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Beneteau First 41s5 - Stunning, innovative design sets her apart An unbeatable value. Special Introductory Price $149,900

•Shorepowerwith Cord •Battery Charger •Propane Stove/Oven •VHP Radio/ Antenna/Cable •Datamarine Knotmeter •Datamarine Depthsounder •Full Commissioning •Hot/Cold Pressure Water •Cockpit Shower

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Beneteau Oceanis 430 - Totally modern and elegant blue water cruiser. Very well equipped. Special Introductory Price $179,500

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Regularly $93,950 To 10/15 $88,750

Beneteau First 35s5 BWS10 Year Blister Warranty •Roller Furling •Mylar Genoa •Main with 3 Reefs •Singleline Reefing System •Self-tailing Winches •Anchor Roller •Rod Rigging •Anchor Package •Docklines/Fenders •Safety Package •Aft Swim Platform •Refrigeration •Marble Countertops

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Beneteau First 35s5 DAN AND BETSY EASTMAN:

“I went into this venture with very high expectations. Everything has exceeded the level of my expectations, the service from Passage Yachts and Horizons, The Charter Income, and how much fun my Beneteau is to sail! The Horizons’ Charter Placement Program is Fantastic! The care and maintenance of my boat by Horizons is excellent. We’ve taken advantage of the free sailing lessons we get as Charter Yacht owners and have learned a lot. We’ve completed the beginning and intermediate courses and are looking forward to the more advanced lessons. The other boats we were considering before deciding on the Beneteau were not as performance oriented. I now realize that a boat that performs well . gives you more fun and is easier to sail, which all the club members can attest to. My boat is getting more charters that I ever expected. We’re Having A Blast."

CHARTER PLACEMENT SEMINAR AT PASSAGE YACHTS Come to Passage Yachts on October 15,1989 and find out all about charter yacht ownership. Seminar Topics: 1 - The tax benefits you derive from placing a yacht in charter. 2 - How much charter revenue you can expect to earn and what your choice of boat has to do with it. 3 - How a professional management program can benefit you and your new boat. 4 - The activities and club benefit& you receive as a charter yacht owner in Horizons Yachting Association.

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HINCKLEY 35,1966. Built in Chile. To be sold by auction on Oct. 29. Call for details.

TARTAN 41. Maintained to very high standards and loaded with gear. A great performance cruiser! $98,000.

EXPRESS 37, 1986. "Any Sunday". Sobstad and Pineapple sails, Barient winches, support vehicle extra $110,000.

We have buyers looking for quality boats over 30-ft. Call us today about listing your boat.

PETERSON34,1979. Versatile, strong and easy to handle. Perfect bay boat. $34,000.

"ZAIDA" 53' S&S YAWL Impeccable condition. Reducedto $225,000.

GRAND BANKS 36,1974. Beautifully maintained, bristol brightwork. A true sailors powerboat. $84,500.

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LANCER 45' 1980. Motorsailer. Ideal live-aboard, $98,500.

NEW GRAND BANKS 32. As seen at the BoatShowl2\ Ohp Cummins gives super performance.

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48' CHRIS 1966 Steel hull, flush deck motor yacht. New interior, new exterior, new galvanic monitoring system, class blue & white beauty. $79,000.

55' SWEDE This impressive Swedish design, sleek & graceful sloop is equipped for single handing. An exceptional value at $84,000.

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33' SWIFT 1978. Like new condition. Uoyds certified, beautiful custom teak & ash interior. Avon life raft, windlass, loron, dodger, diesel. Only $65,000.

42* CHEOY LEE Teak trim classic yacht. Designed by Bill

38' FARR Ultra lightweight with rich teak interior. Ready for

Luders & built in 1971 to Uoyds specs. 9 bags of sails, s/s

racing or cruising. Try $59,000.

25' CUSTOM S-2 35'

Danish Built Cruiser, 1973. Immaculate, with Perkinsdiesel 72hp. Ex¬ cellent Bay and Deha Cruiser. In showroom condition: $19,000.

1987. Like new. Everything you'd expect from a 40 footer. $99,500.

SAIL SWAN, 1984.1,250,000 McVEIGH, 1979.185,000 SWEDE, 1977 .97,950 FIBERSTEEL, 1975.99,000 SWAN, 1972.180,000 HUGHES, 1972.129,500 CSTM STL K, 1981 .275,000 VAGABOND, 1977.129,500 PERRY, 1979 .109,500 HARDIN, 1982.107,000 EXPLORER, 1979.100,000 PETERSON, 1975.120,000 ROBERTS, 1984 .89,000 CUSTOM, 1984.89,000 PETERSON, 1977.120,000 HARDIN, 1979.111,000 CHEOY LEE, 1983.144,000 HORIZON, 1987.120,000 BREWER, 1987.149,500 CHEOY LEE, 1971 .98,450 BREWER, 1987.149,500 US NAVELS, 1946 .46,000 PEARSON. 1981 .112,000 WESTSAIL, 1975 .101,000 PEARSON, 1966.60,000 PERSON RHO, 1966.60,000 ISLANDER FREEPT, 1976....98,500 NEWPORT, 1973 .60,000 FORMOSA, 1972.79,500 RHODES, 1951 .20,000 LIDGARD, 1982.73,000 FREEDOM, 1981 .120,000 CHALLENGER, 1974 (2).75,000 FREYA, 1978.79,500 ERICSON, 1971 .52,500 CAL, 1978.75,000 STEPHENS, 1961 .30,000 KETTENBURG, 1957.19,500

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FARALLON, 1961. C&C YACHTS, 1980. .76,500 ALAJUELA, 1977. .85,000 TAYANA, 1981 (2). .79,500 TARTEN . .79,000 ISLANDER-P, 1970 . .47,000 ISLANDER, 1968. .49,500 PEARSON, 1985. .97,500 MAGNUSSEN, 1984. .79,000 J-BOATS, 1981. .66,000 YAMAHA, 1981. .79,000 UNION, 1980 . .79,000 J, 1981. .86,000 HUNTER, 1981. .55,000 FREEPORT, 1981 . .89,500 FORMOSA. .45,000 CS, 1981. .74,500 CHEOY LEE, 1976 . .49,950 CASCADE, 1973 . .29,000

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CORONADO, 1972.34,000 S-2YTS. Ml, 1987.108,000 SANTANA, 1980.47,000 HINKLEY, 1966 . 34,500 PEARSON, 1984.55,000 HUNTER, 1983.49,950 SWIFT, 1978.65,000 HUNTER, 1979.39,000 GULF, 1982 .64000 ERICSON, 1985 . 49,500 TRAVELER, 1978.49,500 ELITE, 1985.55,000 PEARSON, 1965 . 32,500 MARINER.33,500 HUNTER, 1986 . 42,900 DUFOUR, 1982 .42,000 CHEOY LEE, 1969 .29,000 PALMER-JOHNSON, 1972 ...28,000 NEWPORT, 1979 .35,000

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SOVEREIGN, 1984 . 33,000 SONOMA, 1984.33,000 S-2,1979.33,000 PEARSON, 1983 (2).45,000 PALMER-JOHNSON, 1972 ... 29,000 J, 1982. 43,000 ISLANDER, 1972.20,000 IRWIN, 1980 . 30,000 CATALINA, 1977.25,000 ERICSON, 1986 . 45,000 COLUMBIA. 1977.28,900 SEAFARER, 1974 .11,000 J, 1983.26,400 ERICSON, 1978.18,000 CAL, 1972.29,500 PEARSON, 1986 . 49,000 NEWPORT YC, 1977 . 21,900 ERICSON, 1974.16,000 POWER NORDLUND, 1979 . 450,000 MONK, 1971 .140,000 DE FEVER, 1963.225,000 BLUEWATER, 1982 .169,000 STEPHENS, 1962 ..134.000 STEPHENS, 1960 .110,000 ALBIN, 1980 .165,000 MONK, 1962.69,000 GRANDY, 1912 . 89,000 PACEMAKER, 1966.111,000 PRESIDENT, 1983.160,000 KROGEN, 1988.180,000 GRAND BANKS, 1968.79,500 MARINE TRADER, 1978.125,000 GOLDEN STAR, 1988.175,000 SEA RANGER, 1981 .75,000 SEARAY, 1979.77,000 CHRIS CRAFT, 1960.24,500 BAYLINER, 1986 . 69,500 BAYLINER, 1984.35,500

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GRAND ISLAND PACKET Most Popular Cruising Boat at the Show

The response was overwhelming, the decision unanamous: The Island Packet 35 was selected the best cruising boat of the show. The reason is clear: more standard features including: roller furling, cutter rig, sails, ten year limited poly dad warranty plus 90 more. Roomy and spacious, safe and seakindly with a modem full keel underbody. If you missed heratthe show, call now for an appointment and a private viewing. Orders now being taken for winter delivery.

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While most manufacturers are increasing prices on their new boats, Pacific Seacraft is rolling their base price back to April of 1989. This offer is good for any boat delivered prior to February 1,1990. Now is the time to act before the production slots are all taken! Great savings on a great yacht. Call to receive complete details and prices.

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MARINA ATTENTION SELIERS: STILL AVAILABLE BUT GOING £457// HALF PRICE BERTHING WHEN LISTING YOUR YACHT WITH CRUISING WORLD YACHTS AT GRAND MARINA. PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS.

PERRY 47 - THIS IS THE ONE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! COMPLETELY RENOVATED IN '88; IN BEAUTIFUL COND. COMPLETE CRUISING INVENTORY ENABLES YOU TO LEAVE FOR POINTS SOUTH TOMMOROW. AP, GEN., DINGHY, SATNAV, BICYLES, SPARE PARTS & MUCH MORE. LOCATED AT OUR DOCKS FOR YOUR INSPECTION.

— CENTER COCKPIT VERSION WHICH MAKES A PERFECT UVEABOARD AND BLUEWATER CRUISER. IN IMMACUIATE CONDITION. ASKING $85,000.

FUCKA — INBOARD DIESEL ENCLOSED HEAD, LOOKS UKE NEW AND PRICED WESTSAIL 28—following in the great tradition of the 32. roomy, SEA KINDLY AND READY TO SAIL INTO THE HORIZON. LOCATED AT GRAND MARINA. WELL BELOW NEW BOAT PRICING. IN OUR DISPLAY AREA. $37,500. $39,950.

NORSEMAN 447 — beautifully finished, strongly built and EQUIPPED FOR ANOTHER EXTENSIVE CRUISE CALL FOR COMPLETE INVENTORY. ASKING $215,000.

FREEDOM 36—all lines led aft, self-tending jib and only eight MONTHS NEW. OWNER MOVED UP TO LARGE YACHT AND IS ANXIOUS TO SELL ASKING $119,500. i piirrA i/r rKi iliNi w/n T( CUSTOM BAHAMA 1 HIINTFR ;| PAfIFIf OTRAFT millMDIA 197!! fAI ,1

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PEARSON FLYER — LARGE COCKPFT for the entire family, easy TO SAIL INCLUDES SPINNAKER, INBOARD DSL & MORE. OUT-OF-TOWN OWNER NEEDS ANY OFFER Mil ASKING $29,500.

25000 O'DAY .39,950 WESTSAIL 28 .39,500 ELITE .45,000 BODEGA ....33,000 CATALINA COLD-MOLDED MULL 29 950 .22,500 PEARSON 29,500 PEARSON FLYER RAWSON . .18,500 .. 39,500 S2-C .26,800 SAN JUAN FREEDOM 32. ..2 FROM 77,500

SELECT SAIL LISTINGS 32' 32' 33' 34' 34' 35' 35' 35' 35' 35' 35'

TRAVELLER. .49,500 WESTSAIL.. .59.500 GURNEY ALUMINUM... REDUCED 39.500 CALMKIII. .29,500 ISLANDER . .2 FROM 29,995 59,500 CHEOY LEE 35. CORONADO. .36,900 FORMOSA. .39,500 MARINER. .29,500 33,500 PEARSON. SANTANA. .39,500

35' 36' 36' 36' 36' 36’ 37' 37' 38' 39’ 40' 41'

MARINER 35— very affordable cruiser/uveaboard. located at our docks for your inspection, full boat cover, refer, diesel andmore ASKING $29,500.

CREALOCK 37 — T978 HULLWITH1984 DECKAND RECEKTAAASTAND RIGGING. OWNER COMPLETED. AT OUR DOCKS.

US PILOTHOUSE. .69,500 CASCADE. .49,500 ERICSON CRUISING.... .65,000 FREEDOM.2 FROM 119,500 ISLANDER. .59,500 CHEOY LEE. .79,500 CREALOCK . 2 FROM 92,500 EXPRESS. .115,000 INGRID... .75,000 CUSTOM STEEL..<r .51,000 CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE _59,500 0 CENTER COCKPIT... _85,000

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ISLANDER FREEPORT.... _94,500 S&S CUSTOM YAWL.... .55,000 WESTSAIL. ..124,500 NORSEMAN 447 . _215,000 PETERSON CUTTER..109,000 EXPLORER. .100,000 PASSPORT 47_ _225,000 PERRY 47. .129,500 VAGABOND KETCH...... .125,000 CAL. .98,500 S&S. _129,500 GAFF RIGGED CUTTER.. _95,000

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Nonrace October 1-November — “Tugboats: San Francisco Bay 18601960", an exhibit tracing the history of the tugboat industry on the Bay. At the San Francisco Maritime Museum's Harmon Gallery (foot of Polk Street). Wed.-Sun., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. 556-0532. October 4-8 — Stockton RV, Sports and Boat Show. Waterfront Yacht Harbor, Stockton. (209) 466-7066. October 5 — Latitude's Annual Mexico Crew List Party. Too much fun! Sausalito Cruising Club, 6-9 p.m. See Crew List for more info, or call us at 383-8200. October 5—Warren Miller's newest sailing film, Against the Wind, will be shown at Corinthian YC at 7:30 p.m. $10 donation to the CYC 1991 Adam's Cup team. Refreshments, door prizes. CYC, 435-4771. October 6 — Free slide show on sailing in the Northern Bahamas by Bob and Margot Small. Stockdale Marine Theatre, Sacramento, 7 p.m. (916) 332-0775. October 7-12 — Fleet Week '89: “The Bay Area's Annual Salute to America's Sailors." Lots of war toys on parade, including the everpopular Blue Angels Air Show. See Sightings. Fleet Week General information, 765-5711. October 7 — Metropolitan YC's third annual marine flea market and pancake breakfast. Held in the warehouse and parking lot adjacent to the club. Susan Dunwald, 526-7450. October 10 — Slide show and talk by Capt. Harry Braun about his first trip to Mexico, the Marquesas and Tahiti aboard his 30' sloop. At the Lee Sail Loft in Alameda. Free, but limited seating. Donald Goring, 523-9011. October 11 — 1990 TransPac Seminar Series. The first of nine monthly seminars leading up to next July's West Marine Pacific Cup. This one's on preparation for the race. Open to the public; no charge. At Metropolitan YC, 7-10 p.m. MYCO, 536-7450. October 12 — Oceanic Society's Celestial Navigation Course begins. First of 8 weekly sessions taught by Sam Crabtree. Not exactly free, but well worth the cost. At the Oceanic Society's offices in Fort Mason, 7-9 p.m. 441-5970. October 14 — Oceanic Society Oyster Fundraiser, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Tomales Bay. BYO side dish or dessert, plus beverage. $22 donation per person. Oceanic Society, 441-5970. October 14 — Flea Market at West Marine Products in Sausalito. Come buy and/or sell pre-owned marine goodies. Sellers can rent a booth in advance for $5, or pay $10 on the day of the event. Kristin Jovino, 332-0202. October 14 — End of Summer Fun Day at San Leandro YC. Chili cook-off, games, food, etc. Olivia Yehling, (408) 954-8802. October 14 — Island YC Octoberfest/Open House/Dinner and Dance. 5 p.m. to whenever. "Come on over to Alameda and check our laid back and fun loving club," writes IYC special events chairman Bob Stephens, (408) 263-9030. October 14-15 — SailTech '89 (formerly called The Ancient Interface). The annual forum for yachtsmen, engineers and scientists who share a common fascination with the science of sailing. This year's theme is “Innovative Concepts For High Performance Sailing". Stanford University. Tom Edwards, Conference Chairman, 694-4465. October 18-22 — USYRU Annual General Meeting. Pier 66 Resort and Marina, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Susan Conant, (401) 849-5200. October 20-29 — 21st Annual Southern California Sail and Power Boat Show. Long Beach Convention Center. Southern California Marine Association, (714) 633-7581. October 21 — Svendsen's Super Sidewalk Sale. Cold refreshments and hot deals, not to mention many prizes. At Svendsen's Boatyard and Chandlery, Alameda, starting at 9 a.m. 521-8454. October 21 — Marine Flea Market. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.; next to the Laney Flea Market in Oakland (7th and Fallon). 769-7266. page 13

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October 27 — Island YC Halloween Costume Party and Open House. 8 p.m. Costume contest, pinatas, dancing, potluck hors d'oeuvres. "Another chance to check out the fun group," writes Bob Stephens (see above). November 3 — "Sailing the Indian Ocean”, a free slide illustrated presentation by hardcore cruiser Henry Stine. Stockdale Marine Theatre, Sacramento, 7:30 p.m. (916) 332-0775. November 4 — Catalina 27 Fleet I annual dinner and meeting. Guest speaker will be Frank Butler, president of Catalina Yachts. Oakland YC, 5:30 cocktails, 6:30 dinner. Steve Rienhart, (408) 4527426 or Karl Dake, 525-4136. November 7 — Trophy presentation/cocktail party for YRA season winners and their crew. On board the Eureka at Hyde Street Pier, 68:30. YRA, 771-9500. November 16 — Catalina Race “Show and Tell" Video Night Bring your videos of the '89 race and/or party (or any previous year) to the Metropolitan YC and be prepared to show your favorite 15-20 minutes. Munchies provided. 7:30 p.m. Lynn Sparks, 351-6888. * Racing September 30-October 1 — Ericson 27 Regionals. Ballena Bay YC. Bill Lewis, (408) 736-5940. September 30-October 1 — Catalina 27 Regional Championship. Catalina 34s and 30s invited also. Ballena Bay YC. Ray Nelson, 3876904 (home). September 30-October 1 — All Islander Regatta. Racing, dining and dancing for all Islander yachts. One design starts for Islander 36s, 30s, 28s and Bahama 24s; PHRF class for ail others. Hosted by the fun-loving folks at Tiburon YC. Ed Perkins, 285-2404 (work) or 3891715 (home). October 4-7 — International One Design North American Championship. Eight teams from Bermuda and both coasts will compete on the Olympic Circle in these classic woodies. Hosted by the San Francisco YC. Rich Pearce, 435-4327. October 6 — Last Friday night Estuary race of the summer. Look for final results of this series (and other beer can series) in next month's Racing Sheet. Encinai YC, 522-3272. October 6 — San Diego-Ensenada Race, aka "The Little Ensenada Race”. A 62-mile sprint for the margaritas sponsored by the South¬ western YC. About 150 boats will take a shot at Kathmandu's 1986 record time of six hours and 11 minutes. Rod Taylor, (619) 457-3300. October 7-8 — StFYC's 11th Annual International Grand Masters Regatta. Up to 20 “grand masters" (over 55) are expected to compete in this fun J/24 weekend series. Don Trask, 522-0545. October 7-8 — Nimitz Team Race. An interclub team racing event wherein each yacht club fields a three boat team whose aggregate PHRF rating must be between 450-500 (hint: get as close to 450 as possible!). Mix 'em and match 'em. Berkeley YC. Bobbi Tosse, 9399885. October 8 — Third Annual Yacht Clubs of Long Beach Charity Regatta. Over 200 boats are expected to raise around $6,000 for The Children's Clinic of Long Beach. Sailors in San Diego have the Sunkist American Cancer Society Cup Race; Santa Cruz has the United Way Regatta; San Francisco, for reasons that escape us, still has nothing of the sort. October 14 — 14th Annual Woman's Skippers Cup. A PHRF contest open to any woman skipper (crew may be male, female or whatever). Formerly an all-women event, host Berkeley YC changed the format this year because attendance had been dwindling. A good chance to let your other half wiggle the wood. Gayle Vial, 528-0797. October 14-15 — El Toro Stampede. Richmond YC, 237-2821. October 20-22 — Fifth Annual J/29 Pacific Coast Championship. Fifteen J/29s are expected to show up for this five race, no throwout series hosted by St. Francis YC. Kirk Denebeim, 983-5127. /

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This is not a misprint, and no, we’re not crazy: I know, I know . . . you’re saying, “Sign me up, but first, what’s the catch?” If you read my letter in last month’s ad, you already know what the catch is. But, you probably didn’t see last month’s ad, because you haven’t called us yet. Everybody that saw the ad called us and boy, are they excited! They’re getting brand new Olson 25s, 30's and 34s and somebody else is making their payments for them!!

This is the kind of problem we should all have!

What makes this opportunity so special?

It seems that Club Nautique’s sailing school operation is growing at a phenomenal rate — over 120% annually! They have done everything possible to keep up with this new growth; adding new instructors, doubl¬ ing and tripling class offerings, offering classes during the week, etc. But alas and alack, their sales still exceed their capacity and they desperately need more boats.

Normally when you place a boat in charter service, you receive a percentage of the revenue the boat generates. If it doesn’t go out, you don’t get paid. With this program, \ you have a guaranteed minimum payment, sufficient to make your payment to the bank (or put in your pocket if you paid cash). As if that isn’t enough, you’ll also receive 60% of the $$$ from charters to qualified skippers when you’re not aboard!

But you didn’t call us. So, this month, we figured we’d better be a little more outrageous with the headline in order to get your attention, because this is an oppor¬ tunity you don’t want to miss.

Plus, one more bonus: You may want to classify your new Olson as a business and take tax deductions for such expenses as berthing, maintenance, insurance and even depreciation. When you add all this up, you may find that you own a new Olson sailboat and are generating a positive cash flow!

Club Nautique needs new Olsons!

The next best thing to a Free boat

When Ericson yachts bought the tooling for the Olson line and started producing Olsons with Ericson’s famous 10 year warranty, Club Nautique came to us to see if we could help solve their problem.

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Why Olsons? Club Nautique likes Olsons for the follow¬ ing reasons: ★ They’re built and backed by Ericson with a 10 year warranty ★ They’re fast and fun to sail ★ They’re roomy and comfortable to cruise ★ They can be raced without spending a small fortune on gear ' , ★ They’re well engineered and easy to maintain ★ They appeal to multiple market segments and charter well ★ They’re very affordable — 25% less than in 1986!

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HA Fred Fred Sohegian, Jr. President Nor Cal Yachts P.S. Club Nautique also has openings in their charter fleet for Ericson 32s, 34s, 35s and 38s. Call us today for details. P.P.S. If you’re trying to reduce your tax bill next April, you might want to get your new boat into service before die end of 1989. It could make a big difference.

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Here’s the background: We at Nor Cal Yachts have a long history of specializing in the placement of yachts into charter ser¬ vice. We’ve placed Ericsons with most of the better charter companies on San Fran¬ cisco Bay and they’ve discovered that Eric¬ sons make excellent charter yachts.

The Club’s senior instructors surveycu me market to find the ideal sailing school/charter boat for San Francisco Bay and decided that Olson was the best, in fact so close to their ideal, they only needed to add a few options to make them nearly perfect. They asked us if we could help them place a limited number of new Olsons in their fleet.

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39' FREYA Cutter, 78. Trans-ocean vet. Recently refurbished (sistership). Ask¬ ing $79,000.

43' CHEOY LEE P.H. MOTORS AILER, '83. Fully founded ocean yacht & spa¬ cious liveabooard. Asking $145,000.

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28’ NEWPORT MK II, '81. Beautifully maintained. Dodger, diesel, autopilot, 2 ibs, new bottom job. Asking $22,900.

GaIf-59 New Pilothouse 28' ISLANDER, 76. Diesel, 7 sails, four sails, clean. Asking $25,000.

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Having spent the better part of the last six years in Baja, I got used to reading dog-eared copies of Latitude. With a permanent base, I'm now looking forward to getting my own copy. As editor/publisher of a Tayana owners newsletter (TOG News),! wanted to let your readers know that a Tayana Owners Group exists. In fact, it has existed for 10 years! One of the reasons we're not well-known in Northern California is because the previous Tayana dealer thought we were nothing but a bunch of nit-pickers. They probably thought that because we had a lot of negative things to say, but in fact the 1975-1980 hulls did have a lot of flaws. We kept hacking away at the dealers and the builder to correct the problems. Gradually the quality was upgraded until today the Tayana's are super boats. The current Tayana dealer in the Bay Area, Pacific Yacht Imports, is happy to be a member of our group. Starting with a small announcement in the December 1979 issue of Cruising World, TOG has grown to 200 owner members, all U.S. Tayana dealers, dealers in France, Canada and Hong Kong, Tayana designers Bob Perry and Bob Harris, the builder Ta Yang, and Tayana sailmaker, Neil Pryde. We appear to have the only owner's group for a yacht built in Taiwan. One of the principle activities of the TOG is the publication of the TOG News. It contains the experiences — good and bad — of TOG members. Forty-four issues have been published to date. The newsletter has provided owners with answers to problems as well as problem prevention. The collection of newsletter has provided potential buyers with information pertinent to the purchase of a new or used Tayana. While most TOG members own the 37-footer, the 42-footer is also well represented. Owners of the 47, 52, 55 and upcoming 65 are also welcome. For more information, readers can call (805) 582-1437 or write: TOG NEWS, 1348 Nonchalant Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93065. Norm Demain Simi Valley, CA

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Each year we say 'Thanks' to the Navy for its efforts to keep our country free. Yes, our Navy has made mistakes, but their past actions in stopping aggressors — with great loss of life — is what allows us to sail the waters of the world. The Navy's dedication to their job is beyond reproach. There is no realistic reason why Navy ships cannot come into

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San Francisco Bay for our viewing. Total world disarmament is the only way to be free from any nuclear accident, and we're a long way from that It would be more constructive if Greenpeace concentrated their efforts on helping the Navy stop the drug lords from destroying the lives of so many people. Using scare tactics to instill fear is not what is needed to correct the problem. All organizations make some mistakes — including our military and Greenpeace. We need to work together to solve problems, not fight amongst each other. San Francisco Bay will be none the worse for wear after Fleet Week has come and gone. Greenpeace can benefit our society in other ways without creating unnecessary fear and hysteria. Kim Zimmerman Sacramento

Kim — We're not crazy about nukes, but we'd prefer that Greenpeace spend more time snipping those 30-mile long Asian fishing nets that are strip-mining the oceans, and less time on futile attempts to defang the Navy. Speaking of the Navy, has anyone read The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk lately? It's a great book that is a as relevant today as it was at the end of World War II.

