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Jerry Hansen

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Tim Carpenter doesn’t race his Islander 36 — unless, of course, there is another boat nearby. So while “Silver Cloud” may not be “beating the competition,” Tim’s new Cruising Spinnaker from Pineapple Sails has him passing boats port and starboard! Pineapple Sails’ reputation for building fast racing sails is widely known. Yet the care and considera¬ tion in designing and building racing sails are applied to our cruising sails as well. Whether it’s a Cruising Spinnaker, a furling jib, or working sails for sailing the Bay or crossing oceans, our sails are engineered to fit and perform and last for many years and miles. “Silver Cloud” is a shining example of a boat made better by Pineapple Power. Tim Carpenter is no racer, but he’ll be the first to tell you he’s ahead!

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“No gimmicks, dancing bears or hollow promises; justfair deals on great boats” If you are considering a new or used sailboat you owe it to yourself to visit Passage Yachts. The reasons are simple. We are the largest sail¬ boat dealer in Northern California. We handle the four best lines of new sailboats available. With our volume we can offer you the best deals possible on quality boats that will give you a lifetime of pleasure. Why settle for anything less than a quality yacht from a reputable builder? We offer unique financing options as well as a variety of money saving programs, so you are likely to find that a new Beneteau, Mason, Passport or Pearson yacht is a lot more affordable than you might think. We have a liberal trade in policy and if you check around you will find that we have a strong reputation for customer service and fair play. So, if you are considering a new or used sailboat, give us a chance to serve your needs. I guarantee that you won’t regret it.

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We have sold many of our prime brokerage listings and want new listings from owners who really want results! 621 Motorsailer 55' Steel Staysail Ketch 47' Off Shore Cheoy Lee 47’ Formosa 1981 47' Passport 46' Island Trdr Ketch 44' Peterson, ctr cockpit 43’ Frers "Shockwave" 42' Pearson 424 Ketch 41' Perry 41 ’ Whitby Caribe 411 Newport 41' Morgan 40' X-1 TON 40' Beneteau One Ton 40' Olson 38' Ericson. Loaded 38' Bristol 38’ Hood 38’ C&C Landfall, Loaded 38' Farallone Clipper 38’ Catalina, Beautiful 37’ Gulfstar, Immaculate 37' Islander Pilot House 36' Union 36' Allied Ketch 36' Islander 36' Custom, Kauri 36’ Cheoy Lee. Luders 35' Santana 35' Mariner Ketch 34’ Dehler, %Ton 34' Wylie 33' Yamaha 33' Wylie, Cold Mold 33' Hunter 33' Ranger, Harken Furling 32' Traveller 32' Islander 32' Beneteau 325 30' Newport, Diesel 30' Pearson 30' Catalina 30' Island Bahama 29' Ranger 29' Cal 2-29, Diesel 28' Islander 28' Pearson 28’ San Juan. 28' Columbia 28, Diesel 27' Cal 2-27 27' CalT-2 27' Ericson 26' Yamaha 26’ Pearson 26’ Inti Folkboat 23' Ranger

Ranger 33. Harken furling. Auto-pilot. Refer. And more. $34,500.

Pearson 424 Ketch. Fully equipped Including electric windlass. Spic and span. $125,000.

Yamaha 26. 1984 Like new Quality shows. Surveyed at $27,500

Newport 30, MKII. Excellent onedesign. Diesel. Four sails. $27,500.

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Islander Bahama 30. Very well equipped, new epoxy bottom $42,500

StarCruiser HOOD’S high technology introduces speed to roller furling genoas. Our sail designers have used the high technol¬ ogy available at HOOD to produce the first roller furling-roller reefing Genoa to take advantage of the recent, dramatic changes in materials and the sailmakers’ art.

Fan type head patch locks in shape under high loads.

Computer Design Extra reinforcement for reef positions.

Increasing bias angle on luff allows easy shape adjustment with halyard.

Specially engineered cruising Laminar® Panel layout allows step up construction.

Foam luff insert eliminates fullness caused by reefing.

Eclipse U.V. protection on leech and foot panels.

Radial construction allows light weight and insures strength for heavy air use.

Reefing labels indicate optimum reefed positions.

“THE FURLING SYSTEMS EXPERTS’’

Fabric The StarCruiser uses HOOD’s exclusive Laminar* Mylar laminated fabric, HOOD’s own dacron fabric or a combination of both depending on your requirements. A StarCruiser made of Laminar will maintain a “tin sail” shape over a wider wind range. You could even use your StarCruiser as a #2 Genoa for racing.

CAD/CAM In addition to computer aided design your new StarCruiser benefits from HOOD’s com¬ puter aided manufacturing. The CAD/CAM system cuts complex curved panels with a Laser. Sailshape is built into every edge of every panel; not just into the single shaping seam common with manually built sails. Laminar panels are first fitted with seam tape, then double or step-stitched for super¬ strong seams.

Hand Finishing

Specializing in:

HARKEN Profurl

Our HOOD/Net computer system helps us to design an optimally shaped sail and brings high performance to roller-furling Genoas. That computer system, using data on your boat and local sailing conditions, will develop a perfect design for you in just a few minutes.

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Hand finishing is still a HOOD specialty, so you get a high tech sail from the world’s most sophisticated sailmaker, with hand details attended to by careful cruising sailmakers. When you put your boat in “cruise” you don’t have to leave the fast lane, call your nearest HOOD loft to get a quote.

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TASHIBA-36, HULL #9 Teak decks, roller furling, boornkin, electric windlass, custom colors, 4.4 kw generator, microwave box, lightning protection, boom gallows, air conditioning with heater, extra deck prisms, Yanmar 44 hp diesel. And much more . . LOA. . .35’ 11” Draft. . .5’6” Displ. . .20,350 ★ Available for Immediate Shipment ★

TASWELL-43, HULL #17 Cutter rigged. Three burner stove with oven, Yanmar 55 hp diesel, roller furling, custom colors, in¬ sulated hull, VHF, 192 gal water, 82 gal fuel, teak decks, Espar forced-air heating, electric windlass, refrigeration, 4 kw generator, etc. ... LOA . ,42’10” Draft. . .6’3” Displ. . .23,500 ★ At our docks, now!! ★

‘TA SHING has proven itself to be the premier yard in Taiwan” — Robert Perry, N.A. BROKERAGE SELECTIONS SAIL: 24' 25’ ★ 26' ★ 27’ 28’ 28 ★ 28’ 30’ 30’ 30’ ★ 30’ 30’ ★ 30’ 32’ 35’ 35’ *36’ 36’

★ AT OUR DOCKS J/24,1984 . 14,900 FOLKBOAT, 1962 . 10,000 SAN JUAN, 1985 . 17,500 CS 27. 1982 . 26,500 ISLANDER BAHAMA, 1981 . 29,500 HERRESHOFF Ketch.24,950 SAN JUAN, 1979 . 26,500 CAPE DORY ketch, 1978 . 34,950 COLUMBIA, 1974 . 16,700 BABA, 1979. 65,000 BABA, 1985. 86,000 PALMER JOHNSON, 1972 . 38,500 ERICSON 1969 ., . 22.000 C&C, 1980 . 44,000 FUJI ketch, 1975. 59,000 NIAGARA, 1982 . 77,000 PEARSON 365,1980 . 59,500 ISLANDER, 1979 .. . . 57,500

1973 NEWPORT 41 SLOOP $78,000 This immaculate Newport has an extensive list of inventory items which make her an ideal Racer/Cruiser. Eleven bags of sails, oversized rigging, electronics, and an ex tremely roomy interior makes it possible to combine the best of both Speed & Comfort.

ANOTHER GIRL

1981 HUNTER 37’ CUTTER This extremely well-maintained cutter is now available for way below market value. Roller furling, self-tending staysail & running backs make her fun, fast, anci easy to sail in any weather. Sacrifice ... $49,500.

36 36’ ★ 37’ 37’ 38’ 38’ 39’ 39’ 41 41’ 42’ 43’ 44’ 62’ 62'

ISLANDER, 1974 . 44,950 S-2 11M. 1980 . 64,950 HUNTER, cutter, 1981 . 49,500 TAYANA cutter, 1981 . 79,500 ALAJUELA, 1976 . 80,000 C&C LANDFALL, 1980. 76,500 FREYA cutter, 1978 . 79,500 BRISTOL yawl, 1969 . 55,000 MORGAN ketch, 1978 . 85,000 NEWPORT, 1973 . 78,000 YORK TOWN, 1984 . 60.000 HANS CHRISTIAN, 1980.127^500 CHEOY LEE, 1983 . 135.000 S&S CUSTOM KETCH, 1978 . 349,000 LAPWORTH SLOOP . 295,000

POWER 30’ CUSTOM TUG, 1986. 25,000 30’ WILLARD VEGA, 1975 . 49,950 40’ EI..CO, 1948 . 38,500

1983 CHEOY LEE 44’ CENTER COCKPIT “OUR FANTASY” Classic Cheoy Lee lines accentuate this fine yacht’s remarkable beauty. Recent survey clearly indicates that “Our Fantasy” is in “Excellent’ condition and has been im¬ maculately maintained by her owner. She is outfitted to cruise in uncomprimising Com¬ fort and Style. A “Must-See” for anyone con templating a liveaboard/cruiser. Priced for immediate sale ... $135,000.

WOOSH MARINE 1120 BRICKYARD COVE ROAD POINT RICHMOND, CA 94801

(415) 232-7778 page 8

AEROLUFF.

Great news for roller reefing from North.

f you’re like most cruising sailors, you enjoy sailing. But you don’t want too much of a struggle when the wind comes tip. That’s why you’ll love AEROLUFF. AEROLUFF is a great new method for reefing your genoa. It maintains good sail shape as you roller-reef. And this makes sailing your boat easier and more fun.

With AEROLUFF, all it takes is a tug on the roller furling line to make your genoa flatter and smaller for heavy air. How does AEROLUFF work? It consists of a sleeve that is sewn to the front of your genoa and zips around your headstay. Inside this sleeve is a normal-style bolt rope that fits into your headstay groove. The top and bottom of this rope have been cut off to make it about half the length of your headstay. When you pull on the reefing line, the front of your genoa starts to roll-in the middle only. That’s the key. At the top and bottom of' the sail, where there is no bolt rope in the groove, the headstay furler spins freely inside the sleeve.

What can AEROLUFF do for me? Because an AEROLUFF genoa rolls in the middle first, it will get flatter as you roller-reef. The benefits of this are many. First, your boat won’t heel so much. This makes high-wind sailing more en¬ joyable. It also reduces weather helm and makes steering easier. Second, you won’t have to flog or reef your mainsail as much. So your crew can stay relaxed when the wind comes up. And third, AEROLUFF makes your reefed sail look great. You won’t get a tight leech and foot, or a wrinkled belly that doesn’t trim right no matter what you do. What is an “AEROLUFF genoa”? It’s our innovative C-Cut cruising headsail with AEROLUFF built into the front. This genoa is designed and cut by computer. It has radial panels and built-in UV protection. With a perfect combina¬ tion of performance, durability and handling ease, this sail makes no compromises. It gives you more value than any other cruising genoa you can buy. Is it better than foam luff? Yes. AEROLUFF offers effective roller reefing without the bulkiness of foam. It’s aesthetically pleasing, won’t hurt your boat’s performance in light air, and rolls easily every turn. Plus it costs less than foam. Can I put AEROLUFF on my present genoa? Sure. If your headsail is in good shape, we can of¬ fer you a retrofit. We’ll simply take off your old luff tape and replace it with AEROLUFF. There are no other changes required for either your sail or roller furling system. (AEROLUFF is designed for furling systems, such as Harken and Hood, with independent lag-type swivels. It allows you to use the full capability of these systems for the first time ever.) How much does it cost? AEROLUFF is surprisingly

he AEROLUFF sail reefing system is a trademark of North Sailing Systems. Patents pending.

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AEROLUFF is a special sleeve that zips around your headstay and removes fullness from the middle of your genoa as you roller reef. economical. Especially when you realize that your genoa will cover a wind range previously requiring two or three sails. Where can I get AEROLUFF? It’s available ex¬ clusively from your local North loft. Call today for a quote. Well be happy to answer any questions you may have about AEROLUFF.

2415 Mariner Square Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 522-5373

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Modern naval architecture left the full keel pretty far back on the rack until Island Packet came along. Now IP designer Bob Johnson has shown that the full keel has startling advantages when applied to contemporary hull design: The U-shape hull with round bilges and flat bot¬

FORMOSA 46

Proven South Pacific veteran which is ready to go again. SatNav, vane, dodger and more. Cutter rig easily handled by two. Owner ready to sell. $99,500.

CASCADE 36

YANKEE CLIPPER 41

PEARSON 30

Want to go cruising or liveaboard? Have a small boat to trade? This could be your opportunity. A must stop on your boat shopping list. $69,500.

tom provides it’s own initial stability. The keel is freed to apply more lift, and tracking stability with shallow draft, g The IP keel is a true foil, fully encapsulating the ballast. | It’s an integral part of the entire IP concept of the best of 1 the View, married to the tried and true.

Virtually new boat. Roller furling sails, Loran, hard dodger, all lines lead aft. Perfect for shorthanded cruising. Low engine hours. Asking only $49,500.

Looking fori Affordable, fun, gd performing Bay boat? This is iff New dodger, ini. finish + much more. Come take a look so we can get you sailing for the upcoming season. $29,950.

SELECTED SAIL BROKERAGE 14,500 20’ FLICK A 13,900 21’ FREEDOM 12,900 22’ MERIT, with trailer 3,950 23’ AQUARIUS 14,900 25’ CATALINA 17,900 25’ CUSTOM BAHAMA 21,900 25’ FREEDOM 14,900 25’ HUNTER 11,000 26’ SCHOCK PAC Interelub 19,500 27’ CAL 2-27 27’ H-27 Offers 15,000 17,000 27’ NEWPORT 27’ PAC SEACRAFT Orion 37,500 27’ SUN 17,500 36.900 28’ PEARSON 20.000 29’ CASCADE 29’ ELITE 43,900 29’ ERICSON 19,995 65,000 30’ BABA 30’ COLD MOLDED MULL IPII 29,950 30’ ERICSON 27,500 30’ PEARSON 29.950 30’ PEARSON 303 49,950 30’ RAWSON 19,000 (2) 30’ PEARSON 29,950 30’ S-2C 44,000 30’ WILDERNESS Inquire 31’ MAR1AH 46,500 32’ VALIANT 59,500 32’ WESTSA1L 59,900 33’ FREEDOM 79,500 33’ GURNEY Aluminum 54,900 §y§i 34’ CHINOOK 19,500 34’ PEARSON 64,900 35’ BREWER 69,500 35’ BREWER 69,500 . 35’ BRISTOL. 63,000 V' 35’ C&C LANDFALL, 69,500

SANTANA 35 Get

in the fast lane with one of the best, most active fleets now racing the Bay and ocean. One of the few competitive racers with cruise interior — Make a low offer.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40

Very popular tricabin layout with extensive cruising inventory. A classic yacht with fine appointments and loving maintenance. Ready to leave. Asking only $59,956.

2415 Mariner Square Drive, Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 521-1929

Northern California Dealer for Pacific Seacraft Yachts FAX: (415) 522-6198 page

Some Days Freedom Sailors Seem to have the Mav to

One recent weekday we T m^ spotted only five sailboats on -~ ~ the Bay. Four were Freedoms. It wasn’t a dealer demo and it *T" * ■ j wasn’t a coincidence — just a fact: Freedom sailors sail more, because Freedom sailing is pure condensed fun. Check with charter operators from Alameda to Anacortes; Freedoms are the most popular fleet boats. Check the Bay on a busy weekday — Freedoms are everywhere. Check your Freedom dealer, where Freedoms are getting scarce. We still have two at ’88 prices. 35’ GARDEN Ketcfe 34,95< 35’ SANTANA S275 Mo 49.50C 36’ CASCADE 49,5(X 36’ ISLANDER 42,00( 36’ STEVENS 29.95C 37’ GULFSTAR 69,5a 38’ C&C LANDFALL 76.5a 38’ HANS CHRISTIAN UQ.CWC 38’ STEEL P.H. 79,5a 39’ FREEDOM EXPRESS 525.0)0 39’ FREYA 79,500 40’ CHEOY LEE Offshore 59,950 41’ MORGAN OUTISLAND 85.000 41’ YANKEE CLIPPER 69,500 42’ GARDEN Kerch 105,000 43’ GULFSTAR 75,000 43’ HANS CHRISTIAN 127,500 43’ HANS CHRISTIAN Trad 125.000 43* WESTSAIL 104,900 44’ FREEDOM 130.600 44’ FREEDOM m Florida 130,000 44’ LANCER Motorsaitef 139,500 44’ PETERSON Cutter {2} 109,600 45’ BREWER Ketch 85,000 45’ EXPLORER i 10,000 45’ FUJI 124.900 45’ LANCER Powersafer (2) 125,000 47’ VAGABOND Ketch 125,000 48’ S&S 149,500 48’ STEEL P.H. M/S 25€ 301 50’ CUSTOM STEEL 240,000 52’ GARDEN/MONK 110,000 52’ IRWIN Ketch 145,000 55’ FARR 545.000 SELECT POWER BROKERAGE 23’ THUNDERBIRD 19,000 50’ OCEAN ALEXANDER 365,000 58’ HATTERAS Yacht Ftsbermss 450,000

GURNEY 33 Huissman built aluminum cruiser whose sistership performed well in the SORC. If you want to get there fast and in comfort and style, you must see this beauty. $54,900.

BREWER 35 One of Brewers many great designs. Boat shows as new. She is outfitted to cruise and will turn heads at every anchorage. Call us for a com¬ plete inventory. Asking $69,500.

PERRY' 41 New Listing!! Great Perry designed cruising boat for the budget minded sailor. This one won’t last long so call us for details and an appoint¬ ment. $69,900. ;§§f/|

ELITE 29 Sleek European styling with open, airy int. + 2 enclosed staterooms. Combine this w/graceful sailing characteristics & you have a yacht which is the pride of the dock. Asking $43,900.

HANS CHRISTIAN 43 We now have two of the cleanest: one ketch, one cutter. The ketch has radar, Loran, 2 heads. Cutter has roller furling, perfor¬ mance keel and lots of trophies. 2 From $125,000.

RAMPAGE 40 A tough, dependable singlemind'ed machine born of the classic New England, downto-business tradition — not just a fishing machine but also an entertainment platform — with all the comforts of home.

2415 Mariner Square Dr., Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 521-1029 2505 W. Padfie Coast Highway, Newport Beach, CA 92663 (714) 548-1422 FAX: (415) 522-6198 page I I

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WE CAN PUT NEW WIND INTO YOUR OLD SAILS.

sailing style, your own unique repair needs. She also happens to be backed by a thorough, experienced support team, a full compliment of on-premise equipment, and a fast sail collection & delivery service. If your sails have lost their shape, Karen will introduce you to Howie Marion. He’ll recut your sails for optimum per¬ formance. So if you're looking to put new wind into your old sails...that’s right, just call Karen. (415) 521-8474

Whether it's the tiniest rip or a luff-to-leech tear, just call Karen. If you’re ready to convert to a roller reefing system, just call Karen. How about a conversion to longer battens? Just call Karen. Why? She happens to be one of the best sail repair experts on the Bay. With almost ten years experience at some of the best known lofts. And because she’s an ocean veteran, she speaks your language. She understands you have your own

Karen Anderson

MARION SAILMAKERS INCORPORATED

Putting you first. Alameda Marina - Building 32 - 2035 Clement Ave., Alameda, CA 94501

STN-24: Ultra-high visibility Supertwist LCD fishffinder with large digital depth, speed and temperature readouts. Weatherproof, very compact unit provides detailed pictures of fish activity, bottom profiles, and important navigation data.

• Three modes: 1) Fishfinding plus surface water temperature, 2) Fishfinding plus boat speed, 3) Jumbo digital readouts of bottom depth, water temperature (32-99.8°F), and boat speed through the water (0-40 knots) • 4.1 x 1.9-inch display area • 457 dots per square inch • Selectable auto-range • 5 ranges from 0 to 15, 30, 60,120 and 240 feet • 2 shifts per range (except 240 ft) • Auto-sets 3 pulse widths and 50 or 530 watts p-p power • 5 sweep speeds • Freeze • 200 khlz • Shallow/deep/fish alarms • Interference and noise rejection • Transom mount triducer standard, bronze thru-hull optional • Needs little power (11.5-15.6 Vdc at less than 1.7 watts) • Two-year limited warranty

STN-24 LCD Fishfinder/ Navigation Sounder

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Wire Length 30' 40’ 40’ 50’ 60’ 65’ 70’ 70’ 85’

Line Length 30’ 40’ 50’ 50’ 60’ 65’ 70’ 70’ 85’

List Price 74.00 99.00 116.00 148.00 196.00 229.00 250.00 322.00 495.00

Sale Price 37.00 47.00 58.00 74.00 98.00 112.00 125.00 161.00 250.00

Rotary Swaging for Alt Applications up to 3/4” Diameter Wire — Complete Line of Nico-Press Sleeves, Thimbles, Shackles, Turnbuckles, Blocks, Lifelines, Docklines, Double-Braid and Splicing Capabilities —

Retail 32.50 26.60 28.50 44.50 35.00 37.70 65.50 49.50 56.50 74.70 78.00

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ISLANDER 36. Perkins dsl, 4 sails, extra large Barient winches, kT-DP, WS-WP, RDF-VHF, large stove w/oven — boat shows like brand new. $53,000.

EAGLE YACHT SALES (3) CATALINA 22 from $3,790 ’84 O’DAY 22 8,500 RANGER 22 9,000 (2) CORONADO 25 from 5,400 70 INT’L FOLKBOAT 14,000 (6) CATALINA 27’s from 10,000 68 SANTANA 27 12,800 '69 VEGA 27 14,500 ’63 CAL 30 19,000 (4) CATALINA 30’s from 27,500 73 FISHER 30 49,500 70 BRISTOL 33 28,000 76 ISLANDER 36 53,500 ’81 CATALINA 38 60,000 77 CAL 39 76,500 ’82 SWI FT 40 ketch 95,000 ’85 NAUTICAT 40 185,000 '85 NAUTICAT 43 210,000 77 GULFSTAR50 110,000

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CALENDAR Nonrace July 1 — BAMA Lecture/Slide Show. Malcolm Tennant, the noted Kiwi multihull designer, will talk about — you guessed it — multihulls. MYCO, 8 p.m., free. Lynne Therriault, (415) 232-2725. July 3-5 — Catalina 27, Fleet 1, cruise to Benicia (Glen Cove). Fireworks, good times. Possibly continue to the Delta on July 6-9. Tom Walsh, (415) 943-1030. July 4 — Fourth of July. Excercise your independence — go sailing! July 4 — Thunderbird 1989 World Championship Fundraiser/ Outdoor Market. Golden Gate YC, 10 a.m. on. Lots of stuff at bargain prices. Joyce Newport, (415) 636-0607. July 6 — Call of the Sea Lecture Series. Chris Norgaard, N.A., will talk about tallships. Plus, an “exciting” sailing movie that hasn’t been picked yet. Bay Model, Sausalito, 7-9 p.m., free. (415) 331-1282. July 16 — Marine Flea Market. Hosted by the Sierra Point YC at the Brisbane Marina between 0800-1600 hours. Marion, (415) 871-6841. July 20, 1876 — The toast of New York’s racing fleet, a new 140-foot schooner named Mohawk, tips over and sinks as a violent gust hits her moments after weighing anchor for an afternoon sail. The owner, his wife, two friends and the cabin boy are trapped below and die in the tragedy. With Mohawk’s capsizing, the popularity of wide beam, shallow draft (in this case, 30 feet wide and 6 feet deep) vessels wanes, ushering in an era of leaner, deep-draft racing yachts. July 23 — Another T-Bird Fundraiser, this one at Bay View Boat Club. See above. July 30-31 — First Annual Small Craft Rowing and Sailing Regatta. From their press release: “Craftsmen from across northern California will be sailing their handiwork, trading tips, and taking notes as professional and amateurs meet to talk shop, lift oars, and hoist sail.” National Maritime Museum, (415) 929-0202. August 5-13 — Fourth Annual Tahoe Wooden Boat Week, featuring Tahoe YC’s Sixteenth Annual Concours d’Elegance and the Fourth Annual Antique and Classic Boat Society Show. Knock on wood! (916) 581-4700. August 6 — Fifth Annual Seafood BBQ Fundraiser for the Oceanic Society. Paradise Park, Tiburon. Sail over and chow down for a nominal donation. Chapter Office, (415) 441-5970. Racing July 1-5 — O’Neill San Francisco Classic, a six-day windsurfing/ beach festival that began on June 28. Windsurfing kahuna Robbie Naish will be there, as will a bunch of other rad dudes. An 18.5 miler on July 1; a “reach-ride-fun” (fun?) triathlon on July 2; and final buoy races on July 4-5. Events West, (415) 383-9378. July 1-16 — Olympic Trials. Final regatta for 388 athletes before the real thing in Pusan. Held in Newport, R.I. (470 men, 470 women, FD, Tornado, Division II sailboard), San Diego (Star, Soling), and Marblehead, Mass. (Finn). July 2 — Boreas Race. The 37th annual 84-miler from StFYC to Moss Landing. Co-sponsored by Oakland and Elkhorn yacht clubs. Usually attracts 40 to 50 boats in three divisions. Joan Powell, (408) 724-3875. July 2-9 - Tahoe Sail Week. Includes the Olson 30 Nationals, a sailboard regatta, and PHRF and one-design racing. Pray for wind. Windjammers YC, (916) 544-4226. July 3 and 4 - Oakland-Catalina Race. Surf’s up! See related article. Tom Tazelaar, 534-3758, or Margaret Fago, 522-1309. July 3 — Annual Mayor’s Independence day Sailing Regatta. Lake Merrit. LM Sailboat House, (415) 444-3807v page 19

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PEARSON 37 Fast family cruiser roller furling, spinnaker, windspeed wind direction, knot, Loran, propane well-equipped. Very clean. Owner mov ing up. Asking $63,500.

GULFSTAR 37 '79 Rarely do you find a brokerage boat so clean: 140% genoa, 90% jib, Perkins 50hp dsl; very unusual wide open interior; owner always took good care of her. Perfect liveaboard. $68,500.

RAFIKI 35 Ready to cruise. A full sail inventory including cruising spin¬ naker, windvane, AP, and lots of chain. A sturdy, well-equipped cruiser.

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July 4 — Pacific Cup. The fun race to Hawaii! See Swami Spunky’s predictions in Sightings. July 6-10 — Fifth Annual Liberty Cup, aka “The East Coast Congressional Cup”. Match racing in New York City Harbor. July 9-10 — PICYA Championships. Inter-club racing in Islander 36’s, Santana 22’s, El Toro’s and PHRF (120-144). Who’s the best on the Bay? July 9 — Midnight Moonlight Madness Race. There won’t be much of a moon, and hopefully no one will be out until midnight, but what the hell. Tides favor smaller boats this year. Low key and fun. San Francisco YC, (415) 435-9133.

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July 9-17 — American/Australian Cup. StFYC hopes to con¬ tinue their winning streak in Six Meters in a best-of-seven Olympic Circle series against the Men From Down Under. July 9-10 — Andreas Cove YC’s Island-to-island Race. From Bruno’s Island on the San Joaquin River, around Angel Island, and back up into the Delta. Open to all yachts whose PHRF ratings are between 75 and 275. Joe Gruchacz, (916) 684-1723. July 10-15 — Audi Yachting Race Week in Whidbey Island. AucL of America and Yachting magazine put on three race weeks — Key West, Block Island, and this one. About 250 boats will race in beautiful Puget Sound in the sixth annual edition of this event. July 15-17 — Adam’s Cup Semi-Finals. Postponed from June to July, this event pits 7 or 8 of the best women sailing teams on the Bay against each others in J/24’s. Latitude predicts that Susie Madrigali will win, but she’ll be pressed by Alex Monson and Marsha Peck. The winner qualifies for the Adam’s Cup in Everett, WA, on August 26. Linda Corrado Roy, (415) 442-2710. July 16-17 — Silver Eagle Long Distance Bay Race. Island YC will sponsor their 12th annual eighty-mile scenic tour of the Bay. The race starts early Saturday morning off St. Francis YC, pokes briefly out the Gate, and then reaches all over the Bay. Widely rumored to be the most fun middle distance sprint race in the world. Christine Peterson, (415) 522-3532. July 17 — Drag/Slalom Race for Windsurfers (Course & Short Boards). Windsurfing Berkeley, (415) 841-9463. July 22 - Ultimate Yacht Race . . . postponed. See note in The Racing Sheet.

July 22-24 — North/South Team Race between the NorCal San¬ tana 35 fleet and the SoCal Schock 35 fleet. Five on five on the Berkeley Circle. Berkeley YC and Marriott Inn are the sponsors. Shelley Graham, (415) 865-3870. July 23 — Horace’s Revenge, also known as the Ocean-Vallejo Race. First ocean race of the second half. Sponsored by the Vallejo page 21

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Prize Donation Teak Table and Box Set Electrical Kit Personal Compasses Sunshowers Crew Clothing Boat Maintenance Kit Ship’s Bell Clock Clock Trophies Folding Bicycle Mk 25 Sextant Holdall Gear Bags Automatic Halon Fire Extinguisher Barbeque Lights & EPIRB Winch Handles & Spinlock Sheetstoppers Dock Cart Barbecue Running Rigging Ventilation Equipment Spotlight 5 hp Outboard Motor 25mm Flare Kit Easy Lock Sheet Stoppers Battery Charger Compass Maximum Clock VHF Radio Lifejackets Commander Binoculars $1000 West Marine Products Gift Certificate Sailing Gloves Bottom Paint Bottom Paint

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YC. (707) 648-9404. July 23 — Plastic Classic Regatta. A fun race for early Tupperware boats. Last year, the windward mark was a float decorated with a fake cow (why, we don’t know) and a bunch of girls in swimsuits. Bay View Boat Club, (415) 788-9496. July 27-30 — Santa Cruz 27 Nationals. After last year’s Nationals in what their newsletter termed “Sailboat Hell” (the racing on Lake Tahoe was a bit flukey), the SC 27’s return to their homeport of Santa Cruz for a three-day series. Santa Cruz YC, (408) 425-0690. July 27-31 — Express 27 Nationals. Seven races over three days, with a layday on July 29th. Approximately 30 skippers are expected to “Express” themselves. Richmond YC will host the event. Bruce Powell, (415) 234-9047. July 29-Aug 13 — Kenwood Cup. Approximately 40 grand prix 10R machines will race three triangles, the 150-mile Molokai Race, and the biggy, the 775-mile Around the State Race. The maxi’s will race two more races as part of their ’88 World Tour. Probably the best yacht racing in the world. July 30-31 — The Vallejo Race. Back by popular.demand, this is the make-up race for all you Shell-shocked sailors who were denied the pleasure of this traditional blow-out weekend a few months ago. July 30-31 — Thunderbird Invitational Regatta & Open House. A three race weekend and raft-up at the Golden Gate YC. Jim Newport, (415) 636-0607.

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Remaining Beer Can Races CORINTHIAN YC — Friday nights through September 2. Fred Borgman, 435-2777. ENCINAL YC — Friday nights in the Oakland Estuary. Summer series: 8/5, 8/19, 9/9, 9/23, 10/7. Seth Bailey, 786-6944 (days) or 521-4780 (nights). GOLDEN GATE YC — Friday nights, Series II: 7/29, 8/12, 8/26, 9/9. Call the club at 346-BOAT. ISLAND YC — Alternating Friday nights with the the EYC series. Summer series: 7/29, 8/12, 8/26,9/16, 9/30. Seth Bailey (see above). SANTA CRUZ — Every Wednesday night until the end of daylight savings time. Starts outside the harbor sometime after 6 o’clock. Very loose, very fun. SAUSALITO CRUISING CLUB — Friday nights, Late Series: 7/29, 8/12, 8/26, 9/9. Milt Roed, 332-0700. SAUSALITO YC — Tuesday nights, Summer Series: 7/26, 8/9, 8/23, 9/6, 9/20. Don Chandler, 331-4017. page 23

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LETTERS □BE SMART - NOT BITTER OR PETTY We’re split, he and I. Since our sailboat is too large for me to skip¬ per and maintain, I ‘sold’ my half of our ‘lady’ to him. He promised to pay me so that I could have a smaller lady of my own while he’d be able to keep our dream girl . . . the girl we built, worked for and cherished. Fair enough. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the cash to buy me out. I have to wait until he “works it all out”. And that’s why he’s taking our friends out sailing while I’m left on the dock with no boat to sail. Our friends thank him for the great day out on the Bay; naturally they don’t thank me, since I didn’t take them out. Sure, I’ve answered ads and had some sailing dates, too. But he’s got our boat and our friends go sailing with him! I could get an injunction and stop him cold from taking the boat anywhere until matters between us are settled. But if I do, everybody would call me a bitch — and they’d be right because it would be a rot¬ ten thing to do. So I’d lose everybody’s friendship — along with my marriage and my boat. The price is way too high. I can only hurt. The point of this? Simple. Gals, if the relationship splits up, don’t let go of the dockline. You keep the boat and let him ask permission to sail her. Keep possession until he pays for your half of the lady you loved, cared for, maintained and lost. Don’t be bitter or petty — be smart. As soon as I get another invitation to go sailing, I’ll see you on the Bay. Marina Parata (Real name withheld by request) Alameda Marina — It doesn’t matter if your’re male or female, being smart means insisting on getting what’s reasonably yours in a timely fashion. Being a bitch only comes into play if your demands are designed to punish or if you renege on some otherwise reasonable settlement. For their own good, both parties should be as flexible as possible, however. Sawing houses, cars or children in half is counterproduc¬ tive; so are forced sales of sailboats in soft markets. Be reasonable but firm and you won’t have to hope for good luck — it will come looking for you.

□LIP SERVICE ONLY? I’m writing in response to the ‘Does Not Blow Tubes letter by Eugene Kelly of Sea Land on page 35 of the June issue. Having served on ships owned by Sea Land, American President Lines, Matson, etc., I know it’s true that the standard directives from the home office are what Mr. Kelly says they are. However, what actually happens onboard is another thing altogether. Blowing tubes in the area of a port is no longer a pratice by ships. The use of sewage systems, on the other hand, is another question. Many ships have sewage systems which do not function correctly but which are made to look as though they work by so-called smart Chiefs and First Engineers for the benefits of United States Coast Guard inspectors. Some ships have holding tanks and then pump the sewage overboard far out to sea. As for the bilges, the units that are aboard many United States ships to separate oily bilge water down to the allowable limit of 50 parts per million may only function for one to two minutes before overloading. Thus, they have to then be shut down or require addi¬ tional maintenance. Therefore, they are often by-passed or just allowed to sit. Again, many times they are doctored up to look like they are working for the ‘regulatory bodies . Many times this oily bilge water is pumped directly overboard, page 33

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CAL 3-27 Like brand new and

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LETTERS

^nhrr* rather than through the separators, once the ship has left port. You can publish all the directives from home offices to ship’s Masters that you want, but in reality some of it is still ca ca. A Northern Californian Northern California Readers — The author of this letter requested that his name be withheld since he has a relative who works for Sea Land. The letter, incidentally, was written on Sea Land stationery.

□ HIS FINEST HOUR IN INTERGALACTIC COMPETITION I read with great interest your June 1988 article on my friend and occasional shipmate, Bob Dickson. Actually, 1 am closer to his sister, Martha, principally because she is much prettier. She, too, by the way, is able-bodied at sea and cool under fire. I was dismayed, however, that your synopsis of Bob’s seagoing accomplishments overlooked what is undoubtedly the highlight of his corinthian career: winning the cruising class in Newport Harbor YC’s 1986 Opening Day Race on my world-famous Kettenberg 38,

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This renowned West Coast event uses an incredibly innovative rating formula devised and applied by our local Supreme Rating Authority, Tom Wilder, and takes into account the number of scantily-clad women in the crew, seasick children under the age of 10, death roll oscillations per mile, and number of bypasses in the skipper’s (must be owner-sailed) recent heart surgery. This is racing! Your preoccupation with the likes of Ticonderoga, Escapade, Blackfin, Sorcery, etc., is understandable. So, too, with TransPac, Tahiti, SORC, and multiple Mexican races. But, my God, man, we’re talking intergalactic competition here. Bob was sailing master on that eventful race in early May of 1986. We had gear failures to match Ti’s in TransPac (our boom vang broke), sailing conditions to rival Cape Horn (actually 12-15 knots abaft the beam), and were forced to utilize the Swedish watch system due to crew fatique (this was a 14-mile green water race from L. A. to Newport). Once safely back in our berth, we even had to send a crewman aloft when the burgee pigstick was determined to be hopelessly fouled in the rigging. Throughout all this, Bob was composed, called tactics, and steered us downhill to an unchallenged first in class. I submit that this must have been his “finest hour.” Just thought you’d like to know. Pete Pallette Irvine Peter

— Dickson had a couple of other ‘‘finest hour’s” we

neglected to mention. One was the 1957 TransPac aboard Peter Grant’s Nalu II, in which they took first in Class C and second in fleet. Another was the 1959 TransPac on the same 46-footer in which they won class and fleet honors. The latter was the famous race they started with five live chickens caged on deck. One story had it that the chickens were brought along so warm chicken blood and rum could be spilled on the waters to appease the Hawaiian gods. Another was that they simply didn’t have enough refrigeration to provide fresh meat for the whole voyage. Three chickens died during the trip from what was termed "exposure”; the other two were killed, plucked, cooked and eaten

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As the proud new owners of a previously-owned Catalina 22, we told some of our friends that we renamed the boat Daniel’s Delight. Our idea was to encourage our 6-year-old’s inte/est in sailing. It

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39,500 41,000 69,000 25,995 59,995 32,950

30' 30’ 32’ 32’ 33’ 34’ 34’

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LETTERS seems to be working; he loves “his boat”. One of our friends, however, says it’s bad luck to re-name a boat. What, pray tell, are the rules/traditions concerning the naming and re-naming of sailboats? Mike Savino & Judith Linck Sacramento Mike & Judith — While there is something of a superstition that re¬ naming a boat is bad luck, it’s hardly a rule or even tradition. Years back, sometimes you had to give the boat a new name as the old owners would ‘reserve the name’. Such was the case with the modestly successful Tioga, which when renamed Ticonderoga became one of the most record-smashing yachts in history. Actually, the belief in such taboo’s seems to be on the wane. We’ve renamed all of the boats we’ve ever owned and last time we checked they were all still floating.

□RECOGNIZING A GOOD DEED The crew of Dr. Tom Otter’s American Eagle, a Santana 35, got an unexpected bonus on June 4th during their return to South Beach from a grueling 19-mile one-design race: they saved the life of a young man who went swimming in the Bay wearing only a pair of jeans. Foredeckman Charles Barry spotted the swimmer’s head at the north end of the seawall outside South Beach Marina. After the mainsail was lowered, the crew of American Eagle motored over to see what the man could possibly be doing in the Bay’s icy waters. The young man was swimming slowly and making his way south along the seawall which consists of vertical concrete slabs and extends to the south for a long distance. Barry and mainsheet trimmer Don Huffman talked to the swim¬ mer, who refused to grab any of the lines thrown him. The young man insisted that he was okay and needed no help. However the crew finally coaxed the cold swimmer into hanging onto a line, and he was hauled on deck. Once aboard, he more or less collapsed. The crew dried him off and took him belowdecks to warm up with the engine heat. When he began to shiver and shake, bowperson Jean Anderson held him to warm him up. The Coast Guard notified the San Francisco emergency services. When American Eagle got to the dock, the fire and police depart¬ ments, as well as the paramedics, took over. The young man was taken to San Francisco General where he was treated for hypothermia and then referred for a psychiatric examination. There is no doubt in my mind that the young man would have perished in five or ten minutes if American Eagle hadn’t happened along at the exact time she did, and if the one crewman in nine hadn’t seen the young man’s head just above the surface. Emmanuel Uren Crew coordinator, American Eagle Emmanuel — One of the problems with hypothermia is that the victims feel no pain and thus don’t realize how great a danger they are in. While some people swim in the Bay almost everyday — Herb Madden, owner of Sausalito Yachf Harbor, is one of them — irregulars should always be considered excellent candidates for misfortune.

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their boat just prior to the ten-minute gun of YRA races on San Francisco Bay? Just A Woman Berkeley J.A.W. — If men drank as much beer at work as they do before, during and after sailboat races, they would indeed be peeing all over Market Street.

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□THE CHANGING SEAS In your June 1988 issue there was an invitation for opinions on a list of the ‘Seven Seas’. Here’s a few: The Seven Seas Cruising Association once offered the South China, the Celebes, the Timor, the Banda, the Flores, the Java and The Sulu Seas as those known to the salts who plied the clipper ship tea route between China and England. Sounds good and it sounds reasonable — but how about some others? Seven as a number, “God’s Number”, has seemed significant since olden days. There were seven days in a week, seven wonders of the ancient world, seven ‘wandering stars’ (we now know there are more planets than that), seven holes in our heads (that hasn’t changed for most of us), and the seven ages of man. The Seven Seas meant dif¬ ferent things in different eras and different climes. One suggestion is that since the Mediterranean Basin was where advanced civilizations once flourished, a salty tar bragging of having sailed the seven seas meant he’d been everywhere including the Mediterranean, the Crete, the Aegean, the Ionian, the Adriatic, the Tyrrhenian and the Ligurian Seas. That was their whole world then. “All the oceans of the world” changed as exploration expanded our horizons. In another era the seven were considered to be the Mediterranean, the Red, the China, the West African and the East African Seas, the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. Now that we know, or think we know, what this globe looks like, a modern list might include the Arctic, the Antarctic, the North Atlan¬ tic, the South Atlantic, the North Pacific, the South Pacific, and the Indian Ocean. Complete, maybe, but it has lost its romance. Let’s put the Ligurian Sea back in there someplace. There may be, and probably are, some other compilations. Remember, “different ships — different long splices”. Well, at least that’s what the skipper said as he went aft to hoist the jib. George L. Hostetter San Diego

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LETTERS SAVE $$$ Americans, setting fire to Sikhs, keeping Catholics out of the country clubs and hunting peasants from helicopters with automatic weapons. The world is built on discrimination of the most horrible kind. The problem with South Africans is that they admit it. They don’t say, like the French, “Algerians have a legal right to live in the 16th arrondissement, but they can’t afford to.” They don’t say, like the Israelis, “Arabs have a legal right to live in West Jerusalem, but they’re afraid to. ” They don’t say, like the Americans, “Indians have a legal right to live in Ohio, but, oops, we killed them all. ” The South Africans just say, “Fuck you. ” I believe it’s right there in their constitu¬ tion: “Article IV: Fuck you. We’re bigots.” We hate them for this. And we’re going to hold indignant demonstrations and make our universities sell all their krugerrands until the South Africans learn to stand up and lie like white men.” Chris, one of the great reasons for travelling is that it causes so many commonly-held erroneous beliefs to fall dead.. The consistent message we get from cruisers who have actually visited South Africa is not that apartheid ought to be saved — it shouldn’t — but rather how much South Africa is like the United States. The point being that it’s grossly hypocritical for Americans to be telling South Africans what to do until we’ve decided how we’re going to give this country back to the Indians.

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□PART OF THE PROBLEM I read my June 1988 issue of Latitude 38 with the same interest and excitement as I read my first issue three years ago. My compliments to you on an excellent publication. I would like to comment on the information from Mike Gehb (Saga, Wylie 65) in the Changes in Latitudes section of the June 1988 edition. In that article, Mr. Gehb wrote about his visit to South Africa and described the South African people as being very friendly and helpful and the country as offering an almost unlimited choice of things to see and do. He even went on to say that it couldn’t be that bad — I assume for Blacks — since the borders were jammed with people trying to get in. The main reason for Blacks crossing the border into South Africa is for work. South Africa controls most of the economy and commerce in the southern tip of the African conti¬ nent and that is where the jobs are. You can be assured they aren’t entering South Africa for rest and recreation. I am happy that Mr. Gehb and his family had a wonderful time and were well-treated. 1 am a black sailor and wonder if I would have had the same experiences. I have lived and traveled extensively throughout western and cen¬ tral Africa. In the ten years my family and I lived in Africa, we did not find any Blacks hoping to go to South Africa for any reason other than to fulfil! a dream of pushing the white South Africans into the sea. Perhaps they should get a boat and get a different perspective. At the end of the article your staff added insult to injury by adding comments about how other sailors had had a wonderful time there also. While I am sure they did, the repeated idea that a wonderful time is being had by aE indicates either a naivete or ignorance to what actually goes on tn that country. In either case, there is an old saying: “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” I still think that you publish a great jag but when you report praise about South Africa and touch on the politics, you set yourself up as part of the problem. George Lythcott Oakland

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Cove’ syndrome. In other words, you can get tired of perfect anchorages. What sustains most successful long-term cruisers are the terrific people they meet and acquiring first-hand knowledge of the places they visit. The cruisers we’ve talked to rave about South Africa both because of its tremendous natural beauty and wildlife but also because of the things they are able to learn firsthand. What they’ve told us is not that apartheid is good, but that what they saw was often greatly at odds with what gets reported and portrayed in the news. There are two basic schools of thought in the United States about what to do about South Africa. One is to cut off all investment and support and try to isolate that country into submission. A second is to maintain as many business and political relations with South Africa as possible in the belief that retaining a strong presence would be the most effective way to bring about positive change. The former concept is the most popular in the United States; but, cruisers we’ve talked to suggest that the latter is much more popular with people in South Africa —. be they white, black or colored. The possibility that America might be wishing something on a country that its people don’t want wouldn’t be anything new. A year after the U.S. invasion of Grenada, for example, some church denomination held a big rally in New York protesting United States’ intrusion into Grenada political life. Ironically, that very same day in Grenada a church of the same denomination held a big rally to thank the United States for having rescued their country. Stuff like that makes us think that things aren’t quite as simple as Time magazine would have us believe. Having been similarly fooled several times before by sanc¬ timonious Americans of all political persuasions, we now prefer to draw our own conclusions, when possible, from firsthand experi¬ ence. We encourage others to do the same. It is in this sense that we continue to believe that cruising South Africa — like El Salvador, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, etc. — would indeed be “wonderful”.

□ SOLEMN RITUALS OF THE SEA A good part of the time I find myself sailing with a crew of landlub¬ bers who are out for their very first sail on the Bay. It’s great to watch them enjoy the Cityfront sweep by, or to give them a rare view of the backside of Alcatraz. Better yet, it’s really fun to pop them out the Gate. Very few greenhorns who sail with me are spared the chance to see the bottom of the big bridge. Some are scared and some are sick, but they all love it because I make them the objects of a little-known solemn ritual of the sea. Just as saltier types are feated on their first crossing of the equator, my hearties are pronounced “Gatecrashers” — if they make it out and back inside the Golden Gate. The ceremony goes like this. 1 have a portable stereo strapped to the deck with a cassette set to go off about 50 yards from the bridge. The music I use is an incredible rendition of Amazing Grace played by the Royal Scots Black Dragoons Marching Band. It starts off with one bagpipe on the first chorus. Then just as the boat is square under the bridge — I always time it just right — the other 49 bagpipes blast off so loud that pedestrians on the bridge have heard them. At this point each crewmember must rais§ his flask o’ grog and quaff it down. (Not the Skipper, though; he respects the law.) Then the Skipper sloshes a little grog over the gunwale as a supplication to the 01’ Man of the Sea. We do alot of “ah-harrs” and “avast ye swabs” and take various salty oaths, toasting the bridge and the sea. Eventually, on the return leg, we get ready for the pronounce¬ ment. If the Gate wind is strong enough, I use Wagner’s Flight of the Walkeries on the stereo. As we slip below the bridge each swab gets a liberal christening with what’s left of the grog, while the Skipper, by page 49

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Emeryville Ken — During a wild dash from Paris to the Cote D’Azur a few years ago, we stopped for dinner at a nearly empty sidewalk cafe in Grenoble, France. As we were about to commence eating, a woman passing by wished us “bon appetit”. It was a touching gesture that made us feel welcome in a foreign country. Now before we eat, we always wish everyone a “bon appetit”. A silly little tradition, to be sure, but one that somehow makes all our meals a little more enjoyable. We’re certain your whimsical ‘ritual of the sea’ does exactly the same thing. We congratulate you on such a wonderful idea. Like you, we’d be interested to hear of any other similar traditions.

□ IN RECOGNITION OF FINE JOB As a member and organizer of one of San Francisco Bay’s big boat one-design fleets — a tough job on all counts — I’d like to acknowledge and commend those in the same position in the local Express 37 and J/35 fleets. I saw at least 13 boats starting in the Express one-design fleet off Berkeley and the Cityfront, as well as six J/35’s on the long course off Berkeley two weeks ago. Hot stuff you guys! Your boats look fantastic on the line! On that note, I’d also like to recognize the Santana 35 fleet’s growth this year. We had 13 boats on the line at the Cityfront and 12 on the long-distance course. Thanks Byron Mayo, Roger Neathery, Hal and Nancy Kaplener, and Larry and Junko Moberly — all new owners. And while I’m patting backs, I’d like to explain the funny green flags flying from the backstays of most of the Santana 35’s on the Cityfront. They were in honor of John Paxton of Sassenach, who flies a “No Limeys” battleflag. John crashed his airplane following the Spring One-Design Invitational. Fortunately, he survived. The Cityfront race was the first time he was back competing on his boat. Yeah! Here’s to John and crew! Shelley Graham Santana 35 Fleet Shelley - And here's to you, Shelley, for sharing that good infor¬ mation with us. Your Roving Reporter t-shirt is in the mail.

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□WITHOUT WHOM IT WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN POSSIBLE We just returned from Marina del Rey after sailing our “new” C&C 29 Serenity up the coast. The people involved are too numerous to mention all of them, but there are several without whom it would not have been possible. Jack Meagher at Bill Gorman Yachts in Alameda for his tireless efforts in coordinating everything so well we could hardly believe we were buying a boat 400 miles away. West Marine Products for getting everything we needed, and promptly. Special thanks to Peter at West Marine in Marina del Rey who was so helpful while we were down there frantically preparing the boat in a mere three days for the trip up the coast. John Sliwa for agreeing to fill in as crew at the last minute in the wee hours of the morning. Linda Newland for navigating Serenity safely home. And of course to C&C for building a fine and proper yacht. Steve & C.J. Rankin Alameda

□ LOCAL RESPONSE TO INTOLERANCE At least one local charter club (Club Nautique) is now warning charterers of the potential financial consequences of being boarded by the Coast Guard and caught with drugs while chartering one of their vessels. Enclosed is a flyer they gave me when I chartered last Saturday: “Warning. The United States Coast Guard is now strictly enforcing its ‘Zero Tolerance’ drug policy. Recently they have seized commer¬ cial and pleasure vessels which had minute quantities of drugs aboard. In one case, less than one ounce of marijuana. As a charterer of a Club Nautique vessel, in the event the vessel is boarded and seized by the Coast Guard, you may be liable for any or all of the following claims: “Full value of the vessel. A sum equal to the daily charter fee for each day the vessel is out of service. All fines and penalties. Any damage resulting from the seizure and Storage. Any and all legal fees and defense costs. “The bottom line: Do not take any drugs or allow any drugs to be taken aboard the vessel. The Coast Guard will interpret this as transportation of illegal substances and seize the vessel. It isn’t worth page 61

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□A GOOD OLD AMERICAN VIEW I don’t know what boaters you talk to, but your article on Zero Tolerence sure shows that you only know liberal boaters. If you are going to write an article on something like Zero Tolerance, you ought to think about giving a frank view of all sides. I’m really disappointed in your simplistic view of the drug problem, so I’ll give a good old American view. First, get your facts straight. Zero Tolerance is not new. The law has been on the books longer than I am old. It’s just being enforced now. Second, captains of all vessels have been responsible for any con¬ traband aboard since this country was founded. And the captain didn’t have to be aboard to be responsible. Third, the days of having a joint at leisure are over. No drugs means just that. You can’t get rid of a problem by allowing anyone to use any drugs. To stop killing our children this has to be done. Fourth, just because California law allows one ounce or so of pot, it doesn’t mean that this law supercedes any Federal law — besides, it doesn’t apply to intercoastal waterways or sea. Fifth, if Zero Tolerance is such a bad law, why doesn’t Congress change it. Well I’ll tell you — no congressman or senator would touch that with a 10-foot pole — they just want to complain about it. To blame the economy, crime or unrest for drugs just means you don’t know your history. Never before have we had it so good. I remember the Depression years; if anybody had reason to use drugs, those were the people, but there was no drug problem in those days. Lastly, all the boaters and sailors that I know seem to agree with my points. Most of my friends and associates are over 35 — what are yours and where do you get your information? I just can’t imagine a responsible paper of any kind taking the view that you have. It sounds like you think drugs are just fine. You would think your freedom is being jeopardized. How could you put this

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□ DIDN’T TAKE IT SO SERIOUSLY I feel an obligation to object to the Misfits Do Las Hadas article in the June Latitude. 1 enjoyed two months at and around Las Hadas and felt privileged to enjoy the facilities of a fine resort for a moderate charge. The ‘Rich and Famous’ pay upwards of $175 a day for a room; boats are offered the same facilities for little more than the price of the water they use. You can, by the way, anchor at Las Hadas for no charge. You pay for the dinghy dock, water and use of the hotel facilities if you choose. 1 appreciate the fun and problems of cruising on a budget, but there is no excuse for stealing from any business, and ‘cute’ or not, that’s exactly what the authors brag about in the article. I remember one indignant yachtie complained that the security guards were actually rude when they sent their children ashore to steal the use of the dock and sneak into the pool. Good example? When my guests and I went ashore at Tenacatita and walked to the Hotel Americana, we were greeted by a squad of security guards who made it clear that boat people were not trusted or welcome. It seems that earlier in the season it was considered ‘cute’ for yachties to mingle with the paying guests and steal meals and drinks and other benefits of the ‘American Plan’. Come on, guys! Don’t ruin Las Hadas and the few remaining shore facilities that welcome boaters for everyone else. After all, you may want to come or go back some day. Dick Chamberlin

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and Mission Bay area, the highlight was a day sail on San Diego Bay. That day, on the seaward side of the Coronado Bridge, we were for¬ tunate enough to observe the new multihull Stars and Stripes in action by the man himself, Dennis Conner. The chance encounter whetted our desire to view the prize — the cup itself. We were to later learn that only San Diego YC members (and their guests) are entitled to view it. Isn’t that the same elitist atti¬ tude that the New York YC maintained when they had control for over 100 years? Has the America’s Cup been renamed the Yacht Clubs Only Cup? In your May 1988 issue, Conrad B. Senior wrote, “Similarly, when Sail America won the Cup back for the San Diego YC and the United States . . Wait a minute! The United States? I appreciated your response. “It’s often said that sports are a reflection of the per¬ sonality of a country.” It would seem that the lack of public accessibil¬ ity to view the prize — the cup — is yet another reflection! If all the yacht clubs in the United States adopt that policy, we are going to root for some other country to win the America’s Cup. Isn’t it a fact that more of the public have viewed the cup while it was in Australia than in the 132 years it resided in America? If so, we rest our case!!! Vince and Kerry Ann Alaimo Milpitas Vince and Kerry Ann — While not always available for viewing by the public, the San Diego YC has allowed the cup to be on display in a number of public places. We think you’re giving them a bad rap.

□ COMPELLED TO INVESTIGATE As a faithful East Coast follower of your magazine, I was surprised and disappointed to read Mr. Winer’s “Wing-Keel Sailors Lament” in me April Changes in Latitudes. I was surprised because after three years of producing over 1,000 wing-keel boats and several hundred hours of testing, racing, and cruising our designs, we have had no complaints, nor have we heard any complaints about the sailing characteristics. Initially, I was going to pass it off and not even reply and just let it die; but, since I’ve heard from five people who were considering one of our boats and were put off by this, 1 felt compelled to investigate and respond. The disappointment comes from the fact that Latitude 38 has always been scrupulous in checking accusations made in letters and elsewhere. I have noted your checking with the “other party” many times when someone accuses Penguin Lust of cutting them off while racing or when an irate buyer says that they have not been sent their cruising guide to Baja. In this case, not only did you not check the comments out, but in Latitude 38 you even printed a photo with an editorial caption. In the interest of fairness, I’d like you to call Mr. Jess Taylor at The International School of Sailing, (305) 525-8144, for his comments on the situation involving Mr. Winer and the O’Day 302, as well as his comments on the wing-keeled boats that they use in their charter fleet and school. The keel bolt situation was, obviously, a problem. We do torque the bolts at the factory, and all our dealers now have torque specs so they can recheck bolts. While we don’t normally expect something like this after 24 hours in “10-12 ieet of slop” and “50 knots of wind”, one might encounter loosening of keel bolts on a new boat. It is interesting to note that our dealer did not feel the problem serious enough to report it to us or file a warranty claim. Additionally, Mr. Winer’s failure to find the other two bolts (there are four, not two as he stated) is surprising, as they are easily seen under two floor timbers and accessible from a hole through each timber made for that purpose. Admittedly, on the aft most bolt, one needs to remove the bilge pump hose which runs over it, and the forward bolt would need page 73

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LETTERS the mast support post (a 3” stainless tube) to be unbolted and slid 3” to one side in order to gain access to tighten them, but they are both easily visible from the bilge. In closing, we at The O’Day Corporation are firm believers in wing keel technology. We are, obviously, not alone if you look at what’s going on in the industry. (Even the new Frers 41 is available with the same design Hydrokeel the O’Day 302 uses.) We do not see any disadvantages, and there are many advantages. I am curious to see what your conversation with Jess Taylor produces and look forward to seeing this letter and your comments in Letters. Robert W. Stringer Director of Marketing The O’Day Corporation Robert — First off, let us say that we sympathize with you. Many years ago we used to sell boats, and time and again we’d hear people dismiss perfectly good boats as being terrible on the basis of some dubious authority: ‘‘My friend down the dock says ketches can’t beat off a lee shore. ” “A guy whose sister dates a naval architect told me that ultralight boats fall apart after three or four years. ” “I read somewhere that unprotected spade rudders are the leading cause of loss at life at sea. ” “An old hippie in Port Townsend told me that Josh Slocum’s

Spray was the best boat ever built. ” Anybody who has ever tried to sell a boat knows exactly what we mean. The thing is about Winer is that he isn’t — pardon the pun — a whiner or a Pollyanna.

