing rigging, near new Tanbark sails. Roller furling. Spar removed & refinished. Ext. & int. teak fin¬ ished to furniture quality. Full boat cover. Dual steering. $45,000. (707) 553-5595 days; (707) 745-3204 nights. Dan Gordon, owner.

SANTANA 28 CONCH. Excl. cond. Ideal Bay or offshore racer/cruiser. Complete sail in¬ ventory, Volvo dsl, full instr. w/many extras. Perfect liveaboard, sleeps 6, refrig., microwave, heater. Berkeley berth. Must sell. $24,500/offer. (415) 654-9185; eves. (707) 644-8175. ROSS 930. 30' racer/cruiser. Fractional rig, VHF, km, fathometer, Suurito compasses, 3 jibs, 2 spinnakers. Honda 10 hp o.b. w/alt. Full interior, sleeps 7. Excellent condition. (415) 831-0221. COLUMBIA 26 MKII. Excellent! Teak interior like new! Genoa, working jib, main. All ex¬ cellent. 9.8 hp Merc elec, start w/alt. —stern mounted — like new. New whisker pole. Depthfinder. Marine VHF. 2 batteries. Marine head. Barient stainless winches. Alcohol stove. Signet km. Shorepower. Viking an¬ chor. Stainless stern & bow rails & lifelines. Stainless boarding ladder. Standup hdroom, sleeps 5. $11,980. More value per dollar than any boat on the Bay! Emeryville slip. Larry Short, work (415) 428-0194; home (415) 352-5248. 27’ O.S. CHEOY LEE. Find Bay & ocean vessel, 1970, diesel engine, roller reef, depthsounder, ship to shore, wheel steering, furling jib, berth, many extras. $20,000. Call Ray Cook. Res. (415) 668-2423, leave msg.

ISLANDER 28.1981. Yanmar dsl eng. 110% jib, new 130% mylar, spinnaker. Excellent condition. Active one-design class. $29,500. (415) 825-0341 evenings. PEARSON VANGUARD 33. Autopilot, VHFFM, digital km, new head, spin, pole & rig¬ ging. $2,000 recent eng. work. Dinghy. Sleeps 6. $25,000. Ballena Bay berth FI 6. 881-8222 weekdays; 582-8646 eves, and weekends. ERICSON 32. 1/2 interest for sale. Excl. cond. Prof, maintained, recently surveyed, one owner (purchased ’79), mast & boom painted white. Upwind 35' transferable slip near YC in Berkeley Marina. Must be seen to be appreciated. (916) 966-1297. YAMAHA 33. Excl. 1979 model w/8 Lewmar winches, mainsail w/3 reefs, storm jib, 110% & 150% genoas & 3/4 oz. spinnaker. Depth¬ sounder, Horizon VHF. Hauled 1/87, engine rebuilt 9/86. $34,900. (408) 266-0262. COLUMBIA 29. Custom interior with stove/ oven, AC refrig., saloon seats 6, new head. Atomic 4 w/low hrs. 5 sails. Berthed S.F. $16,500. Rob (415) 852-4547 wkdays only. ISLANDER 28. 1977. S.F. berth. Atomic 4. LectraSan, VHF, depthsounder, knotmeter. Popular one-design class. $25,900. (415) 820-0480.

30-FT PEARSON SAILBOAT 1978. Atomic 4 eng., teak floor, shore power. Singlehanded rigged, wheel. Great condition. Sausalito berth. $28,500/B.0. Rich 331-0715 eves, or leave message. ISLANDER 28. 1984. Treated with tender loving care. Yanmar dsl eng. Knotmeter, depthsounder, VHF, 110% jib, storm jib, beautiful teak int. Must see to appreciate. $34,000/OBO. Eves. (415) 331-7267. OLSON 30. Johnson o.b. 4 hrs. 5 headsails, 2 spinnakers, main, VHF, knotmeter, RDF, compass, battery charger, man-overboard pole, ground tackle, float cushions, & covers. Survey avail. $21,000. (415) 522-5900.

C4C 35’ MARK I, 1971. Easy to handle, pleasure to sale. New rigging one size larger. New mainsail & epoxy bottom. Engine overhauled. Great cruising boat. Bristol cond. By orig. owner $39,500/offer. In berth A3, Richmond YC. Eves. (415) 235-0184; 948-6613. Owner financing. OWENS 30 FLAGSHIP. Tw. 283. Motors overhauled. New curtains, carpet, varnish, paint Tanks removed & prof, cleaned. Reblt carbs, new steering cable. Liveaboard. $12,850 or use as down payment on 30+ cruising sailboat. (707) 428-0207.

35-FT MOTORSAILER KETCH. Dual steering. Excellent inventory for long-distance cruis¬ ing. $30K firm. By owner, (619) 722-2700. HOBIE 33. Retractable keel, Trailrite trailer, 10 bags, loran, VHF, Signet 2000, MOB w/strobe, consistent So. Cal. winner. $25,50O/OBO. (213) 833-6709 or (714) 846-2964. %

RHODES 33. Elegant classic wooden sloop, 33 ’8". Very good condition. Almost new sails, depthmeter, log, Evinrude o.b., running lights, anchor, sink, ice box, head, more. Much boat for the price. $8,950. Call eves. (415) 769-1201. CATALINA 27. 1978. One owner, traditional interior, Honda 10 hp o.b., 2 sails: 150 & 90, singlehand & spinnaker rigging, safety & cruising equipment + extras. Asking $12,000. Would consider trade for Runabout/ski boat or motorhome. (415) 691-7337 days or (415) 634-7647 eves. WESTSAIL 32. Factory built. Perkins diesel. Teak decks, dinette, propane with oven, 2 suits sails & drift & jibs, autohelm, wind charger, dodger, dinghy, many extras. Singlehanded Hawaii '86. 3-month winter cruise So. Cal. ’87. Ready to go. $55,000. Berthed in Richmond. (707) 923-2787 days; (707) 923-3201 nights.

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

CATALINA 30. Excellent condition. Fully equipped. Better than new. Call for details. (415) 283-3837. Judie. CAL 9.2 30-FT. 1981.12 bags of North sails, Signet electronics. Riche compasses. VHF, depthsounder RDF, hydraulics & more. Will sell or trade for ??? (916) 446-3002 or (916) 966-3410. Ask for George. 1985 ERICSON 32. Very active in the premiere Bay Charter operation. Excellent condition & fully equipped. Alameda berth. $65K. (408) 778-3028. DUFOUR 31. 1981. Beautiful boat. A must see. Sails like a dream. Was $47,000. Now giving it away at $39,500. (408) 727-4559. FOR SALE: 1/2 INTEREST IN 30’ CATALINA sailboat. Sleeps 7. Main, jib, genoa & spin¬ naker. Lpran, 50 ch. radio, depthsounder, self-tailing winches, inside halyards, full chart table, all wind instrs., berth Pier 39. Phil Dollison (415) 945-8587. SANTA CRUZ 27 MAGNA. National Cham¬ pion. Race ready. Loaded. $16,950. (408) 354-6555. 32-FT ATKINS COLIN ARCHER SEAGOING CRUISER. New hull, deck beams & bulk¬ heads only. Needs ballast, hull fittings, deck, rigging, sails & engine. Located in Sausalito. Will sell to best offer. Contact Boris at (415) 641-4238. BRISTOL 29. Well equipped. $16,250 or best offer. Phone: (415) 463-7211 days; (415) 831-3863 eves. 1973 ISLANDER 30 MKII. Never raced. Ex¬ ceptionally clean & maintained. Wheel steer¬ ing, radio, depthfinder, dinghy, sails 2 yrs. old, etc. etc. (Moved up to a 36'). Leave word days (415) 475-2998, will get back. Eves. (415) 582-1519. THUNDERBIRD 26-FT SLOOP. Completely restored, fully equipped. All new rudder, rig¬ ging, anchor, canvas, VHF, compass, knotmeter, paint, varnish, stove, Porta-potti & more. Free delivery within 100 sea miles of Dana Pt. A steal at only $4,800. (714) 494-4610 or (714) 661-3926. DEKKER 30x8x4.5. Mahogany sloop built 1959. Prof, rebuilt from keel up 1980-87. Epoxy/Dynel decks. LP paint on deck, spars, topsides, spruce/epoxy mast, s.s. rigging 1986. Pretty well behaved balanced sailer. No engine. I use outboard. $6,000/6.0. (415) 369-0150. CHEAP THRILLS! Partnership must sell Excalibur 26. This is a fun daysailer, overnighter or one-design racer. VHF, 6 hp o.b., 5 sails incl: 2 spinnakers. Recent haulout & bottom paint. $7,950/B.0. Bob (415) 332-4726.

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CAL 34 — $25,900. 4 sails, 2 anchors, 2 preventers, 2-spd winches, backstay adj., tiller adj. Whisker pole, dodger, Fatho., knotlog, 110 & 12v lights, am/fm cassette, batt. chrgr., spare parts, new uphols. Windvane available. (415) 284-4124 days; (707) - 644-6178 eves.

Beautiful cond. Real performance boat with cruising int. Sleeps 4. 30'4"x7'x4'3'’. Mahog. on oak. Km, ds, 6 Barients, full cover, head, spinnaker. 1983 mast, rigging, IVt hp Evinrude. Slip included. Priced to sell at $8,500. (415) 641-4421.

30- FT SAILBOAT CLIPPER MARINE. Must

WESTSAIL 32. New Saab diesel, new VHF,

sacrifice. Good liveaboard. All f/g, potti, stove, 10 hp Honda motor, large i.b. gas tank, very dry. $9,000 cash or $4,000 down & owner will finance. (415) 787-3122.

Caroline Dacron sails, Barient winches, mid¬ ship galley, propane, 120 gal water, dinghy. Sleeps 5. Designed to live aboard. Sausalito berth. Surveyed at $72,000; sell for $48,000. Take trade. (303) 697-0810.

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C&C 27. 1974-75 in very good condition. New diesel engine, jib & cushions. Sails beautifully. Selling to buy house. $17,000. Call Don, (408) 867-3156.

SALE OR TRADE' CAL 2-30. VHF, wheel, compass, ds, spinnakers, stove, ws, wd, km, 4 headsails, head, lifelines, 2 bildge pumps. $26,000 or trailer-type boat, sail or power or car, RV, pick-up. Will consider partner. Jack London Sq. berth. (209) 869-3215. CLIPPER MARINE 30-FT. Full cover, dodger, storm curtins, spinnaker, km, df, compass, batt. chrgr., VHF. One owner boat, It. blue over blue. 5 bags of sails. Excl. cond. $8,500. Richmond berth. Days (408) 293-1823; nites (408) 433-1718. GORGEOUS WOODEN FOLKBOAT 26-FT. Absolutely solid 1951 Danish-built Folkboat in perfect condition. Complete with 5 sails. New depthfinder, new Honda 4-stroke, new wiring, new lines. Ready to sail away. Partner died, must sell. Berth avail. $6,900 or offer. (415) 459-7110 weekdays.

31- FT SEARUNNER TRI, CUTTER RIG. 95% complete. Ballenger spars, Larsen sails, Barients, Schaffer hardware, o.b., etc. Sell for outfitting costs. Trailer included. $9,950. (916) 989-3407.

26-FT BALBOA W/TRAILER. Good shape. Sleeps 5, 3 sails, 9.9 Johnson o.b. 2-burner alcohol stove, Porta-potti, hard chine dinghy & more! A steal $9,000. Michael (408) 423-6529.

ERICSON 27. 1974. Rock-solid Bay cruiser. Blue on white. Polished teak. Luscious cond. VHF, depth, over equipped. Estuary berth in¬ cluded. Forced to sell our baby. New baby on way. $17,500. (415) 895-2392, 24 hrs. Jim and Karen.

PEARSON 323. 1979. White hull, Volvo dsl, h/c pressure shower, legal head, 3-burner CNG w/oven, wheel steering, chrome hooded compass, dodger, VHF, km/depth, cushions, custom upholstery, excellent, sacrifice. $43,000. R. Clinton (415) 369-0943. RANGER 28’, 1975. Color: Sunset yellow.

CATALINA 30. Tall rig. Fully equipped. Atomic 4 eng., knot & depth gauges. Sts radio, spinnaker, ice box, alcohol stove, oven. $25,500. Rigged for Delta. Docked in Stockton. 1 -(209) 268-6728.

Fresh water, 5 sails, galley, head, full elec¬ tronics, i.b. motor, excl. coqd. Come see it, easy access! Located at Homewood, Lake Tahoe (Lake front property). Asking $24.8K. (408) 370-7384; (916) 525-7667.

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31-FT BROWN TRI. Super equipped, from

boat with wonderfully light helm. Full race equipped with complete electronics including VHF and loran. This is a must sailboat in ex¬ cellent condition with a full set of like-new sails. Ideal for handicap racing and wellappointed for cruising with its light and effi¬ cient cabin layout. Sail away equipped for on¬ ly $34,000. For more details, call Gary days (707) 224-7925; eves. (707) 255-5196.

autopilot to mast steps, scanning VHF to Delta awning with matching dodger. Hard dinghy to bubble hatch. Leave message at 524-3903 for Mikael. $23,000/B.0.