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previous day's incident He stuck around watching the race for a while and ended up helping a couple of racers that were out of control. At this time the Morro Bay YC is still "sorting out" the incident and trying to decide who the responsible parties are. Meanwhile, my boat is sitting at her mooring with a hole inches above the waterline. The club's attitude toward my situation has been, at the very least, callous. I feel that given the conditions, the club's choice of a course combined with the young sailor's inexperience showed a lack of good judgement. This accident could have been avoided. Peter Miller Cayucos, CA Peter — Pretend you were the victim of a minor fender-bender and act accordingly. In other words, get brief statements from your witnesses, photograph the damage, then repair it. Geez, what's it going to cost, $100 -$150? With your boat seaworthy again, approach the proper authority at the yacht club, present your evidence and document the cost of your repairs. Great friends to all coastal cruisers for so many years, we're certain the Morro Bay YC will do you right. When all is said and done, you might suggest the Morro Bay YC remind their junior sailors not to leave the scene of an accident without leaving a note. A two-week old home-built boat being holed — you have our sympathy! By the same token, there's no point in making a mountain out of a mole hill. ^EVERYTHING ABOUT PHONE CALLS FROM MEXICO

Having read your remarks about the phone service between Mexico and the States prompts me to pass on some information regarding a negative experience we had while cruising mainland and Baja. We think it would be of interest to cruisers in Mexico or headed that way. While out of the United States, our phone bills were being paid by a family member. When we finally had a chance to review these bills, we were quite dismayed to learn that three expensive calls (some within Mexico and some back to the States) were all charged to our credit card. The problem stems, we believe, from the fact that you have to give your phone information (number being called, credit card number, and name) to the operator — whether at larga distancia or a hotel. Where the little piece of paper with all this information goes after that point is the question. You cannot place a credit card page 31

As the East Coast sailors begin hauling in their sum¬ mer dreams and putting them on wraps, the "official" sailing season over, here in the BAY we bring out our light 150’s and our .5 oz. kites. However, the philosophy among boat sellers on both coasts remains that sales slow down during the winter months. This is great news for West Coast sailors since asking prices will be at their lowest, and motivation to sell at its highest. Besides, who wouldn't like to get a good deal on the right boat, get a feel for your "new" boat in light to medium breezes and be ready to get down to Mexico by January.

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HANS CHRISTIAN YACHTS 1976 HANS CHRISTIAN 45. Complete redecking 1988. Rebuilt engine and new electrical Sept. 1989. Asking only $135,000. 1979 HANS CHRISTIAN 43 Ketch. Super clean w/custom davits, cruising reefer and priced to sell fast at $130,000. 1980 HANS CHRISTIAN 33. Immaculate care and many recent up¬ grades make this an excellent investment. $94,500/offers. 1981 HANS CHRISTIAN 38MK II. Hans' most popular layout with pullman berth and loaded with cruising equipment. $115,000/Offers. 1984 HANS CHRISTIAN 33. One queen and one double stateroom w/ full galley and forward head w/separate shower. All in 33-ft. $99,500. 1986 HANS CHRISTIAN 48. Generator, watermaker, WeatherFax, dual furling, 9 sails, etc. Get the idea? Asking $295,000/0ffers. 1987 HANS CHRISTIAN 38T. Performance keel cutter. Well equipped late model w/many upgrades and options. Must see at $145,000. 1988 HANS CHRISTIAN 38T. Performance keel Boat Show boat with all the yard options and over $75K in new equipment. Asking $215,000.

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Oscar not only wanted a tough boat, he wanted a fast tough boat. We have at the ready two 375 hp Cater¬ pillar diesels. We also have a Mercedes-Benz generator painted Caterpillar yellow to match. The hull is 42 feet long, of 3/16" Cor-Ten steel. The boat will displace 18 tons, and has a projected top speed of 25 knots. There’s a lot of Oscar going into this boat — in fact, if he doesn’t stop bringing stuff in, that top speed estimate will have to go down. And Oscar is already planning a big launching party. Obviously, this boy is just never going to grow up — and we certianly can’t imagine a better fellow to build a boat with. We’ll keep you posted on that party.

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tL£) Arghhh! "But don't worry, it will either be on us or Awl-Crip." Ahh. To make a long story longer, Svendsens, under the watchful eye of the Awl-Grip rep, ended up repainting the boat again. Same probleml By this time I am really wondering whether boat ownership is really as bad as I thought — or whether it is a whole lot worse. Once the boat was sanded down again, the Awl-Crip rep returned — and I understand she was dressed from head to toe in fuchia. A new batch and guess what? Same problem again!!! At that point I called Peter and told him to paint the sucker white with blue stripes. But before Peter could do it, they finally figured out that the anti-cratering solution in the paint was causing — how's that — the cratering. Perigail is now fuchia, but in the process we've missed the Windjammer's Race, not to mention the Golden Gate Regatta. Anyway, when anybody see's the only fuchia sailboat on the Bay headed out the Gate — and believe me, it's hard to miss — you'll all know that getting such a beautiful color isn't easy. In closing, I want to thank Peter at Svendsens, who's hair transplants are going well now that our boat is out of his yard, and to Chuck at Svendsens, who put up with a bunch of heckling about painting that pink (fuchia) boat without punching anyone out Nancy Daniels Navigator, Perigail Nancy — No doubt you're going to get some heat from people. They'll be guys like R.F. Peterson of Sunnyvale who will tell you that pink should be spelled 'fuchsia1, and that no matter how you spell it, it's not their favorite color. Others will tell you boats shouldn't be painted pink. A few will even offer the opinion that women belong in the kitchen and not sailing on the Bay or ocean. On the behalf of Latitude, we'd like to welcome you ladies to the ranks of boat owners, and to the ranks of those who own colorful boats. Almost in honor of the occasion, we've had some fuchia/fuchsia/pink on black Latitude t-shirts made up. If you'll send us your address, we'd be delighted to send one to each of you. MFUELING THE ALCOHOI/BOATING DEBATE The following letter is my proof that alcohol and boating don't mix. On February 3 of this year, I was singlehanding my Ericson 32, Rebecca, up from Santa Cruz. With the cold, fog and goofy winds, conditions were so miserable that some compensation was needed.. Something to take one's mind off the cold and the drone of the engine. Something like alcohol. I had no sooner gone below to partake when BOOM! I found myself sitting on the cabin sole, looking at my arm, which seemed to have gotten an instant hair-ectomy. The smell of burning hair permeated the cabin. Its seems my alcohol stove had sprung a small leak somewhere, and a blue cloudburst resulted the moment I attempted to light the burner. There was no serious damage to Rebecca or myself (save the unwanted electrolysis job on my arm), but I learned a valuable lesson: Alcohol and boating don't mix! I have since upgraded my stove to kerosene, a side-effect of which is that I can now even boil water with my stove — assuming I have the patience to get the boat started in the first place. I'm not trying to imply that kerosene should be substituted for alcohol in all cases, especially when it concerns internal consumption. While both are hydrocarbon compounds, I think that most people will find ethanol — in the form of distilled or fermented grain — far more palatable. But my lesson taught me that alcohol and boating can be extremely dangerous , and the combination should be eliminated wherever possible. In fact, I was

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LETTERS so frazzled after my ordeal that I had to down a few shots of Wild Turkey to keep my composure. No, wait, seriously now, I think you folks at Latitude are right when it comes to alcohol consumption and boating. Sailors who insist on sailing stone drunk are stupid, but rarely a danger to other boaters (save their equally stupid crew), in fact, such drunken sailors are easy to spot: on the beach, on the rocks, backwinded going nowhere, trying to figure out which end of the anchor line goes over the side, etc. But I still don't think we're even talking about a case of the few hurting the many. In my 25 years of sailing, I can only recall two cases of alcohol-related boating accidents where someone was injured. Both happened at night, and both involved high-speed powerboats. In one case, the driver ran into the ‘hard stuff, and it was his last stupid move. In the other, far more unfortunate incident, the driver ran into another boat, piercing it neatly, and killing three passengers along with himself. So while it does happen, the number of instances are very low. If you're of the opinion that even these two incidents could have been avoided had alcohol not been involved, well, you're right But then I wonder why you ever risk leaving home. Eric R. Lyons Mill Valley Mnot now extinct On page 126 of the July issue, Doris Klein stated that the Palo Alto YC is "now extinct". Although no longer located in Palo Alto, the club is alive and well. We have a modest facility in Redwood City, which is located across the Peninsula Marina and a quarter mile from Pete's Harbor. Richard Honey is the Commodore and Richard Watson the Vice Commodore. Bill Sitzenstatter Menlo Park iiffCAUGHT AT AN EXCITING TIME Thanks for your August coverage of the always exciting Express 27 Nationals. You managed to capture our boat, Bugbear at a particularly exciting — "ease the sheetl" — time. Those reaches

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LETTERS Mno proof that three are better than two Now that you've leveled a cheapshot at some hapless reporter who neglected to name the yacht owned by William and Simone Butler, and who neglected to name the type and size whales who sunk it, perhaps now you should do some serious investigative reporting of your own. And what better target than the marine insurance companies? Why not see if you can learn what is behind their requirement that there must be at least three crewmembers on a boat for offshore insurance. Do the companies have statistics showing a yacht is a better risk with three crew or it is a mean-spirited attempt to deny insurance at any cost to cruising couples? Why is offshore insurance so difficult and expensive to get anyway? Hell, even if you find nothing scandalous, any information you can turn up on the complexities behind rate setting in marine insurance would be helpful. P.S. Last month I inquired about insurance for a transatlantic crossing from Maine to Ireland, was advised by my insurance agent in Maine that I would have to have my boat re-surveyed (it's wood), submit a personal log or sailing vita for me and my crew, submit a list of safety precautions and safety equipment If I was able to get any insurance, it would only be through Lloyds of London, with a $2,000 deductible. The agent, who has handled my insurance from the time I departed Cristobal, Canal Zone on my trip east from San Francisco nine years ago, had no idea what the premium might be, but there was no mention about needing a minimum of three crew. Ethelbert Nevin II San Francisco Ethelbert — Since Lloyds was the one that initiated the threeperson crew requirement, we suggest that you call your agent and see if he or she forgot to mention that detail. When we first got insurance through Lloyds, we didn't learn of the three-person requirement until the policy was in our hands. The other possibility is that your agent knows you and your boat very well, and is going to get the underwriter to waive that requirement. We talked to several agents who said they can and have done this for long time clients who are skilled sailors with excellent boats. No agent is going to go out on a limb with his underwriter for a new client, however. According to the agents we talked to, there's no real mystery behind the three-person requirement: common sense and logic would both suggest that three crew are safer than two, especially on the long passages. Is there statistical evidence to support the belief that three-person crews are safer than two person crews? Probably not. But then it's not needed. Underwriters are known to be capricious. We remember when we got our charter boat insurance through Lloyds, and they wouldn't insure the mast. We explained that the boat wouldn't be raced and that the spar was massive and wellsupported. The agent explained that it didn't make any difference. A year before the underwriter had to pay a claim on a mast, after which he told his agents not to bring him any more boat insurance that included masts. Everybody knew — the underwriter included — that it didn't make any sense, but he'd just developed a 'thing1 about masts and didn't want to pay for any more. A year later we went through another avenue at Lloyd's, got the same insurance for 40% less, with the mast included. The explanation? "The underwriter felt the lower premium was satisfactory to cover the risk." As for offshore insurance, it's not particularly cheap, but it's readily available. By the way, we weren't taking a cheapshot at some “hapless reporter*, we were making a valid complaint against newspapers that page 57

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Yacht Insurance explained to the Panamanian strongman how he was muffing his play with President Bush. Impressed, Noreiga sent him to Washington as a envoy. Unfortunately, his plane was hijacked by the DEA, and Barry abandoned in the wastelands of South Africa. Discovered dying of thirst by Bishop Tutu, Barry was nursed back to health in a shelter founded by Mother Theresa. Three weeks later he met P.W. Botha in a bar and got into a intense discussion about apartheid. "Maybe I've been wrong all along," Botha said as staggered out die door eight hours later. "Botha Resigns" read the headlines the following day. His work in South Africa done, Barry shipped out on a French maxi multihull bound for Martinique, where he briefly became engaged to a Franco-West Indian exotic dancer who was the toast of Fort de France. When the relationship didn't last, a heartbroken Barry boarded a tramp steamer for Cuba. While in a very dark Havana bar, Barry started talking politics with a couple of guys he later recognized as Castro and Bernie Cornfeld. Stung first by Barry's laughter at the state of international communism, Fidel blew up when the Sausalitan told him there was nothing Cuba could use more than a first class land surveyor such as himself. After Fidel chased Barry out of the bar with a machete, Herman was lucky to escape to Cienfueglos and lay low for a couple of days. A week later, a boatload of off-course Haitian refugees drifted by. Barry joined them with the promise of better navigation and friends at Key West Immigration. Two days later the decrepit boat was dismasted and the rudder fell off. Out of fuel and out of luck, they drifted to Bluefields, Nicaragua. The furious Haitians began directing voodoo at Barry because he'd brought them to the only place in the hemisphere with a lower standard of living then their native Haiti. Barely Human would have been a zombie had not a group of Miskito Indians come to his rescue. Briefly ambushed by a group of Honduran political prisoners, the whole group decided to head north to take jobs as waiters in L.A. Having lost his passport, Barry had to sneak across the border one night with 10,000 others. Dying for a real American burger and a beer, Barry wandered into the Bol Weevil on Shelter Island. He told us the whole story on the drive back to Clipper Yacht Harbor in Sausalito. So, things have been going along pretty much as usual with Barry. Mchart a wiser course Although your article in September's issue about cruising in Mexico was interesting and informative, there are a number of items one might take exception to. You acknowledge that numerous boats have grounded due to onshore sets in recent years, yet your solution seems to be head offshore when visibility is bad or when you don't know where you are. Most prudent navigators will make it a point to know where they are by keep an up-to-date DR position, and continually adjusting it for the set and drift As to the lights in Mexico, most of the people I speak to who are there now, or cruisers who were there last year, report that the lights, with very few exceptions, are reliable. This due to the fact they are now solar powered instead of gas operated. Regarding your choice of navigation instruments, it's nice to have radar, SatNav, and/or GPS systems, but most navigators will agree that simple hand tools of the trade like parallel rules, a hand¬ bearing compass, and a good set of marine binoculars are necessary. Personally, I use my dividers for measuring position or distance. Divider points are too sharp for cleaning fingernails, but I suppose you could keep a fingernail file in your nav station. Although celestial navigation is not a requirement for cruising Mexico, it is nice to be able to know where you are when out of sight of land instead of relying on the opinion of a dope smuggler. Again, simple practice of piloting is certainly more advisable than "go east until you find land". page 61

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LETTERS in your magazine and ended up buying one. After we do a little more outfitting (radar, wind vane and maybe a water-maker), we'll be looking for crew to help sail her down to next year's Baja Haha. Right now we're signing up for the Mexico Only Crew List, looking to find a good boat headed to Mexico. George & Gertrude Beimers Emeryville Mall right, we'll tell him Please tell Jann Burner that I appreciated his humor and salient points — even if you Philistines didn't get it Akin to “the good ship Alcatraz*, I've had the Moss Landing range lights pass me while I was furling my sails. Doug Gott Los Gatos Attention Jann Burner: Doug Gott was us to tell you that he appreciates your humor and salient points even if the Philistines at Latitude didn't get it. Attention all readers: If you send us anything humorous or facetious, please identify as such. We're not always sharp enough to pick it up. MDOES THE PLEASURE BALANCE THE WORK? We're writing in response to Jann Burner's The Things Latitude Never Told Me. As I shared this letter with my husband, we understood Burner's frustration. But we do not blame Latitude (or any other sailing publication) for a lack of information or "truth" regarding boat owning and the cruising lifestyle. We became Westsail owners in 1984, after three years of reading, researching, and travelling up and down the coast of Southern California looking for our "perfect" cruising boat. We bought a 1973 Westsail 32, and found many, many surprises; some pleasant, some unpleasant A Westsail is a budget-minded cruiser's dream, but since they are no longer in production, one must buy a used one. All used boats, not just Westsails, are naturally subject to the last owner's care or lack thereof. As for a 10 hp motor for a Westsail, that's really a joke. If Burner had done his homework, he surely would have known this. Secondly, yes, we too dreamed of cruising and there were times we spent day after day, month after month, working on our boat and wondering if we'd ever accomplish our dream. At times our list of "Things To Do or Buy* seemed never-ending — and constantly growing. I'll admit there were plenty of discouraging moments. Obsessed? Yes, you have to be I Eventually — in February 1987 — we reached a point where we said, "Yeah, let's do itl" So even though we had a seven month child aboard, we shoved off. Is the work and preparation balanced out by the pleasures of cruising? No, not hour for hour. But there is the satisfaction of having accomplished a dream. Oh, by the way, we met many fellow cruisers who were on their second, third or fourth boat before they found their "perfect" cruising/liveaboard boat. The first boat is definitely a real learning experience through which you learn things that can't be taught in any books or magazines. The same is true with your first cruise, where among other things, you learn to be self-reliant. We know, we've been there. Joy, Bill and Sean Rundell Honeycomb Oxnard Joy, Bill and Sean — It's been suggested that Burner's letter was at least partly facetious, so maybe we're taking it all too seriously. page 65

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As for the 'perfect* cruising boat, there's no such thing anymore than there's the perfect spouse or sunset. Such a futile search can only end in frustration and disappointment. As for all the hours some folks spend preparing for a cruise, it should be noted that many are used on purely discretionary projects. We don't think one Westsail 32 in ten would require more than three weeks to make perfectly safe and habitable for a winter cruise to Mexico. We're not knocking them, but it's all the little niceties that take so much time. Mour LAST COPY WAS BROUGHT FROM JAPAN I just finished reading your May issue and realized how much we were missing by not getting the magazine for the last six months. The issue were lucky enough to “get ahold of" here in Dutch Harbor, Alaska was given to us 6y David Cohen and Sharon Jacobs on Synergy — and they brought the copy from Japan. Dutch Harbor has become quite the cruising capital; five boats have sailed through here in the last three weeks. The Aleutian Chain is gorgeous and lush in the summer, and Dutch Harbor a 'civilized' (food, drink, beer) place to stop after 20-25 days of sailing from Japan. Anyway, our $45 for a first class subscription will hopefully allow us to receive the magazine with one to two weeks — weather permitting the planes to fly — of publication. Teri Schmidt Dutch Harbor, Alaska UftTHE CREWMAN WENT BERSERK My trip from Cabo to San Diego last season was almost ruined before it began when a local crewman went berserk, damaged the boat I was on, and attacked me with a knife. Luckily, most of the damage to the boat was minor and I escaped with a cut hand. It ail started in June when I flew down to Cabo and agreed to help Paul Grabowski sail his beautiful 56-ft ketch Oksa up the coast Paul had been in Mexico since the beginning of the season, and while in Puerto Vallarta had befriended a young boatyard worker. The young man became a crewman, and by the time Oksa had made her way to Cabo, he had proved himself to be trustworthy and dependable. When I arrived in Cabo, he and I worked together to prepare Oksa for the trip north. At the time I found him to be outgoing, charismatic and a willing worker. Being the same age and having at least two interests in common — sailing and girls — we became fast friends. Little did I know he would soon turn Oksa into the 'Bates Boatel*. What I didn't know what that the young man was actually from El Salvador and that he had fought with the leftist guerrillas when he was younger. At some point he left El Salvador and found his way to the United States, where he hung out with a street-gang in Chicago. He was later arrested for being involved in a knife fight, and was deported to Mexico where he claimed to be a citizen. After serving time in a Mexican jail, he eventually made his way to Puerto Vallarta where he met Paul. On what was to be our last night in Cabo, our skipper checked into a hotel while the young man and I went to the El Capitan, a bar popular with local Mexicans. Around 0100 I suggested we should return to the boat For no apparent reason my friend suddenly transformed into Mr. T. with a Spanish accent, and began to blurt out foul insults, threats and challenges. I explained to him that it was late, that he'd drunk enough, and that we were leaving in the morning. This didn't change his demeanor, so I returned to the boat alone, hoping he would cool off. About 0300 I was awakened by the sound of rocks crashing on the deck. For about five minutes my friend bombarded the boat with grapefruit-sized rocks from the shore, all the while ignoring my page 67

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New York, New York. On Septemer 22, we received the following press release from the Manhattan Yacht Club: "Despite a series of last minute negotiations, Hurricane Hugo has been denied a berth in the 1989 International Yacht Club Challenge. "'We denied Hugo entrance for two reasons,' says Michael Fortenbaugh, commodore of the Manhattan Yacht Club. 'First, the challenge is designed to promote international goodwill. Hugo hasn't too good of a record. Second, we are only sponsoring one team per country, and the Montego Bay YC is already representing the Caribbean.' ‘According to a club spokesman, Hugo contacted the club late last Friday about participating in the event 'He planned to be in the area and wanted race in the challenge,' said the spokesperson who asked not to be identified. 'We felt Hugo had too much of a speed advantage. It would have been like racing a multihull against a monohull.' "The Manhattan Yacht Club and Yacht Club de Monaco, coorganizers of the challenge, expect Hugo to appeal directly to the General Assembly of the United Nations. However, the organizers are confident that his appeal will not be heard before Friday, September 29, when the regatta begins. The organizers refused comment on any participation of Tropical Storm Iris.

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SIGHTINGS as the cup turns, part three The longest and certainly most ignominious sporting event in history headed off into uncharted waters once again when a new court ruling was handed down on September 19. By a 4-1 margin, a New York appeals court

the big, There's cruising and then there's CRUISING. The parties of the first part buy a boat, load it down with groceries and paperbacks and tool around Mexico or the Caribbean for a few months or years, flying back home during the off season to attend to business and/or family \ matters. CRUISERs, on the other hand, chuck all trappings of a "normal" lifestyle and immerse themselves totally into living aboard and

In Fart IV, 'Stars & Stripes' (above) and 'New Zealand' (right) will be fitted with razor-studded toe rails and raced one more time in a no-bolds-barred, anythinggoes main event Said one hockey-masked crewman, "We'll make 'Nightmare on Elm Street'look like a Sunday picnic."

overturned the ruling of Judge Carmen Ciparick, taking the America's Cup back from Michael Fay and the Kiwis, and handing it over to Dennis Conner and the San Diego YC. So let's see now, the 1987 America's Cup has now besmirched the reputations of yachting, sportsmanship, Michael Fay, Dennis Conner, the United States, and most recently, the American legal system. If you're like most sensible sailors, you've become so disgusted by the schoolboy antics of both sides that you've blocked out the whole history of the debacle. Here then for you America's Cup bolimics is a brief review of some of the lowlights: February 1987 — Conner and the San Diego YC trounce the Aussies 4-0 in Fremantle to bring the Cup back to the United States. July 1987 — While Conner & Co. are busy squeezing all the money they can from the Cup, Michael Fay, disgusted by San Diego's delay in announcing the next Cup site, challenges the San Diego YC to a race in 90-ft waterline boats. July 1987 — The San Diego YC pretends Fay doesn't exist November 1987 — At the urging of Fay, New York Supreme Court Judge Carmen Ciparick rules that the Kiwi challenge is legal and that San Diego must either defend the Cup or forfeit it to Fay. December 1987 — San Diego reluctantly accepts the challenge, but is coy on what kind of boat they'll use to defend. January 1988 — San Diego announces it will defend with a catamaran; a month later they announce the Cup will be sailed off Long Beach. March 1988 — Fay offers to postpone the Cup a year in order to give San Diego the opportunity to buiid a 90-ft waterline boat like his. A week later cant'd next sightings page page 76

SIGHTINGS big cruise travelling the world. Of course, it's not really so cut and dried as all that It's just easy to think so when you meet a couple like Stan and Caren Sutton. Back in 1979 they were within days of departing the Bay for a cruise to Australia when Caren found out she was pregnant In the preceding three years of cruise planning and building their cont'd center of next sightings page

part three — cont'd San Diego rejects the offer, just as they had rejected Kiwi's appeal that the 1988 Cup be a multi boat international regatta. San Diego does agree, however, to move the sight to San Diego. May 1988 — Fay asks the New York Supreme Court to make San Diego defend with a monohull. July 1988 — judge Ciparick decides San Diego doesn't have to name its defender until the start of the Cup, but that New Zealand can protest after the race. Exasperated, she chides both sides for not being able to decide cont'd next sightings page

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their differences on the water instead of the courtroom. September 1988 — Stars & Stripes, the San Diego catamaran, beats New Zealand by margins of 18 and 21 minutes to sweep the Cup 2-0. September 1988 — As if the faux-Cup itself weren't bad enough, the victorious Conner makes an ass of himself at the post race press conference, embarrassing both his yacht club and sponsors. November 1988 — As promised, Fay asks New York Supreme Court to disqualify San Diego on the grounds their catamaran did not meet the requirements of the Deed of Gift January 1989 — Representatives from 25 challenge syndicates meet in San Diego to choose a new 73-75 foot America's Cup design. March 1989 — Judge Ciparick stuns everyone by ruling in favor of the Kiwis, saying the San Diego catamaran violated the spirit of competition. She directs the Cup to be given to Fay. April 1989 — The San Diego YC votes to appeal. May 1989 — A New York appeals court rules that the Cup be turned over to the New York YC, which held it for more than 125 years, for safekeeping. They store it in the vault of a Manhattan bank. June 1989 — Twenty-two challengers from 13 nations, some whom now have big financial problems, meet in New Zealand to plan for a 1992 America's Cup. September 1989 — The 22 challengers wasted expensive air-fares going to Auckland, as a New York appeals court rules 4-1 that the catamaran was legal. The Cup is given back to Conner and the San Diego YC. They'll be a test on this material at the end of the year.

Westsail 43 Marinka from a bare hull, that was about the only eventuality they hadn't planned for. But at that point, there wasn't much else to do but just go and figure out "plan B" on the way. Elizabeth Sutton was bom in Hawaii later that year, and took her first steps in front of the chief's hut on Fatu Hiva. A second daughter, Jennifer, was bom in Pago Pago in 1985. As you might guess by now, the rest of the plans went out the window, as well. The three-year jaunt to Oz turned into an 8-year, 58,000-mile double circumnavigation. Among other highlights of the trip were surviving four hurricanes, getting arrested in communist Yemen, being rammed by a whale — and of course the many friendships made in the cruising community and the 46 countries they visited. Early last month, they finally came home, crossing under the Golden Gate on September 2. One of the main reasons they came back. ("Besides running out of money," says Stan) was for the girls' sake. "We thought it was time they should form more permanent relationships with other kids in their peer groups," says Dad, noting that the instant friends made in a new port always eventually left or were left behind. At last report (three weeks aftertheirarrival), Liz and Jenny were adjusting well, as kids do. Though the two pixies admit to missing the boat since the family moved ashore, the trauma of the situation has been mitigated by ice cream, the roominess of a real house and the anticipation of finally being able to have a pet Hot showers were high on Mom and Dad's "glad to be back in civilization" list (Set up as she was for the tropics, Marinka doesn't have one, unless you count the solar shower in the cockpit) Stan and Caren also admit it's nice just to be home — in both the literal and patriotic sense. At this writing, Stan is back working in San Francisco in the family business (which contracts with the Navy to build the living spaces into its ships). Caren is busy making a home of the little mother-in-law unit they currently call home. The girls are in school. And the boat is for sale. “That's the strangest part of bei ng back," says Stan: "Not being aboard anymore. The boat has become such a big part of our lives — and it's the only home Elizabeth and Jenny have ever known. At night, when they say their prayers, they always include Marinka as though she's a living person."