Skeptical about some equipment that

worked-out well, he was quick to praise. Similarly, when he panned the wing-keel, he didn’t do so in vague generalities (i.e. “a piece of shit”). His complaints were specific: “It makes the boat motion extremely unstable with a hobby-horse effect that I’ve never experi¬

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enced on fin or full-keeled boats. ” And, “The boat developed an unstable lift down the swells, making it dangerous to steer. I attribute it to the keel. ” Finally, he was careful to note that he was referring to heavy weather and that the opinion was his alone: “Wing-keels are not, for this sailor, good in heavy weather. ” Robert, you wanted us to ‘check the accusations’ but there’s nothing to check. Winer was merely expressing his opinion, nothing

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more or nothing less. And opinions aren’t right or wrong, they just are. Obviously we can’t recreate the situation to formulate an inde¬

like that. Maybe they’d agree with Winer, maybe they’d disagree, maybe they’d have some insight on how to make the boat handle better in heavy weather. We did call the International School of Sailing and spoke to Tom Thomas, who said he’d been out on wing-keel O’Days on many occasions. He gave the boats excellent marks and is of the opinion — from taking the boats out into the chop outside Port Everglades — that they hobby-horsed less than traditional boats. It was also his opinion that in heavy weather the wing-keel creates a lift that makes the boat easier to steer. Thomas, a very believable fellow, said that wing-keel boats are more responsive than those with traditional keels and turn in a much tighter arc. Having sailed on many different kinds of boats, Thomas wanted to put in a good word for O’Day quality. He told of an O’Day 39, Mai

Hai, that got caught out in the Gulfstream in a hurricane. The condi¬ tions were so bad that the Coast Guard refused to attempt a rescue. When a Soviet trawler came alonside, the sailboat crew abandoned the boat. Two days later Mai Hai washed up on a beach near Port page 75

"Magnifico”

Promises made* Promises kept* Big boats, little boats. Certainly we all know that size has little to do with how attached a person can be to his one and only. Boat, that is. But sometimes the size of the boat may influence the size of her commitments. Above, you see “Magnifico,” 120 feet in length. Her proud owner, Mr. Carl Dame, had made a couple of promises. First, he had generously offered to host on “Magnifico” the Corinthian Yacht Club’s annual stag banquet. Second, he’d promised “Magnifico” for the 1988 Opening Day parade on the Bay as official Committee Boat — the boat on which all the great and grave would sit in judgement as all the gilded and glorious sailed by. So there’s our point: Whjle Mr. Dame certainly cannot be any fonder of his boat than many of the rest of us, his commitments for “Magnifico” were of a higher magnitude than most of the rest of us could aspire to. But there was a problem. Several problems. Down below in “Magnifico.” The lovely lady had just arrived brand new from Florida, but there were vibrations, noises, fumes. Not a proper atmosphere for either a stag banquet or Opening Day officialdom. When all 120 feet of “Magnifico” rose up our marine railway into the boatyard, time was short. We gave her first aid and got the lady to the stag banquet, but she had to come back to Stone Boat Yard for eight weeks of two-shift-aday work. However, if you were out there on Opening Day, you saw “Magnifico” grandly assume her proper position, as hundreds of boats, little

boats, big boats, sailed up, paid respects, and sailed on. And after the parade, “Magnifico” sailed on herself, down to Mexico. Several days later, Stone Boat Yard got a long distance phone call. Mr. Dame asked if we would pass the word around the yard that “Magnifico,” in her finest hour, had behaved well; no vibrations, no noises, no fumes. Would we be sure to thank everybody, and express his appreciation to all? Well, of course we would. We’ve found the satisfactions of operating this 135 year old boatyard not primarily financial — and that is not a complaint. We ask you to remember this: Big boats, little boats, Stone Boat Yard treats all equally, as carefully and competently as we can, just as we have since 1853. Bring yours along and pay us a visit.

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LETTERS Everglades, dismasted and her keel snapped. She was taken to a local boatyard, given a new keel, mast and interior cushions and is available for charter today.

□THE CAPTAIN’S STORY As Captain of the M/Y Ark Royal when seized by the Coast Guard last month, I would like to give my comments to the “Zero Tolerance” program now in progress. First of all, it happened this way. At 0530, 7 May 1988, I was asleep while my engineer and deckhand had the wheelhouse watch. 1 awoke immediately upon hearing the engines come to idle and was up in the wheelhouse as quick as I could put my pants on. I knew I was near Cuban waters and didn’t know what might happen. The engineer informed me that a patrol vessel off to starboard about one mile had been following the Arlc Royal for about 90 minutes. She had no lights showing. With a pair of binoculars and the first light just beginning to break, 1 made out the vessel’s red stripe and identified her as a U.S.C.G. patrol boat. She was holding her position abeam about one mile, still showing no navigation or signal lights. After about five minutes I called the Coast Guard vessel on Channel 16. Getting no answer, I said, “Coast Guard vessel on my starboard beam, this is the Ark Royal. If you have no business with us, I will proceed underway.” 1 received no answer, no signals. I then returned to cruise RPM and continued on my course. The Coast Guard vessel fell in about two miles behind and followed until 0730 hours. My first radio call from them was asking the name and home port of my vessel. I told them. Then they asked for the Captain’s name and birth date, our destination, how many onboard and were there any weapons. Approximately 20 minutes later I received instructions to come to idle ahead and stand by for a boarding party. Seeing the boarding party approach the Ark Royal, I informed the vessel now identified as the cutter Tampa, that I had press cameras onboard and that their pictures would be taken during the boarding process. The Senior Boarding Officer (S.B.O.), a Warrant Officer, a Petty Officer and nine seamen came onboard. With proper courtesy, I was informed by the S.B.O. that this would be a “courtesy safety inspec¬ tion” and all my crewmembers should report to the wheelhouse. The S.B.O. requested three of my crew to act as guides for three search teams in going through the vessel. The S.B.O. asked for the ship’s papers which is where any similarity to a “safety inspection” ceased. The Coast Guard team was efficient, courteous and very thorough. During the next eight hours, the search team not only checked in among themselves every 15 minutes by radio, but the S.B.O. checked in with the Tampa every 15-20 minutes. My weapons locker was inventoried and locked with their locks. I was prevented from making any radio transmissions or phone call/telex on the SATCOM. No crewmember was allowed to move around the vessel without an escort. At about 0930, I was asked to come below to see what they had found in a wastepaper basket in the crews’ quarters. I looked at the bottom of the basket and saw one ‘stem’ and a couple of seeds. The stem was about a quarter of an inch long, and the seeds looked like sesame seeds. While it did not look'like anything to me, it did show up blue (positive) in the test bag. After this discovery, the team took apart another crews quarters. At about 1130 hours they found some of the same along the inside edge of a drawer. Again, it was too small to identify but did turn the test bag blue. There were four crew staterooms, but only two were searched. It seemed like the Coast Guard knew where to look. After conferring with the Tampa for about 40 minutes, I was inpage 77

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formed by the S.B.O. at 1225, that the Ark Royal was being seized and that we would be escorted to Key West by the Tampa. Again I was informed that no radio, telephone or telex could be transmitted. Prior to our departure from the area — and to my horror — the inspection team brought aboard electric drills, saws-alls, chisels, hammers, bore-scopes, and other “dismantling equipment”. Later that afternoon, 1 was asked by the S.B.O. for the name of the owner of Ark Royal. I tried to get away with the corporation name on the Document, but they insisted on a name and address. Being that we were not arrested, but could be, and that they had all the tools onboard to tear the ship apart, I felt that it would be in the best interest of the vessel to cooperate. 1 gave them the name of the owner only after getting their assurance that it would be held con¬ fidential. The Tampa relayed to the S.B.O. that the owner’s name would not be released to the public. The Public Information Officer at Key West Coast Guard base didn’t respect this agreement — as we all know. About the crew on the Ark Royal. None of the six smoked ciga¬ rettes. All had been given physicals prior to departure, including a urinalysis. Though no written contract or written agreements were made on hiring, a very detailed “Ship’s Regulations” was part of the indoctrination with detailed emphasis on the prohibition of drug use by either crew or guests. I had been with this crew for several months and believed that during that time they were drug-free. The finding of the marijuana was one big shock; the seizure was another. I was devastated. We were escorted to Key West first by the Tampa and then a 98-footer which met us the next morning. I might point out that the Tampa escorted us for 14 hours away from the area where we were boarded. This area, the Yacatan Chan¬ nel, is known as one of the three “choke points” being one of the routes for drugees coming north along with the Windy Passage and outside or through the Virgin Islands. The Tampa was northbound from station for 14 hours and then back 10 hours. Just how many tons of drugs could get through the Yacatan Straits during that time? We arrived at the Key West sea buoy at 1745 or so and were in¬ structed by the Coast Guard to plan our arrival at the Coast Guard base at 1930 hours exactly. We cruised off the sea buoy until 1900 hours then entered the channel arriving at the instructed time. Seeing the four TV cameras, reporters, senior officers, junior officers, civilians, Customs, U.S. Marshall, State Prosecuting Attorney and about 30 sightseers on the dock made quite a reception. The Coast Guard made hay while the sun shined. This is how it happened, and after our arrival the situation got even worse, though I won’t go into that part. What were the results of a couple of stems and a few seeds? s' Embarrassment and humiliation for the owner who was not onboard. s' Dismissal of the crew with the exception of the housekeeper. s' The names of all crewmembers on the “suspect list”. s' A bad name for the Ark Royal s’ The cost to the taxpayers for the use of Coast Guard vessels and crew for escort duty. is The possibility of large quantities of drugs passing through “The Choke” while the Tampa was off station. s’ Embarrassment to the Coast Guard and Customs to have to release the Ark Royal after being on national news saying that she would not be released. is Embarrassment to Customs in having to release many other vessels seized under similar circumstances. Truly, what a waste when the real problem is the drugs that are running the politicians, rackets, the speed shops and the gang wars,

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SIGHTINGS cup in the courts As we go to press, the future of the America’s Cup still dangles in the scales of Judge Carmen Ciparick’s New York court. In late May, lawyers for Michael Fay’s New Zealand challenge made a motion for a clarification of the judge’s previous interpretation of the Deed of Gift. Fay and the Kiwi’s are hoping that the good lady will rule that the San Diego YC’s catamarans are ineligible to defend against the Kiwi’s 90-ft waterline monohull. The San Diego YC, with what everybody concedes are easily faster catamarans, naturally hopes the judge will rule in their favor so the mismatch can commence as scheduled on September 3 in San Diego. A prominent story in Sports Illustrated claimed that no matter what Ciparick’s ruling, it will certainly be appealed by the losing party and therefore the America’s Cup almost won’t take place until early next year. cont’d on next sightings page

national weather Forgive the analogy, but there’s a storm brewing in Redwood City that could effect boaters all up and down the west coast. If a current proposal goes through, next June the guts of the National Weather Service stax ti'cm in that city will be disbanded and absorbed by other weather centers, all of which are east of the Mississippi. “The idea is to centralize the services,” says Glen Trapp of the Redwood City center. If the proposal goes through, he says the High Seas Forecasting (which now covers from the equator to latitude 50 and out to the dateline, except around Hawaii)

SIGHTINGS service — moving? would be about evenly divided between the National Meteorological Center in Washington and the Hurricane Center in Miami. Satellite Services would be absorbed by centers in Washington and Kansas City. Gone also would be public forecasting, in¬ cluding the beyond-the-call-of-duty per¬ sonalized addendums for specific offshore races. A skeleton crew of three marine and three aviation forecasters would stay on, bas¬ ing their work on what back east stations say is happening(l). Perhaps the most serious loss, though, is corn'd center of next sightings page

cup in the courts — cont’d Tom Mitchell of Sail America says that the story’s author, Sarah Ballard, didn’t completely understand the matter. If Fay were seeking an order and lost, explains Mitchell, any appeal would come with an automatic injunction to postpone the event. But since he’s only seeking a clarification, there is no automatic stay. Fay would have to file an injunction proving that he’d be damaged if the event were not postponed. It s Sail America’s opinion that Fay wouldn’t be able to prove he’d be damaged. But what if the unthinkable for the San Diego YC happens: Judge Ciparick rules that the San Diego catamarans are ineligible? Mitchell says the San Diego YC would then have several options. They could appeal the case and hopefully get an injunction to postpone because — Mitchell thinks — they could easily prove that an unfavorable ruling would be very damaging to them. Mitchell also thinks that if Judge Ciparick rules against the San Diego YC, she’ll at least give them ten months to build a suitable challenger. He notes that the matter is being held in a New York court of equity, where the underlying concept is to be fair to all parties rather than punishing one for having made the wrong interpretation of a law or contract. While the matter continues to fester in the courts, Fay again proposed the Cup be postponed so San Diego could build a 90-ft waterline boat — and so Fay could build another if he so desired. Sail America, on behalf of the San Diego YC, turned the offer down. What a weird poker game this possible America’s Cup has become. In January of this year Sail America offered to postpone the event until 1990 and let Kiwi Bruce Farr and American John Marshall take the opportunity to create an America’s Cup one-design. The Kiwi’s turned them down. Now the shoe is apparently on the other foot, and San Diego is turning down Kiwi peace offerings of sorts. While the lawyers have been lawyering on the east coast, the respective San Diego and Kiwi camps have been tuning their boats in front of everyone on the waters of San Diego Bay and outside Pt. Loma. It’s a great show. We had the opportunity to follow them around and were fascinated. As was immediately evident to everyone, both Stars & Stripes catamarans (see accompanying photographs) are wickedly fast. We have a 60 hp Johnson on the back of our 17-ft Southern California photoboat, and when the wind ‘gusted’ up to 12 or 14 knots, we darn near had to floor it to keep up with the soft sail version. The other Stars & Stripes features a radical ‘hard sail’, which the afterguard is said to be very enthusiastic about. So enthusias¬ tic that they’re building a second one with 20 percent more sail area. Paradoxically, the larger hard sail is somehow supposed to increase rather than decrease stability. Our gut reaction to the 60-ft Stars & Stripes catamarans was very favorable. Nonetheless, they’re still hard for the average monohull sailor to relate to, and to race one against the Kiwi monohull would be nothing short of a nautical perversion. Monstrous New Zealand is another matter entirely. Out-sized in all respects, she looks like the kind of boat that ought to be racing for a prize as great as the once-glorious America’s Cup. With her 14-story tall mast, she’s a sight to be seen sailing. And darn near as impressive when being towed — at 15 knots — back to her compound by a former offshore oil rig supply boat. Even her end of the day ritual i$ larger than life. While Fay and the other afterguard show the boat to the likes of Tom Blackaller, scores of crewmembers scurry about the boat folding sails, taking down rigging, washing the decks, and preparing the huge apparatus necessary to lift the boat out of the water. New Zealand’s home is on a big crane-equipped barge. When she’s lifted most of the way out of the water, several of her crew wrap a cover over the bottom couple of feet of what appears to be a standard bulb keel. She’s then lifted up and set on her cradle. We personally suspect that the hiding of the keel is nothing more than America’s Cup tradition. We came by the Kiwi compound early the next day and could have walked right over to the boat unmolested to remove the cont'd center of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS cup in the courts — cont’d cover and see what the big secret was about. If it were that big a deal, surely there would be greater security. Since some of us Americans like to believe we’re the sporting equals of the Kiwi’s, we supressed our investigative journalism instincts and didn’t peek. The Sail America compound is next to the Chart House restaurant, just a couple of hundred yards up the waterfront from New Zealand’s. While the Kiwi and American boats have purposely kept their distance on the water, cont'd on next sightings page

national weather the expertise of veteran forecasters who have been at the Redwood City station for their whole working careers. When we did a story on hurricanes a few years ago, the amount of knowledge provided by Emil* 'Gunther (now retired) and other weather service folks was phenomenal — and still more accurate at predicting the paths of

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SIGHTINGS — cont’d these tropical depressions than any computer model. The weather off California is hard enough to predict as it is. It’s our feeling that diluting that service could have ramifications up to and including endangering lives. We wouldn’t want our butts on the line just cont’d center of next sightings page

cup in the courts — cont’d there’s been lots of interaction between the crews, many of whom have been friends for a long time. Indeed, there’s a bit of America’s Cup magic in the San Diego air, which is why it’s such a pity so many fine people have to be in¬ volved with something that — in the short term — can be nothing more than a debacle. Remember the parable about Solomon and the two women who each claimed the same baby? Solomon said he’d cut the baby up and give each woman a half. When one woman immediately gave up her claim, Solomon knew she was the real mother. If Solomon rather that Ciparick were on the bench in the New York court and proposed to cut the historic America’s Cup in half, we suspect that neither Sail America nor Fay would back off until the cup were in two pieces. What fools we mortals be!

relief for the stranded When Aero-Mexico went belly-up in mid-April, many Americans were left stranded in Mexico. Included among these were some participants in the just concluded Sea of Cortez (Baja Haha) Sailing Week in La Paz. The good news for those of you who got stiffed is that Banca Serfin, S.N.C., on behalf of the Mexican government, will reimburse those who didn’t get to use their tickets. The requirements are that you have the original of the unused ticket and/or the original of the ‘Miscellaneous Charge Order’. Reimbursements will not be made for lost tickets, mutilated tickets or tickets more than one year old. For an application for a refund, call (213) 646-0317 or (619) 236-1319. The former is in Los Angeles, the latter in San Diego. As noted in Changes, Alaska Airlines is scheduled to soon begin service to San Jose del Cabo, the airport that serves Cabo San Lucas.

pacific cup predictions The AP will do almost anything to beat UPI to the punch; Newsweek scratches and claws with Time for the hot stories; and even we here at Latitude are known to go out on the occasional limb to scoop the other sail¬ ing publications. That’s why we’re bringing you the results of the Pacific Cup before it actually happens. > This wasn’t an easy piece to put together. Our usual deep source, rock star Hiram Gunn, was back in Connecticut for unknown reasons. Our oddsmaker in Vegas, Jimmie the Geek, wasn’t returning our calls and our eager but unreliable cub reporter, Jimmy Olsen, wouldn’t touch the assignment with a ten-foot spinnaker pole. We tried all the astrologers in Northern California, but they were all booked months in advance (thanks a lot, Nancy!). We were in a jam all right, and we’d been pondering just exactly how to predict the winners of the July 4th race to Kaneohe Bay for days. We honestly didn’t know that much about this fleet of 29 boats spread out between Doublehanded, IOR and PHRF divisions. Desperate and confused, we did the only logical Marin County thing — we decided to consult the nearest psychic. The sign outside the rundown, musty-looking cottage read: Swamrt Spunky’s House of Enlightenment. In smaller letters underneath, it continued: Aura Adjustments, Holistic Healing, Harmonic Converging, Industrial Exorcisms, and Spiritual Advice for TransChannelling Voyages. In even smaller letters under that, it read: Copy Machine & Guaranteed Predictions of Horse and Yacht Races. We knew we’d come to the right place. Entering the dark, incense-filled room, we were confronted by Spunky himself, a diminutive figure whose dark skin appeared almost vinyl in tex¬ ture. “Greetings, troubled one. Today’s special is a channeling session with Elvis, but that is not why you’re here. Nor are you here for the hot coal walk¬ ing session, nor the pyramid power workshop. No, you’re under deadline cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS pacific cup — cont’d pressure and you need race results before they happen.” How he knew that we’ll never know. Moments later, Spunky was in a deep trance, waving various crystals over a list of the Pacific Cup entries and humming his mantra. -We got out our notepad and waited . . . ‘‘An/c/e Biter will win the Doublehanded division,” he began. “Sparky would have won had they not dropped out, but now I predict that Jim Belland’s and Mike Farrell’s Santa Cruz 27 will win. It’s a great downwind boat and those guys are the most experienced of the four entries. The Soverel 33 Sting will be second — it’s the right kind of boat for the race. Black Knight, a J/30 sailed by two Fort Ord Army colonels — Steve Rasmussen and Martin Nation — will be tough, but they’ll end up third. “Of the five boats in IOR, the chartered Santa Cruz 70 Kathmandu — Philippe Kahn’s last minute entry — will be the first of the three sleds to reach Hawaii. No records will be broken this time; it isn’t going to,be particularly windy. Kahn, who owns the Baltic 43 Dolphin Dance, has put together by far the best crew in the entire fleet: Skip Allan is listed as sailing master, Com¬ modore Tompkins and Gordon Clute are the watch captains, and the rest of the crew includes Jay Crum, Rob Franks, Sydnie Moore, Jack Otis, aYid ' x Coach Vandenberg. Talk about talent! “Citius would have been second, but apparently George Barrett pulled the plug on the project. That’s too bad — with its new fractional rig, that boat was really quick off the breeze at Cal Cup. Coming in second boat-for-boat will be Maverick, followed by Swiftsure III. But the overall winner will be Petard, a Farr 36 chartered by John Clauser and Bobbi Tosse. This Berkeley YC duo won last time in a near-sistership, Sweet O/co/e, and have the rating to cor¬ rect out on the sleds. The crystals are fuzzy on Sorcerer — it looks like they’ll have a mechanical breakdown, something with the mast or rudder, that knocks them out of the race. “Picking the PHRF winners is harder,” continued the tranced-out psychic, “Especially because the race committee hasn’t broken the group into two divisions yet, and claims that they have the authority to mess with the boats’ Pinhead ratings. How can I pick ’em with so little information?” Gently, we reminded him that we were paying him top dollar for the 15 minute session, and we expected results. “In that case,” he continued, “I predict that Randy Repass’ Santa Cruz 40 Promotion will win PHRF overall. Randy owns and runs West Marine Prod¬ ucts, which is sponsoring the race, so this will be a really popular victory. He’s doing the ‘fun race to Hawaii’ the fun way — three couples. They even listed their goal as ‘to have the best party’ during the race. In addition to Randy and his wife, Sally-Christine, the crew is Don and Susie Snyder and Dennis and Rainy Bassano — they’re all good sailors. “The crystals say that Bill Rosendale’s Swan 47 Bandit will be second overall. They’ve got a good group on board, including Dusty Way and Bill Matchett, and they know the way to the Islands. Ursa Major, Lon Price’s former Maryjane will be third with its crew of young hard-driving cadets from Cal Maritime. Other boats that’ll be up there include Bill Permar’s Camille, a Stewart 42 that’s a downwind sleeper at a 96 rating. Stuart Wilson’s Freedom 36 Puffin, with Mark Sims and Bob White in the crew, could be tough, too. Then there’s the Barnett 46 Tin Man from Seattle. I don’t know a thing about them except that they’re carrying a Jesuit priest in the crew — who needs a weatherfax when you can speak to God directly? “First to finish in PHRF will be Frank and Marsha Robben’s Kialoa II, but they won’t correct out that well. It’s a 15-person charter group, like the 10-person Club Nautique charter of the C&C 41 Gate Crasher. Linda Newland, who’s in charge of Gate Crasher, is teaching the crew how to fly a spinnaker and I predict they’ll have some of the wildest stories to tell after the race. Last to finish the race — and unfortunately missing the July 20 awards banquet by a day — will be Saraband, a Westsail 32 from Portland. “Two boats won’t cross the starting line and two won’t finish. I can’t tell you which boats they are, or what the reasons are — the energy of the crystals is cont'd on next sightings page

national weather because some satellite reader in Kansas City had a bad weekend. If you feel the same, you can do something about it. You can ex¬ press your opinions — firmly, but politely; V don’t piss anybody off — to the director of the National Weather Service. He is Dr.

crissy access If you are one of the hardy folks who launch catamarans, Lasers or any other non¬ sailboard type vessels off Crissy Field, you may soon be on the endangered species list.

SIGHTINGS — cont’d Albert Friday. Write him c/o the National Weather Service, 8060 13th St., Silver Springs, MD 20910. Consider it one small step for man, one giant step for offshore safety.

meetinq scheduled A proposed plan to improve the Crissy/ Presidio bayfront area would eliminate beach access for all boats (and possibly even spec-

fading . . . your 15 minutes is almost up.” “Quick! Different subject! Who’ll win the Singlehanded Race to Hawaii? What about the Catalina Race?” “1 can hardly make it out . . . looks like a fellow named Bob-Cramner — or is it Bob Brown? — will break the mono-hull record on a boat called Merlin . . . no, make that Roller Coaster . . . no, no, it’s Etosha. A white sled who’s name begins with “P” will be first to finish the Catalina Race . . . They’ll break the old record, but lose on corrected time to all the little boats. I can barely see the name of the overall winner . . . it’s Th/rd--something from Santa Cruz, I think.” “What about the America’s Cup??” we screamed. “Time’s up!” smiled the wizzened guru, “How would you like to pay? Cash or plastic; sorry, no personal checks . . . Say, would you be interested in that Elvis special now?”

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this is not a drill Sometimes the enormity of recovering people from large areas of ocean must be graphically demonstrated before one fully understands the difficulties involved. As a licensed delivery skipper and sailing instructor for seven years, I have a technical understanding of these problems, and lots of practice. But until recently, I hadn’t done any actual recoveries from yachts. I’d always just kept folks aboard and the boat afloat.

tators) except windsurfers. For those of you who missed the Sightings writeup a couple of months ago, the plan calls for transforming the curiously desolate s stretch of land into a sort of Chez Crissy — parking lots, ball field, boardwalks, picnic area, etc. Not an altogether bad idea, except for those who launch boats from there. The boardsailors played it smart. They weren’t included in the original plan, either. But they got wind of it early and submitted a thoughtful outline to the GGNRA (Golden Gate National Recreation Area) board that

sailboard safety

The bright red 'Magic' ready to go at Santa Barbara

The ocean, however, invariably provides lessons for us all. I got another lesson on June 10, 17 NM southwest of Pt. Sur. My crew and I were deliver¬ ing Olympic Circle’s C&C 43 Mystery when we came upon a “Sea Eagle” raft with two fishermen in it. They had been adrift for five hours after their overloaded fishing boat had broken up and sunk in the prevailing 25-knot winds and 6-8 foot seas. The story that surrounds these two happy, wet guys involves the Coast Guard, elements of seamanship, luck, and some insight into human nature. The story began in Santa Barbara, where my four crew and I picked up Mystery. Once on board, we checked liferafts, rigged jacklines, reviewed navigation and seamanship procedures, and generally made ready for the delivery up the coast to Berkeley. Once underway, we practiced important procedures like man overboard recovery and liferaft deployment. We rounded Pt. Conception confident that our vessel and skills were in order, never dreaming that we would be using them so soon. After leaving Morro Bay and bashing through the night, Lisa, Melissa and I were relaxing while Mystery drove herself to weather under #2 and reefed main at 6.5 knots. We were really enjoying the boat’s power, as well as the incredible picture painted by Pt. Sur, to the north, and the surrounding mountains rising out of a cobalt sea. As so often happens on boats from Berkeley, we were discussing how everything happens for a reason, and how you create your own reality — pretty karmic stuff! Reality interrupted in the form of a Coast Guard “pan, pan, pan” on VHF channel 16. A vessel had been reported sunk “off the vicinity of Monterey.” I remember thinking, “Well, guys, that’s pretty vague. Just what do you mean by ‘vicinity?’ ” Other than keeping an extra diligent lookout, we did nothing special — after all, we were south of Sur. No reason to get excited, right? We sailed on, continuing our discussion of our relationship with the cosmos. An hour-and-a-half later, I was stepping out of the companionway after plotting a-Loran fix, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a flash of yellow. It was a yellow foulie jacket, being waved frantically by one of two guys in a raft less than a quarter mile away. The other guy was jumping and waving, too. I uttered, “Oh, shit,” grabbed the helm and put it down. Mystery came cont’d on next sightings page

There are few craft, sail or power, that go faster than a 25-knot sailboard. Likewise, there are few craft smaller than these 9 to 12-ft, bullet-shaped rockets. That presents some interesting navigational problems, for both other sailboarders and everybody else out on the water. A panel of experts met to discuss issues of safety on the Bay, especially in regards to sailboards, on June 8, aboard the Hornblower yacht City of San Francisco, docked at Pier 33. Coinciding with the start of Na¬ tional Safe Boating Week (June 5-11), the conference stressed ways to prevent mishaps on the water. The experts included boardsailors, sailors and professionals who work the Bay, includ¬ ing Bar Pilot Greg Waugh. Waugh, you may remember, is the fellow who brought charges against the 45-ft racing sloop Secret Love a few years ago for passing too close in front of the tanker he was bringing in the Gate. Waugh has also had windsurfers, disappear under his bow, much to his consternation. “If you have any doubt about whether you’re going to be able to cross in front of a ship,” he says, “then go behind.” Pleasure sailors, as well as windsurfers, should heed his words. Waugh added that talking to the crowd on the City of San Francisco is a bit like preaching to the choir. If someone was con¬ cerned enough about safety to attend the conference, they were certainly going to be sailing safely. The success of the conference will really be told in how they spread the word to others. Some items of note: Stephen Mann, a captain for Hornblower and chairman of seamanship for the Oakland chapter of the U.S. Power Squadron, says that skippers of commercial

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pointed out, among other things, what a nifty public image and colorful attraction they would provide to the area. Fortunately, other boaters who currently launch at Crissy haven’t, ahem, missed the boat yet. On July 7 at 7:30, there will be a public presentation and hearing at GGNRA headquarters (building 210 of Fort Mason). If you’d like to see access for more than just boardsailors, like the saying goes, speak then or forever hold your peace. GGNRA will submit its official report to the Advisory Commission this fall.

on the bay vessels such as ferries and passenger boats can be distracted and don’t always keep track of all the windsurfers or other craft around them. In the late afternoon when the sun is reflecting off the water, it’s sometimes impossible to even see what’s ahead, let alone avoid it. Paul Heineken, an avid boardsailor and a representative of the St. Francis Yacht Club, says that he always considers himself to be the overtaking vessel. Under the rules of the road, that means he must always give way, which he does. Greg Waugh points out that the new mega-class tankers are now sailing on the Bay. These babies are max depth and width for the Panama Canal, measuring 106 feet wide and 965 feet long. Stand one on end and it’s 112 feet higher than the TransAmerica building. “Dead slow” is eight knots, the minimum speed required to main¬ tain steerage. It takes a half a mile to turn. s Lex Byers of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary notes that on any given weekend, they have three boats patrolling San Fran¬ cisco Bay, as well as one in San Pab'o Bay and one in the South Bay. “That’s five peo. pie to help 80,000 boaters,” he says. Boardsailors now number about 20,000 in the Bay Area. ^ The best piece of safety gear for a windsurfer to carry is a pencil flare, the kind that shoot off in the air. Make sure you have more than one. The Coast Guard gets an average of five phone calls every time a flare is spotted, so your chances of being rescued are good. Also, put reflective tape op some part of your upper body: it can be easily seen at night when they turn on the spotlights. Sail and windsurf defensively. The life you save may be your own. — shimon van collie

this is not a drill — cont’d to a beam reach with Melissa easing the main and Lisa waking the off-watch crew. Next, Lisa began pointing while Melissa, Chip and Marty struck the genoa. All the details were just falling into place — what a great crew! After jibing, I approached the raft on a close reach while Marty contacted the Coasties. Chip rigged hoisting lines while Melissa readied her own sleep¬ ing bag, some food and dry clothes. Stopping just to windward, we watched in awe as these two guys sprung out of the raft, clear over the lifeline, landing in the cockpit — no loss of muscle control here! Apparently they had had enough of the seagoing life, because they started ripping off foulies and clothes and hurling them in the sea. All this in 2l/z minutes — great crew! Now all that remained was to check for hypothermia and make sure the fishermen were comfortable. Although they spoke no English, they made it quite clear that they were fine and accepted only cookies and cigarettes. They sat down below animatedly discussing the adventure and looking more like they were waiting for the bus than two guys who had just spent five hours adrift. What happened next was even more stressful for me. The Coasties decided that they should come alongside Mystery and transfer the fishermen onto their 41-ft cutter, so they could get medical attention. My first reaction was, “Oh, no!” The owner’s brand new Awlgrip job is going to get wiped out! I got control of my fears, put PFDs on the two guys, and held a steady com¬ pass course with following seas. Petty Officer Pat Green did a fantastic job of bringing his boat alongside and preserving my next paycheck. His crewmembers Rob Warren and Mike Kidder grabbed the fishermen as we propelled them across the gap. Now I was left with lots of conflicting thoughts, pride in my crew, and excitement. Most important was the sobering realization that it was only by a series of fortunate coincidences that we had found and rescued these people. What confused me was the seemingly lousy response by the Coasties to this incident, at least initially — and then the superb orchestration of the transfer and follow-up. I decided to go into Monterey and snoop around. What I found was that the Coasties had been trying for hours to rescue the fishermen, whose answer to “Where are you?” was “Offshore.” Gee, thanks for narrowing it down, guys! Also, the Loran T.D.s that they gave put them on land between Salinas and Moss Landing. No wonder the Coasties’ “pan” call was so vague! Nevertheless, in response to the fishermen’s “mayday,”

KURT HOLLAND

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A 50-knot gust the night before the rescue. Note ‘Windblown' liferaft bag.

the Coast Guard had sent out a C-130 aircraft from Sacramento, two helicopters from San Francisco and two boats from Monterey. On land, men were coordinating the searches and calling VHF stations along the coast to find out who heard the strongest “mayday.” They even had an interpreter trying to decipher the garbled half-Vietnamese, half-English “mayday” call. cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS this is not a drill — cont’d Sure seems like the response of a competent, friendly organization to me! Word of our adventure spread quickly along the Monterey waterfront, and we were alternately gratified and horrified by people’s responses to what we’d done. Many people went out of their way to thank us, even to the point of providing a free berth (courtesy of Bill Wise and Breakwater Cove). One salty old fisherman sought me out in a restaurant and solemnly shook my hand, saying, “Thanks for saving the life of a fellow fisherman today.” When I said that I had only done what anybody would do, he shocked me by saying, “No, someone would have run them down.” This kind of popped my bubble, which had been growing at a great rate. But the next day, I found out that it was true — not everyone believes in following the traditions of the sea. Two people in an ice cream parlor empha¬ tically said, “You should have left them. They’re Vietnamese.” I hope 1 ruined their day by pointing out that the two men were also human and had the same rights they did. To summarize, the Coasties did a fantastic job once they established con¬ tact. It’s an incredible task to try to find someone in a small raft on a large sea when you only know vaguely where to look. In my book, the Coast Gueird deserves all the support the boating public can offer. Considering the time and money spent in pulling off a rescue such as this, I also feel it’s absurd to cut their budget. Our personal role in the rescue, although accidental, was only successful because-we were all well-trained and able to respond quickly. The ex¬ perience validated all the time in my life I’ve spent working on seamanship and safety issues. And I’ll never again begrudge a minute, day or month spent in preparation for an ocean passage. Last is a quote I stole from somebody smart. I keep it in my log whenever I’m offshore: “The time for taking all measures for a ship’s safety is while able to do so. Nothing is more dangerous than for a seaman to be grudging in taking precautions, lest they turn out to be unnecessary. Safety at sea for a thousand years has depended on exactly the opposite philosophy.”

towing policy Back in 1983, in an effort to save money, the Coast Guard decided to stop towing boats in non-emergency situations. That meant if you ran out of gas, there was no s more free lunch — or tows — to the nearest gas dock. You either flagged down a good Samaritan or paid one of the many towing companies that sprang up almost overnight after the decree. Or you could call the Coast Guard Aux¬ iliary. They’re the good folks that bring us boating safety classes and demonstrations. They also regularly patrol almost every bay, harbor, lake and naviqable river in the coun¬

— kurt holland

huber vs. the united states As if the Coast Guard isn’t taking enough flak over the zero-tolerance can of worms, they recently lost big in a six-year court battle. The resulting prece¬ dent: the Coasties can be sued for negligent rescue operation. This particular case started back in April of 1982, a month Northern California boaters might remember as “black April.” During the annual Doublehanded Farallones Race that year, a terrific storm blew through, wrecking six boats and killing four people. Two others who died that day were not racers, but friends helping bring the 31-ft Kuhushan from Washington down to Southern California. What happened to Kuhushan that day was a tragic combination of errors for which a U.S. District Court held the Coast Guard entirely responsible. Here, basically, is what happened: Kuhushan, a Southern Cross 31, was laboring in heavy weather somewhere west of Duxbury Reef. They were shortened down to jib only and dragging warps, trying to work east into the Gate. By a miscommunication with the Coast Guard regarding the position of a ship they’d seen (the Coasties gave them a fix on a different ship nearby), Kuhushan headed in the wrong direction. By the time they realized their mistake, they were dangerously near a lee shore — Stinson Beach. At that point, Kuhushan requested assistance from the Coasties. But they were busy trying to rescue people from the Doublehanded Farallones Race. They directed the yacht to take temporary shelter in the lee of a nearby an¬ chored freighter, switch to channel 13 (the bridge-to-bridge working channel of commercial ships) and call back at a specific time, or if they needed further _cont’d on next sightings page page 98

SIGHTINGS changes — again try, promoting safety while enjoying their boats. Ran out of gas? No problem, said auxiliarists. If they were around, they’d tow you in, no charge. Glad to help out. The people trying to make a business of towing did have a problem, though. And so began a political Hatfields and McCoys type feud that has been going back and forth for years. Because it threatened the livelihood, civil liberties and who knows what else of the towers, the Coasties decided that the Auxiliarists should not assist non-emergency cases. Rather, the Coasties would call a

assistance. The seas were so rough that when Kuhushan tried to come alongside the ship to take a line, they were sucked into it. Then a swell picked up the boat and dropped it onto the ship’s propeller, ripping a huge gash in the hull. As crewmen from the freighter watched helplessly, Kuhushan began sinking. The three-man crew had time to send one “Mayday” on channel 13, which the Coast Guard never heard. For 45 minutes, they clung to the wrecked boat, thinking rescue was imminent. The freighter, also in danger from the lee shore, had to move into deeper water. They thought the Coast Guard was on their way, too. Finally, the three sailors decided to swim for it. Only the boat’s owner, Colin Haskin, made it. Bodies of the other two men, John Huber and John Stroble, were recovered later. Incredibly, as you can see from this photo, Kuhushan didn’t sink, but washed onto Stinson Beach the next day. cont’d on next sightings page

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huber — cont’d The key point in the court decision was that, though the Coast Guard is not obligated to respond to a request for assistance, once it does, it can be sued for damages resulting from a negligent rescue operation. Though the suit by the family of John Huber was brought jointly against the Coasties and the freighter company (it’s actually quite a bit more involved than our short summation), the court found the Coast Guard entirely at fault because by directing the boat to take specific action, they had assumed responsibility. At this writing, the Coast Guard is appealing the decision.

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commercial tower. The return volley fired by the Auxiliarists said the ruling took away the very founda¬ tion of what the Coast Guard Auxiliary stood for and strove for. The public cheered them on, hoping for a return to the good old free days. After the token hearings and endorse¬ ments by key congressmen, the Coast Guard has now proposed changing back to their used to be. If the proper approval is forth¬ coming — it was pending as this was written

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SIGHTINGS — cont’d — non-emergency tows would be taken by whoever gets there first, be it auxiliarist, good Samaritan or commercial tower. Needless to say, the commercial towing community is mobilizing for a counterattack. They say they’ll lose business; they say even if they are there first, the “towee” might wave them off and wait for a free tow; they say many of their number may go out of business. They’re right, but they’re a definite minority.

the sharpie image — cont’d versations are multihulls and shoal draft boats. Unless those bull sessions in¬ clude owners of older designs, or anyone who’s ever sailed on Ragtime, two more deadly words are “wood” and “hard chine.” So it was with some trepidation that we went down to Sausalito to see Lively, the recently-arrived flagship of the American Shoaldraft Sailboat Company. To be sure, everybody and their brother had called to say “You have to see this boat.” But when we heard that the Farr 65 — you read right — breaks not one, not two, but three of the four taboos listed above, well . . . It was true. The long, gray hull draws only 26 inches with the “daggerkeel retracted”!. . .huh?. . .). Too, Lively has a hard chine and is built of wood. Might as well go for broke: she’s also a sharpie, a type of workboat popular in the late 19th century but which never really found much popularity as a yacht. Are we on Candid Camera? After spending an afternoon aboard talking to owner Bob Haberman, his wife Greta, business partner Jacques Thiry and his fiancee Colleen, we learned that everything about this boat is a very serious idea — and much to our bigoted suprise, one that makes a heck of a lot of sense. First, a short (we promise) background on sharpies. These flat-bottomed, double-ended, retracting-daggerkeel craft are depicted on Dutch paintings dating back to the 1600s. The sharpie came to America — Long Island — in the 1840s, and soon became the workhorse of the Eastern seaboard. With its shallow draft, it had a virtually unlimited range up even the shallowest estuaries. With the additional advantage of being easier and cheaper to build than traditional craft, sharpies were used for almost all types of fishing, shellfishing and freight hauling. In Florida, before the railroads, sharpies carried the mail and were almost the only means of transport and communication. Sharpies were fast in a breeze — and sometimes a handful. Unloaded, they sailed with only the forward of the two unstayed masts (most were cat ketches), which imparted terrible weather helm. When loaded with fish or cargo, both masts were used and the steering was more balanced. Understandably, the common sight of unloaded sharpies “crashing and burn¬ ing” combined with the initial uneasy feeling of seeing so much boat above the waterline and so little below — well, it just wasn’t much of an inspiration to early yacht designers or buyers. The last fleet of working sharpies hung up their long lines in Puget Sound after the war. Though most of the boats are gone, the sharpie lives on through sailors like Bob Haberman. Bob has been sailing more than 40 years. He began his affair with sharpies by working his way through college as part of a clamming crew off his native Long Island. He liked the way the little workboats looked, and he loved the way they sailed. In later years, the retired English professor and University librarian ran a charter service out of Florida on a 40-ft sharpie, finding new devotees with each charter group. When he sailed it to New York — outside — he found it to be an excellent sea boat. In fact, Bob became such a fan that when he’d sail on a norma] keelboat, “I couldn’t get used to 6,000 pounds of lead six feet below looking for the bottom,” he says. But there weren’t very many people he could share his enthusiasm with. Bob admits he was a “closet” shoal draft junkie for a long time. “I’d mention I preferred shoal draft and everybody would look at me like I was crazy.” Then one day, he tried the line on a tallship captain named Jacques Thiry. Also a designer and ship historian, Jacques surprised Bob with an “Oh really? So do I!” The two became fast friends and two years ago Bob said, “Let’s build a boat.” The idea was simple and straightforward: revive the sharpie type in yacht form incorporating modern materials, a modern rig and all the amenities. One of the amenities had to be headroom (Bob stands 6’3”). That’s why the boat ended up 65 feet. cont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS the sharpie image — cont’d

r Say what? Well, since the ratios of length to beam and so on had been optimized long ago by generations of sharpiemen, Bob and Jacques needed a hull that long to get the 6’6” inside headroom. Other concessions to the ’80s were, ahem, a hydraulically retractable winged keel, rudder and pro¬ peller; complete custom interior of American ash and padded doeskin; “hid¬ den seed” lighting; electric self-tailing winches; and more. Jacques drew the basic lines. To give their idea credibility and therefore the best chance in the volatile boatbuilding game, they went to Bruce Farr for the actual design. (Bob said Bruce was thrilled to do the design because “It was such a relief from designing five or six maxis that are all supposed to beat each other ”) Well-known cruiser/author/boatbuilder John Guzzwell built the boat in Seattle. She was launched, along with the dreams of her two proud owners, on June 18 of last year. To say Bob and Jacques are pleased is an understatement. So far, the big sloop has exceeded almost all their expectations. Like all sharpies, she is fast, stable, dry and comfortable. At 31,000 pounds, the flat-bottomed planing hull rises to seas rather than smashing through them. Also like a sharpie, with the board and rudder up (draft, 26 inches — the hull itself only draws 18K the boat is beachable, and the 3 1/2-foot keel wings will keep her upright on the sand. Unlike her forebears, and again much to the delight of Haberman and Thiry (and Farr), the boat shows outstanding windward ability. As soon as she heels and that hard chine digs in, the boat essentially becomes V-bottomed and tracks like a full-keeler. Another departure from the original sharpies is the 750 cubic feet of foam sandwiched between the outer plywood hull and inner liner, which makes her unsinkable. We could go on, but you get the picture — these guys have done it right. Whether the boat-buying public accepts it or not remains to be seen. Lively is currently on a combination cruise/PR campaign. Farr calls her a “rapid cruiser,” and American Shoal Draft plans to promote that aspect as much as its shoal draft. For the former, Lively will do the Catalina Race on July 4 with Chris Corlett and friends aboard. Bob also talks about going for some of the clipper records. As for the shoal draft, Bob and Jacques plan to capitalize on the fact that the boat can go almost anywhere with little prob¬ lem, including the canals of Europe, the Petaluma River . . . heck, this 65-footer could even sail around upper Richardson Bay at high tide! For more on this unique idea — maybe one whose time has finally come — contact Roger Wales at Cruising World Yachts in Alameda, 521-1929.

the bars at morro bay Most coastal cruisers are well aware of the treachery of crossing the sand¬ bar at the entrance to Morro Bay during rough weather. “It’s particulary nasty at max ebb,” said one grizzled local, who continued matter-of-factly, “We lose two or three people out there every year. Most of ’em are weekend fishermen from Bakersfield.” The most celebrated near-casualty of the bar was actor George C. Scott, who one stormy day many years ago tried to get out of Morro Bay in his chartered stinkpot Mojo. No one had any businesss leaving the harbor that day, but Scott and his wife were determined to get up to Bing Crosby’s golf tournament in Pebble Beach, so out they went. Talk about “Mojo rising” — every other souvenir shop in this sleepy fishing village sells a $4 poster show¬ ing Scott’s boat launched about 30 feet in the air as it blasted across the bar. Mojo blew out all its windows and some of its frames on impact; Scott and the boat captain almost went overboard; and the trashed boat had to be towed back in. But there’s another bar — not quite as infamous, and a lot friendlier — in the town of the Big Rockpile and the triple PG&E smokestacks. It’s the bar at the hospitable Morro Bay Yacht Club, and if there were ever a Hall of Fame for Yacht Club Bars (maybe we should start one?), this one would surely be in it. We’ve hung out in a lot of yacht club bars over the years, and can say cont’d on next sightings page

the high If you haven’t done the Angel Island scene yet this year, you might be suprised to learn that pulling up to the dock in Hospital Cove or picking up any of the moorings around the island will now set you back an Abe Linx coin a day. That’s right, ever since January 1 the fee has been five bucks, a 66.6% increase over the old price of only three dollars. No one we spoke with on the island or in the Marin State Parks office could explain exactly why the price jumped so dramatically, other than that it had been relatively low for a number of years. Actually, the increase was probably over-

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the bars at morro bay — cont’d

due — the fee to use docks, lauching ramps and

other facilities in

most every other

California state park is already five or six dollars a day. If you plan on hanging out on Angel Island regularly, you can average your cost down by buying a season pass for $40 (or, if you want to use any state park, buy the $65 pass). You can bring in up to eight people on your boat as part of the deal; additional passengers pay a buck a head. That’s also the fee for appearing on the island by any other method (kayak, jet ski, parachute, swimming, time machine cont'd center of next sightings page

with some authority that this one’s unique: it’s a 22-foot-long, two-thirds scale model of a Rhodes 33 (there are five “real” Rhodes 33’s in the yacht club). The 226 members of the Morro Bay YC built the beautiful white hulled, varnished deck boat/bar about ten years ago, at the same time they built the clubhouse. They lofted the design for their creation on the floor of the clubhouse, and supposedly the lines are still visible under the carpet. And not only does the bar itself score maximum style points, but the view is great, the price is right (50 cents for beer and wine; $1.25 for cocktails), and the company is great. The place hops on Friday nights during happy hour, as well as on Wednesday nights, which feature dinghy racing and barbequing. The yacht club has five guest moorings, as well as limited dock space for visiting yachts. So next time you’re sailing through, why not celebrate your trip over the bar at Morro Bay by checking out the bar at Morro Bay Yacht Club. The first one’s on us. piisi:

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SIGHTINGS the high five

zero compliance — almost All California registered vessels are supposed to have CF numbers with current stickers on their hulls. Violations of this regulation are not a ‘fix-it’ ticket, but a fineable citation. Given the above, what would you imagine the compliance rate is? Ninetyfive percent? Seventy^five percent? Sixty percent?

walking on the water across Raccoon Strait) than private boat or ferry. Speaking of ferries, we figure that’s the second best way to get to this wonderful 740-acre resource if you can’t sail over. V Local ferries leave from nearby Tiburon every day — the fee is four dollars for the round-trip. Call ahead of time (435-2131) to get their schedule. Additionally, the Red and White fleet (546-2815) runs daily ferries to Angel

Island

Francisco.

Have your numbers on, or your number’s up!

According to Rich Todt, deputy with the Marine Service Office of the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, compliance with Marin boats he inspects runs about 10 percent. That’s right, 90 percent of the boats have expired or out of date stickers, stickers in a drawer rather than on the hull, no display numbers or display numbers not on the hull. That’s Rich you see in the accompanying photograph checking the registration on what looks like a Pearson Electra off the Sausalito waterfront. If Rich catches you without proper CF numbers and a current sticker, he does a ‘report of inspection’, which involves filling out a standard State of California form to see if your boat is up to snuff in the following 14 categories: Registration, valid certificate of numbers, numbers displayed properly, required lights, flame arrestor properly installed, appropriate life-jackets, required number of life-jackets, horn/whistle/bell, ventilation for engine compartment,

fire extinguisher,

vent for fuel tank, proper number of

extinguishers and number of non-approved extinguishers. Let’s get with it folks, Zero Compliance is just about as bad as Zero Tolerance.

maritime museum may get new name, more bucks The Senate has passed a measure which would redesignate what is now the San Francisco National Maritime Museum as the San Francisco National Maritime Park. Though the name change is a small one, the benefits could be great. If President Reagan signs the bill, which he is expected to do, it would remove the Museum and its fleet of historic ships at Aquatic Park from the directorship of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and place them under the National Park Service. In a word, that means more money for maintaining the Museum’s eight historic ships — “the largest collection of its kind by tonnage in the world,” says GGNRA superintendent Brian O’Neill. The bill was originally to be introduced by Democratic Representative Sala Burton. After her death last year,

it was sponsored by Morris Udall

(D-Arizona), with support from Nancy Pelosi, Burton’s successor. If the bill is passed, the Museum building will be renamed for the late Congresswoman.

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SIGHTINGS — cont’d

without the help of a single man

And while we’re on the subject of phone

After 23,000 miles at sea, during which time she saw not a single human,

numbers, here are a few more: the Angel

Kay Cottee of Sydney became the first woman to sail non-stop singlehanded

Island Association (435-3522), a non-profit

around the world. Her 189-day time was the fastest solo circumnavigation by

group that runs tours and other activities on

a woman. Despite being some of the most dedicated chauvinists on the face

the island, and the main number for Angel

of the earth, some 10,000 Aussies jammed Sydney harbor to welcome the

Island,

triumphant Cottee back home. The 34-year-old woman had undertaken the

435-1915. The latter number —r

voyage to raise money for children’s charities.

which will be answered by a real live park ranger — is the one for information on park

The Sydney boatbuilder faced her worst weather on January 20, two days

rules (no dogs or skateboards!), reserving

prior to rounding the notorious Cape Horn. “I experienced real fear for the

picnic tables or campsites, and any dumb or

first time at sea,” she told the press. “It was the mountainous seas breaking in

not-so-dumb questions you might conjur up.

huge waves. I thought the boat would roll right over and go down.” But the cont’d on next sightings page

As these folks enjoying Hospital Cove will attest Angel Island is still one of the bargains of the Bay

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SIGHTINGS without the help — cont’d little boat didn’t roll over and the Sydney boatbuilder didn’t falter. “I learned that I’ve got more endurance and determination than I ever thought I had,” she concluded. All in all, the surmounting of a personal challenge didn’t prevent her from enjoying herself. “Who shouldn’t be happy doing something they love for six uninterrupted months?” she asked rhetorically.

short sights Washington - “Based on experience to date, I don’t think people should build their hopes too high that this (efforts of the military to stem the flow of drugs into the United States) is going to make a radical difference.” — Charles Bowsher, head of the General Accouting Office, who addressed the Senate Armed Services Committee and noted that in 1987 the Air Forcq spent $2.6 million to assist in making just six seizures. Honolulu — Five Costa Rican fishermen were picked up 700 miles southeast of Hawaii by a Japanese.fishing boat. They’d been adrift for slightly less than five months after a storm blew them offshore of the coast of Central America. Out of fuel but with plenty of bait, they lived on sharks, turtle, fish and hope. Norcross, Georgia — You’re responsible for your wake. Thirty-six-yearqld Adrian Stanoiu was charged with manslaughter for literally scaring 40-year-old Barbara Reyes to death. Despite being warned away, Stanoiu buzzed within a foot of Reyes’ raft with his jet ski. The woman, who had a history of heart trouble, panicked and then collapsed as she struggled to get to shore. Coroner Randy Simpson ruled that Reyes died as a result of cardiac arrhythmia brought on by fright. San Francisco - Kate Ascher of the Fort Authority in New York and New Jersey told a Northern California water transportation symposium that New York is increasingly turning to ferries to solve traffic problems. She noted that New York harbor has had 11 new private ferry services start up in the last two years, none of which receive a subsidy. Wolfgang Homburger of the University of California noted that no more Bay or Golden Gate Bridges would be built — at least in his lifetime — and that ferries were the only solution. Marine architect Morris Guralnick, an old associate of Max Ebb’s, sug¬ gested that profitable ferry systems could be established between San Fran¬ cisco and Oakland, Richmond and the mid-Peninsula. None of them sailpowered. Rio Vista — Two South Bay brothers were found dead beneath their over¬ turned 17-foot powerboat on the Sacramento River early June 12. The vic¬ tims were 40-year-old Perman Hicks of San Jose and 35-year-old Alvin Hicks of Union City. Water flowing downstream challenged by strong winds can create perilous chop on Delta waters, so don’t underestimate the hazards. Lake Tahoe — Nevada officials have begun discussing the possibility of pumping water from Lake Tahoe to met Northern Nevada water needs in this drought year. California officials and environmentalists generally oppose pumping water from the lake, saying it would render Tahoe piers and. marinas unuseable as well as disturb the lake’s fragile environment. Salt Lake C/ty — The 56th annual Conference of Mayors, with the civic leaders from 175 largest cities in attendance, overwhelmingly approved of asking the federal government to crack down on drugs by increasing the amount of money given the Coast Guard to interdict smuggling. Edward cont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS short sights — cont’d Koch, mayor of a town called New York, said the United States is swimming in drugs” and that “we are turning into a banana republic”. New York City — Thirty-five-year-old Janet Labuda, an eight-year veteran of the Customs Serivce, has been appointed ombudsman for the government’s controversial Zero Tolerance program to curb drug use. It’s hard to say whether she or Ross Perot has the tougher job. Perot has agreed to ‘fix’ the United States Postal Service. Middle of the Atlantic Ocean - A group of about as many as 20 whales attacked and sank David Sellings’ 25-foot sailboat approximately 1,000 miles southwest of Plymouth, England. Sellings, who was competing in the Carlsberg Singlehanded TransAtlantic Race, managed to get in his liferaft and set off his EP1RB. He was picked up in good condition by a cargo ship on

June 12. Pt. Bonita to Aquatic Park — This is a little trip we don’t always care to make in a sailboat, but September 25, 20 people will attempt to swim this inthe-water 10K. (We’re getting hypotheric just thinking about it.) The reason we’re telling you now is that they need volunteers to man and supply support boats to accompany each swimmer, both on September 25 and on several “practice” swims preceding the big day. Duties include protection from other boats, navigating for the swimmer, feeding him or her — and helping the swimmer out of the water if he can’t make it. Any boat with a good auxiliary is suitable. Interested? Contact Diddo Clark, Pt. Bonita Swimmers, 6 Blackthorn Rd., Lafayette, CA 94549; (415) 370-0333.

biggest sail, biggest sale

All Across America - As in other facets of life in America, women have come a long way in sailing, baby. In fact, now there is a national organization devoted entirely to servicing the recreational sailing needs of women. The main purpose of Sailing Women is to “create a sailing environment for women of all ability levels.” At present, the organization is only active on the east coast and midwest (five cities in all), but is due later this summer on the west coast. For more information, call San Diego’s Susan Madaii at (619)

North Sails of Alameda recently finished the largest sail ever made in Northern California — a monsterous mainsail for a 120-foot Frers racer/cruiser currently being built for the chairman of the Italian Fiat auto manufacturing company. In fact, Michael Fay’s mainsail for New Zealand — believed to be the biggest sail ever made — isn’t too much bigger than this sail. The fully bat¬ tened, 22 ounce bullet-proof delivery main (an even larger kevlar racing main is being built in North’s San Diego loft) is 123 feet on the luff, 41 feet on the foot, and weighs a staggering 800 pounds. It’ll be set off a six spreader Sparcraft rig and controlled by the largest custom winches Bartent has ever made. Apparently, the sail was a nightmare to build — “a real burn-out project”, according to loft manager Steve Taft. The sail took up the entire loft floor when it was done, and almost every one of the 23 North employees worked on it at one time or another often, for that matter, well into the evening. “It wrecked one sewing machine and who knows how many needles,” said Taft, who actually seemed happy to see the sail leave. “I just wonder how you move an 800 pound cruising mainsail around — you need a crane to lift it and a forklift to move it.”

223-3203. Santa Cruz - The same rare mid-June lightning storm that temporarily paralyzed two teenage girls on the beach in Santa Cruz also thrice struck a 40-ft fishing boat on Monterey Bay.' The first bolt hit the outrigger wires so that they glowed — which is why you want to disconnect all antennas and stay away from metal objects when you’re aboard during a lightning storm. Anchorage — Five walruses, three seals, many birds and some eggs made up the survival diet of seven hunters who got lost and drifted in the Bering Sea for three weeks in 17-foot open boats. Despite seas of up to 20 feet, the men never lost hope. Positive thinking, experience has shown time and again, is the key to long-term survival at sea. San Francisco — The Keystone Tanker Ship Co. reached an out of court settlement with the family of Jack Favaloro, skipper of Jack Jr., the fishing boat which was run down by the 721-ft tanker Golden Gate on Memorial Day in 1986. Terms of the settlement prohibited disclosure of the settlement, but it was rumored to be in the $2 to $5 million range. Vince Ingargiola and Tom McCarthy were also killed in the accident. uo

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— The secret is out! The New Zealand Challenge has announced that Elvis has been living on Rangitoto, a volcanic island near Auckland, since his staged death years ago. They’ve confessed that it’s the balding Elvis, not Michael Fay, who is really the money behind New Zealand. Reports that ‘The King’ will drive New Zealand in the America’s Cup and star in a movie about the event (with Ann Margaret calling tactics) were neither San Diego

confirmed nor denied. Viva San Diego!

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IT WAS A SMOKER

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and the 150-boat Volvo Regatta on the Bay. And the .>ent racing. "It was definitely a smoker,” says Pat O’Daniels, who sailed the annual bash aboard Brtgadoon, “We didn't even have time to break out the beer until the finish.” Right after that, they realized they d

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T 1 he reverse-handicap starts (slowest boats first) got underway off the Cityfront at 11:35. As tradition dictates, the Maritime Museum’s buxom scow schooner Alma led the fleet across the Bay. With the hydrodynamics of a sailing brick, it’s always puzzled us how Alma could have made money during her working life. Before Sun¬ day, we’d never even seen her drift fast. This year, you could almost call her “frisky.” It would be an understatement for everybody else. As the premier (and only) regatta of the year for the pre-war woodies, reputations were on the line and boats were on the edge of control. For these few hours, it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy to these normally friendly folks. Everybody was shortened down or reefed; at least one serendipitously. Felicity blew a clew out of their main right before the start, and reefed to keep racing. In their first ever participation, the 1895 yacht went on to win Gaff Division I. Surprisingly, for the amount of wind, most gear problems were similarly minor. Freda also blew out a clew on a headsail before the start, necessitating a three-man soujourn onto the plunging bowsprit — “They don’t call them widowmakers for nothing” — to get it down. “Compared to that,” says Diane Brendan, who with husband Jerry owns the West Coast’s oldest sailing yacht (built 1885 in Belvedere), “the race was a piece of cake.” Unfortunately, the par¬ ticipant that came the farthest to participate — Bequia, an old cutter

- IT WAS A SMOKER ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE/jR EXCEPT AS NOTED up from Long Beach — cracked a mast during Saturday practice and couldn’t race.