MOVING! ONLY $17,500 FOR 29’3” OF FUN! If you're going to buy a boat, you could be making a very expensive mistake unless you check out this 1978 Buccaneer 295 sloop. For sale by orig. owner. Excellent con¬ dition. Exporter has done well in mid-winter, summer and Oakland Estuary Friday Night Races. During the past 3 years Exporter has been cruising S.F. Bay and has lived up to the builders’ claim that this boat was designed with comfortable cruising in mind. Waterline 24'6”f overall 29 3”; beam 10’3”; displ. 6,800 lbs; bal 2,850 lbs; max headroom 6’; waterline to top of mast 41 ’8”; draft 67’; sail plan I: 38.3’; J: 12.0’: P:34.0' E: 9.0’; Teak cabin, 2 spinnakers, 4 jibs, marine head, sleeps 6, 13 hp Volvo diesel, 2 batteries, shore power & much more. Bob (415) 489-9595. Call today.

ENDEAVOR 32 (MODIFIED). Mexican cruis¬ ing vet. Proven strong & fast in the ocean & is very pleasing to the eye. Medium displace¬ ment. Custom designed rudder & keel. Pro¬ pane galley, refrigeration, windlass, dodger, Yanmar diesel, 6 bags. Very clean & wellmaintained. Reduced to $39,500. Quick sale. 1st reasonable offer will be accepted. (415) 938-9616.

1979 LANCER 30’. Owner leaving area. 4 sails, wheel steering, new bottom paint. Diesel, km, comp, depth, many other extras. Will consider smaller trailerable boat in trade. Asking $24,000. Will negotiate for quick sale. Vallejo berth. (707) 745-4614.

SANTA CRUZ 33, 1981. Bill Lee quality & speed in a racer/cruiser. Full galley, head, chart table, refrigerator, loran. Signet 1000, BMW dsl, Ballenger spars, hyd. backstay, Barient winches, Avon, plus more. $35,000. Ken (415) 949-3036. FIBERGLASS/TEAK 79 CRUISING CLASSIC. Fast, comfortable, double-ended, liveaboard Aries 32 sloop. Unique layout below. 2 doubles, 1 single, sit down chart table, large head, diesel, VHF, ds, km, etc. Beautifully built in excellent condition. $39,500. (415) 331-6909.

CRUISE , MEXICO. Our Union 32 Cutter Velero has just completed her 2nd season in Mexico and is ready and waiting for you in La Paz. This 1984 Ted Brewer design is wellequipped for cruising including: Autohelm 3000, Cold Machine refer, Hillerange pro¬ pane rantje/oven w/Margas safety system, 2 extra 110 A.H. deep cycle batteries, Automac alt. control, S-L electric windlass, U-K spin¬ naker w/stasher, dinghy davits and more. All in excellent condition, with slip iri Marina de La Paz. $59,500. (408) 475-5757. ERICSON 27-FT. Excellent buy, good condi¬ tion, 1975, Volvo gas engine, VHF, compass spinnaker, 150%, 120%. 90%. $15,000. Dennis or Julie, (415) 456-2469. Leave message. ALBERG 35 1965. Completely restored, new LP, new chrome, 5 excl. headsails, new North main, Westerbeke 4-107,'Barient 27 ST’s, Espar heater, Edson wheel, Autohelm 3000, ICOM, Cold Machine, new interior, windlass, numerous extras. $47,000. (206) 365-3888 or 363-5774. Seattle.

S2 MOTORSAILER 8.0M. Center-cockpit, diesel Volvo, wheel steering. Aft-cabin w/hallway nav. station. 6’2” headroom. 9 opening ports. Trailerable for great cruising. North sails. S.F. Marina. $26K. Phil 564-3425 mssg. HISTORIC 31-FT MARUNER dies. First solo sailorette crossed Pacific with this boat, making the reputation of Mariners "Far Horizons” now well-known on Bay. Asking $20,000. Reasonable offer open. (415) 383-4541.

MUST SELL SANTA CRUZ 27. Excellent con¬ dition, trailer-sailed, Guava seeks new owner who is seeking a bargain. $10,000 includes trailer, 6 sails, VHF. All reasonable offers considered. If you’re interested, let’s talk. (408) 423-9902 or (415) 924-8421, eve¬ nings or weekends. CAL 34 — $27,500 8.0. ’68 f/g sloop, roller furling, loran, sleeps 6, Atomic 4. Excellent condition. Will consider lease/option; possi¬ ble trade. 389-1945. FOR SALE: SAILBOAT, 32’ Downeast cutter, excellent condition, perfect cruising & liveaboard, Sausalito berth, recent survey, new dsl, phone, shore AC, refrig, stereo. Days 476-1625 Tom; eves. (707) 996-8208.

CAPE DORY 27,1979. Excl. cond. Heavy off¬ shore equipment. Loran, EPIRB, ap, dodger, 2 compasses, offshore tri-color, 2 anchors, dsl, VHF, ds, knotlog, 3 headsails. Epoxy bot¬ tom. Price: $31,950. (415) 898-1382 days; (415) 897-5416 evenings. PRIVATEER BY KENNER. The Bonnie BlueWind, a 27’ f/g Keth, a '70 character de¬ signed for strength & speed by Thomas Gilmer, Chief of Design at Annapolis. 10 hp Volvo, new rigging, used very little. 23-23 Coyote Pt„ $24,950. 348-3427. CATALINA 27, 1975. Sleeps 5. Galley & head. Lots of stowage space. 9.9 Johnson o.b. recently tuned. 3 sails & extras. Clean, well-maintained. Brisbane berth avail. $14,000/negotiable. Contact Bert (415) 992-3211 or Rick (415) 563-0633. HUNTER 30. Recent survey places the value or this boat well above asking price. Took in trade for a larger boat & now need to sell. Has h/c water, VHF, RDF, km, depthfinder & much more. To see is this boat is for you, call Bob (415) 769-1072 home; (415) 349-3800 work. CATALINA 27. Excl. cond. inside & out. Ready to race or cruise, fully equipped. VHF, ds, km. New 90% jib & new 15 hp Evinrude. Great stereo system. Prime Emeryville berth. Must sell. $9,000/OBO. 834-2390 days; 420-1055 eves. Kurt B.

PEARSON VANGUARD 33. One of Rhodes best designs. A heavy-duty full-keel f/g sloop. Atomic 4 gas eng. An excellent boat for Bay, Delta or offshore sailing. Lots of ex¬ tras. Berthed in Sausalito. $22,500. Call Dan, (415) 461-5740.

CAL 29. Must sell! 16M firm. Excl. price for this clean racer/cruiser. Sleeps 6, stove, sink, ice box, stand-up enclosed head with ElectroSan, Fathometer, km, radio, 5 sails incl. spinnaker. Lots of extras. (415) 339-3369 evenings.

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ISLANDER 3011. Set up for Bay & Delta cruising. Inch radio, depth, knot, pedestal steering, 5 winches, dodger, 150, spinnaker plus working sails. Dinette int., cockpit cushions, & sun shade. Coyote Pt. berth. $22,500. Eves. 948-6935; days 365-0412.

COLUMBIA 26 MKII. 1970. Good cond., fully equipped, 7.5 hp Honda o.b. Good Bay cruiser/racer sleeps 5, stove, VHF, ds, stereo. Brisbane. Asking $9,100. Bob 876-1688 days; 887-8839 eves.

30’+ LIVEABOARD READY REVEL CRAFT wooden cruiser. H&C shore press, water, separate full-size shower, built-in cockpit, ample closet space, new wiring & plumbing, clean cond. Engine runs, some 6'6" standing room. 7K/B.0. 589-1226 or 583-1921.

TRADING UPI Looking for 35' cruising sloop, ketch or cutter; 1980 or better. Trade my Cal 2-27 (1976), diesel, 3 headsails, spinnaker gear, new battery, stove & VHF & cash. Con¬ tact C. Tooker, (415) 383-5929 aft. 6 p.m.

NOR SEA 27. Excl. cond. Bluewater aft-cabin cruiser. New Volvo dsl 1983. Recent survey & bottom paint 12/86. Galley, heater. Berthed Richmond. $30,000/offer. Details, Tom (916) 993-1153 eves. P.O. Box 708, Loyalton, CA 96118. 34-FT BLOCK ISLAND CUTTER. Dbl-planked fir over oak frames, built by Master Ship¬ wright. Doc. at 14-ton. 50 hrs. Perkins dsl w/180 hrs., Warner Trans. Monomatic head, 3-burner stove, dbl. s.s. sink, Autohelm, new VHF, etc. 23K. Call (415) 834-1459. RANGER 26 — $9,500. A lively Bay per¬ former w/8 sails, 5 berths, Honda If) o.b., new sail cover, radio, enclosed head, & galley. Marine survey. Sausalito. (415) 459-2744. 1977 ISLANDER 28. 7 sails, spinnaker, brand new main & mylar class jib. Race or cruise. Dsl, VHF, ds, km, 8 Barients. Large, active one-design racing & cruising fleet. Ex¬ ceptional Brickyard Cove slip. $28,000. 284-2335 eves. Jack 420-3277 days. CAPE DORY 27. 1978, Alberg full keel design. Great Bay cruiser. Yanmar dsl, VHF, RDF, sumlog, depthsounder, shore power. Hauled 5/87. New prop & shaft. Emeryville berth. Must sell, moving to Utah. $29,500. (916) 534-0869. ERICSON 35. Classic beauty, immac. main¬ tained by expert craftsman. New tapered mast, solid teak sole, KZ headfoil, ap, new auxiliary & much more! Liveaboard/cruise/ race, must see! $38,000. Call John, (408) 721-4318 days; (408) 448-7465 eves. DOCUMENTED CATALINA 30. An excellently maintained boat in freshwater mooring. Many extras. Many coastal cruising vaca¬ tions in her past. Extra large stainless steel tanks. Electra San disposal, good ground tackle. $24,500. (209) 477-1589. ERICSON 29. New LPU paint, wheel, ds, km, ws/wd, compass, Delta cover, chrgr. 25 hp Greymarine, mid-boom sheeting, Seafurl 130, 2 Danforths. $24,000. See at slip #15, Marina Plaza, Sausalito. (415) 388-7570. Keep trying!

COLUMBIA 26. ‘Partner dispute forces sale'. Excellent cond. New cushions, lots of cabin room. Sails perfect. Including spinnaker, Honda 7.5, Sausalito berth. $5,950. (415) 457-3184, Dave. ISLANDER 30 MKII. One of the most popular and largest fleets on the Bay. This 1976 is loaded. Wheel, 9 winches, 4 sails, depthfinder, radio, km, compass, diesel & all in new or excellent shape. Reduced to $23,000 or best offer. (415) 820-5954. RANGER 30. 77 sloop in good cond. 7 sails including spinnaker. VHF, Signet cockpit gauges, Universal dsl, battery charger, sleeps 6, a great boat for the Bay. $25,000. Call Hans eves. (916) 753-6121. LITTLE SHIP. Tahiti ketch Mahina-I-Te-Pua, 1960. Port Orford cedar, oak, Monel fas¬ tened, dsl, well-built, extremely seaworthy, capable ocean going vessel. Beautiful, trad., very salty. Eligible Master Mariners. Recent haulout. Asking $29,500. (408) 649-8720; 663-6484. 26-FT CHEOY LEE FRISCO FLYER SLOOP. Similar to Folkboat w/raised doghouse & in¬ creased storage. Well-maint., solid pocket cruiser, f/g hull, teak cabin & decks. Volvo dsl, aluminum spars, Pineapple sails, ds. Will sacrifice. (408) 246-4696. CATALINA 30. Save — like-new '81.7 sails, new main, 90 & 110 jibs. Good 135, 150, jenny. Instruments inch speed, depth, loran, VHF, autopilot, clock, barometer, stereo. Dsl w/folding prop. New dodger & other extras. $36,000. Call (415) 538-5750. RAWSON 30 LIVEABOARD — $17,750. Beamy f/g cruising sloop, built to last, good condition, see in berth G4, Corinthian YC, Tiburon. Home phone preferred (415) 334-4969; work (415) 541-1527 ask for Lee. Partial trade Santana 22?

28-FT NICHOLS BUCANEER SLOOP. Classic wood design. Excellent condition. Profes¬ sionally maintained by Easom Boat Works. 2 suits sails, 2 spinnakers, 1 self-tending jib, full boat cover. Fully equipped for racing and extended cruising. Can be singlehanded easily. $6,000. (415) 499-0819.