Despite all the high-priced lawyers and well-respected judges involved, the whole dispute is really a schoolyard argument over which is the proper perspective for life. Judge Ciparick, a believer in the "It's not whether you win or lose that matters, but how you play the game", ruled in favor of sportsmanship and the Kiwis. The majority at the appeals court are believers in the Vince Lombardi dictum that "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing". Thus they ruled in favor of Conner and San Diego. Justice Israel Rubin, siding with the majority, explained: "San Diego Yacht Club should not be deprived of its victory simply because the design of its vessel was more innovative". There are many who would argue that His Honor Rubin is unclear on the concept. The lone appeals court dissenter, Justice Bentley Kassal, said, "I cannot accept that such a gross mismatch was permissible under the Deed of Gift." As such, he echoed Ciparick's feelings. As expected, those who've supported Dennis Conner and the San Diego Yacht Club were jubilant with the ruling, and those in favor of the Kiwis were discouraged. Where do we go from here? Why to court, where else? Michael Fay has until the end of October to appeal the decision of the appeals court. His own attorney admits there is but a one in ten chance the court will even agree to hear the appeal. If they let the ruling stand, the gig is up and San Diego keeps the Cup. If Fay's appeal is heard, it would probably happen in April of 1990 with a decision a month or two later. Barring a successful appeal by Fay, the next Cup will be held off San Diego in May of 1992, using 73-footers that displace approximately one third that of a 12 Meter. To date some 24 challengers have expressed interest. Because San Diego has predominantly light winds, such a competition would not be particularly thrilling, but certainly a lot more interesting than the last one. As for the current international status of the America's Cup, Tom Ehman, executive vice president of the America's Cup Organizing Committee, summed it up best when he told the Associated^ Press: "There's no question that the controversy has tarnished the Cup in the eyes of the general public, the sailing public, and our own community. But it's also a perfect opportunity. It may be the best thing that happened to us. The controversy — and I hate to say this — has brought the America's Cup to the minds of more people in the world than ever."

In our November issue, look for a full length article by the Suttons that will hopefully answer the question that's on the mind of every parent out there right now: How in the world did these people raise two kids from infancy on a boat without losing their sanity? (We can't wait to read about it ourselves.) page 78

SIGHTINGS liferafts and glass houses

kilroy in a suitcase

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rafts of trouble" is right That was the title given to last month's Sighting? piece about the two couples who abandoned sailboats and took to liferafts. You'll recall that in one of those cases, the man apparently committed suicide by swimming away from the raft after 10 days, the woman barely surviving another 4 days before rescue. In the other raft, an older married couple named William and Simon Butler survived 66 days at sea relatively none the worse for wear. In our typical style, we poked fun at the masc rr?2dia types because none of the wire

Yachting big wheel Jim Kilroy always seems to have a fleet of his Kialoa racing machines going at any one time. As a successful businessman, he can afford to pay the bar tab that goes with them. Most of us play on a smaller scale. Take James "JDâ&#x20AC;&#x153; Vincent, for example. Now 71 years old, the Point Richmond sailor has been cutting up the Bay for 56 years in sailboats like Snipes, Birds, 110s and, most recently, Hawkfarms. His Mercedes, in fact, has won the national title six times. For the last three years, though, JD has let his son Patrick run that show. In the meantime, Dad, a retired commercial airline captain, has been campaigning actively in radio controlled model sailboats. No new hobby, JD reports that he's been playing with these miniatures since World War II at places like Golden Gate Park, Berkeley's Aquatic Park and the San Francisco Model Yacht Association's main battleground, Spreckels Lake. Now his scope

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SIGHTINGS suitcase kilroy — cont'd extends far beyond local boundaries. In August, he and his buddy Fred Schenck, a Snipe sailor from Newport Harbor YC in Southern California, headed east to Toronto, Ontario, for the Marblehead class internationals. JD placed seventh out of 33 boats in what he called drifting conditions. On the way back, the duo stopped off in Kansas City, where JD took first in the local Labor Day regatta while Fred placed second. One of the older model boat types, the Marbleheads are an open class limited to 50 inches overall and 800 square inches of sail in a fractional rig. Outwardly, the only digressions most models make from being simply miniatures of the real thing is their relatively deep keels — 19 or 20 inches is the norm — and the cork or rubber-tipped snouts to absorb any tactical or "docking" blunders. Like all model sailboats, they're controlled by a radio transmitter, which trims the main and jib. More exotic versions also control

liferafts services or newspapers mentioned the married couple's boat name, nor the types and sizes of the whales that allegedly sunk it "And these guys call themselves journalists?" we queried smugly. We should have known better, v Greg Switlik called shortly after the issue came out to pop our bubble. "See where it says The Florida couple climbed into the 6ft Avon...?' It wasn't an Avon. It was a Switlik Coastal liferaft they had." Oh. We went on to have an informative and

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SIGHTINGS — cont'd enlightening conversation with Greg, who with brother Richard now runs the Switlik Parachute Company in Trenton, New Jersey. Though they don't make parachutes any more (it's a long story), they do produce a line of quality liferafts that have been finding their ways aboard more and more boats, both commercial and recreational. In talking liferafts, many of Greg's comments seemed a natural follow up to the two dramatic stories, particularly that of the Butlers, who called the raft company to cont'd center of next sightings page

suitcase kilroy — cont'd vang, backstay and outhaul tensions. JD's Marblehead was built out of fiberglass by Swede Johnson, who used to make sails at Baxter and Cicero. Johnson also built the mylar sails, though JD sews up his own sails for most of his other boats. The cost for a radio can range from $75 to $300, while the boat itself costs up to $500. Of course, in the spirit of Kilroy, one is not enough for a sportsman like JD. Among the 19 hulls dating back to 1937 that fill his garage, JD's hotter race boats include a 39-in One Meter, a 50-in Soling, a 70-in Santa Barbara and a 54-in Infinity. The latter was designed by Bay Area Express 27 sailor John Amen, who is an accomplished model boat racer, too. Several other "real" sailors who cross-sail regularly are Bruce Munro, John Elly and Gordy Miller. Model boat races are conducted much the same as real boat races as far as courses and tactics. Shades of Monterey Bay, they even get bogged down by kelp — well, algae — sometimes. But the sport does have its own quirks. Like when some outside influence interferes with a sailor's radio frequency, rendering his boat uncontrollable. Sometimes, too, when you're in the thick of a mark rounding with other boats, it takes a lot of concentration just to keep track of which boat is yours. “It's not unusual to realize all of a sudden that you're trying to sail somebody else's boat,” says JD. To help alleviate the problem, son Pat recently gave Dad's Marblehead a hot pink and blue paint job. The State Championships in San Jose September 9 and 10 were the last big event ofthe season for local model sailors. (JDtooksixth; Fred seventh.) JD has notions of joining a group going to Dayton, Ohio, for a big One Meter regatta this fall. "But my wife would probably shoot me if I took off on another trip!" he says. Looking ahead, he does plan to go south in his station wagon full of mini-yachts for an early December contest in San Diego. "It's when next year's models usually make their first appearance," JD explains. The event draws aficionados from as far away as New York. With the Santa Barbara and Soling national titles already to his credit, JD has his sights set on the One Meter and Marblehead championships. “I just need a few more breaks to win," he says. Sounds like something Kilroy would say. — shimon van collie

when the alphabet began with "j" With all the crapola going on about the America's Cup, it's not hard to yearn for the good old days when’the megabucks blown in the pursuit of yachting's Holy Grail were spent on mega-yachts with "Park Avenue" booms — not Park Avenue lawyers. Well, it was yearner's heaven off Newport, Rhode Island, the last weekend in August In fact, thanks to the efforts of two east coast institutions, Newport's Museum of Yachting and zillionairess Elizabeth Meyer, "Patron Saint of the J Class," it might as well have been 1934 again: for the first time in more than 50 years, two magnificent J-class yachts raced one another. We hear that one of the biggest spectator fleets ever seen went out to watch Endeavor and Shamrock V duel in the old AmCup racing grounds. But the racing was but a small part of this story. The big part, and we mean big, was the boats themselves. The J-Class was the largest, and many say most magnificent, class of racing yachts ever conceived. Only 10 of the 120-plus foot behemoths were ever built, alh:o race the light air off Newport in pursuit of the Auld Mug. Of those, only three survive, Endeavor, Shamrock V and Velsheda, all British boats. (Velsheda was Endeavor's trial horse.) The last American J, Ranger, was scrapped in 1941 to aid the war effort The years have been kindest to Shamrock V, last and best of tea baron Sir Thomas Lipton's Cup challengers. The 120-ft Shamrock V was built in 1930, and like her predecessors, lost to the American J Enterprise in the Cup races later that year. The defeat — his fifth in 30 years — shattered Lipton, then 80 years old. Though he swore he'd be back to try again, he died the next year. Shamrock V has only had four owners since then. Fortunately, all were attentive to her extensive, expensive upkeep needs. In 1986, she was donated to the Museum of Yachting in near bristol condition. cont'd next sightings page page 81

SIGHTINGS j boats — cont'd Though the post-Cup years weren't as kind to Endeavor, her story may be the most controversial since the current fiasco. Built in 1934 for T.O.M. Sopwith, the English warplane manufacturer, the 130-ft Endeavor was a good

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Above, 'Shamrock V'. Right, 'Endeavor'. Inset, Elizabeth Meyer, grand dame ot thej Class.

boat and the Americans knew it. Rainbow, the American defender, went on to win the requisite four of seven races, but a snafu over Sopwith's unfamiliarity with the American rules resulted in a protest that would have won him race four. The protest was thrown out on the technicality that he didn't raise his protest flag until the finish. Endeavor went through a series of owners over the years, all well-intended but lacking the financial wherewithal to properly keep her up. Enter Elizabeth Meyer, best known as the publisher of Yaachting, the great parody "magazine" of a few years back. In 1984, while researching an article on the j's, Elizabeth came upon what remained of Endeavor, stuck ignobly in the mud on the Isle of Wight, and it wasn't long before the rebirth began. Four years and $10 million later ($2 million in the rig alone), Endeavor's appearance, let alone the restoration, is enough to take your breath away. In fact, almost everything about the two yachts is a jaw-dropper of one sort or another. Take dimensions: Both yachts feature some 20 feet of overhang on either end. Both their masts are so tall (Endeavor's is 165 feet above the water; Shamrock V's, 155) that they're required to carry aircraft warning lights. Endeavor's "Park Avenue" boom is 63 feet long and 4 feet wide. She weighs in at 160 tons and flies 7,500 square feet of working sail, plus a 12,500 squarefoot spinnaker. Shamrock's comparable dimensions are only slightly less impressive. When the idea of racing the two thoroughbreds came up, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Endeavor's spiffy new rig would give her the edge. To even things out a bit, Ms. Meyer donated $1 million to the Museum to get Shamrock back to fighting trim. Leave it to a woman to salvage the last vestiges of a "gentlemen's sport." The boats have been scheduled to race a trio of three-race "series" back east: the already mentioned August 26-27 weekend, a late September bout off New York, and the last meeting off Annapolis in October. Oh yeah. With upwards of 35 crew per boat and celebrity skippers Ted Turner and Gary Jobson driving, the Turner-helmed Endeavor won all three of the Newport races handily. Not that it matters. Like we said, the overriding character of the event was harkening back to a time when winning wasn't everything — and sportsmanship was.

last voyage On August 22, Fred Walker sailed his Aries 32 Lara under the Golden Gate on a 400-mile, out-and-back round trip that would qualify him for next year's Singlehanded TransPac. When he wasn't back in a week — the trip normally takes two to four days — the Coast Guard conducted an intensive five-day search of more than 45,000 square miles of ocean, but could not find a trace of the doublended ketch or its 54-year-old owner. Then on September 10, about 450 miles west of San Diego, the Scripps Institute research ship New Horizon spotted a sailboat that turned out to be Lara. Walker, a Corte Madera psychiatrist, was not aboard. According to a report the New Horizon filed with the Coast Guard, the cont'd next sightings page page 82

SIGHTINGS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; cont'd hot so much the equipment you have, it's the decisions you make that determine if you survive or not" Switlik, a sailor himself (as is his brother Richard), recommends that all boat owners do as the Butlers did and formulate a plan for abandoning if the need arises. As part of that plan, he advises making up an "abandon ship* pack (clothes, nonperishable food, solar stili, EPIRB, flares, VHF handheld, fishing gear, etc.) and keeping it in a readily accessible area so it can be thrown easily into the cont'd center of next sightings page

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last voyage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; cont'd mizzen and a jib were set, but the main dangled at about the 3/4 mark. Several lines trailed in the water around the slowly drifting boat. An examination of the log book showed Walker's last entry was made at 7:05 p.m. on August 23. The entry placed the vessel 104 miles south of the Farallones with the notation that the weather was "rough." The canister liferaft was aboard; the man overboard gear wasn't, though it's unclear whether it had been jettisoned or simply knocked off the stern. Speculation is that Walker fell or was knocked overboard while attempting to reef the main. But at this writing, that's all it is, just speculation. Anything more definitive (such as determining if any lifejackets or harnesses are missing) will have to wait for a closer examination of Lara by someone who knows what they're looking at The New Horizon retrieved only the log book, leaving the cont'd next sightings page

SIGHTINGS last voyage — cont'd nearly new yacht to continue adrift while they resumed ocean research in the immediate area. They are due back in San Diego in late September. Though he was relatively new to singlehanding, friends and members of SSS knew Walker as an experienced, meticulous and extremely safety¬ conscious sailor, which makes his apparent loss that much harder to understand. In the 10-year history of the Singlehanded TransPac, Walker is the second of 115 qualifiers to be lost (Grover Nibour's Moore 24 was also found drifting with no one aboard in 1982.) Of the 101 skippers who have competed in the actual race, all have made their landfalls without serious injury or damage.

remembering fred I hope you're planning on putting in mention of a good skipper who was lost at sea recently. Fred Walker had been an Oceanic Society skipper for more than 12 years, serving on our Farallon Patrol, teaching piloting and doing anything else that got him out on the water. Even when he had to give up his boat to put kids through college, he sailed as a senior skipper with others in our our programs and continued teaching. His joy was great at being able to acquire, outfit and sail a new boat I can think of few others in our fleet who share the breadth of Fred's knowledge, competence, seamanship and pure love of the sea. I am proud to have been able to work with him, and our members who were able to sail with him are lucky to have had the experience. —jane piereth, director of on-thewater programs, oceanic society

bay guides review Hey, we kind of like this reviewing stuff. Did it last month, liked it, so here we are again with some insightful ink on three guides to help you find you way around the Bay. The Boater's Guide to San Francisco Bay Area Harbors and Marinas — Now in its fourth printing, this loose-leafed guide has become a permanent part of Latitude’s library. The reason becomes obvious as soon as you crack the covers. There, for each marina on the Bay and Delta (and even Hawaii's Ala Wai Yacht Harbor), are detailed map/charts accompanied by a list of information on guest and permanent berthing, fuel availability, marina depth, proximity of grocery stores, harbormaster's name and phone number — in short, the answer to every question you'd ever have about a particular destination, including the ones you didn't think to ask. The table of contents cleverly doubles as a quick-pick quide to the marinas and their facilities. It's written and compiled by Roger and Robert Dinelli of Bald Eagle Enterprises and gets better every year. If you like roaming around the Bay, don't leave home without it $15.95. Windfinder — A Windsurfing Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond — Though on the surface, this new publication might sound like the wave-shredder's equivalent to the above book, there's enough good information inside to interest “regular" sailors, too. Authors Michael Godsey, Mike Kastand Elizabeth Augney include detailed descriptions of more than 50 boardsailing sites with graphics showing prevailing wind, recommended skill level, camping spots and so on. A short writeup specific to each place ties up any loose ends, noting rules such as “no body contact with the water allowed", and offering such cryptic tips as "There is a police target range here and wayward bullets may skip across the lake." (From the Lake Merced entry.) The book is as well executed as a triple-somersault Immelman jibe — or whatever they do — and makes us wish we had more time to pursue this exciting sport. Then again, all sailing books make us wish we had more time out on the water. $10.95. Bay Sailing Guide — Kevin Gorey's new book may be the smallest of the lot, but in terms of information, it may be the fullest. Gorey weaves quite a bit of local history into his descriptions of more than 50 local destinations — "Red cont'd next sightings page

liferafts deployed raft. A final observation made by the Butlers and worth passing on is, when you buy a raft, pay a little extra and get the optional

sutter Peter Sutter, once a longtime Sausalito sailmaker and now a longtime South Pacific cruiser, celebrated his 65th birthday on August 28 with an international group of friends in Noumea "land of eternal springtime" New Caledonia. The big party was held aboard a fabled racing boat Sutter had known and sailed back in the States; the 73-ft Windward Passage. Currently owned by Rod and Kathy Muir of Sydney (who also own the modem Frers-designed Windward Passage that cleaned everyone's clock in the Kenwood Cup), the old fessage, having undergone a two-year million dollar conversion to cruising in New Zealand, looked in almost as good shape as Sutter. The pretext of the party was a genuine Mexican dinner to follow Passage's freshwater scrubdown to follow her traditional Sunday sail. Unless you're a California who has been cruising for five years, you can't possibly appreciate how intense a human's craving for Mexican food can become. Thus everyone chipped in so Larry of Hallux could make nachos, carnitas, rellenos, salsa, guacamole, burritos and other south of the border goodies. All pretexts aside, the real reason for the fiesta was to one of the finest gentlemen cruising the Pacific. Sutter was toasted with tequila and beer. Not wanting to take out additional fire insurance, however, we decorated the cake to resemble the old man of the sea, saving all those candles for another time. Those attending the celebration made quite an international group. Sutter, Passage skipper Carson Jefferson and Larry Hazen of the Cal 34, Hallux, are all Americans. Gerard, who has the catamaran Ad Hoc in charter here, was bom in New Caledonia. Gerard's lady, Elizabeth, is French. George, who lives with his New Caledonian wife Sylvian and daughter aboard Dianick, is Vietnamese. (George plays guitar and does a great impersonation of Elvis.) Karen is a Belgian who works for the South Pacific Commission; Reiner is a German who lives

the wreck of the Ah, the innocent dreams of youth — and oh, what hideous ends they meet One of the earliest of ours to be dismembered by the page 84

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selebrates in Noumea; Mark is an Aussie on holiday. I'm Canadian. We all got into the "wild spirit of things

bay guides review — cont'd Rock has been called Golden Island and Treasure Island as a result of rumors of buried treasure. Rumors are all that have been found." — and even takes a credible stab at explaining how the summer wind machine works. Although the text and mini-charts are set up in regional chunks reminiscent of the Nautical Almanac, Corey's text is much more readable and the graphics much plainer than the Almanac's rather droning tone. It's also particularly good at noting local anchorages. $16.95. In summary, what can we say? We think they're all good. In particular, the windsurfing book is long overdue and fills an obvious void for that fast-paced crowd. As for choosing one over the other, we'll again waffle out by saying that, at their relatively nominal cost, we'd keep all three handy in our chart table. In publishing, redundancy is a no-no. In sailing, it's one of the most useful systems you can have aboard a boat. Our favorite? Well, if you really want to know, it's none of the above. Our longtime favorite book on Bay sailing is Kimball Livingston's Sailing the Bay. (Unfortunately, it's now out of print, though you should be able to find copies in any local used book store.) You won't find a thing in it about dock fees or pumpout stations. What you will find is a solid, entertaining, tapestry of the bigger picture. If you want to find out where you're going, read the three reviewed books. If you want to know why you're out there in the first place, and why you keep coming back for more, read Sailing the Bay.

where the *&#@ is that stupid doodad...? During the first couple of years that I sailed, I always knew the location of everything on my boat down to the smallest cotter pin and screw. With a small boat, this wasn't much of a problem. As the boats got larger — I'm now up to 28 feet — the location of items below sometimes got confused or just plain forgotten. To try to solve this and a related problem, I made the chart that is included here. The basic idea is to decide what general supplies should be in each general location and then make a simple chart showing the plan. For me, the chart has another major use, as there are often people aboard who don't know where things are located. I can refer them to the chart in the front of the log book and they can quickly figure out where things are stored. Your chart does not have to be an exact replica of your boat interior. In fact, by distorting the shapes a bit as I've done, you have room to mark Happy birthday, Peter. by wearing headbands marked, quite appropriately, ‘I'm here out of respect for the elderly", "Over the hill and ready to roll" and “Never to old to party". As for the birthday boy, this season he's sailed his 36-ft Wylie-designed cold molded sloop from Australia to New Caledonia to Fiji and then back to New Caledonia. He leaves for Australia against in September, and then will fly back to the States for awhile (if the Aussie pilots ever go back to work) and before resuming land cruising by car in Australia. Meanwhile, Passage heads for the Caribbean, Dianick to Vanuatu, and Hallux slowly toward Guam. — patricia penner

central america chainsaw of reality was that sunken treasure didn't come in bulging chests, or in ghostly cont'd center of next sightings page page 85

many items directly at their locations. Another thing to keep in mind is that, with a little work, you can quickly alphabetize everything; and/or show where things are located using letter or number designations. cont'd next sightings page

SIGHTINGS *&#@ doodad — cont'd It still never ceases to amaze me how many supplies get added to the boat, especially during the busy summer season. At least with the chart, I know where to find most of them! — lynn mickelson

'Enterprise' leanring the Bay after 20 years, fleet Week looks similar, except the ship goes the other way.

fleet week on the way Fleet Week, one of the more popular and amusing spectacles on the Bay calendar every year, returns bigger and better than ever October 6 through 12. Well, maybe the amusing part is only to us. As students of human nature, we've always thought it was funny to hear all the derogatory comments every time Soviet tanks parade through Red Square — then going out and doing the exact same thing ourselves on the Bay every year. Like its Eastern Bloc equivalent. Fleet Week is no small deal. It attracts the largest waterborne audience (with the possible exception of the fourth of July) of anything all year, and recently received international recognition as the U.S. Navy's most outstanding special event Last year, an estimated 100,000 people watched the arrival festivities. That “rilly big shew* part of the program is scheduled for October 7. That's when 11 Navy ships, led by the aircraft carrier Independence, start coming under the Golden Gate. The airshow begins right after, featuring antique aircraft, parachute jumps, a demonstration at Crissy Field by the amazing Harrier jump-jet that needs no runway—and of course the grand finale show by the Navy's Blue Angels. (The air show is subject to change depending on weather conditions, so make sure you check the local papers, radio or TV stations for the latest word.) Last year, we lost count at 5 billion boats out on the water watching the goings on. Okay, maybe that's off by a dozen or so. The point is, it's real crowded and people tend to get carried away looking up at the Blue Angels and not at where they're going. So be careful and courteous out there, pay attention to the Coast Guard and stay out of the restricted corridor (it's boundaries will be obvious). You'll be okay. There's actually quite a bit more to Fleet Week than just the on-the-water part, including open houses on many of the ships (Piers 27,28,30,32,35 and 45) Sunday through Wednesday; fireworks off Pier 39 Saturday night at 8:30; a carnival/dance Saturday at Pier 45 starting at 7 p.m.; Youth Excellence days; a challenge run and more. Check your local listings for a more complete rundown of the landbound activities. Or, for more information on any of the Fleet Week activities (including the Host A Sailor program where citizens can invite sailors to dinner, a baseball game or—lock up your daughters — home for a taste of local hospitality), call (415) 765-5711.

alternative plans If you're one of those environmentally conscious folks who find little amusing about Fleet Week, there's a place for you out there on October 7, too. cont'd next sightings page

wreck — cont'd galleons steered by sword-wielding skeletons of buccaneers. A segment on the evening news in midSeptember made our minds skip back to more innocent days. Did you see it? There, in living color was videotape of a treasure hoard that would shiver the timbers of Long John Silver. It was the wreck of the Central America, 200 miles out and 8,000 feet down off the coast of South Carolina. As plain as day, the remote camera showed gold bars — scores of them — still stacked neatly where they'd lain for 132 years. Interestingly, San Francisco is part of this story, for that's where the Central America loaded three tons of gold-rush gold bars and innumerable coins from California mints in 1857. She was scheduled to deliver them to New York via Panama, but never made it The ship went down in a storm, taking 425 passengers with her. There were 153 survivors. So rich was the Central America's booty that more than one report says the sinking "contributed significantly* to the economic panic of 1857. Back then, when gold was worth only 90 cents an ounce, the gold bars alone were worth some $1.2 million. At today's prices, about $360 a Troy ounce, it's worth almost half a billion dollars. When you factor in the numismatic value of the coins currently being hauled up by Nemo, the Columbus America Discovery Group's robot vehicle, the treasure of the Central America could be worth upwards of $1 billion by the time it's all tallied. And there it all was, amid the starfish and sediment—stacks of gold bars in a ghostly hold at the bottom of the sea.... Since then, we've been amassing fairly convincing evidence that Santa Claus is a real guy, too. But that's another story.

times have changed Remember when sailors used to be real men? They raced little wooden boats out in the ocean and weren't afraid of the dark. Sometimes they even sailed to weather, for god's sake. Average sailors were tough enough to sail in races like the Waterhouse and the Buckner. You don't see races or racers like that anymore, do you? So-called men build maxis, but won't sail to weather, go out in the ocean or stay out after dark. They probably couldn't find crew anyway. Back in the old days, sailors were made of iron. Now it seems they're made of sugar and spice and everything nice. These two wimps spotted out practicing for the Big Boat Series on a Santa Cruz 70 probably would have dissolved if they'd forgotten their umbrella and gotten wet Sheeeetl page 86

SIGHTINGS drowned dreams Considering the beating mortality has taken in the last couple months (Ben Mitchell, Tom Blackaller, singlehander Fred Walker, Prop. 13's Paul Gann, Gilda Radner, Lucy, composer Irving Berlin, etc.), we didn't think there was enough tragedy left to batter cont'd center of next sightings page

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/ Every year, the Greenpeace/Peace Navy people put on quite a show themselves. The Peace Navy's boat parade tries its best to upstage (and rain on) the Navy's parade with their anti-war, pro-environment pennants flying. It can be pretty effective, too. We recall a few years of front page photos featuring the Peace Navy boats prominently, while the "real thing" rumbles by in the background. cont'd next sightings page

SIGHTINGS alternative plans — cont'd If your sensibilities run more in this vein, you can take part in this year's Take Back the Bay" demonstration. Each participating boat will receive a Peace Navy banner, "Nuclear Free Seas" flag and "Take Back the Bay" flag. For more information, call Bob Heifitz at the Peace Navy, (398-1201) or Karen Topakian and Greenpeace, (415) 474-6767.

fwAAi Horie aboard 'Mermaid' before bis April departure.

he made it! Kenichi Horie, the intrepid Japanese singlehander who left San Francisco on April 16 aboard his 9-ft, single-sailed Mermaid, arrived home in Nishinomiya Marina, Japan, on August 31. The trip took 37 more days than the 100 he estimated. The intrepid soloist also sailed many more miles — about 7,400 — than he expected to, due mostly to the fact that the little boat was almost totally at the mercy of wind and current. Let's face it, at two knots flat out, it couldn't get out of its own way. Horie, who became something of a folk hero when as a young man he became the first man to sail from Japan to San Francisco, celebrated his 50th birthday during the trip.