T 1 he most serious incident of the day was between an unentered

The Master Mariners were wet and wild long before 7-Up. Clockwise from below: Groote Beer made enough spray for five boats; working on the widowmaker; Reunion lets it all hang out; the afterguard on Brigadoon.

boat sailing the course and an entered boat sailing the wrong course. The latter T-boned the former near Southhampton, taking out the port spreaders, chainplates and a good portion of the bulwarks. “There were chunks of wood floating everywhere,” said one witness. No people hurt, though, and the rigs of both boats stayed up. Such “non-race” races, and races within races, have been a part of this yearly event since its inception in the 1860s. Many participants forget about their handicaps and concentrate their energies on beating just one other boat. Other boats set their sights on the same competitor year after year. In the latter category, after 2Vz hours of racing, Lance Schoenberger’s Orn nipped the like-rated Freda by only 19 seconds; and Brigadoon once again edged out perennial challenger Marie Celene. Whatever their course or target competitor, everybody flew around the Bay, some flinging spray so high and far that it drenched

MASTER MARINERS '88 our photoboat crew and probably sent yet another Nikon to the uiy camera bag in the sky. Once again, one of the most entertaining MMariners to watch was Rick Cogswell and the hearty crew on Adelaide. Originally built as a power launch in the 1880s, the once-sunken Adelaide was raised and rigged as a Gaff sloop by Cbgswell in the early ’70s. They’ve been Master Mariner regulars ever since.

Master Mariners Results name MARCONI 1 1. Bolero 2. Barbara 3. Mammal

type (year built)*

owner

Island Clipper 44 (1946) 52-ft Atden Schooner (1932) 45-ft schooner (1929)

Tim & Ronnie Munson Sob Kfemmedson Alan Olson

MARCONI II 1. Princess 2. Saraband 3. Ingwe

36- ft Herreschoff ketch (1955) Kent Parker Steven Gann 33-ft S&S sloop (I960) Mans Korfin 37- ft Atkin ketch (1963)

MARCONI ill Alan Gross Alan Langmuir Peter & fglee

32-ft cutter (1888)

1* Tarns

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'29-ft “Big Bear” sloop 23-ft sloop (1932)

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Ed & Linda Witt Tracy Smith 8. Desmond

GAFF! 1. Felicity '

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Gardner Kent/Richard Johnson Terry & Patty Klaus . Tim & Jack O'Neill

2. Brigadoon 3. Marie Celene

50-f 45-ft schooner (1946)

1. Black Witch 2. Wilhelm H. Stark 3. Makeni Kai . ■ .... ;. ' .; ' V

32-ft stoop (1949) 30-ft schooner (1946) 36-ft Angleman kelch (1970)

Craig Swayne Ray Farrow Ken & Christine Inouye

: : \ ., V-';. 24-ft sloop (1880) 26-ft yawi 23-ft yawl (1984)

Rick Cogswell Mike & Sue Proudfoot Steve Osborn*"

GAFF III 1. Adelaide 2. Paddy West 3. La Mouette

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OCEAN 1 t. Athene 2. White Cloud 3. Pajara

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63-ft S&S Yawl (1937) 60-ft S&S sloop (1937) 45-ft sloop (1938)

Christopher Schroli Stephen David Neil Moore

38-ft Farallon Clipper (1965) 38-ft Faralion Clipper (1962) 38-ft Farallon Clipper (1952)

Daniel Drath John Simon William & Janice Belmont

BIG SCHOONERS 1. Californian

146-ft topsail schooner (1984)

2. Rendezvous

51-ft schooner (1933)

Nautical Heritage Society Ferrari, Warren, Harper

OCEAN II 1. Mistress II 2. Wendy Ann 3. Credit ,

SPECIAL AWARDS DEADEYE TROPHY (Best elapsed time over 30 feet): Barbara. LYLE GALLOWA Y TROPHY (Best elapsed time under 30 feet): Adelaide. BILLIKEN TROPHY (Best elapsed time, gaff rigged): Brigadoon. BA RUN A TROPHY (First Ocean Racer to finish): Athene. First boat to finish (no special trophy): Goza. •To qualify as a Master Manner, a boat must be built before World War It, or built post-war using pre-war design and materials. "Steve Osborn dedicated La Mouelte's race toTver designer and previous owner Jack Weingand, a 30-year Bay sailor who passed away last year.

How hairy was it? So rough, the fish couldn’t stay down. This one (inset, above) hopped aboard Freda. Other photos, clockwise from above: Freda (foreground) nips at the heels of Orn; Felicity gets the winning gun; Brigadoon sprints toward Crissy (Photoboat, don’t fail us now!); Adelaide looked like she had a Chrysler hemi under the hood., At only 24 feet on deck, Adelaide is one of the smallest Master Mariners. She is also one of the fastest, and with what appears to be about one foot of freeboard, absolutely the wettest. In even small chop, she’s often lost to the eye. In any wind, the boat goes like a scalded cat. This year, when Adelaide wasn’t planing past everybody in sight, she often looked like a gaff-rigged submarine. With her four crew grinning the whole time, the boat won Gaff III, and the Lyle Galloway trophy for best elapsed time — the first gaffer ever to win the award.

or a while, it looked as though the post-race dinner/awards ceremony/party (with emphasis on the latter) at the Encinal YC following the race was going to be the anticlimax of the day. Even the “iron” men and women that sail and maintain these historic wooden boats can poop out after a day like Sunday. But in true Master Mariners style, once “Eugene and the Blue Jeans” started playing, the tired Mariners began to show vital signs again. The partying in the club went on until about 2 a.m. There was a brief resurgence, com¬ plete with concertinas and unprintable sea chanties, aboard Tom List’s Polaris, which lasted until about 3. It was a memorable year. — latitude — jr

HARTOG & ROSENBAUM

hile most businesses tend to want to lead the way into the future, boat designers Joe Hartog and Bob Rosenbaum consider that some of the best ideas about sailing craft may lie somewhere off the stern. Ideas like seakindly motion, b&ing able to climb off a lee shore and moderate sail plans. Their visions don’t run to ultralight fandoogles that leap from wave top to wave top in pants-wetting exhilaration. Joe and Bob offer plain home cooking in the naval archi¬ tecture department. Nothing ‘Cajun’ for miles around. Hartog and Rosenbaum, which was called Holland Marine Design up until January of this year, is an anomaly in several ways. For one, they don’t do racing yachts. No way, no how. Think of any yacht designers you know of in the Bay Area — Carl Schu¬ macher, Gary Mull, Tom Wylie, for example — and it’s probably because of their activity

only run one small ad in National Fisherman magazine. “Otherwise, I’m just a spider in the web,” he says.

in racing that you recognize their names. You won’t find any Hartog and Rosenbaum 41’s out there on the starting line no matter how hard you look.

Their offices are on the second floor of a two story building on Geary Street across from the Coronet Theatre in San Francisco. No masts, no sound of seagulls overhead,

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no saltwater smell in your nostrils. Noisy traf¬ fic whizzes below their south facing windows.

cJ oe’s been working out of the same office since 1962. There one finds unmis¬ takable signs of yacht design: large drafting tables with plans laid out on them, wooden half models of boats on the walls next to clear plastic drawing curves, a poster of fish profiles, an open cabinet hung over a desk with cubbyholes for brochures dealing with galley equipment, waste systems and other stuff which make up the innards of boats. The most distinctive piece of furniture is a Combining the best of the past with the technology of today,

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six-foot rowing umyuy lurneu up on its tran¬ som on the far wall from the front door. The thwarts now have become bookshelves and hold large catalogues. There is also a potted

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE PAST over a boatbuilding shop in San Carlos. He later relocated to Burlingame on a site next to a mushroom plant. plant or two for atmosphere. Standing next to the conversation piece are a pair of oars, presumably in case things get really bad and San Francisco finally falls into the sea as most Americans fear. Joe Hartog and Bob Rosenbaum work very much as master/apprentice. Joe is now 77 years old and he’d rather spend his time fishing out at the Farallones than hunched over a drawing board. Bob is 35 and still eager to make his mark, although he’s already racked up a few impressive credits, including a stint as senior designer for New York’s Sparkman & Stephens design firm. In January he became the official president of Hartog and Rosenbaum, while Joe took on the title of consultant and designer. '7

Bob Rosenbaum and Joe Hartog.

and naval architecture in Delft, he sailed the waters of the North Sea and English Chan¬ nel. Not known for their pacific ways, these two bodies of water instilled in him a respect for the sea. Particularly the brutal 1937 Fastnet Race he sailed with a pair of Dutch brothers named Bruynzeel. They went on to own the famous Stormvogel, and are now know as makers of high-grade marine plywood. Calling Hartog low-key is an understate¬ ment. It takes others, such as Rosenbaum and clients like Dr. Henry Turkel, an Oakland physician, to blow the trumpet for him. “He has an incredible background,” says Turkel, for whom Joe designed the 52-ft steel-cutter Rigel. “Before World War II, for t example, he was the chief architect for the Dutch government in Indonesia. He knows how to design in steel so that it not only makes a good boat, but it s easy for the welders to put it together.”

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. fter World War II, Joe emigrated to the U.S. as his brother and parents had done before him. He liked the Bay Area (his brother had studied at Stanford) and took

“Every Monday morning the trucks would bring a fresh load of horseshit in from the race track and dump it next door,” he recalls, crinkling his weathered face in memory. “The flies were so thick you could barely see out of the windows!” Most of his work involved repairs, but he did some building. He also introduced the 17-ft Thistle sloop to the Bay Area around 1955, which became a class of the Small Boat Racing Association. When the airport sprawl drove rental prices up too high, Joe closed down the yard and opened a design office in Palo Alto. In 1962, he moved the operation north to Geary Street.

No one was wilting to kill the fish once they caught them!”

Joe’s early emphasis was on sailing boats. He favored older designs, and he ranks among those who influenced his work the

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ALL PHOTOS/DRAWINGS COURTESY HARTOG AND ROSENBAUM EXCEPT AS NOTED to fund his quest, which took him first to Maine’s Landing Boat School, where, as he puts it, he learned the language of boat¬ building and design. He graduated from there to a position as assistant draftsman for Bruce King, the chief designer for Ericson Yachts. During that period King was also working on the 90-ft wooden sloop Whitehawk. The possibilities with King were limited, so

Bob cast his eyes elsewhere. He soon discovered that there are only about 25 viable yacht design firms in the U.S. Open¬ ings for work are few and far between. He took a hard swallow, inked a few sample designs and sent out his resume to those companies and waited. In nine months, he heard of one opening.

Joe’s original shop in Burlingame, circa 1949.

canvassed and stout. A light boat, he says, is good for light air, but in heavy seas he’d prefer something that didn’t slide all over the place.

ob Rosenbaum, who sports a full beard and moustache, also comes from the east, and his early seagoing experiences were on the waters off Sag Harbor and the Great Peconic Bay of eastern Long Island, New York. His family owned an 18-ft Cape Cod Knockabout, which he first soloed at the age of 10. A student of art and sculpture, Bob majored in architecture at the University of Miami. In 1973, he bought and restored a 42-ft schooner called Lanakai. Looking around for something to do with his life, he was struck by how many ugly boats there were out there.

"The flies were so thick you could barely see out the windows!"

“Why not be a yacht designer?” he said to himself. “These new around-the-buoys racers are pretty complicated and not too sea kindly. Older boats tend to be simpler. But how do I create simple boats?” He sold his schooner and used the money

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direct benefit of Joe’s years of experience. He would make working drawings and give them to Joe, who would review them for errors and the next day Bob would put in the corrections. “He certainly wasn’t making any money off me,” chuckles Bob. When work got slow, Bob sent out his resumes again. His apprenticeship paid off and Sparkman & Stephens, the home of master yacht designers Rod and Olin Stephens, requested an interview. He took their offer to be a senior designer, working with noted designers such as Bill Langan, Frances Kinney, Hank Uhle and Mario Tarabocchia (designer of the Swans). S&S opened the world of luxury yachts to Bob, whose first assignment was revising a set of preliminaries for the 125-ft Queen Nefertiti. The client had rejected the original look, but liked Bob’s version. For the next year, he became the resident expert at con¬ ceptualizing and making preliminary draw¬ ings for similar big-ticket items. S&S didn’t renew his option, so Bob set up his own shop in Connecticut. He still kept in touch with Joe, however.

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ticing to someone who is. I asked Joe one day how long it took him to really become one with his work and he said about 35 years. I realized I still have a long way to go.” The sample books at H&R contain over

HARTOG & ROSENBAUM 200 stock designs, a little less than half of which are sailboats. Most of them are Joe’s. He drew, among others, a 65-ft Bluenose schooner for a customer in Sacramento. An American from an ashram in Bengal, India, commissioned a design for a small rowing/ sailing vessel built for fishing. “The only problem,” laughs Joe, “is that no one was willing to kill the fish once they caught them!” Joe also earned quite a reputation a few years ago for his work with sailing fish boats, an idea that became popular when oil prices were higher. The idea never caught fire like he hoped, and he’s written off the feasability of such designs. Bob feels differently. “If you’re fishing off the coast, sails don’t make much sense,” he says. “But if you’re going to Midway to fish, which guys do, "then it becomes efficient.” In counterpoint to Joe’s blue collar clientele, Bob’s work tends toward the mega¬ yacht. After his stint at S&S, he spent part of his time as a consultant in new yacht con¬ struction for Northrop & Johnson, the big East Coast brokers. He would tour recently launched yachts and advise the skipper and owner on how to solve problems that cropped up. It was also a place to find new clients for his design work. Some of the requests border on the outer limits, an area where Bob can let his im¬ agination run pretty wild. For example, he

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an optional gimballed billiard room (pro¬ viding a perfectly level table at all times). On deck, the three masted vessel has room for two helicoptors, among other features. Perfect for your weekend getaway. Even farther out, though, is the 234-footer he’s currently working on. It’s called the Deryebar, after the mythical island where Alexander the Great is reputed to have buried his spoils of conquest. Movie buffs will recall that Sinbad the Sailor was the son of the caretaker of that island, and he wore a medallion with a picture of Deryebar.

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recently drew up plans for a 200-ft, 50-knot motorsailor catamaran. The interior includes 7,500 square feet of living space in the two hulls, not to mention a four car garage and

ob says you have to share in the client’s fantasy in cases like these. He went out and rented the movie and studied it for clues. What he came up with, sketches of which have even appeared in a NiemanMarcus catalog, borders on James Bond. In addition to a heli-pad, the monster sailing craft will have a submarine launching station,

a hovercraft launch, even a fortified master control room and provisions for repelling a terrorist takeover attempt. Fourteen-foot high ceilings will arch over the main salon, where a copper replica of the fireplace from the cruise ship Normandie will warm the crew and guests. The master salon will fea¬ ture a hand-carved bed that can be raised •and lowered through a hatch to the veranda for sleeping under the tradewind stars. If all goes well, Bob says he’ll soon be meeting with the 20 other contractors required to put together this project. Construction time will take about two-and-a-half to three years at a price tag somewhere between $30 and $40 million “depending on the goodies.” Let other designers handle the race boats. Joe Hartog and Bob Rosenbaum have plenty of other types of work to keep themselves busy, including fantasy yachts, fishing vessels that sail and good, solid cruisers for those who want to go out and put some miles' under the keel. Anchored in the past, they’re ready to reach for the future. — shimon van collie

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the Indian Ocean stops of Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling, Mauritius and South Africa, where they spent a second Christmas away from home. Passages to Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) and then the Lesser Antilles put them little more than a Panama Canal away from a circumnavigation. But rather then close the loop, Roy, who sees the

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westerlies, when a shackle on a running backstay gave out, bringing down the mast and indirectly causing the loss of the 55-ft trimaran. And God help the sailor who cuts the southwest corner of South America too close. As if fighting off a lee shore in the ‘Roaring Forties’ wouldn’t be enough, this lee shore is a jumble of small islands and countless magnificent glaciers.

United States as rapidly qualifying for Third World status, decided there was no reason to terminate the cruising they were enjoying so much. So they headed for the Bahamas, the east coast of the United States, the Azores, Ireland, Scotland and the South Coast of England where they rented a cottage to spend their third Christmas away from home. England’s major contribution to the cruise was a new Proctor mast with internal roller furling, which has received excellent reviews from Roy, a demanding critic. From England it was on to Amsterdam, the North Sea, Ger¬ many’s Kiel Canal, Denmark, Sweden (where the water had thawed just the week before), Finland, Norway, the Shetland and Orkney Islands and once again to Ireland. Five days later they were in Spain, then Por¬ tugal, followed by a trip to Madeira. The Cape Verdes in the Atlantic were next on the way to an unpleasant 48-hour stay in Brazil. The bad memories of Brazil were quickly erased by fabulous visits to Uruguay and

Argentina. The fourth Christmas out was spent at the Mar del Plata station of the Yacht Club Argentino, where the club’s code of hospitality prohibits international guests from paying for virtually anything. Shortly after Christmas, the Jennings began their approach on Cape Horn, a land¬ mark we’ve all heard so much about — but know so little of. The biggest misconception many of us have about Cape Horn is that it’s part of mainland South America. Actually, it’s one of the many small islands of the Wollaston Group of Tierra del Fuego, which itself is separated from mainland South America by the Strait of Magellan some 200 miles to the north. Horn Island is only about four miles by two miles. It’s so small that rounding it on one of the occasional calm days is no big deal; people have done it with canoes, sailboards and kayaks. The day before Roy and Tee got there, a Dutch boat towed a disabled English boat ‘around the Horn’. Another surprise is that Cape Horn isn’t the southernmost island in the area. That distinction belongs to Islas Diego Ramirez, about 60 miles to the southwest. But since all the clipper ships — which gave the Horn its greatest fame — could cut the corner at Horn Island in relative safety, it’s that bit of land that basks in all the glory. Yet another misconception about the Horn is that once you’ve rounded it you’ve got it made and can head north toward the „ palm trees and topless natives of French Polynesia. If this were true, Mike Kane of Newport Beach and his trimaran, Cystic Fibrosis Crusader, would probably hold the New York to San Francisco sailing record rather than the famed Flying Cloud. In fact, you still must sail about 300 miles farther west before you can crack off and safely reach north. Kane and Crusader were long past Cape Horn, still bashing into bruising

ddly enough, it was one man’s desire for free trade that led to the discovery of the Horn. Here’s the story: By the early 1600’s, the newly formed Dutch East India Company had begun to perfect their monopolistic proclivities. For example, they decreed that no European captain would be allowed to sail around the Cape of Good Hope or through the Strait of Magellan (South America) to the valuable trading partners in the East — unless they were a member of the Company. Because no other routes to the East were known at the time, this gave the Dutch East India Company a strangle-hold on the profitable trade. They were serious about their restric¬ tions, too, fielding their own private navy to assure compliance. Ultimately one of the Company’s board of directors, Issac LeMaire of Amsterdam, ob¬ jected. The authorities gave him permission to trade with various countries in the east — on the proviso he find a new route there. Since the Suez and Panama Canals were still a couple of hundred years from the planning stages, this seemed like a tall order. Nonetheless, LeMaire formed his own trading company and hired navigator William Schouten to find a new route. Hav¬ ing studied the logs and charts of Sir Francis Drake, who years before had gone through the Straits of Magellan only to get blown southeast nearly past the as yet unknown and unseen Cape Horn, Schouten decided that there must be a passage from the Atlan¬ tic to the Pacific south of the Strait of Magellan. Schouten and LeMaire’s son Jacob set off to find the new route in two ships; the 220-ton Eendracht and the 110-ton Hoorn. After picking up 25,000 lemons in Sierra Leone to combat scurvy, the two vessels proceeded to Puerto Deseado, Argentina, about 600 miles north of the cape they 2186

would soon discover. At ‘Port Desire’ they had dates with twins of misfortune. Both vessels dragged anchor and went so high on the rocky shore that the crew could walk beneath the hulls. Fortunately, both ships were refloated without too much damage. But then disaster struck a second time during breaming, a process in which sea-life is cleaned off the bottom of ships by burning. Whoever had the matches got a little careless and the Hoorn burned to the waterline. There was no choice; everybody had to sail aboard the Eendracht. Eleven days later they sailed through an eight-mile strait separating Tierra del Fuego from a minor land mass to the east. This land mass they named Staten Island, in the false hope that it might be part of the much speculated ‘southern continent’. Forced to run off (“among whales by the thousands”) to the south for a day by a typical southwest¬ erly gale, the explorers soon experienced the roll of heavy blue seas. From this they cor¬ rectly deduced that they had sailed past the tip of South America and were free to sail west to the Pacific. The following day they passed a snow-bound moutainous island which ended in a sharp corner; they named it Cape Horn, in dual honor of the vessel they’d lost and navigator Schouten’s hometown. A little known fact is that the crude Eendrecht’s 27-day passage from Port Deseado to the western exit of the Strait of Magallan still remains a remarkably fast one. That was to be about the end of the expedition’s glory days, however. Continuing through the South Pacific, they distinguished themselves by slaughtering scores of pigs and natives. Finally arriving in Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, they were given a rude surprise. Governor Coen, a big supporter of the rival Dutch East Indies Cogipany, seized the Eendracht and sent Schouten and the younger LeMaire home as virtual prisoners. Life is hard today, but it was even tougher then; LeMaire died on the passage back to the Netherlands.

T 1 he Jennings challenged the Horn in Foxglove, a modified Freya 39 that Roy

Top; Roy and Tee with 'Foxglove' in background at Caleta Homos, one of their three favorite anchorages in the world. Second from top; Old Cape Stiff herself, as seen during light winds and calm seas. Third from top; Bahia Scourfield at Wollaston Island. The wind came down the hills at over 100 knots. Bottom; Dutch cruisers Helena Cristina and her two daughters, plus one of the last Alacalut Indians and a Chilean friend at Port Eden.

completed from a bare hull in Tomales Bay. Curiously enough, this was the third Freya 39 he’s owned. The first was the famous original wood Freya that won three Sydney to Hobart Races in the mid-60’s. The second was a standard fiberglass version built by Jim Gannon. The most recent Freya 39 incarnation of Foxglove features a flush page 122

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wood deck and a rather small cockpit; it also developed both a bowsprit and stern pulpit during the circumnavigation. While Roy Jennings likes Freyas, it’s hardly been to the exclusion of other designs. Taught to sail by his father in the old Long Beach lagoon. Roy has owned over 40 sailboats of over 18 feet in length. Many of them he purchased to fix up and sell for a profit, including one he’d bought in England and sailed all the way to Long Beach. Nonetheless, it was on Foxglove, his third Freya, that they departed Mar Del Plata just after the first of this year to arrive four days later at uninhabited, desolate, volcanic Caleta Homos. Hard to find and out in the middle of nowhere at 47S, Roy and Tee rate this as one of the three best anchorages they visited in four years. (The other two were Whangaroa, just north of New Zealand’s Bay of Islands, and Angso National Park in Sweden.) The Jennings aren’t alone in finding this remote part of South America charming. St. Exupery, noted aviator and author of the classic Little Prince, enjoyed flying these lonely expanses. In fact, he features the region in Wind, Sea and Stars. Disregarding the Sailing Directions, which suggest hugging the Argentine coast to keep the gale-driven westerlies from building up big seas, the Jennings then sailed directly from Caleta Homos to the Strait of LeMaire. Although nights are very short in that part of the world in January, they nonetheless arrived in darkness. Tremendous tidal out¬ falls which reverse every six hours are the rule in the strait, and when a westerly gale blows against it, nasty seas can develop. So nasty that ships are cautioned to stay away in bad weather. A German acquaintance of their’s got flushed out of the strait twice. Nonetheless, Roy and Tee hit good weather and a favorable current, and made it through in relative ease. Their biggest cause for concern was that the navigation lights on the ’ snow-covered mountains were either extremely faint or invisible. With only very light northerly winds, it took Foxglove all that day and half the night to cover the 70 miles from Strait LeMaire to Islas Barnevelt, which is just 15 mijes from Cape Horn. Passing Barnevelt at 0230, it began to get light, an encouraging sign. But the barometer dropped 2/10th’s of an inch, a bad sign. Early on the morning of January 14th, Foxglove sighted the Horn Island lighthouse where a three-person crew mans a radio page 123

shack for four months at a time. As they rounded’ the Horn, it was decision time. While the sea was still pretty calm, the wind

roller furling — they flopped over to star¬ board hoping to make the lee of ‘False Horn’, an island a little to the northwest of Cape Horn. But it quickly became obvious this would be impossible. The radio operator at Cape Horn, who was apparently tracking

“I'd kind of fee! cheated if we rounded the Horn and had come up to 25 knots and was backing to the dreaded west. Even more ominous, the barometer continued to drop. Should they continue on or take refuge among the Wollaston Group? They laugh about the decision now. Tee remembers, “I told Roy, ‘If we don’t go now we never will; and I won’t speak to you again’.” Roy adds, “It’s the only time I listened to her. I know I should have ducked back to Wollaston with a falling barometer.” Perhaps things wouldn’t have gotten so bad, if Tee hadn’t hoped for a bit of a pasting. “I’d kind of feel cheated,” she told Roy at the time, “if we rounded the Horn and didn’t get a little weather.” With Tee’s valor getting the better of Roy’s discretion, Foxglove sailed on to the west in the face of continually building winds and seas. Having rounded the Horn with a full main and jib early in the day, by evening everything had been roller furled in but the storm jib. And they were still overpowered. By then both Roy and Tee would have , preferred to be at anchor in the Wollaston • Group. After all, the howling wind was right on the nose and the seas were terrible. The seas at Cape Horn are notoriously bad partly because the bottom shoals up from 1000 fathoms to just 30. It was difficult sailing, as visibility was down to almost zero. There was no moon, they couldn’t make out the seas, and flying scud was everywhere. To make things worse, from time to time there was heavy rain. About the only thing in their favor was that it was summer; thus the temperatures* were only in the 40’s, although the wind chill made it cooler. Battling the tremendous cur¬ rent that accompanies westerly gales, they couldn’t make a westerly course but were being driven south toward 600-mile distant Antarctica. They either had to get back north to shelter or be blown halfway across the south Atlantic. Still carrying just a 70 square foot storm jib — which next time Roy would put on the

them on radar and checking in every 15 minutes, reported that in one hour they’d covered 11 knots — under bare poles! Their only hope was to find shelter in one of the easternmost Wollastons. But the Horn radio operator had other bad news for the Jennings. He reported that there was a ship, the Alaskan Trader, very close to them. Concerned about being run down, they illuminated all their lights and radioed the ship that they were hove to. The Alaskan Trader radioed back that the winds were a constant Force 11 (56 to 63 knots) with higher gusts. They, too, were hove to in the huge seas.

hat was it like riding out a Cape Horn gale, the worst of Roy’s long sailing career, while desperately trying to hold on to all the westing they could? “Actually, it wasn’t bad at all. It was peaceful down in the troughs, then the boat would heel over as it came up a swell and was exposed to more wind. At the top of the swells it was noisy as hell, both from the sound of the wind and the seas.” It was during this period that the brutal conditions put Foxglove on her side for a few seconds. Down in a trough and heeled over by the wind, a cross sea slowly laid the 39-ft sloop on her side. Then a second erratic wave knocked Foxglove farther over so that she was inverted about 20 degrees. Green water poured down a dorade and onto the sleeping Tee’s face. (She had asked for some weather) . The typewriter jumped from its bin and drop-in drawers flew out. Roy is an experienced offshore sailor who believes in being meticulously prepared, so the damage was minor because things like the floorboards and the salon table were bolted down. Previously, Roy had never really understood how a good-sized boat could roH over. After being put down by two waves, he figures a third would indeed have rolled

Top; Rafted to an old steam tug at Dusky Sound, New Zealand. Second from top; with 'Lista' at Gota Canal, Sweden. Third from top; At the wonderful Yacht Club Arentino. Bottom; After four years, back home in Sausalito, but ready to go again.

them. But a third erratic wave in a row wasn’t forthcoming, and Foxglove righted herself nicely. Naturally the knockdown con¬ cerned Roy and Tee, but neither one of them figured they were in any peril. Having been awake for more than 36 hours and living on baked potatoes and Argentinian pan dulce, Roy continued to carry the storm sail and motor at full power fighting to make the lee of the Wollaston’s. It was difficult steering, for even under full power the boat was driven backwards at times. And if the wind blew the bow off to one side or the other, it could take minutes to bring it back into the wind. Twenty-two hours after rounding the Horn east to west, Foxglove was driven back around the Horn west to east. Finally closing on the lee of Islas Deceit, Roy called Horn Radio and asked if he could cut between the rocks shown on the chart. “No way,” was the response. Although the rocks are 150-ft tall, the spray and foam from the waves smashing into them blew right over the top! It was a magnificent display of the ocean’s power. Even once they’d gained the lee of Islas Deceit, it was still a tooth and nail battle northwest to the well-protected anchorage at Bahia Scourfield. Still motoring at full speed, Foxglove could manage little more than a knot or two over the bottom. A little bay at the base of steep hills, Bahia Scourfield offers superb protection from the seas. Three other yachts were already at anchor there when Roy and Tee arrived; one of them, an Englishman and Dutchman, assisted them in getting two anchors down and a line tied to a tree. As thankful as the Jennings were, they were too exhausted to accept the offer of a drink. Hitting their bunks, they didn’t arise for 18 hours. As a measure of how well they slept, the Englishman later told them that the wind had the anchored Foxglove rail under for 15 minutes at a time. Roy and Tee don’t doubt it for a second. When they awoke the williwa’s were gusting to over 100 knots! But they didn’t drag. Sometimes our best plans get reversed but turn out all for the good. This is what hap¬ pened to Roy and Tee. They Sot to ‘round the Horn’ before being blown back; they decided to take the inside passage up the Beagle Channel to the Straits of Magellan and Golfo de Renas before heading out into the Pacific and Valpariso. With a landscape very much like the Inside Passage of Alaska, only with more glaciers and less trees, it was page I 24

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spectacularly beautiful. “It was the best thing that could have happened to us,” says Tee. The southern stretches of this inside passage were virtually uninhabited, with trees sculptured to the granite terrain by the force of the wind. Although the Beagle Channel is almost all protected from the open ocean, the furious winds create short, steep seas given even the shortest fetch. The Jennings moved on whenever they could, but several times they simply couldn’t leave their anchorage.

ith Tee figuring it would be nice to get home to Inverness for a few months, they sailed 52 days non-stop from Algarrobo, Chile, to Sausalito, arriving on May 10 of this year. Upon arrival, Roy was ready to head out again. Tee is willing to wait a few months. But both would very much like to return to the Beagle Passage and round the Hern again — this time west to east with the wind and seas. After four years of sailing the world, Roy and Tee naturally have made some interest¬ ing observations. Regarding the actual sail¬ ing, they report that too little wind is a much greater and more common problem than strong winds. The long passages up the Atlantic from South Africa and up the Pacific from Chile saw Foxglove sporting a spin¬ naker on one side and a huge drifter on the other side for days at a time — and still only eeking out a few knots. Comparing the rest of the world to the United States, Roy says, “Others seem to be very happy with a lot less than we Americans are.” It made him think of the last 12 Alacalut Indians of a tribe they’d met in Port Eden, Chile. While their houses were little more than shacks and they had no electricity or television, they had decent clothes, plenty to eat, and seemed very content. As for the highlight of the trip, there was no question that it wasn’t some perfect day of sailing, some lovely tropical beach, or even rounding the Horn. “The absolute highlight was the terrific people we met everywhere in the world.” People Roy and Tee felt they wouldn’t have been able to meet visiting any other way than by boat. Right now a lot of you are probably think¬ ing how great it would be if you could only afford to do something like that. According to,Roy and Tee, during their four years out they lived “high on the hog” for less than $1,000 a month. This included boat ex¬ penses for haulouts and sails as well as two page 125

cars. “It would have been more expensive for us to have stayed home and not made the trip,” says Roy.

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for less than $1,000 a month. It should be noted, however, that Roy and Tee avoid marinas, tourist spots and most big cities like the plague. They also drink in moderation and do almost all of their own boat work.

ther opinions and observations: is The highly-publicized Bay of Islands in

New Zealand are nothing compared to the natural wonders of its South Island. Just the fjords, for example, make Norway’s look sick by comparison. is Hobart,- Tasmania is not an isolated outpost but has everything one needs to fix up a boat. is While Sydney was terrific, the famed Whitsunday Islands were a big disappoint¬ ment. The water was silty, there were stonefish, jellyfish and crocodiles. Next time they’ll go by way of Norfolk Island. s Tahiti is divorce central, for cruising couples who learned during the ocean cross¬ ing that they’re not compatible in close quarters. By Australia, many cruisers tire or run out of money and decide to ship their boats home. By the Torres Strait the die is , cast; once past there you’re committed to going around the world. s St. Helena, where Napolean is buried, was terrific. Perhaps in part because Roy is a former pilot and it has no airport. s The best sail of the trip was in the In¬ dian Ocean when they covered 2,000 miles in 12 days carrying just a storm jib and a bit of unrolled main. “A fantastic sail I’d love to do again,” remembers Roy, noting that it would have helped to have had a periscope along. is Returning to the States at Florida’s « IntraCoastal Waterway halfway through the cruise; Roy and Tee could stand just 19 miles before having to bail out. Plastic gir¬ affes and gross commercialization were just too much to take. Having sailed across- the Atlantic on virtually the spur of the moment, they didn’t have the charts they needed to get around. At the Howth YC a very large powerboat had to move down the dock so they could

As they left, the owner exuberantly threw them kisses. A short time later they saw him on television. He is Charles Haughy, the newly elected Prime Minister! The Germans demonstrated tremen¬ dous hospitality, but as a general rule, the Spanish speaking people were the friendliest of all. The people and countries of Argen¬ tina, Uruguay and Chile were the Jennings’ favorite. Sweden and South Africa rated very high also. Now that they think of it, the English and Dutch were super, too. So were the Aussies and Kiwis — they were all great! v* Buenos Aries is like Los Angeles ex¬ cept that it’s pretty outdoors. It’s the Paris of South America. Santiago, Chile has the best underground Metro in the world. Valparaiso is older than San Francisco. is The lomo steaks of Chile and Argen¬ tina are so delicious that they made meateaters of several devout vegetarians. A big lomo dinner runs about $3.50. is The United States education system doesn’t seem to stack up against other systems of the world. Like Chile, which also seems to offer much greater pre-natal care. We’re one of the few countries in the world where our children aren’t taught to be multi¬ lingual. is SatNav was used for navigation the whole time except when lightning took it out off New Zealand. v* Checking in with Customs in both Florida and Sausalito was done over the telephone. v* While you have you’re health it’s better to keep moving and see the world rather than stay too long in any one place.

he overriding observation, however, is that ■ no matter what the newspapers say, there’s a world full of wonderful people out there for those willing to make the effort to live with them. And that young children in particular should not be denied the pleasant and unparalleled education such a voyage offers. — latitude

AN IDIOT'S GUIDE TO

ike many a good idea, the Catalina Race was dreamed up over a bunch of cocktails at a yacht club bar — or so the story goes. The first race, back in 1979, was really more of a Metropolitan Yacht Club coastal cruise — only four boats participated, and

not, the race promises to be one of the highlights of the summer. Personally, we’re completely jazzed about the race — thinking

for the 385-mile course (49 hours, 24 minutes, and 46 seconds, set by Zeus in 1987) could be demolished by any of the V

we gather it was less than a raging success. From that inauspicious beginning, the Catalina Race slowly gained momentum, earning a reputation as the “Poor Man’s TransPac” and picking up a dozen or so more entries every year. “Last year, we got 64 boats — we thought that was pretty in¬ credible at the time,” said Margaret Fago, one of the race organizers. Well, forget all that. This year, as if to celebrate its tenth anniversary, the Catalina Race exploded: a remarkable 129 boats will cross the starting line at Golden Gate YC on Monday, July 4th, making this the best at¬ tended West Coast long-distance race in history. Why the slide to Catalina suddenly hit the bigtime is anyone’s guess — we figure it’s just the right race at the right time. Five custom sleds (Barracuda, Blondie, Merlin, Mongoose and Pyewacket) are signed up, as are three Big Macs and a whole slew of mini-sleds: seven Santa Cruz 50’s, eleven Express 37’s, six Olson 40’s, five Olson 30’s, and so on. The large and diverse fleet, a third of which hails from Southern California, will race in a non-spinnaker cruis¬ ing class (which starts on July 3rd, a day ahead of everyone else), an 10R division, and five PFfRF divisions. Boats under 31 feet are also simultaneously competing for the MORA Long Distance Trophy. With any wind, the elapsed time record

sleds — even Santa Cruz 50’s have done the trip in 52 and 53 hours. After ten years, the 48-hour barrier — the elusive two day Holy Grail — is tantalizingly within reach. But if history repeats itself, a smaller boat will end up correcting out on the fleet. (The rated distance for handicap purposes is 400 miles, which although less than the 426jjsed in the past, still skews the race in favor of the higher rating boats.) But win or lose, record-breaking times or

about carving up the ocean next week has been what’s kept us going through the deadline crunch. Three of us here at Latitude are doing the race, and we got so excited about it that we decided to throw together a quick three-part race primer. In the first section of this Idiot’s Trilogy, we con¬ vinced an expert — Alameda naval architect Carl Schumacher — to share his go-fast strategies for getting to Catalina. Next is a quick overview of what to expect when

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you’re at the island, followed by our formerly top secret tips for delivering your boat home. Enjoy the primer (remember, don’t believe

max ebb. That means you want to stay in the middle of the channel. Start at the pin end and tack out as soon as possible.

Above, sunset in Avalon Harbor. Left, on board ‘Zeus' during their record-breaking 1987 run.

One year in a MORA San Diego Race that started from Baker Beach, we won the start, did a few tacks and set up our starboard layline as soon as we could lay Seal Rocks. All seemed well with the world — except that the boats that overstood the rocks had much better current and went zooming past us. There’s a pocket of flood that starts early in the Baker Beach area — make sure you’re away from the entrance by 1130 or 1200 when the tide turns! Anytime you give advice on how to sail a race, the opposite always seems to happen. Nevertheless, here are some rules of thumb on getting down the coast. It’s a good idea to get a full chart of the course and tape it on a bulkhead. This way the whole crew can get the big picture of where they are and where they are going. The coast bends east as you sail south so be careful not to sail too far off¬ shore. Toward the end of the race you will find yourself sailing nearly due east. On your wall chart, put down waypoints at some strategic locations (points, islands to turn around). Then try to sail the optimum VMG to these target points: hopefully, they’ll help you from straying too far.

everything you read), and enjoy the race. See you at Catalina!

How To Get Down

ailing down the California coast has got to be one of life’s greater pleasures. You start out with plenty of wind and excitement; when you need a rest the wind dies down; and finally, just when you start getting bored, the journey is over. And the entire time the weather and water are getting warmer and warmer . . . I’ve done this trip both racing and cruising several times; undoubtedly, Latitude asked me to write this because I’ve made just about every mistake humanly possible in the pro¬ cess. Anyway, let’s look at the course from top to bottom and see what one can typically expect. Other than being an enjoyable mental ex¬ ercise, getting to Land’s End quickly has almost no bearing on the overall results. As the wind dies outside the entrance to the Bay, you sit and watch all the boats behind sail up to you. Still, this is a race, so you should take your minutes where you get them. This year’s contest starts at 9:30 in the morning, about an hour-and-a-half after page 127

A fter leaving the Gate, the first decision is how far off Montara to sail. There is usually a big hole there that must be avoided. 1 /

usually go just inside the Montara Buoy, or maybe a quarter of the way from there toward shore. Be careful — if you feel like the wind is giving out, head farther offshore. Watch the other boats, they’re your windguides. Don’t be the first or the last to pop a

kite. The first guys are always greedy and set too soon; the last guys are caught flatfooted.

ne of the textbook theories is to sail out on starboard jibe until you are about 60 miles offshore, then jibe and come in. Per¬ sonally, 1 don’t like this. Even if it is faster — and I’m not convinced it is — it’s boring. The wind tends to go from northwest to west or even southwest as you get closer to the finish line. Going offshore might give you more wind, but you end up sailing a longer distance. I like to jibe down a predetermined rhumbline between your target points. If there is more wind, then you can go farther outside of the target points; if the wind is lighter, you want to sail a shorter distance because it takes longer to make up the extra miles. If you’re going to sail the shortest distance, remember that the wind accelerates at the points and, conversely, dies down in the bays. Plan your jibes so that you are closest to the shore by the windy points (Davenport, Sur, Conception) and offshore by the bays (e.g., Estero). If the wind lightens, try to determine if it’s general or local. If it’s local, head offshore; if it’s general, sail the straight line course. The wind can go dead if you’re too close to shore. One year we spent all afternoon

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twirling around in a parking lot off Point Arguello. This is supposed to be one of the windiest spots on the coast! I think that hole X might have been caused by no fog along the coast and a small temperature gradient. In any event, stay alert when near shore. Unless you have enough experience not to need to be reading this advice, stay out¬ side the islands! You can only get into trou¬ ble. Go outside of Santa Rosa and San Miguel, but then inside of San Nicholas. Pass on whichever side of Santa Barbara Island that gives you the fastest course for your ap¬ proach to Catalina. Usually, that’s going to be to the north side of this island. Be aware that there are large kelp beds near Santa Barbara. On your approach to the finish line, stay away from Catalina as long as possible: there’s a counter current that runs up this island near the West End.

0) ne last piece of advice on how to sail the race: if it’s windy, push really hard on the top half of the cohrse. If everyone’s tired the second night, remember that it will probably be calm and peaceful the next afternoon so you can rest then. The first time I took my own boat in a coastal race, it howled until just past Conception. On the second night, no one was getting any rest. I thought that if we didn’t get some sleep we wouldn’t be able to make it through another night, so we dropped the chute and wung out a jib. Wrong! The next morning, the wind died and I felt like a fool — especially later, when we learned that we’d lost a place by four minutes. Above all, enjoy the race no matter what the weather brings, or how you end up in the standings. And enjoy Catalina: I spent many pleasant hours of my youth gunkholing around that island The water’s clear, the pace is calm, and it’s a great place to spend a few days after the race. — carl schumacher

Being There

he beauty of the Catalina Race is that it’s more than just a race. Not only is the island a great place for R&R, but it’s a terrific place for family and friends to come down and share the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, some cold beer and a great vacation. Everyone’s heard of Catalina, but most Northern Californian sailors know little about page 128

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it. Located 20 miles south of Long Beach, mountainous Catalina is roughly 20 miles by two to seven miles wide. Despite its size, there are only three substantial natural har¬ bors; Cat Harbor, Isthmus Cove and the New York City of Catalina, Avalon. Located on opposite sides of the island, Cat Harbor and Isthmus Cove are nonethe¬ less separated by just a flat quarter mile strip of land. Cat Harbor, on the south side, has 85 moorings and room for 235 boats to an¬ chor. It has no facilities or services. Isthmus Harbor has 240 moorings and room for another 100 boats to anchor. Services' and facilities at the Isthmus consist of a general store, a restaurant and bar and a coffee shop. During the busy summer months all these — as well as the moorings — are taxed to the max, so be forewarned. If you plan on eating at the only restaurant at the Isthmus, you either make reservations very early or you don’t eat. Danger! Whether approaching or leaving Isthmus Cove, keep a shaip watch for Har¬ bor Reef just to the north. Just barely covered by water at most tides, it’s nonetheless ripped open the bottoms of many boats. It will get yours if you don’t keep your eyes open. Even worse, your boat will be destroyed directly in front of a huge audience. To get a mooring at the Isthmus, you simply show up with your boat in front of the pier. There a harbor patrolman, on duty at all times, will assist you. Oftentimes this is Doug Owen from Teal; his son Jim often works at the fuel dock at the pier. They’re originally from Northern California, so you’re among friends. The charge for a mooring is about $12 per night. If there’s no room, you can either wait for a mooring to open up or anchor nearby. The anchoring is in deep water, requiring lots of chain and line. Just like the line and chain you left back home because you wanted to reduce weight in the downwind race.

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he moorings at Catalina are different than at Angel Island. You motor your bow up to the ‘wand’ and pull it aboard, attaching the heavy loop over your bitt. You then pull in the ‘pilot line’ until you reach the aft heavy loop, which you secure to your stern bitt. First-timers invariably screw up the pro¬ cedure, much to the amusement of the neighbors, scores of which are within just 20 or 30 feet. To depart you throw the whole page 129

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AN IDIOT'S GUIDE TO mess in the water, catching it in your prop, causing you to drift into five or six other boats. Have fun, and don’t forget to pay those insurance premiums. If you have your own dink — not likeiy, as this was a race down — you cat} tie up tree at the dinghy dock. Shore boat runs $2.00 each way per person for boats lucky enough to be in the inner harbor and $2.50 per per¬

son in the outer-harbor. The boats run from 7 a.m. to 2 a.nt., seven days a week. They can be contacted on VHF channel 9. The first finishers will be awarded moorings in the inner harbor; when that’s full, boats will be directed to the outer harbor; if that’s full, you’ll be sentenced to anchoring up in Whites Landing. Pull up in front of the pier or call the harbor master on VHF channel 68 to get your marching orders. Other than the meager services at Two Harbors, all of Catalina’s many shops, bars, restaurants, etc. are located in Avalon on the eastern end of the island. Avalon is compact and congested with pedestrians; automo¬ biles, thank goodness, are not allowed. Avalon is a big favorite with our seven and five-year-old children: safe beaches, safe sidewalks, junk food, row boats, golf carts to rent, and so on. Descanso Bay, just a short walk from Avalon, is perfect for the family; great beach, BBQ, bar and large grass area. We recommend it.

valon rates four stars with justfinished-the-race adults, too. Because there are no cars, you can have more than a cou¬ ple of post-race drinks and not worry about straying in front of traffic or driving a car off the end of the pier. Locals like to see visitors have a good time, but they do not suffer noisy or obnoxious drunks. We’re told the police have ticket pads full of “drunk & disorderly in public” citations all filled out except for the offender’s name. Avalon’s an ideal place to re-live the race as long as you stay cool. Where to sleep, you wonder. Once you

finish the race, you don’t want to immedi¬ ately burn your bridges with the owner or crew because the boat is the best place to crash out the next couple of nights. Accom- ^ modations on Avalon are very small, very old, very expensive, and usually reserved

months ahead of time. Even camping is usually completely booked. Unfortunately, the boat is your safest bet. If you must dash back home, there are fer¬ ries leaving for San Pedro and Long Beach almost hourly for $12, as well as other ser¬ vice to Newport Beach and San Diego. Fer¬ ries take about two hours and can sell out. Helicopter and seaplanes service is valso available at a substantially higher cost. However, if you’ve got some time to ex¬

plore the island and are longing for a little solitude after the bustling pace of Avalon and Two Harbors, you may want to cruise lesspopulated areas of Catalina. Unfortunately, there is precious little of it on the north side, where the ten best coves have mooring buoys and the rest of the area is spotted with fishing boats. Your best bet is the only good anchorage — besides Cat Harbor — on the

south side; Little Harbor. Well-protected by a reef coming out from the north, there is room for 12 to 15 boats to anchor. We anchored there the first weekend of this sum¬ mer in company with one other sailboat and a small powerboat. Near the beach is a campground for 150 people. That’s bad because it means more people; it’s good because it means there are portable toilets, cold showers, water, fire rings — and a tele¬ phone. But beware, if someone has to taxi out to Avalon quick, it’s $75 one way! The best publication for cruising Catalina — and Southern California for that matter — is the ChartGuide to Southern California. While the charts are a little difficult to read, the Guide is jam-packed with useful informa¬ tion, particularly for mariners new to the area. At $44 it’s a tremendous bargain as it covers everything you need to know in order to cruise the area. For reasons we can’t fathom, some of the bigger chandleries don’t have this in stock, so you might let your fingers do the walking to a nautical bookstore or other chandleries.

How To Get It Up

ow, for the hard part; how to get your boat back up the coast. It’s funny how the same stretch of beautiful coastline sud¬

denly seems cold, nasty, and sometimes even dangerous when beating home. Some owners, those of the “gentlemen don’t sail upwind” school, would rather endure an IRS audit or root canal surgery than bring their own boat back. Of course, if you’ve got a trailerable boat, you merely slap it on its trailer and head north at “55 apparent”, as the MORAns like page 130

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to say. Even some big boats — Colin Case’s 36-footer National Biscuit for example — can and will be dissembled and then trucked up 1-5 by overland yacht delivery com¬ panies. That alternative, which involves yard bills at each end, is almost twice as expensive as paying the going rate — roughly $1,000 — to have your boat delivered home by a professional delivery skipper. But let’s say — for whatever reason (lack of money, masochism, or for the adventure) — you and your faithful crew have decided to bring the boat back up the coast. Actually, it’s not that bad. We’ve done the trip half a dozen times, and don’t mind sharing our formerly secret and guaranteed foolproof delivery itinerary.

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I I ere’s how we’d approach it: after tak¬ ing on fuel and supplies’at Avalon (either Fri¬ day or Saturday morning, depending on how much time you want to spend in Cata¬ lina), hit the road early in the morning. After motoring up the side of the island for a few hours, we always stop for a swim, but that’s optional. Then, put the hammer down on the trusty iron genoa, and with the delivery main up to steady the boat, head for Santa Barbara. That’s a good 15 hour motor, but usually this part of the trip is easy. You should pass Anacapa Island at dusk and then Santa Bar¬ bara sometime just after midnight. Resist the temptation to stop — if the weather forecast is good (anything under 25 knots), keep go¬ ing. If the Santa Barbara Channel is bouncy — and it can be — throttle back and head for the north shore. Once you’re a mile or so off the beach, the next 40 miles to Conception are usually a breeze. The ideal time to round Conception is right at dawn, which is why we pressed through the night. At first light, you can look around and see just how gnarly the passage will be, and whether you need to stop at Coho for a day to let Mother Nature cool down. But you shouldn’t have to stop, especially in July. Go as close to the shore as you dare, short-tacking under engine and main (reefed if necessary) to stay tucked under Pt. Arguello, 11 miles north. Often, there is a north-running countercurrent to be found by hugging the beach, and anyway it makes for a smoother ride. Once around Arguello, head straight for San Francisco if conditions permit. It’ll still be early morning, so the wind shouldn’t be too bad yet — you need to make those tracks up page 131

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the rhumbline! When the wind does pick up in the afternoon, you’ll be in good shape to fall off slightly on port tack and fetch Port San Luis, 30 miles away, or Morro Bay, 45 miles away. If you’re not getting pasted by the usual afternoon winds, keep going. Sooner or later, you’ll get nailed —- so if there’s any window in the weather, and if you’ve got enough jugs of fuel, go right past Morro Bay. If you have to stop at Morro Bay, you should be happily tied up to the dock by late afternoon. We generally stop at the friendly Morro Bay YC for a shower, eat an early seafood dinner somewhere, and then bag some zzz’s until midnight. Then, troopers that we are, we head out again. The stretch from Morro Bay to Monterey Bay is the most gruesome part of the exercise — the coastline is the most beautiful, but there’s nowhere to hide once you’re past the roily harbor of San Simeon (23 miles north of Morro Bay). The next place to bail out is about 40 miles up the road at Pt. Pfeiffer, and frankly this is a place we’d stop only in an emergency.

I f you’ve gone straight through, you’ll come to Pt. Sur sometime right about dawn — once again, the optimal time to hit the points going north. From there it’s an easy shot to Santa Cruz, where we like to stop for a shower, a hot meal, and finally' a real night’s sleep. The last leg home is a snap, especially if you start off at dawn again. If you’re rounding Pt. Sur in the after¬ /

kelpbeds as you dare — not only is the scenery better, but the wind seems to antici¬ pate the Big Sur mountains and actually creates a dead zone right next to the shore. The final shot around Sur, especially if it’s late in the afternoon, can be enough to piss off the Good Humor Man. For about ten miles, the wind and the sea will beat the stuf¬ fing out of you and your boat, but stick with it — it will die down once you get a few hours north of Sur. We’ve gone around that point in 40 knots, singing songs with the cockpit speakers blaring, getting soaked and loving it, all the while confident that things would get better as evening comes. Once past Sur — which gets our vote for the nastiest point on the coast (why else would it be addressed as “sir”?), you’re home free. You know the rest from there, and if you have a few days, you’ll probably be more than ready to slow down the pace. But if your boss expects to see your tanned, relaxed visage at your desk on Monday, press on after a quick pit stop in Santa Cruz. r4

T 1 he entire trip should only take three days if fair weather prevails. But don’t push it too hard — remember the three rules of sail¬ ing which Latitude always preaches. The second one is “don’t be stupid”; the third one is “bring plenty of beer”. If you’ve been paying attention all these years, you know what the first rule is. Above all, as the wise old sargeant on “Hill Street Blues” used to say, “Hey, be careful out there ...” — latitude

THE EDEN EDICT our body is nicer than you think. Unfortunately, you have spent so much time and money hiding its beauty from the world that you have trained yourself to think that you must. Balderdash! The only thing you must do is try everything opce. Twice if it is especially nice. The Eden Edict — Garden variety — ad¬ dresses the problem of clothing. The Edict states: “Naked you came into this world and naked you should be at the drop of a hat — or any other sartorial obfuscation.” Why? Because there is this delicious feel¬ ing of freedom that infuses when you find

precious lesson that there is nothing physical, emotional or spiritual that makes you so all-fired different from everybody

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else. Saggy is sexy and droopy delicious. Quickly you realize that there are damn few perfect nymphs other than those attenuated twiggies manufactured in Hollywood. Naked you rejoin the human race. And for men in Place pareo over bust and the upper ends at back. Pull lower flap to back between legs and over hips.

yourself bare-assed alfresco. Everything flips and flops about in a joyous dance of release. Since everybody else is at least as funny/ beautiful looking as you are, you relearn the

love, it eliminates the need for passionate declaration; all is self-evident. The problem is finding someplace to be ^ naked without attracting a drool of over¬ draped weirdos. Nude beaches aren’t the solution. They are full of the sneaky peepers. Besides, sand is a crevice-seeking substance that can get damned uncomfortable where it counts. You could shed in your own back yard, except that it lacks the requisite sense of ad¬ venture. You certainly don’t want to try Main Street. Since few yet subscribe to the Eden Edict, your bare butt is likey to be tossed into the very uncomfortable cooler. The second best time I ever had publically naked was in an enormous swimming pool with 400 ecdyastically-minded Humanist psychologists. We played innocent games and splashed and wobbled and flopped around in naked peerage till all paranoia of

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grotesque physicality had fled. I’d go again in a flasher’s second, but the Humanists rarely meet in convention anymore. With the com¬ ing of the tube evangelists, Humanism has, alas, become a dirty word.

he very best place to be defoliated is on my sailboat, with the audience of my own choosing and no more or less weird than I. Aboard my lovely 46-ft vessel we can barely — you should pardon the expression —

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and sea. And each other. What gamboling! What posturing! What prancing takes place! How simple it all seems and how free. With the moulting goes not only drapery, but all of the other ties that /

bind on land. Along with clothing the suspi¬ cions and trepidations of crowded land are dumped into the sea. Sans clothing,

THE EDEN EDICT — PAREOS FOR YOU dissemblance is difficult. Not worth the effort. Even ‘eyeing askance’ takes on a lustier meaning. I will concede that few are so lucky to have a sailboat on which to escape society’s con¬ trolled ambience. Far too many have such a perfect opportunity for in puris naturalibus. Although most folks must settle for some cover-up, they need not despair. There is something almost as good as nothing — and it even works when your mother-in-law visits. The nearest thing to being respectably naked that I refer to is the mu-mu or pareo. A pareo is nothing more than a square meter or so of cotton cloth. It is donned, either above the breasts or below, by either sex, with a quick wrapping motion followed by a little tuck. It is the best, the easiest, the most infor¬ mal, the most/least revealing, and — not to be sneered at — the cheapest habiliment available to our specie. It needs no tailoring or letting in and out with our vagabond waistlines. There is absolutely no obso¬ lescence, and — thank God — it requires no keeping up with the Joneses. The pareo has one other endearing qual¬ ity. It is infinitely adjustable to conform with the wearer’s personality and mood. Jaunty?

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through the legs and tuck into the waist. Bashful? Wear two. Shameless? Fold once, then wrap. You get the idea.

Demure? High under the arms. Cautious? A knot in place of a tuck. Fashionable? Fold a pleat at the tuck. Athletic? Pull the tail

The most popular way to wear a pareo is to wrap it around your body twice and tie a knot over the shoulder.

The pareo can be worn anywhere the climate is nice. It’s the perfect versatile gar¬ ment for Avalon in the summertime, and will bring appreciative glances from women who like fashionably adventuresome men. It’s true that pareos on men are likely to draw gaffaws from overweight men at the bar at Moore’s Riverboat in the Delta, nonetheless they are the perfect garment for men and women. Pareos are, of course, traditional in Hawaii and some parts of the Caribbean. I’m told the publisher of this magazine was even spotted using his bedsheet for one in Antigua earlier this year.

T 1 here is no nuance of personality to which a pareo will not be amenable. It matches and enhances the infinite variety of the human psyche as well as providing the delitescent veil for those parts of you that you can’t yet bring yourself to make public. In short, the pareo is the Esperanto of at¬ tire, the bate noir of the haute couture-nicks. Cheap, beautiful and infinitely variable, it allows you to be as naked as is reasonable in the presence of your unclosest friends. — reese palley page I 34

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SINGLEHANDED

he Singlehanded TransPac Race got underway right on schedule June 25. For a change, the 14 starters could hardly have asked for a nicer sendoff from either the weather or their well-wishers. The noon start was planned to coincide

with the beginning of the ebb. The hour also proved convenient for spectators. In previous years, not too many folks showed up for the 8 a.m.'starts. This year, a genuine crowd made up' of friends, family and the curious made the section of breakwater opposite the Golden Gate YC starting line look and sound like a grandstand for the home team. We estimated 100 or more peo¬ ple on the breakwater. Out buzzing around the fleet were six to ten spectator boats, including Hal Nelson’s 65-ft Zeus with a videocam guy in the pulpit. Their main focus, of course, was Hal’s son Carl, sailing the race this year on his dark blue Olson 30, Cheers. Weatherwise, an honest 25 knots streamed through the Gate, causing most starters to tie in a reef. The wind couldn’t quite blow all the haze away, but most of the racers’ dispositions made up for the occa¬ sional lack of sun. All were smiling, waving and happy to finally be on their way. Most have been working on readying their boats and skills for months.