PEARSON 323. 1982. Excellent condition, Volvo diesel, many extras. Assume loan. (415) 254-1892. 26-FT PEARSON ARIEL. 1965. Mint condi¬ tion. Loaded for serious cruising: self¬ steering, dodger, all lines aft, knot/depthmeter, VHF, 4-man inflatable, 6 sails, 1985 8 hp Evinrude. Sacrifice at $12,000. Call Jim at 435-6163. 30-FT WOOD DOUBLE-ENDED KETCH. Standing headroom, needs bottom job & finish work, lots of extras. VHF, ds, 7 sails, ground tackle, liveaboard berth in San Rafael! CA. Moving. $6,000 cash. Lv. message (415) 383-3264. CUSTOM MULL 27. In top condition. All new paint & Yanmar dsl 9/85. Current IOR cert. Sails in flood to excl. cond (10 bags). Loaded with gear, new VHF, windspeed. $16,000 258-9527. CHEOY LEE 31 — $19,500. '67, ketch rig, f/g hull, teak decks, trim & int. New genoa & cruising spin., Barient self-tailers, ds, VHF, Bruce & Danforth anchors, custom 3/4 boat cover. Many extras, good shape. Joel (415) 781-3107. ISLANDER 30 MKI. Atomic 4, full keel, 3 sails, radar, Autohelm, VHF, log, df, compass, new carpet, Force 10 heater. Galley w/stove, icebox, press, water, head, shorepower, phone, BBQ, sleeps 6. $22,9K/B.O. (415) 589-8915 hm; or (415) 978-1440 wk. DAWSON 26. Excellent family cruiser for Bay & Delta. F/g sloop, top cond. Swing keel, can be trailered. Center cockpit w/aft cabin privacy. Yanmar diesel, wheel steering, jiffy reefing, compass, double lifelines, full galley w/alcohol stove, icebox & stainless steel sink. 2 heads. VHF, shorepower, anchor, cockpit cushions & carpet, swim ladder. San Rafael berth. $18,500. Days 954-9507; evenings 472-6561. TIME TO SELL MY TRIMARAN. Profes¬ sionally built cutter with 5 sails. 4 hp Johnson, 2 anchors, 2-burner stove. Ready to sail. $6,000. 235-2759. BEST BUY FOR THE MONEY! Why buy a new boat if you can buy my 30’ Bristol 29.9 for only 35K. Price includes brand new mast, rigging & sails; cruising spinnaker w/s.ock, dsl, wheel, autopilot, knotlog, dd, dodger & more. (415) 657-7502 days; (415) 490-3011 eves. ROBERTS 34, 1984. Foam core hull. Spars by Label, diesel, propane stove w/oven, all wood int. 50 gal fuel, 60 gal water, hard & soft dinghies, shower, autopilot, ds, Mexico class of '84. $29,500. Call and leave message, Jim Murphy (619) 934-6404.

WESTSAIL 32 SARABAND. 1974 Westsail with many recent upgrades. Well-equipped cruiser/liveaboard w/van, autopilot, top of line electronics, dodger, 10 sails, dinghy, more. Berthed in Northern California at Woodley Island Marina, Eureka. (707) 444-2443. $55,000. SHARP 1980 CATALINA 27 — $17,950. Dsl i.b., side dinette model, well cared for one owner boat. Really in top cond! Moving up to larger boat & must sell! Tabernacled mast, 60%, 110% & 150% sails, VHF, km, ds. Call for extensive accessory list. (408) 354-7700. MORA SEASON CHAMPION KITTY HAWK. Sonoma 30. 2 yrs. old. Fully equipped for racing. Comes with dbl. axel custom trailer. $29,500 or best offer. Days (415) 461-8966; eves. (415) 925-9627. WILLARD MOTORSAILER VEGA 30. Perkins dsl 50 hp, VHF, ds, dual steering, radio, press, water, excellent condition, recently hauled. $35,000 or trade for car/cash. (415) 937-5539. CAPE GEORGE 31-FT. Classic-looking cutter that attracts attention in every port. Fast & capably equipped passagemaker w/heavy glass construction, cored hull & a tasteful blend of teak, Port Orford cedar & African mahogany. $62,500. Dave (206) 293-0362; 293-9533. 1984 UNION 32. VHF radio, Signet 1000 & 1500, 4 sails, windlass, h&c press, water, never in salt water, berthed Lake Tahoe. $53,000 or trade-up. (702) 882-1420. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY. Islander 26, i.b. eng., ds, ks, compass VHF, fans, head, press, water, PFD's, anchor w/chain & 200’ rode, new sails, upholstery & canvas. $11,500 or best offer before 8/87. (415) 366-6163. CAL 2-27. Would like to trade for trailerable boat or sale (to best offer). Excellent cond. Atomic 4 eng., North sails, teak int. Berthed Brickyard Cove. Sacrifice for immediate sale. Walt or Lorna, 342-5989 or 893-2018. TARTAN 10. 33-ft race boat, 79. Real fun Bay sailer. Class sails + 2 spinnakers, dsl eng., sleeps 6. Excellent condition. $26,500 or offer. (408) 926-8636; (408) 272-0955. HAVE FUN YET CHEAP. Eager to sell 30’ teak Chinese Junk. Volvo dsl, 2 masts, Tanbark sails, all new propane galley. Very comfor¬ table, well-equipt Bay cruiser. Good cond. Bright, roomy liveaboard. Extensive/expen¬ sive recent upgrade. Rob (415) 652-9095. ERIC JR. 26' LOD, 31 ’ LOA. Atkins designed wooden classic, cutter rig. Prof, built by Jef¬ fries '36. Mex. & Central Am. vet. Great for Bay & coastal sailing. Refastened, rebuilt dsl. Strong, clean & fun! $10,500/B.0. (415) 731-7854.

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BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM BUILT BLUEWATER CRUISER. The Dreadnaught 32 f/g replica of famed Tahiti ketch Adios for the person that wants the freedom to go anywhere on the seas. Dsl, windvane, liferaft, teak decks, Balsa core insulated. Sacrifice. $52,000. (415) 924-6430. OLSON 30. The classic ultralight. Speed & precision. New bottom job. New motor. Datamarine electronics. Never raced. Bristol. $21,000. (415) 383-6813. CRUISING-LIVEABOARD? Downeast 32, 1976. Roomy, rugged, ready to leave now. Full electronics (radar, ap, etc. new in '86) 27 hp diesel new ’85, h/c press, water, pro¬ pane stove. Hauled & painted summer ’86. Excellent condition! $55,000 firm. (805) 772-3603. 26-FT THUNDERBIRD SLOOP. Prof, built Yokohama 1965. Excellent condition in¬ cludes 10 hp Honda, VHF, sink & water tank, 4 berths, head, all cushions. 4 bags & spin. Recent survey, Ballena Bay slip. Moved to L.A. Must sell. Ask $4,500. (213) 438-3685. BARGAIN STEEL CUTTER. 27-ft, 9-ft beam, 4’3" draft lapstrake. Singlehander. Full keel, 6’ hdrm, sails well. Daysailer or liveaboard. LPU paint. Sloop rigged. Attractive rugged boat, many extras. A good buy at $10,500. (415) 364-5634. CAL 27 — $12,500. Ready for cruising or racing. Inventory includes 6 sails, spinnaker gear, VHF, km, 6 winches, Honda 10 hp, stove, whisker pole, 5 berths & more. This boat is clean with the price to let you get into sailing without a big investment. (916) 758-1754.

RENT/OWN: $395 MO. Plus dock fee. Sausalito. 33’ twin engine motoryacht + flybridge. Fully equipped for live on — one person. (408) 978-7889 or (408) 996-2037. WYLIE 34 MAGIC. $42,000. Actively racing IOR, new Sobstad mainsail & No. 1 genoa this spring. Signet 2000 electronics, loran, SatNav. 7 genoas, 5 chutes, 2+ mainsails. Sleeps 6+. CNG stove. Jeff, hm: 531-0688; wk: 620-3982. YANKEE 30 BEAUTIFUL CONDITION. The yacht lone, S&S designed f/g cruising-racing sloop, 5 yr. So. Pac. vet. Fully cruised equipt. 9 bags sails, 5 anchors, Lewmar winches, 3 compasses, Avon inflatable, depthsounder, knotmeter. $31,000. 234-3399. PRETORIEN 35. Strong, fast, luxurious: Wauquiez! Windpoint/speed, knotlog, depthsounder w/external repeater, Loran-C, dodger, Hi-Seas heater. Comm. ’84. Excellent condition. Seriously for sale. $75,000. Roland Nikles (415) 235-5568.

PEARSON VANGUARD 33. $24,500. 6 sails. New paint hull & bottom. (408) 356-1537. RANGER 30, 1977. Diesel. Well-equipped. Well-maintained. Main/jiffy reefing, 120%, 150%, spin. 7 Barients, size upgraded. Wheel steering. Complete canvas w/Delta awning. Raced one mid-winter series. Orig. owner. $30,000. (415) 886-6348. CAL 2-29.1974 Cal 2-29 in excellent condi¬ tion. New rigging & new diesel engine. Wind¬ vane, loran, knotmeter, log & fathometer. Bottom painted in Jan. Asking $24,500. (707) 224-2884.

SANTANA 35. Well-equipped, wellmaintained & ready for racing. 2 new mains, 3 chutes, loran, excellent bottom. Good price, we’re ready to sell! Les (916) 441-7243; Toni (415) 848-3600.

SUMMER WIND AWAITING. This 32' Buc¬ caneer sloop is waiting for you to party, in the sun on the Bay. Liveaboard, aft cabin, dsl, sleeps 7. She’s been our home for 7 years. Peninsula berthed. (415) 368-9266; 459-3588, Greg. $32,000.

1977 ERICSON 27. Wheel, dsl, 3 sails, lines lead aft, depthmeter, knotmeter, radio, teak int., alcohol stove, new bottom paint, whisker pole, fenders, dinghy, 2 anchors & lines & much more. Asking $20,900. Tom (408) 259-3060.

J/29. One of the most active racing fleets on the Bay. A solid performer, this boat has 9 sails, is race equipped, 10 hp OMC o.b. Ex¬ cellent condition. $32,000. (415) 328-2408.

BRISTOL 32. F/g cruising sloop, 76 dsl, wheel, radio, loran, autopilot, digital depth & km, AWI, furling jib, Lewmar 40 ST winches, etc. Rigged for singlehanding. Shorepower. $39,500/B.0. (415) 581-7810 or leave message (415) 222-6236. 1986 PEARSON 33. Almost brand new, used less than 30 days, completely equipped, VHF, stereo, full electronics, dodger, roller furling & much more. 2 cabins, sleeps 6. Sell new $92,000. Small cash down. Assume low balance loan. Must sacrifice. Ed Pollock days (408) 257-8888; nights (415) 965-8388.

ODYSSEY 30. Full-keel f/g sloop designed by Carl Alberg. Great boat for Say, offshore and/or liveaboard. A thoroughbred classic; 5 sails, 6 Barients, new sail cover, boat cover, 6-man inflatable, more. Best offer. (415) 331-0158 eves; (415) 777-7120 days.

BEAR BOAT NO. 27 GODIVA. Classic Bay cruiser/racer in great cond. Custom livea¬ board int. all frames sistered. Low price as owner must sell quickly! $3,900/080. Ph: (415) 865-4014; (415) 521-5427 Craig. CLASSIC WOODEN BOAT LOVERSI 1928 Angleman sloop. 28’-35’ LOA. Cutter rigged. 1 ” cedar hull over oak in great shape. Volvo diesel, good sails, new electrical, full cover & extra equipment. Interior needs work. Must see! $4,995. Steve (408) 475-8556. DIVORCE SALE. Excalibur 26. Excellent con¬ dition. New main & cushions. 125%, 150% genoas & spinnaker. Evinrude o.b., ground tackle, enclosed head. Very clean. Perfect Bay boat. Berkeley berth. First $6,500. Must sell. (415) 939-7919.

32-FT TRIMARAN. Cutter rigged, 2 sets of sails, roller reefing, wheel steering, Icom 1C M55 VHF, 10 hp Wankel i.b., new prop, shaft, propane stove, windvane self-steering, moor¬ ing. $22,500. Kit (619) 571-5279. 30-FT PIVER TRI. Vent-wing sans rig. Recently reconditioned. 8K/OBO. Write: Charles S., P.O. Box 2862, Petaluma, CA 94953 for complete details.

BABA 3Q. Silk Purse, comm. ’85. Just com¬ peted equippingMo perfection, now plans changed. Cutter/sloop rigged, Wishbone staysail, roller ruling, dinghy, o.b., Delta cover, etc. Located in prime Sausa. slip. No "sow’s ear” she’s gorgeous & tough. $86,000. (707) 539-0518. VEGA 27. Set up for Bay & Delta cruising, she is equipped with 8 sails, incl: club foot jib, jiffy reef, km, ds, VHF, 12 hp i.b. & much more. Nice wood interior. Sleeps 4. Galley & head. Pt. Richmond berth. (707) 431-8133 eves. I WANT TO TRADE UP. Cherry 32-ft Pearson Vanguard w/new r(sl, new furling jib, new main, dodger, Aries vane, rigged for single¬ handing. Want 36-38’ f/g sloop w/dsl. Maxi¬ mum 10K difference. 521-0134. 26-FT EXCALIBER SAILBOAT. Very good condition. Sleeps 4. Has 7 sails, 6 hp Evin¬ rude, new paint & wiring. Berthed in Alameda. Will consider trade for smaller boat w/trailer which sleeps 4. $5,000/B,0. (707) 942-5182. Leave message.