tania's book Preconceived notions are funny things. Through being in "the biz," we've sometimes felt a nagging intimidation right before meeting some of the big name folks in sailing. Almost inevitably, however, the Buddy Melges's, Hal Roths, Lynn and Larry Pardeys and other famous sailors have turned out to be just regular folks. That observation hasn't changed since mid-September when we had a chance to meet Tania Aebi. One of the more recognizable names in sailing today, Tania distinquished herself in 1987 by becoming the first American woman — and youngest woman — ever to sail around the world (she started when she was only 18). Her almost entirely singlehanded circumnavigation aboard the J.J. Taylor 26 (similar to a Contessa 26) Varuna was chronicled in two years' worth of Cruising World magazines, and is now out in more complete form as her first book, aptly titled Maiden Voyage. She was in town courtesy of Simon and Schuster to promote the latter. In reading both accounts, we couldn't help being struck by the similarities between her story and that of Dove a generation before. Also a teenager when he started, Robin Lee Graham's book inspired many would-be adventurers. Tania wasn't one of them. "Yeah, I read it when I was about 12 years old," said Tania, who turns 23 the first week of October. "I wouldn't say itinspired me, though. It was just another book. Did you read his second one?" Can't say as we did.... cont'd next sightings page

dreams our sensibilities any further. Unfortunately, we were wrong. On August 23, a family of four, including two children, drowned after their small sailboat capsized in Lake Tahoe. The victims were Bob Caulder, 32, his wife Plam, 30, and daughters Jasmine, 10 and Caitlin, 7. The bare-bones details of the horrible accident were fleshed out a few days later when Steve Carr of Palo Alto called. During a visit to the Delta on his Redwood Citybased boat the week before, he'd met the Caulders. "I helped them launch Litde Toot at Sherman Island," says Steve. He didn't recognize what type of boat it was, but at only 13 feet, he says "It sure looked small for four people." From what Carr observed, Caulder was obviously a novice sailor, but the waters around Sherman Island are pretty forgiving this time of year, and he was careful to fit both the children with lifejackets before departing under the power of a little trolling motor. "The only way you leam is to do it," Steve thought to himself, and went about his business. When he read about the tragedy on Lake Tahoe, he immediately called the Harbormaster at South Shore and found out the Lake had been closed to boats that day due to 35-knot winds. Somehow, the

the grand The dawning of a new era in waterfront development" That's what they're calling plans to renovate the dilapidated Piers 24 and 26 in the City, and turn them into a mega-boating/entertainment center. If all this sounds vaguely familiar, by jiminy, you do pay attention after all. An original plan for the idea was proposed by Sausalito's Bob Scott, entrepreneur, sailor and one of the main men involved in the formation of the Golden Gate Challenge, San Francisco's America's Cup syndicate. The port of San Francisco thought it was a great idea for the piers, which have been little more than an eyesore for decades. Then Mayor Dianne Feinstein thought it was a great idea, too. In fact, it was so good, her office decided to stage a sort of contest The developer who could come up with the spiffiest idea for the piers would win the Mayor's blessing. In the past two years, two other proposals besides Scott's have been submitted. Though they go before the Port Commission on September 25 for equal consideration, Port Director Mike Huerta and his staff plan to urge the acceptance of a plan submitted by the Newport Beach-based Koll Company. Briefly, that proposal includes renovation of Pier 26 and building upon it a luxury hotel, two restaurants, office space, page 88

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Caulders either didn't know about the closure or chose to ignore it Equally hard to believe was that, according to official reports, none of the victims were wearing lifejackets. The first reaction we had to all this was to deliver a fire and brimstone sermon on the proper use of safety equipment, importance of wind warnings and all the rest of it However, the truth of it is that most of us here at Latitude learned to sail just like Bob Caulder was trying to do. With only a hazy idea of what we were doing, we just started going out and doing it After freezing half to death, soring the beejeebers out of ourselves and getting rescued a few times, we finally got the hang of it However, knowing what we know now and after writing about scores of Bob Caulders over the last 12 years, we don't feel hypocritical when we advise against the seatof-the-pants method. Instead, take the money you would have spent for a little dinghy and give it to any of the excellent local sailing schools. You'll team the basics quicker and more completely than you would on your own, and most places will let students rent or charter their boats at a reduced rate after you've completed the curriculum. And please — leave your family home until you know what the hell you're doing.

“You didn't miss anything," she said, settling back in her chair and lighting a cigarette. When she noticed we noticed, she smiled, "I tried to quit a couple of times on the trip. It didn't work.“ “You didn't miss anything," she said, settling back in her chair and lighting a cigarette. When she noticed we noticed, she smiled, “I tried to quit a couple of times on the trip. It didn't work." The remainder of the conversation went similarly, and we soon found ourselves taken by her earthy honesty and quirky sense of humor: “You wouldn't believe what this place (the Stanford Court Hotel in San Francisco) costs a nightl" she quipped at one point, out of the blue. In the remainder of our short interview, we found out, among other things, that Tania liked books by Ken Folletand Stephen King, but didn't particularly care for David Letterman. ("He doesn't even say 'hi1 to you before the show, and then they seat you so you have to twist around to look at him.") Her future plans include getting a bigger boat with husband Olivier (who she met during the trip) and trying trying her hand at the charter business in an out-of-the-way area like the Red Sea. She also likes writing, she says, and plans to do more of it If Maiden Voyage is any indication, that's good news for sailors. Like it's author, our preconceived notions of the book (Oh God, not another cruising book...) went right out the window when we started reading it It's one of the most engaging, well written stories we've read in a longtime.

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Note: Listing for $19.95, Maiden Voyage is currently available at both marine and “fast food" bookstores (Crown, B. Dalton, WaldenBooks, etc.). The Armchair Sailor Bookstore in Sausalito has a limited number of copies signed by the author.

retail stores, a conference center, a health club and a marine museum. They'd also tear down Pier 24 and in its place build a big sailing marina. The Kbll plan would make available 130,000 square feet of public areas and cost about $58 million. What swung this plan in Kbll's favor was the hotel, the only one included in the three plans. It also had more than twice the public usage area of the other proposals. Scott's plan, backed by among others San Francisco's Pacific Union Marketing Group and Eden and Eden Architects, and Martin Group of Emeryville, would also restore both piers and construct a $42 million boat show pavilion, international trade center with a section devoted to the culture of the Pacific Rim countries, festival hall and of course, marina. The third plan, submitted by the real estate firm of Hare, Brewer and Kelly, envisions a three-story complex of offices, retail shops, restaurants, health club and maritime pavilion on Pier 26. They'd also tear down Pier 24 and put in a big marina, which in this plan would include space for the city's fireboat — at present the only occupant of Pier 26. (Pier 24 has been condemned for years.) All three plans would also include facilities for ferry service. cont'd center cf next sightings page page 89

short sights SEATTLE — If the looting and anarchy of St. Croix and SL Thomas have weakened your faith in human natqre, consider the case of Dr. Liu Quing Nian and his translator, seaman Xue Jian Guo. The two were aboard a Chinese factory refrigeration ship in the Bering Sea when she was rushed to the aid of Dariusz Mazowiecki; a seaman aboard the Grande Duchess, a Seattle based fishing boat. Mazowiecki, a Polish immigrant who had come to the States a year before, had suffered a ruptured artery in an accident and, without a doctor aboard, was in serious danger of bleeding to death. When the two vessels converged, the seas were too rough to come alongside. For Dr. Nian and Guo, the choice was clear. If they risked their lives by donning survival suits and swimming through the treacherous icy seas to the Duchess, Mazowiecki might live. If they didn't, he would surely die. The two didn't hesitate, and because of it Mazowiecki was saved. A tip of the hat to the two Chinese. r'

MONTREAL — The Montreal Protocol is not a new Robert Ludlum novel. Rather, it is a plan to reduce the use of ozone-depleting substances like chloroflourocarbons (CFCs) worldwide. One of the goals of the protocol, which went into affect July 1, is to reduce the use of CFCs to half the 1986 levels. One of the first means to that end has been to freeze production of CFC at 1986 levels, and to levy stiff tariffs on the stuff. CFCs, as you probably know, are believed by many scientoid types to be dissolving parts of our atmosphere, thus creating the greenhouse effect The reason you're reading all this in a sailing magazine is that CFCs have traditionally been an important component in the foam-making process. cont'd next sightings page

SIGHTINGS short sights — cont'd They're used as blowing agents to create the cells in urethane foam that provide it with both strength and flotation. Taxing and limiting CFCs might at first sound like another excuse for boat builders to raise prices — some states have already put bans on CFC-blown foam — but this time the news is good. With minimal equipment replacement or increased material costs, an outfit like Foam Supplies of St. Louis can now produce a foam that not only has a higher closed-cell content — in other words, it floats better — but keeps the foam cool as it's being worked. Curiously, at least to those of us who disappointed a lot of science teachers, water can also be used as a blowing agent, although it tends to create fewer closed cells, and to heat the curing foam to the point where spontaneous combustion is a real safety concern. It's also a more expensive process. MONTEREY—Three San Diego men were rescued from a liferaft about 13 miles west of Cape San Martin after their 57-ft cabin cruiser collided with a whale and sank. The incident occurred shortly after noon on September 10. The three, William Reich, Charles Cray and Mark Felix, put out a mayday from the sinking Lady Ann, but were cut off before they could give the Coast Guard a position fix. The Coasties commenced an air and sea search of the area, locating the liferaft shortly before sundown. The three men, little the worse for wear, were taken aboard the cutter Point Winslow about 7:30. MARTINEZ — Talk about shell shocked.... Part of the Shell Oil refinery in Martinez exploded into flames September 5, rattling windows as far away as downtown Benicia, about 7 miles away. Two workers were injured in the fire, which occurred at 6:30 a.m. and was brought under control about three hours later. A similar explosion rocked the plant five years ago, and you'll recall that an oil spill into the Carquinez Straight in the spring of 1987 resulted in the cancellation of the Vallejo Race. By the time you read this, the refinery, which produces 3.4 million gallons of gasoline a day, should be back in operation. MARIN HEADLANDS—It's no Exxon Valdez reenactment, butthere's been an oil spill off our coast. Evidence of it — balls of "tar" about 1 to 3 inches in diameter — is being cleaned off beaches from Kirby Cove to Muir Beach in Marin, and from China to Baker Beaches in San Francisco. Enviromental cleanup crews expect to collect about 200 gallons in all of what they're calling "old oil." Apparently, it has to have been floating around out there for awhile to glob up. No attempt has been made to try to find out the source of the oil: the trail's just too cold. Some postulate it may be natural seepage from the ocean floor. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were the remains of that slick the supposedly "empty" Exxon Valdez trailed behind as they towed it to San Diego? NEAR THE DUMBARTON BRIDGE...NO, WAIT...NEAR THE SAN MATEO BRIDGE... UH... MAYBE TRY SAN LEANDRO... The scenario wasn't a whole lot different than that on September 15. Rex Harwood had picked up the CB transmission of a boater in trouble earlier in the day, and now he was trying to find him. Trouble was, the boater in trouble, one Howard Parker of Seattle, didn't know where to tell Rex to look. He'd borrowed the small motorboat from a friend, the engine had conked out and he'd been drifting around the Bay for about 48 hours. "He sounded a bit testy," said Rex. Harwood went into action soon after he received the first call around 12:30 a.m. What was he doing listening to a CB radio at midnight? Clad you asked. Harwood is president of Mission Peak REACT (Radio Emergency Associated Communications Team), a international organization that recieves and relays distress and other emergency calls heard on Channel 9, CB's emergency band. (We ran a story on the Golden Cate REACT installation several years ago.) Besides helping out stranded motorists and boaters — many small fishing boats communicate with CBs rather than VHF radios — the various REACT stations are responsible for relaying about 75 percent of the traffic alerts you hear on the way to and from work every day. But as we were saying, Harwood went into action. Per procedure, the first thing he did was call the Coast Guard. Turns out they'd been picking up the transmissions, too, but couldn't use their direction finding equipment on the CB channels. So Harwood climbed in his radio-equipped van and went looking cont'd next sightings page

grand plan Like we said, on September 25, only one of the plans makes it out of the Port Commission hearings alive. However, considering that it must still face the BCDC, City Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors, it may soon be screaming for a quick, merciful end to its misery. Environmental impacts, here we come. Editor's Note: Just before we went to press, we learned that the Koll plan had indeed won out. Oting the further scrutiny mendoned above, Port Director of

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Government affairs Veronica Sanchez said ground would probably not be broken for another 21 months. Considering how increasingly mired down official processes seem to become almost daily, that sounds a tad on the rabidly optimistic side. Don't get us wrong — we're all for the project But if they break ground in anything under five years, we'll eat our sail cover. Tune in to (let's see, 21 months would be...) the July, 1991 issue to see us assume our usual, smug toldyou-so attitude — or get an extra dose of fiber for the month.

himself. Trying to figure out where Parker might be by the surroundings he described wasn't easy. But they included a bridge, so Harwood decided the best place to start looking was between Mountain View and Newark, near the Dumbarton Bridge. After several passes and several dollars ("They finally let me go free," he says) turned up nothing, he decided to try the San Mateo Bridge. By this time, the Coasties also had a 41 -ft cutter in the South Bay looking, but they weren't having any luck, either. To make a long story (and night) short, Rex finally persuaded Caltrans to let him out on one of their piers. He flagged down the cutter, handed them his portable CB and they finally found Parker near San Bruno Shoals, about five miles north of the San Mateo Bridge. 10-4, good buddy.

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TOM BLACKALLER: If I make it to heaven. I'll find the real Tom Blackaller there, waiting to give me free advice on which side of the cloud to round to lay the Golden Gates. But now and forever, it would never have been Tom's style to let me beat him there. — Russell Holm (former business associate and longtime friend)

The sailing world lost one of its most colorful and respected figures last month. On September 7, while running qualifying laps at

will, into the International Ocean Racing circuit There were countless other victories and awards in between. Whether it was in 12 Meters or Millimeters, Blackaller raced to win. "During the '72 semifinal Olympic trials for the west coast Star fleet, Tom and I were competing against one another," recalled longtime friend and competitor Russell Holm at a standing-room-only memorial service at the St Francis YC. "In one race, the fleet was

I stupidest thing we can do?..."

The 21st tack. Exhausted, I didn't crack my mainsheet and got hung up under the boom for a split second. Immediately, his voice came across the gap: 'Gotcha!1 It wasn't even close when we crossed the finish line." Eventually, the two competitors ended up working for the same company, a leading manufacturer of powerplant equipment. (Tom had gotten his degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California in 1962.) Despite Blackaller's reputation as "mouth of the West," Holm recalls Tom as a highly professional engineer who represented the company in some of the most delicate negotiations involving the power industry in the 13 western states. "He was never a pretender at anything," says Russ. "He was a contender."

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Sears Point for his other love, auto racing, Thomas D. Blackaller, Jr. suddenly pulled his car to a stop in the middle of turn seven, and waved once. By the time the track crew ran out to him, San Francisco Bay's most famous sailing personality was dead of a heart attack. He was 49. The news shook the Bay Area sailing community like an earthquake, one whose aftershocks are likely to be felt for years to come. The notion that someone so full of life, and so much bigger than life, wasn't immortal after all was a sobering one. Sailors spent the week remembering that brash, boisterous life; one we often likened to the human equivalent of a small craft warning. Everybody who sailed knew the famous Blackaller name and most knew the man — at least from the back as he sailed by. For nearly four decades, from the time he learned to sail on El Toros at the Inverness YC at age 11, Tom was as much a part of Bay sailing as the summer breeze itself. In many ways, Tom Blackaller was San Francisco Bay sailing. Friends estimate he competed in more than 4,000 regattas, sailing everything from Star boats to ProSail 40 catamarans, including three America's Cup campaigns. He won the prestigious International Star boat competition twice (and likely would have won Olympic gold in the class were it not for the 1980 boycott), and successfully defended the Australian-American Challenge Cup (raced in 6-Meters) four times. His last major victory came in August when he drove the American team's Farr 50 Great News to a runaway victory in the Fastnet Race during the Admiral's Cup competition. Blackaller considered this win especially important, his "comeback", if you

tacking off the rocks from Fort Mason to the St Francis, staying in the ebb on the beach as the flood continued offshore. Between there and the entrance to the harbor, we were approaching the rocks on starboard on our 20th tack of the weather leg. Tom was to weather of me, his bow even with my transom. "Hearing the waves surging along the rocks, I got nervous and shouted to him, let me out of the box!1 I heard his high-pitched

Tom Blackaller.

voice come back — ‘Cut!1 — followed immediately by the crisp sound of his sails filling on port tack. After the tack, I could see his backside as we drove together to weather. Finally, twisting his head, he impatiently shouted, 'Come on, Holm. Let's go for it!1

I ou either liked Tom or you disliked him," says Steve Taft "You couldn't be indifferent Even those who disliked him, though, respected his accomplishments and his ability to get things done." That ability made him the natural selection as skipper for San Francisco's renegade America's Cup challenge in 1987. No single event propelled him into the public eye as much as that event And from our vantage point none spoke more clearly of how tall he stood in both the local and world sailing community. Locally, Tom became not only skipper, but fundraiser, public relations agent and whatever else it took to get the underfunded front-ruddered USA to Australia. There, with less than half the budget of most other syndicates, US 61 made it all the way to the semifinals before being eliminated by eventual Cup winner Dennis Conner on Stars & Stripes. (The much ballyhooed arch rivalry between Tom and Dennis was very real, by the way.) Some say he spread himself too thin in that campaign. Most know the team never would have made it as far as they did without him. Which brings us to where Tom stood in the world sailing community. You may recall, in watching both televised and print coverage of the '87 Cup series, that narrators referred to most boats by name or country (*french Kiss got a good start on the Canadians in this race...."). But when it came to US 61, it was always "Blackaller's boat", or more typically, just "Blackaller": ("Wow, Gary, look at Blackaller put the moves on the Italian boat...*) Such was the power of his personality. What drove that personality, and what made it so irresistable to the many people who sought to be near him is far too complex a subject to analyze here. If his page 92

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"type triple A" psyche and his uncanny ability to walk into a room and instantly analyze who was who and what was going on put you off, his dashing good looks and charisma could win you back in a second — if that's what he wanted. "He was the most honest man I knew," says Taft "You always knew where you stood with Tom. You may not have liked it; you may not have agreed with it; but you couldn't question his honesty." From the press' point of view, he was at once a dream and a nightmare. On one hand, only the redoubtable (and often compared) Ted Turner could match him for colorful quotes — "Sailing a 12-Meter is like driving a muni bus with two flat tires" was classic Blackaller. On the other, if he felt the the penal-pushers had done him or his cause wrong, they bloody well heard about it "Tom was no saint," says another longtime friend, Ed Bennett "He was obnoxious at times, loud, profane, outra¬ geous.... I remember very well one time in Australia when we were racing 6-Meters. The sky was gray and the waves were big, and we were racing David Forbes and Raul Elvstrom. Tom had managed to put David right dead into the wind and stop him cold. David had won the gold medal in the Star class a couple of years before, but out of the blue, as we crossed his stern, Tom said, 'Gold medal — bullshit11" Everybody has Blackaller sailing stories. (See following page.) Most will likely improve with age. No doubt that before long, the "late" Tom Blackaller will become the ■legendary" Tom Blackaller. He's deserving of the tide. And we look forward to announcing it when he joins the ranks of the sailing greats who have had events and/or perpetual trophies created in their memory. His memory will also live on in the generations of local sailors who looked to him as mentor and (God help us) role model. Some of them, like protege Paul Cayard, have become stars in their own rights, well on the way to having their own names become as universally known in the sailing world as his was. In the current parlance, Tom Blackaller wasn't just another rockstar. In San Francisco Bay, he was the king of rock and roll. His personal life was another matter. Tom came to accept the public scrutiny of his sailing-related escapades as the price of celebrity, but except to his closest friends, his private life was his own. Well, most of it In typically Blackaller fashion, he drew more than his share of page 93

Our favorite photo of Tom was taken aboard the Pro 40 catamaran as it blasted across the Bay before the '88 ProSail regatta.

America's Cup press one day in 1987 by marrying his second wife between races in Australia. It was a good match, though, says Taft. "Since his marriage to Christine, f'd. never seen him happier. He was living the type of life he wanted to lead." That “new" life also included reconciling past differences with his now-grown daughters Brooke and Lisa. In fact, for the past couple years, Lisa has worked for her father on his sponsor relations. Their most recent project was beating catamaran wizard Randy Smyth at his own game in the ProSail 40 circuit, a goal cut short by Tom's passing only a week before the final race. /

a rechristening ceremony just before the ProSail Series began on September 15 (the boat was renamed TomCat), Lisa's short eulogy brought the two Tom Blackallers — the flambouyant sailor and the private family man — together more simply and . eloquently than any others that sad week. "This boat brought my father and I back together," she said. "He'll never know how much that meant to me." — latitude 38 Donations in Tom Blackaller's memory may be made to the “St. Francis Foundation, Tom Blackaller FundP, care of the St. Francis YC. This is an endowed fund that will lend financial support to worthwhile sailing campaigns, with special emphasis on juniors.

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REMEMBERING TOM Skip Allan: "I met Tom at the Newport Harbor YC in 1957, when he was 16 and l

Tom Blackaller probably had more influence on my life than anyone

that summer, literally sleeping and cooking on it I was his crew in those days, and I learned a lot from sailing with him. It was a tough fleet, though, and we were on a pretty steep learning curve. On a good day, we were lucky to finish in the middle of the pack. "Even then, he was quite passionate about sailing, and already a bit cocky. He

he never liked practicing or tending to the little details, but he always found a way to come out on top! He could sail them all — catamarans... "But there was a lot more to him than that Sure, he was outspoken and full of with a big heart, and a man who believed in his principals. His greatest strength — and maybe his greatest weakness — was that he was super-honest all the time. He also never

gear on the boat, including a unique self¬ bailer and a primitive aluminum ratcheting mainsheet block. The boat —• #3938* a beautiful varnished one — was called Good

man, a people's person, and one of glarrts of our sport." "Tom and I put in a bunch of miles together on various racers. He had a love/hate relationship racing, and I totti | disliked the St Race. That's can be a screwy race, what with windshifts and Gulf Stream. When things got weird tactically, Blackaller —- with mock profundity —- always used to say, "Okay, men. Here's how we'll

sailors called Tom "Charlie Brown". It was an

Tom Ducharme: “I sailed the America's Cup, Six Meters, sleds, the Admiral's Cup and a lot more with Tom. I'd have to say he gave me the breaks that got me started sailing on a high level in this sport He had faith in me, and took me under his wing, saying, "Here's your chance. Go for itl" “I think he had a real ability to recognize talent in people, and bring out the best in them. Kind of a "be-all-that-you-can-be"

stupidest thing we could do?... Let's try itl’ time, it worked!""

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Blackaller in the '85 SORC when he had organized a charter of my boat, Blade Runner. He'd allowed me to come along on the last three races, but only as a grinder. One ■

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the passion and intensity with which he lived his life. All us teenagers thought he was totally cool — a real wild man — and I guess I idolized him at that time. “Later, he became my friend, and we sailed together on Bbndie, Mongoose and the Pro 40. He'd do anything for his crew: If you were sick, needed a few bucks, had a personal problem, whatever — he'd be there. I think one of his favorite moments in all that time was winning the '85 fall Cabo Race, when we knocked off a 340-mile day on Bbndie. It got him stoked again on sailing after burning out at the America's Cup. "‘I learned a lot from Tom, though most of it didn't have much to do with sailing. People can name all the regattas and foundations they want after Tom, but the best way for me to remember him is to live each day to the fullest, set my sights high, remain curious — and, whenever possible, to stray from the middle of the road!"

was always bigger than life. but my favorite memory of him has to be the Half Ton NAs back in 1977, We were sailing a really slow boat called Petrified, but still long ocean race involving laps around PL Reyes, the Farallones and Monterey, it was foggy and just blowing stink. Most of the crew was sick; we were all exhausted. Thomas would come on deck laughing, and say, "Well, are we having fun yet?" 40th birthday last year, he gave me a check for $40 i

present, something I needed and could use!9 Cary johson: "Tom and I got to know at

Courageous campaign. He was great to sail actually pretty quiet in the heat of battle. He

■ around us, and everyone's sails were absolutely limp. Tom finally looked at me, and said "Okay Bill, why don't you take it had eggs and bacon for breakfast That was vintage Blackaller. He was free of the boundaries and barriers that constrain structures. At times, it may have seemed like insensitive to others, or whatever. But it really true

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o paraphrase the old anti-war slogan, “What if they gave a regatta and no one came?" That question almost got answered at this year's ill-attended 26th annual Big Boat Series, held on the Bay between September 17-23. A disappointing fleet of only 24 boats showed up for this traditionally great roundthe-buoys regatta, including, almost un¬ believably, only six local Bay boats. Where was everybody? “Well, not every regatta can be — or needs to be — the '84 Clipper Cup," figured Carl Schumacher. That was lOR's finest hour." 1984 was also the Big Boat Series' finest hour, attracting an all-time high of 67 boats. Back in those days, we're told, host St Francis YC actually had the luxury of turning away entries. Participation in the Series held steady for the next three years (54 boats in '85; 53 in '86; and 55 in '87), before ■ dropping to 38 last year, and then slimming down to its present emaciated state. You don't need to be a rocket scientist or an editor at Latitude 38 to see a certain trend here. But numbers alone can be deceiving. There was actually a lot of great stuff happening at this year's Big Boat Series, including a heart-stopping final race for the 70-rater sleds that saw Raul Simonsen's baby blue SC 70 Mongoose pull victory from the jaws of defeat in the closing seconds of the regatta. The last beat of the Series was really nerve-wracking — we ended up winning by a quarter of a point and two seconds! Whatever else you want to say about the series, it was good racing," said helmsman John Kbstecki. In the process of squeaking past Silver Bullet for the class win. Mongoose also earned the Cadillac Award of Excellence (a pickle dish, not a car) for turning in the most outstanding performance during the week. They deserved it In the other three classes, Rolfe Croker's Hana Ho, after a slow start, came on strong in the end to win the Santa Cruz 50 fleet; Richard Cavalli's ageless Frers 45 Shockwave got the best of some good battles with High Risk to win the “big" IOR group with relative ease; and John MacLaurin's Davidson One Tonner Pendragon nuked the "little" IOR class, winning with five bullets. It was an intimate gathering — heck, we knew just about everybody there — that featured good racing despite some extremely weird weather. It did rain a lot, and the first two races featured some bizarre wind directions and shifts. (When was the last time one of these races started near Southampton Shoals and was sailed in a southeasterly?) The last trio of races in the five-race series were more typical, though it never got windy enough to produce the classic crash n' bum

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<veek). Cadillac, an unobtrusive sponsor, donated money for free beer, munchies and bands after the races, while Mount Gay Rum threw a killer party on Monday night Gary Jobson and his ESPN crew were there to film the weeklong extravaganza, which raised the excitement level a notch. But, even with that the event seemed lackluster compared to the glory days of the late 70s and early 80s.