T 1 he first big surprise of the race, liter¬ ally, was Etosha. If you read the preview of this race last month, you’ll know that Bob Cranmer-Brown had his sights set on a new Singlehanded Record with a chartered Santa Cruz 50. Well, he’s still going for the record(s) — 13 days, 2.5 hours for mono¬ hulls; 10 days, 10 hours for multis — and he’s still, sailing the biggest boat ever to do this race, but it’s not a 50. It’s an Alan Adler 60-ft ULDB ketch designed for the last BOC Singlehanded ’Round the World Race. (Your kids may know of Adler; he also designed the “Aerobie” flying ring.) The charter was a hasty one. Within a week of

ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE/JR the race, the SC 50 charter fell through; Bob arranged this one; the boat had to be brought up from San Diego; and Bob had to

particularly enjoyed the breeze. The race-within-a-race this year started right at the gun. The three Olson 30s, Bill

'Cheers’ and 'Quest' together at the start. The

Stange’s Intense, Chuck Von Schalscha’s Quest and Carl Nelson’s Cheers started within a boat length of each other and stayed pretty much together until we turned the photo boat back about halfway to Pt. Bonita.

third Olson 30, ‘Intense’ is just out of the picture to the left.___

do his 400-mile qualifier. Phew! He looked ready, though, and the boat looked fast. Everybody else looked fast, too. The heavier boats like Barry Bristol’s Crealock 37 Coaster and Jack Morse’s 32-ft Tahiti ketch

Robbie Robinson, a veteran of the ’82 race, heads west out the Gate.

TRANSPAC START port. It will take most entrants two weeks and change before they have to worry about that,

ith the withdrawal of Julio Magri’s International Folkboat (there were two other no-shows from the original 17 entries), the distinction of smallest competitor is shared by Gary Morse’s Bristol 27 Sacred Dance, and Colibri, Lydia Bird’s Santa Cruz 27. Both competitors looked well prepared and were smiling, though we couldn’t exactly say that about Lydia the day before, when her boat looked more like the snake breeding pit at the San Francisco Zoo. Unlike most other competitors, she’s only owned Colibri a few months, and had to work extra long and )rard to get it ready. On the other end of the scale, Dave Hamilton’s beautiful Grey Ghost was unanimously voted “most ready” of any competitor by the other racers. How ready was he? “While everybody else was still drill¬ ing holes in their boats, he was up washing the mast,” says Paul Steinert, chuckling. Paul could well have been runner-up. He only missed his goal of having the boat com¬ pletely ready by June 1 by a week — or so.

There is only one mark in this race. It is a lighted, inflatable mark anchored at the en¬ trance to Hanalei Bay, Kauai. It is 2,120 miles from San Francisco, and must be left to

Above, Lydia Bird. Above left, 'Etosha'.

though. For many it will be two weeks of total solitude. If this is like previous races, about half the competitors will maintain com¬ plete radio silence until they are literally about to cross the finish line. Others talk regularly with shore bases or each other on SSB or, when possible, VHF. In terms of the sailing, the first three to five days are the worst — a cold, wet beat. Once racers hit the trades, the days get warmer, the sea gets bluer and the wind is always from the right direction — aft. (Well, almost always.)

e have an admission to make. In our 10 years of covering almost every area sail¬ ing race and event known to man, the start of the Singlehanded TransPac remains the only one that, well, chokes us up a bit to watch. With only one person per boat and a small fleet, we get to know a little more about each of these folks in the weeks preceding the race th&n we ever do at big, crewed TransPacs. We hope it adds a personal dimension to the content of the magazine; we know it adds a welcome dimension to our own lives. But at the start, it also makes us feel like we’re watching 14 good friends sailing alone out the Gate on a very long trip. (Yes, it has been a long month. Call us sentimental fools; we still mean it.) We’ll have the story of their crossing and the results of the race in the next issue. Until then, fair winds and Godspeed to them all. — latitude — jr

THE CREW

he sea can change a person. “It is a well-known fact, borne out by any of the great sailing stories,” wrote Leslie Black in her April Latitude article The Skip¬ per Syndrome, that sailing can “make subtle differences in the skipper’s temperament.” But I have observed the sea can effect changes in the crew too, “changes that are not all that subtle, either.” Yesterday’s advertising account executive and this morning’s competent woman in the kitchen can lose 100 I.Q. points before swinging her legs over the lifeline. The physi¬ cally active can become passive; the compe¬ tent, self-assured type can transform into the insecure, question-asking child even before the mainsheet has been cleated. Sometimes the transformation begins long before going aboard. This Jekyll-Hyde effect is evidenced by questions such as: “Do those float-coats really work?” “You aren’t going close to other boats, are you?” “We aren’t going around Pt. Blunt, are we?” There is apparently some physiological change, too, because this skilled driver who whizzes across the Golden Gate Bridge five days a week with the acute, precise depth perception necessary to negotiate the Waldo Grade, calls urgently below for the Captain (usually when he is on the head) to avoid a collision at sea — with a tug two miles away. Perhaps it is the mesmerizing rocking of a boat still at dock. Suddenly she doesn’t know where to put anything. Tote bags, purses, children’s jackets and duffels are lined up on the salon seats, poised for a tumble to the cabin sole at the boat’s first slight heel. Thus the intelligent vibrant type can become dully passive; conversely the calm, steady type can transform into a classic hysteric. The Alice Waters-on-land reverts to first-

drome is ^t an advanced stage when dishwashing in the galley requires copious quantities of fresh water, a practice tolerable locally (except in drought years) but v devastating to the Skipper when halfway between Ensenada and Turtle Bay. It isn’t just your own crew that treats you this way, either. I’ve sailed on other boats with other Skippers whose crews have hud¬ dled, mute and sullen, close to the compan¬ ionway and the jug wine. I’ve observed some female type mir^i-crew (children) laying prone in bunks below with a Walkman on auto-reverse, in a frighteningly real comatose state.

about dust and putting things back in the right place. At sea she expresses some free¬ ing joy when the decks are simply hosed down or the binoculars are replaced in their case. At home too, we suffer the usual bouts of female detail and organization. It is known as the ‘camp-director component’. The children snap-to and you can almost hear a whistle blowing to indicate the end of one activity and the beginning of the next. But at sea she lays back and gives all this organizing responsibility over to the Skipper — whether he wants it or not. When it comes to sailing matters, a whole new set of values come into operation. We certainly hear enough about “men and their

close to other boats,

year marriage cooking incompetence. In fact, it’s easier for the Skipper to get lunch himself, thus avoiding the taxing task of try¬ ing to teach an apparent instant Alzheimer’s case how to cook at sea. The Crew Syn¬

toys”, yet women aren’t exactly a practical till, some of the changes are all to the lot themselves. After a day sailing, dinner — good. At home, for instance, she is fastidious if not the same night — must be of the chic page 138

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French cuisine quality and occur at least before the next sailing. And the androgenous clothes worn on the boat must be com¬ plemented by a new skirt or blouse. But when the wind is 20 knots or more you see the Crew Syndrome in its most critical state. Immobilizing fear sets in. A Skipper friend of mine knows a skilled, adventurous horsewoman who loves jump¬ ing and trail rides. This woman quakes at being asked to go forward under breezy conditions. If the teenage children (the boys are hulks) The crew cheers and applauds when the mini-crew rights the capsized Laser. But when the skipper puts it in the drink, the laughter lasts a lifetime.

are asked to handle the anchor (even in calm conditions), it is cause for reporting to the Children’s Protective Services. Child abuse page 139

Ten or 15 minutes before approaching any dock or anchorage, this guy went below for a nap. And snored. laws, you know. Unlike the Skipper Syndrome, the Crew Syndrome is not a sexist disease. It has no gender preference. I am acquainted with hypnotic transfixion, a kind of catatonic-like state at sea, in an otherwise competent, highly-respected male physician. Once when returning from the Delta, I went below for a cup of coffee. Shortly, I sensed we were approaching shallow water. I scrambled topsides to find the good doctor heading directly for a tule bank. I grabbed the tiller from the somewhat incensed crew who defensively said, “You told me to take the tiller — you didn’t say to turn.” Another fellow crewed with me for a

number of years before I realized he had dockolepsy, a variant of narcolepsy where one suddenly, without warning, falls asleep. /

the tiller — you didn't say to turn.”

When it comes to sailing matters, the crew’s hostility is often thinly veiled. Skippers all know the object of this hostility. The helpful, supportive, teaching Skipper rushes from his office after a long day to help the crew and two mini-crew learn small boat handling. The crew shows concern and car¬ ing when a mini-crew’s Laser capsizes. She claps and says ‘hurrah!’ when the precious one rights the boat. But when the Skipper loses his balance while rigging the Laser at dock and goes into the drink, the event pro¬ duces much guffawing and belly-laughs. And the story is retold for years to come.

1 here are no precise statistics on the Crew Syndrome. Obviously it is an epidemic, though, because every Skipper I talk to is always looking for crew. But crew are hard to come by because — apparently — almost everyone is sick with the syn¬ drome. Nevertheless, we keep looking and asking. And I think I know why. Crew are fun to have aboard. Just as Skippers give crew a focus for complaints and bitching, the three topics most talked about among Skip¬ pers are boats, weather and crew. In spite of all the good-natured complaining, the kudos and compliments given to many crew are not lacking nor undeserved. And another reason for having crew aboard is that at anchor the syndrome is often in remission. Finally, in a technical sense Leslie Black is describing the Captain Syndrome, not the Skipper Syndrome. On a boat anyone at the tiller or wheel is the Skipper (and will be so hailed by the Coast Guard) but there is only one Captain, whether he is snoozing or yell¬ ing or gazing misty-eyed into the sunset. Regardless of the labeling, fellow Captains (or Skippers) when the Crew Syndrome epidemic gets too bad — rig for singlehanding. — maxinamillion kirk

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

nce again it’s that time for the great geopolitical quadrennial event that we have all come to accept as part of the passing march of history. Are we speaking of the presidential election? No. We’re talking about the Olympics, where rqpney walks,

Kostecki’s Soling campaign, says it started when, as a little boy, he saw Gold Medallist Buddy Melges go sailing. For those in their

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runs, jumps, swims and sails and nobody talks openly about what the Games have really become: a display of political and nationalistic pride. Even so, the Olympics represent the pin¬ nacle of ‘amateur’ sport, if that phrase can still be used with any authenticity. American athletes have finally awoken to the reality that it takes big bucks to mount a campaign with any teeth in it. Like the America’s Cup, the days of putting a boat in the water in the spring, sailing a couple of months and then going off to compete in the Games have long

30’s, the image of Paul Elvstrom, the great Danish helmsman who won four consecu¬ tive gold medals in the singlehanded class in the 1950’s and ’60’s, has fired the imagina¬ tion. Stepping to the top level of the Olympic platform. All the world cheering in adula¬ tion. Bowing to accept the gold medal. Watching Old Glory rise to the top of the flagpole while the Star Spangled Banner swells from the loudspeaker. A tear running down our cheek. Jeez, it’s heady stuff.

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I erhaps the biggest obstacle to realizing that fantasy, aside from beating the other competitors at the Games, is winning the American trials. Unlike many other coun¬ tries, which select their Olympic sailing teams

from a series of regattas spread out over several months, the Americans let every¬ thing ride on one grueling two week, 10-race series less than two months before the Games begin. One race is held per day, and you get to throw out your worst two scores. For those of us who race one or two days a weekend with maybe a three-day national championship once a year, it’s hard to ima¬ gine the toll that the Trials can exact. The American Olympic Yachting committee feels

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it’s the best crucible in which to prepare for the high-pressure atmosphere of the Games themselves, and results from the 1984 Olympics bear them out. We won medals in all seven classes the last time around. This year’s Trials are being held simultaneously from July 5th to the 16th in three spots around the country. The 15-ft Novato brothers Brady (steering) and Bryant Sih — the Olympics is about the only thing they haven’t won in 470s — yet.

singlehanded Finn dinghies will race off Marblehead, Massachusetts.Two hours south in Newport, R.I., the two-man, 20-ft Tornados, the two-man, 19-ft Flying Dutch¬ man, the men’s and women’s divisions for the 15-ft, two-person 470 class, and the 12-ft Division II sailboard fleets will race. Across the continent in San Diego, the twoman, 22-ft Stars and the three-man, 27-ft Solings will compete. Bay Area sailing will be well represented in

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all of these events. In fact, if all goes well for the Northern Californians who are supposed to excel, we could have four representatives travelling to Pusan, Korea, for the Olympic opening ceremonies in September.

O ne who felt he should have gone in 1984 is Russ Silvestri of Tiburon. The blond, 26-year-old was the fastest Finn sailor at the last Trials in Long Beach, but he was thrown out of the last race — and the entire series — after starting early to cover his main competi¬ tion, San Francisco’s John Bertrand. Ber¬ trand had his own score to settle, having lost his chance for a gold medal in 1980 when President Carter pulled us out of the Moscow Games. Nothing, it seemed, was going to stop ‘JB’ in his 1984 quest, and after months of legal wj-anglings, he got his berth and eventually his silver medal. Russ has put that trying time behind him. He helped Tom Blackaller sail the 12 Meter USA in the most recent America’s Cup and then jumped back into the Finn last December. Splitting his time between here and the East Coast, he’s worked his way back up to the top of the fleet. In May, he took fourth at the Nationals and then won the North Americans in early June against 32 competitors. Among them were the two sailors who will probably pose the biggest

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

At least five other Bay Area Finn sailors will also be racing, including Doug Hansen, Rick Prince, Rick Peyran, Trevor Gleadhill and Louie Nady. Nady, now 46, is one of the class’ most active senior citizens. He’s been competing in the Olympic Trials since 1968. In 1972, he was second to Ed Ben¬ nett. Last year, he took seventh in the Veteran’s Gold Cup for Finn sailors over 40 years of age. “My chances are low,” he says realistically of the Marblehead series, “but not zero.” «

ID own in Newport, our best local hopes will most likely rest with Ted Huang, the 17-year-old boardsailor from Los Altos. Recently admitted to Stanford, Ted is a wunderkind of sorts. He not only is among the top three amateur boardsailors in the country, he also plays a mean violin and Paul Cayard (left and below, driving the first 'USA') may be the man to beat in Stars.

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problem at the Trials, San Diego’s Brian Ledbetter and Connecticut’s Scott MacLeod. “Revenge is my big motivator,” Russ said before leaving for Marblehead in June. He adds that consistency will be the key, however, and keeping himself Tn the hunt. He’s been working with San Francisco’s Bill Barton on biofeedback and relaxation techniques and will have Star legend Joe Duplin nearby for coaching during the regatta. His cheerleading section, led by mom Shirley and grandmother Idella Haag, wilhalso be on hand.

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sings with the internationally known Main Street Singers from Los Altos High School! Ted admits that he hasn’t got any edge on

OLYMPIC HOPEFULS

either 1984 silver medallist Scott Steele or Mike Gebhardt, both Floridians. Scott and ‘Gebbie’ both have more experience and have won more big regattas in the last four years than Ted. The Californian did beat both of them last year in the Alamitos Bay Olympic Classes series so he knows it can be done. Having grown up on the Bay, Ted’s forte is heavy winds, which he may or may not see at Newport. “If I sail well and don’t lose my psyche in the light air,” he says, “I’ve got a chance.” Another Bay sailor with an outside shot at the boardsailing spot is Chris Radkowski, who will represent Team Palo Alto’ at the trials. Team PA includes several South Bay sailors, such as David and Dennis Deisinger, Paul Beulow and Steve Willrich, who cut their boardsailing teeth together in the early 1980’s on stock Windsurfers. Like Chris, they’ve gone on to great success in both professional and amateur racing. Chris will have a few tricks for the trials, such as a special centerboard and a new

board built by Santa Cruz’ Larry Tuttle to go along with the Lechner board he already has. The latter is the board that will be used

Revenge may indeed be sweet for Russ Silvestri in the Finn class.

in the Olympics, but competitors can sail any brand they choose in the trials.

he only Bay Area entry in the Tornado class will be Paul Bussard, who’ll be one of four Californians racing. Paul’s from Santa Rosa, an electrical engineer by trade. He likes to think of himself as one of the top Tor¬ nado sailors who isn’t a sailmaker. Neither is his crew, Milton Close, a carpenter from Santa Rosa. Paul placed tenth at the 1984 trials, and his best finish was second at the 1980 Na¬ tionals on the Bay. Heavy winds are his specialty, and he also does well in shifty winds, which he might find off Newport.

Jose’s Bellarmine High School. The pair’s biggest win to date was the 1986 USYRU Youth Championships. Their father Ping Sih says they still have some maturing to do on the race course, but they have blazing speed on power reaches and in

medium to heavy winds. Crewing for 470 skipper Rob Hallawell, the 1987 Intercollegiate Sailor of the Year, will be San Francisco’s Zack Berkowitz. Zack and his brother Ethan sailed in the 1976 trials, and he went again in 1984. Always willing to poke a little fun at high brow com¬ petition, Zack is credited with inventing the trapeze sailor’s ‘moon shoes,’ which were sneakers with about five inches of sole to help get his body farther outboard for added leverage.

F here was nothing funny about the Hailawell/Berkowitz campaign this spring, however. The pair won at Alamitos Bay, one of the last tune-up races before the trials. With Zack’s experience and Hallawell’s talent, they could be considered dark horses

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press time, but keep an eye out for her in the women’s 470 standings. Speaking of scanning the news, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Kimball Livingston says he will have the daily results posted in the Scoreboard of the Sporting Green, with stories before, during and after the trials. He also plans to spend some time in San Diego for the first part of the trials, mixing Olympic coverage with some pieces on Michael Fay and the America’s Cup campaign.

I f there’s a heavy favorite in any of the eight classes, it would have to be Richmond’s John Kostecki. He and his Bay Area crew of Will Baylis and Bob Billingham have owned the Soling class for the past two years. They have two world titles and a Pan American gold medal to their credit, as well as thousands of hours of sailing time together. As with most of the Olympic classes, the lure of gold brings good sailors out every four years. The past spring was a dash of cold water for the Bay Area trio, showing both themselves and others that they weren’t invincible after all. Kostecki was actually a lit¬ tle relieved they fell to fourth at Alamitos Bay. “We don’t have to worry about contin¬ uing our winning streak anymore,” he says philosophically. “It also means we won’t be on everyone’s hit list at the trials.”

Milton Close (on the wire) and skipper Paul Bussard — two of the top Tornado sailors who aren’t sailmakers.

The competition in the Solings is for¬ midable. Full-time sailors like Dave Curtis, Dave Chapin, Ed Baird and Kevin Mahany will be very tough, and there are plenty more in the second tier if any of them falter. Among that group are the North Bay team of Craig Healy, Russ Williams and Pat Vin¬ cent. Skipper Healy has been working on the project for a year, dividing his time between dentistry and getting their boat in top shape. Their boat, built by Abbott of Canada as are most of the others in the fleet, is seven years old, but it won the silver medal at the 1984 Games under charter to Brazil’s Torbin Grael. Although he’s no longer an official resi¬ dent of the Bay Area, we still think of San Diego Star sailor Paul Cayard as one of our own. Long gone are the days when Paul dinked around San Francisco’s Lake Merced in his El Toro and later his Laser, terrorizing other members of the fleet. Now'he’s got the attention of the whole world and is perhaps the best in the game. Already this year he’s won the Star Worlds in Buenos Aires, the $150,000 Grundig World Cup match race in France and he’s driving one of the fastest new maxis, Raoul Gardini’s 80-ft II Moro Di Venezia, on the international grand prix

circuit. Paul’s crew is also the best in the business, Seattle’s Steve Erickson, who helped Bill Buchan win the Star gold medal in 1984. Paul and Steve got together on the 12 Meter USA and have been a team ever since. “Bill (Buchan) taught me about knowing when to go all out and when to ease off,” says Erickson in comparing the two skippers. “Paul has a hard time holding himself back, but he’s maturing. What’s fun about sailing with him is that he goes full tilt, and he’s just unbeatable in a breeze.”

1—• ike the Soling fleet, the Stars are packed with talent. Vince Brun, Ed Adams or Mark Reynolds will all be nipping at Cayard’s heels, and it doesn’t ease up much after those three. They’ve all won or been second at the worlds for the past four years. Whoever prevails at the Trials should win the gold medal in Korea. High-pressure international sailing isn’t for everyone. For many, the hours are long, the pay is low and the chances you’ll lose far outweigh the odds of winning. Olympic sail¬ ing keeps drawing its adherents, however, wishing for that chance to bask in the gilded glow and know that, for four years anyway, they’re the best in the world. — shimon van collie page 144

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MAX EBB £ t IV A ost ocean races are really too 1*1 short,” remarked Lee as she leaned back against a winch pedestal, a tube than anyone on the other watch?” Age can be an easy defense against con¬ frontations like this. .“Well,” I responded, “it’s been quite a few years since I had to drag the sails around the foredeck myself, and I’ve probably slowed down a bit. But I don’t think I ever left a

Five lengths — It looks innocent enough, but so did Nixon.

of sunscreen in one hand and a bottle of mineral water in the other. I knew exactly what she was talking about. It takes at least a day, and more often two days, for a crew to get into the routine of off¬ shore racing. First there’s the acclimatization to the motion, then the adjustment to the onwatch/off-watch sleep pattern. And finally, just when the crew’s appetite is coming back and they’re beginning to recover from the exhaustion of the first few night watches, there’s the change in the weather as the boat goes south. It was 1400 hours on our second day out, and the off-watch was still trickling up on deck one at a time after what, for most of them, was their first decent interval of sleep since the start. Each one had the same reac¬ tions on emerging out of the hatch: 1) Yawn. 2) “Nice weather down here.” 3) “What’s for lunch?” U-T* 1 he watch system seems to be work¬ ing out well,” I commented to Lee. “They all needed those six hours of sleep from 8a.m. to 2 p.m.” “For sure, after that night of spinnaker changes.” “1 must have missed some of them, Lee. 1 actually slept reasonably well for my 4 to 8 off-watch.” “It was a wrap-a-ramma for like, two hours, Max. But we finally straightened it all out, once we got the owner off the helm.” “Hope we didn’t lose too much distance

on the competition,” said one of the crew as he attacked a large sandwich. “It was quasi-gnarly for the whole fleet,” Lee assured him. “But we pulled off our jibe at about the right time, so I think we’re okay.” “I don’t know,” said another one of the crew, “we lost a few miles while we were get¬ ting those halyards uncrossed . . . say Lee, could you throw me that sunscreen?” “Crossed halyards!” I scolded. “That sort of thing doesn’t happen on my watch!” “Let’s have the pole back a little,” called the spinnaker sheet trimmer from his posi¬ tion up by the shrouds. Lee had to move away from the winch pedestal during the adjustment, but instead of finding an alternate lounging position, she slipped down the companionway. Mean¬ while, I continued to berate the other watch for the sailhandling difficulties — hoping to instigate some healthy watch-on-watch rivalry. “Max,” Lee shouted up from below, “do you really think you’re a better foredeck crew

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crossed halyard after a spinnaker change.” UrT'* I hat’s because spinnakers hadn’t been invented yet!” suggested the trimmer, without looking down from the sail. “Pole back some more.” “I have a simple test I’d like you to take,” said Lee as she reappeared on deck, one hand tucked suspiciously behind her back. “This test is a very good indicator of your in¬ trinsic ability to run a complicated foredeck without getting everything, like, tied into macrame.” I knew I was in trouble now, but as usual, it was too late to get out of this one “Imagine that you’re responsible for the foredeck on a K class America’s Cup Defender — that’s the 90-ft waterline unlimited class. The race is being held in San Francisco Bay, and the windward mark is the Crissy Field Buoy, to be left to starboard. page 146

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The series is tied, it’s the second to last leg of the final race, and if you can hold onto your narrow lead over the challenger, you’ll successfully defend the cup.” “No problem,” 1 said. “You’re set up for a bear-away set, port pole. About five lengths from the mark, the

afterguard decides that it should really be a jibe-set, starboard pole.” “Okay, we can handle that.” “But this boat is equipped with the new continuous combination guy-sheet rigging, and a lightweight, low-windage, non¬ opening shackle. You need to move the shackle from the starboard side to the port side in the time it takes to sail five boatlengths.”

I—« ee presented me with a small object, about nine inches long. It consisted of two wood dowels, some 1/4-inch line, a bronze ring, two wooden balls, and a wooden ring. The whole assembly was glued together, ex¬ cept for the bronze ring, which was free to slide on the rope. The ball on one side was painted red, and the ball on the other side, where the bronze ring was, was painted green. The object, evidently, was to move the bronze ring from the green side to the red side. “Go,” she said, and hit the stopwatch button on her Casio.

I had seen simple rope puzzles somewhat similar to this one before, and didn’t remember them being particularly difficult. So I pulled some slack into one of the big loops of line, ran it around the other end of the puzzle, and pulled it tight with the bronze ring ending up . . . back on the green side. I studied the puzzle. “Two boat-lengths!” shouted Lee, as if she was in the cockpit of the boat 120 feet astern. “No problem,” I repeated, as 1 pulled some slack into the center loop, this time making sure the bronze ring was within the loop. I threaded the bight of the center loop •back through the wooden loop, then out and around the red end, then around the green end, then back out to unwind, this time with the bronze ring . . . still on the green side. “One length to the mark,” shouted Lee. “Any problem up there?” “No problem. We’ll be ready when you are,” I answered, frantically trying to make the bronze ring fit through the wooden ring or over the wooden balls, naturally with no success. Mark abeam — Oh, sh~. Gimme that knife. Jim Kel¬ ly’s not going to make a fool out of us. MADE! . . . Almost ... we think.

MAX EBB STUMPED AT SEA “Mark’s abeam — jibing — starting the hoist!” “Any second now,” I said as I pulled a loop of line through the bronze ring this time, then over the red end, then back through the loop of line on the green side, and then . . .

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What’s the problem up there?” “The ESPN helicopter is in position for a close-up,” said one of the crew, rising to the occasion with passable impressions of Gary Jobson and Jim Kelly: “Gary, what do you suppose is holding up the spinnaker set on the defender?” “Jim, that’s what’s known in sailing jargon as a fuck-up on the foredeck. It seems that the defender’s foredeck boss doesn’t know how to move the spinnaker halyard from the starboard side to the port side.” The puzzle was a hopeless tangle. Not only was the ring firmly tied down on the green side, but ,1 couldn’t even return the thing to its original condition. “And it looks like a perfect jibe-set on the challenger.” “Hoist! Hoist!” yelled Lee. “What’s wrong with that halyard?” Another one of our crew, holding up a winch handle as if it was a microphone, decided to interview me. “Tell me, Mr. Ebb,” he said in his best Howard Cosell impres¬ sion, “How does it feel to have just lost the America’s Cup?” “All right, enough already! So I lost the Cup. Now show me how to solve this stupid puzzle!” “No way, Max. Any self-respecting foredeck crew should be able to figure it out for themselves.”

I struggled with it for another fifteen minutes, making absolutely no progress. Finally Lee took it out of my hands. Just in time, too, because by then I was frustrated enough to throw the thing overboard. “Now let’s see if anyone on the other watch has what it takes to work the point of a K-boat,” she said as she handed the puzzle to the other watch captain. To my infinite relief, after 20 minutes he was still struggling. “It’s impossible,” he stated flatly, handing it back to Lee. She took the puzzle back down below, and came back up about 30 seconds later with the bronze ring on the red side. “Next,” said Lee, and one of the crew from my watch took a turn at it. “Lee, where did you ever find that thing?”

I asked after a few minutes of watching the next victim. “At a crafts fair on campus a few years ago,” she said. “They’re made by a guy in San Francisco who calls his company ‘Lumberjack Toys’. This is one of his ‘stumps’ puzzle series.” “Do you really think it’s a valid test of foredeck aptitude?” “1 have no idea, Max, but I’ve had a lot of fun with it on long races like this!” “Done,” announced the crew as he handed the solved puzzle back to Lee. “Nine minutes and 42 seconds,” said Lee as she looked at her watch. “Very good — no wonder you get to work the point.”

eanwhile, the owner of the boat had come up on deck in the middle of all this nonsense. Now, this particular owner, like the owners of many large racing yachts, had to deal with the problem of being one of the least experienced hands onboard. He had gotten into sailing only a few years ago, and couldn’t possibly hope to catch up with the skill and experience accumulated by the life¬ long sailing fanatics, semi-professionals, teenage sailing bums, and sailmakers that make up the crew of any large competitive yacht.

“There’s no way he’ll come out of this looking good,” I thought to myself as he asked to try the puzzle. But the owner had an entirely different and brilliant approach to the problem. As soon as it was in his hands, he started to talk. He went through the usual first maneuvers — pulling a loop over one or both ends, with no result, of course. But as he was doing this, he started telling some of his favorite old army stories. As the puzzle was repeatedly tangled up and then untangled, he told us about the first business he started. Then he went all the way back to his stories about growing up in a poor neighborhood in the Bronx. i he whole crew was captivated. Finally, after about a half-hour of this, he held up the puzzle proudly. “There it is — I solved it!” The bronze ring was on the green side which, as I recall, was where it had been when he began. But I couldn’t really be sure. “Good job!” I said. “Brilliant,” said another one of the crew. “You’re a born sailor,” proclaimed Lee. “Thanks, fellas,” he chuckled. “What’s for lunch?” What does this all mean? It takes a very special set of skills to be a good foredeck crew — and even more special set of skills to be a good owner. — max ebb page 148

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iming, to the suprise of some sailors, is perhaps the most important ingredient in a happy sail. A few simple examples illustrate this point: s Buying the appropriate charts for a Delta cruise^before you plant ybur boat high and dry on' Middle Ground. e* Taking your foul weather gear out of your duffel ”and putting it on your body before the first wave slops down the back of your collar. Reaching port prior to the storm hitting. u' Taking a starboard-tacker’s stern rather than her chainplates. And perhaps of greatest application to most sailors on San Francisco Bay: U* Reefing in good time. Despite the well-known fact that the windy summer months are in full howl, you still see boat after boat on the Bay precariously heeled over. A few are racers, of course, who for competitive reasons prefer to be overpowered rather than underpowered. But there’s absolutely no reason for weekend sailors to be sailing on their ears. Not unless they’re trying to drop the rig. Or arm wrestle with the tiller. Or terrify the guests. Or give the wife grounds for divorce. Why sailors don’t spend a moment reefing to afford themselves a long day of happy sailing is a mystery of human psychology.

Nobody knows this better than ourselves, for we rarely reef when we should. When we do reef in a timely fashion, we say to ourselves:

shot of the Cal 34 in the photo spread was taken during one of last November’s MYCO/BYC Mid-Winter races. A horribly

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“Gee, this is great, we’ll have to do this all the time.” But we never do.

here are times when reefing isn’t as much a matter of comfort as survival. The

icy wind was howling down from the north at over 40 knots, causing steep chop and spray to fly everywhere. It wasn’t ultimate survival conditions on the Bay, but it was the kind of conditions where lives could have been lost, The crew on the Cal were wisely flying a

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small headsail and a double-reefed main. Laid over as she was, you can imagine what it would have been like had the crew not reefed. The rig and crew certainly would have been at risk. Indeed, several masts were lost and one crewman briefly went overboard during that race. Ages ago somebody noted that a stitch in time saves nine. It was a sailor — probably Tristan Jones — who later noted that in the

case of sailing, a reef in time saves about a million — stitches on the mainsail, that is. Ironically, reefing on most boats is simple.,If you don’t reef because you’ve forgotten how, here’s a quick review. 1. Ease the mainsheet. 2. Ease the main halyard until you can secure the tack in the reefed position. 3. Crank the main halyard back up hard. 4. Pull the new clew out so it’s plenty tight. ■ 5. Sheet in the main as desired. Two provisos: You want to reef while sail¬ ing to weather, and everybody onboard needs to watch out for the flailing boom in the middle of reefing so nobody’s noggin gets swatted over the top of Alcatraz. Reefing the main should take a minute or less and provide you with many hours of more pleasant sailing. Given these turbulent times, it’s one of the best investments you can make.

dually, the San Francisco Bay is one of the easiest places to reef because there are plenty of islands and headlands to duck

behind. Once out of the full force of the wind, reefing becomes a snap. We were out sailing our Olson 30 with a full main and 95% jib on May 29. Those of you who were out that day will remember — it was the day of the Master Mariner’s Regatta, the day the San Francisco Harbor¬ master’s anemometer registered a top gust of 66 mph. Having sailed past Pier 39 in the direction of Goat Island in 25 knots of wind, it was probably blowing a solid 30 and gusting to 40 as we passed under the Bay Bridge. All we know for sure is that the rud¬ der was humming a steady tune and that if we didn’t sail dead downwind the boat would round-up despite the best efforts of the helmsman and rudder. We could have headed up and reefed right there. But why make things hard-on ourselves? We did a ‘chicken jibe’ (aka ‘tack’) over to the lee of Yerba Buena where it was blowing all of about five knots. There we leisurely put a reef in and hoisted a smaller headsail. About a dozen other boats were in the vicinity doing exactly the same thing. We’re certain other wise mariners were mak¬ ing use of the windbreaks on Angel Island,

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Alcatraz, the Tiburon Peninsula, etc. \ The wisdom of reefing was never made more clear to us than later on that afternoon. Having forgotten our foul weather pants, we were wearing only foulie tops and Levi bot¬ toms. By the time we’d sailed the lowfreeboard Olson through the frothy chop back to the Sausalito waterfront, we figured

we’d be sopping wet and shivering. But thanks to the greatly shortened sail, the boat was again very responsive on the helm. Feathering constantly, we made it back to Sausalito with dry Levi’s. How do you know when it’s time to reef? Easy, as soon as the notion crosses your mind. Then all you have to remember is ‘He who hesitates gets wet, cold and uncomfortable.’ — latitude

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SLED SLUGFEST C C O leds are the only class of boats with a definite future on the West Coast offshore circuit,” remarked Bill Lee at the recent Cal Cup. That statement got our at¬ tention: when the Wizard o^ Santa Cruz speaks, we listen.

Two-time Cal Cup champ Pat Farrah: not all nice guys finish last.

Lee continued, “After the One Ton Worlds this summer, those boats will go ‘poof!’ and disappear in California forever! They’ll be worth about as much as a Christmas tree on December 26th. Fortyraters like Fujimo and Locura are an East Coast and Great Lakes game that never caught on out here. Same with the leadmine 70-raters like Matador — they’re a European and East Coast phenomenon. The IOR cir¬ cuit is dying, but sleds, and ULDB 70-raters in particular, are here to stay.” The 45-year-old Santa Cruz yacht designer and builder should know — more than any single person, he is responsible for the ultralight revolution in sailing. In 1977, when he launched his now legendary 67-foot Merlin and set the TransPac record that still endures, Bill Lee opened the door for the modern era of maxi-sledding. It took awhile for the rest of the West Coast yachting establishment to come around to his “fast is fun” and “first to finish is even more fun” points of view, but now, ten years later, sleds are starting to look like the only offshore game in town. And the premier showcase for these long, lean Goliaths to strut their stuff is California Yacht Club’s annual Cal Cup, the Unofficial World Championship of Sledding. Last Memorial Day weekend marked the 26th

edition of the Cal Cup, and the fourth year that the format has been fleet racing in ULDB 70 raters. Eleven hot sfeds showed up for the round the-buoys contest off Marina del Rey, including three previous winners — the Santa Cruz 70’s Kathmandu (1985), Blondie (1986), and Citius (1987) — and three of their more recent sisterships, Hotel California, Mongoose, and the newest kid on the block, Drumbeat. Challenging the flotilla of SC 70’s were four Nelson/Marek designs —1 Barracuda, Pandemonium, Pyewacket, and Swiftsure III — and the only Peterson sled, the ’87 Cal Cup runner-up Cheetah. Five other sleds had been invited but didn’t mak£ it: pa$t Cal Cup match race winner Ragtime, which was invited mainly for sentimental reasons, didn’t make it because Pat Farrah chose to sail his other sled, Blondie, in the regatta. Two new Bruce Nelson sleds, Cheval and Marishiten, simply didn’t get finished in time to race; Maverick was in the yard with bottom paint problems; and Prima, we’re told, had been

repossessed and was under lock and key. Somewhere around 200 (each boat carrjed jg crew) Gf t(-,e best sailors in California ~ -

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participated in the evept, which kicked off with a crew lunch on Thursday followed by the obligatory remarks from the boat owners. Pat Farrah led off the speechmaking, and he burned the house down with his Johnny Carson-like description of his secret weapon — “Mr. Go-Fast”, the ideal bow man. Bud Trettor, dressed in some kind of weird IOR Batman costume, assisted Pat in the

CAL CUP '88 ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE/ROB

Disney’s Pyewacket, followed by the North¬ ern California contingent, Des McCallum and Bill Twist’s Pandemonium and Paul

hilarious skit. The next ten speeches paled in comparison — Farrah, in a harbinger of things to come, had won the first round.

“T

1111 never work!” yelled Pandemonium crewmember Keith Randle at Citius as the two crossed tacks before the first race. Citius’ afterguard — Alan Andrews, Pete Heck, Dave Hulse, and Dave Ullman — laughed and gestured back. Randle’s remark was in jest, a pre-race pysche-out directed at Citius’ new fractional rig, a bold experiment rumored to cost almost six figures. Curtis Spencer and the other owners of the bulb-keeled Citius weren’t the only ones that dropped a little dough getting ready for the Cal Cup: Blondie was sporting a new four spreader lighter mast, Pyewacket had a new keel, and everyone seemed to have new sails. Even Kathmandu charterer Bob ‘Mongoose’ (8) and ‘Citius’ (4) heat it up.

Doughty had a new #\ and #3, sails he per¬ sonally bought just for the weekend, his last on Kathmandu before returning the boat after five months to her Japanese owner. He’ll be able to use the sails again though — apparently Bob ordered a new Santa Cruz 70 right after the regatta. (According to Tom Leweck, “No one should stand too close to Doughty. He’s got the disease — sled fever!”) By the end of the light-to-moderate air four-race series, Randle’s facetious prophecy rang true — Citius’ new rig didn’t work, or at least you couldn’t prove it from the results. When the three-day series ended abruptly on Sunday — the fifth and final race was cancelled due to gale force winds — Pat Farrah’s Blondie, to no one’s complete surprise, had bagged her second Cal Cup. After opening with two bullets on Friday, Farrah and co-driver Dennis Durgan stumbled a bit on the second day, when Kathmandu came on strong. As much as Doughty and his co¬ driver, Robbie Haines, wanted another shot at Blondie on Sunday, it wasn’t to be, as 35-knot gusts and high seas pinned the eleven sleds in their berths. Blondie’s victory wasn’t exactly unex¬ pected: earlier in the month, she’d been the top sled in the Ahmanson Cup Series and it was no secret that Pat and his superb crew (Durgan, Ronaldo Amore, Louie Wake, Mike Elias, John Jourdane, Mark Wilson, Tom Walters, et. al.) wanted to win the Cal Cup badly. Finishing in Blondie’s wake were two hometown boats, Kathmandu and Roy

A familiar sight for the competition during the weekend: the back end of ‘Blondie’.

Simonsen’s Mongoose. Twist got his usual heart-stopping starts with Pando, but was uncharacteristically inconsistent in his finishes. The Tom Blackaller driven Mongoose, however, was the paragon of inconsistency with a schizophrenic 10,3,10,1 record. Citius — the first and possibly last frac¬ tionally rigged maxi sled on the circuit — was left holding the bag. They finished dead last.

The 'Citius' crew shirt said it all, but you sure couldn’t prove it from the standings.

Ironically, Citius might have been the fastest sled there, but two slightly reckless mark roundings (one with Drumbeat when they

SLED SLUGFEST: CAL CUP '88

The afterguard of 'Pando’ — (l-r) Bill Twist, Bruce Humann, and Dale Norden — looking worried as 'Cheetah' sneaks up behind them.

were

fourth

place;

the

other

Interestingly, Citius’ upwind speed wasn’t improved much (another sailmaker figured, “with new sails instead of cut-down pieces of

with

ecause Sunday’s race was called off, the Cal Cup more or less fizzled away this year. The majority of the crews milled around the yacht club until they heard the three blasts of the shotgun and then — some disappointed, but most breathing a secret sigh of relief — they drifted away by mid¬ afternoon. Unbeknownst to everyone at the time, Saturday night’s dinner and “poetry contest” had really been the conclusion to the biggest Cal Cup ever. But not everyone was content to let the Cal Cup fade away without one more thrill. Paul Simonsen, Mongoose’s owner, tried vainly to organize a downwind race to Newport Beach, but the other owners weren’t up for risking their boats in the high winds. Just for the hell of it, Mongoose went anyway. Simonson and 22 of his diehard “sledhead” friends had the spinnaker ride of their lives in the 30-40 knot winds, hitting speeds in the mid-20’s and never once crashing. Mongoose, with her crew whoop¬ ing and hollering the whole way, made the 40 mile trip from Point Vincente to Newport in two hours. Barracuda owner Mitch Rouse, who sailed down with Simonsen and also happens to own the Super Shuttle airporter service, provided three of his vans for transportation back. “It was a fantastic way to end the weekend; I still can’t understand why everyone else didn’t join us,” claimed

1988 CALIFORNIA CUP

Kathmandu when they were running sec¬

ond) and subsequent DSQ’s knocked them deep into the cheap seats. In the words of their bowman, Steve Dodd, “We went from the penthouse to the outhouse.” Had Citius been able to keep their finishes in the two races they were heaved from, their 5,4,3,2 record would have been half a point out of winning the Cal Cup. And the boat is nowhere near its potential yet — according to Ullman, the rig never did get tuned all the way and the crew was still going up a steep learning curve of figuring out Citius in her new configuration. But the other owners knew what they saw — don’t be surprised if the ULDB 70 Rater Associa¬ tion outlaws fractional rigs in the very near future (Citius presumably would be “grand¬ fathered” into the class).

“mastectomy”, wasn’t surprised: “Masthead boats have more overlapped sail area, which isn’t as helpful when you’re reaching around at 90 degrees all the time. We picked up almost 200 square feet of sail area, much of it non-overlapping, for the same 70 foot fating.”

Type 1. Blondte 2. Kathmandu 3. Pyewacket 4. Pandemonium 5. Mongoose il 6. Drumbeat 7. Barracuda 8. Cheetah 9. Hotel California 10. Swiftsure III 11 Citius

SC 70 SC 70 N/M 68 N/M 67 SC 70 SC 70 N/M 68 Pet 66 SC 70 N/M 68 SC 70

Pat Farrah Bob Doughty Roy Disney Twist/McCallum Paul Simonsen Don Ayres MHcfteit Rouse Murray/Pennington J. Wintersteen Itt Fotgner/Virgifio Dr. C.W. Spencer

downwind speed — with some new, not cutdown, kites — was dramatically improved. That’s the opposite of what most observers expected, although Alan Andrews, the architect of the radical, ahem,

Driver

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THE RACING

This month we somehow crammed the following into the scant nine pages we were allotted: Info on the One Ton NA’s, the Carr Trophy, the Farallon and 'Corlett ocean races, Long Beach Race Week, the Stockton South Tower Race, the Bay Challenge, the SSS In

The Bay Race, the Baum Regatta, the Clear Lake SBRA Regatta, the upcoming Kenwood Cup, the Woody Invitational, and a ridiculous amount of Race Notes. Whew! Next month were going to ask the boss for more pages.

One Ton NA’s Rush, owned by Tom Stark of the Big

Challenge ’88, which had designer Bruce Nelson aboard. They won the last three

Apple and skippered by Terry Neilson of

races, but after dropping out of the distance

Canada, won the 1988 USYRU One Ton

race earlier with rudder problems, could only

North Americans in Detroit in early June.

pull

Rush, a Farr 40 which previously sailed on

Challenge

themselves

into

third

place.

Still,

’88 looked good, "and should

the British Admiral’s Cup team as Jamarella,

more than likely beat up on Steadfast AT&T

grabbed an early lead, and then held off a

in the Canada’s Cup.

last minute challenge from the Mark Ploch driven

N/M

Ragtime

win

the

prestigious Hawk Trophy.

Ton Worlds, hosted by Saint Francis YC

The top ten finishers in the 18-boat fleet qualified for the One Ton Worlds on the Bay later

this

summer.

According

Pulse, formerly Cooter, ended up fourth. Next stop on this mega-buck circuit: the One

the

grapevine, only five or so of those ten will make the trek out here, which may mean that the three West Coast 30.5 raters who didn’t qualify at the Stone Cup — Victory, White Knight, and Bodacious — might get “backdoored” into the Worlds. One race of the seven in the Detroit series was cancelled due to lack of wind; the other races, including the one “distance” race (a

September 8-18. 1) Rush, Farr 40, Tom Stark, New York, NY, 101.5 points; 2) Ragtime, N/M 40, John Georges, New Canaan, Conn., 98; 3) Challenge ’88, N/M 40, John Uznis, Grosse Pointe, Mich., 85.75; 4) Pulse, N/M 40, Peter Vessella, Providence, Rl, 81; 5) Saucy, Farr 40, Al Rose, Wheaton, III., 71; 6) Slip Sliding Away, G&S 40, George Congreve, Michigan City, Ind., 62; 7) Trader, J/N 40, Fred Detwiler, Grosse Pointe, Mich., 61; 8) Aggressive, J/N 40, Frank Piku & Hank McHale, Detroit, Mich., 60; 9) Spitfire, G&S 39, AUSCA Racing, Lake Bluff, III., 59; 10) Regardless, N/M 40, Bill Corcoran, Lexington, Mass., 49.25. (18 boats)

mere 55-miler), were sailed in moderate air. Regardless, a N/M 40 sailed by Ron Love, won the overnighter and had moved into

Trask Cleans Up Carr For the second year in a row, Alameda

second place overall when disaster struck in

J/Boat dealer Don Trask smoked the fleet in

race five. As we understand it, their #3 jib

the Jesse L. Can Trophy Regatta. The an¬

failed to go out as Regardless attempted to

nual contest, which is for skippers over 50

duck the starboard tack Steadfast AT&T —

and crews over 40, was held in Vancouver,

the Farr 40 that will defend the Canada’s

British

Cup in August — and Regardless rounded

yacht clubs, including five from the Bay

up into the other boat.

Area, sailed identical Martin 242’s in the five-

Columbia,

on June

17-19.

Nine

would

have

ended

second

Don

McLean, the commodore of regatta host Royal Vancouver YC.

The resulting full-bore T-bone ripped the

race, no-throwout series. Trask actually grew

Coming in third in the flukey light-to-

bow off Regardless in what some say was the

rather attached to the Martin, claiming that

moderate conditions was Richmond YC’s

most expensive crash in the history of grand

“at a thousand pounds lighter than a J, it’s

Jim DeWitt. Ordinarily, the Bay Area would

prix sailing. Both rigs stayed up somehow,

really a responsive and fun little boat!”

only

but each boat was knocked out of the series,

have

had

two

representatives,

but

He obviously figured out how to make

because the San Diego and L.A. areas only

and Regardless is apparently a total write-off.

them go, too. Sailing for the St. Francis YC,

fielded one entry each, Northern California

The accompanying photographs seem to

Trask and his crew (John Niesley, Chris

was allowed to pick up the slack. Also, the

back up that last statement, but Dave Hulse,

Boome, and local knowledge man Dave

defending champion, Trask, was automatic¬

who was onboard the unlucky one tonner,

Miller) demolished the fleet with four firsts

ally invited back — hence, five of the nine

gave us the real story: “Actually, it’s our new

and a second. According to Trask, “It was

contestants were from the Bay.

tactician station. We’re going to fit a plastic

one of those rare regattas where we couldn’t

bubble over it for the heavy air we anticipate

do anything wrong. In the last race, we went

at the Worlds!”

from dead last at the windward mark to win¬

1) St. Francis YC, Don Trask; 2) Royal Vancouver YC, Don McLean;^) Richmond YC, Jim DeWitt; 4) San Diego YC, Peter Peckham; 5) Presidio YC, John Rolien; 6) California YC, Fred Woodward; 7) Seattle YC, Pat Goodfellow; 8) Diablo SC, Charles Wilson; 9) Sausalito YC, Gil Oliver. (9 boats)

Coming on strong in the heavier going at

ning by over four minutes!” Had he not

the end of the regatta was the new N/M 40

pulled that rabbit out of his topsiders, Trask

page 160

SHEET

race — their third ocean victory in a row — and with it, the once prestigious Danforth Series. Clipper,

Howard

Sack’s

recently

hot

Olson 40, broke out of the hole after the big blue sled, going on to be the first official boat to finish and winning the PHRO division. The first half of the PHRO season was won overall by George Neill’s Express 37, Blitz. The MORA group naturally suffered the worst in the slow going. Alphadog, Joe Roubal’s Cal 29, more than lived up to its name (an “alphadog” leads the dog pack), and blitzed the handful of midgets who com1 pleted the course by an improbable hour and 38 minutes. The last boat to finish, a Cal 2-27 from Stockton called Candace Ann, straggled in at 00:45 on Sunday morning. Unofficially,

looks

Corry

Cook’s

Schumacher quarter tonner Summertime Dream won the heavy division of the fourrace Pete Smith Series while Bloom County won the light boat division. The second

half of the ocean racing

season resumes with July 23rd’s OceanVallejo Race. Results of the Farallon Race follow:

“They went that-a-way!" Dave Hulse tries out ‘Regardless’s new forward tactician station.

The SC 70 Mongoose — an unofficial en¬ try as it turns out — was first around the

IOR — 1) National Biscuit, Schumacher 36, Colin Case, SFYC; 2) Great Fun, Davidson 50, Stan Glaros, CYC; 3) Tintagel, Peterson 37, Len Kapla, SBYC. (5 starters, 1 DNF) , PHRO — 1) Clipper, Olson 40, Howard Sacks, EYC; 2) Revelry, Santa Cruz 40, Dennis Robbins, RYC; 3) Blitz, George Neill, Express 37, RYC. (17 starters, 6 DNF’s) MORA — 1) Alphadog, Cal 29, Joe Roubal, SCC; 2) UXB, Express 27, Pat Strange, CSC; 3) Bloom County, Mancebo Custom 30, Carl & Mark Ondry, SeqYC. (14 starters, 9 DNF’s) SSS — DNF) Echo, Wylie34, George Kiskaddon, RYC. (1 boat)

course in just under seven hours. They

Long Beach Race Week

reported speeds of up to 19 knots off swells

Farallon Island Race Farallon

on the ride in, and also hit a sustained

Only five Northern California boats made

Island Race, the granddaddy of all Northern

17-knot burst in flat water inside the Bay as

the trek down, to Southern California for the

California

they neared the finish. Mongoose, by our

ninth annual Long Beach Yacht Club Race

San

Francisco ocean

YC’s races,

57-mile offered

a bit of

"Week.

Two

them

came

back

with

everything to the 37 boats that ventured out

calculations, would have nipped IOR winner

the Gate on June 18. A building flood and a

National Biscuit by a few minutes had they

trophies: Colin Case’s Schumacher 36 Na¬

gigantic wind hole just past Pt. Bonita gob¬

entered the race before the YRA deadline.

tional Biscuit won the “little” IOR boat class despite not winning a race and Irv Loube’s

bled up most of the fleet for hours, causing

Case’s Schumacher 36, fresh off a class

17 boats to pack it in by midafternoon. “It

win at Long Beach Race Week, was over

Farr 40 Bravura took home a second place

was a serious case of hurry-up-and-wait,”

early at the start, but worked her way back

trophy in the One Ton division. High Risk,

said IOR winner Colin Case. Once free of

up to be the third boat out of the hole. Case

Skeddadle and Bodacious finished out of the

the doldrums, what was left of the fleet easily

and company, which included designer Carl

money in the predominantly light air four

fetched the Rockpile with #3 jibs up, and

Schumacher, went on to beat up on Great

most were able to carry mylar or 1.5 ounce

Fun (or, as it’s still nicknamed, the Big Deal)

race series. A total of 47 boats in eight divisions par¬

spinnakers all the way back to the finish.

and the ailing IOR fleet. They easily won the

ticipated in the series. Of the 47, nine were

page 161

THE RACING

X J/35’s and seven were Schock 35’s, both of

reared its head, as Chicken Lips protested

which raced levelly. With the exception of

the smaller Pendragon for potentially ex¬

the four boat maxi class, which was annihi¬

ceeding the weight limit. The protest wasn’t

lated by Kialoa, racing in each division was

filed correctly, so it wasn’t heard. And once

particularly tight this year. First place in each

again, more than a few people grumbled

division but the maxi’s came down to the last

about the regatta format. “It’s the most bor¬

race:

for example,

Case’s division could

ing racing in the world,” claimed Don Trask,

have gone to any of five out of the six boats

who sailed on the J/35 Incisor. “Maybe I’m

entered.

jaded, but for me there’s not enough action

The John Kostecki driven Bravura actu¬

— the crew gets bored on three mile weather

ally had a healthy lead going into the last

legs, the reaching legs are parades, and

race, but never recovered from a bad start.

there should be a time limit for the races.

The other boats took turns camping on

Why not have shorter weather legs, or stick a

Loube’s hotrod, and Bravura’s subsequent

gate halfway up the leg? Or better yet, why

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near-windless crapshoot that featured a 180 degree deck shuffler — should have been abandoned. “What’s the point of drifting for hours, trying to go upwind using a dazy

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fifth place finish knocked them down to second in the regatta. Once again, the issue of crew weight

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BYC

2. Outlier 3. Reflex -k 36 (4, Main Squeeze, 5. Sails Call H, 6. Hombre, 7. Coureur)

staysail?” asked Andrews rhetorically.

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not two races a day?” Others, including designer Alan Andrews, disagreed: “Long Beach is a good test of

140-mile

Sailing

Stockton

Club’s

17th

annual

South Tower enduro

featured the usual wide range of conditions, everything from too much wind on the Bay Friday night to gigantic parking lots at the Antioch Bridge and New York Slough on Saturday morning. Coming out on top of the 32-boat fleet in the relatively slow event was Bill Reynolds Cal 2-27 Escape. page 162

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Bay Challenge Blow Out Santa Cruz’s Trevor Baylis outsailed a fleet of 85 boardsailors to win the second annual Bay Challenge long-distance race on June 19th. Mastering winds over 25 knots and prevailing over the best Bay Area surf sailors, Baylis completed the 16-mile course from Berkeley to San Francisco and back in 1 hour, 48 minutes. Fifty-five entrants competed in the full Challenge, with another 28 taking part in the ‘Mini Challenge’, an 8-mile version out to Treasure Island and back. Keith Stahnke won the Mini, with Diane Green placing second. Baylis, who earlier in the month won the Rio Vista Pro-Am slalom, averaged more than 8 mph through the water. With tacking and jibing taken into account, the course is actually some 23 miles long, putting* his average speed closer to 11 mph. “I figure I’m going about as fast as a 60-foot IOR boat,” says Trevor, whose brother Will is competing in the Olympic Trials this month with John Kostecki’s Soling campaign. Second to Baylis by eight minutes was Palo Alto’s David Deisinger, with Alameda’s Bard Chrisman third. The only woman to complete the full Challenge course was Berkeley’s Sissela Danielson. Results:

Bay

Challenge

—

Trevor

Baylis, Santa Cruz, 1:48:31; 2) David Deis¬ inger,

Palo

Chrisman,

Alto,

1:56:38;

Alameda,

Bard

1:59:02.

Mini

Challenge — 1) Keith Stahnke, Sausalito,

Long Beach Race Week action: the guys on the

the playing field. Nine boats didn’t finish for

French mini-maxi ‘Emeraude’ couldn’t get their feet

various reasons — the most serious casualty

wet if they tried.

was the Ericson 27 Velella, which managed

____ A last minute phone call to the Stockton Sailing Club as we go to press revealed the following sparse account of the race: The fleet left Stockton on Friday, June 24, at 11:10. The first boat back, Bob Doscher and Dana Smith’s custom 32-footer Third Reef, didn’t make it back until 5:45 on Saturday afternoon, nowhere near Don Trask’s record time of 22 hours, 1 minute, and 48 seconds,

set a few

Smokin’. First to the Crissy Field turning

mark was Hayes (ex-Bones), Kirk Bewley’s Contessa 43. Getting the most sailing time

for their entry fee was John Kanezovich’s Cal

;;

2-25 Centerfield, which straggled in last at

;

years ago

on the J/35

Still

8:00 on Sunday morning after two nights on page 163

1:06:37; 1:06:43;

Diane

Green,

Joe Mello,

Berkeley,

Laguna Beach,

1:10:46.

to punch a hole in her hull on a rock a few hours into the race.