FORCED SALE. 26’ Int’l Thunderbird hull & cabin with some extras. Lost dry dock space, must sell. $475. Tim (415) 961-8841. CORONADO 34 SLOOP. 1969. Strong, cruise ready or liveaboard. 3 sails, dsl, wheel, press, water, extra fuel & water tanks, VHF, stereo. $22,500. Excellent cond. Eves. 824-6099.

36-FT—45-FT LAPWORTH 36. Teak hull #10 for sale. New diesel, 10 sails, RDF, Radiophone, Sonar, well-maintained. Surveyed $40K. Asking $30K. (408) 448-6086 or (415) 755-3749.

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43-FT HANS CHRISTIAN. Ketch rig, f/g hull w/beaut. teak int. Upgraded throughout. Barient winches, autopilot, windvane, Combi system, SSB, diesel heater, refrig. Beautifully maintained as liveaboard. $128,000. (415) 654-0946. Trades considered. WOE IS MEII After 25,000 miles of bluewater cruising, Galadriel's for sale. She’s a sleek, spirited, extremely comfortable 40’ Searunner Trimaran in excl. cond. Galadriel was built, outfitted & has been maintained with the finest materials & gear without regard to cost. Center cockpit, 3 dbl. beds, 8 sails, Volvo dsl, refrigeration, Autohelm, etc. For pictures & a 4-pg equipment list, call (415) 755-4107 or wr: Joyce, 50 Fairlawn Ave., Daly City, CA 94015. $88,000/OBO.

CATALINA 38, 1983. Excellent condition, race equipt, 12 ST winches, 7 sails, RDF, loran, VHF, Signet 1000,1500. Many extras. Must sell: reduced from 66K to best offer over 55K. (408) 475-3688 days; (408) 662-3432 eves/weekends. LAPWORTH 36. Classic cruising yacht. Beautiful & seaworthy. Easily handled by 2. Set up for cruising. Good liveaboard. Strip planked mahogany, bronze fastened. Stain¬ less tanks. Atomic 4, club jib, 9 sails, full cover, anchor windlass. $25,000. Owner (415) 237-8384. CUSTOM PETERSON 36.KindredSpirit. New bottom/topside ’87. Diesel engine rebuilt ’84. Completely equipped race or cruise. 18 bags sails, 9 winches, CNG stove, VHF, RDF, life¬ raft. Must see. Replacement value $100,000. Ask $62,500. Call (415) 234-2906 eves. 40 SLOOP. Fiberglass, new sails/rigging, VHF, diesel, ds, EPIRB, survival raft, KT.MT., dodger, galley, head, etc. Needs work. $25,000. (209) 477-7835; (415) 323-1700. 40-FT TRIMARAN. Piver Victress design. Very well constructed. Needs interior work. VHF, Whistler radar, 27 hp Pisces dsl. Documented, surveyed. $24,500/B.0. cash. Call Laura (415) 967-3597 eves/weekends; (408) 743-7082 days; or leave message at (408) 734-5549 anytime. C&C 36 ROCINANTE. 1981 in excellent con¬ dition. Yanmar diesel low hours, battery charger, rod rigging, roller furling jib, refrig., propane stove, hot water, VHF, loran, stereo & Zodiac liferaft. Must see! $63,000. Phone (415) 461-1578. ROOMY LIVEABOARD FOR SALE. 1971 Col¬ umbia 39. Very roomy. Lots of headroom & deck space. Rebuilt 30 hp Atomic runs great. Shower, stove, oven, refrig., VHF, depthfinder, 10 sails, sleeps 7, recent survey. Very clean. Below appraisal at $39,500. (408) 988-5512 days.

HUNTER 27 1976 Sloop with 8 hp Yanmar diesel. Main, jib, 150% genoa. RDF, VHF, ds, compass, Force 10 heater, dodger, boom tent. Trailrite trailer included at $17,500. Ask for Gale Stockdale broker (916) 332-0775.

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1985 CATALINA 36. Aft cabin model exten¬ sively cruise/liveaboard equipped. Most gear new & never used: Hood Seafurl II, Lewmar 48 tailers, lines aft, LPU painted mast, tri & strobe, spreader lights, Signet 1500 windspeed/direction, custom dodger, 3 deep cycle battery, dockside power water & phone hookups, water cooled holding plate refrig¬ eration, h&c water Vabsco’s best pump ac¬ cumulator & aqua pure filter, raritan Hiboy head macerator & never used holding tank, Universal 25 dsl, much more & extras. Must sell. $65,000/offer. Dave (415) 436-7784. CARIBBEAN DREAMING? 1980 Islander Freeport 41, located St. Croix, USVI. Im¬ maculate, equipped for liveaboard, cruising or charter. Gen., watermaker, inflatable, windsurfer, dodger, rollerfurling headsails, spinnaker, liferaft, ap, SatNav, microwave, documented. Illness forces sale. $95,000. (916) 885-8634 days or (916) 477-7411.

TARTAN 37. Beautiful fast cruising sloop, Sparkman & Stephens design, Tartan quality, fin keel model, loaded w/finest equipment: Westerbeke 40 hp dsl, Alpha 3000 linear drive autopilot, Magnavox SatNav, Kenwood digital ham radio, Sitex loran, Avon liferaft, Monitor SS windvane, refrigeration, spin¬ naker gear, new propane galley stove, epoxy/ Micron bottom, ST winches, 5 sails, dodger, lots of ground tackle & much more. Monterey berth available. Will consider a smaller boat in part trade. Call for the com¬ plete specs & equipment list. $76,000/offer. (408) 458-4199.

PEARSON 36 Blithe Spirit. Beautifully main¬ tained & fast racer/cruiser. All teak below. Crankable dsl. Set for single/short handing. Participant ’80 Singlehanded TransPac. Signets, ap, Monitor vane, spares. 8-person liferaft. Many sails. Ideal offshore cruise, race, liveaboard. $56,000. (801) 649-3394. 1981 TAYANA 37. Lovingly maintained in ex¬ cellent condition by her liveaboard owners. Cutter rig, 4 sails, Perkins 4-108, Datamarine instruments include kl, ds, wind machine, VHF, teak decks, coach roof & cockpit, cold machine, propane oven & much more. Built for 2 to liveaboard &/or cruise. Call for com¬ plete equip, list. Price reduced to $83,000. Bob Kleckner or Mary Kay Austin. Days (415) 442-2519; eves. (415) 589-7560.

FERROCEMENT SAILBOAT, SAMPSON DESIGN. Length 44'0”, beam ll'O", draft 5’6". Saab dsl model 2-G, 40 hp, 1800 rpm, total hrs. 400. Fuel consumption 7 pints per hr. Reduction 2:1, propeller: variable pitch full control. Fresh water keel cooler. Elec¬ tronics: Raytheon depth, Furuno A/C loran, wood Freeman, autopilot, VHF. 46'6" lam. mast. Cutter rigged. Sails: main, jib, genoa 881 sq.ft. Sleeps 4. Knotty pine int., wood heating, fuel galley stove. $18,000. Phone (707) 464-1392 after 8 p.m.

36-FT OKOMOTO KETCH. 1956 mahogany on oak, silicon bronze fastened. 6’3” headroom. Recent overhaul. All new elec, system, rebuilt 25 hp dsl, VHF, Kenyon knotmeter & log. Very sturdy boat & in ex¬ cellent cond. $29,500. (415) 331-0632.

ISLANDER 36.1973 pre-OPEC hull, Perkins dsl, custom cockpit rigged, 2 Barlows, 9 Barients, VHF, RDF, auto charger, Monel muffler, teak int., HW, Zodiac, fully found, Sausalito berth. $52,500. (408) 867-9351.

GULFSTAR 43 — $87,000 OR ? Arriving in S.F. from Hawaii July 10. Newly surveyed, completely reconditioned, completely equipped. Cash, real estate, trade, owner financing ? Info now avail. (916) 367-3677.

NEW 39-FT GARY MULL SLOOP. 38.5 x32 x12’x6’6”. 9,000-lb displ. High-performance elegant int., exceptional quality. Cruise, raceable. Complete w/3 function hyds., rod rigging, etc. Santa Cruz, (408) 429-9368; (408) 426-0138. VALIANT 40 PARTNERSHIP. Partner(s) wanted to share in Bay sailing & business venture. Excellent condition, purchased in 1985, Oakland berth. Kevin (415) 482-0934. GULFSTAR 40, 1981 SLOOP. Tremendous value at $79,995. The famous Gulfstar quali¬ ty & completeness is well-maintained & awaits you at a bargain price. Call us to learn more & see it in person. John (415) 726-6263; Bob (408) 867-1904. FISHER 37-FT. 1978 Motorsailer. Dual steer¬ ing. All cruising equipment. $79K firm. By owner. (619) 722-2700. 1976 WESTSAIL 42 CUTTER RIG. Outstand¬ ing cruising seriously for sale. Asking $107,000. Call (809) 776-7819. P.O. Box 459, St. John, USVI 00830. 40-FT CLASSIC RACING SLOOP. Norway 6-Meter, 1927. 40’ LOA; 36’ LOD; 6'6 1 beam; 23' LWL; 5’4” Draft; displ. 10,000#; full keel blast 7,000#. Mahy. on oak, mahy. int., fir plank decks. 10 hp Volvo o.b. Head, sink, stove, 4 berths. $20K/OBO, terms, trade, must sell. (415) 522-2360 messg.

1973 ISLANDER 44-FT. $59,500 Asking. Refrigeration, 23-mile radar, Furuno Loran, Horizon VHF, 8-man liferaft, 75-lb. CQR, 250’ 3/8” chain, windlass, main, tri, working jib, lapper, genoa, storm jib, new halyards, new traveler, hauled 2/87. (916) 453-1956 eves.

42-FT WESTSAIL Best ocean cruiser, teak int., refrigeration, autopilot, Barient winches, dodger, drifter, genoa, electric windlass, 40 hp dsl. Needs some int. finishing. $118,000. 241-6049.

CATALINA 36. Beautiful 1983 cruiserliveaboard. Excl. cond. Complete spinnaker gear & sails. VHF, depth, knot, stereo, RDF, heavy duty ground tackle, battery charger. 59K/OBO. (408) 479-0436; (408) 257-3840 message.

FREEDOM 45 GARDEN DESIGN. Fiberglass hull, 101 hp Detroit dipsel. Center cockpit, teak decks & interior, spacious aft stateroom, new rig & sails, new winches, all new elec¬ trical, plumbing & force air heating system. Rigged perfectly for liveaboard or cruising in classic elegance & comfort. $125,000/offer. Full specs. Call (415) 332-6120.

MUST SELL. '82 Mull Custom 45’ aluminum cutter. Diesel, Hood, rod rigging, Monitor vane, loran, autopilot, diesel heater. Will con¬ sider all offers or poss. financing. 129K. (707) 433-1736. ELEGANT CRUISING SAILBOAT. 41-ft on deck. Insulated f/g hull w/teak decks & trim. Cutter rig. Bright, airy showcase interior. Dependable Perkins dsl. Truly bristol. Offered at only $114,500. Owner, (805) 984-0463.

41-FT CHEOY LEE KETCH FOR SALE. Ex¬ “MARY LORING” See Woodenboat #75, pg.' 35. Paul Luke built, Winthrop Warner design, 40-ft cutter. All teak topside, new 3QM30 eng. Hull & deck completely recaulked. Int. needs completing. $30,000. Poss. owner financing or trade for motorhome. Rick (415) 372-0731.

SEXY LADY NEEDS NEW LOVER. 36-ft sailboat, glass over ply, singlehand rigged cutter, tiller steering, spade keel & rudder. Pulpit & 65-lb CQR, Contest compass, wired AC/DC. Sleeps 5. $3,000. (408) 247-5984.

cellent condition. Complete spinnaker gear; most Cheoy Lee custom equipment plus ex¬ tras. Offshore sail ready, full custom teak int., Avon 6-man liferaft w/full pack, custom cockpit cushions, custom stereo system, gas stove, loran, CB, VHF, 5 sails, etc. Have 3 pages of equipment & inventory list. All per¬ sonal items incl. pots, plates, towels, uten¬ sils. Will work with buyer on any extras they might want. $79,500. Sale by owner. Days (415) 221-8282; eves. (415) 383-4217.

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MOTORSAILER NOMAD. 44-ft diesel ketch, fully equipped for cruising. Good ,condition. Located La Paz. $60,000. Call Mike (818) 888-1056 or write Marta Sutton, NOMAD, c/o Marina de La Paz, A.P. 290, La Paz, BCS, Mexico.

MORGAN OUT ISLAND 41.1978 ketch. Excl. liveaboard. Custom teak int. VHF, ds, wp, km, autopilot. Electric windlass. AC/DC refrigera¬ tion. Dodger w/full enclosure. Roller furl. Perkins dsl, 65 hp. $68K. (619) 268-4496.