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e knew we'd win all along," said Mongoose owner Paul Simonsen, “We had Tom and Ben sailing with us." He was

Rolfe Croker (left) and Jeff Madrigali of the SC SO 'Hana Ho'.

eferring to two of his friends and regular crewmembers, Tom Blackaller and Ben Mitchell, both of whom passed away just prior to the Big Boat Series. Mongoose sailed the series with black mourning flags in her rigging, and her crew — who dedicated the

ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE 38 regatta to their departed shipmates — was visibly shaken and subdued throughout the series. “It's been a rough few weeks emotionally for all of us," allowed Simonsen. Already distracted by the previous week's sad turn of events, the Mongoose men and women (Raul's wife Carolyn sailed all five races and, fittingly, Christine Blackaller joined them on the nail-biting finale), had another unsettling experience on the way to the start of the first race. "We rescued a dozen people out of the icy water near Alcatraz who'd swamped their outrigger canoes during a race from Sausalito. They would have been in big trouble without us — the Coast Guard was completely useless," claimed a still-miffed Simonsen. s But once the starting gun fired, Mongoose showed no quarter. With the help of an afterguard that included Billy George, Dewey Hines and Steve Taft, driver Kostecki put together a masterful series, stumbling only in the second race/lottery, when the pack got reshuffled near the end. “We were lucky to win the series though," maintained Taft “Silver Bullet had to put a boat between us and them to win, and they damn near pulled it off. They were ahead of us going up the last beat and slowed down, effectively coming back to sit on our air and hopefully let either Chance or Grand Illusion get between us. They let Chance go by on the inside while they worked on making Grand Illusion the spoiler. Grand Illusion had us for a while, but they screwed up right at

Steve Grillon (left) and Richard Cavalli of the Frers 45 'Shockwave'.

the end. We approached the finish on opposite tacks, with us on starboard. We shot the line just ahead of them — it couldn't have been much doserl* "It sure was harder than last time!" said Paul, referring to their straight bullet win in

the '87 series, when the boat was in its upwind configuration. It was an appropriate way for Simonsen to bow out of the sledding circuit — Mongoose is seriously for sale for $550,000 these days. (“I kept trying to convince Al Schultz that this boat is himl He wouldn't even have to repaint it!“) Not that Simonsen is getting out of sailing — feeling the need for (more) speed, he purchased the ProSail 40 TomCat during the Big Boat Series. He's looking forward to “going pro“ next summer with John Kostecki. We think Tom

John MacLaurin (left) and Robbie Haines of the Davidson One Tonner 'Pendragon'.

Blackaller would have approved.

,^^11 of the King's (as John Delaura is known) horses and men couldn't beat “The Blue Weasel". However, by virtue of their page 98

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Never look back; something might be gaining on you. In this case, it's 'Mongoose' gaining on 'Evolution'.

second place finish in the Series, Silver Bullet mathematically locked up the 1989 ULDB 70 Association class championship, meaning they can sit out the last race (the November 10th LA to Cabo Race) if they choose. That was cause enough for celebration on the Bullet, which was a “family affair* this regatta: Delaura's afterguard consisted of Don Trask and his two sons-in-laws, driver Kimo Worthington and spar star Dave Hulse. To be fair, Bill Menninger was also back there, despite not being a member of the Trask family. Rat Farrah's Blondie, with locals Russ Silvesbi driving and Carl Schumacher providing tactics, came in third. They entered the last race in a virtual three-way tie for the lead with the above mentioned boats, but their subsequent sixth place finish doomed them to third this time. The highlight of their week was winning Monday's crapshoot, a victory Schumacher was reluctant to claim much credit for. Bob Doughty's Evolution ended the week on a high note, running away with the last race while everyone else was busy trying to affect the final outcome of the series. "I think we finally sailed the boat to its potential," said Tom Leweck, who was part of a brain trust that included Bill Twist and Jim Pugh. Evolution started the series by being over early (by "exactly 21 feet," laughed starting helmsman Twist, whose Blade Runner is 47 feet long to Evolution's 68) and didn't come back for several minutes. They somehow page 99

"evolved" to a close second finish in the race, using what her crew termed "Hail Mary tactics." According to "onboard traffic director" Alan Weaver, "Unfortunately, we used up all our Hail Mary chits too early in the regatta. We peaked half way through the second race." The other four sleds never really found the groove. The John Kolius-driven Chance sailed a particularly disappointing series,

There were some small boats there, too. 'Jazz1 chases ‘Pendragon’ (left) and 'Corsair1.

especially in light of pre-race predictions that they'd win (funny, we can't remember where we read that). "I'm still not sure why we were so slow," said Skip Allan. "Maybe we were too stern heavy?" Indeed, with the exception of Pendragon, Chance sported a

higher RSI (rockstars per square inch) than any other boat there. In addition to Kolius and Allan, they had Argyle Campbell, Lexi Gahagan, Larry Leonard, Mark Olson and who knows who else on board? "It was a real rockstar convention. Everybody was some¬ body," observed crewmember Jeff "The God of MEXORC" Littell. The N/M 68 Pyewacket, despite using her upwind-oriented keel (their last one, a downwind model like the now-departed Pandemonium's, was broken and had to be replaced) and despite America's Cup hopeful Peter Isler steering, once again proved no match for the SC 70s. The only other sled not to have been hatched in Bill Lee's chicken coop was TransPac winner Taxi Dancer, which had a rough series going before their mast snapped in the fourth race. No one we spoke with, including Taxi's local knowledge source, Mik Beatie, knew why the exotic and expensive (around $50,000) SeaTek rig folded. "It was a mechanical failure, not operator failure," stated Mik. One rumor we heard was that right before it fell, the foredeck crew heard the topping lift sheave box and some screws hit the deck. "When it went, we heard this big noise. At first I thought we'd T-boned Grand Illusion, the boat we were ducking," said Benny Mitchell, Jr. It was the second rig that Taxi has lost in two months (they lost their first one coming back from Hawaii). We figure owner Mitch Rouse — who owns the SuperShuttie company — can afford it though, even if the latest Taxi Dancer T-shirts

say "Owner Only Carries $5.00 Change." If nothing else, Taxi Dancer's misfortune will earn her a prominent spot on ESPN's hour-long coverage of the Series, scheduled to air on Monday evening, October 30 at 6 p.m. local time (program your VCR today!). “It was great! We taped the dismasting, and the two tacks leading up to it, from two different angles," said the ever-enthusiastic

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e started off pretty badly," admitted Hana Ho driver Jeff Madrigali. "We went right in the weird first race, and were lucky to get a fifth. In the second race, that big black cloud hanging over Tiburon sucked away all the wind, and we ended up second. Finally, things got back to normal in the- last three races." We're not sure if Madro was talking about the weather, or Hana Ho's finishes — which were all bullets. "It was tougher this year than I remember," said Hana Ho owner Rolfe Croker of the seven-boat Santa Cruz 50 division. "Four or five of the boats were always right next to each other, never more than 15-20 boatlengths apart all day." Hana Ho's edge, according to crewmember Tad Lacey, was her crew: "We've all sailed together for years, which helps a lot in a series like this. You can't expect to win if you don't know the name of the guy sitting next to you, let alone what he can or can't do." Among the Hana Ho other regulars on board were Jim Davies, Mark Dowdy, Jock MacLean, Susie Madrigali, Jeff Wayne and of course Julie Croker, Rolfe's wife. The real fight in this class turned out to

Best sound system: ‘Shockwave

be for second, with Dave Meginnity's Deception overcoming mast problems to squeak past Racy II, Allure and Oaxaca, who finished in that order. Actually, Alure would have finished higher than fourth, but for taking a DNF in the second race when their

ancient "round-the-bouys* mainsail split "We retired to the bar and drank a lot of cocktails, hoping the five-and-a-half-hour time limit would expire!" explained Chuck Jacobson. All four of the second-tier boats finished within 1.75 points of each other in some of the best “battle-within-a-war" racing of the series. Unfortunately, the other two boats — Samurai, under a last minute charter to Bob Klein, and Gordy Cole's Seattle-based Palm Tree Express (see page 105, Just Passin' Through) — were flushed pretty far out the back end of the fleet "I'd say all the best 50s were here," mentioned Cole, who was happy

Best (worst) carnage: ’Taxi Dancer\

to be there despite losing a port/starboard prestest with Samurai in the second race (three other protests were heard, and subsequently disallowed, during the week). "It's too bad though that more of the others didn't show up — boats that are right here,

1Evolution1 and 1Chance1 on the "clubhouse reach".

like Acey Duecy and Octav/a."

The two remaining classes for "pure" IOR boats lacked the excitement of the bigger classes. These boats got so spread out after 20 miles of racing that, if no one clued you in, you probably wouldn't have guessed there was a race going on. Not that there was much of a spectator fleet anyway, with the exception of the usual half-dozen photographers' boats, Steve Shidler's bizarrelooking diesel outboard trimaran Yanmar Explorer, and TomCat, which was in a state of perpetual motion that week ("It was the best spectator boat of all," enthused Lisa Blackaller. "We could beat them to any mark, and we didn't leave any wakel") Shockwave, now seven years old but looking sporty with her up-to-date hot pink and chartreuse graphics, repeated as class winner of the four-boat Atlantic Perpetual division. “Winning the regatta was the easy part," said owner/driver Richard Cavalli afterwards. "Getting here was the probleml In the last month, we've been in accidents involving a rock, another boat and — on the trailer coming up here — a tree." According to tactician and relief helmsman Steve Grillon, "The highlight of the series for us was working out to a 25-minute lead in Monday's fluky race. It turned into a nice afternoon sail for us." Off the course, Shockwave's “bad boys from L.A." — though much tamer since they pink-slipped the Twisted Sisters a few years ago — continue to set a torrid fashion pace, this year sporting team leather jackets. "Hey, they're warmer than Line-7s and waterproof, too," one said. "Next year we're going to get matching leather pantsl" The five-boat Keefe-Kilborn class was, as expected, a massacre. Pendragon — with driver Robbie Haines, Dee Smith, Englishman page 100

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illlll Rodney Pattison, Floridian Ed Baird, and the rest of the crew borrowed from Bravura's Admiral's Cup crew — ran up the score as easily as the Forty-Niners would if they played the Cal Bears. It was the fourth (and easiest) time in five attempts that owner John

changes. We're trying to get the maxis and the 50s to come next year, and we'll probably look into inviting some other classes that we haven't seen before." Exactly which classes will be invited — and, in fact, the whole future of the Big Boat

Pendragpn before the series ("Hmmm, shall we lead this one inside or outside the lifelines?'), but it really didn't matter. Even Rod Parks' well-sailed One Tonner Jazz was outgunned from the beginning despite doing everything they could, including "Bob¬ proofing" their boat (The crew marked places on the fragile craft where big Bob Daniels, their beefy 240-pound grinder, wasn't allowed to step). The other three boats — Irrational, Coyote, and Corsair (ex-America) battled it out for third place, the only slot up in the air before the series started. It was great to see these older IOR boats back out on the battlefield, and from we could tell, everyone on all three boats enjoyed themselves. The question, again, is where was everyone else?

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Best T-shirt: ’Taxi Dancer\

Series vis-a-vis sponsorship, promotion, and format — remains to be seen. We're as interested as anyone as to which direction this series takes, as we really do love this regatta. Notwithstanding this year's light turnout, the Big Boat Series is still the Big

until next year," said race

1989 Big Boat Series Results

Yacht

Owner/Driver

Design/Year

ST. FRANCIS PERPETUAL (MAXI ULDB SLEDS) 1, Mongoose Paul Simonsen / John Kosteckl 2. Silver Dullet John Delaura / Kimo Worthington 3. Blondle Pat Farrah / Russ Sllvestri 4. Evolution Bob Doughty/Bill Twist 5. Chance Bob McNulty / John Kolius 6. Pyewacket Roy Disney / Peter Islar Ed McDowell / Billy Peterson 7. Grand Illusion 8. Taxi Dancer Mitch Rouse / Ed Lorence

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JUST PASSIN'

To quote the little girl in the movie

Poltergeist, They're baaaack!" Yup, every year at this time — just as sure as the kids go back to school, the fog and wind recede from the Bay, and the Cold Warriors of Winter begin creeping down from the northland — the Bay Area plays host to dozens of sailboats (perhaps as many as a hundred?) passing through on their way to warmer climes. Most are migrating to Mexico for the winter; some are embarking on world voyages. All have interesting stories to tell. For the fun of it, we spent the sunny afternoon of Friday, September 22, inter¬ viewing a random sampling of the estimated 25 to so cruising boats currently hanging around in various harbors around the Bay. (Many more have already come and gone, and more are coming through each day.) There wasn't any method to our "research" —

rather, we just nabbed the first seven cruisers we bumped into while being on the Cityfront to cover the Big Boat Series, going to West Marine Products in Sausalito and, ahem, having a beer or two at Zack's. Here are the folks we were lucky enough to meet that day. We hope to see all of them again — as well as any other cruisers who, like R. Crumb's stoned cartoon char¬ acter Mr. Natural are "just passin' through* — on the evening of October 5, when Latitude hosts its annual Mexico Crew List Party at the Sausalito Cruising Club between 6-9 p.m. If not, here's hoping our paths will cross again someday — preferably someplace where it's warm and sunny. v — latitude/Wcm

Duncan and Rebecca McCallie (left), Mapleleaf 48, Portland, Oregon (anchored out off Sausalito): Timing, it's said, is everything. Leaving a week after their friends Jack and Leanne (see next page) — both boats sail out of Tomahawk Bay Marina — the McCailies, with the help of their buddy Brian Whippy, had a completely dif¬ ferent experience coming down the coast "We went 100 miles out and found 25 knots of wind and clear skies," said Duncan. ‘It was a great trip, other than shaking three of our four full-length battens out of the main." It was a quick trip, too — four days ("We only had time to watch three movies on the VCR"). After initially anchoring in Berkeley, the McCailies soon moved over to Sausalito, claiming they needed a "dose of culture". They'll be on the road again soon, scurrying down to Monterey to pick up their kids — a 14-year-old and a 4-year-old — from Grandma before sliding even further south for an 11 to 12 month sabbatical from work (Duncan owns Columbia Boat Sales in Portland). Like other folks in these pages, they'll teach their kids through correspondence schools while they're cruising. "We plan to sign up for the. Hot Rally, then go as far as Acapulco before heading north to do Race Week," enthused Rebecca. "We're gonna do the whole nine yardsl"

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THROUGH Tim and Trida King (left), Foggy Moun¬ tain, Valiant 40, Anchorage, Alaska (at

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Francisco Marina): No one we've met this summer has worked harder to get to San Frandsco than Yuichi and Junko, a charming Japanese couple who just arrived after a 90 day straight-through crossing from Yokohama. There was hardly any wind — the trip was just too long!" said Yuichi, a retired "salesman of medidne", in profident English, indeed, the trip was so slow that the bottom of their modified 30-foot cruiser was literally covered with barnacles. This is the second time that the Chibas have been here — their first time was in 1964, back when Yuichi was racing Snipes. They're planning on spending a month in the Bay Area taking in all the sights (so far, Yuichi "likes it all," while Junko's favorite thing is "window shopping in Union Square"). Then it's on to Los Angeles, Mexico and, event¬ ually, the South Raafic. "We plan on being gone a total of two years," says Yuichi, “Maybe we'll go home sooner if we need money." The interview broke down when we asked Yuichi to translate his boat's name, Wuzsemi, for us. With the help of his trusty Japanese-English dictionary, we decided it meant "cricket" or "locust", or something to that effect "It has a lot of meaning in Japanese," he assured us.

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Schoonmaker Point): "We're optimistically calling our voyage the 'Foggy Mountain Team Alaska World Tour1," laughs Tim, an anes¬ thesiologist who quit his practice to go cruising. "We'll be gone three to five years — or until it stops being fun, or we stop learning things." The ‘we1 in this case is Tim's wife Trida, and their three children: Christie, age 9, Wendy, 8, and Nicholas, 4 months. Trida, a nurse, will teach the kids along the way, as she already does under Alaska's unique home education system. Anticipating the "Big One," the Kings brought the boat south in two steps: the first was to Seattle last year Can atrocious trip!"). Then, after one more winter building up the cruising kitty in Alaska, they moved onto the boat in May, spending the summer in Puget Sound. Their recent trip down the coast was "spectacular*, featuring fresh silver salmon and yellowfin tuna dinners and, because: they were 190 miles offshore, steady 25 knot breezes. They're in Sausalito for three weeks ("We're daysailing every day, trying to get the children over their seasickness") before heading down to Mexico for the winter. Their schedule is "pretty flexible" after that, though they already have a permit to visit the Galapagos Islands — a place they're both fasdnated with — in the spring.

JUST PASSIN'

Greg Deane and Ginny Gerlack (above). Eagle, Timmerman 31, Vancouver, B.C. (at the San Francisco Marina): When Greg and Ginny left Vancouver on August 30, they left. "We sold everything. We're down to the boat and our VISA card," said Ginny, formerly a legal secretary. "There's no turning back,"

continued Greg, who's a house and boat renovator. “We're planning to work and sail our way around the world." Greg has spent the last three years preparing their aluminum Eagle towards that goal, turning her from a daysailor into a bluewater vessel.

Jack Jandreau and Leanne Lawrence (right), Stealaway, Crealock 30, Portland, Oregon (at Clipper Yacht Harbor): Jack, an electrical control designer, and Leanne, a computer programmer, recently took the Big Plunge: “We got rid of everything we own except our skis, which we're storing with friends. We're completely mobile — everything we own is on the boat," claims Leanne. “And we're definitely not going back to Portland," adds Jack emphatically. "The weather's just too bad." The couple plans to winter in Mexico and Costa Rica (“We've been reading so much about it in Latitude I") before Jack reports to his next job — at a paper mill in Columbus, Mississippi. "It's a big sailing town," joked Jack before explaining that Columbus is some 300 miles up an inland waterway. They'll live on the boat and work there for six months ("just until the Caribbean hurricane season ends") before moving on. After their passage down from Portland, the rest of their open-ended cruise should be a piece of cake: the trip took a week and a half due to no wind and a limited fuel capacity which caused them to stop twice. "Crescent City is a real dumpl" says Jack. They also experienced dense fog, torrential rain, and an electrical storm off Mendocino.

Their trip down the coast was uneventful. "Sorry, no horror stories," they laughed. Two incidents were mildly dis¬ concerting though: one was getting "bombed in the fog off Ft Bragg ("A tremendous, une xplainable blast so close we felt the pressure in our chests") and another was listening to nearby tankers say over the radio they we picking up a “little blip on our radar." (Wd get right on the horn and say this is the blip*!") The last leg of the mostly windless trip made it all worthwhile: "We had a glorious sail under the Golden Gate Bridge," rhapsodized Ginny. "The sun was setting on one side of us, while a huge harvest moon rose on the other." Greg and Ginny are off to Hawaii (they want to be in Tonga by Christmas, so Mexico is out of the way) as this issue hits the docks. "We've enjoyed our stay here," they said. "Everyone has been great, especially the harbormaster here, Gary Davis. He's been a lot of help."

THROUGH Skip and Ann Figg (left), Sundog, Hankson 36 custom, Reardan, Washington (at Clipper Yacht Harbor): Reardan, we soon learned, is near Spokane, i.e. some 400 miles from the sea. “We're prairie sailors,* laughed the soft-spoken couple. Handy ones, too: Skip, a wheat and cattle rancher, and Ann, a teacher, built the steel Sundog in their backyard over four years. They finished the 'Dog in 1985 and hauled her to Bellingham, where she has lived until now. "This is our first big cruise. We got bounced around pretty good off Mendocino,

but aside from that had a pretty nice trip down,” said Skip. They've been here two weeks already, hanging out at Angel Island ("We love hiking to the topi") and elsewhere. "I've never seen so many boats in one place," marvels Ann. They plan to head down to Monterey when the spirit moves them, then Port San Luis and so on down to Mexico and Costa Rica (“We're curious about that country. We've heard good things about it") Meanwhile, we wondered, who's taking care of the ranch? “Our son, I hope!" chuck¬ led Skip.

Gordy and Judy Cole (above), Palm Tree Express (ex-Riff Raff, ex-Mongoose), Santa Cruz

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50, Seattle, (at StFYC): The Coles have owned their blue SC 50 for a little over a year. THey've already cruised most of the Pacific Northwest (Tell everyone it's ugly and it rains all the time; that there are no jobs and that housing is unaffordable," laughs Gordy) and have been to Hawaii (first to finish in the '88 Vic-Maui Race). Now they're off on a whirlwind one-year adventure that will take them south for MEXORC and Baja Haha ("we've always wanted to go to Mexico^, then to Hawaii on May 1st, then back here to race in the Pacific Cup back to Hawaii, and eventually home. We're getting dizzy just thinking about all that Their 14year-old son Brad is taking the year off with them, keeping up on his school work through correspondence courses. Stephanie, their 18-

year-old daughter, will join them for parts of the journey. “We just locked up the tools (we have a small construction business), left a year's worth of cat food behind, and took off," said Judy. Their trip from Seattle only took four and a half days — they hit 22 knots once — in spite of their load of four mountain bikes, some windsurfers, a TV and VCR and a whole lot more. “It's a great cruising boat," enthuses Gordy. You can get to the next port quickly when you knock off 250 miles a day." They're in town to sail in the Big Boat Series, but as Gordy cheerfully admits, "We're not really competitive. How many other boats here have bow rollers, four year old sails and a crew that sleeps on the boat at night? We're just here to have a good timel"

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hen San Francisco International 14 sailors Zack Berkowitz and Karl Baldauf named their boat Scared Skiff, they were describing not the vessel so much as the occupants. With only four months in the boat, the pair, who grew up together out in

the Sea Cliff neighborhood of the City, only recently graduated from the sail-1 OO-yardson-a-wild-plane-and-crash-dump phase of I14 sailing. In their first regatta, for example, they capsized 12 times. Nevertheless, the thrill of speed has won these two over to the 14. “It's the most fun boat I've ever sailed," says Karl. The recent International 14 World Championships drew 105 other like minded speed freaks to the waters off the SL Francis YC the week of September 7 to 14. It was the largest gathering of dinghies ever to race the main Bay, and a smashing show of high speed, high precision sailing. The B&B (Berkowitz and Baldauf) team proved to be the fastest Americans, finishing 20th behind a pack of Aussies and Brits.

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their heritage from the freewheeling Australian/New Zealand sailing spirit, are more of a developmental class. Generally

speaking, they run about 6 inches wider and 60 pounds lighter, and look a lot wilder than a stock 14. They also sport a telescoping rig that lets them reef down in heavier winds. The lads from Down Under expected to blow away the Europeans and Americans with their radical machines, but were surprised to discover they had their hands full with the Brits. “We were really surprised," said second place finisher Peter Moor, a 42-year-old schoolteacher from Sydney. 'We thought we'd leave them a lap behind, but they beat some of our really good boats." Leading the way through most of the seven-race, one-throwout series were eventual winners Andrew and Warwick Crisp, two tall accountants from Sydney Harbor. Both over 35, the fraternal pair have spent the last five page 106

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spinnakers (that tack to a retractable bowsprit) and the variable rigs, and applied it to the 14s.

Neal and "Dr. Dunk* McDonald.

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when she visited the Bay in the early 1980s. In fact, he took some of the Aussie 18 technology, such as the asymmetrical

Innovations don't stop at the construction. In keeping with the wild and crazy nature of 1-14 sailing, many of the /

boats sported some of the most original names we've seen in a long while. Among them: Fungus Coes, Legal Alien, Lizzard Drinkin', Out to Lunch, Stealth Boat, Subway Elvis, Decent Beer!, Scratch & Sniff, Turquoise Weenie, Macho Yet Sensitive, Bump and Grind, Off the Bone, Hard Hearted Hannah, Mud Pie and Safer Than Sex.

/\fter Moor, who built the Crisp's boat in his spare time, came the first International 14, a British boat called Little Rocket, with two more brothers on the wires: Neal and Duncan McDonald. The blond-haired duo won the British Championships last year and came to San Francisco hoping for a breeze, which they got â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sort of. "In 20 knots of breeze, we were even with the Aussies," said Duncan "Dr. Dunk* McDonald, a 24-year-old doctor specializing in casualty (what we Yanks call trauma). "But

INTERNATIONAL 14 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Boat Country Skipper/Crew Points 1. Once Moor Dear Australia Andrew/Warwick Crisp _ Z Wedge II Australia Peter Moor/Cambell Reid 10.25 3. Uttla Rocket UK Neai/Duncan MpDonald 25.00 4. Off The Bono Australia Guy Bancroft/Phllllp Evans 28.75 immSm'', - mk mmky, 5. Maverick Australia John DeMantfort/DavId Lugg 33.00 Top American Finishers ZO.Scared Stiff US Zack Berkowitz/Karl Baldauf 130.00 45. People's Boat US Tom Wondolleck/BIII Reids 261.00 53. Carbon Copy US Steve/Anne Toschi 285.00

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YACHTING'S MOST HORRIBLE: I

n Early September the head honcho at Lloyds of London announced record profits. But noting that the previous three years had passed with an unusually low number of natural disasters, he cautioned investors not to expect similar returns in the future. Then along came Hugo, a category 4 (out of 5) hurricane that left a multibillion dollar trail of destruction from Guadeloupe in. the French West Indies to Charleston, South Carolina. Since Hugo has made a sage of the head of Lloyds, stockholders are cautioned not to spend all their dividends just yet Despite being the 10th most powerful storm to strike the United States this century, Hugo did not claim many lives. The estimated 50 is far less, for example, than the 1,200 caused by David in 1979. And because Hugo didn't ravage a particularly long stretch of the expensive Eastern Seaboard, it didn't become the all time leader in destruction of property. Nonetheless, there is one category in which Hugo is the undisputed champ: Destroyer of Recreational Boats. Based on incomplete information and unconfirmed reports, we'd speculate that something on the order of 400 large — over 25-foot — boats were sunk, destroyed or swallowed up by Hugo, with another 750 washed up on beaches, roads and beachfront living rooms. Hundreds more suffered significant to serious cosmetic damage. These guesstimates are only for the Caribbean, and do not include the East Coast of the United States. Hugo made no attempt to disguise his intentions. Former Sausalito resident Warren Stryker spoke to us from his Virgin Islands home almost five days before Hugo struck. He said that the then 1000-mile distant hurricane was headed directly for the Virgins, and that he'd have to move his Bounty II, Dulcinea, to a nearby hurricane hole in the next day or two. (Stryker was spotted on a St Thomas street a week later, but we have no word on his boat Other former Northern California sailors also reported safe: Chris and Susan Harlocker, and Barbara Vitek.) A mid-season hurricane, Hugo entered the Lesser Antilles where the majority do: at Guadeloupe. Despite packing calamitous 140-mph winds, Hugo didn't have nearly the brute force of Gilbert, which tore through the Caribbean last year with awe¬ inspiring winds of 215-mph. But whereas Gilbert couldn't hit the broadside of a barn, Hugo zeroed in on a series of islands with pinpoint accuracy.