2) 3)

SSS In The Bay Race The third annual Singlehanded Sailing Society In The Bay Race, formerly known as

DIV. I — 1) Ozone, Olson 34, Carl Bauer, ACYC: 2) Miss Conduct, Olson 29, Tom Mason, SSC; 3) Bloom County, Mancebo 30, Kame Richards, SSC. (9 boats) DIV. II — 1) Knots, J/24, John Notman, SSC; 2) Pearl, Olson 25, Bill Riley, SYC; 3) Fast Lucy, Non¬ such 36, David Vickland, EYC. (7 boats) DIV. Ill — 1) Veloce', Cal 27, Ni Orsi, SSC; 2) Candace Ann*, Islander 30 MKII, Mark Melson, SSC; 3) Purrfection, Nonsuch 30, Ray Drew, SSC. (8 boats) DIV iv — 1) Escape, Cal 2-27, Bill Reynolds, SSC; 2) Whisper, Chrysler 26, Bill Housh, ACYC; 3) Mockingbird, Catalina 27, Kelly Roumbanis, BVBC. (8 boats) ‘Protest pending. /

the First-Timers Race, occurred on June 11. Thirty-six

intrepid

shorthanders

(23

*doublehanded; 13 in singlehanded) started the 20-miler, but high winds knocked six of them out of the race. First to finish in the fleet and first overall in the doublehanded division was Joe Therriault’s Buccaneer 33 trimaran Sundowner. Peter Jones sailed his Yankee 30

Emerald

overall

victory

the

singlehanded class. The course — from Corinthian YC to Blossom,

Crissy,

Southampton

Shoal,

Blossom, and finish — had the fleet criss-

THE RACING

crossing the Bay for the better part of four hours. Sailing shorthanded in 25 knots of breeze took its inevitable toll: Francis Who? blew up its spinnaker and retired, Ring¬ master wrapped a spinnaker around its headstay and was forced to pull out, Colum¬ bia was rear ended by another boat, and so on. SINGLEHANDED: Div. I — 1) Interabang, Beneteau 456, Jett Winkelhake. (5 boats); Div. 2 — 1) Anna Banana, Moore 24, Joe Durrett. (2 boats); Div. 3—1) Emerald, Yankee 30, Peter Jones; 2) Impossible, Ranger 23, Gary Kneeland. (6 boats) DOUBLEHANDED: Div. 1 — 1) Sundowner, Buc¬ caneer 33 tri, Joe Therriault. (3 boats); Div. 2—1) Harp, Catalina 38, Sallie Rowe; 2) Secret of NIMH, Express 37, Kent Greenough. (9 boats); Div. 3—1) Glory Days, Pretprian 35, Andrew Rothman. (5 boats); Div. 4—1) Sanderling, Golden Gate, Bob Counts; 2) Chelonia, Yankee 30, Ed Ruszel. (6 boats) *

Baum Regatta San Francisco YC hosted the Baum Regatta, an.annual Cal 20 get-together, over Memorial Day weekend. Sixteen of these rugged little “seagoing Volkswagens” par¬ ticipated in the moderately windy two-day, five-race (no throwouts) series held off Southampton Shoal. In the end, Corinthian YC’s John Nooteboom nipped 1987 YRA champ Mary Jo Foote by two points. “It was really fun racing,” said Mike Schaumberg, '

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Results of the Baum Regatta follow: 1) Tension II, John Nooteboom, 15.75 points; 2) Hana Pau, Mary Jo Foote, 17.75; 3) Aeolele, Julian Barnett, 26; 4) Orange Crate, Mike Schaumberg, 27.5; 5) Farmers, Richard Von Ehrenkrook, 28. (16 boats)

Corlett Trophy Race Metropolitan YC’s new forVnat for their Corlett Race was well-received by everyone we spoke with who spent their three-day Memorial Day weekend doingN the race. These days, the Corlett leaved on Saturday and goes to Half Moon Bay via the Farallones — a 59-mile lap. The next day, Sunday, is a layday in Half Moon Bay, followed by a 32 or 28-mile beat home the next day, depending on your size. Big boats have to leave the Lightship to starboard on the way home, while the little guys turn at the first channel buoy. Saturday’s race was an uneventful drizzly fetch to the rockpile, followed by a mellow broad reach to Half Moon Bay. The layday on Sunday turned out to be a blessihg in disguise — high winds would have demol¬ ished the fleet had they attempted to race that day. Everyone enjoyed a lazy day on the beach, which ended that night with a delightful salmon barbeque at Half Moon Bay YC’s new clubhouse. Then, on Monday, it was time to pay the piper. The thrash home was the first really breezy ocean race of the season, and as winds hit 30 in bumpy seas, rigs in the 14-boat MORA group began snapping like twigs. Two Cal 29’s — Alphadog and PDJOne — lost their sticks upwind, and Pat Strange’s Express 27 UXB blew off the top of her rig while surfing in past Mile Rock. IOR — 1) National Biscuit, Schumacher 36, Colin Case, BTYC, 5 points; 2) Petrified, Burns 30, Levin/Moss, EYC, 4; 3) Quadri, C&C 38, Dick Lang, OYC, 6. (4 boats) PHRO — 1) Acey Deucy, SC 50, Richard Leute, BBYC, 2.75 points; 2) Camille, Stewart 42, Bill Permar, SYC, 6.75; 3) Rocinante, Beneteau 42, Al Malaccorto, IYC, 7. (12 boats)

Colin Case’s ‘Biscuit’ is on a roll.

who won two of the races, but tanked two others to finish fourth overall. “The competi¬ tion was great — all the hardcore Cal 20 racers were there except Kevin Friel and Bren Meyer.”

MORA — 1) Bloom County, Mancebo 30, Carl & Mark Ondry, SeqYC, 2.75 points; 2) (tie) Summer¬ time Dream, Schumacher 26, Corry Cook, CSC, 6; 2) (tie) Animal Farm, Wylie 28, Rod Phibbs, TYC, 6. (14 boats) SSS — 1) Tainui, Newick 40 cat, Peter Hogg, CYC, 1.5 points; 2) Nidaros II, Niagara sloop, Bjarne Junge, AEYC, 6. (4 boats) BAMA — 1) Defiance, Cross 32R, Bill Maudru, NoYC, 1.5 points. (1 boat)

Clear Lake SBRA Regatta The biggest event on the Small Boat Rac¬ ing Association’s schedule is the annual Clear Lake Regatta, the only weekend of the season that all three divisions get together. This year, 143 boats competed in divisions A (El Toros), B (day sailing boats), and C (high-performance dinghies with trapezes and spinnakers) on June 18-19. The lake, unlike many others these days, was good and full. And the weather, accord¬ ing to SBRA director Scott Rovanpera, was stunning: “The water was 76 degrees, the air was somewhere near 90 degrees, and the winds peaked out at 12 knots. Wetsuits weren’t necessary — in fact people were jumping in the lake to cool off.” Fourteen different classes of small trailerable boats sailed four races over the weekend, two each day. Diablo Sailing Club

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tumbled last month.

inclined to do a little SBRA racing, or just learn more about their organization, give Russ a call at (415) 574-2251 (nights).

ran a smooth regatta, no easy task with that many boats zipping around in a small area. A lot of sailors turned the regatta into a family outing by camping next to the lake and par¬ taking in the Saturday night regatta BBQ, which served 237 dinners. “Altogether, the weekend was a big hit,” claimed Russ Breed, current vice chairman of SBRA. “Because the Camellia Cup was cancelled and the Whiskeytown weekend was such a windy, rainy blowout, this was really the first decent regatta of the season. I think everyone had a ball!’ Sounds like a nice change from bashing up the Cityfront to us — it’s enough to make us go out to the garage and start fixing up that old wooden El Toro. If you’re likewise

EL TORO JR. — 1) John Walsh, 6'/2 points; 2) Rebecca Harris, 7%; 3) Melina Hoyer, 8%. (8 boats) EL TORO SR. — 1) Walt Andrews, 7V2 points; 2) Ron Locke, 14%; 3) At Kenstler, 15. (23 boats) 5-0-5 — 1) J. Gilmour, 3 points; 2) Steve Thomp¬ son, 11; 3) G. Ruggles, 15. (10 boats) 1-14 — 1) Steve Toschi, 4V* points; 2) Jamie Hanseler, 6%; 3) Ron Roehm, 17. (20 boats) FIREBALL — 1) Robert Thompson, 5V2 points; 2) Steve Smith, 91/2; 3) KC12678, 12. (13 boats) LASER II — 1) Bart Harris, 6V2 points; 2) Matt McQueen, 7'/2; 3) Gene Harris, 11. (8 boats) CONTENDER — 1) Rich Miller, 3 points; 2) Kirk Price, 9; 3) Al James, 16. (8 boats) SNIPE — 1) Mark Rastello, 7% points; 2) Warren Wheaton, 11%; 3) Rich Bergsund, 12'/2. (10 boats) THISTLE — 1) Michael Gillum, 5'/2 points; 2) Craig Lee, 61/2; 3) Tom Burden, 16. (13 boats) LIGHTNING — 1) Mike Moling, 5’A points; 2) Bruce Arnold, 7%. (5 boats)

It’s been windy this summer! At least a dozen rigs

LASER — 1) Al Sargent, 6% points; 2) Paul Kerner, 9%; 3) Jon Perkins, IOV2. (18 boats) FJ — 1) Dave Wallace, 8% points; 2) Ken Munro, 14; 3) Tony Slocum, 19. (19 boats) SUNFISH — 1) Bob Cronin, 5V4 points. (4 boats) WABBIT — 1) Melinda Groen, 3 points; 2) Bob Cunico, 8. (5 boats)

Kenwood Cup Countdown According to the latest press release from the organizers of the sixth biennial Hawaii ^International Ocean Racing Series — aka, the Kenwood Cup — “at least 51 entries, including ten maxi’s, arb expected by the June 30th deadline.” Currently, nine coun¬ tries are represented, with the United States topping the list at 17 entries (and four more “possibles”), followed by Japan (12) and Australia (10). For the first time, the United Kingdom has fielded a three-boat team (Yeoman XXVII, Indulgence, Juno). Other European coun-

THE RACING

tries represented are Italy (the fractional maxi II Moro de Venezia), France (the mini-maxi Emeraude), and Germany (Willi Illbruck’s new Reichel/Pugh 45 Pinta, if she’s com¬ pleted in time). For the first time, a South American boat, a Brazilian Farr 40 named Black Jack, is entered. Defending champion New Zealand doesn’t seem to be going for it this time around, and has only been able to field three boats (the new Davidson 55 Emo¬ tional Rescue, the one tonner Mad Max, and the aging High Roler, a Hawaiian based charter boat). The 17 American entries are as follows: Bravura,

Blondie,

Cadenza,

Cane

Fire,

Champosa V, Congere, General Hospital, Jubilation, Insatiable, Kialoa V, Lion of New Zealand, Ondine

Matador, VII,

Mauna

Quintessence,

Lani

Flash,

Sorcery

and

Winterhawk. According to race official Ken Morrison, the four additional possibilities are Camouflage, Maverick, Prima and Victory. The two-week series begins on Friday, July 29.

StFYC Woody Invitational St. Francis YC’s annual Woody Invita¬ tional attracted a whopping 63 boats in five classes over the weekend of June 17-19. The five-race series consisted of one race Fri¬ COURTESY ALAN ANDREWS

day evening and two each on Saturday and Sunday. Each race was between 8-11 miles long in conditions windy enough to dismast a Knarr, Adelante, and an IOD, White Cap. KNARR — 1) Kestrel II, Williams/Stranton, StFYC, 4.25 points; 2) Lykken, Bob Fisher, SFYC, 15; 3) Huttetu, George Rygg, SFYC, 21. (25 boats) FOLKBOAT — 1) Volker, Jerry Langkammerer, GGYC, 10 points; 2) Folksong, Michael Waldear, NoYC, 12.25; 3) Fleetwood, Alan Zimmer, NoYC, 18. (15 boats) BEAR — 1) Circus, Bob Jones, SCC, 6.5 points; 2) Orsa Bella, Charles Barnett, NoYC, 11; 3) Bongo, Steve Lawrence, CSC. (11 boats) IOD — 1) Profit, Mettier/Poorman, SFYC, 3 points; 2) Icfigin, Clay Jackson, StFYC, 12; 3) Bolero, George Degnan, RYC, 16. (8 boats) BIRD — 1) Kittywake, Jessup/Loiseau, SYC, 9.5 points. (4 boats)

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‘Citius’s new look: a fraction of its former self? See

Thirty-two Mercurys, including boat #5, showed up for the class’ 50th anniversary regatta and celebration at San Francisco YC

knot

on June 18-19. On Saturday, the fleet raced

machine , two rigs tumbled and one skipper

two races in Raccoon Strait for the Carmig-

fell overboard. Ironically, the shellshocked

gelt Trophy. Jack and Patty McAleer sailed

fleet stalled out in the lee of the island not

Xmas Pudding to victory; Dave West and

much later. The hot duo of Jack and Patty

Lee Pollard were second on Space Invader;

McAleer won this race as well.

Mercury 50th Anniversary Regatta

and Jim and Kathy Bradley sailed Frenzy to

‘A practical boat for all weather sailing

third. Later that evening, over a hundred

... at a moderate price.” That was how

Mercury sailors — including 21 past national

Sausalito’s Ernie Nunes marketed his Mer¬

champions — traded war stories over dinner and birthday cake.

cury design fifty years ago, and that slogan

Cal Cup story on page I 56.

still is applicable today. A total of 581 Mer-

The next day, the fleet embarked on the

curys have been built, and many of these

so-called “Little Magellan” counterclockwise

sturdy 18-footers are still actively raced on

circumnavigation of Angel Island. In 20-30

winds

the

Pt.

Blunt

“washing

Volvo Regatta (See related story on page 150.) J/24 — 1) Houdini, Eric Arndt, Santa Barbara, 3 points; 2) Dejavu^Chris Perkins, San Francisco, 12; 3) Eskimo Pie, LaurafFlughes, Seattle, 17; 4) Too Hipp, Jay Golison, Long Beach, 21; 5) No Quarter, Scott Deardorff, Oxnard, 34. (50 boats) ETCHELLS 22 — 1) Ahorita, Menninger/ page 166

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Jorgensen, Long Beach, 9% points; 2) Puff, Clausen/Lozzan, Oakland, 13%; 3) Wild Irish, Tim Hogan, Newport Beach, 16; 4) Ultra Violet, Don Jesberg, Mill Valley, 16; 5) Mr. Natural, Bill Barton, Ross, 22. (26 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Yeofy, Eliel Redstone, Corte Madera, 5V2 points; 2) Mantis, Rich Toffe, Danville, 91/2; 3) Leon Russell, Johnson/Daniel, Pt. Rich¬ mond, 14; 4) Beth!, Mik Beatie, Corte Madera, 19; 5) Desperado, Mike Bruzzone, Mill Valley, 20. (23 boats) FOLKBOAT — 1) Volker, Jerry Langkammer, Pt. Richmond, 8% points; 2) Folksong, Michael Waldear, Alameda, 9V2; 3) Gaiante, Otto Schreier, Mill Valley, 15; 4) Highway, David Boyd, Occiden¬ tal, 16%. (22 boats) KNARR — 1) Silk Purse, Adams/Blake, Pt. Rich¬ mond, 15; 2) Huttetu, George Rygg, Belvedere, 15; 3) Svalen, Larry Drew, Tiburon, 17%; 4) Peer Gynt, Kjell Skaar, San Rafael, 18; 5) Lykken, A. Robert Fisher, 2OV2. (29 boats) J/29 — 1) J C’N Me, Peter Szasz, Redwood Shores, 8V2 points; 2) Pot Sticker, Kirk Denebeim, San Francisco, 12; 3) J-Spot, Tom Fancher, Los Gatos, 16%; 4) Smokin’ J, Don Trask, Alameda, 18%; 5) Power Play, Peter Cunningham, Menlo Park. (11 boats)

The

Race Notes Ultimate Yacht Race originally

England, Brazil, and possibly Spain. Some

Cerveza Circuit update: the 15th biennial

of the best one tonners in the world will be in

Los Angeles to Cabo San Lucas Race

attendance, including the Kiwi Farr 40 Pro¬

will take off on November 5th. This will be

paganda, the high scoring Admiral’s Cup

the second time the 870-mile downwind

boat, and the Crown Prince of Norway’s Farr

race goes around Guadalupe Island — let’s

40 Fram X, last year’s world champ. We’ll

hope there’s more wind this time than there

try to get the entry list into these pages next

was two years ago! Remember, it’s not too

month.

early to reserve hotel rooms, airplane rides,

Tom Wylie recently launched a new boat

and absentee ballots for the November 8th

for Keith MacBeth called Absolute 88. We

election. Call the Los Angeles YC at (213)

hear it’s a racier version of Wylie’s 39-foot

831-1203 for more information.

Punk Dolphin, taken from the same mold

- St. Francis YC’s Chris Perkins was the only Bay Area representative at the J/24

but chopped down a bit to 37 feet. The glass hull was built by Westerly Marine down

North Americans in Corpus Christi in early

south; Wylie finished it off up here. The boat

June. Perkins, sailing Peter Young’s Chicks

will live in Santa Cruz, but spend a lot of time racing on the Bay, much as MacBeth’s

Dig It, finished 13th in the 45-boat fleet. A

previous boat, Absolute 80, did.

throwout series. Perkins consistently sailed in

local sailor won the light-air, seven-race, no-

Fun racing and fund-raising: San Fran¬

the top ten, but unfortunately fell to 23rd in

cisco YC’s first annual Kids Korporate

the last race, losing six boats in the overall

Regatta on June 11 raised around $10,000

standings.

Last

year’s

winner,

John

for the California Health Research Founda¬

Kostecki, chose to practice in his Soling for

tion alcohol and drug abuse prevention pro¬

the upcoming Olympic Trials rather than

grams,

defend his title.

including

their

successful

Friday

Night Live series. Eighteen boats sailed a

The

Snipe District Championship,

scheduled for San Francisco Bay on July 22

9-mile course that rounded Yellow Bluff and

held on June 11 and 12 off Ballena Bay,

has been postponed to at least March, 1989.

Knox twice. Bert Damner’s Kaufman 41

was won by Bart Hackworth. Jim Grubbs

Apparently, the race organizers feel that the

Damn Near won; David Lourie’s Swan 61

delay will allow more Ultimate 30’s to be

Perseverance, with grey fox Dave Allen in

was second and either Warren Wheaton or Mark Rastello was third, depending on the

built,

the afterguard, was second; and Bill LeRoy’s

outcome of a rather sticky appeal for redress

thereby

increasing

the

presumably public interest).

pot

(and

Too bad

—

Contessa 35 Blue Blazer was third. _

’ hosted the five race series, which saw winds

Cityfront in July would have been highly

trimarans, participated in the 1988 Speed¬

between 0 and 35 knots during the course of

entertaining. The “third” — now the second

sailing Grand Prix held at Long Beach on

the weekend. It was windy enough that one

— Ultimate Yacht Race supposedly will go

June 18-19. Collecting the majority of the

on as scheduled on October 9-15 back in

$5,000 purse was a Formula 500 called In-

Snipe sank. Only 13 boats participated, which fleet

victus, which sailed in the open class. A Prin-

captain John Kelly considered “a disappoint¬

the

30’s

disintegrate

the

Mystic/ New London, Connecticut.

Audi Sobstad Race Week was under way as we went to press on the weekend of June 24-25. According to promoter Bruce Gollison, 105 boats are competing in four races in five different classes. Class A con¬ sists of 25 Schock 35’s and J/35’s; the other four classes are racing under PHRF. The weather has been sunny with 15 knots of

Only

nine

boats,

all

catamarans

by one of the parties. StFYC and Encinal YC or

watching

dle 20 beat out a Hobie 21 in the only other

ing turnout”. But he expects 60 or 70 boats

class, the so-called Pro 21 class for boats up

in their big event of the summer, the Snipe

to 21 feet. Participation in the third annual

Nationals between July 29 and August 5.

speedsailing event was way down this year, which

race

organizers

attribute

Sail

The St. Francis YC Intra-Club Race, an annual club-members-only event on June

America draining all the top multihull sailors

11, attracted'40 boats — almost as many as

away, as well as conflicts with other regattas.

a YRA race. The 11.4 mile pursuit (reverse

As you read this, a fleet of 18 IOR boats in

* handicap start) race was sailed in steady 30

two divisions is hopefully skirting the Pacific

knot breezes; most competitors were glad

said Gollison. Quick, someone grab us an

High and surfing across the Pacific bound for

that the low-key race didn’t allow “colorful

Old Milwaukee!

Hawaii. They’re competing in the twelfth

sails”.

biennial Vic-Maul Race, which began from

Etchells 22 class, John Ravissa, found the

wind. “It doesn’t get much better than this,

Entries are rolling in to the St. Francis YC for their early September One Ton Worlds on the Bay. Duking it out against an an¬ ticipated 15 U.S. boats will be six boats from Australia, two each from New Zealand and Japan,

and

one

apiece

from

Norway,

The president of the International

Victoria Harbor in British Columbia on June

conditions to his liking as he pounded the

25th. The fleet, ranging in size from two

fleet with his Etchells 22 Bogota. In the

Santa Cruz 50’s, including Earl of Mar,

obligatory

down to a Pretorian 35, should begin arriv¬

ratings, more than one person suggested

ing in Lahaina 11 or 12 days later.

that the Etchells’ 126 PHRF rating might be a

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apres-race

grumbling

about

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little plump. But something about the system

120-144). The fourth division, Chipsa, will

worked as the second place finisher was the

be hosted by Encinal YC and will consist of

Santana 22 Pooh Bear, which started first,

three El Toro races on July

and third went to the Santa Cruz 50 Hana

games begin!

Ho, which started next-to-last.

Richmond YC hosted the Sears Cup, Bemis Trophy and Smythe Trophy eliminations in mid-June. All three events

The Russians are coming.

Well, actu¬

ally they’ve left by now. Thanks to Glasnost, a Russian ocean racing boat — the 13.6

are

meter Kapitan Panaev — and her sevenman crew spent a few months in Washington

sawed

They

Kapitan

the

her over to Puget Sound, and did some local

Richmond

than

showed

(doublehanded)

won The Mercury, 50 years old and going strong.

The crew is

tion If your class is having its

championship regatta soon and it’s not listed

September for the Big Boat Series?

above, drop us a line.

oldest sailing trophy, has been postponed

for

elimination

by default.

the

Bemis

Laser

H’s:

Seifers

Richmond

was

first,

YC’s

followed

Jennifer Fisher. Considering that there are ten or twelve junior sailing programs on the Bay — rang¬

If the St. Francis YC has their way, the

1989 TransPac,

A less-than-thrilling four

(singlehanded).

Vaughn 30-August 4).

someone should invite them to come back in

San Francisco Perpetual Trophy,

John

boats sailed Lasers for the Smythe elimina¬

already back in Russia; the boat will remain

which dates back to 1895 and is the Bay’s

YC’s

Matt McQueen, sailing with Forrest Fennell,

They also learned that their boat was pretty

in Bellingham until at least August. Maybe

the

Richmond YC’s 12-year-old “pebble star”

pizzas, milkshakes and other capitalist vices.

The

defeated

The Russians apparently learned all about

by all.

two boats bothered to show up. That’s one

races, including the Swiftsure Race.

good time was had

contests.

California

Hansen in Santana 20 match racing — only

Panaev out of the ice at her berth, shipped

far off the pace on the race course, but a

national

Brandon Paine and Haley King of StFYC.

ingham YC, members of the Antares YC of Russia

junior Northern

Let the

Sears Cup will be Morgan Larson (skipper),

state this spring. At the invitation of the Bell¬

Nakhodka,

USYRU

Representing

10.

ing in size from San Francisco YC and En¬

which is scheduled for

cinal YC’s 175-member programs down to

next June 30, will begin from San Francisco

Sequoia YC’s eight members — this wasn’t a

from June until Labor Day weekend. St.

Bay’s Treasure Island. The TransPac started

very

Francis YC will apparently stake Bill Twist

there once before,

and StFYC

these three events occur in Houston between

1939,

encouraging turnout.

The

finals for

and Blade Runner against the Balboa YC

would like to celebrate the 50th anniversery

August 12-19. The weapons there will be

challenger, which at the moment appears to

of that occasion by bringing the 35th edition

be John Aren’s Frers 51 Tomahawk. Last

J/22’s, International 14’s and Sunfishes.

of this great race back to the Bay on a one¬

year, Paul Cayard drove High Risk to victory

time basis. It’s an intriguing idea, and ap¬

The fifth annual premier

events

Liberty Cup,

the

new

one of the

international

over Roler, thereby returning the trophy to

parently the Transpacific Yacht Club is at

the Bay after its two year stay at Balboa YC.

match racing circuit, will be held July 7-10 in

least weighing the pros and cons of changing

New York City. Sailing in identical Beneteau

The

midsummer

“break”

upon

us,

the

starting

venue.

However,

given

the

First 285’s, Gary Jobson and other rock stars

which must mean it’s time for a bunch of

preponderance

national class championships.

Here’s a

behind the TransPac, we wouldn’t hold our

list of some of the nationals occurring in

breath on this one. In fact, we’d give the

California in the next two months: Cal 20

Gilmour. Also confirmed to sail in the com¬

StFYC’s proposal about the same odds of

(Cabrillo Beach YC, July 11-17), Contender

petition are Brad Butterworth (NZ), Ryozo

succeeding as those of winning the recent

(Ventura, August 5-7), Etchells 22 (Newport

Tanaka

state lottery — about 14 million to one.

Harbor YC, August 6-13), Express 27 (Rich¬ mond YC, July 27-31), 505 (Los Angeles

clubs

Association

Lightning

(Mission Bay YC,

August 12-19), Mercury (Fresno YC, July 26- 28), Olson 25 (Monterey Peninsula YC, July 7-10),

Olson 30

(Lake Tahoe,

July

3-8), Santa Cruz 27 (Santa Cruz YC, July

history

and

tradition

Every July, some of the 87 member yacht

YC, August 20-26), Laser (California YC, July 21-24),

of the

Pacific Inter-Club Yacht get

together

determine

August

18-21),

Snipe

(Encinal YC,

July

will

attempt

dethrone last year’s winner, Australian Peter

(Japan),

(Canada),

Bertrand

Greg

Tawaststjerna

Pace

(France),

Pelle

Petterson (Sweden), and Chris Law (Great Britain).

One for the rail:

veteran

sailor

and

recently

10, when StFYC will host three of the divi¬

enough to sail the Farallon Island Race on

sions

Mongoose,

two-day,

three-race

Cityfront

series. At stake are the following trophies:

raced in

Francisco YC,

globe

This year the racing will occur on July 9 and

the Big Lipton (formerly for IOR boats, now

(San

the

relatively

25-30),

around

who’s the best in four different categories.

27- 30), Santana 20 (Santa Monica YC, July Santana

from

Islander 36’s);

the Little

Lipton

(Santana 22’s); and the Larry Knight (PHRF

new came

parent out

busted

Doug

Holm,

who

“retirement”

long

up the

crew

with

his

observation that, “Having kids is exactly like doing an ocean race: you’re up all night, everything s

always

wet,

and

someone’s

always complaining . . . .” page 168

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CHANGES With reports this month from Wisp in Hong Kong; Windancer in Mazatlan; Mickey C in Panama; Anduril on her second circumnavigation;

Southbound home in Santa Cruz; Zebrina on the Sea of Cortez; Wavelength in the Central America war zone; Some Like It Hot Rally winners; Teal in Catalina; and, Cruise Notes.

Cruising Keels Wisp - N/A Conrad & Charlotte Skladal (Sunnyvale & Hong Kong)

abrupt halt in a distance of just 18 inches as N the boat rode up on the reef. Friendly natives helped push us off. The only damage suf¬ fered by our fiberglass hull was the loss of

In a word of caution, I would advise all potential cruisers against acquiring go-fast fin keel boats with spade rudders or modified

of the hull A

second

example

occurred

Papua

full keel boats with a bite out just before the

New

rudder. To support this advice, let me give

moonless night. We were motbring at four

three

actual

examples

of disasters

which

befell such configurations.

Guinea

knots

without

pitch

wind.

black

overcast

0300

hit

something in the water and were immedi¬

In Fiji near Suva, a fin keel sailboat hit a

ately slowed to two knots as an ominous

reef under power at full speed. The fin keel

rumbling travelled the entire length of our

was torn off the boat, which sank in less than

keel. Soon a two-foot diameter log some 60

one

The cloud-reflecting smooth

feet long popped up behind our stern. We

water prevented the skipper from seeing the

had hit it crosswise dead-center. If our boat

minute.

two feet of bottom paint off the forward end

pass and he misjudged its position. A full

had been built with a fin keel, we could have

keel, or better yet a full keel with a cut away

trapped the log in front of the keel or even lost the keel. If we had a bite out of the keel before the rudder, the log could have torn the rudder off or become trapped in the bite. For either ‘if’, a lot of work would have been required to free the log from under the boat. As it was, the only damage to our cutaway forefoot full keel was a considerable loss of bottom paint from the bottom of the keel and rudder. The

third

recently

example

the

happened

Philippine

Islands.

About

Boats were rolling to a big swell at Two Harbors, Catalina over the Memorial Day weekend.

0530 we left our anchorage under power to An ultralight, fin keel Olson 40 survived a beaching

cruise to another island. On our way we

of underwater design. (Frankly, in our nine

during the Cabo storm of ’82.

noticed a couple of Filippino’s waving to us

years of cruising we have seen only over¬

from their banco. “All the natives seerrrto be

towering waves in our all too frequent bashes

forefoot, would have ridden the boat up on

friendly,” we remarked to one another. Sud¬

to windward).

the reef with minimum damage.

denly a bunch of floats supporting a fish net

because

did

just

that

I know,

Guadalcanal,

appeared

in front of us.

doesn’t stop very fast, and we plowed on

Conrad — Having owned everything from

through the net. Same as the log, the net

cutaway full keel heavy cruisers to ultralight

was pushed down and no damage was done to the fisherman’s net. A fin keel would have

racers, we don’t think the safety and comfort issues are that cut and dried.

dragged the net forward and pulled the sides

Certainly when you hit logs or hove-to

of the net toward the rear of the boat, fouling

weather at sea, we think the heavier full keel

the prop. You can imagine the result: irate

boat is preferable. But there have been more

fishermen with an expensive torn net and a

than

bit of diving to be done with a knife to free

manueverability of ultralights have saved the

the fouled prop.

day, putting the crew comfortably in port

We appreciate the jolt-free ride from our cutaway forefoot full keel hull in our bashes But then so 'Splash'.

did an almost full-keel Peterson 44,

— conrad 5/23/88

17 ton boat

a few

times

when

the speed and

while the crew on slower CCA-type boats got caught outside in a storm.

to windward. The ‘v’ bow wooshes through

The big blow that destroyed so much of

the waves instead of hitting the water like a

the cruising fleet in Cabo San Lucas in 1982

‘belly-flop’ as fin keel flat bottom boats are

further confuses the issue. The two boats

inclined to do. If you are looking for high

that survived being thrown on the beach best

Solomon Islands when the bay was muddy

speed in light winds and no chop, a fin keel

and I misjudged the end of a reef by two feet.

boat is the answer. But if you are looking for

were a heavy, fullish keel Peterson 44 and an ultralight Olson 40.

Moving at seven

safety and comfort, go for an old CCA-type

knots,

we came to

There’s just no certainty in this world. page 170

IN LATITUDES

a wonderful time. — bob williams

Seeing Red In Panama Captain Mickey ‘C’ (Tustin, California) Having

just

returned

from

Central

America, I recently completed reading your May issue. In it 1 saw the letter from Mike Starbuck; 1 had dinner with Mike and his girlfriend, MaryAnn, in Panama on March 22nd. The situation was not good at that time. Mike had just been released from jail for the second time in two days. He was being watched and had lost almost everything. While he’d gotten his Peterson 44, Starbuck back, it had been stripped. So had his home on Playa Blanca. He and MaryAnn were on their way back to his island home in Panama to hibernate until the war was over. There is a war going on in Panama and it is not advisable for Americans to cruise there unless they want to lose their boats! I am a licensed delivery skipper. I arrived in Panama on March 14th only to have the

All’s

However, dinks

thefts.

Normally, Two Harbors at the Isthmus in

everybody is locking up boats,

Catalina is as pristine an anchorage as you

well

and

Mazatlan

outboards

—

preventative

Club

Nautico

personnel

are

very

Memorial Day weekend, it was memorable

I’ve suggested that they consider

installing showers and charging a small fee

swells from the northeast that made the nor¬

for their use.

mally tranquil place resemble an industrial

Cruising

boats

calling

during

the

last

Maytag stuck on “powercycle.”

Alegria,

“It was one of the worst times I’ve seen in

Arcadia, La Cieniga, Delia, Homlin, Lady

35 years of sailing,” says Bob Williams, who

Maclyn, Sabadical, Mythril, Lunar Glow and

chronicled the blow from his Avon inflatable.

several

weeks

have

included

others. Most were enroute to La Faz and

“They closed the harbor to anything under

Cabo San Lucas although Delia was staying

40 feet, which meant you couldn’t leave or

on a while longer.

come in until sometime Monday.”

We’re heading up to La Paz ourselves in a

The worst off were several boats that lost

few days and then into the Sea of Cortez for

anchors and had to motor in position for 24

the summer.

hours or more. Probably the greatest insult to the bruised,

Latitudes for the fleet. How about a Roving

bounced and busted contingent in Two Har¬

Reporter t-shirt for him?

bors, though, was that Cat Harbor, a short

Jack — Dave’s t-shirt is on the way. ■

given anything to be in the Cat Harbor duck pond just across the Isthmus.

was like a mill

Mike’s girlfriend, a Costa Rican, gave us

The folks that spent the extra few

some good advise on Costa Rica, which is

hours getting there for the long weekend had

where we ended up — by land! We barely

walk across the Isthmus, pond.

Boats such as this one at Two Harbors would have

Dave Pitcher brought down a number of

— jack 5/14/88

“conspiracy” and then imprisoned.

can find off the coast of California. But for

for quite another reason: heavy wind and

helpfui.

eight other Americans, was then arrested for

the several hundred boaters caught there on

measures. The

vessel I was on impounded. I, along with

It Was Memorable, All Right Two Harbors, Catalina Bob Williams (El Toro)

Memo From Mazatlan Windancer — Tayana 37 Jack & Sylvia McMillen (Marina del Rey)

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made it, too. Mike couldn’t help us because

where you can’t get into the lagoon because

he’s on five years probation, a condition of

there’s a maximum of only six feet of water

which

is that

not associate

with

any

Americans.

at the entrance. So we decided to anchor in the roadstead, a decision that cost us $50;

I won’t go into the Panama situation too

$20 in port fees and $10 for each visa. Our

deeply now as I have been told not to talk

contribution to the Third World’s economy

about it. I’ll just say that what the television

ended

news and newspapers here in the United

ashore. The only feasible place to land a

States are reporting is all bullshit and obvi¬

dinghy was a two-mile upwind row; none

ously censored! There is a war going on in

among us was that anxious to go ashore.

Panama and Noreiga is winning. Anyway,

Mike

very

thin

with that because we never went

Nearby and

Kanton

was

enjoyable

went

stop. The pass has to be entered dr exited at

through hell in jail. He’s out now and all

slack water (or within about an hour on the

right, however. Unfortunately, he, like the

concurrent tide) because it runs six to eight

rest of us, is not U.S. military, so he has no

knots. Fifteen people live on Kanton; five

rights in Panama and can’t leave the coun¬

government officials and their families.

try. He would like to come home but can’t

World War II it had been a staging center,

because he’ll be re-arrested.

and as late as 1978 it was a NASA tracking

I’m glad to be back in the United States. It

station.

Consequently,

there’s

lot

only took us two months to get here! Lot’s of

fascinating

red tape through the United States Embassy.

10-year-old diesel that yachties have been

— mickey 5/21/88

‘junk’

around

—

including

using with no problems. There’s plenty of water available — an important considera¬

Mickey Southern

—

Starbuck

California

called

subsequent

from

tion in this warm part of the world — but no

your

supplies.

meeting with him. He said he’d gotten his

There are few formalities at Kanton. The

property and boat back and was eager to

police/immigration/customs

official

return to his island in Panama. He men¬

care

or the boat,

tioned nothing about not being able to leave

depending. There are no fees. The villagers

Annapolis.

Panama.

do expect yachties to be sociable, though.

past the Princess Margaret Hospital. ‘Twists’

of it

his house

—

takes

It looks like the Delta, but it’s actually east coast cruising.

These

boats

are

anchored

lovely

We’d certainly like to hear more about

Afterall, it’s a lonely posting. And they do

(aka dances) are held nearly every Friday

your problems in Panama. What boat did

expect to visit the boat at least once en masse

night at the Lago Hotel.

you arrive on? Was it power or sail? Was it a

(i.e. all 15 of them).

Hurricane season doesn’t end in this part

United States documented vessel? Who is

The holding ground here is not the best.

of the world until mid-April at the earliest.

the owner of the vessel? What is or what did

And the prevailing 15 knot or better winds

We left Funafuti on March 31 and spent the

the owner do to get the boat free? Who

— while great for the wind generator — blow

first 10 days beating into WNW winds of 30

arrested you? What jail were you put in?

the boat toward a lee shore. It’s probably

to 40 knots, 8 to 10 foot seas and cc./stant

How long were you held? Who told you not

possible to work your way up to the village

rain. Even worse was the next three days

to talk about the situation in Panama. What

(about three miles by road) if the sun, wind

battling hurricane Dovi — which was not a

happened to the seven others arrested with

and tide were just right, but we didn’t stay

pleasant experience. Thirty hours of power¬

you? Inquiring minds would like to know.

long enough to bother. The danger of doing

ing north put us 16 miles south. Finally we

Second Circumnavigation Anduril — Cross 40-ft Tri Don, Joanne & Erik Joanne Sandstrom (Oakland)

something like that is you might get stuck up

had no choice but to run with it; ‘it’ being 70

there

to 90 knot winds and 30 foot seas. That

with

unfavorable

conditions

longer

than you wanted.

lasted for 40 hours. Since Dovi lay between

Funafuti (Tuvalu) was the same as ever — just more crowded. There are some supplies

us and Vanuatu, our planned next stop, we ran southeast and ended up in . . .

available depending on how recently the

. . . fabulous Fiji where the leader of the

Only sons of bitches are allowed on Kan-

supply boat has been in. But supplies are

coup stars in the movie made about it (and

ton Island, Kiritimati. It’s not that the natives

expensive as everything has a 25% import

where the books hit the stores the day of the

are unfriendly — far from it — but that they

duty. It’s difficult but possible to get propane,

movie premiere). Rabuka has an excellent

don’t want the problem of dogs going as wild

which is drip fed from their tank. Some fresh

media/image consultant; perhaps one of the

as the cats have.

produce is available from the prison garden,

guys who packaged Nixon and Reagan?

We left San Francisco aboard Anduril, in

providing

you

get

along

with

Sam

the

The

Tradewinds

Hotel

still

has

not

mid-January. Our first stop was Christmas

warden. Eggs can be gotten from Oti’s, a

opened, but we’re hoping. Fifteen francs a

Island (a little southwest of Palmyra Atoll),

concrete block house on the dirt path right

week

gets

you

use

the

dinghy

dock

page 172

IN LATITUDES

haggard.

Another

doctor

prescribed

less

cerveza and no more sleeping in damp alleyways. So armed with more antibiotics, I chugged up to San Diego. I was hustled out of $25 at the U.S. Customs dock before I could gather my wits. The chap wasn’t even interested in inspect¬ ing my boat!

He put me on the ‘honor

system’ of disposing my fruits and vegetables into the quarantine bins after he left. What cruiser would ever do anything like that? Then the Harbor Police wanted to cite me for a 1984 registration. The officer barely relented after seeing my chock-full passport and stressed what a ‘favor’ he was doing by not writing me up. While

the

Santa

Barbara

Channel,

Southbound almost t-boned a humongous black barge in the black of night. The thing only had a dim little white anchor light — which was almost invisible because of the bright lights on all the drilling platforms. Prior to almost t-boning the thing, I had called all the rigs on

16 and was assured that no

hazards existed outside of a quarter-mile from any given platform. And let me stress,

Southbound — Bingham 32 Home From The Sea Stephen Brown (Santa Cruz)

(secure), showers (cold), and the swimming pool. It’s a much nicer anchorage than at the yacht club (which is opposite the dump) and a shorter row to shore. There’s also less

the anchor light was very dim among a forest of strobes, blinking perimeter lights, etc. I just want to say ‘thanks again’ for keeping tabs on me through the voyage. I’m at slip

Southbound snuck back into Santa Cruz

theft. The bus to Suva is 26 cents. Strict Sunday ‘blue laws’ remain in effect

Harbor, thereby ending her four-year solo

in Fiji: no public transportation, no ‘gather¬

circumnavigation. Now the only obstacle to

ings’, etc. Sailing is allowed although a few

permanent retirement is to tabernacle the

boats have

45-foot mast and slip beneath the bridge in

been

stopped.

Racing is not

Santa Cruz’ Upper Harbor. There I plan to

allowed. When entering Suva, anchor off the main

live aboard while barnacles §nd weed cover

wharf with the Q flag; the doctor will come

the ‘Costa Rican Red’ bottom paint and I

and clear you. Go to the dock for Customs.

dream of raising pigs in Montana.

X-22 in Santa Cruz if anybody needs a good cruising boat or cheap advice. — Stephen

brown 6/1/88

Zebrina — Irwin 38 Bob Feldman and Birdie Schrenzel Sea of Cortez (Marina del Rey) Latitude said it would be great and they

Actually, the Cabo to Santa Cruz upwind

were right! Sea of Cortez Race Week was

slog wasn’t that bad. The major drama was a

fantastic and the Sea of Cortez itself is a pic¬

nasty respiratory infection I picked up soon

turesque paradise. This was especially true

after meeting the cold, foggy North Pacific. I

for us aboard Zebrina, since this was our first

If we remember correctly,

couldn’t eat and became so weak that I could

cruise to Mexico.

Joanne is the author of There And Back

barely raise the anchor. Alone, as always,

Anchor and go to town for Immigration. There are no fees. — joanne 5/5/88

Readers Again,

—

the story of the Sandstrom’s first

circumnavigation. For the record,

preferred

bypass the

exposed

Race Week activities were a lot of fun, and Isla Partida is the perfect setting for this event. The best part of the whole week was

anchorages. of

that it provided a gathering place to meet

‘Kiribati’ and a million other ways) is an inde¬

motoring into small but onerous headseas.

once again with friends from previous ports

pendent nation consisting of 33 islands scat¬

At Turtle Bay, the clinic gave me antibiotics

(i.e., Jim and Margaret aboard Columbia

Kiritimati (also spelled

This

last

leg

consisted

percent

tered near the equator. It includes islands

and cough medicine. But things didn’t im¬

Transit and Doran aboard Panache). It also

from the Line, Phoenix and Gilbert groups.

prove with more nights of zero sleep, freez¬

gave us the opportunity to make new friends

Copra surpassed phosphates as the chief

ing cold,

like Ralph and Connie aboard Arjumand;

export in 1979, the same year the United

rainstorms.

States dropped its claim to Kanton Island. page 173

wet fog and a couple of fierce

By the time I got to Ensenada I was really

John, Mary and Kurt aboard Si-Ti-Si III; and lots of others. The sand sculptures, mens’

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x and womens’ bikini contests, talent night and

had to pull the dinghy across a 20-ft sandbar

all the other fun-filled events were added

and power through a strong tide. The wind¬

bonuses.

ing river leads to a huge shallow lagoon

After Race Week we left Isla Partida and

where thousands of clams can be found by

headed northwest to Isla San Francisco. We

simply

anchored at the southwest part of the island,

sand.

then took the dinghy ashore and walked a short distance across the salt ponds to the

running

Following

one’s

short

finger

stop

through

the

Punta

San

Evaristo we continued on td Puerto Los

other side of the island to collect agates that

Gatos. It is one of the least visited, yet most

fall from the cliffs along the beach.

spectacular of all the anchorages. In several

Zebrina Itinerary -

Depart Marina del Rey

1987/88 Mexico Cruise. Miles traveled - 8,700. Isla San Jose (Bahia Amortajada) 4/11 Punta San Evarist<> 4. 11.12 Puerto Los Gatos 4, 12,13 Bahia d< AguaVeide 4 13.14

12/19,87

Baja California lsla$ San Benito

12/23.24

Bahia Santa Maria Cabo San Lucas

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Mainland Mexico Zjhuatanejo

10 19

Ufa Grande

19 21

Zihuatanejc

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4 114.15 4/15-1? 4 18 4 19

variety of conditions, but be advised that the

4/19-21

small southeastern anchorage consists of a

4 22 2.8 4 '23.24

behind the

2/13

Ensenada de Pechibnguillo

2/14,15

Bahia de Maruata

2 '15

Las Hadas

2/16-18

Manzanillo

2/18

Las Hadas

2/18 22

Manzanillo

2/22

Las Hadas

2,22,23

Bahia de Navidad

2/23-26

Bahia Tenacatita

2/26 28

Bahia de Careytos

2,28-3/1

Bahia de Chameia

3/1,2

3/3-11

Nuevo Vallarta

3/11-17 3/17-25

Isla Isabella

3/26

Baja California (Sea of Cortez)

Puerto Ballandra Cafeta Lobos IsJa'Parfida {Caleta Partida) Isla San Francisco

fisherman when you stop there! Bahia Agua Verde provides shelter in a

Baja California

southwest

beach

with

lots of

children, chickens and pigs. Bahia Salinas at Isla Carmen, is an incredi¬

Cabo San Lucas Bahia Magdalena

4 ’ 24 28

ble and mysterious “ghost town”. It was, as recently as 1986, occupied and used to be a

thriving

O’ War Cove) Bahia Santa Maiia Bahia San Juanito

4/30-5/2 5 2.8 $. 4

(Man

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Turtle Bay

mining

town

with

100-150

to lunch and are about to return at any mo¬ ment, most everything has been left intact. The

5/8-10

salt

residents. Looking as if all the residents went

schoolhouse

still

has

books

the

tables. There are flowers on the altar of the church. The administrative offices are filled

3/3

Puerto Vallarta

Ensenada de Los Mueitos

chorage. Be sure to say hello to Manuel the

rocky bottom. There is a nice little village

Ensenada de Los Muertos Punta Los Frailes

Ipala Yelapa

LaPa2

White sand dunes provide the background for the southern anchorage, with a sandy beach continuing behind the northern an¬

Ida Carmen (v cret anchorage) Caleta de San Juanico Bahia de Agua Verde Pichillnque

1/21-2,13

Isla Grande

separated by large red rocks in the center.

3/28-30 3.30-4/5 4/5 4/5,6 4,6-10

Bahia San Carlos I$Ia San Martin (Hassler’s Cove) Punta Santo Tomas California San Diego (Quarantine buoy) {Shelter Island) Dana Point

5/11-14 5/14,15 5 ' 15.16

with file cabinets and files, briefcases, time clocks and cards, personnel records, cor¬ respondence

and

daily records.

There is

even an offering box with the money still in it. Amazingly, the dining room table is still set

5/16,17 5/17-19

filled bags of salt lie next to the pier ready to

5/19,20

be loaded onto a ship. Two tugboats remain,

Long Beach ‘Seal Beach

5/20,21

one of which washed onto the beach.

King Harbor/Redondo Beach

5/21,22

Marina del Rey

110 11

...

5/22

in the administrator’s quarters. Hundreds of

The doctor’s

most

bizarre

office

discovery

complete

with

was

the

medical

records of all personnel, the hospital bed still made, crutches next to the bed, a blood

Our next stop was Bahia Amortajada at

cruising books it is listed as 25°09’N latitude

pressure gauge in the doctor’s desk and hun¬

Isla San Jose. The morning sun shining on

and 110°57’W longitude, but in fact it is at

the water within the anchorage provided a

25°17’N and 110°57’W. It is easily spotted

spectacular array of blues and greens.

seems to know what happened — not only

from offshore due to the colorful rocky red

what caused everyone to desert, but to do so

short distance from the anchorage is the en¬

cliffs comprising the northernmost point of

in such a hurry leaving everything behind.

trance to a river lined with mangroves. We

the

cove.

The

dual

anchorages

and

dreds of medicines on the shelves. No one

Paradise was found at Caleta San Juanico page 174

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everywhere as barefoot figures in ragged pants sweated the bales from flatcars onto the loading dock. Others carried logs for the furnace. There was a tremendous bustle, quite at odds with the general decrepit appearance. Planks were missing from the pier; office windows were broken; the sign had fallen down; and, the ancient boiler looked ready to blow. The town was in a similar condition although it did have a nice market. Officialdom

declined

the

adventure

coming to inspect my little boat. They merely me 50 quetzals

directed

me to

Puerto

($20 U.S.)

Quetzal,

and

the

new

'Zebrina'

clear water, remarkable rock formations and

anchorages, Caleta San Juanico.

man-made harbor east of San Jose.

A ‘cruiser’s shrine’ surrounds a lone tree on

from which lighters carry cotton to the ships

Escobar Nylio, a real gentleman, handled all

the

in the anchorage.

the paperwork quietly and efficiently. It was

one

Baja’s

most

beautiful

There

an intensity of colors rarely found elsewhere.

•

charged in the form of white sand beaches, crystal

beach

the

smaller,

northern

an¬

the

Port

Secretary,

Mario

Julio

a pleasure to deal with him. I learned that the

chorage. Here, yachties have left momentos

When I arrived off the old pier in my

of their boats and themselves in wood carv¬

dinghy, a wooden chair was lowered to the

Guatemalans would like to have more yachts

ings, chiseled stone, shell designs, fish parts,

water’s edge. As the dinghy and I rose up on

visit their country. In fact, they plan to build a

hand

a swell, I struggled into the chair and was

dock for cruisers in Puerto Quetzal. I was

paintings

and

other

paraphernalia

often found in and around boats. Look for

allowed to anchor in the Navy Basin and was

the Zebrina plaque mounted on the tree

given a pass to allow me through the main

when you go there and be sure to bring a

gate. The yacht Chatelaine came in also and

momento of your own to leave behind.

anchored next to me.

The time spent in the Sea of Cortez was

San Jose smells of sharks and molasses.

much too short, but then any amount of time

The locals appear to fish shark to the exclu¬

in such an impressive place would seem that

sion of lesser species. Carts, piled high with

way. Hopefully, there will be an opportunity

hammerhead

to return.

Most cruisers

voyaging south to

The molasses oozes from leaky tankers parked on the dirt roads. A truck loaded with sand

countries

and

(Guatemala,

Nicaragua)

because

friendly.

of the

Prior to my departure, Mario delivered my

zarpe to the boat. Port fees were 50 quetzals here also. After Mexico it seemed like a lot, but what is the price of an experience?

conclusions. both

Champerico

Guatemala.

With

and

Puerto

My next stop was at Acajutla, El Salvador, The suddenly abandoned drug store at Isla Carmen.

a roadstead

the

black

sand

land

dinghy

the

beach.

delapidated pier extends beyond the surf,

Directions.

Although

roily,

the

holding ground was excellent. After waiting

beaches,

Champerico is for thrill-seekers only. You

a port which is thoroughly reviewed in the

Sailing

wide open to the big swells which break

page 175

the

are similar to Mexico and the people are

to allow your readers to reach their own

cannot

containing

and a couple of decent restaurants. Prices

my own personal experiences in these places

town

there’s a small market, a few grocery stores

unstable political situations. I’d like to relate

visited

around

ships. San Jose is no Puerto Vallarta, but

Costa

widely held belief that it’s unsafe to transit the intervening

drives

spills. A pipeline conveys the goo to offlying

Rica go directly from Mexico since it is a

heavily

are

which must be of epidemic proportions.

Cruising War-Torn Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador & Nicaragua) Wavelength — Columbia Sabre Don Cuddy

Quetzal

carcasses,

a popular remedy for bronchial trouble —

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leopard

Shark oil is on sale everywhere. I was told it’s

— bob and birdie 6/13/88

Salvador

and

dragged through the streets at all hours.

hoisted into Guatemala by a steam-driven

in vain for clearance, the following morning I

crane. Topside, things looked like Savan¬

rowed to the wharf and made my presence

na!^,

known. In due course a portly petty officer

Georgia

circa

1850.

Cotton

lay

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X soaked his khaki posterior in my tiny in¬

For an entire day I had various functionaries

flatable as I rowed him out to inspect my

coming and going. A search was conducted,

vessel. I thought he took it rather well, actu¬

my charts examined, and a 19-year-old with

ally. He reviewed my documents, made a

an AK 47 was assigned to my cockpit. After

cursory search, and used his authority to

the initial bureaucratic inspection,

commandeer a panga for the ride ashore.

given a tourist card and allowed to land.

Once again 1 was issued a shore pass which allowed me access to the port com¬

Miguel,

the

soldier,

remained

was

aboard

whenever I went to town.

plex which, in addition to the large adminis¬

Corinto itself is dreary beyond redemp¬

trative section, contains a bank, restaurant

tion. The revolutionary rhetoric on the walls

and small store. It was about a mile into town

and buildings does not lend a festive atmos¬

where I was surprised to find paved roads

phere. The economy is in ruir^s. While the

and substantial homes with ornamental iron¬

controlled exchange rate is 11.25 cordobas

work — in addition to the inevitable jumble

to $1 U.S., it’s 100 to 1 on the black market.

of tin shantees and wooden huts. There

was a

heavy

Price controls are equally artificial. A banana

military presence

costs 5 corobas and a pineapple 50. There is

including armed patrols on foot. But the

virtually nothing in the stores and according

atmosphere was not tense and the people

to La Prensa, the opposition newspaper,

beamed

75 percent of the malnutrition.

cheerfully.

Supplies

were

even

more limited here than Guatemala, but the paperwork

was

straightforward

and

clearance cost 75 colones ($15 US). There are no official barriers preventing

children

suffer from

Despite the beleaguered atmosphere, I was treated without animosity and at no time felt threatened. 1 stayed there three days,

yachts from visiting El Salvador. Such visits

which was quite sufficient. The locals were

had my zarpe from El Salvador been for Cor¬

are infrequent only because few yachties

curious and hospitable. The shrimpers kept

into. I’d cleared for Playas de Coco, Costa

choose to come here. I had come out of

me freely supplied with ice and fish while I

Rica out of Acajulta and that made a bit of difference to the Nicaraguans. Other than that, there are no restrictions on yachts visiting Corinto — although they did refuse me permission to visit San Juan del Sur. I admit to being quite nervous when I sailed into port, but I’m happy to say the authorities acted quite as I’d hoped. Having satisfied themselves that my interests were innocent, I was free to do as I pleased. I

should

Wavelength

mention is registered

that in

although

California,

travel under an Irish passport. However, I don’t feel I would have been treated dif¬ ferently in any of the places had I been a United States citizen. Maybe I was lucky, but as a longtime voyager I couldn’t blithely sail past these three whole countries. It was an experience I wouldn’t have missed. On the practical side, these visits' meant that my longest run between ports was only 140 miles and that a 48-hour sail was a ‘voyage’. I’m not saying that such stops are 'Some Like It Hot’ winner, Bev of ‘Hap E Motion'.

Tom of the Yankee 30 'Connemara', also won a West Marine hand-held VHF in the Some Like It Hot Rally.

for everyone, but if anyone is wondering, as I had been, perhaps this information will prove helpful." — don cuddy 5/20/88

curiosity, which was sufficiently compelling to take me to Nicaragua also. Things are solemn in Corinto, Nicaragua.

shared their berth. I also discovered that my entry procedure would have been considerably less onerous

Don

—

Your cruise is doubly unique.

You’re the first sailor we know who visited

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those three countries voluntarily, but you’re also the first sailor we know who has gone cruising on a Columbia Sabre. It’s remarkable what you can do with an open mind and a little pluck, isn’t it? Winners Some Like It Hot Rally California to Mexico There’s always been plenty of races from California to Mexico for serious competitors, but nothing ARC-like (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers) for the vast majority of folks who are just cruising. It was for that reason that last year Latitude founded the Some Like It Hot California-to-Mexico Cruiser’s Rally. The concept was quickly supported by Karen and Gil at Papi’s Deli in Cabo San Lucas, who did all the work in Mexico and dished out some ice cream for good measure. West Marine Products, graciously donated three handheld VHF radios for prizes. Determining the ‘winners’ of the Rally is not as easy as with traditional competitions. In most races, for example, boats start at the same time rather than over a three-month period. Then, too, most racing boats are similar enough to be handicapped reasona¬ bly well. And they don’t stop every night or so to anchor on the way to the finish line. Thus the formula for picking the winners page 177

Canadians Pat & Peter of ‘P.J.'s Dream’, the third winners of a West Marine VHF.

of the Some Like It Hot rally had to be dif¬ ferent — and remain a secret. In fact, only one person knows the formula, which is hid¬ den in a safe next to the Classic Coke recipe. We do know that the winners of the firstever Some Like It Hot rally — and a hand¬ held VHF courtesy of West Marine Products — are: Tom and Janet of the Yankee 30, Con¬ nemara. Originally their boat was based in Richmond’s Marina Bay; when the two Chevron employee’s were transferred to Bakersfield, the boat was moved to Channel Islands Marina in Oxnard. Their trip to Mex¬ ico, during which they pretty much followed Latitude’s itinerary, is a result of a leave of absence. Unfortunately for Janet, she just got one year while Tom got two. The two mostly enjoyed harbor-hopping down the west coast of Baja — during which making new friends helped with the transi¬ tion from stateside life — and Isla Isabella. “It’s hard to go back,” admitted Tom, think¬ ing of the prospect of returning to California. During the winter cruise, Tom reports he experienced a drop in his libido, possibly because of spending so much time with Janet. This is the same phenomenon a number of other couples mentioned in

January’s mildly controversial Sex at Sea article by Terese Pencak Schwartz. But when we awarded Tom his VHF, things had changed. “My wife’s leave expired and she had to go home a week ago,” said Tom. “Boy, am I horny now!” Like always, too much wind or none at all. Also winning a West Marine Products VHF was Bev of the Cal 33, Hap E Motion. A former CPA in the San Fernando Valley, Bev cruised down the coast of Baja in early January with Redondo Beach YC members Ralph Harbor and Larry Scarborough. A previous owner of three smaller sailboats, Bev is happy with her Cal and what she’s seen of the Sea of Cortez. Right now plans are open, but she’s considering spending several years enjoying the salubrious waters of Baja. She’s already made many good friends and “likes the odds” of being a single woman in Baja. The third and final winners of a West Marine handheld VHF are Pat and Peter Wyllie of P.J. ’s Dream, a Vagabond 47. The Wyllie’s story is a combination of tragedy and triumph. Formerly of Edmonton, Canada, Peter and Pat had 500 acres on which they grew hay and barley and raised quarter horses. Two years ago their 22-year-old son, Peter 'John, had just graduated from college and was about to leave to Taiwan where he was going to pick up the Vagabond 47. The in¬ terior of the boat was built to his specifica¬ tions because he was going to operate it in the Caribbean charter trade. Just prior to his flight to Taiwan, Peter John was killed by a drunk driver. Unable and unwanting to continue living their old life, the Wyllie’s sold everything they had and left Alberta with two duffle bags. “It was like lifting a piano from my back,” said 48-year-old Peter of getting rid of * all their possessions. Although they’d only sailed on small boats on Lake Alberta, Peter and Pat decided they would sail their son’s boat around the world, fulfilling his dream. They began in Taiwan where they picked up the boat — and a boxful of rigging. The yard wouldn’t help rig the boat, so Peter had to figure it all out by looking at pictures of sailboats through a magnifying glass. When they left Taiwan they didn’t know the names of any of the lines, so they referred to them by their color. Nonetheless, they made it to

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Hong Kong and Tokyo before taking off on a 37-day crossing of the North Pacific to Van¬ couver. From Canada they sailed down the west coast of the United States and Baja; they’re now deciding to go east or west around the world. Their reaction to the cruising life; “We should have done this 25 years ago. After selling everything and going cruising, we’ve learned that life is people and not posses¬ sions. We’ve met so many marvelous people already, in Hong Kong, Japan and here in Mexico. Many times Mexicans who don’t speak English have invited us, who don’t speak Spanish, into their homes. We’ve got¬ ten a whole different perspective on life and wouldn’t want to live any other way.” Although a parent is never going to fully get over the loss of a child, the Wyllies are living an incredibly upbeat, positive life, making the most of every day. An inspira¬ tional couple of we’ve ever seen one. Those are the ‘winners’ of the first Some Like It Hot Rally. We hope the rest of you got your t-shirts, although we know not all of you did. Now having a much better idea of the tremendous interest in such a rally, we’re working with Karen and Gil at Papi’s to get it better organized for this November when the second Some Like It Hot Cruiser’s Rally to Mexico will begin. Join us if you can. — latitude

Teal — Garden 31 Jamie & Doug Owen Back in California (San Francisco, Marina Bay) Teal arrived happy and safe in San Diego the first week in May and her crew quickly set about finding the local Baskin Robbins for a quick fix of Pralines & Cream. Ice cream never tasted so good! After several months in Mexican waters, we were awe-struck by all of the naval com¬ motion in San Diego Harbor. Our home¬ coming was even sweeter having caught up with fellow cruisers that we had met along the way and sharing stories of passages and ports. When all was said and done, I still can’t figure out why we all headed to Miguel’s Mexican Restaurant for cocktails and munchies — I guess we all wanted to have some more familar style of Mexican food.