41- FT HALVERSON SLOOP. Builders Kit. Superb Australian design by one of the best known designers. Sparcraft mast, pulpits, 18 sheets teak plywood, steel dolly, plans for 41’ Swan interior. Decent offer, will finance. (415) 783-2711 days; (415) 797-2066 eves.

STEPHENS LARGEST. 1946 38’3” triple¬ cockpit open Runabout U.S.C.G. certified for 30 passengers, 2 crew. Strong 750 hp HallScott V-12 power, cedar hull, mahy. decks. Perfect for commercial charters or collec¬ tors. Full cover. Spare eng. & more. Asking $175,000. (408) 462-0244. OLSON 40. Full racing and cruising equip¬ ment with 19 Ulmer Kolius sails including 1987 Kevlar main, #1, #2, #3. Oversize self-tailing winches, CNG stove, VHF, loran, depth, Rochester computer/instrument system, autopilot, stereo, EPIRB, cabin fans, Harken removable roller-furling, inflatable dinghy, dodger, screens, lee cloths, cabin table, full safety equipment, much more. This very well-built ultra-fast boat is immaculate, captain maintained. $95,000. (919) 256-4059. DOWNEAST 38. Heavy, full keel cruising cut¬ ter. American built. 110 gal. water, low hour dsl, gorgeous custom interior. Brokers say she is the nicest on the coast. See this im¬ maculate boat before you buy any other. $69,000. (805) 527-7374. 42- FT PEARSON, 1981 KETCH. Immaculate condition, well-equipped. Excellent layout for cruiser/liveaboard. Abundant storage, 6’4" hdrm, sep. shower. Westerbeke 58 hp dsl, 500 hrs. Light, airy & comfortable interior. Original owner, never in charter service. Berkeley berth. (408) 274-5784. FOR SALE: BRISTOL 38 SLOOP, 1968. Fast, well found, VHF, depthsounder, loran, 8 sails, sleeps 6. $43,500. (415).442-6708 days; (415) 332-2384 eves. NZ 37. New Zealand built performance cruiser, 12,500-lb cold-molded kauri wood encased in epoxy saturated f/g. Custom 1969 37-ft sloop. Rod rigging, B&G gauges, tap¬ ered mast, vane, ap, Barients, etc. Mexico & Hawaii vet. $44,500. (805) 642-2254. 36-FT CHEOY LEE 1969 CLIPPER KETCH. Strong, proven cruiser, f/g hull, radar, Sat¬ Nav, Autohelm, liferaft, dodger, 4 hrs. on rebuilt Perkins dsl & trans. Restoration com¬ plete. Ready to go! $51,000.593-4564 eves., 952-0500 service dept., Rob.

ISLANDER 36. Excl. well-kept cond. Wheel steering, 6 winches, 4 sails, various elec¬ tronics, reliable Perkins dsl, up-graded teak int. Sleeps 6. CNG stove, h&c water, 6’3" hdrm, popular class boat on Bay. Alameda berth. Will consider trade down or power. $49,900. (415) 938-2969.

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Get the latest on visas, weather patterns, local prices from John while he’s visiting the U.S. A must if you're going cruising. $100/person, $175/couple. Oct. 3 & 4, Encinal YC, Alameda. Reservations: Mahina Cruising Services, P.O. Box 850, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. (206) 367-2393.

$85,000 = 1983 43' IOR GRAND PRIX RAC¬ ING YACHTI Rare opportunity to acquire re¬ cent competitive design, lightly used w/no expense spared in construction & equipment. Designed by O.H. Rodgers & custom built by Kiwi, she is loaded with full race Ullmer in¬ ventory, Ockam interfaced electronics, Sparcraft triple spreader rig, Navtec System VI hydraulics, etc. The specs & condition of this yacht will astound you. She is seriously for sale. Please call Jim Schrager & leave message at (415) 893-9196. x

38-FT FARALLONE CLIPPER. 1940 sloop Fade-Away No. 3. Fir on oak. Bronze fas¬ tened, great cond. Hauled & surveyed 8/86. Only $25,000. Will consider partial trade. Located in Ventura. Call anytime. (805) 648-3703 or 642-5221.

ALL TEAK SEAWITCH KETCH. 36-ft Angleman classic, American Marine built 1961. Orig. owner, bristol. Handsome pilothouse, radar, VHF, ap, press, h&c water, shower. Extensive cruising gear, ’80 Ford Lehman. Sailed L.A.-Honolulu 13 days. Marina del Rey (213) 473-5865.

SPACIOUS LIVEABOARD. Young Sun 43' cutter rig, '79. 50' LOA x 12’3”x5.5”. Center cockpit, aft cab., Irg. forward cabin w/desk. 2 heads w/shower, Perkins 4-154. All teak int. $82,500 assum. fin. Broker cooperation. S.F. berth. 381-6060.

36-FT ALAN GURBEY SLOOP. Built in Den¬ mark '61. Mahogany on oak, teak decks, Volvo dsl. Best offer. A-1 condition. (415) 523-2226.

44-FT GARDEN DESIGN PILOTHOUSE SLOOP. Bristol cond., yellow cedar hull, re¬ cent survey, Perkins 130 hp dsl, ap, electric windlass, 7' dinghy on davits. Ready to cruise, only 58K. Call (415) 332-7245.

HUNTER 37 CUTTER, 1979. Yanmar dsl, roller furling, 2-spd Lewmar winches. Equipped to liveaboard. One owner. Immaculate condition. $60,500. (916) 456-9992.

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civilized motorsailing Junk. Berthed in Sausalito, view of S.F. & Mt. Tamalpais. Very clean & spacious, full kitchen & bathroom wAub, very stable. Asking $67,500. Michael (415) 331-9621.

Labor Day. 47-ft sloop built in Norway in 1928. Large mahog. cabin, sleeps 6 crew¬ members. Pitch pine over oak & iron frames. Nissan dsl. Spinnaker, full cover. $28,000. Broker cooperation^ 381-J5060.

beam, shoal draft, dbl-ender, centerboard. Great South Sea cruiser. Asking $6,500. (415) 472-1502.

strong & well-made. A super charter vessel or liveaboard. Launched 12/86 & ready for rig & interior work. All offers considered. Open to trades. Call evenings at (707) 937-5785.

C&C LANDFALL 48. Pilothouse cutter with inside steering. New electronics, watermaker & complete cruising inventory. Easily sailed by two. Call for details. All offers considered. (415) 521-9371 eves.

CLASSIC SAILING SHIP 83-FT (LOO) KETCH Dutch built, well-maintained, black iron world cruiser w/3,000 sq.ft, sail, teak decks. Approx. 1,200 sq.ft, down below. Two salons, 2 woodburning stoves, 6 staterooms, wheelhouse, shop. Possible partial trade for Northshore Tahoe property. Reduced to $180,000. (415) 331-2044.

fully equipped, inch 3 anchors, A.C. gen. set, full electronics, tons of spares. Boat now in Mexico but will deliver to any west coast port. $69,900 or trade for R.E. (604) 852-6161 or (604) 852-5170.

MUST SELL! 53-FT ALDEN KETCH. Semirestored, great opportunity for wooden boat lover. No reasonable offer refused. Jeff Madrigali: 522-5273 days; 453-0750 eves; Jock Mclean: 626-3275 days; 435-2051 eve.

Dickinson. 19" deep/22” wide/22” high. Very good cond. For sale or trade. Call Jackie, M-F, 9a.m.-5p.m. (619) 234-5101. OR wr: Bill Benton, 2733 Shelter Is. Dr. #217, San Diego, CA 92106.

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USED SAILS 4 SALE. Main & jib from Cor¬ onado 30: main dimns: luff 31.6'; foot 11.6'; jib dimns: luff 34'0"; leech 31 '0"; foot 13'3". Both sails tired but good as working sails. Main; $100/offer; jib: $75/offer. Ph. Eves (415) 924-4871.

1000 wfth windvane attachment. 85 model, like new: $350 or trade for 8' inflatable in good condition. 521-0134.

GEAR FOR,, SALE: Hille S.S. 3-burner pro¬ pane stove: ,$350; Adler-Barbour Cold Machine: $250^" Nova inflatable tender w/hard transom + 2 hp Suzuki o.b: $700. Call (415) 585-1226.

STOVE, S.S. KENYON KEROSENE with s.s.

keel, big wheel, holding plate refrig., positive flotation, all C.G. items & ready to sail. Illness forces sale. $109K/offer. Owner (415) 461-3470.

pressure tank, 2 burners & oven: $500; Perko kerosene running lights, port, star¬ board, stern: $30 each or $75 for set; Un¬ used charts for Alaska, East Coast, In¬ donesia: $3.00 each. (415) 893-6261.

SAMPSON 50-FT KETCH. Spacious pilot¬ house & center cockpit. Large captain's cabin aft has dbl. plus jr. berth, private head complete w/shower, luxury appointments of hotel suite. Head & private stateroom for¬ ward she sleeps 9 in comfort. Galley fully equipped inch microwave. Complete workshop in engine room, 3 electrical systems, loaded w/electronics, she is fully equipped for world cruising luxury with liveaboard economy. Was listed $94,000; now by owner $69,000! Owner will finance. Berthed Treasure Island, slip 94. (209) 982-5794.

CRUISING CAL 2-46 KETCH. Our family of five just completed a 3-year cruise aboard this bluewater cruiser. Equipt w/SSB, ham, SatNav, 2 VHFs, knotlog, depth, Loran C, mechanical & A/C refrig/freezer, air cond., EPIRB, 300 gal. water, 250 gal. fuel, Perkins 2-436 85 hp, Mansfield treatment system, 500' of anchor chain, numerous anchors, an¬ chor windlass, autopilot, new Imron '86 & many extras. Will sell for $135,000 or trade for R.E. or business. Call (916) 988-0654.

WEATHER FAX - WATERMAKER — AN¬ CHOR. AMF 8 gph watermaker: $600; Alden marinefax III weatherfax: $1,000; Bruce 44-lb anchor w/chain & 300-ft 3/4-in. rode: $400. (415) 366-6163.

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FOR SALE: 31'6" aluminum mast in very good condition with standing rigging, turnbuckles; 2-lb 8 singlespeed Lewmar winches; Sail 10’ boom. $1,550. Contact: Cliff Lawson, (415) 382-0654; (707) 778-7508.

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Freshwater cooled, hydraulic start, transmis¬ sion & tech, manual: $2,750 or smaller diesel. (415) 521-5186.

V TOP CONDITION CRUISING GEAR: Achilles Sportboat, 8 hp Suzuki: $1,200; 4-man liferaft (under cert.), offshore pack, solar still, more: $1,200; Magnavox SatNav (bench checked), new battery: $1,000; Aries 'lift-up' windvane, offshore kit: $700; 45 CQR, 200’ 5/16 BBB chain (newly galv.): $400; EPIRB Class B (new battery): $125; wind charger, 2 props: $250; Boatswain chair, self-lifting system.to 55': $200; Westerbeke 27 full off¬ shore kit: $200. (916) 777-6153.

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WALKER LOG COMPLETE WITH CASE, perfect condition; solar charger 15”x25” new; Wasp speedometer, 10 knots, 999.9 miles, mounts to hull, new; compass 3” card, liquid filled, gimballed Ritchie hand¬ bearing compass, illuminated. Must sell. Make offer. (415) 383-8639.

RANGER 33 PARTNERSHIP. Fast, stiff, perfect S.F. Bay racer/cruiser (never raced). 9 Barients, 9 sails, spinnaker gear, all elec¬ tronics, stereo, oven. New interior & bottom paint. Sausalito berth. 1/3 share: $197/mo. Sacrifice $4,000/8.0. 345-3001; 441-3504 Bob.

RANGER 33 PARTNERSHIP. 1/3 share in ex¬ cellent sailboat. VHF, windspeed, km, spin¬ naker, Barient winches, depth, etc. Great galley w/propane range/oven. Sausalito berth. Very nice partners. You get 10+ days per month, flexible scheduling. Insured. $3,900. (209) 897-2344. PARTNERSHIPS. Retired owner looking for one or more partners to share Newport 30-11 berthed on S.F. Bay. Rigged for cruising, top condition, Mull design, excellent Bay boat. (415) 493-4619.

PARTNERSHIP. Seeking 1-2 congenial part¬ ners to purchase, care for & enjoy Cal 39 or similar sloop, to be berthed East Bay. Estimated total cost to be divided: $15,000 down plus $1,100/mo. (415) 831-8123.

QUARTER PARTNERSHIP. 1981 Catalina 30' berthed in Santa Cruz. Autopilot, loran, hot water, wheel & pedestal mounted instrs., much more. Must have sailing experience. $5.2K down & assume monthly payments of $130. Call Dick at (408) 737-1119 eves. AFFORDABLE FUN. Partners needed to share Pacific Seacraft 25'. Comfy and dry. S.F. berth. $80/mo. (415) 552-8523.

SHARE C&C 27. Berthed in Berkeley. Beautiful sailing 867-3156.

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Charter a well-equipped Hans Christian 43 ketch out of Santa Cruz Harbor. By the day, or longer. Includes dinghy, Loran, VHF, accommodations for 8. (408) 353-3635 for details, or write Renegade, 25023 Soquel Rd., Los Gatos, CA 95030.