The French island of Guadeloupe,

island said conditions there were hard to with a population of 340,000, was the first believe: There was no storm surge, and to take a direct hit The five killed, 84 because of the mountain peaks in between injured and 15,000 homeless don't begin to us and the hurricane, there was almost no tell the story of utter devastation. Reports reaching nearby Antigua suggest that X wind. It was like a normal summer day." Some damage was reported to boats hauled approximately 200 boats were severely out at Phillipsburg and at the big hurricane damaged or destroyed. refuge of Simpson Bay. Losing a little strength over While the residents of these islands Guadeloupe, Hugo continued northwest to were thanking their lucky stars they'd been tiny Montserrat with enough force to kill spared, Hugo was rebuilding over the nine people and leave virtually the entire Caribbean Sea and making a beeline for the population of 12,000 homeless. There was south coast of St Croix (U.S. Virgins), little damage to boats because the island Culebra (a very popular hurricane hole has no real harbor and few vessels. between the U.S. Virgins and Puerto Rico) The fact that Hugo blew diagonally and Puerto Rico. This course put her some across the north-south crescent that is the 30 to 50 miles south of the British Virgins, Lesser Antilles, rather than sweeping up the and about 35 miles south of St Thomas chain, saved scores of lives and hundreds and St John in the U.S. Virgins. more boats. Since northern hemisphere hurricanes such as Hugo rotate in a counterclockwise fashion, islands to the By pure chance, Big O, Latitude 38's south were in what's known as the Ocean 71 charterboat, happened to be “navigable semi-circle" of less destructive hauled out at Virgin Gorda in the BVI's winds. As such, they suffered little or no when Hugo struck. Our captain, Rick Fenry, damage. Major sailing centers to the south, and others, labored for hours to place such as Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent & additional supports on boats in the nearly the Grenadines, and Grenada were full yard. A big problem was that the yard untouched. surface consists of packed dirt rather than While not quite as lucky, the islands in pavement, and thus the supports would sink the "dangerous semi-circle" to the north of into the water-soaked ground. A Guadeloupe did better than expected. combination of the sinking supports and Antigua, St Barts, St Martin and Anguilla shifting winds had boats working in their — all big sailing centers — got off easily cradles. With the wind blowing a solid 50 compared to what would have happened knots and darkness falling, everybody took had Hugo swung north. to shelter. When Rodney Nicholson of English Renry, who has been through eight Harbor, Antigua was finally able to reach hurricanes, says it's typical for a hurricane's his stateside office four days after Hugo high winds to blow through in just a couple blew through, he reported they endured of hours. Hugo, unfortunately, stalled near sustained winds of 104 mph and gusts to the Virgins, and the yard was battered by 120 mph. Even so, just three boats blew off winds in excess of 50 knots for more than the slipway and not a single charterboat 12 hours. Peak winds were 100 mph. was significantly damaged. The lack of When it was finally safe to come out, mayhem to boats was due, in part, to the workers found 15 boats had been blown fabulous natural protection afforded by over. Most of them were untended English Harbor. Elsewhere on the island two bareboats, but one was a large Hinckley. people were killed and there was extensive Several had lost masts when rigs tangled on damage to homes, buildings and roads. At the way down. Boats that fell on the soft Crabbes Slipway on the north side of the ground or had a hole punched through the island, a Sun Yacht Charters dock was hull by a support looked to be easily partially destroyed, but most of the boats repairable. Big O, thanks to the continued made it through with relatively minor bracing efforts of a fine captain as well as damage. good fortune, came through unscathed. The Fortunately spared was the second largest sailing center in the Caribbean, St nearby Bath & Turtle survived, and the Martin/Sint Maarten, 120 miles north of boats in the marina didn't even need extra Guadeloupe. A spokesperson for The linesl The boats and facilities in nearby North Moorings said, "We never completely shut down our operation on St Martin." A Sound also did well. John Glynn of the popular Bitter End YC says the area's biggest representative for the Oyster Pond-based problem is that they won't have Sun Yacht Charters on the east side of the government-provided electricity for nearly a month. Bitter End, fortunately, is equipped page 110

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with three generators and had just received a month's supply of fuel. Roadtown, Tortola is the center of the charter trade in the British Virgins. Relatively distant from Hugo's eye, there was plenty of damage but less than anyone had dared to hope for. The Moorings suffered injury to their hotel and shore facilities, had lots of cosmetic damage to their fleet, but lost only a new 50-footer. They announced they'd reopen with the Tortola airport on October 1. Stevens Charters had one boat missing and many others with cosmetic damage, but announced they would reopen with the restoration of electricity. Lars Ohlsson of Co Vacations said 50 of their 70 boats were operational, and only three were total losses. CSY Charters of Tortola had most of their boats over in Trellis Bay because September is the slow season and because their manager was on vacation. Difficult as it may be to believe, three CSY bareboats were out on charter in the middle of the hurricane. Miraculously, they all found shelter and survived. "All three captains are now writing books," laughed a spokesman. Nanny Cay, a big boatyard and marina on Tortola had 15 of its boats blow off cradles, but most came through in good shape. Endless Summer I & II, and Runaway, three popular crewed Irwin 68's, were among those that did well. Soper's Hole and West End, Tortola had damage, but it was not devastating. Luxurious Peter Island lost its beachfront rooms and pool area.

^learby St John in the U.S. Virgins had mixed results. Tom Cerker of Coral Bay Marine reported that 18 boats came ashore there, including the immaculate red 80-foot Alden-designed, Palmer Johnson-built Scirocco. Nonetheless, he said they did better than the rest of the U.S. Virgins. Cruz Bay, St John had several boats on the beach, including a Freedom 40. After hitting the well-documented bullseye on St Croix, Hugo took a little swing to the north, bringing her all too close to the Manhattan of chartering, St Thomas, and directly over what's normally one of the fine hurricane holes in the world, Culebra. The results were horrifying. Ferocious winds and waves .roared straight into Red Hook, St Thomas, throwing 70 boats up on shore and severely damaging the brand new docks at American Yacht Harbor. It was a wipeout as was the case with all harbors and anchorages open to the south and east Boats had mixed success o in St. Thomas1 Lagoon. The “world's largest glass bottom page 111

boat” now has a perfect view of the tops of mangroves. La Vida says their boats received lots of cosmetic damage, but fared better than expected. CYC reported their late-returning charter boats tied up at the docks did better than those hiding in the mangroves. The problem in the mangroves — as in many other locations — was not necessarily the forces of nature, but boats slamming into one another or severing lines. CYC was nonetheless reported to have lost 27 boats. Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, is where all the big cruise ships dock as well as the most active charter anchorage in the Caribbean. Open to the south, it was pulverized. Yacht Haven, the Times Square of crewed chartering, lost two-thirds of its docks. The Gourmet Galley and the Island Chandlery were destroyed, although businesses just a couple of feet higher, including the famous Bridge bar & restaurant, didn't do too badly. According to Skip Crooks of Flower of the Storm, all the boats that stayed in Charlotte Amalie were either destroyed or are missing. Nicola, a popular Irwin 68 charterboat, for example, ended up on the front steps of the Federal Building. Another large yacht lay on the steps to the jail. Scores of other boats — and this was true elsewhere — simply can't be located. It's believed they were driven up on shore and ground up early in the hurricane, then sucked back out and sunk when the wind and waves changed direction. Charlotte Amalie Harbor is now considered risky for navigation, as the normally clear water is still too murky to see the wrecks. All the first-floor businesses around Charlotte Amalie Harbor were extensively damaged; second floor businesses did much better. But elevation was no cure-all. Bill Sullivan of Bluebeard's Castle reported $12 million in damage. At nearby Hassel Island, 20 boats were destroyed, 15 of them at the careenage. Among them was the lovely 65-ft steel schooner, Rising Sun. The boats that were once at Avery's Boatyard, which has been around as long as there has been chartering in the Virgins, are now said to be spread throughout the Frenchtown residential district Further west at Elephant Bay, there were no boats in sight Forty boats were left to ride out the storm; forty boats are now missing. Sailors are going to be snagging their anchors on hulks for years to come.

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the hurricane hole of Culebra was obliterated. It's unclear if Hugo suddenly picked up tremendous force, or if it was the imbedded tornados that are common with hurricanes, but a U.S. Weather Station on Culebra clocked sustained winds of 150 mph and gusts to 200 mphl Skip Crooks, who managed to ride out Hugo in the mangroves of Culebra aboard his Freeport 41, described the effects of the hurricane this way: “Culebra was flattened." Although his boat didn't drag, she suffered $30,000 worth of damage as a result of other boats smashing into her on their way to the beach. Crooks estimates that 200 boats in Culebra, which was left wide open when the 10-foot storm surge submerged the protective barrier reefs, were driven onto the beach. Others say another 40 boats were sunk. Both of those estimates may be low. A reporter for the San Juan Star created a computer file of 370 boats he himself saw on Culebra, a list that didn't include those boats missing. Some of these yachts are salvageable, some are not The 73-ft schooner Rangaa was doing well until the force of the winds pulled her cleats and windlass right off the deck. The skipper was able to drive her toward a flat spot on shore and swing her around for a soft landing. Her steel hull dented and her rig down, the optimistic skipper hopes she'll be back doing crewed charters in December. Silent Lady, a 60-ft steel daysailing schooner, was thrown on the beach and is expected to recover. Not so lucky were a couple of Gulfstars. The 62-ft Island Dancer was driven through a house on shore and appears to be a total loss. The same fate befell the aptly named Perfection, a Gulfstar 60 that had been painstakingly maintained over the years. It was heartbreaking to see such boats smashed like childrens' toys. To the northeast of Culebra is the Navy base at Roosevelt Roads, which only opens to private boats during hurricanes. The Roads was hit so hard that the base commander couldn't be located for a dayand-a-half. It was reported that no boats survived intact Former Petaluma resident Hunter White, captain of the Irwin 65 Pieces of Eight, had hauled his boat out at Puerto Rico's Iseleta Marina in early September while he went to Virginia to be with his pregnant wife, Cathy. Four days after Hugo had gone through, White had been unable to find out what happened to the ketch. Given the massive storm surge, he is fearing the worst The owner of the boat told him not to worry, however,. they'd get another boat if Eight was destroyed. They'll need one, as they have several bookings in

HORRIBLE HUGO October. After roaring by the northeast side of Puerto Rico, Hugo pretty much skipped populated areas until exploding onto Charleston. We assume you've seen the photographs of the boats stacked on top of each other and individual boats on their sides in the middle of downtown intersections.

^1 atural disasters always bring. out the best — and worst — in people. CapL Penry had high praise for Virgin Islands Radio, which handles the maritime traffic. They stayed on throughout Hugo, broadcasting weather updates and offering support and encouragement to all. It may not sound like much, but to those huddling in the fetal position for 12 hours waiting to be blown away, it meant a hell of a lot V.l. Radio has always been a first class outfit Also singled out for praise were the residents of Culebra. Despite their having a very modest standard of living, Skip Crooks says the Culebrans gladly offered shelter during the hurricane and did everything they could do to help the yachties when it was over. This when they themselves had lost all of what little they owned; this when some of them had big boats sitting smack in the center of what had been their front rooms. Unfortunately, the same can not be said of the people of St Thomas. Crooks, who visited the day after Hugo, said that for one day there was substantial 'active looting1 — meaning breaking into stores to steal merchandise rather taking what was out in the open. Chief executive officer of the Gannet chain's Virgin Islands Daily News, Ron Dillman said, "We have widespread looting downtown. Unbelievable looting. Thugs and bums walking around. I saw a bum walking around with a fur coat" Since violence has always been as much a part of the U.S. Virgins as the tropical air, nights have always been a little scary on St Thomas. But in the free-for-all atmosphere after Hugo, it was much worse. A talk radio host at KCBS reported relatives of his had banded together with other neighbors who had lost homes, built a leanto, and patrolled the perimeter 24 hours a day with AK-47 assault rifles. When John Lysinger of Foxglove III, who was in Houston, asked V.l. Radio is if there was anything they needed, a man named Scotty replied, “A battalion of marines for St Thomas and a battalion of rangers for St Croix." When asked if he was kidding, he said, "I'm serious." Small wonder, as nothing short of total anarchy reigned on St Croix, where 99% of

the buildings were destroyed. After Hugo departed, the 'second wave' of looters, thieves, violence junkies and drunks hit the streets. Many sources says the looting didn't end until every single store had been broken into, every bit of merchandise — whether useful or not — — had been taken. It was reported that the only thing that prevented the armed mobs from moving on to private homes was the arrival of the second wave of U.S. armed forces. The first U.S. military to reach St Croix was a Coast Guard cutter with armed Coasties from St Thomas. When they pulled up to the dock at Christiansted, they were greeted by the gunfire of armed mobs who shouted, "It's our island I" and "Go home, Whiteyl" Repulsed, the captain of the cutter returned to St Thomas to ask V.l. Governor Alexander Farrelly to request troops. Downplaying the situation, the Governor is said to have refused; but then Bush sent troops in anyway. How bad was it on St Croix? 1. The Coast Guard reported that numerous terrified tourists and residents swam out to their cutters and begged to be taken off the island. 2. Governor Farrelly confirmed that 175 inmates, many of them convicted rapists or murderers, had escaped or been let our of prison. Most are still free. 3. Numerous witnesses accused local police and the National Guard of participating in the looting. 4. NBC quoted a young female tourist as saying “These guys are roaming the streets with machine guns, machetes and crowbars."

Something of a diaster long before Hugo hit, the post-hurricane looting and mayhem on St Thomas and St Croix didn't surprise many familiar with the U.S. Virgins. Crippled by a bungling government (which appeared unprepared for, and unable to respond to Hugo), deplorable health care, racial tensions, terrible crime and severe drug problems, the U.S. Virgins are no more "America's Paradise" than a tropical version of Washington, D.C. would be. Almost totally dependent on the largesse of Uncle Sam and tourist dollars, the residents of the U.S. Virgins couldn't have done more to make their plight worse. God help them, they'll need it It's important, however, that the British Virgins not be confused with the United States Virgins. The British Virgins, home to probably the best first-time chartering waters in the world, are safe and sane. Capt Penry reports there was no looting in the British Virgins after Hugo. Now, as before, our

advice to charterers is either to fly directly to the British Virgins (via San Juan), or board your boat immediately upon arrival at the St Thomas airport

The aftermath. Salvage operations are rapidly underway in some places, and stalled in others. The West Indies Transport Company crane mounted on a barge has been lifting boats off the beach at Red Hook and setting them in deep water for a reported flat fee of $2500. Many of the beached boats will be fine after the replacement of rudders and some cosmetic work. Lloyds of London is said to have a big crane on its way to Culebra in order to lift those hundreds of boats from their plight Insurance adjusters, surveyors, boat workers, salvage people and others will be putting in overtime hours for the foreseeable future. Yacht Haven is putting in temporary docks, and the word is that the annual charterboat show will go on as scheduled in November. According to Crooks, there's Iftde shoreside progress on St Thomas. The main artery along the waterfront, always jammed with traffic, is destroyed and there is little evidence that any efforts are being made to repair it Days after Hugo had gone, debris was everywhere and nobody seemed particularly inclined to clean it up. For the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, it's business as usual. There are problems getting fuel, water and electricity. For reasons nobody could figure out, three cruise ships called on devastated St Thomas less than a week after Hugo. It was a ghoul cruise, perhaps, for folks who didn't have the time or money to visit Beirut

hat's it all mean for those considering a Virgin Islands charter this winter? “Book early," says Beverly Parsons of David Fraser Charters, "there won't be as many boats available as before." What will it be like? Capt Penry toured the length of the Sir Francis Drake Channel and down to St Thomas the day after Hugo hit, and said everything should be fine — except there are no leaves on any trees — by the first of December. By that time the murky water will have cleared again, the shoreside businesses gotten their act back together, the fuel and water supplies restored, and the dive shops back in action. Best of all, he suspects the British Virgins will be less crowded this winter than they've been since the early 70's. That's not much, but perhaps it's the only silver lining in the hurricane that was Hugo. Just ask anyone from Lloyds. — latitude 38 page 112

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YANKEE 30 | hree years ago, when Geoff Faraghan went shopping for a used boat, he conducted an interesting mini-survey. He asked a handful of brokers to forget for a minute what was on their docks, and then to name the one or two best boats in the 30-ft range; boats they themselves would choose if they planned, as he did, to do some serious offshore sailing. The most often mentioned boat turned out to be the Yankee 30. That was a surprise to Geoff, who admits at the time,â&#x20AC;&#x153;I'd never heard of a Yankee 30." He soon found out that the Yankee is (by today's standards) a smallish 30-footer designed by Sparkman and Stephens and built by Yankee Yachts in Santa Ana, California, between 1971 and 1974. Some 20 to 30 of the 130-odd Yankees built made their ways to San Francisco, where a one-design fleet raced YRA until 1980. Some of the features that most impressed Geoff, and other knowledgeable sailors over the years, were the beefiness of the hull and rig; the boat's terrific upwind performance, especially in chop and a breeze; and the genuine duality of the design as both a viable racer and comfortable cruiser. He bought one. But for fate and a sweet deal on a slightly smaller boat, the managing editor here at Latitude almost bought one a few years ago, too. What caught his eye at the time was the nifty "hybrid" keel profile, which cleverly combines the low drag and maneuverability of a fin keel with the tracking and protection for the rudder/propeller of a full keel. The engine was in a smart place, too. Though sailors will damn them from dawn till dusk, engines have to be accessible, and the Yankee 30's is one of easiest to get at of any boat, old or new. It's *

you had to go through a fairly regimented sequence of turning this on and that off to get one going, and sure enough, some guy blew up one ofthem." (Reportedly, repercussions of the incidentactuallydrove Albin out of business.) The ubiquitous Atomic Four replaced the little two-banger as standard issue from then on, except for a few of the later boats which came equipped with Buch diesels. The Yankee 30 proved popular with the racing crowd when it was introduced. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were the J/29s of their day," says Jones, a former

under part of the settee, right in the middle of the boat. One thing Mr. Editor didn't care for on this particular boat was this weird engine that ran on diesel and... alcohol? That enginel" laughs Peter Jones, longtime owner of the Yankee 30 Emerald (hull #34). "Yankee had a terrible time with that engine. It was an Albin two-cylinder that you were supposed to be able to start with alcohol and then switch over to diesel. My boat still has one, and they're actually good little engines, though a bit underpowered. But

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yacht broker. Today, they remain popular boats in the used boat arena. "The average listing may be on the market for two years," says Jones. "But it's rare for a Yankee to last more than three months." New Yankees sold for about $18,500. Average price of a good used one nowadays ranges from the mid 20 to low $30,000 range, depending on equipment. About now, you may be asking yourself, "If the boats were that allfired wonderful, why did they stop making them?" page 117

Well, it wasn't because the boats weren't any good. We couldn't find any executive types from the old Yankee company, so we can't say much about the business end of it, either. What most devotees concede was the company's undoing was the “Yankee ingenuity" of trying to please all the people all the time. Simply put, when the rating rules changed, the Yankee company tried to keep the boats competitive by subtly — and sometimes not so subtly — tweaking them. As a result, there ended up being three different versions of the boat (four if you count the "MORC model," wherein builders shaved 11/8 inches off an otherwise stock boat to get it under 30 feet), the Mark I, II and III. These were differentiated by gradually increasing mast heights, and in the Mark III, an additional 1,000 pounds of internal ballast JTie only options that actually added to the boats' long-term marketability were the choice of two different interiors, which of course had nothing to do with ratings. The result of all the changes, at least in San Francisco, was a One Design fleet that had to handicap some of its own boats — limiting the largest headsail a "tall rig* boat could use, for example, or requiring a "medium rig* boat to wire its folding prop in the open position. It was a dilemma doomed from the start to failure, and the fleet gradually faded from the one design scene. A few boats continue to race actively in local handicap events. A local Yankee 30 renaissance of sorts occurred in the last few years as singlehanders have gradually ‘discovered* the boat As a result, Emerald, long a cornerstone of the Bay's Singlehanded Sailing Society, has lately been joined by Club Dead, Faraghan's Yankee (hull #128) and Ed Ruszel's dark blue Chelonia (hull #100). During last year's Singlehanded Farallones, his first in the boat, Ed says the 35 knots and big seas “were the wildest I've ever seen." It was no big deal to Chelonia, though. With two reefs tucked into the main and the number four up forward, she was under such control that he could — and did — tie the tiller off for long periods and go below to get out of the weather. Perhaps the most dramatic testimony to the boat's greatseakeeping ability occurred with the same boat, but on a different race: the infamous 1982 Doublehanded Farallones where four sailors died and eight boats were either sunk or driven onto the beach by a savage southeasterly. Carl Ondry and son Mark were sailing the race aboard the boat (then named Wildfire) for the first time. They'd just rounded the island when the big one hit. "I've never seen so much rain," says Carl (who's dominated the ocean fleet for the last several years on his current boat, the Mancebo 30, Bloom County.) "It rained so hard, you couldn't see another boat 50 yards away." Though he didn't learn about the destruction until after the race, he says he and Mark never felt concerned about the Yankee, which took the thrashing without complaint. They were one of only 39 finishers out of 127 starters, ending up fourth in their division. As cruisers, Yankees have proven comfortable, capable and near ideal for transporting a normal-size couple (headroom is 6'1") virtually anywhere they want to go. Several have sailed to Hawaii and back. One local one was trucked to Texas, offloaded, and cruised the Caribbean and East Coast to Maine and back for a year, whereupon it was loaded up in Texas and trucked back to the Bay. In last month's Changes in Latitudes;TEd and Mary Larenas wrote about their cruise to Ecuador and the Galapagos aboard their Yankee 30, Quicksilver. Next month, Tom Hughes and Sarah Wright start their eight-month sabbatical to points south aboard their Yankee, Frolic. The list goes on and on. Comfort, performance, value, versatility — it sounds like the beginning of a car commercial. But those superlatives and more apply to Yankee's still oft-forgotten 30. True, it may come up lacking a few of the bells and whistles when compared to a new 30-footer. But where it counts, the Yankee 30 does most things well and nothing badly. That's the most you can ask from any boat. — Iatitude//r

FELINE FINALE V^at scratch fever returned to San Francisco the weekend of September 15-17, in the form of the fourth and final regatta in the 1989 Salem ProSail circuit In some of the strangest weather we've ever seen in September, 21 Hobie 21s and five ProSail 40

Christine (left) and Lisa Blackaller christen 'TomCat'.

catamarans jousted for regatta and overall series points — not to mention big bucks — off race headquarters at Pier 39. When it was all over, Randy Smyth's Super Lube catamaran took both the local Cam ■Wait till next year* Lewis congratulates Kandy Smyth.

ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE 38/JR second time, they had to earn it Smyth, who recently transferred his base of operations from California to Florida, came to San Francisco trailing the Duraflame/U.S. Video/ Pecco boat by one point During the threeday, 10-race regatta, Super Lube and the renamed TomCat proceeded to trade bullets back and forth like the Earps and Clantons did at the OK Corral. By Sunday afternoon, the balance of the ProSail 40 series and its combined $46,000 (regatta and series) first place purse, hung on the outcome of the final race, bnce again, Smyth trailed the "01" boat by the slimmest of margins — 3/4 of a point And then the unthinkable happened: Super Lube crossed the starting fine early. In normal conditions, that mistake woyld likely have been fatal. But in the light to medium southwesterly gusting unpredictably from between the Gty's tall buildings, Smyth pulled off a small miracle. After doing his requisite 360 (ProSail rules only), Randy and crew Pat Malloy, Kevin Burnham, Mark Murray, Doug Kern, Brett Mauthe and Tom Linskey came from 100-yards back of the pack to win by a good five boat lengths. They don't call this guy "king of the cats" for nothing.

In the Hobie 21s, Pete Melvin and Steve Rosenberg of Seal Beach also came to San Francisco one point behind leaders Carlton Tucker and Glen Purcell of Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Pete's “Bay karma" stood him in good stead, though. Since 1977 when he won the Youth Championships here,

and won them all. His only strategy: "Sail conservatively and try to stay near Carlton." And speaking of karma, both a literal and figurative doud hung over this year's action. In the literal sense, for some reason, strange weather has followed the ProSail

SALEM PROSAIL RESULTS BoaUSponsor 1 .Super Lube 2. TomCat 4. Team Timberland 5. Hotel Nikko HOBIE 21 CLASS (21 boats) 1. MeMn/Rosenberg Racing 2. Aloe Up/Sabre Sails 3. Budmiser Team 4. Hood Sails/Big Dog 5. Hobie Cat

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took a bead on Randy Smyth. The king of the cats vs. the king of the jungle. Duraflame/ US. Video/Pecco won two of the first three ProSail events, and Blackaller was points leader coming to San Francisco, his home turf. We can't think of anyone sorrier to have missed that final showdown than Tom himself. In a small ceremony before the race, and with the blessings of sponsors and the boat's owners, Bill Erdman and John Grunow, Tom's daughter Lisa and wife Christine re¬ christened the Duraflame/U.S. Video/Pecco boat TomCat. The name, explained Erdman, alluded both to the "Ol" boat's colorful skipper and the World War II P-40 airplane. "Both were fighters," he said. ProSail officials also dedicated the San Francisco Regatta to Blackaller's memory, and announced their intention to retire the “Ol" number — the first ProSail skipper's license issued — after the series.

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sunny to running under bare poles in 35 knots, dodging a waterspout and being pelted by hail. Mother Nature's curve ball in San Frandsco was warm, hurricane-bred air from the south crashing into one of the first cold fronts of fall coming down from the north. The head-on occurred right over the Bay Area Friday night, resulting in thunder and lightning the likes of which we haven't seen in years. Fortunately, most of the pyrotechnics occurred during the night so no one was in danger during the regatta — just wet In addition to more rain than not Saturday and Sunday, the combination resulted in light and fluky winds more common to midwinter than mid-September.

he figurative shadow over the event was the sudden death of Duraflame/U.S. Video/Pecco skipper Tom Blackaller a week before the race. A recent convert to catamarans, Tom's charisma and promotional talent went far toward putting ProSail on the map. in fact, though he'd pretty much seen page 119

it all and done it all in nearly 40 years of sailing, earlier this year Tom surprised a lot of people when he called the big cats The most fun sailing I've ever had." Once bitten by the bug halfway through ProSail's 1988 season (where he finished a close second behind Smyth in the last two races), Tom, like always, hit the deck running.

You can hit marks in ProSail, but they don't have to like it. This one stopped 'Team Daytona' (#25) dead in its tracks.