Teal’s cruise took her as far south as Man¬ zanillo, across to La Paz for the wild and crazy Sea of Cortez Sailing Week festivities (and it was wild and crazy) and then to Cabo for provisioning for the climb up north. Just to correct your mention of Teal in the June’s Changes in Latitudes, we did not plan on a “two tack” trip north, but rather a ‘two stop’ trip up north. In actuality, it turned into a three stop trip and one heave-to. The winds were not hospitable at all, and after 17 hours of being hove-to our aft lower shroud parted company with itself. So we ended up powering our way to Turtle Bay where our friends were waiting with parts and the “know how” to help us effect repairs. A ter¬ rific example of cruiser camaraderie. While we are on the subject of clarification of your June issue, your blasting of Doug Bombard Enterprises and Two Harbors was no bueno. Have you guys ever been there? It is a paradise full of hard-working people, happy campers and relaxed mariners. Where else can you go to sit at a palm tree patio bar and order a “Buffalo Milk” in Southern California? Where else can you take a ‘safari’ through the wilds in Southern California? Where else can you go snorkeling in crystal clear water in Southern Califor¬

nia? There is a price for everything, but for the money, spending time in paradise in Two Harbors is worth it. There is lots of talk these days aboard Teal about where we are headed to next. It’s nice to know that we will be off somewhere again and have more fabulous experiences. Maybe learn a new language or two! — jamie & doug 6/13/88 — The only thing we blasted Bombard Enterprises for was the Jamie & Doug

landing fee. Lots of people had complained about it, including a woman who worked there.

We feel the gripe

was

perfectly

justified, especially when Bombard Enter¬ prises decided to do away with it.

Cruise Notes: Of course, summer is hurricane season off Mexico. The first two tropical storms of the year hit in late January. Rainfall from Aletta was so heavy that is closed the port of Acapulco. Eventually it petered out just south of Puerto Vallarta. Tropical storm Bud formed in Aletta’s path but weaked and dissipated quickly. Tropical storms go in alphabetical order, so you can judge how active the season — which lasts until page 178

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Two Harbors as it looked on a calm day in June. Somehow it looks more beautiful than ever now that the ‘landing fees' are gone.

November — has been by how far into the alphabet they get. The eastern Pacific usually works its way through most of the alphabet while the Atlantic rarely gets to ‘m’. Last month we wrote about a folk medicine cure for ciguatera. This most common of all fish poisoning is prevalent, you might recall, in Florida, the Caribbean, Hawaii and most islands of the South Pacific. It comes from eating reef fish that have been contaminated as a result of consuming toxins produced by certain forms of algae. The good news is that there’s a promising new treatment for people who have been poisoned. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from Hawaii and the Marshall Islands repoft that injections of mannitol, a very common and inexpensive sugar compound used as a diuretic, have produced remarkable results. Twenty-four cases are mentioned in which patients have been brought out of comas or relieved of other debilitating symptoms — within minutes! And without complications. While the researchers caution that their study page I 79

is based on a very small sample, it’s certainly something to keep in mind if you’re cruising or eating fish in those areas. Mannitol is also' something vacationers in those areas might want to remember, too. Because they rarely if ever see it, mainland doctors have trouble diagnosing ciguatera poisoning. Symptoms include tingling finger¬ tips and toes, numbness in the extremities, dizziness, vomiting, weakness in the arms and legs, abdominal cramps, burning pain when drinking or touching water, numbness of teeth and diarrhea. Sounds like fun, eh? Mike Gehb reports that the Wylie 65, Saga is due back in San Francisco on July 10 after a four-year circumnavigation. The steel centerboarder was built by owner Ario Nish, who, along with his wife Marge, had circumnavigated in the mid-60’s aboard a 60-ft Rhodes yawl. Saga spent the longest time, 10 months, in Australia, half of it in Sydney. Everybody we’ve talked to recently raves about Sydney, including Peter Jowise, who chartered there before taking his Richmond-based Freedom 44, Viva, to Mexico. Claude Rothe of the the 40-ft steel sloop Quetzal reports that he’ll be spending the summer in Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles). Generally hurricanes form and track north of Bonaire, which because conditions make it look like it might be a banner hurricane year, might be a great place to stay. Rothe recently spent some time in Venezuela (“interesting and lovely except the attitudes of yacht clubs which are shitty everywhere”) and plans an article for Latitude after doing more “research” in the fall. The bad news from San Diego is that the coast of Baja claimed another cruising boat in June, a Cal 28 belonging to 25-year-old Scott Harrison. According to a report in the San Diego Union, Harrison and his 28-yearold crewmember Chuck Whitmarsh intended to deliver the Cal from La Paz to San Diego. When the wind and seas kicked up near Magadalena Bay, the boat developed unspecified problems requiring the two to pump water for six hours. In desperation, the boat was beached on an uninhabited mangrove-lined island just off the coast. With no water and just a couple of cans of food, Harrison and Whitmarsh took to sucking the liquids from cactus and eating rattlesnakes they killed with rocks. After

several days on the island they spotted 54-year-old Proctooso Garcia’s dogs and chickens — and finally Garcia himself across a lagoon. But that wasn’t the end of it. Although Garcia “treated them like kings” in his hum¬ ble shack, giving them water and feeding them leftovers from his previous nights’ din¬ ner, there were still problems. The truck Gar¬ cia let them use to drive to 40-mile distant Santa Rita broke down. Harrison walked to town white Whitmarsh stayed with the truck. Neither one got the better of the deal. Har¬ rison’s walk took seven hours and his ankles were swollen a week later. Whitmarsh, who stayed with the truck, woke up in the middle of the night to find himself surrounded by 15 coyotes. Not exactly the brave type, the coyotes split as soon as he opened the door. Ultimately, the two took a bus to Tijuana, with less than $2 remaining between the two of them. Are small boats like Harrison’s Cal 28 un¬ safe in the ocean? It certainly would be tough to draw that conclusion in light of other evidence around. Mike Pyzel up in Santa Barbara has raced and cruised his Cal 28, Caballo Blanco, to Hawaii twice in addi¬ tion to have made something like 300 trips to the Channel Islands and back. There was a guy out of the Virgin Islands a couple of years ago who sailed his Catalina 27 around the world. Some folks in Berkeley just returned from a near circumnavigation on their a Nor’Sea 27, Whoosh!. Former Northern Californians Norton Smith and Amy Boyer raced across the Atlantic in boats under 21 feet. There have been perhaps as many as ten Moore 24’s that have competed safely in the Singlehanded TransPac, and Bob Counts won that race one year with an elderly 24-ft <vood Golden Gate. If anybody knows Scott Harrison, please have him call us collect as we’d like to be able to report exactly what went wrong with his boat. And to congratulate him and Whit¬ marsh on surviving. Jim Murilb reports that the Club Cruceros de La Paz (La Paz Cruising Club) has just been formed and already sports a membership of 170. More next month. Until next month, may the quest for knowledge and the spirit of adventure burn in your belly.

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THE FOLLOWING IS A COMBINED LISTING s OF CLASSIFIED ADS FROM LATITUDE 38 AND LATITUDE 34.

SEACROWN 73. 18-ft, full sails, covers, trailer, 6 hp Johnson, cutty cabin. $2,800. Call Jim or Steve at (707) 648-1138 at the Auto Outlet Liquidation Center.

25-FT AND UNDER

CAL 25.10 hp Honda o.b., 3 sails plus spin¬ naker, head, knotmeter, 2 anchors & chain, set-up for racing or singlehanding. Sleeps 4. Perfect Bay boat. Estuary berth. $6K/0B0. (415) 763-4454 or (415) 961-4588.

CORONADO 25, 1966. Fiberglass cruiser. Dinette, galley, v-berth & separate head. Hull & rig upgrades, 2 anchors, self-tending jib, HD battery, 6 hp o.b. $4,450. Call Pat, (415) 687-8542.

FOR SALE: SANTANA 22. Full set of sails in¬ cluding spinnaker. Has been raced. Johnson 6 hp motor. Asking $6,900. Call Marge, days (415) 834-3990 or Don, nights (415) 881-0518. CAL 25. 7.5 Honda, 6' hdrm with Poptop up, orange & white, sleeps 4, stove, sink, VHF, new Jenny, compass, marine head, cushions in & out, table. Alameda berth. Clean & nice. Price $7,000. Bill, (415) 928-8909.

HIGH PERFORMANCE OLYMPIC CLASS 470. Trailer, 3 suits of sails, great condition. $2,000. 454-7739.

BOAT FOR SALE. 1979 Coronado 15. Ullman mainsail, trapeze, rebuilt trailer, good condi¬ tion. $1.600/OBO. For further information please call 725-6581 days; or 471-1120 eves.

24-FT JOLLEYROGER. 7 sails including spinnaker, CQR & Danforth anchors, VHF, Signet digital depthsounder, dodger, fresh bottom paint/epoxy, 7.5 Evinrude o.b. (415) 883-3659. VENTURE 21. With trailer & low hours Hon¬ da 7Vz hp o.b. Swing keel, new bottom paint, 4 sails. Days (800) 325-7481; eves. (314) 726-0232. Ask for Floyd Zimmerman. Located at Port Sonoma Marina. $2,750.

OUT THE GATE. 24-ft full-keel Pearson. 1968. Very strong. Rigged for singlehanding. Self-steering vane. Liferaft, VHF, RDF, CB, EPIRB, MOB gear, Fatho., Walker log, knotmeter, stove, ground tackle & more. Emery¬ ville. $7,800. (916) 361-7100; (916) 366-8458.

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NOR-CAL COMPASS ADJUSTING 1. Boat Remains in Berth. Dick Loomis

Magneuto,m System Exclusively 2. Owner’s Presence Not Necessary. 3. Eliminate Deviation. (415) 453-3923 days or eves.

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Beautiful, long lasting A reasonable priced. Call for our convenient order form. (415)430-2899

1980 FOX 25 SLOOP. Bristol. Gary Mull designed family pocket cruiser. Teak interior, sleeps 4, full galley, c/wp, Porta-potti, VHF, ds, km, main, furling jib, 110. Shoal keel, 10 hp Honda. Berkeley berth. $8,900. (415) 646-5005 days; (415) 228-8307. ’84 FREEDOM 21. Beautifully maintained, bristol condition. Great Bay boat, sleeps 4. Original owner. Depthsounder & knotmeter. Berkeley berth available. Must see to appre¬ ciate. $13,500. (415) 549-3788.

25-FT WOODEN SLOOP. New sails, running & standing rigging, 2 spinnakers, 6 hp Seagull. African mahogany, bronze fastened, fin keel spade rudder. $1,500/OBO. Also 16’ canvas 2-man kyack w/trailer. Plans for sail rig. $400/080. (415) 254-0753.

25-FT FOLKBOAT. Built 1965 in Poland. Mahogany on oak frames, copper riveted. In¬ board Volvo dsl, one lung, 7 hp. Cruising cabin, sleeps 4, galley, head, dbl. headstays, dbl. backstays. Needs some work. Struc¬ turally good. $1,850. (408) 378-5391.

RANGER 23, 1975. Impeccable condition. North sails, 110% jib, spinnaker, 7.5 hp Evinrude, Barient winches, galley, head, bilge pump, electric cabin lights, beautiful cabin interior, sleeps 4, new epoxy barrier bottom, no blisters! Emeryville berth, perfect for Bay! $9,250. (415) 933-7719.

SANTANA 22. Clean, race ready, new sails, Marine radio, Steven Seal rig, geneo & out¬ board. Divorce forces sale: $3,750. Call Swanson, (415) 820-8855 days; 930-8951 after 3 p.m.

25-FT FLEUR BLEUE, “MARIPOSA”. Built 25-FT NORDIC FOLKBOAT. Immaculate con¬ dition. A shining jewel with bright topsides, cabin sides, cockpit, spars, interior. Beauti¬ fully maintained & a great Bay boat. Full cover. Sausaiito slip. $10,000/offer. Chuck, 381-1761.

PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25-FT, 1976 Offshore Cruiser. New gel coat & bottom paint. In¬ board Yanmar dsl, alcohol stove, sink, head, sleeps 4, 3 sails. $20^000. (415) 499-9676.

1958, Yokohama, Japan by Okamoto & Son Boatyard. Mahogany on oak, copper riveted, Sitka spruce spars, many extras. Seakindly pocket cruiser, fully restored. Redwood City berth. $8,000 firm. (408) 248-6735.

CATALINA 22. Fwd. hatch, Pop-top & cover, 2 sets of sails, beaching rudder, 6 hp Evin¬ rude, Coyote Point berth. Has lots of TLC. All for $4,500. Frank Cavaliere, 345-0813.

YTTS DISCOUNT BROKERAGE SERVICE Yacht Title Transfer Service, licensed, bonded. We help you sell your boat for one low fee. For information, call (415) 883-9750.

BRITEWORKS YACHT MAINTENANCE Expert quality wood care. Varnish. Refinishing. Decks. Compound. Wax. Painting. Caulking. Diving. Cleaning. Lettering. Repairs. Maintenance Programs. Serving the Bay Area 14 years. References. Fast, Reasonable Work Guaranteed (415) 454-3441.

SAIL HAWAII — INTERISLAND Individuals or groups welcome. Customized crewed charters. Sailing instruction and gourmet meals included. Take the helm or relax and be pampered. Luxurious 44’ Nordic yacht. Hot water shower. Your interests help determine anchorages. Brochure, (808) 553-5238.

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clossy clossifieds CAL 20 IN GOOD CONDITION. Oakland berth. Must sell! $2,500 or best offer. Home (408) 997-6910; work (408) 973-2016. 23-FT BEAR CLASS SLOOP. Panda, No. 9, a rare Bear. One of the most beautiful mem¬ bers of this classic S.F. Bay fleet. Lovingly cared for by it’s builder and subsequent 3 owners. Full custom-made boat cover, brand-new Evinrude 4 hp, fine Hogin sails, upwind Berkeley berth. Hauled June 1988. A grand sailing boat with manners and all the beauty and integrity of classic wood con¬ struction. Perfect sail away condition $7,850. (415) 254-6238. SANTANA 22, 1969. #419. Evinrude 6 hp, main, jib, spinnaker, new winches, lines led aft, km, compass, battery, running lights, s.s. chainplates & keelbolts, cushions & head. Great starter boat for the Bay. Berkeley berth, C-5. $4,500. (415) 658-0781. WILDERNESS 21, 1981. Good condition, spinnaker rigged, 4.5 hp Johnson o.b. $5,195/OBO. 364-4641.

ALEUTKA 25. Letcher-designed long¬ distance cruiser for 2. Featured in Mate’s "Best Boats’’ and Henderson’s “Choice Yacht Designs”. Safe, strong, good-looking twin-keel cutter. Awlgrip topsides, teak decks & trim, vane, stove, Johnson o.b., an¬ chors, chain, more. $9,500. (916) 265-4956. 21-FT VENTURE, 1973. Swing keel, trailer, 7.5 hp Sears Gamefisher engine, 3 sails. We purchased a larger boat. Must sell! $2,600/B.0. Call (209) 474-0123 eves/ weekends. 25-FT FOLKBOAT. Built Denmark ’57. Mahog/oak. Seagull o.b., full cover, new cushions. Recanvased deck. Excellent cond. Make offer. Located L.A. harbor. (213) 832-1970 leave message. OLSON 25. 5 sails, racing package, Signet system 1000 & system 2000, Horizon VHF, dual compass, Mariner 4 hp, Trailrite trailer $19,500. (408) 779-1950.

COLUMBIA 22 — GREAT STARTER BOAT. Sleeps 4, 2 anchors. Safe, fun Bay boat with 6 hp Johnson. Berkeley berth. Needs TLC. Priced to sell. $3,500. Gall Rich, (415) 825-2915.

23-FT BEAR BOAT. Orsa Bella #45. This classic wooden sloop has been completely rebuilt & is impeccably maintained. Full cover, North sails, 7'h hp Evinrude, Barient & Harken hardware, etc. $6,500/B,0. Contact Joan Schulte, 397-1700; 454-2948 or Charlie Barnett 435-4110; 669-7307.

O’DAY 23-FT. Shoal draft keel w/board. Ex¬ cellent Delta-Bay boat fully equipped. Lots of foom. Great shape. Sailaway. Tandem axle trailer also. Call for test sail. Great boat. $7,500/OBO. (408) 365-0329.

1982 MONTGOMERY 17. With trailer, swing keel, anodized toerail, main, jib, genoa, com¬ pass, VHF, bilge pump, running lights, ground tackle, 5 hp o.b. w/aux. tank. $6,700. Call Bill (408) 427-1260; (408) 458-3103.

A SOLID DEAL AT A SACRIFICE PRICE. Sails splendidly, very clean & comfortable. No blisters, ’82 Hunter 25. Compass, kt/log, ds, ap & more. An exquisite lady at $12,500/OBO. (415) 769-1381 eves.

LIGHTNING. #11463, Greyhound. 19-ft, with trailer, 2 sets of sails, spinnaker, ready to go. $2,200/OBO. Bryan (415) 777-5929 days; (415) 647-4661 eves.

MacGREGOR 25. Swing keel, incl. trailer, 9.9 Evinrude motor, full canvas, 3 jibs + spin¬ naker, remodeled interior with mahogany & 5” cushions, new Porta-potti. A veteran Delta boat. Priced for a quick sale. Asking $6,200. (415) 427-1209. 1964 CAL 20. Fully equipped. Ready to sail. Needs aesthetic work. Complete rigging job 5 years ago. Clipper Basin 1 slip. $2,500/OBO. John: 929-7451; Betty: 285-5108; Michelle: 587-3996. We’re anxious to sell! 17-FT SAILBOAT. Dolphin complete with trailer, 2 sails, built-in icebox, anchor, plus more. How to seat 6 & go like 60. Good con¬ dition & priced to sell. $1,950/6.0. (415) 484-1935.

25-FT SLOOP. 1975 flushdeck racer, in¬ board,. spinnaker, blooper, 3 headsails. Sleeps 4, head & stove. On trailer at Alameda Marina. Fast & stable, excellent buy at $3,800. (415) 656-4519. ALACRITY IBVi-FT. 1966 fiberglass sloop. Good condition. Evinrude 4. Five sails, an¬ chor compass. Sleeps 2. Great Delta cruiser. Boat in Delta. (415) 939-7919. $1,500. J/24. Good condition, many extras, including trailer, lifting harness & Evinrude 4.5. Make an offer! (415) 852-2310 weekdays or (408) 749-0274 anytime. CAL 25. Evinrude 6, 2 jibs, full instrumenta¬ tion, sleeps 4, stove, head, dinette, clean & well-maintained. Alameda Estuary berth. $4,950/B.0. Call days (415) 861-3600; eves. & weekends (415) 355-8084. OLSON 25. New sails, race equipped, deluxe interior in teak. Ballenger spars. All in perfect condition. $20,000/offer. (916) 891-8736. MacGREGOR 25, 1982. Lake Tahoe fresh¬ water boat. Excellent condition, sleeps 4, head, galley, Pop-top, dinette, icebox, custom tiller, stereo, winches, lifelines, 3 sails, many extras, trailer, 7.5 Honda w/generator. Will deliver. $6,900. (916) 577-9620. GLADIATOR 24. Wm. Lapworth designed flushdeck f/g sloop, modified full keel, pro¬ vides stability, speed on ail points. New Hon¬ da 7.5, custom traveler, vang, adj. backstay, new spars, 5 sails. Pocket cruiser, racing gear. Needs cosmetics. $4,900/OBO, (415) 453-7220. MERIT 25,1979. Very clean, great Bay boat, full sail inventory, Johnson 7.5 hp o.b. recently serviced. Many extras. Used only for daysailing, sleeps 4. Berthed in Paradise Cay, Tiburon. Asking $11,500. Call (415) 345-7414.

CATALINA 22. Great first boat without the new boat price. Fully equipped. Ideal for Bay & Delta sailing. Retractable keel, pulpits, life¬ lines, reefing, galley, vang, compass, km, an¬ chor, sail covers, all safety equipment, 6 hp Evinrude, trailer. Very clean. $4,000. (415) 381-8750.

24-FT COLUMBIA CHALLENGER. F/g, refinished wood, sleeps 4, head, extra sails, 6 hp engine, excellent condition, spinnaker in¬ cluded. $4,300. 752-8841.

O’DAY 22,1976.10 hp Chrysler o.b., electric start w/generator, 1 year old marine battery, AM/FM tapedeck, main jib & 150 genoa, shoal draft keel, trailer. Berkeley dry storage. $5,80Q/OBO. (916) 488-5457 eves.

CATALINA 25. Fixed keel, Pop-top, 6 sails plus spinnaker & gear. Lots of custom ex¬ tras, too many to list! Recent haulout & paint, in great shape. $10,750. Priced to sell. (415) 930-9729.

CAL 20. Ideal first cruising boat. Sleeps 2 in comfort or 4 in a crunch. Outboard, ds, km, rails, cushions. Large local fleet. Vallejo berth. $3,000. (707) 554-4989.

CORONADO 25 — LIVEABOARD. Berkeley berth with view, phone. New strengthened rigging, VHF, many extras. $9,000 invested. Offer. 655-3009.

BURMA TEAK LUMBER Grade: F.E.Q., Kiln dried. 2” thick: $6.00 B.F. 3” thick: $7:50 B.F. (415) 436-5702 4701 San Leandro St., Oakland, California 94601

1 ’’ thick: $5.50 B.F.

CHARTER SANTA CRUZ 50 Available for bareboat charter. Daysails, weekends, cruises or distance races. Race equipped with TransPac package available. Call (408) 458-3589.

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24-FT YANKEE DOLPHIN. Sparkman & Stephens design. Custom trailer, new dodger, new Johnson motor, Tillermaster, all new cushions, 2 anchors, depthfinder, compass, 3 sails, club-footed jib. $16,500. For more info call (805) 543-6961 or (805) 489-4888. RANGER 23-FT. Race rigged, all lines lead to cockpit, great sail inventory, North main, jib, genoa, spinnaker, Barient 18 winches, 6 hp Johnson, new bottom paint. Price reflects need to sell, not condition of boat. $6,200. 851-0236. CAL 25. $6,000. Clean. Sausalito berth. Owner moved from area. Two mains, three jibs, sleeps four, galley, head. Johnson out¬ board. Anxious. (707) 545-8614 or (702) 831-0150.

YAMAHA 25 MKII. 1978 sloop. New epoxy bottom, Yanmar dsl, roller furling headsail, 90, 110 Mylar, 135, 150, spinnaker & pole. Dodger, VHF, depthsounder, recent survey. Excellent condition. $17,000. (707) 642-4744 David. MUST SELL! CATALINA 25-FT. Built 1982. O.b. Honda, 150% genoa, 100% jib, head, alcohol stove, quarterberth, VHF radio, can¬ vas covers, blue interior, very clean. Great beginner boat! Berkeley berth. Last hauled 5/87. $14,500. (415) 828-1815 Iv. msg; (415) 484-4822 Michelle. ’87 CATALINA 22. Like new, trailer, Mylar genoa, epoxy bottom, Honda, self-tailing winches, never in saltwater. Will deliver. $11,900/offer. (916) 891-8736. 25-FT ENGLISH SLOOP. F/g, diesel, Lloyds certification 1968. Full keel, new rigging & sails, autopilot, Harken furler, etc., etc., etc. $11,500. Two boat owner. (415) 527-5538. 25-FT NORDIC FOLKBOAT. Priced to move! Recent haulout. Good condition, outboard, main, 3 jibs, spinnaker, automatic electric pump, lights, lifejackets, complete. Good up¬ wind Berkeley slip. $4,500/OBO. Call Dave now! Days (415) 655-3990; eves. (415) 655-7080. YANKEE DOLPHIN 24. Slip available in Alameda. Well-equipped & in excellent con¬ dition, new sails 1985, 7.5 hp new 1983, VHF, Digital knot/log & ds. Many extras. $1OK/OBO. Owner will finance. Call (408) 925-5921 days; (408) 972-8565 eves. KIWI 24. Ron Holland designed 1/4 tonner. 14 sails, many new. New o.b .Adlib. Race & place. With trailer. $7,995. Days (415) 673-0137; eves. (415) 928-9148.

46V2-FT ALASKAN TRAWLER Priced right at $110,0d0. Will consider trade for less expensive vessel See at NAPA VALLEY MARINA, 1200 Milton Road, Napa, CA 94558 (707) 252-8011

SAILBOAT RIDE $10.00/hour per person — (group rates available) Sail S.F. Bay or ocean from Jack London Sq., aboard a new Ericson 35 yacht. Professional U.S.C.G. Master Lie. Captain provides an exciting experience. Take the helm and enjoy. SUNSET CHARTERS (408) 251-1931; (415) 521-7287 CAPT. GABE

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SANTANA 20. Must sell. Excellent condition & ready for 1988 season. New bottom paint, new Mercury 6 hp o.b. New interior cushions, 2 sets of sails with spinnaker. Knotmeter, trailer. $5,500/OBO. Call (415) 924-7352 for additional information. RANGER 22. 2 mains, 5 jibs, spinnaker. Pulpits & lifelines. 6 hp Johnson o.b. Npver raced. Many extras! Loaded! Richmond berth. $7,000. (415) 663-1500 eves. SEAWORTHY, BEAUTIFUL, FAST 25-FT cold-molded sloop, flushdeck. Built & sailed by owner, this boat is fully equipped & can go anywhere. Chuck Paine designed with no expense spared in construction. Located at Schoonmakers in Sausalito. $21,000. (415) 331-5452. CAPE DORY 25,1979. Full keel, brass port¬ holes, teak trim, o.b., VHF. $14,500 firm. (415) 620-2830; 461-0510. RHODES 19-FT F/G SLOOP. 2 spinnakers, 2 jibs, 1 main, new hull paint, 3 hp Seagull, new running rigging. Must sell. $1,500/B.O. (415) 383-5420 24-hr. Leave message for Rick, ext. Cl 5. 1953 HOLSINGOR JOLLEN. 18-ft Lapstrake double-ender. Full keel, Danish fir on oak, teak decks, mahogany cabin. New s.s. rig, new sails, refastened. 5.5 hp Seagull. Upwind Alameda berth. $4,600. Fast classic. (415) 548-4460 answer machine. CAPE DORY 25,1978. Great Bay boat. Tradi¬ tional lines, full keel. Excellent condition. New bottom paint. Includes o.b. & genoa. $12,500. (707) 257-8896 eves. COLUMBIA 22. VHF, km, AM/FM, 2 jibs, genoa, 2 mains, like new Honda 100 o.b., 2 anchors, galley, head, elect, bilge, sleeps 4, great Sausalito berth. $3,500. (415) 331-8315. IRWIN 25. Swing keel, 9.9 hp elect, start, 120%, 150%, depth, compass. Sleeps 4, full galley. I will pay 4 months berthing. $6,500/ B.O. (707) 577-3113 days; (707) 539-9409 eves. CAL 2-25,1980. Beautiful condition. Univer¬ sal dsl., depth, compass, VHF, FM cassette, stove, 2 sinks, head, h&c press, water, epoxy bottom, shore AC, 6-ft hdrm, vang, 2 anchors & more. This is a great weekend boat. $16,000. Eves. 567-8443.

classy classifieds COLUMBIA 22. New sails, fixed keel, press, water, icebox, microwave, head, sleeps 4, o.b. All the work is done. Now you can just have fun. Asking $6,000. Call (415) 489-8187. MacGREGOR 25, 1983. With trailer, 9.9 Johnson elec, start/gen. Autohelm, dinghy, Pop-top. See at Benicia Marina, slip #243. Will consider trade down to Lido 14 or ??? $6,400/OBO. (603) 286-4919 or (408) 274-1555 after July 12. WILDERNESS 21. Trailer, o.b., 3 headsails, spinnaker, new mainsail, shrouds & stays, one season, drysailed in Sausalito. $6,500. (415) 435-6287. 25-FT CHEOY LEE FRISCO FLYER. Beautiful, classic quality. Teak decks. Fiberglass hull, teak interior with beautiful wood carvings & new cushions. New rigging, sails, full boatcovers. Head, stove, sink, sleeps 4, Atomic 4 i.b. Bristol condition. Must see. $12,000. (415) 569-8756.

PANIC SALE, 1982 U.S. YACHT — LOAOEO. 25-ft. Appraised at $20K. Just reduced $2,000. Must sell for $12,000 firm, Volvo i.b., windspeed/directioh, depthmeter, knotmeter, compass, enclosed head, alcohol stove, sink, VHF, sail covers, Sausalito berth. (415) 331-5077 anytime. VENTURE 21. Nice, clean sailboat with trailer, 6 hp Evinrude, main & 2 jibs. $2,800/ offer. (415) 237-4949 or (707) 938-4116. FALMOUTH CUTTER. 22' LOD. Lyle Hess design. Factory finished. Rugged offshore cruiser. 25# CQR w/250' chain, S-L windlass, stern anchor, Autohelm, VHF, ds, C. Plath compass, full cover, new cockpit cushions, safety gear. $29,900. (707) 528-0201. ISLANDER BAHAMA 24 — MUST SELL. Strong f/g sloop, great condition inside & out. 6 hp Johnson, 2 tanks, compass. VHF, depth, anchor, new bilge pump, stove, battery charger, head, stereo, sleeps 4. Great first boat for Bay sailing. Asking $4,900. (415) 687-1364. THE S.F. BAY CAL 20 FLEET ... sponsors local races, cruises, picnics, parties & seminars on rigging & sailing techniques... & we’re active in the International Cal 20 Class Assoc. Join us. For information call (415) 550-8966.

SANTANA 22. Fully equipped, good condi¬ tion, including traljfer, new mast, hull 48, built 1966, 5 hp o.b., blue hull. $4,000. Call (408) 241-5293. J/24, 1978. New tandem trailer, east coast hull #654 with new standing riggin, 3 spin¬ nakers, 2 150's, 2 100’s, 2 mains, 7 hp Johnson o.b., 16 ch. VHF. Needs touch-up paint. Must sacrifice. $11,900. (408) 436-1080; (408) 462-3989'Oarrel.

SANTANA 22 #280. New: standing rigging, LPU hull paint, cushions, mainsail, electrical system. Bottom painted 3/88, spinnaker, windvane, VHF. $3,600/080. Jeff (415) 654-1554.

14 Years Experience Gasoline & Diesel: Inboard & Outboard Reasonable Rates — Quality Work Bob, (415) 472-1972

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22-FT O'DAY 22,1980. W/trailer, 5 hp Hon¬ da, main, jib, genoa, bulkhead compass, knotmeter, depthsounder, boom vang, stove, sink, table. Many more extras. Very clean. Asking $6,750/offer. Call Fred, (408) 923-4223 eves/weekends.

DEL RE^ 24. Must sell. Evinrude 9.5 hp, ES, VHF, OF, head, stereo, 4 sails, Berkeley berth. Good condition. (415) 843-6962.

VENTURE 22. Fully self-contained travel package. Main, jib & genoa for wind, 7.5 hp Johnson for none. Pop-top. Sleeps 4. Swing keel for shallow spots. Trailer for really shallow spots. Very clean. Great daysailer. $4,100. Cindy (408) 985-8138.

IN LA PAZ MEXICO. 424 Pearson, 1979. No tax if vessel not returned to U.S. for 90 days or more. Westerbeke 4-154 engine, fully equipped for cruising including autopilot, windvane, radar, loran, VHF, Magnavox SatNav, Arco solar panels, electric windlass, 43# Bruce, 45# CQR & much more. $79,950. Contact Don at (408) 946-1335 or write: Don at Gomez Farias, #145, La Paz, BCS, Mexico.

CORONADO 15. (Racy brother of Capri 14.2.) Light, fast, fun family one-design. Beachable, can’t sink! Includes trailer, trapeze, main & 120 jib, Tiller-minder, wind¬ vane. Clear Lake & Bay veteran. $1,000. (415) 331-2502. MARTIN 242. 24 feet of fast family fun. Easy handling fractional rig. Fully finished interior with 4 berths. Incl. trlr & o.b. Dry sailed only $9,500. (415) 972-3441 days; (415) 932-3187 eves.

26 TO 35 FEET CORONADO 35, 1974. Diesel, dodger, new interior, 2 new sails plus many other extras. Well-maintained liveaboard complete with h/c pressure water & shower, etc. Job trans¬ fer forces sale. $36,000. (415) 769-8087 or (415) 685-1022, Bruce.

CATALINA 22. Swing keel. Diligence. Trailer & 10 hp Honbda o.b. New full batten main, club jib, 110,130,150,155 & 165 headsails. Extensively rerigged to optimize sailing per¬ formance of this popular Bay & Delta cruis¬ ing boat. $7,000. Days (209) 526-2211; eves. (209) 823-8039, John.

ERICSON 27. Atomic 4, VHF, stereo/cass., depth, knot, cockpit cushions, ladder, whisker pole, furling jib, all wood excellent condition. Clean, well-maintained yacht, you must see. Berthed at Coyote Pt. Retirement forces sale. $17,500/offer. 592-5747.

MARINE SURVEYOR Robert A. Viel, Member National Assoc, of Marine Surveyors. Approved by all banks and marine companies. Serving the entire Bay Area and Delta. Wood, Fiberglass and Steel. Delta: (916) 776-1094; Bay Area: (415) 420-9450.

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CATALINA 22 WITH FIXED KEEL. New custom Hogin jib/main with roller furling. New sail cover, VHF, km, ds, and many more custom features. 10 hp Honda. Must see. Best offer! Dick (408) 998-7474; (408) 268-0995.

25-FT FOLKBOAT. Warm & seaworthy Debutante model of Danish classic & popular Bay boat. 2 sets sails, outboard, full-boat cover. Recent haul-out, extensive restora¬ tion, and appraisal. Richmond berth, but owner relocated to San Diego. $6,500. Call collect (619) 299-6726.

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J/24 BUILT BY PEARSON. East coast, '77, hull #128. 6 hp o.b., depth/f., knot/m. As new Trailrite trailer & many other extras. Must sell! $9,000. (415) 382-9372, daytime phone (415) 453-7020 ask for Glenn Abbey.

ERICSON 23. Nice boat needs a new owner. Pineapple sails, 6 hp Johnson o.b., VHF radio, 3 bags of sails, sleeps 4, sink, head, icebox. $5,000. Scott (415) 459-6852.

24-FT CHALLENGER. Fully equipped. S.F. slip. $4,500/060. 941-1682.

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OLSON 91 IS (Built by Ericson) Call for Tahoe Demo (Also Olson 25 & 34) (916) 891-8736

WESTSAIL OWNER’S ASSN. Regional rendezvous. Westsails for sale list: $10; Bi-monthly newsletter $12 per year. Contact George Bachman, P.O. Box 112, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686.

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26-FT THUNOERBIRO SLOOP. Rebuilt with epoxy over glass in '85. LPU paint, Honda o.b., keel sandblasted in '86. $3,800 or trade for car of like value. 285-0122 days; 468-2811 eves. Currently berthed at South Beach Harbor. 31-FT WELLCRAFT, 1980. 310 Suncruiser, twin 255's, canvas w/curtains, mooring cover, trim tabs, VHF, depth/log/speed in¬ dicator, hot water, shower, microwave, 4-track player, halon, swim platform, remote spotlight, refrigerator, stove. Just hauled, new paint. Immaculate condition. $36,900. Days (415) 865-8458; eves. (415) 482-3302.

OLSON 30. Hull #197. Take over payments. $227 per month. Approx. 20,000 on 15-year mortgage. Pristine. 3/4 oz., 1 oz„ 1/2 oz. spin. Kevlar blade, 150, 140. No trailer. So. Cal boat. (415) 398-1040. Will deliver. SANTANA 35 FOR SALE. Cheap. Excellent condition, seldom raced. Includes all sails & instruments. $45,000 or best reasonable offer. By owner. 989-1886. ANGLEMAN 34-FT “SEA SPIRIT" KETCH. Wood, custom built in Japan. 1968. Bristol. 7 bags of sails, 20 hp Albin diesel, dinghy on davits, VHF radio, autopilot, depth, hailer, compass, knotmeter, Bimini & full boat cover. Survey appraisal $100,000. $39,500. (415) 254-0524. ERICSON 27 — $18,000. I.b. gas, wellmaintained & equipped, ds, wp, km, RDF, 2 compasses, VHF, Tillermaster autohelm, quartz clock barometer, 4 sails in excellent condition, 2 Danforth anchors ea/w 20' chain, 300’ rode, combo alcohol/electric stove, holding tank, shore power, 1972. (415) 324-6447 days; (415) 967-6066 eves. 1962 PEARSON TRITON at a fantastic price! 28’9”. Full rigged, Atomic 4 gas, VHF, new wiring, new battery, new main, good overall condition. Owner desires quick sale. $9,500/ OBO. Marie Schafle, 728-3412 or 923-4722 days. CATALINA 27. Inboard gas, OMC saildrive, 3 sails, depth, compass, VHF, 4 winches, 2 an¬ chors, very clean, must see! $13,500/offer. (415) 435-1602. SPITZGATTER 29-FT DOUBLE-ENDER. Danish sloop, built 1952, fir on oak, heavy construction. Volvo 2-cyl. dsl. rebuilt. Safe, seaworthy, sound cozy cruiser with beautiful lines. Buying house, must sell. $7,500. Eves. 467-5850; days 861-6000, Ron Sailor.

WESTSAIL 32. Full keel ocean cruising cut¬ ter rig. Volvo dsl, refrigeration, portable gen., solar panel, Aries windvane, autopilot, depthsounder, VHF, cabin heater, anchor windlass, whisker pole, running backstays, hard dinghy, factory built 1980. $59,900. Call (707) 648-5126. 1977 RANGER 33. Excellent condition. Wheel steering w/compass, Atomic 4, Jiffy reefing, 9 bags of sails with gennaker, 8 winches, 3/4 boat cover, radio, depthsounder, RDF, new Lectra-San, loaded with gear. 28K. One owner boat. (415) 447-2194. 26-FT CONTESSA SLOOP. The Folkboat im¬ proved. F/g Lloyd's classic cruiser/racer, VHF, log, Fatho. & many other extras. New dodger & epoxy barrier bottom. Trailer in¬ cluded for asphalt voyaging too. $15,000. Call Tom eves, at 522-8759. CATALINA 27-FT, 1982. Diesel, custom North sails, knotmeter, depthmeter, VHF, compass, AM/FM cassette, custom cabinets & berths. All controls led aft, original owner, fresh water sailed on Folsom Lake. Like new. Extras. $22,000. (916) 652-9407. ERICSON 27. Comfortable weekender, com¬ petitive class racer, easily singlehanded but big enough to party! In immaculate condi¬ tion, lovingly maintained. Newly overhauled engine, new sail cover, new bottom paint, freshly tuned & inspected rigging, freshly varnished teak! VHF, fathometer, AM/FM stereo, three batteries, mainsail, storm jib, 110 jib & 160 genoa, rigged for spinnaker, cockpit awning, 110 shorepower, compass, sleeps 5, galley with gas stove, icebox, head, two anchors with chain & 300’ rode, swim ladder, much more! Sail away for $20,000. Call Lew at (415) 935-1950 days. CATALINA 27-FT. Club jib, 110, 150, diesel, dinette, midship galley, knotmeter, depth, VHF, stereo, compass, holding tank, new bot¬ tom & more. Bristol clean 1981 freshwater cruiser. $20,500/OBO for my baby. Stockton, (209) 943-6428 eves.

OHLSON 35. Built 1960. Pride of ownership in this Swedish built wood (mahogany on oak) classic yacht, recent sails, recent engine, dodger, holding tank, loran, complete boat cover, many extras & in excellent condi¬ tion. $27,500. (818) 842-9404. WESTSAIL 32 CUTTER. Full keel, diesel, heavy construction. Both wheel & tiller steering. 6 sails. Roller furling. 6-pg equip¬ ment list. $59,000. Will trade up or real estate. If you’re going, this is the boat! Great value. (408) 377-4815.

RANGER 26. Excellent condition, new motor. Moving up to larger boat. $7,500. Fred at 786-2300; 654-0733. INTERNATIONAL ONE DESIGN. 33.5-ft., rac¬ ing sloop, hull #86, a beauty, mahogany topsides, well-maintained. $10,000/offer. (415) 848-1717 days; (415) 525-3768 eves.

COLUMBIA 28 PARTNERSHIP AVAILABLE. 1/3 ownership. Beautiful boat, extremely well-maintained, excellent shape, great part¬ ners, Emeryville berth. Recently appraised at $14,500. Need the money, asking $4,700. Call eves. Frank, (415) 651-5498. ERICSON 27. 1977. Great cruiser/racer. Rigged singlehanded. New North main, good lapper, working jib, VHF, knot & depth meter, teak interior, whisker pole, 2 anchors & line, fenders, extras stay, hauled last May. Asking $19,000. Call Tom, (408) 259-3060. 26-FT INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT. Swedish built, f/g, 1978. '87 Yanmar 10 hp dsl. Full galley, enclosed head/sink, Navik vane, 4 sails w/spinnaker, Datamarine knot & depth, Horizon VHF, dodger, CQR & Danforth, Epoxy bottom. Nicest I.F. stateside! $17,900. (415) 841-0885. 1976 CAL 2-27. Excellent condition & extra clean, Hood seafurler, VHF, knot, compass, spinnaker gear, Atomic 4, new standing rig¬ ging, teak interior & many extras. $19,500. Call John, hm: (415) 583-7599; wk: (415) 340-7477. CAPE DORY 24. Strongly built ocean cruiser. Alberg full keel design. Tiller steering. 8 hp Yanmar dsl, low hours. Depthsounder, sumlog, VHF, RDF, compact galley. Prof, maintained, excellent condition. Many extras. $24,500 ($4,000 under blue book). (916) 532-1959, or collect (801) 752-1055. 1970 COLUMBIA 28. Complete new standing & running rigging 6/87, new custom interior with lots of teak & brass, new head, 2 new bilge pumps, 2 new batteries & charger, i.b., boat show 10 on 10. $14,000/make offer. 793-7595. NEWPORT 33, 1983. Sailed very little. CNG 3-burner stove, hot & cold pressure water system. Immaculate condition, better than new & has a new heavy 155 along with a 110. Great tax write-off for second home. Must see to believe. $40K. Ask for Geno, wk: (916) 662-5479; hm: (916) 756-3446.

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DUTCH STEEL 34-FT CUTTER. Van de Stadt design, beautifully built with round bilges. Comfortable cruiser refitted in 1985-86 with new Norseman rigging, Yanmar dsl, wiring, propane cookstove, cabin heater, sails, ST winches, plumbing, Cold Plate refrigeration, ds, batteries, autopilot, cushions, SatNav, fuel tanks, dodger, Bimini. Aries vane, Avon liferaft, 9 sails, windlass, VHF, RDF, stereo, lots of spares. Newly painted & surveyed. The beauty of wood with the strength of steel. Laying in Honolulu, ready to cruise. $65K. Call (808) 531-7955 days or (808) 545-2889 eves, for details. NEWPORT 28, 1979. Knotmeter, depthsounder, VHF, compass, stereo, 2 jibs, rebuilt Atomic 4 i.b., 50 hrs. Alcohol stove, original owner, very good condition. $16,500/B.0. (415) 222-2420; (415) 553-9439. ERICSON 27. Excellent condition, full galley, head, shore power, lines lead aft for easier handling. 90,120,150 plus rigged for a club foot. Lots of extras for the Delta. $19,900. (415) 657-1936. CAL 9.2R (30-FT) RACER/CRUISER. Ron Holland design, fast, bristol. 6 bags sails, VHF, knot/log, Loran, wind, depth, stereo, Navtec rod rigging, folding prop, lead keel. Numerous extras. Diesel 11 hp Negotiable. (707) 446-8399; 5 p.m.-9 p.m. or mssg. (707) 642-5915. RANGER 33. Popular Delta & coastal cruiser/ racer, very clean, tall rig, Atomic 4 w/new tanks & exhaust system, anchors, safety gear, ds, VHF, 5 sails, more. Was $35K, slashed to $30K for quick sale (!). Frank (415) 527-3394. ERICSON 27. Clean & well-maintained. 2 jibs & spinnaker, knotmeter, depthmeter & other extras. Santa Cruz slip for one year. Must sell. Asking $14,500. (415) 967-6327.

RANGER 26. Super condition, new main, VHF, dual compass, stove, separate V-berth & head. A solidly built & pretty racer/cruiser. Sausalito berth. Priced to sell. $9,500. Fred (415) 332-7207.

Ideal for 1-4 person operation. Beautiful space, cheap rent, equipment. Call Barbara at (41Sf 841-9463 or leave message at (415) 822-7245.

LAKE MERCED SAILING SCHOOL WANTS:

WINDSURFING LESSONS & RENTALS

Juniors, 8-16, for 6-week sailing program. July 22 thru August 26. Cost $40-80. Flying Scott & El Toro sailboats & parts also needed. Call: Jeff Watt, (415) 753-1101.

Learn to windsurf this summer in our certified school w/guaranteed lessons. — Beautiful Berkeley Marina location. — Experienced and friendly staff. — All equipment provided. Call WINDSURFING BERKELEY at 841-WIND for information & reservation.

CHARTERS ON THE BAY

Aboard a classic 37' yawl. Sail the Bay or the Pacific Ocean leaving from Sausalito. $20.00 per hour weekdays; $25.00 per hour weekends for the \ boat with a licensed captain. (3 hours min.) Bay Sail (415) 332-1712;

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1980 HUNTER 27-FT. Good Bay boat, dsl, pedestal steering, VHF, compass, shore power, press, water. Main, 110 jib, sleeps 5. Asking $19,000. (415) 792-1998 aft. 4 p.m.

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CLASSIC 1927 6-METER. LOD 35', 6.6' beam, galley, head, 10 hp o.b. Needs TLC. Must sell. $12K/terms/or $10K cash. (415) 522-2360 msg.

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TRITON 28. Classic Carl Alberg racer/ cruiser. Great Bay & coastal cruiser. Active one-design class boat. Real beauty. Excellent condition. Delta cover & screens. Rebuilt Atomic 4. Many extras. $15,000. Call 391-2593 eves. ETCHELLS 22. Race equipped. 4 sets Horizon sails. Proctor spar. New rigging. Tandem trailer. Clean & solid. Moving,'must sell. $9,500. (415) 826-3240.

dassy classifieds CORONADO 27 SLOOP. Deluxe, loaded. Fine boat. Original owner. Take advantage of depressed market. See to appreciate. $9,500. (408) 449-1908. CAL 29, 1974 — $22,000. Ready to singlehand to Mexico again. Roller furling, solar panel, elec, anchor winch, dodger, diesel engine, autopilot, davits w/dinghy, VHF, ds, knotmeter, CNG stove/oven. Docked on Petaluma River opposite Port Sonoma. (415) 892-8303.

SUPERB BOAT! GREAT PRICE! Sonoma 30

Kittyhawk, Carl Schumacher design '86 MORA overall winner. Fully race equipped. Sleeps 6. $27,500 or reasonable offer. 925-1446.

SANTA CRUZ 27. With trailer & outboard. $10,999. (707) 554-8855.

OWNER FINANCING ON 35-FT ULDB. Pro¬ fessionally built 1987, basic sails, needs in¬ terior, cold-molded West system. 50%, $15,000 down, balance at 10%. For every extra $1,000 down loan decreases $2,000. See Jack London #61. (916) 583-2263 or 525-6403. FREE BOAT. When you buy my compass, I'll throw in a boat for absolutely nothing! Custom Mull 34, alum. huH* new mast & rig¬ ging, full inventory, all electronics, loran. Ready to race Bay or ocean. Compass only. $35,000. Karl (415) 233-4838. CLASSIC GAFF-RIGGED 30-FT KETCH. Center cockpit design. Looks like a real pirate ship. Forward & aft cabins, teak deck, square transom, 8'2” beam, 5 tons. Atomic 4 eng., new batteries, VHF, ds, Tanbark sails. A bargain. $4,800. (415) 447-4978.

sell! Clean, easy to sail, sailboat. Reduced to offer. Richmond berth (408) 241-3559.

NOR’SEA 27. Completely proven bluewater classic. Custom rig & interior, 6 sails, 5 an¬ chors, 250' chain, Ham, VHF, RDF, EPIRB, liferaft, etc., etc. and it's absolutely beautiful! A great value at $27,000. Leo (415) 528-4727.

29-FT GAFF RIGGED SLOOP. Built in Den¬ mark in 1932. Varnished teak hull, teak deck & teak cabin. Very beautiful. Sleek & fast. Water tight. Excellent condition. 7’ beam, 4.5' hdrm, 3.5' draft. $7,000/OBO. Greg (408) 338-3255.

BABA 30, 1980 CUTTER. SatNav, autopilot, VHF, depthsounder, wind speed, stereo, refrigeration, dodger, diesel heater, 7 bags North sails, 3 anchors, 400 feet chain, windlass. Ready to cruise. Excellent condi¬ tion. $69,000. (415) 655-2735 eves.

GULF 32 PILOTHOUSE — $29,900. You've seen one at the Boat Show. Loran C, depthsounder, VHF, ap, gimbled stove, dsl heater, refrigerator, 6 sails, dinghy, Perkins 107 eng., dodger; ^oversized rigging, cockpit cushions. Delta berthed. (916) 872-8238.

CATALINA 34, 1987. Desiderata. Launched May 1987. Beige hull, green trim, green can¬ vas. This one-year-old yacht with numerous safety & convenience improvements is priced below dealer hew sail-aways. Alameda berth. Call today. (415) 521-3849.

MORGAN 32. Original owner, wellmaintained, fresh water cooled diesel, pressure hot water, shower, spinnaker, 150, 135, 110 jibs, VHF, Combi navigator, 5 winches, wheel steering, much more. Club racer or strong roomy cruiser, 11.5-ft beam. Asking $37,950. (408) 779-1472.

BRISTOL 26-FT. Stiff, fast Bay cruiser. Standing headroom, 5 sails, rigged for sin¬ glehanded sailing. Km, ds, VHF & more. Two boat owner. Will provide sailing lessons. $9,500. (408) 243-1888.

ERICSON 27. Must low maintenance $14,500 or make (916) 423-1557 or

ERICSON 29, 1974. Very well equipped. Wheel, 4 sails new/main, Barients, new upholstery, 2 batteries, ds, VHF, stereo, phone, Atomic 4. A very clean, solid, fun Bay boat, live on? $17,500 firm. (415) 526-0728. ALDEN 32 MOTORSAILOR. Rare motorsailor by Cheoy Lee for cruising French Canals & Mediterranean. Inside-outside steering, tabernacle mast, 2 dbl & 2 single berths. Dink on davits, Perkins low hours. Covered & prof, maintained. Lying South of France. $32,500. (415) 324-8400 days. CATALINA 30,1980. Delta berth. '87 bottom overhaul. Diesel, furling jib, extras galore. Must sell. Incredible price. $24,500. (702) 827-5951. RAWSON 30 LIVEABOARD — $14,000. Beamy fiberglass cruising sloop, built to last, good cond., see in berth G4, Corinthian YC, Tiburon. Home phone preferred (415) 334-4969; work (415) 541-1527 ask for Lee. Partial trade property/Cal 20/Santana 22.

WESTSAIL 32. Built by South Coast Marine, launched 6/85. SST bowsprit, Boomkin Harken traveler/rollerfurl (new), refrig., depth speed, VHF windlass, Aries (boxed), batt. charger, Yanmar 3-cyl. & more. 90K in¬ vested. Must see to appreciate. $59,000/OBO. Alex, (415) 368-5488. ERICSON 27 — $7,950. I don't want the hassle of selling this boat for more. It looks, sails, and motors well. Atomic 4 inboard, wheel, VHF. Cash only. As is, where is in Ballena Bay Marina, berth B30. Don't call to dicker. Either have cash & buy; or goodbye. (415) 769-2095 or (415) 522-3956. BEAUTIFUL CALYPSO. Well-tended 1976 Ericson 27. 9.9 hp '82 Evinrude o.b. Oversize rigging, winches, new side stripes & bottom, VHF, speedo, depth, 130 genoa. All safety gear. Mint. $19,950. Eves. (415) 593-6223.

TRADE REAL ESTATE FOR BOATS Trade Land — Homes — Income, etc. Some free and clear in CA, OR, WA, AZ, Mexico & others. Want boats 25’-100+’. (415) 865-1035, Ask for Sam.

TRADE BOATS FOR REAL ESTATE Over 20 boats to trade for real estate. Consider Land — Residential — Income, etc. Sample boats: COL. 24', Newport 28', Ericson 39', Custom 52’ or Custom 65' oil barge in Alaska. Call Sam, (415) 865-1035.

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EXCALIBUR 26-FT. Fiberglass sloop. Built 1966. Excellent condition. Sleeps 4. Enclosed head. Evinrude 6. 4 sails including spinnaker & pole, anchor, compass. Clean interior. Ex¬ cellent Bay racer/cruiser. She's ready for you to sail her away. $4,500. (415) 939-7919. ETCHELLS 22. Ontario hull #549. Strict onedesign, superb racing against the best on S.F. Bay. Excl. cond., new sails, tandem trailer. Must sell my half interest: $1,500 & $150 per month or $14,900/B.0. for whole boat. (415) 343-4031 eves. OFFSHORE 27 CHEOY LEE. Excellent condi¬ tion. Original owner, glass hull, teak decks house trim, Volvo dsl with 648 hours, wooded bare & varnished 6/88. Excellent Bay boat. Price negotiable to sell. Phone (415) 383-3212. 32-FT DREADNAUGHT. Similar to Westsail 32. Fiberglass hull & deck. 20 hp Saab dsl, galley sink, stove & extras. Major bulkheads & ballast installed. Rig as ketch or cutter. 80% complete. Moving, must sell. $14,900 (408) 262-9451.

PEARSON 26. Fast, safe, comfortable with upwind Coyote Point berth. New Yanmar o.b., main, 110,155 excellent condition. VHF, ds, stereo. Long inventory safety, convenience features & equipment all well-maintained. $11,750.369-7011 to see weekends & eves. ERICSON 27 — $14,500. Excellent condi¬ tion. Inboard Atomic 4, VHF, windpoint, depth, knotmeter, rigged for spinnaker, lots of extras. Pier 39 berth. (408) 971-9886 eves. Partner left area, must sell. CATALINA 27,1978. Inboard, 4 headsails + spinnaker, oversized rigging, new stove, new curtains. Excellent electronics, lots of extras, hauled out yearly, meticulously maintained. At $14,500 a great Bay boat or coastal cruiser. Call 468-3633 for details. CRUISING KNARR #62. Beautiful condition. Real performance boat with cruising interior. Sleeps 4. 30'4"x7’x4'3”. Danish built. Mahogany on oak. Knotmeter, depthsounder, 6 Barients, full cover, head, spinnaker, CQR, sink, stove. 1983 mast, rigging, l'k hp Evinrude. Slip included. $6,500. (415) 641-4421. COL 8.7, 1977 29-FT SLOOP. Equipped for offshore cruising. Wheel, Atomic 4 gas. $23K/8.0. Owner self-oriented. 935-2047. ALL OFFERS/TRADES SERIOUSLY CON¬ SIDERED! 27-ft Buccaneer. Roller furling jib, pedestal steering, set-up for singlehanding. 6-ft+ headrom. $10K+ value. Leave message on recorder at (408) 663-4023. 9 p.m. till midnight okay. CAL 2-27.1978 fully-equipped racer/cruiser in bristol condition. Brand-new running & standing rigging, backstay adj., & epoxied/ sprayed blister-free bottom. Atomic 4, VHF, ds, km, inflatable, etc. Pt. Richmond slip. $24,000. Greg (707) 838-3028 days; (707) 431-0913 eves. COLUMBIA 29. New main, new working jib, 2 other sails, rebuilt engine, VHS, ds, heater, good condition, excellent Bay boat, full keel. $13.000/0BO. Phone 892-0714 days; 897-7340 eves.

FOR SALE: 30-ft Clipper 30 sailboat. 10 hp motor, sleeps 6, year 1974, kept in good shape. Asking $15,000. (408) 736-8401. Call for more details. RAWSON 30. New fresh water cooled 28 hp Yanmar dsl. New s.s. 35 gal. fuel tank 6 sails. Looks great. Can be seen S.F. Marina, Gate 10, berth 412. $23,500/B.0 (415) 665-1472.

THE CRUISING CONNECTION Your Permanent Cruising Mail Address. Mail Forwarding and Receiving. Don't Leave Port Without It. 945 Neal Ave„ Wahiawa, HI 96786. (808) 621-9694

PENINSULA MARINE RETAIL/WHOLESALE PROPERTY FOR LEASE All or portion of 3/4 acre parcel with 3,300 square ft. building. Total freeway exposure and freeway frontage. Frontage on tidal lagoon. Epicenter of Bay Area. The very best (415) 692-4482

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classy classifieds ERICSON 32 FOR SALE. Excellent condition, professionally maintained, surveyed this month. Surveyor calls this a gem. One owner (purchased in 1979), mast & boom painted white. Downwind, transferable 35' berth near yacht club in Berkeley Marina. (415) 795-0622.

CATALINA 27-FT, 1983. Diesel engine, trad, interior, Harken furling/reefing system 1988, standing/running rigging 1988, halyards led aft, self-tailing winches, cockpit cushions, automatic bilge pump, ground tackle, fenders, bottom painted 1988. Radio, safety gear. Brisbane Marina. $22,000. (415) 592-8537. CAL 29, 1974. Race/cruise equipped, hull 709, bottom epoxied ’87, inboard Volvo Penta gas, 15 hp. Delta shade included. Customized interior. Call (415) 522-8371 after 5 p.m. for appointment. $20K. CAL 29. Built 1969. One owner, good condi¬ tion, SBYRA Races 1st 8 times, 2nd or 3rd 4 times, fully rigged, spinnaker, 3 jibs, VHF, AM/FM, depth, compass, etc., inboard Atomic 4. $14,900 or offer. (415) 369-1149. 26-FT THUNDERBIRD SLOOP Maitri. Well¬ loved & loaded with equipment. Refinished spruce mast, 2 new coats bottom & topsides. Sleeps 4. Race/cruise (Worlds will be held in the Bay next year). Asking $6,000. Peter (415) 327-1569. E-Z LOADER TRAILER/CHRYSLER 26. Swing keel, singlehanded, sleeps 6, 6-ft hdrm, head, stove, icebox, sink, dinette, Chrysler 9.9 electric start/alt., main & work¬ ing jib, anchor, bottom like new. $7,500. (707) 446-3624. 28-FT COLUMBIA. Main, jib, 150 genoa, VHF, RDF, depthfinder, Loran, 3 anchors w/400' rode, life vests, sleeps 6, deep ice chest, 2-burner stove, 9.5 o.b. Excellent con¬ dition, clean, bottom paint good. Sailing lessons included for first-time sailor. 2nd boat coming, need to sell, slip included. Best price boat of size & cond. Call for info or leave address for one sheet. Ready for sum¬ mer! (714) 820-2300. YANKEE 30. Lots of sails, rebuilt Atomic 4, new VHF, Headfoil 2, hyd. backstay. Great condition, 2 boat owner needs to sell. $24,500/OBO. (415) 284-9094. 1980, 30-FT U.S. YACHT. Volvo dsl, wheel steering. Would you believe $12,500 firm? Call (415) 427-0500.