Built by Adams Boat Co. in 1946. Formerly owned by Earl Stanly Gardener, renowned author. Excellent liveaboard boat. $19,500. See at Napa Valley Marina, 1200 Milton Rd., Napa. (707) 252-8011

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Repairs, Restorations. Major & minor surgery done in shop. Complete security. Fiberglass fair¬ ing. Brightwork. Paint top to bottom. Custom wood working and electrical. We specialize in trailerable boats. Reasonable rates. Michael Marquette (415) 232-8000

Sail the class of the Big Island; the crewed, luxury yacht, Camelot. Take the helm of our Hunter 54 for 1, 2, 3 days. Enjoy our gourmet cuisine and the warm, deep blue Pacific. CAMELOT CHARTERS (808) 883-9480. page 202

ERICSON 38 SHARE LEASE. Share expenses with 1 to 3 others for 12 months. Use this well-equipped yacht as if your own, inexpen¬ sively & without ownership worries. Skip (707) 823-0557. ISLANDER 44. 1/4 interest $13,000. Join 3 business professional at a great location in the S.F. Marina. Boat is well-maintained & completely equipped. Its the perfect way to own. Leave message for Bob at (415) 731-9062.

36-FT ISLANDER. Partnership? No way! That's what we thought; now realize it's the perfect ownership scheme. 4 biz execs, have owned this sloop since '79. One transferred. Compatible partners looking for 4th. New dsl. Call Nick days 674-4600; eves. 376-3233.

COLUMBIA 28 PARTNERSHIP. $150/mo. buys one full weekend & any 4 weekdays. Responsible, experienced partner can share boat. Safe, roomy, diesel, VHF, depth, head, new rigging, 2 jibs. Small equity investment required. Will buy back your share anytime. Benicia slip. (707) 745-2645. CRUISE BAJA NOW! 1/4 share $9,000.

CREW AVAILABLE. I would like to sail to

GAY YACHT CLUB. Barbary Coast Boat Club

Mex/Carib. this winter. I'm 32, female, single, easy-going, independent, hard worker, good cook, have raced & sailed S.F. Bay for several years. Denise (415) 456-3321 home; 492-0606 work.

(415) 237-1213.

TRANSPAC '87. West Coast group has chartered The Shadow, Mark Soverl's 56’ Grand Prix Ocean Racer for this premier Trans-Pacific race. The boat is hot w/an ex¬ cellent chance at overall honors. The syndi¬ cate is looking for its final 2 members, so call today & talk to Frank Kline at (206) 827-1887 or (206) 454-9935.

CREW WANTED. I’m taking my 78' motor/sail yacht to Seattle. Departing S.F. 20 June, arriving 1 July. Cruise San Juan Islands until 20 July. Experience desirable, not necessary. Mixed, straight, fun crew desired. Share food, I'll pay fuel. 543-0301 eves. HAVE BOAT — NEED EXP. CREW. M/F, NS for serious cruising fall 1988. Share some expenses. Send necessary information to P.O. Box 696, Isleton, CA 95641.

WANT TO CREW TO HAWAII. Solid inland-

Beautiful 35' trimaran. Electronics, diesel, oven, shower, spinnaker, inflatable w/o.b., dive tanks & compressor. Sleeps 6 in 3 cabins. Moored in San Carlos, Mexico. Ex¬ perienced sailors only. Call (213) 837-2738 evenings.

lake skippering/racing background. Summer’s length deck exp. on Ericson 35', Newport Beach; wknd cruising exp. Newport, Santa Barbara, Channel Is. Enjoy people. Like to learn. Can cook. Bag is packed. Robert (150 lbs.) (415) 525-6289.

BIG SAILBOAT. Partner needed 1/6 owner¬ ship. Morgan 41. Pier 39. (415) 284-2849.

CREW AVAILABLE. Two women are looking

KNARR — 1/3 INTEREST. Beautiful, classic design 30' sloop. Ideally suited for the finest S.F. Bay sailing. Excellent condition. S.F. City Marina berth. New sails. New motor. Experi¬ enced sailor required. $3,666. Call evenings, 397-0924.

PEARSON 10 METER. Illness forces sale of 1/4 ownership. Comfortable 33' fiberglass cruiser, diesel, stove/oven, VHF, new sails, wheel. Berthed S.F. Gas House Cove. $9,000/ best offer/owner financing. 457-4600 days; 453-1139 eves; 324-0486 eves.

for other women to crew for, from West Coast to Mexico or So. Pacific, sometime in the fall. We’re newly experienced sailors (leisure & racing), easy-going, hardworking & fun. Maren & Jeanne (415) 285-0828.

LADY SAILOR, 28, would like first mate posi¬ tion for extended cruising to anywhere. Departure time flexible. Experienced, reliable, good-natured, easy on your eyes. Have lived aboard my 30' sloop for last 2+ years and love this lifestyle. Judi (415) 843-3683.

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AVAILABLE BOAT LIVEABOARO. Female crewperson needed for liveaboard in ex¬ change for maintenance work. Richmond area. Deluxe 51 ’ ketch with microwave, cen¬ tral vacuum, fireplace, etc. Private quarters. Plus sailing with radar, SatNav, etc. (916) 961-8540; (415) 236-4521.

Marina, off Hwy. 101 in Brisbane. Date June 13th, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sponsored by the Sierra Point YC. In conjunction with the Brisbane Marina safety week. The Fire Ex¬ tinguisher Co. will be there to check and ser¬ vice fire extinguishers. The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, to give free courtesy marine ex¬ aminations on your boat. Venders must register before 6/7/87 by calling (415) 871-6841 or (415) 588-5520.

THE S.F. BAY CAL 20 FLEET ... sponsors local races, cruises, picnics, parties and seminars on rigging and sailing techniques.. and we're active in the Int’l Cal 20 Class Association. Join us. Call (415) 435-4874.

MISCELLANEOUS TRAILRITE SAILBOAT TRAILER FOR J/24 or similar type boat. $1,650. (415) 449-1352.

HELP THIS BOAT ADDICT KICK THE HABIT. Polaris trailerable Tripp-designed f/g Euro¬ pean rugged 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, trailer: $10,900/B.0. 28-ft Cheoy Lee f/g ocean-worthy Frisco Flyer MKIII. New rebuilt Volvo diesel, refastened teak decks, 4 sails: $12,500/B.0. 48-ft Classic motoryacht, 2 staterooms, new paint & canvas, great liveaboard, tw. Chryslers: $17,000/8.0.90-lb Gloucester Gull rowing dory, spoon oars. 73 Karman Ghia, rebuilt, exellent condition. Call (415) 331-4535, leave message.

1929 16-FT DODGE BOAT. 30' Scarab! New motors & upholstery. Must sell now. $35,000. New 34'x12'/2' storage sheds. Why pay more, only $110 per month (includes free boat launching). Napa Sea Ranch, 3333 Cuttings Wharf Rd. (707) 252-2799. HOUSEBOAT IN THE DELTA. Liveaboard located on Brannan Island. No engine, good fixer-upper. Must sell. Best offer. Asking $4,000. Laura (415) 967-3597 eves/ weekends; (408) 743-7082 days; or leave message at (408) 734-5549 anytime. DELTA PROPERTY. 8.8 acres of unimproved land on Bradford Is. w/250’ of protected fron¬ tage on San Joaquin River. Existing 41 ’ dock needs some repair. Excl. set-up for summer getaway, ski club or hung club house or sm. farm. Owner will finance. $39,500. Gail 775-0157. PIER 39 BOAT SLIP FOR SALE. Own instead of renting. 40’ slip on D-dock. Great location, calm waters, parking, 24-hr security. $38,500 or best offer. Call William (415) 434-1783. CLUB NAUTIQUE SINGLE LIFE MEMBER¬ SHIP. Lessons, seminars, basic to bluewater. Free use of training boats. Discount charters. Off-season discounts. Social calendar. Loca¬ tions in Alameda & Sausalito. Must sell. Save $500. Asking $1,195. Jeff (415) 523-4543.

BEST DEALI Rent or buy. San Francisco, Pier 39 36-ft slip. Excellent location, easy park¬ ing, liveaboard permit available. Very reason¬ able price & conditions. Call Doug Gooding, (415) 397-6700. PIER 39 SLIP. 36-ft upwind slip with 55-year lease. $32,000. 236-8409. 36-FT BERTH FOR LEASE. One year only. Emery Bay Cove Marina. A fine harbor, Emeryville. $180/mo. + deposit. Call Ray Cook, (415) 668-2423, leave message.

BERTH SUBLET FOR SUMMER. 40' to 50' Alameda Marina berth, end tie! Convenient location, chandlery, boat yard, restaurant. Call (415) 947-6848 or (415) 829-1386.

SUMMER ON WATER. Fish from your deck. Decorator home on pilings at Mare Island Straits. 3 bdrm, Vk bath, large kitchen, 2 fireplaces, large decks, 5-car parking. $2,500/month incl. utilities. (415) 563-2555; (707) 642-2555.

EAST BAY LIVEABOARD FOR RENT. Private harbor, 40-ft cabin cruiser w/all amenities. Close to Berkeley. Great view. $450. 236-0959.

BORA BORA CONDO FOR RENT. 2 bdrm, fully furnished. Private beach, dock. Beautiful setting with spectacular view. Very reasonable rates. Available by day, week. Also condo's for sale. For information, call (206) 647-2343 eves. REAL ESTATE—BOAT SWAP. Will trade 22 virgin, wooded acres of the Ozark Mountains for licensed salmon boat or large sailboat. Call Mark at (415) 986-7895; (415) 550-0301 or (707) 575-1205 & keep trying.

HELP WANTED SEAMSTRESS WANTED. Seamstress wanted in Lake Tahoe area. Industrial machine; sail repair & custom canvas. Send resume to: CSCC, P.O. Box 314, Tahoe City, CA 95730. HELP WANTED — SKIPPERS/INSTRUC¬ TORS. No. Calif's fastest growing charter club needs licensed instructors for Sausalito & Alameda locations. Contact Walt Doiron, Director, at (415) 865-4700 or send resume to Club Nautique, 1150 Ballena Blvd Suite 161, Alameda, CA 94501.

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WIN THE ANCIENT MARINER OR ANY OTHER RACE Buy this classic. Immaculate classic S&S 47-ft all teak yawl, race winner. Recent survey, diesel, many suits of new sails, bottom completely refastened, new teak deck, new full cover. Anxious, 69K ($69,000). Broker (714) 646-4005.

CLUB NAUTIQUE MEMBERSHIP. Single lifetime membership. Includes lessons, use of training fleet, discounted charters, social activities. Value $2,350; asking $1,750/080. Can be upgraded to family membership for $400. Jody or Bill, 921-0159.

Decks. Hatches. Interiors. Repairs. Modifications. Call for appointment. S. Ray, (415) 488-0716.

SINGLE SAILORS

AMATEUR STEEL BOATBUILDING WORKSHOP ’87

From the Delta to Sausalito; From Marin to Santa Cruz. Let's make connections for future sails, parties, trips. Come to our party, June 20th in San Francisco. Call (415) 322-7683 for details

August 20-23. Learn how to build your own steel yacht using the latest tools and techniques with a hands-on experience. We teach you what you need to know to build your own steel yacht. SIERRA YACHTWERKS, P.O. BOX 426, Bethel Island, CA 94511. (415) 684-0202.

and reservations.

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CLASSIC GLASS HERRESHOFF BRISTOL SLOOP

3 bedrooms, den, dining room, 2'h baths. Double garage. Deep water berth. For information: Joanna Rabkin, (415) 523-8409 or Agnew/Codiga, (415) 523-4000.

Circa '68, 29-ft. Easy to sail or power, perfect for retired couple. $20K, or offers to my broker, JIM IRWIN 883-9750.

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WANTED WANTED: CLASSIC STEPHENS (1928-1936) Original, good condition, 36-43'. Owner assist in financing. (916) 921-0210.

NEED LIVEABOARD STEEL SLOOP 6’4” HEADROOM. Two 24s: Gladiator needs cleanup, 2.5K 4 hp o.b. Richmond berth. Col¬ umbia Challenger 'crisp' 9.8 o.b. 3.5K Sausalito berth. Need liveaboard steel sailboat 6'4” hdrm. Trade boats and/or 45 ac. of fantastic mountain property in N.E. Oregon. (408) 423-4388.

POOR, DESPERATE TO LEAVE, stuck in port too long! Please call if you would like to sell any of the following: Radar, Loran C, SatNav, EPIRB, liferaft, RDF, inflatable raft plus out¬ board, cruising spinnaker for 35' boat. (805) 528-0275. TRADE

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Beautiful pine forested 4.5 acres with partial¬ ly finished 20x36 A-frame cabin 20 mi. east of Redding, CA for 35’ to 45' cruising type sailboat, free & clear. Value of property $35,000. For details & pictures call (619) 262-1629.