He assembled a crack crew — Jack Halterman, Cam Lewis, Zan Drejes, Jay Crum, and Jot Fisher-Smith — and this year

V_*am Lewis assumed the reins of TomCat, and the whole crew (Tom Ducharme and co-owner Bill Erdman came aboard to round out the seven-man crew) assumed the task of "winning one for the Gipper." In that cliffhanger ending, they almost did it Were it not for that amazing come-from-behind victory Smyth and his slippery Tubers pulled on the last race.... The more we thought about it, though, the more the final outcome seemed fitting. After all, the "Gipper" in this case was never accused of being overly modest We couldn't help picture Jom in his role as color commentator for ESPN turning to Gary Jobson with the observation. The TomCat crew sailed a good race, Gary, but they were missing the one crucial element they needed to win this one." And then the famous smile

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That's when Lee took the helm. 'Watch this," she said, eyeing a heavydisplacement cruiser/racer at least 10 feet longer than us coming from astern. We'll catch a tow from them and get pulled out of this mess." "Isn't that illegal?" said one of the other draftees on the crew. "No, silly," said the skipper. “She means we're going to catch their stern wave." “They're out-waterlining us," Lee added — "at least on this point of sail. We'll go high and make sure they pass to leeward, then jump on for the ride. Hang on, I'm going to hot it up some." We pointed a few degrees higher and I pulled in as hard as I could on the spinnaker sheet, getting a few clicks from the unattended winch on the low side. As our

come on, Max! Follow me on that sheet! Here's another gust..out a foot!" The skipper took the sheet out of my hand and started playing it herself. Lee seemed much happier vvith the results. Want me to go down and grind for you?" I asked. "No way! Can't afford your weight down there. Total hike!" I wedged my body through the lifelines to get my weight outboard as far as was legal. Now I could look around a little more freely, and saw that the big, heavy boat was already abeam and to leeward. Our foredeck crew made eye contact with one of the crew of the larger boat, and stuck out his thumb in the hitch-hiking position. downwind leg! We had rounded the jibe mark in good position, despite our ad-hoc crew. There

heel angle increased, Lee pumped the helm to bring us back down again. "Sheet out a touch...okay...now back in...

Lee bore off to bring us into the wave pattern of our “tow-truck", easing up the heel page 120

TOW, TOW, TOW YOUR BOAT The point is that both the bow and stern produce two systems of waves," Lee continued, despite the imminent collision. “People always call the diverging waves 'bow waves' and the transverse waves 'stem waves', which is totally wrong." "Shut up and drive!" yelled the owner as we swung just a little too far to windward, causing a partial collapse of our spinnaker. Lee bore off again, but the temporary loss of power made us lose the wave, and we slowed down dramatically as it rolled under us. "We'll latch onto the next one," Lee said. "Get ready....pump!" The spinnaker and mainsheet pumped together for the one allowable stroke, and we took off again on the next wave, this time the third stem wave. We had a litde more maneuvering room here, and worked up to windward where the wake was steepest After a few adjustments we were locked in. "Good work, Lee", I said. "Ride the quarter wave."

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A tow from a bigger boat is more fun than a tow from AAA.

angle slightly and allowing us to sheet out a bit "Crossing the bow wave now," I said as we slid in past the first crest "Actually it's not a bow wave at all, Max," she said as she lined us up with the next crest of the second stem wave. "You're looking at the diverging component of the Kelvin wave pattern." Our bow dipped into a steep trough. Lee pumped the mainsheet once, and we were suddenly going two knots faster. "Carving right," she said as she bore off sharply to stay on the wave, then "Back to the left" as she swung back to windward. We could barely keep the chute trimmed. “A pressure disturbance moving through a free surface," Lee started to lecture as she page 121

continued to swerve across the face of the wave, "always produces a wave train with two distinct components. The diverging waves are

not the quarter wave, Max. This is where the crests of the diverging and transverse systems cross, reinforcing each other. Actually we have two transverse systems, one from the bow and one from the stern, and two diverging systems also. But when a heavy boat like that is pushed just above so-called hull speed, the bow and stern systems are in phase, so it looks like just one diverging and one transverse system." "Well, whatever it is, we're making trees on all the other boats in our dassl* shouted the foredeck crew. "As you move farther aft in the wave train," Lee explained, "the height of the transverse waves decreases more rapidly than the height of the diverging waves. So it's more important to find the crest intersections as you drop back." "If that's what you like to call it," I said. “I always called it a quarter wave. But it sure

arranged in an echelon pattern, with the crest lines concave forward and outward. There's also a transverse system, with the waive crests at roughly right angles to the direction of motion, and the crests are concave aft." We surged forward again, and for a moment it seemed as if we would crash into the transom of the boat in front

looks to me like one set of waves coming from the bow and the other set comes from the stern." There's a tank experiment that proves you wrong, Max. They take a model with a bow only, and no stem. I mean, it looks like a very long piece of French bread. And when they push it down the tank, guess what?*

MAX EBB: "Bow waves onlyl" I said. "For sure — both sets. There are both transverse and diverging, what you call ‘bow1 and 'stern' waves. Then they do the same thing with a stern only, towing the long model the other way. The waves look just the same." ‘I still don't believe it," I said stubbornly, although I had a very strong suspicion that I was wrong. "Can't argue with success," said the foredeck crew. “Look how we're moving on the other boats." After a few more minutes of sailing locked in the third stern wave the whole time, we had pulled out in front of neariy all the other boats in our class. At one point the crew of the boat in front, who didn't seem particularly bothered by the fact that we were riding their wake, asked us for bus fare. One of them even took some pictures.

B ut later in the leg the wind began to soften and lift, and the big boat no longer seemed to give us a speed advantage over our competitors. Our lead had stopped widening out, and some of the boats threatened to pass us again. "Time to get out of these waves," Lee said. "Now they're slowing us down." "How can they do that?" asked the new crew. “Aren't they still going the right direction?" "Surfing works in reverse just as well as it works in forward," Lee answered. "If the waves are going too slow, it takes extra power to go faster. Coming upl" We altered course rather sharply to windward, letting the pole forward a little and trimming the sheets. "The wake envelope is 19 degrees, 28 minutes wide each side of the centerline," said Lee. “We'll come up just far enough to get outside it"

start from a point about one waterline length in front of the vessel and draw lines back from that angle, you'll have the boundaries of

k aa •. has nothing to do with surfing, doesn't it?“

“Nineteen degrees, 28 minutes," I repeated skeptically. “Looks more like 29 minutes to me.“ "Not really, Max. A Kelvin wave pattern, at least in deep water, is contained within the 19-degree, 28-minute envelope. If you

the wake." If the bow wave/stern wave stuff seemed counter-intuitive, this new fact was complete¬ ly off the wall. “That can't be true," I protested. “What about a fast powerboat? Its wake forms a

Even a sternless boat makes waves.

two set of

very narrow angle, while a slow, heavy boat leaves a wide wake." “You're confusing the displacement waves with the waves from the collapse of the transom cavity," Lee attempted to explain. "Even a very fast planing boat has a Kelvin wake pattern — I mean, it might be very small amplitude, but it's always there. And in deep water it always radiates at 19 degrees, 28 minutes....11

I decided not to press the point any further. Lee was ready to take out a piece of chalk and prove it Fortunately, the skipper decided it was time to push some buttons on the Loran, so I took the sheet back from her and concentrated on the spinnaker trim for page 122

TOW, TOW, TOW YOUR BOAT crest" "Very good, Max. You've been paying attention!" "But I just can't understand," I continued, "how a fully submerged object like a dolphin can surf. There's no wave face to slide down — and with the pressure above the dolphin compensating for that below, how can there be any forward thrust?" "That's had me confused, too," added the foredeck crew. "When I go abalone diving I swim under some pretty big swells, and I get washed back and forth a lot But I never feel like I'm about to start surfing from underneath a wave. But I've watched porpoises surf the bow wave for hours. There must be something else there that they like." "Underwater surfing works exactly the same as surfing on the wave's surface," Lee said flatly. "The diagram of force vectors looks the same."

I scratched my head and tried to visualize the diagram she was referring to. She must have drawn it a dozen times or more on various yacht club tablecloths and napkins over the last few years. “in fact, it sort of proves that planing has nothing to do with surfing, doesn't it?" "Let's set up for a jibe," interrupted the skipper, ending our hydrodynamics lesson for the day. We jumped to our jibing positions. A minute later, we were on the other jibe and on layline for the leeward mark, crossing most of our fleet with a lead that we held up to the finish. Not at all bad for a pick-up crew. Three days later, I received a big manila what had become a light to medium air broad reach. Now we were slowly pulling out in front of the big boat that had towed us. "Still in good current," announced the skipper. "But we need to sail just a little deeper to get the maximum VMG." After a little experimenting, Lee relinquished the helm back to the owner, and took the spinnaker sheet from me. ’Well, that was a nice ride," I said. "It's unusual to hold onto one wave for so long." "You can't do that at all with wind waves, Max. A wave is always losing energy to the wave immediately behind it, so wind waves can't give you an indefinitely long ride, like the wave train from a heavy boat That's why dolphins like to surf the bow waves of ships." "Now that's another thing I have trouble believing," I said. “I think I finally understand how surfing works — how the buoyancy forces are being directed slightly forward because of the circular motion of the water page 123

Lee's dolphin diagram.

in the wave, and why the gravity force on the boat remains vertical as long as the boat is moving at the same speed as the wave /

envelope in the mail with a collection of diagrams copied out of several books on hydrodynamics and naval architecture. Next time Lee says "Watch this", I think I'll keep my mouth shut — max ebb

MAGIC IN MONTEREY

uick, what comes to mind when you thinlc of Monterey? John Steinbeck? J Cannery Row? The aquarium? Laguna Seca? Jimi Hendrix zonked out of his gourd, torching his guitar on stage after playing "Wild Thing" at the '67 Monterey Pop Festival?

Catch of the day.

What we think of — particularly after spending the weekend of September 9-10 in Monterey — is the Plaza Cup Regatta. Now

in its fifth year, this classy one-design gathering is co-sponsored by the Monterey Peninsula YC, the Monterey Plaza Hotel and

ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE/ROB KOCN FM 105 Radio. "It's the premiere buoy racing series on Monterey Bay," claims Harvey Kilpatrick, who helped found the regatta and then — despite what Miss Manners might say N about winnirtg the door prize at your own party — won the first two regattas (in 1985 and 1986) with the Santa Cruz 50 Earl of Mar. Originally conceived as a way for the SC 50 class to have a bit of fun in the years they weren't invited to the Big Boat Series, this "mini Cal Cup" series has now settled into a pattern of alternating between Santana 35s and SC 50s. Bill teller's Santana 35 Carnaval won in 1987 and Rolfe and Julie Croker's SC 50 Hana Ho took it in 1988. This year, ten Santana 35s showed up for the two day, three race series, which was held in typical Monterey Bay conditions, i.e., “light and kelpy." Billed as a re-run of August's poorly attended (seven boats) Santana 35 Nationals, the event pitted two hometown boats (teller's perennially tough Carnaval and Shockwave, owned by the commodore of the low-key Monterey Peninsula YC, Jerry Stratton) against two from Santa Cruz (Gandalf, Time Out) and six from the Bay Area, all of whom used the Labor Day Weekend Windjammer's Race as a feeder (three of them — Wildflower, Swell Dancer and Tinsley Light — swept Class III). Frenzied Tuna — not the kind found at the Monterey Aquarium — on the starting line.

\/Vhen the Plaza Cup was all over but the crying, Wide Load, the '89 Tuna 35

national champion, had racked up another runaway, straight-bullet victory. However, it wasn't as easy as it sounds. In each of the races — Saturday's 8.7 mile triangle race followed by a 16.5 miler out to PL Pinos, and Sunday's dizzying 17.4 mile six-times around triangle course — Wide Load had to overcome their early errors and grind down the leaders to win. In fact, at the start of Saturday's second contest, the Load hit the pin and after doing their requisite 720 (per the new USYRU rules), began the race with a firm grip on last place. With the fleet all sprinting left towards the kelp beds off Cannery Row (which is historically almost always the correct way to go), Wide Load split off to right field, picked up a fortuitous windshift and sailed back over on top of all but one boat, Art Mowry's eventual second place finisher Wildflower. “That was pretty lucky," allowed gregarious sailmaker Dick Pino, Wide Load's crew boss and spokesman. But the rest of the regatta was won on blazing boatspeed — thanks to new sails and a recent bottom job — and the skill of her well lubricated and tightknit regular crew (Pino, Steve Sundeen, Rhonda Peterson, Ray Martinez, Dave Hecht and Dave Alaimo). page 124

PLAZA CUP '89 way to go."

^lext year's regatta will once again feature the 50s. Co-host Monterey Plaza Hotel, which puts up the spectacular $15,000 crystal twin dolphins Plaza Cup perpetual trophy, has pledged it's continuing support of the event despite a change of management

1989 Plaza Cup Regatta 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Yacht Wide Load Wildflower Dance Away Camaval Tima Out Swell Dancer Gandatt Tinsley Light Flexible Flyer Shockwave

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(note bow number). Runner-up ‘Wildflower' is to leeward.

Monterey hotshot Mark Chandler — who normally sails on Jim Svetich's Express 37 One Eyed Jack — steered the boat for the weekend in the absence of owner Jim Bonovich, who continues to be sidelined this summer with back problems. The Plaza Cup's a fun regatta," Chandler claimed afterwards, ‘especially when it's in Santana 35s. The Tuna fleet is like a big family — everyone knows each other pretty well and is out there to have a good time. There's none of the 'mini-millionaire'/rockstar mentality you find in other classes of this size range." Wide Load had one other ace up her sleeve for the regatta — tactician Tom Schock, the Corona-based builder of the Shad Turner-designed 35-footers. Tom and his wife Jane, both delightful people and excellent sailors, were the Plaza Cup's guests of honor for the weekend. While Jane spent the weekend power-shopping in Monterey's trendy boutiques, Tom served up some ruthless tactics, obviously subscribing to the Harvey Kilpatrick school of ill manners regarding winning the door prize at your own page 125

. , just glad one of my boats won," he deadpanned. Reflecting on the Plaza Cup, and the

On land or sea, no one had more fun than the 'Wide Load1 gang. Santana builder Tom Schock (at left) was their "guest tactician

state of yacht racing in general, Schock asserted, “It's definitely the right format As far as I'm concerned, one-design is the only

Skipper Bonovich/Pino ArtMowry Bob Bloom Bill Keller Jolin Lewis Jim Graham Carl Quitzau Hank Grandin MikeCreazzt Jerry Stratton

Yacht Club Pts 2.25 MYCO 7 StkSC CSSC 11 12 MPYC SCYC 13 MYCO 20 21 SCYC SFYC 24 SYC 25 MPYC 29 ' > S's yi'i'yyyyiyiyiy}'

several months ago. That's good news for the regatta, as well as for the local yachting press (read: us), who each year are treated to a night or two in the luxurious waterfront Plaza Hotel when we come down to cover the racing. With so much going for it — the Plaza Hotel's sponsorship, Monterey's considerable charm as a weekend getaway destination and the friendly, funky atmosphere of the Monterey Peninsula YC — why not expand the event somewhat, perhaps inviting multiple fleets next year? "We don't have the facilities

or the desire to turn this into a Volvo Regatta clone," said Kilpatrick. "It's perfect the way it is: small, intimate, and well run." After thinking about it, we'd have to agree. — latrtude/rkm

1989 MEXICO ONLY Stress can kill you. Take it from us. We die a thousand deaths every month to get this magazine into your hot little hands, enduring deadline pressures that would bring an air traffic controller to his knees. As a result, we've become experts on the manifestations—amongthem skin rashes, hair loss, addiction to coffee and junk food, manic depression, mass genocide and worse — and, yes, the cure, which we'll now share with our beleaguered minions. Go sailing. That's right: forget about the shrinks, the pills, the books and

Even whalet migrate to Mexico for the winter. Why notyoui anything Oprah says. Get out on the water. You'll be glad you did. If you're what us stress management technicians call an “augie" short for "augured in") — that's you burnouts, workaholics, Exxon executives, TV evangelists and others who have reached the end of your proverbial docklines — your dosage must be correspondingly increased: Go sailing to Mexico and stay there until at least next spring. (Don't stay any longer than that, because hurricanes start forming then. If you think you're stressed out now....) And don't delay. In all cases, time is of the essence.

kay, okay, so what's wrong with a little melodrama to get things rolling for this year's Mexico Only Crew List? Besides, the underlying message is true. The pace in this crazy country is way faster than us humanoids were meant to endure. Going to a place like Manana-land, where things move slowly if at all, will give your body and spirit time to catch up with each other. In time, you may even look forward to enjoying local customs like the afternoon siesta, which the world scientific community now concedes the human animal is meant to have (except little people from the ages of two to three, which we're also fast becoming experts on). Anyway, to the Crew List It was a slightly smaller turnout of names this year than in the past, a development we'll take as an indication that most of you planning to go have already found or arranged crew or boats on which to sail. Ourselves, we long ago learned to live with the fact that we never do anything until the last minute, which is one of the reasons we came up with the Crew List in the first place — an informal, yet handy way to get crews and boat owners in touch with each other for their mutual benefit Many of the lucky folks out cruising Mexico and beyond started out, we're proud to say, on these pages.

Here's how the Crew List works. After you glom through and find your name, forever aftertryingto impress acquaintances with the time you were "featured in Latitude" (just make sure, unlike the guy at the last Baja Haha, that it isn't one of us you're trying to impress), you can get down to business. Business, in this case, involves scanning the appropriate section for people offering the situation closest to what you want. To help out, we've included a short code covering skills, intentions and other information for each Crew Listee, along with a phone number. Just look in the shaded boxes to “break the code , then hit the phones. You could be "hooked up" for Mexico by dinner time! ■Come on," you say? "It can't be that easy. What's the catch? Hmmmm. Interesting: paranoia and unreasonable suspicion are the first danger signs of too much stress.... But okay, you're right, there is one important catch. It's that you read, understand and acknowledge the “Important Note" in the skinny box at the top of these pages. Hey, nobody said this was going to be a totally stress-free ride. Past that, it's just a matter of arranging a tryout sail or two with your new sailing pals, putting your stateside business on hold for a few months, assuring mom you'll lock all the doors and then turning left at Seal Rocks. Before you know it, you'll be in the land of Coronas (beer), camarones (shrimp), palapas (little eateries on the beach that serve camarones) and manana. Our facial twitch is easing up just thinking about it. All Mexico-bounders are invited to our Mexico Crew List party, to be held this year on October 5 at the Sausalito Cruising Club from 6 to about 9 p.m. If you've made your Crew List connections over the phone, this is a great place to arrange your first face-to-face meeting. If you haven't made your Mexican connection, it's also the perfect forum for doing that — crew looking for boats and boat owners looking for crew each wear different colored name tags so you can tell at a glance who's who. Even if you're one of those aforementioned folks whose arrangements have been set for months — ora cruiser in transit who happens to be in town at the time — what the heck, you're invited, too. The more the merrier, we always say. The catch to this part of the program is that if you can't point out your name on these two pages to our castle guards, you have to pay to get in. Admission is the same as the listees here paid: $5 for crew; $1 for boat owners. If you're interested in sampling our world famous guacamole dip, or a chance at any of our equally world famous T-shirts (one per person; none of this "My 26 brothers and their families are saving the world tonight and couldn't come, but I said I'd bring them all back shirts..."), then get there early. They go fast

I I ere are a few tips on getting the most from your phone calls. 1) Make your calls during the hours most humans are awake. Not everybody stays up for Letterman. 2) Be honest. In our book, trustworthiness is a lot more important than ability, and you can always learn how to sail. 3) Be realistic. If you try to convince women Crew Listees that torrid sex with the captain is part of the daily routine on every boat, the reality is that you'll be cruising alone. 4) Don't let age put you off calling any Crew Listee. Us old farts may not be able to grind a winch like we used to, but on those long watches, we can be reasonably articulate on subjects more far-ranging than college page 126

CREW LIST MEN WANTING TO CREW— CONT'D Michael Karakozoff, 43, (707) 578-8864,1475 Townview Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95405 ... .for 1 / has 2 3 / offers 2,3. Tom Cordellos, 50, (707) 996-0754,80 Loma Vista Dr., Sonoma, CA 95476. ....for 1 / has 2,3 / offers 2,3. Steve Anderson, 47, (602) 297-6881 (coll), Rancho Catalina, Tucson, AZ 85704 Stephen Cailahan, 43, 922-4293, 15 Cervantes Blvd., #306, San Francisco, CA ..for 1.2,3,4 / has 2,3,4 /offers 3. Tim Carlton, 31, (404) 868-9676,311 Huntington Dr., Augusta, GA 30909. plans and the most awesome party ever attended, dude. And finally, if you can find a minute in your hopefully busy schedule of swimming, sleeping and eating down south, drop us a line about your Crew List experience. We've always had a "Best of the Crew List Stories type article jn mind, but we never seem to get very much feedback once everybody ups and leaves. One more catch, though. If you do write, please go easy with that "Having the time of our lives" stuff. Because here comes the biggest catch of all: We can't go. We have to (twitch, twitch) stay and work. Aaaaarrrrggggh hh h h!

—latitude/;/-

MEN WANTING TO CREW IN MEXICO Terry O'Herren, 38, (415) 579-5935,952 Chula Vista #3, Burlingame, CA 94010 .....for 1,2,3,4 / has 2,3 / offers 2. Hank Delevati, 40, (408) 276-4016, P.O. Box 1002, Campbell, CA 95009. ...for 1,2,3,4 / has 2,3 4 / offers 2,3. James Frederick Hoagland, 36, (408) 458-9380,521 Woodrow Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95060...for 1,2,3 4 / has 1 / offers 1,2. Frederick Lelst, 36, (415) 397-3045, 440 Davis Court, #917, San Francisco, CA Ml 11.for 1 / has 2,3,4 / off ers 2. Bob Ahlstedt, 66, (916) 777-5738, P.O. Box 871, Owl Harbor, Isleton, CA. .for 1,2,4 / offers 2. Joel Waldman, 60, (408) 739-5876,720-A Blair Ct., Sunnyvale, CA 94087. .for 1,2 / has 4 / offers 2. Robert Fiester, 46,775-4564,1881 Sutter #206, San Francisco, CA 94115. .for 1 / has 2 / offers 2. George loannou, 45, (415) 821-2025, 426 Mississippi Street, San Francisco, CA Ml 07..for 1,2,3 / has 2,3,4 / offers 2. Bill Brugler, 44, (415) 563-0105,2656 Webster St., San Francisco, CA 94123.... .for 1,4 / has 2,3,4 / offers 3. Jonathan Powers, 32, H: (408) 426-2854 W: 429-1109, 408 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.for 1,4 / has 2,3 / offers 2. Chris Perleberg, 24, (415) 643-9435, 10121/2 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 .for 1,2,3 / has 2 / offers 2. Jack Lee, 42, (707) 579-4379, Santa Rosa, CA.for 1 / has 2 / offers 2. William (Bill) J. Miller, 30, E: (415) 571-7087 D: (415) 871-0930, 1191 Compass Lane, Foster City, CA 94404.for 1,2,3 / has 2,3 / offers 3. Thomas Unger, 26, (415) 843-7819,1530 Bonita, Berkeley, CA 94709. .for 1,2,3 / has 3 / offers 3,4. Frank Farinos, 63, Off: (415) 695-0707 H: (707) 557-1389,3361 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110..for 1,4 / has 1 / offers 1. Rich, 36, (408) 236-3322, P.O. Box 355, Brisbane, CA 94005. .for 1,2 / has 2,3, / offers 2,3. Karl Dake, 34, (415) 525-4136.for 1,2,3,4 / has 2,3,4 / offers 2,3. George J. Beimers, 50, (415) 428-0505 (msg), ECM E-47,3300 Powell Street, Emeryville, CA 94608.for 1,2,3,4 / has 3,4 / offers 2. Rick Gordon, 48, (415) 283-7363,627 St. Mary's Rd., Lafayette, CA 94549. .for 1,2,3,4 / has 3 / offers 2,3. Bob Rivas, 42, (415) 221-5058,253 - 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121. .:..for 1,2,3 / has 2,3 / offers 2,3. Erik Menzel, 24, W: (415) 866-5299,4357 Park Blvd., Oakland, CA 94602. .for 1,2,3,4 / has 2,3,4 / offers 3. Mark Sutton, 35, (415) 863-2251.for 1,4 / offers 3. Dennis Griffin, 50, D: (408) 246-7300 E: (408) 929-2928.. for 1,4 / has 2 / offers 2. Dave Hallirainen, 34,680-7205,2093 Ramon Dr., Pleasant Hill, CA 94523. ..,.for 1,2,3,4 / has 2,3 / offers 2,3,4. Doug Gott, 59, (408) 353-1665.for 1,2,4 / has 3 / offers 2,3. Chet Ferguson, 60, (916) 725-5634,6470 Crosswoods Clr., Citrus Heights, CA 95621 .for 1,2,3,4 / has 4 / offers 3. Darrell Nielson, 39, (209) 357-8582.for 1,2,4 / has 2 / offers 2,4 page 127

Costa, 34, Msg: (707) 923-3368 wkdys 9-5, P.O. Box 1956, Redway, CA 95560...for f 2,3,4 / has 2,3 / offers 1,4. Larry Chiang, 29, (415) 961-2001,750 N. Shoreline Blvd., #12, Mtn View, CA 94043 ....for 1 or 4 / has 2 / offers 2. Bill Myers, 53,486-5626; 935-4437,320 Civic #314, Walnut Creek, CA 94596.... :.....for 1 / has 2 / offers 2. Jann Burner, 46,331-3071, P.O. Box 2051, Sausalito, CA 94566. ........for 1,2 / has 2,3 / offers 2,4. Marc Fountain, 25, (415) 452-3381 .for 1,2,3 / has 2,3,4 / offers 3. Michael Leonard, 35, (602) 327-4079,3819 E. Bellevue Ave., Tucson, AZ 85716 .............. ...f0r f 4 / has 3 / offers 2,3. Richard Graham, 58,388-5768, P.O. Box 1907, Mill Valley, CA 94942 . •..for 1,2 / has 2,3,4 / offers 2,3,4. Henry Saint John-Smith, 31,492-1454; W: 258-9366,615 Rosal St, San Rafael, ”A MM3.for i ,2,3,4 / has 2,3,4 / offers 3,4. David Deutsch, 30,927-2429; 479-9101,220 Redwood Hwy #78, Mill Valley, CA ...for 1,2,3,4 / has 2,3 / offers 2,4. Don Mclnnes, 53, (415) 925-9906, Larkspur.for 1,2,3,4 / has 2,3 / offers 3 Tom Taneyhili, 24, (707) 446-3126 .for 1 / has 2 / offers 2 Crane W. Stookey, 36,863-3949,3719 - 17th St., San Francisco, CA. .v.for 1,3,4 / has 2,3 / offers 3,4.

CODE FOR PEOPLE

WANTING TO CREW 1. 2. 3. 4.

For the trip down. While in Mexico. Sea of Cortez Sail Week (Baja Ha Ha) Return trip up Baja.

MV EXPERIENCE IS: t. Little or none. 3. Ocean. 4. Foreign cruising.