SALE PRICE. Chrysler 26, swing keel (shallow draft). This roomy dinette model features an enclosed head & comes equipped with VHF radio, battery charger, Honda 10 hp o.b., etc. Located Loch Lomond with berth available in Oyster Point. $6,700/OBO. Bruce 363-0860; Jim 453-2348. COLUMBIA 26 MKII. Excellent Bay sailer. Sleeps 5. Two-burner stove. New 7V2 hp o.b. Has compass, VHF radio, lifelines, etc. Ex¬ cellent Berkeley berth. $8,300. New bottom paint, survey. Call (415) 284-7547. 26-FT CHEOY LEE FRISCO FLYER. Rugged, beautiful pocket cruiser, f/g, teak overlay decks, 4 sails, newly rebuilt Volvo dsl. $11,950. 26’ Haida. Sloop rigged & fast. F/g, furler, dsl, Roy Richards design, extensive refit, dual axle trailer for 24-26' boat. 331-4535. 1984 SOVEREIGN 30. Liveaboard w/lots of equip, in excellent condition. Willing to sell for $38K/offer or rent for $300/month. Call Mark, 983-1808 M-F days. FANTASIA 35, 1978. Excellent condition, great cruising or liveaboard, cutter rigged, 35 hp dsl, 125 gals fuel, 215 gals water, full dodger, liferaft w/motor, centercockpit, VHF, RDF, depthsounder, knotlog & more. Must sell. $75,000/OBQ. (415) 921-2107.

INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT, 1970. Wellmaintained with new sails. Evinrude 7.5, epoxy bottom, quality equipment. Autohelm, 12 lb. Danforth, 25 lb. CQR. Factory sink, tri¬ color, ds, VHF, etc. C.P. berth. Looks great, sails even better. $12,000. Bill, wk: (415) 324-5470; hm: (415) 367-0832. 1961 FARALLON CLIPPER. Beautiful racer/ cruiser in excellent condition. Dsl, autopilot, full covers, dinghy w/o.b„ sleeps 4. $33,000. Will consider trade for land. Terry, (415) 877-5756 days; (415) 321-4943 eves.

30-FT SLOOP AT 20-FT PRICE. '75 Clipper Marine f/g. 9.9 hp elect, start Yamaha o.b. like new. Completely equipt for immediate sailing. Great weekender. Easily maintained. Sausalito berth. $6,500. (707) 539-1840. COLUMBIA SABRE 32-FT. 5.5 meter Olym¬ pic class racer. Excellent condition. Four good sails, comfy cabin sleeps 4, deluxe AM/FM, much new or updated rigging. Ap¬ praised at over twice this rock bottom price: $6,000. Yes, only $6,000! 563-9017.

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27-FT SANTANA SLOOP. Has a dsl 16M10 inboard, almost new. A new marine radio, stove, shorepower. Heavy-duty hardware for Bay sailing. Fast, smooth, sleeps 6. Phone (415) 872-6791. $10,950. 30-FT DUTCHMILL SLOOP — BRISTOL. Classic, seaworthy Bay-lady who'll give you a run for your $. Creative financing/arrange¬ ments. (415) 337-2555, Kurt/Nancy. OUFOUR ARPEGE 30.1971. Great for Bay or ocean sailing, VHF, depth, 2 spinnakers, 3 jibs, Volvo MD-2. Just hauled, check out this well-designed boat. $24,000/make offer. (408) 241-2919. 1978 CAL 2-29. Well-maintained. One owner. Equipped with Hood Stow sails for easy sailing. Atomic 4 i.b. engine. Fresh water cooled. Radio, depthsounder, etc. Original mast available. $26,500/offer. (415) 435-1173. COLUMBIA 26 MKII. 4 sails, Johnson o.b., Digital depthsounder, Horizon VHF, fully equipped & ready to go, good condition w/upgrades. Peninsula Marina. $7,500. Eric days (415) 367-1444; eves. (408) 425-7464 30-FT STEEL CUTTER. Km, ds, VHF, mahogany interior, built '87, cruise in safety, needs engine & stove. Sandblasted & fin¬ ished with LPU, sleeps 5. Moving forces quick sale. Must sell by 9/88. $19,500/B.0. Eves. (415) 961-1292. ISLANDER 28 BAHAMA, 1981. Yanmar diesel engine, five sails, main, jibs 90%, 110%, 150%, North gennaker, autopilot, knotmeter, depthsounder, ST winches, manoverboard pole, custom cabinets, built-in gauges and VHF. Adjustable backstay, sun awning, cockpit table, windvane, Danforth anchor and rode. Teak and holly sole. Ex¬ cellent condition. $27,500 or best offer. (415) 490-3954. S2 7.9 26-FT SPIRITED RACER/CRUISER w/huge cockpit & roomy, extra long berths. Jib, mylar genoa, spinnaker, Honda o.b. Original owner. Vessel in immaculate condi¬ tion! Must sell. $21,500. Call Tom (415) 838-4642. CORONADO 34 SLOOP. 4-cyl. dsl, wheel, VHF, ds, 4 jibs. Comfortable, fast cruiser or great liveaboard. Deal fell thru. $19,500. Small finance. (415) 824-6099 eves, leave message.

COLUMBIA 28-FT. Great condition, Atomic 4 i.b., full headroom, galley, head, sleeps 6. $10,000. 435-3540.

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26-FT PEARSON ARIEL, 1965. Excellent condition. Brand-new main with 2 reefs, biradial genoa. North spinnaker, working jib. New Mariner roller furling. 1988 Yamaha 8 hp. VHF, RDF, Tillermaster, many extras. Fast, seaworthy Alberg design. MDR slip. $11,500/OBO. (818) 346-7655. ANDREWS 26-FT. Excellent condition, 7 bags, full batten main, loran, VHF, knotmeter, new Yamaha 6 hp o.b. Race ready for MORC Internationals. $23,500. (714) 981-5324, leave message. H-28 KETCH. Completely refitted for cruis¬ ing, i.e., stays, winches, sails, keelbolts, ground tackle, bilge pumps, rail dodger, new Yanmar dsl & Autohelm 2000. Must sell. $20,000/QBO. (415) 331-2612.

26-FT PEARSON ARIEL 1967. Good condi¬ tion. Hauled & refinished bottom & topside. New sail cover, self-furling jib, 9 hp Evinrude o.b., active racing class, winner 1978. Sausalito berth. Good Bay boat. (415) 765-7310 weekdays (norm); (415) 435-3797 weekends & evenings. BUCCANEER 27-FT. Perfect for Bay/Delta. Center cockpit, steering wheel, dodger, furl¬ ing genoa, aft cabin, Volvo dsl (0 time), shorepower, sleeps 6, full galley, full head, VHF, depth, compass, trailerable. See, in the water at Napa. $12,000. (707) 226-9491. 1984 UNION 32. Teak interior, Margas pro¬ pane, pressure/hot water, Signet 1000 and 1500, Autohelm 5000, windlass, four sails, berthed Emery Cove Marina, C-19. Asking $58,000. (702) 882-1420. SANTANA 35. Minx. Fully equipped, new UK main, 155% genoa, daisy (15 bags), Volvo Penta, 8 Barient winches, Micrologic loran, VHF, Sony stereo & more. Excellent racer/ cruiser with solid performance record. $52,000. Contact; John (213) 420-9811. 26-FT COLUMBIA MARK I, 1963. Excellent shape, 25# plow, windlass, gallows, dodger, bronze portlights, VHF, inboard dsl, 11 hp, new paint, mast & deck, remodeled interior. $18,000. (714) 661-7353, Bob. SANTA CRUZ 27 Sundance. Hull #58. Lots of stuff included. Too many boats & not enough time. A steal at $11,000. Rob, (415) 331-3134.

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26-FT TO 35-FT - CONT'D

PEARSON VANGUARD 33. One of Rhodes best designed f/g boats. Excellent fun off¬ shore or Bay sailing. Dry, safe & easy to han¬ dle. Needs engine work & TLC. My wife says I must sell now "as is". $18,000. Call Dan (415) 461-5740. BRISTOL 27. Fast full keel f/g cruising sloop. Alberg design. Extra sails & equip. 25 hp i.b. Excellent condition. $14,500. Call Bill ^415) 654-2621. TIRED OF ALWAYS SITTING while someone else steers? Try a custom built C&C 31’ Fully equipped to race, now for only $18,000/OBO. Call Don at 524-8740. '84 ARIES 32 DOUBLE-ENDED F/G SLOOP Excellent cond. Never cruised. Prime Sausalito liveaboard berth. Tons of cruising gear. 70K invested, sell for 50K..Call Dave at 331-3612 or 331-6199. IF YOU WANT A GOOD DEAL, this boat's for you! 27' Atkins Eric Jr. Fir on oak. Profes¬ sionally built 1936. Beautiful sturdy pocket cruiser, experienced Central Am. vet. Ready to sail the Bay or the world. Just hauled, great cond. Asking $8,900. Must see! 731-7854 John. OLSON 30. Proven record. Excellent condi¬ tion. 9 sails. Take over payments. (209) 334-9656 evenings. SALE-TRADE: 32’ ENDEAVOUR SLOOP. Full head with shower & galley. Sleeps 6. Beautiful teak interior. Great cruiser. Trade equity or ?? for mobilhome, travel trailer. Owner consider finance balance or take over. Value $39,950/OBO. (415) 846-0794 eves. BEAUTIFUL TRADITIONAL POCKET CRUISER Nordic Folkboat. Mahog. on oak, Mexico vet, dodger, bow & stern pulpits & lifelines, British Seagull, fast & easy to han¬ dle. Colvin lug rig, must see to appreciate. $6,900/OBO. (415) 234-3690. JULY’S SUMMERWIND AWAITS YOU . . . 32-ft sloop Bayliner, f/g, aft cabin, sleeps 7, dsl Volvo, civilized liveaboard, shower, stove, refrig., great Bay boat. Call Greg, (415) 368-9266 after 5. Make me an offer & make my day. $28,000. ’87 CATALINA 30. Latest upgrades, “T” cockpit, increased deck surface, XP 25 Universal dsl, depth/knot/compass all in pods at wheel, furled jib, self-tailing winches, pressure h/c water, propane stove/oven, charger, shorepower & more. $7 under replacement cost. $41,500. (408) 241-2020.

clossyclossifieds COLUMBIA 9.6 32-FT SLOOP. Sails: main (2 reefs), jibs (110,130,150), spinnaker. Volvo dsl eng., 6' headroom, sleeps 6. Complete galley, knotmeter, depthsounder, radio, com¬ pass, shorepower. Book value $34K. Moving out of area, must sell. Make offer. Call (707) 255-9430. 34-FT HUNTER SLOOP. Diesel, Martec, auto¬ pilot, dodger, furling, spinnaker pole, VHF, radar, digitals, stereo, freezer, refrig., microwave, h/c press., seacocks, loaded Mexico vet. $46,000. (714) 888-1366. DYNAMITE 27-FT WORLD CRUISING CUT¬ TER. Airex fiberglass, flush deck, super tough. Solar, B&G instr., inflatable, furling, nav station, 2 7-ft bunks & much more, ready to go. Must sell. Red from 32K to 24K cash. (619) 223-7380.

CAL 27. Shipshape freshwater sailing only. VHF, new digital depthsounder, 9.9 Evinrude. Bay main, Delta main w/jiffy reef, Delta club jib, 170 genoa, 150 genoa, 3/4 oz. tri-radial w/gear. Berthed Marina Bay. Ready for sail¬ ing at $16,000. (209) 334-4635. IN LA PAZ MEXICO. 424 Pearson, 1979. No tax if vessel not returned to U S. for 90 days or more. Westerbeke 4-154 engine, fully equipped for cruising including autopilot, windvane, radar, loran, VHF, Magnavox SatNav, Arco solar panels, electric windlass, 43# Bruce, 45# CQR & much more. $79,950. Contact Don at (408) 946-1335 or write: Don at Gomez Farias, #145, La Paz, BCS, Mexico. BALBOA 26, 1974. With double axle trailer, very clean, new bottom paint, complete sails, VHF, Evinrude 9.9, bow & stern pulpit, stan¬ chion lines, stereo & much more. Great Mex¬ ico boat! $12,500. Call Brad at (408) 375-5015 or 624-7038.

26-FT PEARS ARIEL. Rigged for singlehand¬ ing. Atomic 4. New dodger, epoxy bottom, all new rigging, stern rail, lifelines. Rigging led aft to cockpit. This boat has been extensively gone through & ready to go. Gary Hayle, days 800-822-8181; eves. (408) 335-3724.

FOR SALE: Classy liveable 32' sloop Flirt, Master Mariner champion 1987,3rd in class 1988. Design 1904, built 1914, beautiful C.D. Mower lines, Port Orford cedar on oak. Full keel, 15 hp Volvo, 12v electrical. $13,000. Must see in person. 456-2788 photos!

DOWNEAST 32, 1976 CUTTER. Yanmar 27, radar, VHF, Honda 650 gen., Arco solar panel, 12 amp wind gen., ap, inflatable with new Johnson, shower & more, set-up to cruise. $54,000. (805) 772-8277.

ERICSON 36 — CRUISING MODEL — 1977. Bruce King design specifically for cruising without sacrificing performance. Good condi¬ tion. Cutter rig, all wood interior. S.F. slip. $55,000/offer. (312) 664-7114.

1981 GULF 29. Great family boat. Roomy cabin. Atomic 4, club jib for lazy sailing plus conventional 110, wheel steering, CNG, Lectrasan head, lots of stowage, lovely boat! $23,500. (415) 345-2702N. .

CATALINA 36, 1985. Set-up for liveaboard, knotlog, depthsounder, loran, autopilot, refrigeration, anchor roller & windlass, cabin heater, extra fresh water, cedar lockers, AM/FM with cockpit speakers, dodger, many other extras. $68,000. Days (415) 421-9229; eves. (408) 378-4608.

ROSS 930. New Zealand built racer/family cruiser w/3 self-tacking jibs, 150 genoa, 2 chutes. Sapelle mahogany interior w/berths for 7. Enclosed head, galley, chart table. Easy & fun to sail. $29,900 or B.O. (415) 831-0221.

36 FEET TO 45 FEET COLUMBIA. 36,1972. Very well-maintained. Recent Survey,- many liveaboard extras. Yan¬ mar dsl i.b., new batteries & much more. Seller is motivated. Located in San Francisco. Asking $33,000/080. Call (415) 981-7200, Chris or Bob. 43' CHEOY LEE MOTORSAILER. Cutter rig. 120 hp dsl. Many custom features, roller furling main & jib & club jib. Raytheon radar & alarm, VHF, SatNav, autopilot, Brooks, Gatehouse instruments. Holding, Plate, refrigeration, CNG gas. Great liveaboard. (415) 457-8731. OLSON 40 “SPELLBOUND”. TransPac equipped. $129,000/OBO. Ask for Lou at (916) 753-9331. A VERY FAST & BEAUTIFUL 43-FT YACHT. Built & equipped with cost as no object, Esprit is in excellent condition & ready to win races or cruise anywhere in a big hurry. 17 UK sails, full Ockam computer system with interlaced Loran & electronic compass, triple spreader Sparcraft rig. Navtec hydraulics, and on and on. This boat is in new condition! She is a fast IOR/IMS/PHRF racer, or abun¬ dant room belowdecks makes her a great boat to convert to fast cruising. Bargain. Leave message at (415) 655-3265. 41-FT RHODES BOUNTY YAWL. Strong & fast world cruiser, pristine condition, custom interior, sea-going galley, 14 sails, autopilot, windvane, depthsounder, knotmeter, sumlog, VHF, dinghy, excellent ground tackle $54,500. (805) 984-6561.

LEARN TO SAIL Golden Gate Sailing School Over 20 years experience teaching on San Francisco Bay. Six three-hour lessons: $190. Sausalito Bob Counts (415) 990-7100

GETTING YOUR MAIL? If not, call MAIL CALL! Personalized world-wide mail holding and forwarding; private mailbox rentals; facsimile communications, 24-hour message service; package shipping. Serving sailors since 1980. MAIL CALL, 2726 Shelter Island Drive, San Diego, CA 92106 (619) 222-1186.

ja BOAT GRAPHICS WITH PERSONALITY! In pressure sensitive adhesive vinyl/mylar. From the simplest to the most elaborate we do it your way! And you can afford it. SeaScript (415) 651-7326.

HUNTER 37, 1984. Better than new, addi¬ tional & upgraded winches, teak interior, sink, vanity, shower, holding tank, pressure & hot water, stereo/tape, VHF, depth, windspeed & direction backstay, '87 haulout & paint. $72,500. Sausalito. (415) 435-2924.

PEARSON 36. Beautiful & fast ocean racercruiser. Blue hull. All teak below. Set for single/short handing. Crankable diesel. Signets, autopilot, Monitor vane, 6-person liferaft, many sails. Ideal for offshore cruis¬ ing/racing &/or liveaboard. Just hauled. Documented. $48,000. (801) 649-3394. NEWPORT 41, 1973. Fiberglass sloop, C&C design, custom built. 1983 Yanmar dsl, 11 sails, Micron 33 bottom, solar power. New: autohelm, refrig., roller jib, loran, heater, elec, windlass. $69,000. (707) 823-3776. 39-FT SOUTHERN CROSS.Superb liveaboard/cruiser built on east coast in 1981 & in bristol condition. Fitted out with the best equipment which icludes everything for safe passagemaking. Call 829-1011 eves, for complete details. Valued at $120K. ISLANDER 37. Good condition. 30 hp Gray gas engine, new in '78. Spinnaker gear, club jib, RDF, VHF. $24,900. 435-0811; 453-9254 43-FT CUSTOM BUILT, NEW ZEALAND, center cockpit, auxiliary ketch, 1964, '87 refit including LPU finish hull & decks, full canvas boat cover. $85,000/OBO. Call Rob at 1 -(916) 371-1556 or 484-6105 for survey & history. FAIR WEATHER MARINER 39. 123K Brand new. Performance Robert Perry demo. Fantastic distress price! New, perfect, every option, better lhan Christian, Passport. Trade your 30-footer (to $20K). The builder sells same boat at $147K. Slip included. Bill, (415) 493-1839; 321-0982.

GULFSTAR 37,1979. Great shape in & out. $65,500/possible trade for R.E. Motivated seller. (415) 886-6966.

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FAIR WEATHER MARINER 39 123K. Brand new. Performance Robert Perry demo — fantastic distress price! New, perfect every options, better than Christian, Passport. Trade your 30-footer (to $20K). The buiider sells same boat at $147K. Slip included. Bill: (415) 493-1839; 321-0982.

THE CREW LIST by Marine Data Services Directory listing recreational and commercial positions/situations wanted and available. Cruising, Racing, Day Sailing, Partnerships, Personals, Deliveries, Careers. West Coast/U S /Interna¬ tional. Updated monthly. Listings: 75 words, $3.00 a month, plus $5.00 1-time set-up charge Directories: $6.00. MARINE DATA SERVICES, P.O. Box 2394 Woodland CA 95695 9 page 188

3A H- TO 45 FT

COMT'D

classy classifieds PERFECT LIVEABOARD. Desperate to sell. 40 Challenger. Gorgeous solid mahogany in¬ terior. 67” hdrm. Large aft cabin, 6'4” queen berth. 5 sails, ground tackle, windspeed/direction, depth, knot Surveyor says like new. $3,000 new bottom. Elysa, 654-5613 eves. $65,000 or any reasonable offer. Will take smaller boat in trade. 1984 ERICSON 36. Ron Holland designed. Teak/teak & holly interior. Pressure hot & cold water in shower & galley. Stove with oven & double stainless sink. Balsa cored deck. Diesel auxiliary. Horizon sails: main, 120, 80. Sail area 598 sq.ft. Displ. 11,600 lbs. Ballast to displacement ratio 45%. Exter¬ nal cast lead ballast. Draft 6'3". She is fast, strong, beautiful & in excellent condition. Anxious to sell — retiring & buying larger liveaboard cruising sailboat $62,000. (408) 374-0195 Bob Desselle (408) 742-0542. ALAJUELA 38, 1976. Cutter rigged sloop, solid glass, full keel, double-ended. Hauled 10/87, surveyed $80,000 Bristol interior. Aries vane, extras. Comfortable liveaboard. Asking $70,000 for quick sale in buyer's market. B-21 Emery Cove Marina, Emeryville, CA. 1985 CATALINA 36. Promise. Beautiful con¬ dition, VHF, ds/km, refrigeration, CNG, Force 10 heater, battery charger, dodger, roller furling, Lewmar 48 primarys & much more. Asking $61,000. (415) 368-6129. 38-FT FARALL0NE CUPPER, 1940. Hull #3, built in CA by Stephens Brothers, full keel, 7/8 rig built to race on the bay in S.F. so she can handle the blow. A great boat to cruise. Here's a chance to own a classic with a great history. $25,0OO/OBO. Poss. Santa Barbara slip. Call for details, (805) 682-4013. 37-FT FERRO-CEMENT SAMPSON KETCH. Built 1978. Saab dsl. Liveaboard or cruise. Boat is well-maintained & is presently moored in Morro Bay. $37,500. Days (805) 772-3436: eves. (805) 544-0978. CHEOY LEE 44' MID-SHIP KETCH. Leuders design, 1977. Beautiful & spacious. Perkins 50 hp dsl. Perfect for cruising or liveaboard. 2 heads, 2 showers, 2 refrigerators, microwave, stereo, full galley, BBQ, teak interior & teak decks, dinghy on davits. Terms: $109,000. Call (415) 331-5509. OHLSON 36-FT SLOOP. Excellent example of Swedish craftsmanship. Built of African mahogany in 1963. 8 bags including spin¬ naker New rigging. Recently surveyed at $35,000. First $20,000 takes her. Excep¬ tional racing record. 381-6060.

YAMAHA 36,1981. Built with excellence. All teak interior, pressure water hot & cold, sleeps 7, large inventory of sails and equip¬ ment. Rod rigging and hydraulics, Yanmar dsl, low hours. Price: $69,000. Replacement value well over $100K. (415) 922-1941.

ERICSON 39-FT, 1971. Flush deck model. New standing rigging, mast step, Force 10 cabin heater, other new additions, 17 winches, 9 sails. Beautiful, fast & roomy. $54,000 or trade down to smaller cruising boat 30 -35'. (209) 465-5557.

41-FT KETCH-CUTTER RIG. 1972 Yankee Clipper. Excel, cruising/liveaboard. Perkins dsl., alum, masts, radar, loran, VHF, depthfinder, autoplot, elec, windlass, liferaft, +130 jib, 4 anchors, separate shower, fireplace. Berthed Bay Area. Call for extras. $59,000 (209) 293-7438.

1981 TAYANA 37. Priced to sell! Lovingly maintained in excellent condition. Cutter rig, 4 sails, Perkins 4-108. Datamarine in¬ struments include: kl, ds, wind machine, VHF. Teak decks, teak coach roof, teak cockpit. Cold Machine, propane oven & much more. Built for 2 to liveaboard &/or cruise. Call for complete equipment list & recently reduced price. Buy from owner & save broker fees. Bob Kleckner, days (415) 442-2519; eves. (415) 589-7560.

38-FT ROBERTS DESIGN 1986. Hauled 1988, steel hull, Perkins 107 dsl, VHF, knotlog, depthsounder, kerosene stove, refer, ped. steering, head, sleeps 4, 6,500 lbs. lead ballast. Must sell, wife’s health. $27,000 or B.O. (707) 374-6032, Rio Vista. 1980 CSY 44. This solid, comfortable cruiser was delivered in Honolulu, by the owner’s party of two from Tonga. The center cockpit cutter rig, and furling headsail makes for ease in handling. There are two staterooms and dual showers/heads for compatibility of two couples, refrigeration/freezer and a fully equipped galley allows for some comforts. Owner is willing to Awlgrip the hull for the right buyer. Asking $94,000. Contact Jean Ferris A.C., (808) 845-7738.

41-FT MORGAN 0.1. KETCH in liveaboard berth. Washer/dryer, microwave, TV, fire¬ place, Combi, roller reefing jib, 2 refrigeration systems, propane heaters, sailing dinghy on davits, fully enclosed canvas center cockpit with screens. (415) 522-6945. $74,500. ISLANDER 36. Custom cockpit rigged. Perkins dsl. 45 gal. fuel, 120 gal. h/c water, shower, auto battery charger, VHF, RDF, depthsounder, lead keel, Monel muffler, in¬ sulated icebox, sound-insulated engine com¬ partment, Zodiac, teak boarding ladder, Sausalito berth. (415) 696-4613; (408) 867-9351. 40-FT CHALLENGER FIBERGLASS KETCH. Superb iiveaboard/cruiser. H/C pressure water with shower, (2) Norcold ref/fzrs, pro¬ pane stove, fireplace, aft stateroom, 6'4" headroom, sleeps seven. Perkins diesel, RVG vane, Benmar AP with remote, Onan genera¬ tor, Avon 6-man liferaft, self-tailing winches, EPIRB, windlass, full ground tackle, seven sails, VHF, RDF, Signets + much more. New AwIGrip hull paint, gelcoat topsides. New headliner, cushions, curtains, sailcovers, etc. Mint inside and out. Documented. South Pacific veteran. Berthed Emeryville. New on market Sac. $67,500. (415) 792-2537.

CABO RICO 38. Ready to cruise or sail the Bay. New sails, SatNav, loran, autohelm, Monitor windvane, VHF radio, 45 lb. CQR, anchor, roller furling jib, dodger, splash cover, Delta cover plus refrigeration & hot water. $75,000. (415) 897-8716. NEWPORTER 40. Gaff-rigged ketch. Inside steering station, 59 hp Ford-Osco dsl. Radar, VHF, fatho., h/c pressure water, refrig. Estate sale must sell. $35,000/B.0. (415) 655-4564. 1983 CATALINA '38. Excellent condition, well-maintained, well-outfitted, 3 jibs (110, 130, 150), 2 spinnakers (3/4, Vk), roller furling dual-purpose headfoil, VHF, Signet 2000, dsl, take over ownership & payments on $63,500 loan upon qualification, serious buyers only please, no brokers. Boat located at South Beach Harbor, currently in excellent charter program. (415) 969-3488. LANDFALL 39 PILOTHOUSE CUTTER. In¬ credibly equipped, with $28,000 refit in 1985 in preparation for Alaskan cruise. Since returning she is for sale to a discriminating buyer looking for an incredible live aboard or cruising boat. Sleeps 6 in 3 cabins, work¬ shop, 5 sails, Dickensen dsl stove, Avon cannister raft, excellent ground tackle, dinghy, o.b., radar, loran, hydraulic autopilot with remote, 2 ds with cockpit repeater, wind in¬ struments, VHF, CB, digital stereo with equalizer, refrigeration, TDX, separate shower, 1 lOv inverter, teak interior, teak decks, custom skylights, 70 hp dsl, crab & shrimp pots, too much more to list. Price reduced to $72,000. (707) 578-1004. UNION 36. Perry designed cutter, Harken roller furling, good instrumentation, dinghy on stern davits, 480 engine hrs., docu¬ mented. Great cruising boat. Almost like new. If you see it you'll buy it. $71,500 including full canvas cover. (707) 253-7509.

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SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL ISLANDS Explore the exciting Channel islands. 1 have a fast and comfortable Santana 37 especially equipped for this exceptional cruising area. ASA instructor, fully provisioned. Free brochure. Capt Peter Crane, 1817 De La Vina, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 569-0403

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ERICSON 38-200. New boat (comm. 4/87), meticulously maintained & maxed out, including aft-led rigging, Harken RF, dodger, Cold Machine, navigator/navisounder, marine stereo, many other extras. Overseas transfer forces sale. Purchase from owner and save $20,000. (415) 331-5318. “DEFIANCE” 40-FT NEW ZEALAND SLOOP. Built 1982, Lidgard Ltd. New rig, bottom & topsides 1985-86.16 sails. B&G 190, Loran SSB, etc. Speed of a one tone, interior of a Beneteau. Sleeps 6. $65,000. (415) 421-0174. ISLANDER FREEPORT 41,1976. Fiberglass, full keel, teak interior & sole, SatNav, auto¬ pilot, radar, liferaft, Zodiac & motor on davits, fireplace, 100 hp Chrysler dsl. plus Onan 3kw dsl gen., AC-DC & solar powered refrigeration. Extensive cruising engine parts inventory, Japanese ceramic tile counters throughout. New Force 10 stove & oven, microwave, pressure salt water wash down & galley sink. All in A-1 shape & ready for the Sea of Cortez or around the world! $119,000. (415) 243-0255. PETERSON 44, CUTTER RIG. Swift, proven sailer, cruise ready. 58 hp new engine, hot water, refrig., freezer, long equipment list, excellently maintained. Ideal liveaboard. Call Ulf Kent, (415) 646-4470 wk; (707) 642-9714 hm; Lynn Kent (707) 642-4744. KETTENBURG 43 SPREE. Aluminum, fast, strong, comfortable, gracious, beautiful. Low maintenance. South Pacific vet, equipped. Ready for this? $52,000. (415) 769-6516. CARIBE 41. An elegant sailboat. 1st Perry design after the Valiant. 34’ LWL, 12' beam, 6' draft. Cutter rig. Tri-cabin. Perkins dsl. Full canvas. Refrigeration. Fireplace. 150 water. 90 fuel. Reduced to $97,000. Must see. (818) 794-1558 Iv. msg; (805) 984-0463 weekends. YORKTOWN 39,1976. Center cockpit sloop. Huge aft cabin, very sturdy liveaboard, new dsl & compl refit in '85. New parts, all receipts, needs few finishing touches. Reduced for quick sale. $29,950. (415) 420-0432 message. HUGHES 38. Classic Sparkman & Stephens designed fiberglass sloop. Complete refit 1986.13 sails, refrigeration, hot water, loran, Autohelm, cannister liferaft, dodger & loads of extras. Proven world cruiser. Located Monterey. $43,000 or trade. (408) 394-2862. Will deliver.

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CHARTER — BAY O'Day 39. Fully equipped. 3 stateroom cabins, full electronics, Loran, Avon, full spinnaker gear. Available Capt’n or Bareboat. Weekday rate: $150/day; weekend rate: $220 day. (415) 548-1449.

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classy dossifieds CATALINA 36,1983. Very good cond. Signet knotlog, depth. Maxi Horizon VHF, Ray Jefferson RDF, battery charger, Larsen sails, serious buyers only. $49,995. (408) 426-8363; (408) 257-3840 message. TAYANA 37 CUTTER, 1979. In excellent con¬ dition. Pisces 60 hp dsl, dodger, Avon liferaft, dinghy w/o.b. Hot & cold press, water HiSeas heater, stove, VHF, autopilot, RDF, refrigeration, stereo, custom liveaboard features. (415) 583-5825. $75,000.

CHEOY LEE LUDERS 36,1976. Must sell for move to larger boat. Lots of gear: dodger, Volvo dsl, awning, Loran, AP, electroguard, windlass, ground tackle, VHF, fathometer. New epoxy bottom and more. Lovingly main¬ tained. Consider trade. Reduced to $45,000. Jim, (415) 331-2309.

HARO TIMES IN PANAMA. CT-41 KETCH. World class bluewater cruising sailboat w/Farymann dsl. Fully outfitted for cruising. $55,000. Liveaboard at Panama Canal YC. while inspecting her. Free airfare for pur¬ chaser. Box 845, APO Miami 34002.

WILLIAM ATKINS 43-FT ‘‘LITTLE RANGER” KETCH, 1962. Double-ender, mahogany, oak, Monel, Ford dsl. Bristol, cruise ready, too many spares to list. Asking $89,000. Call (619) 224-5539 eves. ISLANDER FREEPORT 41, 1981. Commis¬ sioned in 1984. Pathfinder 85 hp dsl, radar & loarn, 2 heads/showers, full galley, large salon, 6’4" hdrm, teak interior, dinghy on davits, autopilot, dodger. A perfect liveaboard in excellent condition. Includes 7 mos. prepaid slip fees at Pier 39. $103,000. Matt (415) 986-6366.

46 FEET AND OVER

MUST SELL ONE OR BOTH OF THESE! 57-ft motorsailing Chinese Junk, cargo hold, large aft cabin, fwd bunk, dressing table. Lots of deck space. Reduced to $45,000 cash. Townhouse, Pittsburg waterfront area, 3-bdrm, Vk bath, 1,650 sq.ft., 4 years old. $94,951. (415) 439-2672. 50-FT FERROCEMENT HULL. 13-ft beam, in¬ herited by a non-nautical type. Make an offer. Steve (707) 823-1667.

SAIL BACK IN TIME. 48’ sloop. Norwegian built in 1928. Exceptionally fast & graceful. Great condition. Pisces dsl. New rigging. Full cover. 7' hdrm. $20,000. 2-boat owner will consider selling 1/2 interest. 381-6060 aft. 10:00 a.m. 46-FT FERROCEMENT KETCH. Professional¬ ly built, all teak flushdeck, all walnut interior. Fully equipped for cruising, Mexico vet. New dodger, full deck cover, generator, SatNav radar, loran, autopilot, 365 gals, water, 350+ dsl, AC, bathtub, washer/dryer, dsl heater, propane galley, 85 hp Lehman. Health forces sale, may take motorhome or residential pro¬ perty on trade. (916) 371-2036.

43-FT CUTTER BUILT 1958. Very unique boat. 7-ft beam, plywood with fiberglass, Perkins 499 dsl, galley, head, full set of sails, has sailed throughtout the South Pacific. Needs lots of TLC. Hauled out 9/87. Berkeley berth. $10,000. (415) 828-1815 Iv.msg; (415) 484-4822 Michelle. 54-FT MOTORSAILER. Custom built, sell or trade, will consider partner. This is a one-ofa-kind boat. Excellent liveaboard. $45,000. Call (213) 835-9036. 104-FT (LOA) SAILING SHIP FOR THE AN¬ CIENT MARINER. Dutch built, 1903, wellmaintained, black iron Baltic ketch w/3,000 sq.ft, sail, teak decks. Approx. 1,200 sq.ft, down below. Two salons, 2 wood-burning stoves, 6 staterooms, wheelhouse, shop. Sail-ready w/extensive inventory. Leaving Bay Area. $160,000. (415) 331-2044. 1920’s 48-FT CLASSIC MOTORYACHT. Port Orford cedar on oak, twin engines, 2 state¬ rooms, tub, shower, excellent liveaboard. $17,950. Must sell, good condition. Bargain liveaboard. Sausalito berth. 331-4535. 1981 FORMOSA 46 (Now Kelly-Peterson). F/g, center cockpit cutter, 2 staterooms, fur¬ nace, propane, 110v-12v refrig., perfect 90 hp Ford-Lehman. Inflatable, VHF, ds, knotmeter, log. Heavy standing rigging, custom features. $99,500 value, sacrifice for $87,500. (415) 955-6317 or (415) 456-7144 eves. “ANNA”: DISTRESS SALE. Below appraised price. 65-ft Alden ketch, 1926. New: stainless & brass rigging, custom oak & mahog. interior, teak deck, full AC/DC pro¬ pane galley, microwave, wood stove, Perkins dsl. See. Make bid. Negotiate terms. Marian Shanks, mess. (415) 298-3073 or 754-7989.

DINGHY 8-ft lapstrake dinghy, complete with sails and oars. All wood natural finish, clear epoxy on outer hull. Less than one year old. $1,095. (408) 996-8622, evenings.

SAMPSON SEABREEZE 50-FT KETCH. Spacious, pilothouse cockpit center. Large captain’s cabin aft has dbl. plus jr. berth, private head w/shower, private stateroom forward. Sleeps 9. Fully equipped galley incl. microwave. Complete workshop in engine room, 3 electrical systems, electronics. Fully equipped for world cruising luxury, live¬ aboard economy. El Toro sailing dinghy. Reduced from $94,000 to $64,000. May take real estate or smaller boab-in trade. (209) 982-5794. 1983 FORCE 50 P.H. KETCH. Roller furling stay & jib sails, 450 fuel, 340 water, watermaker, 6 kw & 1.3 kw inverters, microwave, washer & dryer, dive compressor, radar, dual autopilots. $300,000 invested. $160,000. Owner will carry some. (619) 294-8920; (602) 841-6114.

DINGHIES, LIFERAFTS & ROWBOATS \

LIFERAFT FOR §ALE OR RENT: Toyo, 4-man or 6-man, valise, E-pack, double floor, new 83/84, current certification. Available after the Catalina Race. (415) 931-4384.

7-FT COLD-MOLDED DINGHY. Varnished in¬ side & out. Includes oars. Tows easily. Dry stored & seldom used. Beautiful. Call after 6:00. (916) 441-7365. $450 or best offer. 14-FT ZOOIAK with 20 hp Merc. Remote steering, trailer, windshield, very good condi¬ tion. Offer. (415) 369-3890.

“DEFIANCE”, CROSS 32R TRI. Race ready, full batten main, 8 bags. $29,900. Will be in S. Cal in early July at completion of Oakland/ Catalina race. Crew position avail, for pros¬ pective buyer. Bill Maudru, (415) 369-5011/5013. 50-FT TRIMARAN. 1,000 sq.ft, flushdeck, charter possibilities, made for C.G. certifica¬ tion, 4 steel cross-arms, 12 watertight com¬ partments, new mast, dsl, certified value $200,000. FMV $125,000. Strong, fast, stable. $110,000. Jesse (408) 475-0295. 31-FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN. Needs work, fiberglass, paint, etc. No mast or rig¬ ging. $1,500. (408) 263-7633 Gene. 40-FT TRI. Professionally built. Recently completely refurbished. New rigging, sails, new 25 hp Universal dsl eng., paint, upholstery, 3-way refrigeration, windvane, windlass, plus much more. Very handsome, light & fast. Ready for cruising (505) 258-3527. 16-FT HOBIE CAT. With E-Z Loader trailer. Relocating, sacrifice. Excellent condition, sailed 2 summers. Yellow hulls with rainbow stripes, black anodized mast, righting line, dbl. trapeze, hot stick, 3 harnesses. $1,500. (408) 429-5091 or (408) 479-9549. PIVER DOUBLE A 31-FT TRIMARAN. In ex¬ cellent condition. $25,OQO/OBO. (408) 458-0900. Ask for Dio. 40-FT BROWN TRIMARAN. Tahiti, Mexico vet. Yanmar dsl, SatNav, RDF, windvane, autopilot, wind generator, solar panels, refrig., stereo, 6 bags, 2 dinghies, outboard. Cruise ready. Slip available. $54,000. (619) 436-8707.

ROWING SHELL. Martin Trainer, 20-ft with 10-ft wood sweeps. Fast, safe, sliding seat, positive flotation. $1,100. (408) 338-7324.

CRUISING CATAMARAN, 1980. 34x18’ ply/glass/epoxy unstayed Chinese rig. Two db. berths, one single. Honda 100. Ocean proven: cruised Alaska to Mexico with family of four. Easy handling, practical boat for Bay or ocean. Only $20,000. Gary, (415) 331-2910.

MULTIHULLS

FLY A HULL THIS SUMMER! Super fast Prindle 18 for sale. Used 2 seasons, Smyth & stock sails, trailer, dual trapeze, cat box, immac. Steal this beautiful cat for $2,600/OBO. Call Scott at (714) 830-7346, can Iv. messg.

16-FT HOBIE CAT & TRAILER. Excellent con¬ dition, 2 trapezes & harnesses & other ex¬ tras. Trailer has large storage box, new tires, spare, new lights. Must see! Must sell! $2,400/060. (415) 834-3055 after July 7. Great sailing fun!

SEAWIND 24 CATAMARAN. Fun, fast 16’ wide, 100%+ flotation. Fully rigged for off¬ shore, complete electronics, trailer included. Call Michael, (415) 524-3903 days.

FOR SALE BY OWNER? Yacht Title Transfer Service offers trouble-free escrow and trust assistance for one low fee. Call Jim Irwin (415) 883-9750.

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COLUMBIA 9.6

All fiberglass parts. Most wood parts. Keel, rudder, spars, many other parts. $23,900. Call Buzz (408) 462-2890

31V2-ft sloop. Great Bay sailer, coastal cruiser. Volvo diesel, wheel steering, VHF Autohelm new dodger and sail covers, cockpit cushion, inflatable dinghy, 3 anchors, main, jib and cruis¬ ing spinnaker. New bottom paint. $29,000. (415) 821-1066

1985 BENETEAU First 38 available for charter or yacht share. Located Newport Beach. 3 bags & tri radial spin¬ naker, refrigeration, all self-tailing winches. Signet 1000 & 1500, 2 heads, sleeps 7, PHRF rated. Call Greg (213) 382-0485; Linda (714) 675-7100.

38-FT BENETEAU First 38, 1985, popular cruising layout. Two full heads, sleeps 7, Loran, refrigeration, 11 ST winches, 3 bags plus chute, Signet 1000,1500. Available for Charter. Yacht share partners wanted. $375/mo. guarantees minimum 60 days a year. Greg, (213) 382-0485. page 190

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clossy classifieds 35-FT TRIMARAN (PIVER). Live your dream! Cruised Pacific, somewhat neglected, but world cruise potential. Move aboard now! leave by winter. Sacrifice: $7,500/partiai trades considered. Owner cruising identical sistership. Message: (213) 305-7090.

MUST SELL OUTSTANDING 3-ROOM OFFICE/ HOUSEBOAT. Ferrocement. AquaMaison, 50’x16' at Pier 39. Price includes purchase of 50' slip. Total = $90,000. Boat & slip available separately. Call Sue Stout, days (415) 622-5148 or eves. (415) 491-4934.

“SUPERCAT” 29-FT SANGER CATAMARAN with trailer. Arneson surface piercing drive powered by reliable & economical Boeing 551 gas turbin engine, 70+ mph. $54,793. John Catalina, (415) 331-1662: (415) 457-3014.

LIVEABOARD 30-FT CUSTOM WOOD POWER CRUISER. No motor. Extremely comfortable & great space/storage. Shorepower, frig., h&c water, water heater, shower, galley. Full canvas cover. Built 1931. Classic, beautiful yacht. Good condition. Great for Delta living. $5,000. (415) 939-7919.

SEAWIND 24 CATAMARAN. There is no boat faster on the Bay of this size, 20 kts plus. 16-ft wide. Now rigged for offshore. 100% plus flotation. Owner relocating. Call Michael, (415) 524-3903 days.

40-FT OWENS TAHITIAN. Cabin cruiser with twin 351 Windsors, Kohler 6.5 kw gen., 240 gals, fuel, 3 Trojan batteries, charger, VHF, ADF, Speedlog, depth indicator, Loran C, automatic halon, washer/dryer, too much to list! Excellent liveaboard. Motivated seller! Vessel in Long Beach. Documented. Call (602) 937-0272 or (213) 590-9789. Asking $35,000 or best offer.

POWER / HOUSEBOATS

43-FT GRAN MARINER II, 1978, COASTAL CRUISER. Excl. cond. 600 hrs. on engines. Fully liveaboard equipped. Call for full list of equipment. Trading up. Asking $92,500. Day, (415) 399-3716; night, (415) 999-6370. 38-FT KYLE-FELLOWS DESIGNED, built by Fellows & Stewart, 1931. 9V2’ beam, cedar on oak hull completely refastened, interior & exterior teak restored as original. Repowered, Chris Chevy 283. New wiring. Sleeps 5, trunk cabin design. Worth $29,500; asking $19,500. Harry Graham, (415) 343-1154. 38 x7 x2’ HERRESHOFF POWER LAUNCH. 1979. Strip plank-fiberglass sandwich hull, Perkins dsl, 1 gphr at 10 kts, 90 gal. fuel, 2 berths, stabilizers, transom gate, swim plat¬ form, very low hours, tandem axle highway trailer, inside storage. $14,500. (209) 897-2757. 42-FT 1929 STEPHENS CLASSIC MOTORYACHT Compadre. Bristol condition, great liveaboard, refrigerated icebox, shower, dsl, cabin heater, new LPG oven, powered by two 1956 Chrysler Crown engines, overhauled 1986. Full boat cover. Sausalito slip. $75,000. (415) 331-5319. 81-FT LIVEABOARD LARGE SAILBOAT. Large quarters, full galley, 2 ovens, microwave, 2 heads, sleeps 10 in 4 staterooms, 11x16 salon. Walk-in locker, large pilothouse, large deepfreeze & holding tank. $90,000. 359-2802.

STEPHENS 45-FT, 1949. Twin Chrysler gas, classic, ref., sleeps 6, 4-burner stove/oven, great liveaboard. Will trade for 38'-up f/g cruise sailboat or $45,000/B.0. Clean survey & insured. (415) 322-4100, ext. 264 days or (408) 723-1986 eves. CLASSIC 1930 MOTORYACHT 34-FT. Cedar/ oak, Ford dsl, excellent condition. You finish interior. Great liveaboard. Full headroom below. Currently hauled out at Sanford Wood w/survey. 3rd owner reluctantly offers for sale. $15,000/offer. (415) 231-0107 after 7-4 wknd. 34-FT HUNTER CABIN CRUISER. Late '50s style, 6-cyl. Chrysler Flathead, good eng. & hull, needs some cabin woodwork & paint¬ ing. Has galley, sinks, frig., head. Can be ex¬ cellent liveaboard. Asking $4,000/B.0. Sitting Berkeley, F-38. (415) 547-7346 Steve.

OWN — DON’T RENT!!! 1/6 partner/owner wanted for 38' sloop in St. Thomas, USVI. 2 months’ sailing per year for approx. $12,000 down & $150 per month. Call (916) 47^0151 eves, for details. 50% OWNERSHIP. Hunter 30. $10,000 buyin. (415) 349-8408.

SAIL A BIG BOAT! For only $50 per month. Morgan 41 partnership available. Low equity 10K, negotiable. Berthed at Pier 39. Loads of great sailing. (415) 479-3038. 1/4 INTEREST CATALINA 30. 1978 model w/Atomic 4. stereo. S.F. berth. $3,500 monthly after. Call Bill (415)

Great Bay boat. Wheel, radio, buy-in. $145 697-9237.

ONE-THIRD INTEREST in a beautifully main¬ tained Contest 30-ft sailboat. Berthed in Clip¬ per Yacht Harbor, is available for $8,000. Contact: E.L. Spencer, Novato. (415) 897-9232. HCOD 38: FOR SALE OF PARTNERSHIP. 38 luxury cruising sloop, professionally main¬ tained like new. Little used & superbly equipped: Harken, Barient, North, etc. Known as the French Swan, an outstanding yacht! $89,900/OBO. Call Gordon, 642-7332 days; 653-5727 eves. CENTURION 42: PARTNERSHIP. New 42’ sloop. Known as the French Swan. Superbly equipped, Sausalito berth. One of the finest yachts in the world! Call for details. Gordon, 642-7332 days; 653-5727 eves. WANT TO BE WORKING & PAYING PART¬ NER in 32’-40’ sailboat. I’m an experience boatbuilder with over 15,000 ocean miles. Willing to trade maintenance for boat use. Please call Franz at (415) 456-2836. PARTNERSHIP. Challenger 24. 50% owner¬ ship. S.F. slip. Fully equipped. $2,500. 941-1682.

PARTNERSHIP NORDIC FOLKBOAT. 1/3 interest, classic restored vessel in excellent condition, surveyed, majority owner is a professional boat builder. $2,000 puts you on the Bay. (415) 824-6161 or (415) 647-9190. PARTNERSHIP — CAL 20. Berthed in Sausalito, in excellent condition, nearly new outboard. Boat is seldom used. Just hauled & all set to sail. Only $900! Call John Howe, 332-6262 or. eves. 461-8070.

BOATWRIGHT SERVICES Decks, hatches, interiors. Laminated and steam bent shapes. All marine woodworking. Scott Ray, (415) 488-0716

SAIL — DIVE — SEA OF CORTEZ Charter, dive equipped 40-ft sailboat in La Paz. Bareboat or Captained. Explore wrecks, caves, Sea Lion Island & beautiful Baja. Fully equipped, watermaker, freezer & compressor. From $2,100/week. Ph: (415) 365-0498 days, Iv. msg: (415) 365-5073.

WANTED: HIGH-PERFORMANCE PARTNER. I have an exciting, comfortable 30’ double¬ spreader sloop w/Yanmar dsl. Srtiall class racing from Santa Cruz slip. $1,500 buy-in, 1/2 interest at $300 per month. (408) 338-4859. MORGAN 38 — PARTNERSHIP INTEREST. Share the fun of this fully equipped, topquality Bay & bluewater cruiser, without the hassles of ownership. Comfortable, stable & exciting to sail. S.F. location. Fully main¬ tained. Experienced sailors. $250/mo. (415) 328-2408.

PARTNERSHIP FOR SAIL. Cal 2-30 — 1/3 interest in a great Bay, Delta & ocean boat. Fast & seaworthy. Good partners. Sleeps 6, Atomic 4 i.b., knotmeter, stove, dinghy. Great berth at S.F. Marina Green. $3,500+ payments. (415) 848-7350. ISLANDER 44 PARTNERSHIP. 1/4 or 1/3 share. S.F. Marina berth. Wheel, BMW dsl, loran, depth, knot, stove, refrig., new roller furling. Negotiate terms for share or consider sell 100% for $60,000/OBO. (415) 239-8569. 1/3 INTEREST IN A SAN JUAN 24-FT for only $1.500/0B0 and $120 per month covers docking & all expenses. Virtually unlimited use. New Sobstad main, 2 jibs, 150,170 & spinnaker. In good sailing condi¬ tion. Trailer included. (415) 675-5189 days; (415) 239-7821 eves. CAL 20 — 1/2 PARTNERSHIP. Extra sails, clean, rigged for singlehandling including center post. Sausalito berth. New engine, super flexible schedule. Like your very own for only $1,650. 781-1960 p.m.’s. FOR SALE. Express 27 — 1/2 partnership. Beautiful condition. Actively raced. Loaded including trailer, 9 bags of sails & substantial credit on next sail purchase. $14K. 236-5424.

CREW

FRIENDS OF BILL W. Taking a trip, not tak¬ ing a trip? I would like to sail on a boat "greater than my own”. Certified coastal navigator, have been instructed in celestial navigation. I want to sail S.F. Bay, Lake Tahoe, but especially coastal sailing. Two years S.F. Bay sailing experience, depend¬ able. Ray Muller (702) 847-9096. CREW WANTED. Two sailors, one cook, to sail aboard 54' cutter to Caribbean. Leaving in Sept. Numerous voyages to Hawaii & Mexico. Owner/captain licensed for 75 tons. Write to P.O. 1744, El Granada, CA 94018. FREE SPIRIT (43), LIVING ON THE BAY. Seeking to share life aboard 40’ sailboat with lady of like "drifting”. Be young at heart, hearty of soul, for future warmer waters. Willing to exchange photos. P.O. Box 2011, So. San Francisco, CA 94083-2011.

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STEEL BOATBUILDING SEMINAR ’88 Learn how to build your own steel hull from those who make a living at the trade. Learn con¬ struction techniques, problem solving for layout work, welding techniques and tips, plan selec¬ tion and economics, and much more. To be held at Pier 66, August 19-21, for more info contact SIERRA YACHTWERKS, P.O. BOX 167, Clarksburg, CA 95612. (916) 744-1211.

RANGER 37 CHARTER

CLASSIC SAILING ADVENTURES

Looking for 8 people to pay $80/month for one Sat. or Sun. per month. Weekdays free. Current IOR and PHRF certificates. Call or write for details: Bruce McHugh, P.O. Box 1683, El Granada, CA 94018. (408) 752-3003 days.

Aboard lovely 50-ft 1927 Alden yawl, U.S.C.G. charter approved. Mexico, Catalina, Channel Islands, trace steps of Henry Dana. Learn traditional sailboat handling. 1,2,5,12 days/longer, skippered/bareboat. Romance of bygone era. "ROWDY” (619) 729-1718.

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dossy clossif ieds USED GEAR. Furling system. Famet Reefurl

CREW. Waiting for my beautiful & fast ocean racer/cruiser "Pearson 35”, available for ex¬ tended cruise, set-up for liveaboard, South Pacific, Caribbean, Australia! Adventurous lady sailor seeks you! Admiral, find me & take me away! Romance awaits. SES.

RYA QUALIFIED, ENTHUSIASTIC, 21-yearold, looking for any crew/deckhand work available. Will consider any task, any location and not restricted by time. Contact: G. Allardice, 213 Chase Side, Southgate, London N14 5LE, UK. Tel: 01 449 9491. CRUISING LADY WANTED. 40+, for 43’ steel ketch cruising Mexico summer & fall, So. Pacific to Australia in '89. Should be en¬ thusiastic for active cruising. Resume & photo to: Yate Joie (in-transit), Marina de La Paz, La Paz, BCS, Mexico.

CREW. Our on-again, off-again trip to Florida is on again thanks to a just right windfall. Depart mid-Nov. Spend time in Mexico, Costa Rica, San Bias Is., Belize. Arrive Florida approx. 1st of June. We have a 40’ ketch. We’re open for someone from here to Mex¬ ico or Mexico to Florida or all the way. Not big party people, more prone to exploring places. Share food exp. Some experience preferred. Call John or Greta Pyle, (415) 522-2163.

SKIPPER MY BOAT. I have a beautiful Ericson 29.1 am not ready to skipper. If you are, come daysail with me, have a good time & help me learn. Write: Ericson, 156 Purdue, Kensington, CA 94708. CREW AVAILABLE. Want to crew So. Pacific (N.Z.-Aust). Good health, hard-working, responsible male (26), taking year-off to travel. Some sailing experience, learn quick¬ ly. Leaving July/Aug. Martin, San Diego. (619) 272-7157. Call eves., keep trying.

LONG-DISTANCE SAILORS WANTED for fall 1988 departure from San Diego on Tayana 37'. Solvent, long-term, serious only please. Owner is 45. Reply as soon as possible ac¬ count planning. P.0. Box 60601, San Diego, CA 92106. (619) 692-9808.

NON-PROFIT

GAY YACHT CLUB. Barbary Coast Boat Club.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

IV2” size. Fits up to 9/32” headstay; up to 50-ft luff length: $600. 40-ft luff length: $500. (408) 263-7633 Gene.

CREW, ENGINEERS, CAPTAINS for Christian medical mission aboard 71 ’ sailing catamaran. Opportunities to serve God & man beginning July. Coast of U.S. & Marshall Islands. Room, board, stipend. Canvasback Missions, 1090 Adams, Suite H, Benicia, CA 94510. (707) 746-7828.

PLATH EQUIP. 54" Davits model 220 com¬ plete, DE 770 Horiz. deck ext., EX-24 vert, ext., TM 600 transom mounts, DS701 davit swivels, LBC95 live bait tank complete, 2245B bow roller, 30-ft. IV2" Red Gates hose. All new, 60 off. Offers, (503) 863-4029.

HELP WANTED: Growing marine chandlery

AVON REDSEAL. 8 years, w/floorboards,

needs knowledgeable part-time sales help and part-time bookkeeper. Landfall Marine, Sausalito. 331-2806.

MAJOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY with internationally-based Doyle Sailmakers. Sales & marketing, service loft manager for Oakland office, high-growth potential, require experience in sailmaking & sales, good rap¬ port in sailing community. (619) 226-2131; (619) 222-6314. LEARN LIFERAFT SERVICE. Need one per¬ son to train & take charge. Ask for Barnet, 268-9300.

USED GEAR

JIB TOPSAIL. Luff 46.5’; foot 44.3’, leech 58'. This sail has some real hand work! And is in near perfect condition. Will sell for 20% replacement cost. John (415) 368-7802, Redwood City.

MONITOR SELF-STEERING VANE. Used once to Hawaii and return. Worked beautiful¬ ly but no longer have need. $1,500. Neverused Zodiac 6-person emergency liferaft. Canister. $1,500. (801) 649-3394.

pump, engine mount, oars: $300; Kenwood R-1000 world-wide receiver, 2-29 MHz: $200; Sailor R-109 receiver 12v & batteries: $100; Shakespeare VHF ant. w/mount, 50’ coax: $20. John, (415) 522-2163.

1981 JOHNSON 9.9 HP. Low hours, long shaft, electric start. Price $700 firm. Call eves. 922-1941.

USED GEAR: Avon 6-man double floor liferaft, ICOM IC-M5 portable VHF, ACR Class B EPIRB, 18"x15” 3-blade bronze prop., navigation forms, tables & sextant, flare gun plus much more. (707) 823-6293.

MISCELLANEOUS

ISLAND RETREAT. Fly in, sail away. Fabled Orcas Island in the San Juans is a northwoods paradise! 2 bdrm, 2 bath home w/garden, large garage & workshop plus additional 2 bdrm, 1 bath apartment for guests or income. One block from private air¬ port, marina & beach. 1/2 mile to town of Eastsound. Owner must sell. $138,500/offer. (415) 662-2237.

MAGNAVOX 4102 SATNAV: $1,575; Suzuki 4 hp outboar: $525; both 18 mos. old. 12-ft forespar 'spinnaker pole: $90. (415) 655-2735 eves.s

SAN FRANCISCO — PIER 39.36-ft berth for

MY STARS — WHAT A DEAL! Roth Brothers sextant, newly overhauled. CMA graduate received two! Asking $400. Call Dennis, weekdays (415) 697-5329; weekends & eves. 592-6936.

FOR LEASE: Emerycove Marina, best 30-ft berth, $140 monthly. (415) 329-0950 biz; (415) 968-0157 eves., Franklin.

ISOMAT ALUM. MAST, new xx9.73 by yy19.94, 5”x7.5”, 41 feet overall, bare ex¬ trusion with factory taper, double spreader ears, internal halyard blocks & messenger. First $350 takes & you haul it away. Slight ding in shipping. (916) 744-1211.

DIESEL ENGINE. Volvo MD-2B. Completely rebuilt May 1988. 1:1.87 reduction gear, 55 amp alternator, complete factory instru¬ ments. $1,950/trades considered. (415) 381-4509 or P.O. Box 1685, Sausalito, CA 94966.

sale. Excellent price & conditions. Prime marina location. Call Doug Gooding, days at 397-6700.

36-FT PIER 39 SLIP FOR SALE. Great loca¬ tion, parking, many amenities. $30,000/B.0. Call 981-2848. CLUB NAUTIQUE FAMILY LIFE MEMBER¬ SHIP for sale, $2,000. Learn to sail, charters, parties, cruises, fun for whole family! Save $750 over new membership cost! Call (415) 521-8753.

BERTH SWAP. Trade slips for month of August with Cal 29 at Hidden Harbor (Cache Slough at Steamboat, near Rio Vista). Prefer GGYC, SFYC, Richmond, or vicinity. Call Gene, (916) 445-7983 days or (916) 455-1544 eves.

VOLVO PENTA MD11C diesel engine, 23 hp, rebuilt '87: $1,300. Also Mariner o.b. 4 hp short shaft: $200. Both run very good, visible in Vallejo. Call eves/weekends. (916) 985-7153.

parts, clutch for wheel adapt: $1,000; Zodiac 4-man emergency liferaft, cannister type: $600. Eves. (415) 331-5605.