I WILL BUY YOUR BOAT. Young professional looking for 30-37-ft liveaboard. Assume payments, or creative financing. Call, we will work something out. Hm: (415) 521-8166; wk; (415) 424-6261.

LIVEABOARD SITUATION WANTED. Haven't sailed for awhile? Going away for the sum¬ mer? Want boatsitter? I will pay slip fees or work on your boat in exchange for liveaboard. Santa Cruz or Redwood City • areas preferred; all offers considered. Mike (408) 447-6838.

WANTED: CHRYSLER 26. Must be 1979/80 with swing keel and trailer. Just sold my boat & I don't want to miss the summer season. Have cash for clean, well-equipped Chrysler 26. (916) 791-7763 after 5 p.m.

NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER RESCUE UNIT

WANTED: BERTH SWAP FOR A DELTA SLIP $ EARN EXTRA $ Experienced skipper &

HOUSEMATE WANTED IN SAN JOSE. Share

WANTED: LIVEABOARD CHARTER. Profes¬

my comfortable Evergreen area home & en¬ joy many opportunities to sail on my 25’ sailboat. All for only $100 per week, in¬ cluding utilities. With a deal like this, why buy a boat? Must be neat, clean, non-smoker & non-drug user. (408) 274-1555.

WANTED: ETCHELLS 22. Responsible & ex¬

CHARTS WANTED. California, Mexico, Cen¬ tral America, South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia. 742-0113.

seeks serviceable inexpensive trailer for 14-ft hardbottom inflatable boat. Also need outboard motor. (415) 948-0678.

sional couple between houses wants to lease liveaboard sailboat approx. 42-ft LOA for 6 months in Bay Area. Refs, available. Call Jim (415) 325-7134.

crew are looking for a boat to charter at each of the following locations: S.F. Bay, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara & HMB. Boat size 30’ to 47'. Call Jim (415) 852-5152 work; (415) 726-2109 home.

SAIL THE BAY

perience racing sailor would like to lease with an option to buy, a competitive boat. Terms flexible. Please call (415) 965-4168 & leave message.

SPECIAL $10/HOUR EACH PASSENGER Sail the S.F. Bay on a new 35’ Ericson. Professional U.S.C.G. Lie. Captain provides an exciting sailing experience. 6 passengers maximum. (2 passenger minimum, 3 hour minimum) SUNSET CHARTERS (408) 251-1931.

in exchange for a slip in Embarcadero Cove on the Oakland-Alameda Estuary. Period: 1-3 mos. Oakland slip suitable for a boat 28-34’. Call (916) 967-7382.

Bristol 38 sloop for charter. Hourly, Daily, Weekly Rates. (415) 442-6708 days; (415) 332-2384 eves.

CHANNEL ISLANDS Explore the exciting Channel Islands National Park. I have a fast and comfortable Santana 37 especially equipped for this exceptional cruising area. Fully provisioned. Free brochure. Capt. Peter Crane, 1817 De La Vina, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. (805) 569-0403.

MAIL SERVICE

CAL 39 TRI-CABIN — $76,950

Cruising? Personal Mail Box and Answering Service will forward your mail and messages anywhere. Call; (415) 332-6366. The Business Connection, Schoonmaker Building — Main Entrance, 10 Liberty Ship Way, Sausalito, CA 94965.

1979.2 heads, 2 showers, sleeps 8. Combi windspeed, direction, knotmeter, VHF, stereo, water heater, CNG stove. Nice clean boat that has not been on race circuit. Jerry (415) 948-3594; Dick (408) 446-0321.

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To place your new or late model sailboat in the Bay’s finest charter fleet. Dave Garrett sailing has openings in Sausalito, Redwood City and Emeryville. Call (415) 331-3364 for details.

Ericson 35. Located “Close to the Slot” at Pier 39. For day, overnight and weekend sailing. To experienced skippers only. $150 weekdays; $190 weekends. Call (408) 867-6987.

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Clock Shop. The.23 City Yachts.216 Corlett & Blasier.45,215 Cruising World Yachts.12,14 CRC Chemicals.31 Cruise to Fiji.80 Cutter Quality Woods.10 D'Anna Yachts.2,19 Detco.62 Dickerson, R.E.. Insurance. . . .23 Downwind Designs.206 Dorado Marine Corp.62 Dunne, Michael F., Insurance. .91 Eagle Yacht Sales.28,29 Edgewater Yacht Sales.207 Edinger Marine Services.84 Elkhorn YC.181 Emery Bay Cove.92 Encinal Fuel Depot.97 Eskelund Marine.51 Fairweather Marine.68 Farallon Yacht Sales.28,29 Feeney Wire and Rope.34 Fernandez Boat Works.46 Flemming Marine .80 Fraser Sails.78 Dave Garrett Sailing.67 Gianola & Sons, Inc.67 Glen Cove Marina.58 GMAC.40 Golden State Diesel.44 Bill Gorman Yachts.96 Hands For Hire.58 Harbor Diving.80

Hatler, Don. Yachts.63 Hawthorne Engines.98 Haynes Sails.80 Helms Yacht Sales.15 Holly Solar Products.47 Hogin Sails.35 Hood Yacht Sytems.10 Hood Sailmakers.21 Hullse Spars.7 Johnson-Hicks.9 Jones. Peter. Yacht Brokerage2l I Kappas Marina.81 Kensington Yacht & Ship Brokers.209 Key Financial Services.59 Lake Tahoe Windjammers 108.109 Lam Sails.95 Landfall Marine.169 Larsen Sails.50 Leading Edge Sails.88 Lee Sails.75 Margas.84 Marina Bay Yacht Harbor.98 Marine Engineering.88 Marine Fire Protection Service. 39 Mariner Sq. Yachts.52 Maritime Electronics.24 Maritime Store, The.62 Masked Marine.83 McGinnis Insurance.70 Metal Magic.74 Milano Yachts.212,213 Monterey Bay Fiberglass.90 Navigation Marine.92 Nelson’s Marine.94 Nau-T-Kol.79 Nicro Fico.70 Nonsuch Yachts.43 North Sails.60 Oakland Rim & Wheel.39

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Ocean Yachts.14 Olympic Crcl. Sail.18 O’Neill's Yachts.26 Outboard Shop, The.92 Pacific Coast Canvas.6 Paradise Charters.81 Paradise Yacht Charters.206 Parker. Kermit, Yacht Sales. .214 Passage Yachts.4.5.7,9 Peninsula Marine Services.91 Pineapple Sails.3 Pitchometer.90 Proper Tighe Marine.81 Pryde Sails. Neil.81 PSC* Offshore, Inc.88 The Ramp.169 Repo Hot Line.211 Richmond Boat Works.II Richmond Yacht Service.10 Royal Yachts Inc.38 Ruby for Charter.206 SAWCO.74 Sampson/Allied.6,23 San Francisco Bay Boat Brokers.208 San Francisco Boat \g/orks.76 San Francisco Yacht Service. .206 San Leandro Marine Center.72,210 Sausalito Multihulls.205 Sausalito Rigging & Electric ... 169 Sausalito Yacht Sales.210 Scanmar Marine Products.77 Sea Link Charters.206 Sea of Cortez Yacht Charters.42 Seabreeze Ltd.74 Seabreeze Boat Yard.22 Seagull Marine.42 Seapower Marine.94 Shore Sails.73 Sitex.25 Slocum Yachts.149

Smith & Co.96 South Beach Harbor.32 South Shore Yachts.48 Spinnaker Shop, The.83 Stanford University.149 Starbuck Canvas Works.47 Star Marine.57 Stockdale Marine.208 Stone Boat Yard.54 Sunset Yachts.16,17 Sutter Sails.71 Svendsen’s Boat Works.8 Tatoosh Marine.66 Tedrick Higbee Ins.64 The Terrace.89 Thomson. Charles Yachts Ltd.36.37 TNE Marine.80 Tradewind Instruments Ltd.... 19 Tradewinds Sailing School.85 U S. Yacht Bureau.82 Vancouver Yachts.85 Voyager Marine.48,74 Walnut Creek Honda.58 Weatherford BMW.56 West Coast Inflatables.42 West Marine Products.99.100.101 Western Chrome Plating.44 Whale Point Marine.87 Wilson, Don, Yacht Sales.90 Windjammer Sails.53 Windships.211 Woolsey Paints.20 World Yacht Center.55 Yacht Constructers.88 Yacht Masters, Inc.69 Yacht Registry.208 Yacht Yacht Yacht Yacht

Exchange.181 Alden 33.208 Hans Christian 43.207 Vagabond Ketch 47. . .207

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1985-43’ Hans Christian ketch CUSTOM BUILT TO OWNERS IMPECCABLE STANDARDS!

41’ CORONADO SISTERSHIP 1972 Perkins, loaded w/cruise gear.including Loran & radar, large tre-cabin layout. Try $35,000.

Recently completed commissioning, many upgrades: +Merc Benz 72hp diesel +B & G instruments +Polrs/Rgncy 7200 VHF +elect windlass +battery chgr all banks +Norseman terminals +Merriman-Hol!brook turnbuckles on all rigging +AII mechanical reworked w/American fittings r Boat in perfect condition. Sailaway $139,000. Reduced from $155,000. Owner pruchasing larger vessel. Call (415) 327-7977.

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43’ WESTS AIL CUTTER. 1981 For ocean sailing or comfortable living aboard. City berth. Asking $120,000.

32' DOWNEASTER CUTTER. 1976. Shows great; Sausalito berth, recent survey. Asking $54,000.

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52’ KROGAN TRAWLER ’74. Clean ferro long distance trawler. GM 6-71, refrig., w/d. A home afloat. $65,000. 44’ LAFITTE ’80. Cutter rigged sloop. Extremely well equipt and well rigged luxurious cruiser w/many custom features. 175,000. 40’ PILGRIM ’85. Elegant trad mtryacht. Classic dsn. Flybridge. $165,000 40’ NEWICK CUSTOM CATAMARAN ’83. Wing mast, West sys., trans-pac vet. $96,000. 39’ FREYA ’78. Well rigged cruising cutter. Yanmar, vane, etc. $79,500. 38’ CUSTOM SLOOP ’81. Canadian bit. Huntingford design. Much cruising gear. $79,500. 37’ SOVEREL ’72. Super cruis’g sip. Ds., vane, SSB, Loran + more. $39,500. 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.WeIl maintained ketch w/lots of extras. OFFER 34’ COLUMBIA MKII ’73.Very clean, lrg interior, S.F. Marina sip. $36,500. 34’ WYLIE ‘80. Dsl, Loran, nine sails, autopilot and more. $49,500. 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. 33’ PETERSON ’78. Well equipped 14 ton racer-cruiser. DSL., electronics, etc. $45 000. 32’ CRUISING SLOOP ’72. Superbly built NZ kauri. Must see! $35,000. 31’ CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE, ’69. Crusing ketch w/Loran, ddgr, + .$29,000 30’ IRWIN CITATION ’80. Diesel, refrigeration, roomy. $35,500. 30’ ISLANDER MKII ’71. Cal for great price! 30’ NEWPORT MKII ’77. TillerMaster, race rigged, nice. $30,000 27’ CAL ’73. Well equpped racer/cruiser. Autohelm, din & more. $14,000. 27’ ERICSON ’74. Clean with possible S.F. Marina berth. Inqure. 27’ NEWPORT 27S ’77.Very clean. Depth, VHF, 6 sails, dsl + more. $15,500. 27’ BANHOLM ’68. Inboard FB Scandinavian Sloop. $14,000. 27’ VEGA ’73. Clean pocket cruiser w/dsl, dodger, cabin heater, etc. Inquire. 26’ COLUMBIA MKII ’69.Roomy, lines led aft. 2 anchors. S.F.Sip $10,500. 26’ CHRYSLER ’78.Large trailerable boat with o.b. $10,950. 24’ NORTHSTAR-FARR 727 ’76. Go fast with 7 sails, hdfoil, Barients. Offers. 24’ NIGHTINGALE ’74,Great well-equipt little racer/cruiser. CHEAP. 20-26 FIBERGLASS SLOOPS. I have a number of boats in this range. CALL FOR MANY MORE LISTINGS 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.

Estate Liquidation. Magnificent “like new” cutter. Beautifully equip¬ ped including discontinuous rod rigging, bow thruster, hydraulic backstays and boom vang, fiberglass windscreen and dodger, (16) winches (some upgraded), teak decks, Nilsen windlass, 7.5 kw generator, 120 hp Perkins diesel engine. Hood furling jib and staysail, B&G electronics, reverse cycle air conditioning, built in freezer and refrigeration. Sleek and very fast! World cruiser. $295,000.

24’ MOORE ’81 w/trailer, 6 sails, 6 h.p.o.b. Great ocean and bay sailer. Exceptionally clean! Must Move!! 24’ SEAFARER ’74 Good beginner boat $5,500 25’ PACIFIC SEACRAFT ’77 diesel aux. electronics Make Offer 25’ CATALINA ’81 Honda o.b., furling jib $14,900 26’ LAGUNA ’83 9.9 o.b. elect, start, 6’2” headroom, refrig, 3 sails $14,900 27’ CATALINA ’75 5 sails, atomic 4, owner very anxious! Try $12,500 27’ CAL MK III ’83 Need to move this one! Beautiful spacious interior, Yanmar diesel, shower, water heater, pressure water, loaded with equipment. Must see! Reduced to $26,900 28’ ISLANDER ’76 Robert Perry design, Volvo diesel, electronics $25,000 28’ SEAFARER Rhodes design, 5 sails, outboard aux. Make Offer 30’ CAL ’64 Repowered Yanmar diesel, 5 sails including spin¬ naker, full electronics, strong boat Try $21,500 30’ LANCER ’77 Sparkman/Stephens design. Lots of equip¬ ment . $21,500 33’ RANGER ’78 Dsl aux., 5 sails, electronics, loaded w/equipment. Clean and well kept. $42,000 35’ ANNAPOLIS CUTTER ’80 Perry design, double ender, 4 sails, 30 hp Yanmar, windlass, brightwork just done Try $64,500 35’ ERICSON ’70 sloop, 3 sails, atomic 4 Try $37,500 37’ TAYANA ’82 'q electronics, one owner, bristol condition. Yanmar die.Syuwner anxious. Reduced to $67,500 3T TAYANA MKII Cutter ’85 just listed. Teak decks, teak base, dodger, electronics and more!! $92,000 40’ LOWMAN ’46 motorsailer sloop, 3 sails, including spin¬ naker, new BMW 50 hp diesel. Nice condition and good liveaboard. . Try $55,000 41’ NEWPORT sloop ’82 custom.'^ee this boat to believe in respect to equipment gnd layout $120,000

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She has an Albin 20 h.p. twin cylinder diesel, forced-air diesel heater, Motorola Modar VHF, Apelco depth sounder, Kenyon knotmeter/log, Crown converter/charger, Aries windvane and Tillermaster auto-pilot. From the propane stove with oven to the Simpson-Lawrance windlass and excellent ground tackle, this boat is ready to go. Seven bags of sails are included.

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28,000 23,500 34,500 49,950 34,000 46,500 63,000

MILANO YACHTS

DISTINCTIVE NEW & PRE-OWNED CRUISING YACHTS

WITCH OF THE WIND C&C 36

SISTERSHIP

CHEOY LEE 28 — 1972 Center board sloop. Classic little cruiser in perfect condition. Teak decks with a com¬ fortable cockpit. Large interior with lots of storage. Hot & Cold pressure water, dinette, all new fabric cushions, neat as a pin. Fresh water cooled Volvo diesel engine. Cheoy Lee quality in the perfect size for two. Call Ed Milano for details. $31,000

Finding the Best

USED BOAT VALUE It’s our full service and dedication to serving all of your boating needs that makes us the exception to the norm. We have the people, the knowledge and the desire to assist you in finding “just that right dream." Remember “Brokerage is our Business, ” who bet¬ ter to serve you than an office with a single purpose. —Ed Milano

Member

California Yacht Brokers Association Central Listing Service (‘ ‘on-line ’ ’ computer service)

By far the best equipped C&C 36 in the Bay Area. The owner has lavished care and installed many extras to enhance the livability of this quality yacht. She is being sold fully found with all the gear and equipment aboard right down to the dinnerware and cutlery. • • • • • •

Alpha Marine pilot TI Loran C Hydraulic backstay Cybernet stereo Motorola 440 VHF Signet wind instr.

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Ground tackle Battery charger Hl-Seas diesel heater CNG stove & oven Unifridge 12 & 110 V Mast head strobe

This is only a partial list of the inventory that is available with the sale of this fine example of a C&C 36. A top quality yacht that is properly equipped and maintained. Reduced to $62,500

PETERSON 33

P. J. 30

CATALINA 38 1985

“Flyer” is set up for racing, with furniture. Equipment list is extensive and complete — Loran included! Excellent ocean boat and very competitive . . . we’re talking bags of sails, mylar, Kevlar, Micron 33, etc. So if you’re a serious sailor, come & have a look! $43,500. Call Ed Milano for details.

1972 Palmer Johnson Vi ton designed by Sparkman & Stevens. A deisel powered very stiff sailer with a full sail inventory. This roomy 30-footer was designed to race offshore . . . MORA here we come. $31,500.

Fufiy equipped all gear up graded by the present owner. Teak and Holly cabin sole, Teak interior, fabric cushions. All lines lead aft, Hood foil system, Signet 1000, 1500 and 2000 instruments, Main, 3 Jibs, Spin¬ naker, Hydraulic backstay. She is in great condition. Call Ed Milano for details. $63,000

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FORTMAN MARINA • (415) 523-7474 1535 BUENA VISTA AVE. • ALAMEDA

KERMIT PARKER YACHT BROKERAGE San Rafael Yacht Harbor 557 Francisco Boulevard, San Rafael, CA 94901

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(415) 456-1860

CUSTOM FARALLON 30 Beautiful wood interior. 6’ headroom. Looks like new. Two boat owner. $24,000/0ffers

29’ ALDEN/HINCKLEY sloop. Classic Bay racer/cruiser. Master Mariner. VHF KM spinnaker. Nicely main¬ tained. Asking $19,900

26’ EXCALIBER SLOOP by Wayfarer. VHF, DS, stereo, 6 bags sails. Set up for single handed cruising. Bank repo $6,900 i

CHANCE 30-30 sloop by Allied, palmer I.B., 4 bags sails. Bank repo Try $13,500

32’ TUMLAREN CLASS SLOOP (Large version) beautiful, sleek Scandina¬ vian sloop. New volvo dsl I.B. Two boat owner must sell. $24,000/0ffers

36’ VAN DER STADT STEEL CUTTER. v Soft chined. Built in Holland. Dsl I.B., SatNav, Loran, AP, Avon w/OB, 10 bags sails. Proven. Try $45,000. This one’s original. We also have a modified H-30 and a Cheoy Lee Bermuda 30 at our sales dock. From $14,900

25’ HUNTER sloop w/taridem axle trailer. I.B., VHF, DS, AP, forced air heat. Ready to go by land or sea. $16,400/Offers

35’ RAFIKI CRUISER/Liveaboard, 3 cyl Volvo, Loran C, VHF DS Dodger, Bimini, mast & boom repainted, Algrip. Airex con¬ struction hull $59,900

KETTENBERG K-38 SLOOP. Master Mariner. Classic Bay racer/cruiser. VHF, KM, spin¬ naker. She’s fast and beautiful! Good deal at $19,900.

22’ CHRIS CRAFT CAVALIER Sea Skiff. Chevy 350 rebuilt ’86, CB, bimini & full cover. Clean & traditional. Asking $9,850

32’ ATKINS/ARCHER Gaff ketch. Sabb dsl. Traditional cruiser, well maintained $39,950/Offers

40’ VAN DER STADT F/G ketch. Aft cabin. Perkins 4-236 dsl, VHF, DS, RDF, AP, radar, AVon, liferaft, forced air heat. Serious cruiser. $79,000/0ffers

ALASKAN 49 by American Marine (Grand Banks) Twin Lehmans, gen,-radar, AP, skiff w/ob. Teak interior. Excellent liveaboard. $145,000

OVER 100 ADDITIONAL LISTINGS • SUPS AVAILABLE • CALL OR VISIT OUR SALES DOCK TODAY1

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Express Yourself on Saturday, June 20 Sail the Express 34, meet

Express owners, designer Carl Schumacher, representatives of Alsberg Brothers, and the Corlett-Blasier team, and sail the Express 34 again.

Discover for yourself: Why the Express 34 is Boat of the Year. Why Expresses are the most actively sailed boats on San Francisco Bay. Why the Express 34 has captivated both cruising and racing sailors all across the country. What the Express sailing experience is really like.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take your Express sea trial by rumor. Whether you are looking for a boat to blue Water cruise, day sail, or race, come sail with us and make your owncomparisons. Space is limited. Call us before June 15 to reserve your spot, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give you the details of where and when the fun begins.

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San Francisco’s Yacht Broker since 1969 CT CUTTER. Modern design and lots of room describe this 3 year old cutter. Large salon, 2 heads w/showers, 2 private staterooms and a huge galley make for great comfort at dock or at sea. Priced at only $108,000. It will not last long. a

OQJ VALIANT. Bob Perry 04design. Sturdy cruising boat used very little. In excellent condition, recent epoxy bottom job, seller will consider a smaller boat in trade or property. Make offer.

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ERICSON Sloop Furling system, 2 anchors, VHF, loran autopilot, refer, etc. Comfortable family cruiser with all the amenities for spending extend¬ ed periods on board. Available at a. very attractive price of $89,500. QQJ

KETCH.

This sturdy yacht has thousands of miles under her keel. Recent¬ ly returned from the S. Pac. and ready to go again. Meticulously maintained, she’s for sale at a very attractive price. Call for more details on this rare find. a q > HATTERAS. Huge aft T'vJ deck w/enclosure. J&T diesels provide plenty of power for fast trips up the Delta. Im¬ pressive inventory including liferaft, whaler, autopilot, dual VHF’s, radar, windlass, outrig¬ gers, the list goes on. Asking only $169,000._ jq! NORDIC. The ultiH-O mate in a New Boat! Built for the knowledgeable yachtsman. Custom design and watch the building of your own boat, then embark on a once in a lifetime adventure cruising the Pacific Northwest. Also available in 50' and 52’.

Af\i PETERSON Handsome £\\J and sturdy racer/cruiser. Unbelievable inventory! 14 sails, SSB, Trimble, Fax, Sat nav, Autopilot, microwave, and lots more. Comfortable interior with aft cabin and huge nav station. Priced very competitively at $85,000. Will consider trades.

NORDIC. Incredible

NEW design by Bob Perry. Built in the Nordic tradi¬ tion with no skimping on the details. Every appointment done to perfection. Call us today about our special “cost-plus” savings package available on the first boat delivered on Bay.

POWER

SAIL

35’ ERICSON.*33,000 35’ SANTANA. 44,900 36’ ISLANDER FRPRT 2 frin. 60,000 36’ISLANDER 4 frm. 56,500 37’ SOVERAL . 39,500 38’ MORGAN. 75,000 38’ CATALINA SLOOP. 73,950 39’ FREYA. 79,500 39’ ROGERS . 65,000 39’ CAVALIER (NEW) . . OFFERS 39’ WESTSAIL CUTTER .... 79,900 40’ MORGAN KETCH. 70,000 40’ NORDIC. 160,000 40’ GULFSTAR . 84,995 40’ PEARSON. 80,000 41’ NELSON/MAREK slpTry89,000 42’ WESTSAIL CUTTER .... 95,000 * 42’ GARDEN KETCH . 100,000 43’ AMPHITRITE. 149,000 44’PETERSON 3 frm .110,000 45’ FUJI KETCH . 149,900 45’ PORPOISE KETCH .... 125,000 * 47’ VALIANT. 275,000 48’PILOTHOUSE KETCH . 275,000 * 50’SANTA CRUZ. 169,000

“Great

OU Fun”, Professionally refinished from top to bottom with many upgrades. Better than new and now ready to go out there and WIN! Trimble, B & G 290 system, very complete in¬ ventory. Ideal for TransPac, Big Boat & Mexico. $125,000.

FELLOWS &

STUART

DAVIDSON.

EXPRESS.

Full race O inventory but has never been raced or abused. Main¬ tained in bristol condition. Seller’s have moved up to a new Nordic so it’s priced to sell, HURRY at only $110,000. this boat is going to sell fast.

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r- q J HATTERAS Make your dreams come true with this truly better than OO new yacht. Just a little over two years old, this yacht has only 600 hours on the engines. Capable of accommodating 6 in three staterooms with three full heads. This immaculate vessel is perfectly suited for either long distance curising or weekend retreats up the delta. Available for $250,000 less than replacement this boat is a must see. Seller has pur¬ chased a larger vessel from us and will consider offers.

Plus Many Others * San Francisco Berth Included

San Francisco, California 94123- Phone

21’ STARFIRE.*24,000 30’ TROLLER. 48,000 30’ CLASSIC FAIRCHILD ... 49,950 33’PACEMAKER .15,000 34’ RIVA. 125,000 34’ CLASSIC CRUISER. 42,000 35’ VIKING CONVERTIBLE 104,000 36’ GRAND BANKS . 47,500 36’GRAND BANKS . 135,000 36’ UNIFLITE SPORT SDN .. 58,950 41’MOTOR YACHT. 159,000 42’ PRESIDENT SF. 166,000 42’ HATTERAS LRC. 169,000 43’ HATTERAS MY. 169,000 /*4’ PACIFICA SF. 240,000 * 44’ PACEMAKER SF. 149,000 50’OCEAN. 250,000 52’ BLUEWATER. 170,000 53’ HATTERAS MY.OFFERS ★ 55’ STEPHENS CRUISER.. 150,000 5r DAYTONAA YF. 309,500 58’ HATTERAS MY. 265,000 63’ FLYBRIDGE MY . 290,000 70’ HATTERAS CMY. 895,000 96’ BROWARD. 585,000 Plus Many Others ★ San Francisco Berth Included

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