SEXTANT C. PLATH. 6/30 scope, mahogany case, like new: $975; Walker log MKIIIKDO: $320; Kelvin-Hughes quartz chronometer, 4.5 sec/mo: $240; Autohelm 1000: $350; Signal-flat set (40), 12x25, unused: $135. Weems-Plath hand-bearing compass, wood case: $65. (408) 249-0236 =

Gain a winning edge. SL300 model, new in box, digital compass, wind sp/direct, heel angle, boat speed/rmg, programmable, trends, complete package only $1,900/OBO. Orig. price was $3,100. Call Scott (714) 830-7346, can leave message.

USED GEAR: Monitor steering vane w/spare

TRAILER, 3-AXLE WITH BRAKES. Designed to launch & retrieve 28-32’ keel sailing yacht. Seven adj. pads. Excellent condition. Two vehicle available. Trailer: $2,500/offer; truck: $3,000/offer. (916) 891-8736.

SIGNET'S BEST RACING INSTRUMENTS! CHARTS AND BOAT. Twenty charts for Gulf & east coasts, w/Bahamas chart kit. Unused, but 9-10 years old. All for $100. ULDB available for cooperative use, race or pleasure. Call Ants at 658-8073 message.

(415) 237-1213.

MARINA & YACHT MAINTENANCE Cleaning bilges, hulls, bright work, etc. Prep work, paint &/or varnishing. Fiberglass reconditioning. Dock Repair: dock boxes, carpentry, painting & cleaning. Top quality work at fair prices. Call Joel (415) 453-3447

SAIL THE SEA OF CORTEZ $1,500/September thru May. $1,250/June thru August. 41 -ft Morgan Outlsland ketch. Sleeps 7. 3 cabins, 2 heads. Fully equipped. Can be crewed and/or provisioned. Bob Moore (707) 765-1960 or (415) 883-7720.

USED SAILS

LIVE THE EXPERIENCE — EARN YOUR CRUISING CERTIFICATE

We’ve got over 100 used sails in stock. Examples: Santana 22 main: $325; Ericson 35 main, new $1,100; Catalina 30 105% jib: $450; Hunter 31 1.5 oz. spinnaker: $1,200; 1.5 oz. 1,648 sq.ft, cruising spinnaker: $1,200. Pineapple Sails (415) 444-4321.

San Juan Islands hands-on instructional cruises. 2, 5 & 7-day cruises low as $205. Personal instruction, exceptional boats, excellent meals. SAILCRAFT MARINE SAILING SCHOOL, 2419 S.W. 146, Seattle, WA 98166 (206) 244-5797.

LEARN COASTAL/OFFSHORE CRUISING SKILLS Among Santa Barbara’s challenging Channel Islands! Join John & Randi Sanger — couple who’ve sailed 30,000 mi. together — for a 3, 4 or 5-day personalized instructional cruise aboard their Valiant 40 Grebe. Tenth season. Brochure & schedule: EDUCATIONAL CRUISING, P.O. Box 1165, Santa Barbara, CA 93102. (805) 967-4700.

GO CRUISING WITHOUT “GOING CRUISING”! Cruise the Channel Islands this summer. Scenic, quiet, remote and only 14 miles from VENTURA ISLE MARINA at Ventura Harbor, 1363 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura, CA 93001. (805) 644-5858. Slips available now from $6.90 per foot.

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classy classifieds BOAT SUP FOR RENT BY OWNER. Beautiful modern marina. Excellent location, sunny & protected. 3 mins, to Bay Bridge, super amenities, showers, phone, laundry, parking, market, security, elect, storage box, private phone line. 45"x17" upwind: $225 per month. Call Robert Rodriguez (415) 656-2702. FOR SALE: SAILBOAT TRAILER. Fixed keel boat, 3,500 lbs. 500 miles total travel. $1,850. Days (415) 449-1352; eves. (415) 449-5515. FREE!! Boat magazines. American & British. Up to 40 years old. Good cond. Some rare collector’s items. Mags free. Coupla bucks requested for advt. & my time. Joe, (213) 372-6814.

EXPERIENCED SAILOR with a Mooney air¬ craft based at Hayward, wishes to exchange use with owner of cruising/racing-type sailboat based East Bay. Partnership could be considered as well as some flexibility for tie¬ down/berthing. (415) 581-9987 anytime.

SAILING COUPLE WANTS TO CHARTER your boat for 3-5 days during the week in August. Willing to clean-up and do minor repairs for considerations on cost. Will also share charter with couple. Please call Tom (408) 978-5365.

WANTED: Ferro-cement ketch or steel ketch. Any size above 39 feet. (408) 262-4478. EXPERIENCED, RELIABLE INDIVIDUAL with references desires to rent a vessel to liveaboard. Willing to pay berth fees and/or routinely maintain. Sausalito preferred. Michelle (415) 845-6255.

AM LOOKING TO TRADE for 36 -42’ cruising boat. Have 30 Yamaha & cash. Leave name, phone # and boat info at (415) 824-1856.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET OUT from under expensive monthly bills on your large sailboat? Responsible Marin corporate business owner wants to lease/purchase a large liveaboard sailboat (wood okay). Since a recent venture is moderately new, banks will not provide me a bank loan for another 1 to 1 Vi years. If you will caryy ownership for a time (or paper), I can direct substantial pre¬ sent rent payments into a boat. I am an ex¬ perienced sailor & have excellent references. Shall we talk? (415) 331-9306.

Stephens design, aluminum built, strong, sleek, fine crafted custom teak & mahogany interior. 3 dbl cabins, 2 baths. Go-fast gear & Barient grinders. Inspect at MDR. Motivated to sell now! Call (213) 931-0034.

ERICSON 30. Well-equipped & maintained with many extras. This solidly built, 1969 Bruce King design provides comforts & features ideal for Bay cruising. In Alameda. $22,000 or ?? (415) 254-9163. SANTANA 35. Ready to race! Completely reconditioned. $45,000. (415) 837-2782 or (602) 844-1211 or (602) 891-6275. CRUISING PARTNERSHIPS. $6,900 lets you cruise-drive 43’ motorsailer slowly around the world in monthly installments. Bay sail¬ ing now. 873-8008, evenings.

40-FT CHARMING LIVEABOARO Bluewater

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

1980-plus cruising sloop. I have cash (most important), Ranger 26 and Hobie 16. If in¬ terested, Fred at 654-0733; 786-2300.

Sweden. Hull structureally better than new. Overall fair condition — decks need work. VHF, stereo, 2-burner propane stove, woodburning stove. Asking $15,000. (714) 642-0976.

54-FT FAST CRUISING SLOOP. Sparkman &

WANTED

WANTED: I want to trade up to a 30-32’

35-FT OHLSON SLOOP. Built in 1956 in

Motorsailer Hartley design, ferro-cement. Longitudinal & diagonal rebar stringers with 1/2" square wire mesh, epoxy fairing (com¬ plete documentation). Low maint. teak & for¬ mica interior. Propane cooking & heating. Dual hyd. steering. We must sell our wonder¬ ful family yacht due to poor health. Will con¬ sider trades. Asking a realistic $40,000. San Diego, (619) 454-6319.

PEARSON 34,1984 SLOOP. Mint condition. Sleeps six. 25 hp 4-cyl. diesel. VHF, depth/ speed, stereo, etc. Self-furling jib. Must sell now. $55,000/OBO. (408) 746-0414 nights; (408) 773-5047 days.

CAL 2-27. Great choice, now see mine! Dodger, dsl, autopilot, extensive custom cabinetry, 4 sails, new rigging, through head & holding tank, BBQ, VHF, knot, depth, stereo, comprehensive safety package, shower, press, water, tabernacled mast drops w/electric winch. $23,000/OBO. (415) 467-5030. ,

MARINE ELECTRONICS. Loran, Texas In¬ struments - TI5000 with TI9930 Speech op¬ tion, & SatNav. TI9900.. Complete with antennas & manuals, ready to install. Price: $900 takes all. Call Mel at (213) 927-1377 days; (213) 598-8325 eves.

CATALINA 27-FT, 1973. Inboard, Atomic 4, midship dinette, knot, depth, VHF, 1 lOv and 12v, compass, bilge pump, trickle charger, Scentry detector, Lectra/san head, alcohol stove. Bristol clean. $14,400. (415) 341-8009.

TRADE? SELL? Columbia 28-ft. Roomy, dry

SEAWORTHY 31-FT TANCOOK gaff-rigged schooner. Zero hours on Grey Marine in¬ board. Good sails. Built 1962 by Bill Duffim in Sausalito. Now finishing new paint, bot¬ tom, varnish. Cruise in style, inexpensively. $15,500. 243-9129 or 282-3038, for a little simple elegance.

& stable. Easy self-furl jib. New cushions in & out. Hood sails, elect. 9.9 Evinrude, dark blue hull. Depth, VHF, compass, full hdrm. $9,400. Call J. Monte, days 454-2030; eves. 383-1841.

NEW 38-FT DOWNEASTER. All fiberglass, built for serious cruising. Hull, deck, liner, tanks & ballast. Save $$$’s and finish yourself or help available. In fully equipped Newport Beach boatyard. $22,000 cash or terms. Must sell. Days (714) 730-5363 or eves. (714) 832-7729.

PARTNERSHIP, LEASE, LEASE OPTION, SALE, OR... 30-ft Swan look-a-like.

40-FT HERRESHOFF KETCH Neria. Profes¬ sionally built 1973 fir over oak. Bronze fastened, sound condition. 50% ballast. 100 gal. water, 100 gal. dsl, 36 hp Volvo. 1,000 mile motor range. Reduced 7,300 to $36,000. (707) 445-2525.

33-FT CHEOY LEE CLIPPER KETCH, 1975. Year-round cruise, (415) 524-3065.

liveaboard.

$36,000

NOR’SEA 27 AFT CABIN. Raised cockpit coaming. Oversized rigging. DS, knotlog, Autohelm, EPIRB, RDF, VHF, phone, generator, dodger, refrig., auto fire control, 2 batteries & charger, shore power, 2 com¬ passes. Sails: main, 110, 150 & drifter. 40 gal. water, 30 gal. dsl, 3 anchors + chain. Rigged to singlehand, dual lifelines. Proven bluewater cruiser. $33,500. (415) 566-9462. 1973 35-FT CORONADO SLOOP. Great liveaboard berth South Bay Peninsula. ACDC refrig., AC-DC stereo, AC-DC color TV, radio direction finder, VHF FM radio tele., depthsounder & a microwave oven. $42,000/ best offer. Call (415) 366-9088.

WYLIE WABBIT 24-FT. Fully race equipped, 2 full suits of sails, trapeze, trailer. Excellent condition. $5,900. Call Rich in Oakland at (415) 653-5895.

Beautiful, strong, well-balanced bpat in ex¬ cellent condition. PHRF 180. Here’s your chance to be creative. Let’s talk! Eves or leave message (408) 289-9751.

BALTIC YACHT SERVICE

YOU CAN NAVIGATE

Quality wood care • Varnish • Refinishing • Decks Compound • Wax • Oiling • Cleaning • Maintenance Programs. Fast • Reasonable Rates (415) 759-6389

Practical, quick and simple seminar on Celestial Navigation. One day — Inexpensive — Group rates For reservations, call: (415) 282-3041.

YACHT FOR CHARTER

FAIRWIND SAILING CLUB

Yankee Clipper 41-ft ketch. Immaculate condition, autopilot, loran, teak decks, refrigeration, TV, VCR, stereo & maid service. Available July 23—Sept. 16. Sleeps six comfortably. Very reasonable weekly rates. Call Skip, 861-6519.

Learn to sail or improve your skills. Basic to advanced. Safety & seamanship, taught by U.S. Coast Guard Captain, Lie. #21774. $165.00 initiation and $35.00 per month. 35’ Fantasia, 40 persons max. 370-2080.

WOMEN THIS IS WHAT YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR:

SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

A vacation in a warm place when it’s cold at home and an opportunity to learn sailing skills in an atmosphere of respect. Nov. 11-18. Stay for Thanksgiving in Tahiti. Nov. 19-26. Mahina Cruising Services, Box 10567, Bainbridge Is., WA 98110. (206) 842-6834.

Home, Garage, Cottage Industry type. A painless, SOLO, cartop boat loader & secure carrier. Over 500 sold. Total customer satisfaction. Sacrifice, stock, machinery, tooling, etc. Dobler (213) 372-6814.

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Jus,in Thyme Services will make you proud of your boat. Brightwork, a soecialtv ... revivina teak decks, our secret. We also attend to painting, rigging & general maintenance. Professional, fast & eco¬ nomical, we offer free, accurate estimates & references. Call today! (415) 331-0723 page 193

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INSURANCE AND DOCUMENTATION

Don’t miss it! Saturday, 9-5, July 16 at Sutter Sails. For your convenience bring dimensions. See you at the loft — 3rd floor, ICB (300 Harbor Dr.), Sausalito. Tell your friends!

DONA JENKINS MARITIME DOCUMENT SERVICE, INC. U.S.C.G. Documentation, Mexican Fishing Licenses Mexican Consular Clearances 1050 Rosecrans #3, San Diego, CA 92106 (619) 223-2279

At Brisbane Marina July 16,8 a.m.-4 p.m. Take Sierra Point exit off Rte. 101 two miles south of Candlestick Park. Sponsored by Sierra Point Yacht Club. $5.00 charge for venders, public free. For more information contact Marion Stratton, (415) 871-6841.

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ION ELECTRONICS, FRIENDLY SERVICES All electronics on board Service, Sale & Installation. Call anytime for Free Estimate & Consulting. You will get the Best Electronic Services at the lowest price. Weekends available. Phone: (415) 948-6730.

Kelly/McCall Studio

Andiamo, the MacGregor 65 is now booking for the 1988 season.

UNIQUE DESIGNS • HAND LETTERING - IN/OUT WATER POLYURETHANE PAINTS • RACING GRAPHICS AND STRIPES <415) 765-2579 (415) 849-9151

Experience sensational speeds at very reasonable rates. Available for day charters and sunset cruises. Call Cass’ Marina, (415) 332-6789.

CHARTER THE BEST ON THE BAY

Classy Classifieds Personal Ad: $20 Business Ad: $35 Deadline: the 18th of each month prior to publication Payment must accompany ad

P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966 page 194

ALL NEW

DEALERS FOR

O’DAY 240

MONTGOMERY SAILBOATS and DINGHIES HMS J/BOATS O’DAY PRINDLE CATS

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New Interior Aft Berth Closed Head r Wing Keel Easy to Launch Easy to Retrieve

SELECTED BROKERAGE 19’ HMS W. Wight Potter

CAPRI 25

1984, sleeps 5, galley, trlr, 3 sails, VHF, DF, etc. Ready for cruising. Asking $6,500

’85, fixed keel sloop, trlr, 5hp Honda, 6 North sails, Harken blocks/cleats. Immac, ready to race/cruise. Only $13,500.

CAL 24 ’63 classic from Jensen' Marine. Trlr, o/b, 4 sails, gd cond, ready for summer fun. Asking $6,995.

U.S. 27 1982 Pearson, masthead sloop, Iso gelcoat, 3.5’ draft, cast iron keel, whl steer’g w/pod instru¬ ments, h&c shower, Volvo dsl, new custom-hinged maststep.

Asking $25,000.

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ERICSON 27

^tocIcdaL ACzrina <£ A/avicfitlon (Zznter 4730 Myrtie Avenue Sacramento, CA 95841

(916) 332-0775

Yanmar dsl, North sails, roller furling genoa, whl steering; a fresh water boat in Bristol con¬ dition & loaded with equipment! A bargain at 24,750 but owner anxious! Asking $19,950.

ORION 27 A 1980 Pacific Seacraft cutter, 5 sails, Yanmar dsl, excellent con¬ dition, full keel, ready for cruis¬ ing. Replacement over $70,000.

Asking $38,500.

HUNTER 30 1978, Yanmar diesel, sleeps 6, 3 sails, wheel steering, h&c water, shower. Asking $29,500.

PEARSON 303 1983, Bill Shaw design. Yanmar diesel, 3 sails, sleeps 5, shower, electronics, fresh water boat.

Asking $50,000.

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ADVERTISER'S INDEX

Allstate Insurance.86 Allwest Marine Safety. Inc. ... 181 Alpha Marine Systems.26 Anchorage Brokers & Consultants.45 Andersen U.S.A.62,68 Antioch. City of.181 Armchair Sailor. The .49 Bailiwick.68 Bailenger Spars.159 Bay Bridge Yachts.197 Bay Riggers. Inc.24 Bayside Dredging Co.71 Baytronics.52,53.54 BC Navigation Center.55 Bellhaven Marine .196 Benicia Marina .60 Bilge Busters.181 Blue Dolphin Yachts International ..198 Boater's Friend.78 Bock. Chris. Instruments.82 Brisbane Marina .52 British Marine.86 BSA Stanford.52 Cable Moore / Famet Marine ..14 Cal Berkeley.75,196 Cal-Coast Marine.40 Cal-Marine Electronics.59 California Custom Canvas .... 43 California Maritime Academy Foundation .180 Canyon Industries.50 Capital Workshop Insurance .83 Capitola Bay Marina.159

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City Yachts ..208 Concord Yamaha.135 Continental Marine.159 Corlett & Blasier.207 Cruising World Yachts.10,11 Curran, Steve, Yacht Sales . . .85 Cutters Quality Woods.55 D'Anna Sailing Co.2.47 Dickerson. R.E., Insurance ... .86 Douglas,James. Enterprises . 86 Downwind Designs.180 Downwind Marine .135 Dunne. Michael F.. Insurance . .62 Eagle Yacht Sales .15 Edgewater Yacht Sales.202 Edinger Marine Services.73 Emery Cove Marina.70 Fairweather Marine .74 Famous Foam Factory .23 Farallone Yacht Sales .15 Feeney Wire Rope and Rigging . 66 First New England Financial.... 58 Fraser Yachts.200 Glen Cove Marina.79 Glen Cove Yacht Sales.200 Golden Glow Solar.. 180 Golden State Diesel.181 Golden State International ... 196 Gorman. Bill. ^ Yacht Sales.203 Harken Shoes.50 Hatler. Don. Yachts.67 Hawthorne Engine Systems.... 82 Haynes Sails .86 Helmut’s Marine Service.180 Helms Yacht & Ship.20 Hewett's Marine.79 Hogin Sails.51

Holly Solar.78 Hood Sailmakers.6 Hulse Spars.135 Integre Marine.204 Island Passage Sailing.180 J/Boats West .201 J/World .19 Johnson-Hicks.31 Jones, Steve, Woodworking .180 Jonsson, Arne. Boatbuilder ... 181 Kappas Marina .29 Kensington Yachts.37 Lampe & Martin.204 Landfall Marine.30 Larsen Sails.46 Leading Edge Sails.78 Lee Sails.65 List Marine.65 Lock-R-Vent. 149 Marin Motorsports.149 Marin Yacht Sales.202 Marine Engineering.117 Marine Machine .79 Marine Servicenter.154 Maritime Electronics. 42 Marion Sailmakers.13,169 Maritime Store, The.155 Marks-Clark Insurance.135 Maryland National Bank.24 Maskell Marine Services .180 McGinnis Insurance.60 Metal Magic ..181 Milano Yachts.79,205 Monterey Bay Fiberglass.53 Nau*T*Kol.54 Nelson's Marine .57.68 North Sails.9 Nynex Boaters Directory.12 Oakland Rim & Wheel .19 O'Neills Yacht Center.77 Olympic Circle Sailing Club .53 Outboard Motor Shop, The.119 Oyster Point Marina.180

Pacific Coast Canvas.29 Paradise Yacht Charters.155 Parker, Kermit. Yacht Sales . . 206 Passage Yachts.4,5 PelaFoam.181 Peninsula Marine Services.61 Perkins Power West..87 Pettit Paints.69,80 Pineapple Sails.3 Pitchometer.155 Proper-Tighe Marine .63 PVC Boat Ladders .86 Raytheon.13 Rex Yacht Sales .198 Richmond Boat Works.44 Richmond Marina Bay.58 Richmond Yacht Service.154 Repo Hotline.204 Royal Yachts. Inc.28 'Ruby' for Charter.66 San Diego Marriott.64 San Francisco Bay Boat Brokers.197 San Francisco Boat Works.155 San Francisco Bay Yachting Center .36.37,38.39 San Francisco Marine Exchange I 19^ Sandaro Industries.48 Sausalito Y^ht Sales.200 Scanmar Marine Products.80 Schoonmaker Point Marina ... I 19 SCMA .84 Seabreeze Boat Yard .72 Seabreeze Ltd.66 Sea of Cortez Yacht Charters 64 Seafrost.181 Seagull Marine.64,84 Seaswell Yachts .56 Seapower Marine.62 Sobstad Sails.145 South Bay Yacht Racing Assoc. 159 South Beach Harbor.18 Spinnaker Shop, The.80

Stanford University.70 Starbuck Canvas Works.23 Star Marine Electronics.38 Stockdale Marine & Navigation Center .195 Stone Boat Yard.76 Sunroad Resort Marina.7 Sunset Yachts.16,17 Sutter Sails.54 Svendsen’s Boat Works.22 Tatoosh Marine .8 Klotz, Taylor, Videos.81 Technical Education Institute . . 19 Thomson, Charles Yachts Ltd.34.35 T.N.E. Marine, Inc.196 Tradewind Instruments Ltd .... 58 UK Sailmakers of Sausalito .... 25 Underwood Marine .196 Vallejo Marina.70 Vancouver Yacht Co.85 Voyager Marine.41 Waterfront Cafe.71 Weatherford BMW.65 West Cal Yachts.199 West Coast Inflatables.71 West Marine Products.21,88,89 Western Marine Enterprises .159 Westwind Precision Boat Details .43 Whale Point Marine Supply ... 30 World Yacht Center.32,33 Yacht; Bay Scow Barge.19 Yacht; 'Bondi Tram’.199 Yacht; 'Lobo'.197 Yacht: Transpac 49.196 Yacht:'Peregrin'.197 Yacht: Santana 35.149 Yacht: Vagabond 42 ketch 198 YachtCare.81 Yacht Masters.56 Yacht Registry.196 Yegen Marine.27 Yukon Inflatables.66

A classic Tom Gilmer design w/full keel, medium displ. for superior cruising perfor¬ mance. “Mollymawk" is a 1-owner boat which has been exceedingly well cared for. Well equip w/elect., Yanmar dsl, whl, shower, hot wtr, roller furling, dodger, shore power, self-tailing winches, more. A rare opportunity. At our docks. Must Sell. Owner Anxious. Call with offers!

GOLDEN BEAR ex "Bravura

1981 Frers 46' Outstanding Ocean Racing Record. Fully Equipped. Available for Lease/Purchase.

MOLLYMAWK ft

Call: Rob Anderson UC Berkeley Foundation (415) 642-4000 Broker Inquiries Welcome

Own Your Own Home in Downtown Sausalito

SWEDE

Swedish design and con¬ struction. Fast, seaworthy, superb for Bay sailing or racing. Easily handled for fast, comfortable offshore cruising. Recent survey and epoxy job. Owner moti¬ vated. Asking $90,000!!

The "squarehead" Bay Scow Barge recently converted into a classic sailing houseboat pro¬ vides the ultimate lifestyle. This unique vessel provides comfortable

living

LOA . . . 52’6” Beam . 9’10" Draft .. .67'’ Displ 15,700# Ballast 7,100#

accomoda¬

At Our Docks

tions with large galley, double berth,

shower,

dining

table

UNDERWOOD MARINE WEST

seating 6, woodburning stove, and a museum collector's piece

1070 Marina Village Parkway, Ste. 104 Alameda, CA. 94501 • (415) 865-1011

new 2 cylinder Hicks engine. (415) 459-7404 Phil (415) 662-2222 Ned

1982 TRANS PAC 49 MK II $175,000 For Sale By Owner 49’ World Cruising Ketch/Luxurious Live Aboard. Teak Decks w/Teak & Holly Sole, professionally maintained. Three Staterooms, two electric heads w/showers, large airy salon, nav station, galley w/triple burner propane stove & microwave. Custom fabrics thruout. Complete sail inventory incl. spinnaker, 120 H.P. Ford Lehman deisel w/under 600 hrs., 3.5 K.W. Onan generation w/under 300 hrs. Raytheon Radar, Loran, V.H.F. transceiver, log, auto pilot, VDO, wind inst. Depth Sounder w/repeat stn. Other options incl. electric windless, dinghy w/15 H.P. Johnson motor, 8 man Avon survival raft w/EPIRB, complete boat covers. Amenities incl. refrig/freezer, color tv w/rotor ant., custom 100 W Kenwood stereo w/C.D. & six speakers. Replacement cost $240,000. Must see & sail to truly appreciate. Principals only.

CALL MARK (408) 984-0400.

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STEEL

FOLKES 39

PILOTHOUSE

13’6” LOA — 7’6” Nested

T.N.E. Marine, Inc.

P.O. Box 1517 Bethel Island, CA 94511 (415) 684-3481

Don't Let Rocks, Whales Or Coral Reefs Spoil Your Cruising Pleasure Get The Safety Of Steel rOLKES 39 PH CUTTER with aft double berth, Yanmar diesel, insulated hull, 2 station hydraulic steering, 3 sails, ST winches, VHF, DS, stove, refrigera¬ tion, anchor windlass, teak grates, Awlgrip. paint . . . $89,900.

BEU8AVCN MMHKMC

#9 Squalicum Mall Bellingham, WA 98225

(106)733-669* page 196

PEREGRINE

FOR SALE

A custom 26' pocket voyaging yacht for the serious singlehandler or adventurous couple. Based on the classic Marieholm fiberglass Folkboat hull, PEREGRINE is built and equipped for safety and performance on the ocean, and pride in craftsmanship at the dock. Jim Jessie survey says ",All work is of the highest quality, using the nest materials available. The vessel is overbuilt in all respects." Just returned from Mexico and meticulously maintained. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Full keel, inslulated Fiberglass hull Leakproof hull/deck bond Watertight collision bulkhead Watertight lockers Custom double headsail rig designed by Tom Wiley and built by Hulse-Chrisman Oversized and redundant rigging & chainplates Five headsails including cruising spinnaker 5 hp Tohatsu outboard Monitor self-steering Seagold desalinator Sitex sat-nav Lo-Kata radar detector Datamarine depthsounder Walker log Icom VHF Sony multi band receiver

• • • • • • • • • • • • •

Ritchie, Silva, and Morin compasses Mobil and Sovonics solar panels Achilles dinghy Barient, Harken, Schaefer, Merriman and Nico-Fico hardware CQR, Bruce, and Danforth anchors Rugged dodger and awning Teak toerail, companionway, hatch hood, handrails Awlgrip topsides WEST epoxy barrier coat on bottom Propane stove and stainless steel sink Chan table Spare parts and complete data manual with specifications, diagrams, part numbers Ready to (Jo!

LOBO IS FOR SALE. This pristine Reichel/Pugh 42-footer (32.5 rating) is in perfect ready-to-win shape. All the extras and a ton of sails. $125,000. Call Roger Livingston at (206) 382-5500.

Call owner Chuck Bennett: (415) 865-4306

BAY BRIDGE YACHTS

SAN FRANCISCO BAY BOAT BROKERS

Serving Northern California

46‘ FORMOSA ’79, s.d, cutter. $45,000

31’ HUNTER ’85 d.s. sloop. $44,000.

32’ ISLANDER ’77, s.g. sloop. $45,000.

SELECTED BROKERAGE Yngling, tlr. Yankee Dolphin. Rawson. . . . . Ericson . Catalina. . . . . Cavalier.. . . . Santa Cruz .. . . . Porpoise (delfin).,... Lancer.....

Peninsula Office Marin Office page 197

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POWER BOATS 20' to 6O', $18K to S250K

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22' 25’ 27’ 26’ 27' 28’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 30' 32' 32’ 36’ 36’ 37’ 37’ 37’ 38’ 38’ 39’ 40’ 41’

5,000 9,000 25,000 34,000 58,000 115,000 118,000 134,000 89,000

(415) 692-4169 Oyster Cove Marina (415) 331-2245 Schoonmaker Point Marina

SAUSAUTO, CA (415) Santana. . . . Cal . ... Catalina.2 available .... ... Ariel. . . . Vega Sloop. . . . Triton. . . . Cal 2-29. . . . Columbia.i__ . .. Pearson. . . . Santana . . . . Traveller.2 available . ... Westsail .. ... Islander .. .. . Luders Yawl.2 available .. ... Endeavour.. *. ... Islander Pilothouse M/S. ... Ratiki Cutter... ... Bristol 38 Sloop. . .. Morgan 382 Sloop. . . . Frey a 39.2 available .... ... Cheoy Lee Midshipman Ketch .. .. . “Sea Tiger" Ketch. King’s Legend Cruiser. ., . Pearson 424 Ketch. 3. . Garden Porpoise Ketch. ... Morgan Ol 51.A.. . . .

32' Scheel Sloop. 33’ Gaff-head Cutter, “STORNOWAY” 35’ Garden Aux. Cruising Cutter. 35’ Cheoy Lee “Lion” Sloop. 40’ Sparkman & Stephens Aux. Yawl . . 40' Concordia Yawl. 28’ Carver Riveria Cruiser. 34' Hunter Sedan Cruiser. 34' Baltzer “Down Easter”. 35’ Fairlane . Chris Craft Constellation. 55’ 63’ Stephens MY.

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". . . THERE IS NOTHING — ABSOLUTELY NOTHING — HALF SO MUCH WORTH DOING AS SIMPLY MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS."

VAGABOND 42 KETCH SALE OWNER 1987 ERICSON 34

Escape!! With an LOA of 34'10" and wide beam, this Bruce King designed racer/cruiser is one of the best! Queen size aft berth in port cabin and spacious forward cabin make for great overnighters. Roller furling, fully battened main and offshore electronics make sailÂ¬ ing a real pleasure! Reduced to $85,000.

THIS AND MANY MORE LISTINGS

?S*!LC^ND MOTOR YACHTS 22' 22' 25' 27' 303' 34' 34'

CATALINA COLUMBIA O'DAY NEWPORT PEARSON JEANNEAU Sunrise PEARSON

5,000 $3,900 16,900 16,500 62,000 75,000 75,500

41' 44' 45' 47' 49' 64' 69'

MORGAN 0/1 85,000 PETERSON Cutter 109,000 JEANNEAU Sun Kissl85,000 GULFSTAR Sailmaster 185,000 CT Ketch 169,000 RHODES Stl M/S 205,000 GAFF RIGGED Cttr 150,000

We Need Upscale Sail Listings!

Blue Dolphin

1120 BALLENA BLVD. ALAMEDA, CA 94501

International YACHTS

(415) 865*5353 FAX# 4155230440

308 Harbor Drive, Sausalito, CA 94965

(415) 331-0533

The Vagabond 42 was designed by George H. Stadel and built in 1980 to perform as a seakindly, fast and weatherly Clipper Bow cruising ketch. This boat provides a warm teak interior with accomodations more expansive than most 50 footers, sleeping 7 in 3 staterooms with 2 heads and showers. The center cockpit design provides for interior port and starboard pass-throughs around the engine compartment, allowing 3-sided access to the engine. The galley is approximately 6'6" by 4'10" with a 2-burner gimballed LPG stove and oven and a cold machine refrigerator, hot & cold pressurized water system and ample storage throughout. Appraised at $110,000. Priced to sell at $79,000.

PRINCIPALS ONLY.

PLEASE CALL AT (415) 521-8622 page I 98

RACE or CRUISE

PETERSON 46 1981 “Compass Rose"

LANCER 44 PILOTHOUSE

PEARSON 36

1980, twin Turbo-Perkins

1977 Ketch

These fine vessels are reasonably

priced! Call

4980 BROOKSIDE ROAD

1209) 473-3144

STOCKTON, CA 95207

FOR SALE! Frers 41 Custom BUILDER: CONSTRUCTION: ELECTRONIC: RIG: SAILS: IOR:

McConaghy Boats, Australia Kevlar and carbon fiber Full compliment of B&G with SatNav VHF Triple spreader Zap Spar 1986-88 Sobstad and UK 30.7

BUILDER’S COMMENTS “Bondi Tram is one of the lightest and most rigid boats ever built RACE RECORD: * Admiral’s Cup Southern Cross PanAm Clipper Cup Big Boat Series (1984) Big Boat Series (1986) Big Boat Series (1987) Sausalito Grand Prix

Top Australian boat, 7th overall 4th overall Won every race in division 1st place, 4 of 5 first 2nd as small boat in division 5th after Penalty. Owner driven First

AskmcTPW&e:

$82,000

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Scott Easom — (415) 331-5917 For a fact sheet write to: Bondi Tram, P.O. Box 3923, San Rafael, CA 94912

page 199

SAUSALITO YACHT SALES

Sail on the Bay and Coast in the strong and lively ARIES 32 — we have a brand new Aries at our dock for immediate delivery. Give us a call for more information.

’79 ISLANDER FREEPORT 36. Perkins diesel, design¬ ed by Bob Perry, the Freeport 36 performs well under sail and has the popular owner cabin amidships. Offers.

25’ 26’ 27’ 27’ 29’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 32’ 32’ 32’ 33’ 34’ 35’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 37’ 38’ 38’ 40’ 40’ 4U 42’ 62’

SELECTED BROKERAGE CRUISING FOLKBOAT with BMW diesel i/b .$10,000 RANGER 26, 1973, o/b.$8,500 CAL 2-27, 1976, diesel .$22,500/0ffers CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27, diesel.$23,500 BRISTOL 29, 1968, appealing design.$16,000 CAL 29, 1978, Hood roller furling main and jib . $26,500/0ffers ER1CSON 30, 1969, new main & roller furling jib.$19,000 ODYSSEY by Alberg.$25,000 ARIES! 32, cruisinj^-gems—several available.from $38,000 FUJI 32, 1976, diesel, beautifully maintained . .. $48,000/0ffers MARINER 32, f/g, full keel.$42,500 RANGER 33, 1977, diesel, wheel.$34,000/0ffers CAL 34, 1976, Perkins diesel.$39,000 CUSTOM STEEL cutter.$55,000/0ffers CHEOY LEE Luders, 1976, cruise/liveaboard.$49,500 ISLANDER 1978, popular Bay boat.$50,000 LANCER 36, 1982, New full battens main .$49,750 RANGER, diesel, very good shape.$55,000 BRISTOL, 1967, great shape.$42,500 HOOD, 1982, tri cabin.$99,000/0ffers CONCORDIA YAWL, 1957, cherry throughout .$65,000 PETERSON 40, 1985, racing equipped.$95,000 SEA TIGER, ketch, bluewater cruise and liveaboard ... $79,000 PEARSON 424, an outstanding cruising yacht .... Try $110,000 LAPWORTH, designed sloop, 1967,.$295,000

PLEASE CALL FOR ADDITIONAL POWER & SAIL LISTINGS IF YOU HAVE A BOAT TO LIST, CALL SAUSALITO YACHT SALES — BOATS ARE SELLING IN SAUSALITO!'

BAY & HUMBOLDT STREET, SAUSALITO (415) 332-S000

GLen cove YacHTmes

San Francisco Bay

320 Harbor Drive Sausalito, California 94965

39’ LANDFALL

(415) 332-5311 ★ Keoni Warinner + Carol Pratt * Dave Sheldon ★

1980 Beautiful blue seas yacht! You must see to believe. 20’ 22’ 25’ 25’ 30’ 30’ 32’ 34’ 34’ 39’ 39’ 21’ 2850 32’9” 33’ 34’ 35’ 37’ 38’ 40’

$63,000

SAIL SANTANA ’81. Fully race equipped. Pineapple sails, w/trlr. Immaculate $8,000 CATALINA’86. Pop-top, swing keel, w/trlr. Boat’s in showroom cond. . .$12,700 TANZER 7.5m. Extra nice, high performance boat.At only $10,000 US YACHTS ’82. W/EZ load trlr, showroom condition. Call Maury.$12,000 CATALINA ’83. Fine family cruising boat.Asking $34,700 LANCER '19. New sails, winches, more. This boat is bristol! Call Vern . . .$34,500 WESTSAIL. ’75. Cstm built interior, cutter rigged dbl-ender. Vet of So. Seas$55,000 ROBERTS dsgn ’84. Cstm int., in from So. Cal. Dsl, 2 dinks. A lotta boat , $25,000 CORONADO’69. Full canvas, great condition. Clean!.$31,500 LANDFALL ’80. Beautiful blue seas yacht — you must see to believe!.$63,000 PEARSON 390 '12. Cntrbrd sip, aft cabin, furl’g main, jib, radar, SSB, VHF $69,500 POWER CRUISER ’78. Nifty Delta boat.- • .$12,500 BAYLINER CONTESSA w/FB, '83. New Delta canvas w/zip in screens. Super clean.$32,500 CARVER 2987, ’85. Luxury, speed, comfort and a great sportfisheiman for the Bay, Delta or Ocean.$86,000 jCHRlS ’80. Twins, upgraded galley, A/C, Onan gen.$59,000 CHRIS CRAFT ’62. Lapstrake hull, T-Chevy 283’s, F/B, new upholstery . $25,000 HUNTER ’64. New bottom paint & zincs, Delta canvas.$25,000 MMC TRAWLER ’81. Monk design, radar A/P. This is a fantastic boat . .$78,000 CHRIS CRAFT’85. Twins/FB, loaded! ..$166,670 HERSHINE ’81. Comfort! Aft cabin. At Our Docks.80,000

36’ LANCER SLOOP 1983. Bill Lee design, diesel, new dodger, roller furling and more. A

65' MacGREGOR '86. Fully equipped cruising

fast, sharp looking boat, can be singlehanded.

version of this popular production yacht — Loran C, furling jib, stereo, hot water and much more.

Only $53,000.

Submit Offers.

sistership

54' STEEL C-A7F Tops'! Schooner 79,

46' SPINDRIFT CUTTER '83 Performance

built to Lloyd's specs; teak-clad PH w/2 settees,

cruiser, standard and custom equipment reads like-

nav station, interior of selected mahog. Strong/

a "sailor's dream". Traditional warmth of a classic

seaworthy yacht — ready for safe cruising/comfy

yacht, powerful modern cutter ready for sea or

live-aboard.

Just arrived at our docks.

comfortable Bay sailing.

$155,000.

CALIFORNIA YACHT BROKERS ASSOC. MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE • OVER 6,000 LISTINGS • WE CAN HELP WITH FINANCING! »

(707) 552-4206 Off 780 Between Vallejo and Benicia Take Glen Cove Exit and Follow Signs to Glen Cove Marina 2024 Glen Cove Road Vallejo, CA 94591

45' NEW ZEALAND 45 '81. Designed by comfort and competitive performance . . . large

Gary Mull, large aft owner stateroom (queensize bed) — stability, well over I0R minimum adding to

spray free cockpit. A 10 on any scale. $154,500.

comfort and seakindlines for cruising and offshore

sign perfection by S&S, unrivaled elegance with

racing, extras galore.

$158,000. page 200

CHRISOPYLE

De gned and built by Myron Spaulding, one of the best builders on the West Coast. Meticulously maintamed and recently outfitted with extensive new equipment for South Pacific dream cruise. New child has postponed the dream - here’s an opportunity to make the dream yours. Completely outfitted in like-new condition SatNav, radar, Autohelm, uQR. VHF 1986 Perkins 4-108 40 hp, 4-25 gal fuel tanks, solid dinghy, outboard and much more Opportunity at $95,500.

"MAYBE”

J/29 1987 YRA season winner!! The fastest of a fast class. Well cared for and well equipped: New sails, inboard diesel depth knot, log J/29’s are an excellent Bay boat with an active one-design racing class — yet room and comfort to sleep six, with head and galley below Faired bottom keel/rudder, Micron 33 —■ responsive and fun to sail New full batten main. Join the fun. Owner moving to J/35. Price reduced!

29’ J/29.

Smokin J", race ready. Reduced to $35,000.

C&C 30. Five sails, excellent condition, Atomic 4, electronics, stove & oven, new bottom. $21,000. J/35 Used Hotline

BOATS WEST page 201

‘FINESSE”

C& : 43 The Finesse is a true ocean racinq yacht built to high Canadian standards and a truly proven design Very well appointed and all electrical and mechanical equipment are in good shape. Extensive sail inventory, Perkins 4-107. depth, spinnaker gear, refrig/freezer. A well-equipped, fun to sail or cruise performance yacht.

Reduced from $78,000 to $59 000 for quick sale'

HOYDEN II

(8710) Farallone Clipper, LOA 38’, LWL 27 8”, Beam 9'6”, Draft 57 Skipper HD “Bil” Trask Mast head rig, Farallone Clipper 12 season championships, (4) 2nd places in 16 years. Boat still in excellent condition, new bottom, full cover, re cent motor rebuild North and Watts sails A true S.F Bay classic yacht. Ready to win Master Mariner Regatta Active class associa¬ tion Owner retiring from racing Reduced! Asking $35,000!!!

NEWPORT 30 MKIII.

Diesel, electronics, dodger. Asking

$32,800.

YANKEE CLIPPER 41.

1974 Best of Show’. $89,000 or offer.

Two East Coast J/35’s Available!! Inquire.

2415 Mariner Square Drive Alameda, CA 94501

Don Trask, Nate Knowles, Dave Wilke

(415) 522-0545

(415) 523-8500

EDGEWATER YACHT SAIES 1306 BRIDGEWAY SAUSALITO, CA 94965 (415) 332-2060

“CELESTIAL”

44' CHEOY LEE KETCH Quality in f/g and teak. Perkins auxiliary, loaded w/equipment All in excellent shape. Asking $119,000.

SAN JUAN 28 Low hrs; equip¬ ment, sails and interior look like new. Try $16,500.

21'

NOANK

CELESTIAL 48 Center Cockpit Cruising Ketch. 1985 model with owners queen aft, guest double forward, large saloon and galley with oversized refrig/freezer. List 165Kplus. Dealer demo at $142,500.

Sandbagger

79, by Bob Darr. Cedar hull, teak decks, gaff main. Asking

$7,000/0ffers.

“BIG MAC” PEARSON TRITON Alberg design, full keel, five sails, Bay or offshore. Try $7,500.

37' HUNTER Twin Chryslers, full galley, shower. Ideal liveaboard. Owner wants an offer.

27' MONTEREY Ketch. hull,

teak decks,

F/G i/b auxiliary.

McINTOSH 47 Cutter, 1986. Fast cruising in luxury. Owners double with'Stall shower aft, guest double forward with head. Loaded — Offered at $250,000.

Asking $8,500/Offers.

32' SEA SKIFF Chris Crafts most popular model. Delta canvas, real clean. Try $13,000.

OCEANS VII BLUEWATER 47 Center Cockpit Cruising Ketch. Built 1978 with owners queen aft & guest double forward. Two heads, 2 showers, new ’88 aluminum spars, boat shows excellent maintenance. Asking $120,000.

82' CUSTOM MOTOR YACHT Steel, twin diesel, 22.5 beam, two auxiliary generators five staterooms, loaded. Asking $150,000.

Lowrie Yacht Harbor 40 Point San Pedro Road San Rafael, CA 94901

(415) 454-7595 Bus.

1070 Marina V illage Parkwav, Suite 100 Alameda, ( A 94501

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1155 EMBARCADERO OAKLAND, CA 94606

(415) 465-6060

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Year

16.5 22' 25' 42' 47'

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19' 26' 27'

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Description / Comments POWER BOATS Competition ski boat/trlr. Ford 289 150HP o/b, new cond., no trlr Fish boat, Irg open ckpt, Volvo dsl Golden Star, full elec, radar, Classic Pwr cr., tw dsls, clean Sold SAIL BOATS 2 sails, o/b, aver cond Very clean, elec start Chrysler o/b Sloop, Atomic 4, depth, sails Beautiful cond., Atomic 4 i/b, sails Tiller steering, 5 sails, clean, gas 6 sails, elect, dodger, EPRIB Virtually new, 4 hrs on engine Very nicely equipt/maintained

Value

High Bid

6,700 21,000 27,000 140,000 68,000

95,000 42,000

6,200 11,000 11,000 17,000 36,200 27,500 55,000 66,000

1,300 5,800 6,000 3,000 17,000 18,000 52,000 65,000

4,200

1981 COOPER 416 Autopilot, SatNav, Loran, radar, refrigeration. Inside helm station, and too'many extras to list. $115,000.

EXPRESS 37 A race ready winner, B&G Maxipac, SatNav, SSB, extensive sail inventory — Chuck's looking for of¬ fers. $110,000 / Offers.

1983 39' FRERS by Dufour. Load¬ ed, Perkins dsl, refrig, B&G, windlass, very nice. Asking $99,500.

WESTSAIL 32, 1981. A true cruiser's yacht. Radar, autopilot, very high quality rigging. $59,000.

SOON TO BE RELEASED FOR SALE: 18' Seaswirl, '85 25' Bayliner, '83 33' Hunter, 76 Bank advises . . . four more small powerboats all on trailers to be released soon. Unless otherwise noted, all boats are located in our storage yard, or at our docks at Mariner Square in Alameda - CALI IF YOU NEED DIRECTIONS TO OUR OFFICE - (415) 523-8502 me mm mm mm

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3300 POWELL ST. • EMERYVILLE • CALIFORNIA 94608 page 204

MILANO YACHTS

DISTINCTIVE NEW & PRE-OWNED CRUISING YACHTS

YOUR CRUISING HEADQUARTERS * 22’ 22' 23' 24' 25' 25' 25' 25' 25' 25' 25'

24' 27' 30' 31' 33'

GREAT STARTER BOATS Columbia. .4,900 Santana. .5,250 Ranger. Windward . .5,200 Bahama. .9,800 Cal 2-25..18,500 Cal 2-25. . 19,500 Catalina. .14,900 Ericson. . 13,500 O-Day 25. .10,000 Pac. Seacraft.. .16,000

26' 26' 26' 27' 27' 27' 27' 28' 29' 30' 30'

Dawson 26. .... 1 4,000 Ericson. .6,500 Pearson . .9,000 Cal 2-27. .... 16,500 Cal 2-27. .... 19,500 Catalina 2 Fr.. .... 15,000 Sun 27. .... 17,000 Newport . ....16,000 Ericson. .... 25,700 Islander Mkll.... ....28,000 Pearson 30. ....26,800

HIGH PERFORMANCE Nightingale.. 9,500 ’ 34* Dash 34. ....38,500 Contest . . 15,000 36' Peterson. .62,500 P/J 1/2 Ton. .28,950 38' Soderberg. ... 55,000 Peterson 1/2T . 33,500 40' Santa Cruz.. .113,500 Tartan 10. .22,000 55' Swede 55. ... 99,500

A Canadian built Niagara 35 that has been cruised to the South Pa¬ cific and equipped by a knowledgeable sailor. Sturdy and spacious she is a fast sailor, sea kindly and perfect for a cruising couple. A good sail inventory, many custom features and lots of gear. $ 77,500

COASTAL CRUISERS *

27' 28' 29' 30' ft 30' 30’

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27' 28' 30' 31' 31' 32' 32' 33' 33' 33' 34' 34' 35' 35 35'

Ericson. .. 21,300 32' Islander . .. 30,000 * 32' Ranger. .. 21 ,900 ft 33' Islander Mk II... .. 22,900 33' Cal 2-30. .. 22,000 34' Catalina. 27,000 * 35'

Ericson. ...31,900 Alden M/Sailor.. .. 49,500 Inter.1 Design... ...14,000 Yamaha. ... 34,000 Hunter 34. ...49,500 Bristol 3 From. ...59,000

OFFSHORE Nor'Sea. .49,000 Southern Cross.. . 25,900 Fisher. .50,000 ft Monsun. ..47,000 * OK Shore 31. .34,000 Challenger. .39,500 ft Atkins. .59,500 * Freedom . .69,000 ft Freedom. .70,000 ft Vanguard.. .23,000 Cal. .29,000 ft Coronado. .27,500 Niagara 35. .77,500 Coronado . . 48,000 ft Fantasia.... 69,000

Rafiki.... 58,000 Pearson Ketch..... 65,000 Watkins. .. 65,500 Rafiki 37. ...79,500 Alajuela. ... 80,000 Cal.... 49,500 Han Christen. ...99,500 Stevens 40. 130,000 Cheoy Lee . .. 89,500 Explorer. 1 10,000 Formosa 46....99,500 Cheoy Lee . . 98,500 Cheoy Lee. 1 15,000 Transpac MK II... 189,000

CRUISERS 35' 36' 36' 37‘ 38' 39' 38' 40' 41' 45' 46' 47' 47' 49'

c & c 26' * 27' 27' 30'

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C 26..25,000 35' C & C 35 MK II. .. ...49,500 C 27. ...23,500 * 36' C & C 36. ...62,500 C 27..18,500 38' C&C. ...76,500 C 1/2 Ton... .... 23,000 40' C&C. 120,000

The Cheoy Lee Alden Motorsailor is the ultimate of sailing comfort. A full inside steering station and flush deck design provide large liv¬ ing areas for all your boating activities. Here is the best of both worlds...designed by John Alden. $ 49,500

A Cheoy Lee Off Shore 31 that is a 10. Professionally maintained with no expense spared to keep her perfect. She is as pretty to look at as she is sweet to sail. A modified Herreshoff design with a long and stable lateral plane keel, ketch rigged and diesel engine $ 34,000

CLASSIC CRUISERS * 23' Bear #1. .9,500 * 27' NordicM/Sailer. ...20,000

* 60' Pilot Ctr. .. 95,000 45' Spaulding Cstm. .. 99,000

POWER BOATS 21' * 30' 30' * 35'

FiberForm.. ... 11,500 * 36' Trojan 36 S.F. .. Chris Cavalier. ... 16,000 * 37' Hunter Cruiser . .. Chris Connie. ...22,500 * 38’ PT 38. .. Chris Craft. ... 55,950 * 40' Owens Tahitian.. .. 4“

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The Rafiki 37 a blue water cruiser designed by Stan Huntingford for long range cruising in saftey and comfort. A deep seakindly hull offer stability and storage. Aries vane, Trimble Loran C, hard dingy, storm sails and ground tackle. She is ready $ 79,500

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

page 205

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

(4T5M56-1^B60

CAL 20

Very clean. Brand new sails, ready to go. $3,200.

32' ATKINS/ARCHER GAFF RIG¬ GED KETCH. Constructed under Lloyd's supervi¬ sion. Traditional cruiser. Owner anxious — Make offer!

CHEOY LEE LION.

Classic lines in

fiberglass. Teak decks, Volvo diesel, full cover. Priced reduced to $36,000.

33' SPAULDING SLOOP. Has been restored to the highest standards. New equipment in¬

32' DOWNEASTER CUTTER. Excellent liveaboard and/or cruiser. Yanmar dsl, roomy & com¬

cludes Brooks &, Gatehouse, radar, AP and more.

fortable. Asking $37,500/Make an offer.

Asking $39,950.

CUTTER 32'

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AUX.

CRUISING

SLOOP. Danish construction. Equipment includes Yanmar dsl, dodger, full cover, AP, dinghy, vane, teak decks. Well loved and maintained. Asking

Westerbeke diesel, radar, autopilots 8 bags sails, hydraulic backstay & vang, rod rigging. Excellent bluewater cruiser.

Owner wants it sold and has priced it right at $139,000.

1978 CAL 2-25. Yanmar dsl, 7 bags sails including spinnaker, VHF, DS, MOB gear. Clean. Very roomy pocket cruiser or racer. Asking $16,750.

$35,000.

22' GARDEN

24' C&C SLOOP. Honda 7.5hp, DS, KM, roomy, sleeps 4. Asking $12,000.

24' SPIDSGATTER. Auxiliary Scandanavian sloop. Volvo dsl, teak decks, full covers. Ask¬ ing $ 12,500/Offers.

36' CHRIS CONNIE. Whole boat is in im¬ maculate condition. Twin 240's completely rebuilt,

1982 33' WILBERNESS LOBSTER BOAT. Volvo 270hp dsl, does 19 knots. Trolling

1928 34' LABRUZZI MOTOR YACHT. "Tule Lady". Port Orford cedar, 75hp dsl.

new decks, interior totally redone. One of the finest 36's on the Bay. Asking $39,500.

gear for sportfishing. Immaculate in every aspect, with full electronics. Asking $78,500.

Maintained immaculately in covered berth. Truly a fine example of classic. Asking $44,000.

CUTTER. One of the most

immaculate boats we've ever seen. Yanmar dsl, tanbark sails, lots of gorgeous varnish/brass. Full boat covers. A perfect little yacht! Asking $16,750.

OVER 100 ADDITIONAL LISTINGS • SLIPS AVAILABLE • CALL OR VISIT OUR SALES DOCK TODAY'

WEST COAST’S CRUISING SPECIALISTS SINCE 1956

MOTIVATED SELLERS + PRISTINE BOATS GREAT BUYS PEARSON 424 KETCH: » you’ve been looking for a proper cruising yacht and keep finding boats that look like wedding cakes instead, it’s time you in¬ spected this ketch-rigged Pearson 424. She combines an aft cockpit, aft cabin and great interior — with the construction and seakeeping qualities to sail to your per¬ sonal horizons. She’s in pristine shape below and ready to go: 58 hp diesel, full Signet, Loran, RDF, compass, stereo, TV, 8 Lewmars, roller furling, 6’4” headroom, main, mizzen, 130%, 90%, h&c, Aqualarm, Avon dinghy, and much much more! MOTIVATED SELLERS WANT OFFERS

EXPRESS 37:

With 15 boats signed up for one-design this year, the 37’s are the fleet to join. This 1985 37 is one of the best maintained on the Bay. She saw little use last season due to owners’ business commitments. She’s in super shape and fully outfitted to race or cruiser. Excellent value at $123,950. By Appointment.

EXPRESS 34: !

Great 34 ready to come to the Bay for family cruising to finish outfitting for one-design. Tiller steering, VHF antenna and coax, diesel, shore power, h&c, QuikVang, hydraulic backstay, tuff luff, Harken bearings, full spinnaker gear, six Barients, North main and blade sails, rod rigging, more. $79,500!

The owners of boats listed by Corlett-Blasier have taken pride in the mechanical and cosmetic.condition of their yachts. These boats represent superior value to the brokerage buyer because of the care they have received.

• EXPRESS • TIARA • LIGHTWAVE

CORLETT £| BLASIER 2415 Mariner Square Drive, Alameda, CA 94501

(415)522-5979 page 207

• BROKERAGE • CUSTOM PROJECTS

... SAIL ... ALMOST NEW & LOADED WITH GEAR. PRIME MARINA BLVD. BERTH INCLUD¬ ED. ONLY $125,000.

S-2 26'.

RETRACTABLE KEEL, TRAILER. 'W* GREAT RACER/ -*"* CRUISER. MAKE OFFER!! _

METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED AND FOR SALE AT A VERY ATTRACTIVE

I HP

26' RANGER .

$9,500

26' S-2 7.9.

21.950

27' MULL CUSTOM.

11.500

27' ERICSON.

17,000

28' LASER .

34.500

29' CAL.

25.950

29' ERICSON.

21,000 ★

30' ISLANDER MKII.(2)

21.500

30' CARTER.

33,000

30' CAL 3-30.

23.900

30' OLSON.

16,000

30' CAL 9.2.

29,000

31' CHEOY LEE.

29,000

32' VALIANT.

62.500

32' ISLANDER .

36.500

33' HUNTER.

26,000

33' TARTAN TEN.(2)

24,000

33' WYLIE.

55,000

33' RODGER .

f39,500

33' NORWEST .

52,000

34' WYLIE.>•

48.500

35' HINCKLEY PILOT .

38,000

35' C&C .

75,000

35' SANTANA .

LAPWORTH CUTTER. THE ULTIMATE IN CAREFREE COM¬ FORT & SAFETY. ASKING $295,000

34' PETERSON EXCELLENT RACER/CRUISER. VERY GOOD INVENTORY & REALISTICALLY PRICED.

VALIANT 32. STURDY FOR SINGLEHANDED SAILING. MAKE OFFER.

^57,500 x

36' LANCER.

64.500 ★

36' PEARSON.

49,000

36' ISLANDER FREEPORT.

95,000

37' SOVERAL.

25,000

37' RANGER .

45,000

38' FARALLON CIIPR.(2)

35,000

48.

38'C&C .

76.500

38' FARR.

76.500

39' FREYA.

79.500

39' WESTSAIL CUTTER.

79.900

FANTASTIC CENTER COCKPIT KETCH.

40' CHALLENGER.

84.500

40' NORDIC.

139.500

40' PEARSON.

70,000

40' STEPHENS.

154.500 ★

40' SANTA CRUZ.

110,000

41' MORGAN 01.

85,000

41' NELSON/MAREK.

95,000

41' NEWPORT.

72,000

41' FORMOSA.

67.500

42' DUBOIS.

62'

BEAUTIFUL OFFSHORE CRUISER W/3 PRIVATE CABINS. A MUST SEE AT $149,500

36' ISLANDER.

42' PORPOISE KETCH.

SUPERB COND. IDEAL LIVEABOARD WITH AFT CABIN. EXC. VALUE AT $77,900.

55,<100

OLYMPIC

110,000 ★ 79.500

43' C&C .

78,000

44' PETERSON.

125,000

44' PETERSON.

110,000

44' PETERSON

119.500

44' CT 44 CUTTER.

108,000

45' LANCER .

125,000

46' MOTORSAILER.

150,000

47' S&S CSTM SLP . ..

59.500

47' VAGABOND.

125,000

47' S&S CSTM SLP.

175,000

48' PH KETCH.

250,000

50' SANTA CRUZ.

169,000

62' KETCH M/S.

385,000

108' ISLAND TRADER.

1,150,000

... POWERBOATS ... 25' FARALLON OFFSHORE ....

35,000 *

27' WHALER .

57.500

27'SEA RAY .

38,000

28' BERTRAM FLYBRIDGE ....

43,000

30' CLASSIC FAIRCHILD.

44,750

34' RIVA..

69.500

34' CHIN WH A TRAWLER ....

48,000

38' BERTRAM .

195,000

40' RAISED DECK MY.

84,000

41' HATTER AS.

79,000

42' PRESIDENT SF.

160,000

42' SUNDECK MY.

65,000

42' UNIFLITE.

170,000

43' HATTERAS MY.

198.500

44' GULFSTAR.

172.500

48' NORDIC.

329,000

55' STEPHENS CRUISER.

125,000

57' DAYTONA YF.

295,000

58' HATTERAS MY.

250,000

61' HATTERAS MY.

750,000

70' HATTERAS CMY.

895,000

78' COCKPIT MY.

1,750,000

★

CHEOY LEE

BEST BUY ANYWHERE AT

$119,000.

NEWPORT IMPECCABLE CONDITION, THE BEST WE HAVE EVER SEEN. WELL PRICED & WORTH A LOOK.

MORGAN 51 . LOADED WITH GEAR & PRICED BELOW MARKET AT $179,000.

STEVENS CUSTOM

40. BOAT SHOW COND. S&S DESIGN. READY TO CRUISE.

AT OUR DOCKS

FOOT OF LAGUNA STREET*SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123*PHONE (415) 567-8880*FAX (415) 567-6725