1. Few skills, I am a novice sailor. 2. Skills of a normal hand: standing watch,

4. Companionship.

Robert Stanley, 43, (415) 527-9881, P.O. Box 4492, Berkeley, CA 94704. .for 1,2,3 / has 2 / offers 2. Thomas Degreff, 33,441-5109,2027 Hayes, San Francisco, CA. ...for 1,2,3 / has 2 / offers 2. Charlie, middle-aged, (916) 544-1690, P.O. Box 13184, So. Lake Tahoe, CA95702 .for 1,2,3,4 / has 2,3 / offers 3. Gil Anspacher, 24, (707) 542-9225,1522 North St., Santa Rosa, CA 95404. .for 1,2,3 / has 2,3 / offers 3.

1989 MEXICO ONLY CREW LIST MEN WANTING TO CREW— CONT'D Tom Simmons, 47, (415) 454-6527...•jor 1 (has 2 / Josep Moll Llopis, 22, 387-8833, 218-23rd Ave.#4, San Francisco, CA 94121 r .for 4 / has 4 / offers 3. ItartdThom^ 233, Alcterpoint, CA 95411 . ... .for 1,2,3,4 / has 3 / offers 3.

COUPLES WANTING TO CREW— CONT'D Jonathan & Janelle Paley, 34/27, (805)927-3088, P.O. Box llO. San Simeon, CA QQ«c9 .for 1,2,3 / have 3,4 / offer 3.

MEN NEEDING CREW IN MEXICO Frank Wallace, 45, (619) 224-9940 x255, Box E255,3944 W. Pt. Loma, San Diego, CA 92110, Bristol 30’.for 1,2 / has 1,2,3/ wants 1,3a. Alan Richards, 46, (415) 856-6948, P.O. Box 51054, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Bombay Cliooer 31' .wants 1,38,4. Jack Paden^S. isosi MsLooao^Box 4363, Lancaster, CA 93539, Westsail 32 .. ...for 1,2 / has 1,2 / wants 1. Ed Kuhn’ (415) 839-4417, Box 71101, Oakland, CA 94612,40' Trimaran ............

2 While in Mexico.

3. Sea of Cortez Sail Week (Baja Ha-Ha).

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crew responsibilities. 2. Experienced cruiser, familiar with navigation and/or mechanics, who can show me the ropes. 4. Someone to help me bring boat back up the coast. 5. Someone to help me bailer a boat up/down the coast s

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Steve Enright, MD., 41, Box 2398, Olympic Valley, CA 95730.•• .for 2.3.4 / has 2.3.4 / offers 2.3.4. John Zalusky, 55, W: (202) 637-5173; H: (202) 328-6735, 3142 - 19th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20010.inquire.

WOMEN WANTING TO CREW IN MEXICO Gavle, 36. (808) 329-8795; (808) 329-5592,76-6268 Alii Dr., #203, Kailua Kona, HI 96740 1 .......for 1,2,3/has 3,4/offers 2. Gertrude Beimers, 33, Msg: (415) 428-0505, ECM E-4,3300 Powell St., Emeryville, CA 94608.for 1,2,3,4 / has 2,3, offers 1. Melissa, 28' (505) 662-3996 (nights), 28538 Walnut, Los Alamos, NM 87544 . .for 1,2,3 / has 2 / offers 1,4. Marina, (415) 38V0123, P.O. Box 636, Mill Valley, CA 94942 .. .for 2 / has 2 / offers 2,4. Pat, 43, (415) 245-2846, Sunnyvale.for 2,3 / has 1,2 / offers 1,2,4. Diana K, 31, Msg: (312) 980-5997, P.O. Box 1529, Lahaina, HI 96761. .for 1,2,3,4 / has 3,4 / offers 3. Colleen ! 49! Msg • (415) 228-1040,2621 Leslie, Martinez, CA 94553. .for 1,2,3,4 / has 1,2,3 / offers 1. Marilou Blair, 36, (415) 494-2943,290 Ventura #10, Palo Alto, CA 94306. .for 1,2/has 2,3/offers 2. Mary, 51, (707) 887-1341 .for 1,2,3,4 / has 2 / offers 2,4. Robin, 37, (415) 849-0463 .for 1,2,3 / has 2,3,4 / offers 2. Virginia, 769-8038,825 Middlefield Dr., Petaluma, CA 94952... has 2 / offers 2,4. Tricia, 44, (408) 438-8301, P.O. Box 75, Morro Bay, CA 93442.. .for 1,2,4 / has 1 / offers 1,4.

COUPLES WANTING TO CREW IN MEXICO Hector & Laurie Lopez, 38/31, (415) 428-4918, P.O. Box 3011, Oakland, CA 94609 .for 1,2,3 / have 2,3,4 / offer 3.

Richard, 36, (408) 236-3322, P.O. Box 1371, Aptos, CA 95001,30’ Trimaran. .for 1,2,4 / has 1,2 / wants 1,2,3,4. Tom Hovnes! 40, 522-1968, 1535 Buena Vista Ave., Alameda, CA 94501, Coronado 34’.for 1,2,3 / has 1,2 / wants 1,3a. Bill, 36, P.O. Box 1193, Newport Bch, CA 92663,40’ Marples Trimaran’.for 1,2 / has 1,2,3 / wants 1,3a. Yate Mareve, 57, P.O. Box 21902, Santa Barbara, CA 93121,52’ Ketch. .for 1,2/has 2,3/wants 1. Noribert Dose! 54^332-9280, P.O. Box 232, Sausalito, CA 94966, Bodega 30’.... .for 1,2,3,4 / has 1,2,3 / wants 1,3a John ’’Surfing'' imiioff, 35,2606 N. Parish PI., Burbank, CA 91504, 30’ Custom ...for 1,2,3,4 / has 1,2 / wants 2,3c. Ed Drozek, 48, (415) 684-3698 (8-10pm), P.O. Box 14238, Fremont, CA 94539 40' Trimaran-Ketch.for1.2 / has 1,2,3 / wants 1,3c. Rod Thompson, 53, (206) 932-3670, leave msg, Westsail 32'. .....for 1,2,3 / has 2,3 / wants 1,3a. Murray Baxter, 55, (415) 359-1779, Pacifica, CA, Contessa 32’ Sloop. ...for 2 / has 2,3 / wants 1,3c. Horst Heinze, PhD, (415) 383^6831,139 Rose Ave., Mill Valley, CA, 35’ Steel Ketch .for 1,2 / has 1,2,3 / wants 2. Scott Bradley, 41, (415) 769-7942,86 Tahoe Ct., Pleasant Hill, CA, Fuji 32’ Cutter ..for 1,2,3 / has 1,3 / wants 1,3a. Biuuiiy! 42, (714) 840-8585,50' Trawler.for 1,2,3,4 / wants 3c,4. Gail Lundin, 56, (415) 523-1383, P.O. Box 701, Alameda, CA, 38' Ketch.for 1,2,3 / has 1,2 / wants 1,2,3a Bob Mocata, 61, (415) 523-7632, B.B. Alameda, CA, 48' Celestial Ketch. .for 1,2,3 / has 1,2,3/ wants 1,2,3c. Ben Smith! 60,1105 Whistle Lk. Rd., Anacortes, WA 98221,32' Sloop. .for 1,2 / has 2,3 / wants 2,3c. RichardSandys, 55, (415)684-2828, P.O.Box 145, Bethellsland, CA 94511, 36' Islander.for 1,2,3 / has 1 / wants 1. Lou Merzario, 39, (805) 642-6726,1198 Navigator Dr., #119, Ventura, CA 93001 Ericson 34.for 1,2,4 / has 2 / wants 1,2,3c,4. Charlie Rockwood, 42, (408) 946-0229, P.O. Box 484, Alviso, CA 95002,50’ Ketch .for 1,2 / has 1,2,3 / wants 1,3a. Otto A., 63,457-2917,41’ Sea Tiger.for 1,2,4 / has 1,2 / wants 1,4. Phil Patch, 60's, (415) 237-2446, P.O. Box 262, Pt. Richmond, CA 94807, Passport 51’ Cutter.for 1,2,3,4 / has 1,2 / wants 1,2,3a. Ken Barrett, 60+, (916) 777-5459, P.O. Box 899, Isleton, CA 95641, Rawson 30' ...for 1,2,3,4 / has 1 / wants 1,3c. Rod Schoenlank, 68, (415) 726-7970, El Granada, CA 94018, Newporter 40’. .for 1,2,3 / has 1,2 / wants 1,2,3a Hal Boncutter, 42, (408) 372-2192 Pebble Beach; (415) 563-2691, Hunter 30'.... ...for 1,2,3 / has 1,2 / wants 1,2,3.

WOMEN NEEDING CREW IN MEXICO J.J. Sharp, 40, (213) 545-2759,515 - 23rd St., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, ULDB 70'.for 4 / has 2,3 / wants 1,4.

COUPLES NEEDING CREW IN MEXICO Paul & Chris, 42/38,552-0644,1001 Bridgeway #409, Sausalito, CA 94965,41' Gaff Rigged Cutter.for 1,2,3,4 / has 1 / want 1,2. Michael & Marnie Devine, 40-50, P.O. Box 184, Garbervilie, CA 95440,33’ Steel Cutter.for 1 / have 1,2 / want 1,2. page 128

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With reports this month on Chartering the Carribean in the Wake of Hurricane Hugo, and out of Port Everglades, Florida.

Chartering the Caribbean In The Wake of Hurricane Hugo Having read and watched on television the antics of hurricane Hugo and the residents of St Croix, you miglht have written off a planned charter vacation to the Caribbean this winter. That woiiiid be a mistake for the simple reason that the Lesser Antilles (the islands from Puerto Rico down to Grenada) is still the greatest place to charter in the world. The things the Lesser Antilles have going for them are many: 1. The finest sailing winds in the world — consistent 10 to 20 knot trades. 2. Fabulous, clear blue warm water. 3. Unsurpassed sea life — playing with the rays or snorkeling among a thousand colorful fish are daily occurrences. 4. Nude beaches on all the French islands _wahooi 5. An unparalleled number of different island-countries close together. 6. Ridiculously easy navigation. Let's put it this w ay: if the Caribbean Sea and a few of her islands could be relocated in Northern Cal ifornia, this would be the greatest place to live in the history of mankind. Want another reason for chartering in the Lesser Antilles? It has the widest

does it Worried about the effects of Hugo and about looters? Read the following Post-Hugo Caribbean Charter Guide and you'll see why you don't really need to worry at all. U.S. Virgin Islands — While you may pick up and drop your charter boat off at St Thomas, the only place in the U.S. Virgins you should spend any time is the north shore of St John, home to several of the finest beaches in the world. Nobody ever went to St Croix, simply because its geography doesn't lend itself to chartering. Nobody ever spent much time in St Thomas because it's the urbanity you go on charter to get away from. So where do you go when you charter in the U.S. Virgins? You sail to the British Virgins, just a couple of miles away. The British Virgin Islands — Don't expect to see looting and mayhem in the BVI's. British law made sure that the West Indians retained ownership of the land, so they're not disenfranchised. Consequently, they don't put up with a lot of the bullshit that is standard in the U.S. Virgins. The pace in the British Virgins is also slower and the people more friendly.

Above; sitting on the Spread; cruising a^ong

dock of Anguilla. the waterfront of

Grenada.___

selection of the finest" charter boats in the world. It's the competition between the various islands and cha, rier companies that

Why is most Virgin Island chartering done in the British Virgins? 1. Jost van Dyke. 2. The smooth protected waters of the 30-mile long Sir Francis Drake Channel. 3. North Sound, Virgin Gorda. 4. Green Cay. 5. Cane Garden Bay. 6. The Baths. 7.

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Foxys. If you need more reasons, just ask someone who has chartered there. What about the effects of Hugo? True, the Virgins will look more tattered this season, but the British Virgins the least tattered of them all because it was the furthest from Hugo's evil eye. On the plus side, the Virgjns are sure to be less crowded than they've been in years (expect everyone to go to the other Caribbean charter locations), and the locals will be out to please in order to regain lost business. (Fly direct to St Thomas, or San Juan to St Thomas/Tortola/Virgin Gorda by shuttle). St Martin — This booming halfFrench, half-Dutch island is home to some of the largest charter fleets in the Caribbean. There's plenty of good reasons why. The food is spectacular on the French side of the island, and the duty free shopping isn't bad on the Dutch side. Hate to eat and shop? Anguilla, just five miles to the northwest has two of the most beautiful beaches in the world. You can spend as much as $900 a day for a room and another $500 a day for food at the Malliouhana Resort, or a tiny fraction of that to be anchored 20 feet away on your own boat One $5 drink lets you hob-nob around the fabulous grounds and swagger

In the Caribbean, a man's punch (even non¬ alcoholic) is an expression of his individuality. __ like you're a billionaire. Just 15 miles from the other side of St Martin is our co-favorite island in the

Caribbean, St Barts. It's French, it's chic, it's got body and board surf, and it's even got the most entertaining little airport in the world. St Martin is also the gateway to Saba, St Kitts, Statia and Nevis. Hugo came through the Antilles just south of these islands, and there was very little damage to them, particularly St Martin, St Barts and Anguilla. We recommend this area highlyl (St Martin has a big regional airport with flights from the mainland U.S.) s Antigua — Along with the Virgins, Antigua is the crewed charterboat sailing center of the Caribbean. The big selfsufficient crewed charter boats load up at scenic English Harbor, then reach off down island for 10 days or two weeks. Antigua itself makes for a very decent one week bareboat cruising ground; after all, it has 365 beaches. An even better idea: see if one of the companies won't let you pick up your boat in Antigua, then broad reach to SL Barts and St Martin where you'll drop it off. That's a sensational charted Antigua did get nailed by Hugo, but the harbors are well-protected and the charter fleet made it through with flying colors. (Antigua has a big airport with flights from the mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico.)

Guadeloupe & Martinique — Both these French islands cater primarily to the French, Canadians and Europeans. Guadeloupe was devastated by Hugo, and is no place to go soon. This is probably true for nearby Les Saintes, which along with St

Barts is our Caribbean favorite. Martinique was untouched by Hugo, and while it's a fine place to visit, it can't compete with some of the other islands. (Both have big airports with flights from the States and San Juan.) St Lucia — A gorgeous island that is home to a number of large charter fleets, she was untouched by Hugo. Arch Marez of Santa Cruz owns the big marina/boatyard at Rodney Bay. Most of the sailing here is reaching, with fabulous destinations like Bequia, Mustique, and the rest of the Grenadines. A wonderful charter area with big fleets! Untouched by Hugo. (Small airports with limited flights from the U.S. and San Juan). Grenada — Coming back to life again as a charter base. It's about the same distance as SL Lucia from the Grenadines, Bequia and Mustique, and as such is an equally fabulous place to base from. St Ceorges is an interesting town, looking a bit like a San Francisco — Paris hybrid located on the Med. Untouched by Hugo. (Large Cuban-built airport has flights from States, San Juan and other Antilles airports.) The best time of the year to charter is December to April; there are no hurricanes, little humidity, and beautiful conditions. Of course it's high season, so crowds and

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prices are up. But the bottom line is the same as always: If you don't have fun on a Caribbean charter vacation, it's your own damn fault So just do it! — latitude 38

Port Everglades to the Bahamas Charter boat owners and operators are such optimists. The plain vanilla Morgan 416 we chartered from Hirsch Charters in Port Everglades was equipped as usual: one sail per halyard, galley equipment, bedding, minimum charts for the area and Coast Guard required stuff. There was no small line, hose clamps, bailing wire, electrical tape or any of the other stuff you really need if everything doesn't go perfect We provisioned and then departed late in the afternoon on a shakedown to Miami. Sure enough, the fresh water pump 'shookdown1. The culprit was the usuaj one, the pressure switch. The depthsounder also quit, but I knew it would because they always do. Because the onboard charts were to such small scale, and because the sounder was out, we made a cautious wide approach around lighted marks on that black night It took forever, but it was the page 133

Snoozing in the background hotel starts at $300 a night Swimming in from a boat and snoozing on the beach is free. only way to be safe. Miami's city marina has just been redone in such a first class manner that it almost makes you forget what it used to look like. Since one of our group was a Finnish citizen, we had to grab a cab for Immigration and Customs. That particular adventure was so awful it hurts my head just to think about it The other part of the crew charged out into the wasteland that was early Sunday morning Miami in search of water pump parts and tabasco sauce. Finally we departed Miami with a legal Rnn, pressurized water, and all the proper condiments. The sailing conditions were perfect Since the Morgan 416 exhibited considerable leeway, I threw in an extra five degrees to the pre-calculated heading. The compensation was just about right as we hit the Bimimi Harbor entrance right on. Getting inside the harbor was a whole different story, because there appeared to be an extensive sand bar across the entrance. Our small scale chart revealed little else, so we waited until a 30-ft Stryker powerboat made her move. A mile or so down island, on a fast plane she headed

straight for shore, then at the last minute made a hard left and parallelled the shore closely until she was in the harbor. All we needed to do was mimic her actions while contemplating the comparative difference in the draft of the two boats. It felt like walking down the street with one foot on the curb and the other in the gutter. Somebody could break a leg. We cruised and scuba'ed the area between Gun Cay and Grand Bahama Island. The sailing was good but not overpowering. The scuba diving was nice, but didn't match the Florida Keys in any respect except for the fact that it was much less crowded. We departed Freeport, Grand Bahama before lunch on what was to be a leisurely 10 hour sail back to Fort Everglades. But after just two hours of motoring because of light wind, the transmission self-destructed. With set airline reservations, there was no turning back. We made very slow progress as the wind came and went Wallowing slowly in the Gulfstream, we got scenic views of the Great Isaac Light from the bow, stem and all quarters. If it kept up, we'd soon be at Cape Hatteras. Finally a line squall came through and drove us all the way to Fort Everglades on one tack. With the wind from the north and the current from the south, it hadn't > been a good night Arriving at the channel entrance 24 hours after our Freeport departure, we were towed through the weekend traffic, draw bridges, etc. to the Customs dock for telephone clearance for everyone but our Finn. Then it was on to the marina. After some frantic taxi connections and phone calls to get our Finn entered, he was able to make his flight home. Our tow boat skipper said he doesn't get much business from Hirsch charters because they keep their boats in good condition. Hirsch promptly refunded all expenses incurred by us. I'd charter from them again if I needed a boat in Florida. I've chartered with about a half dozen other outfits, and Hirsch was better than most — kenny danielson incline village, nevada Kenny — The bad news is that Hirsch Charters, after 11 years in the business, is apparently no longer operating.

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THE RACING

This month we offer reports on the following: the Junior Sailing Championships back in Connecticut; the 505 Worlds in England; the latest developments in the Ziploc Ultimate Yacht Race; the. relatively windless Windjammers Race; a wrap-up of the North Bay Series; the Express 37 Nationals; the inaugural Jazz Cup up in Benicia; the high tech 50 Footer circuit; the first-ever Catalina 34 Nationals; and the normal wealth of race notes.

Junior Sailing Championships August — at the end of summer, but before school starts — is traditionally a busy time for junior sailing championships, and last August was no exception. A “tripleheader* of three USYRU national championships (Sears, Bemis and Smythe) was contested at the Indian Harbor YC in Greenwich, Connecticut, between August 18-25. Representatives of the ten USYRU regions competed in the three

contest this year in the new featherweight, hitech Johnstone One Design 14s, Peter Wells of Marina del Rey emerged victorious. Area G's young Matt McQueen, with Jennifer Fis¬ her crewing, ended up eighth. Finally, in the Smythe Cup, the singlehanded Laser cham¬ pionship, Marc Schneider of Seabrook, Texas won. Seventeen-year-old Forrest Fennell represented Area G well, opening the tenrace series with a 1,3,2 roll, but ultimately fading to fifth place. All three Area G teams are products of the highly successful Richmond YC junior sailing program. None of our "young guns"

Forrest Fennel.

Championships will be in the presumably more familiar waters of Newport Beach. After the championships, the first USYRU/Rolex Junior Sailing Team was announced (no, they didn't get Rolex watches). Fifteen winners of various national junior championships were de facto members of the elite team, while five others made the team via sportsmanship awards presented for "high personal and ethical standards in com¬ petition." Two Northern Californian junior Laser hotshots were elected to the team for their sportsmanship (and, of course, their sailing ability): Forrest Fennel of PL Richmond, and 18-year-old Morgan Larson of Capitola (who won the Sears Cup in '88 among other accomplishments). Congratulations to both!

did as well as they wanted, but just qualifying to compete at this level ranks them among the best juniors in the country. Maybe they'll fare better next year, when the 1990 Junior

505 Worlds Bruce Edwards, a 27-year-old Santa Cruz based dinghy sailor, took third overall in the 505 Worlds in Selix Stowe Ferry (northeast of London) on August 26-September 1. Crewing

Morgan Larson.

prestigious championships for sailors between the ages of 13 and 17. Winner of the Sears Cup, this year a triplehanded series sailed in Impulse 21s, was Pat Downey of Miami, Florida. Our Area G team of John Hansen, Joseph Menis and John Walsh never got going in the series, finishing last In the Bemis Trophy, a doublehanded

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‘Team Dura flame' burned up the course in Milwaukee's Ziploc Ultimate Yacht Race. for Edwards in the 90-boat regatta was 22year-old David Shelton. Krister Bergstrom of Sweden, who Edwards characterized as “awe¬ some", won for the third year in a row; four time 505 World champion Peter Colclough of England was second. Edwards and Shelton won the fourth race, the windiest one, en route to their stellar finish. Last year, in Sydney, the duo came in fifth in the Worlds. 'We'll win this thing yeti" claimed Edwards, who works in the catalogue division of West Marine Products. Edwards has two other reasons to be happy besides coming in third in the prestigious Worlds: he sold his boat, Urban Cowboy, after the regatta ("It was an offer I couldn't refuse. Larry Tuttle is already building me a new one.") and he'll be marrying his girlfriend, Annette, in a few months. "It's been an exciting few months," he allowed.

Other local boats that attended the 505 Worlds were Jeff Miller/Bruce Heckman (13th), Jonathan Livingston/Pat Vincent (48th), Jim Wondolleck/Jay Kuncl (22nd), Bob Wondolleck/John Gilmour (57th) and Jim Maloney/Bob Sutton (19th). All of these fine dinghy sailors have their sights set on the 1992 505 Worlds, which will be held in Santa Cruz.

Local Boat Wins Ultimate Ziploc Thirty-three year-old Russell Long, who moved to San Francisco from New York a year and a half ago, sailed his squeaky new turbo-charged Moore 30 Team Duraflame to a 18-second, three boatlength victory in the Ziploc Ultimate Yacht Race in Milwaukee on September 3. Long's years as an America's Cup skipper (Clipper, 1980) and maxi boat driver (Ondine, his father's Frers 80), paid off to the tune of $50,000 of prize money, as he fended off a furious last minute challenge from the second place boat, Mark Ploch and Bill Ziegler's Chattanooga Chew Chew.

"It was the most fun I've ever had in a sailboat race!" enthused Long, a newcomer to the Ultimate game. Team Duraflame — a Moore 30 hull with 6-8 inches of freeboard cut off, a daggerboard instead of a keel, and a towering 50-foot custom rig and racks — proved fast right out of the box. The crew had never sailed the boat until the Milwaukee event, but obviously figured it out in a hurry. Northern California sailors joining Long in his winning dash for the cash were Jack Halterman, Alan Meisner, Larry Tuttle (whose Water Rat shop built the foils and many of the custom pieces for the boat) and Dave Wahle. Southern Californian Jim Hammitt, who co-captained the Harvard Sailing Team with Long in the late 70s, served as Team Duraflame's tactician. Rick Brent, Dobbs "Dr. Doom" Davis, Graham Kelly and Amanda Bader made up the rest of the crew. This was the third and final race of the '89 Ultimate circuit (the New London, Connecticut, event at the end of September was cancelled). It was also the second time in a row that a Bay Area boat has won, following on the heels of the brilliant Team Dickies win in Corpus Christi. Silvestri and his USA alumni gang didn't compete in the Milwaukee event, though both his former boat (the modified Moore 30 Team Dickies, renamed Moon Development) and the boat he was trying to get (Spirit of Connecticut, renamed ACT Racing Team) were there. In the other Ziploc arena — the tenboat Johnstone One-Design 14 class — the McKee brothers, Jonathan and Charlie, pulled off a come-from-behind victory, nipping the winners of the first two Ultimate races, Stu Johnstone and Cam Lewis, by eight lengths. Richmond YC's Mark Starratt and Tom Wondolleck, sailing WEZW—FM, finished out of the prize money in sixth place, just ahead of Will Bayliss and Steve Rosenbeig on the; little Dickies. After the regatta, DowBrands (who make the Ziploc brand storage bags) announced they will guarantee a $100,000 purse at each of four regattas on the 1990 ZUYR circuit Regatta sites, according to race manager Jim Taylor, are expected to be as follows: Turtle Bay Hilton on the island of Oahu, Hawaii (March 31-April 8); San Francisco Bay (midMay); Corpus Christi (July); and Milwaukee (August). The circuit, which some critics have suggested is "the right boats in the wrong country," has been slow to take off even after

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two years. Only two new Ultimate 30s are under construction that Taylor knows of (Bill Ziegler's new Chew Chew and a boat in England), although a lot of people are supposedly interested, including John Bertrand, Dee Smith, Steve Grillon, Buddy Melges and Kimo Worthington (with Pendragon owner John MacLaurin). Local Express 27 hotshots Leon Daniel and Bruce Pbwell are apparently going ahead on a new Ultimate 30, and just commissioned Carl Schumacher as its designer. ESPN will broadcast a special on .the Milwaukee Ultimate Yacht Race on Monday night, October 9 at 7:30. “Watch for our team rap song,” laughs Long. Results of the Milwaukee contest follow: ULTIMATE 30 — 1) Team Duraflame, Russell Long, San Francisco, $50,000; 2) Chattanooga Chew Chew, Ploch/Ziegler, Clearwater, FL, $30,000; 3) Maryland Flyer, Mike Hobson, Annapolis, MD, $20,000; 4) Moon Development, Ed Baird/Bob Moon, St. Petersburg, FL, $10,000; 5) ACT Racing Team, John Heinemann, Norwich, CT, $5,000. (5 boats) JOHNSTONE 14 — 1) ZIploc, Jonathan & Charlie McKee, Seattle, $6,000; 2) High Seas, Stu Johnstone/Cam Lewis, Newport, Rl, $2,500; 3) Red, Peter Johnstone/Peter Eastman, Newport, Rl, $1,000; 4) Continental, Bobby Wilmont/Chris Buckland, Sydney, AUS, $500. (10 boats)

Windjammers Race An unprecedented 132 boats jammed down the coast in September's traditional

Labor Day Weekend Windjammers Race. Despite the record turnout, the race was a slow one: Paul Simonsen's big blue Mongoose, the first boat to finish, drifted into Men at work: The crew of the Jeanneau 47 'Prime Time' concentrate on upwind boatspeed shortly after the gun.

Santa Cruz at 11:29 at night The first cruising boat to finish, Rick Cio's Freya 39 Gypsy Warrior, came in 24 minutes later —

which we thought was a stunning accomplishment until remembering that this division is allowed 24 miles of motoring rime (not a bad deal this year!). Thirty boats dropped out due to the light air, many after doing donuts in the Montara hole all afternoon. Out, we're told, was definitely the way to go this year. The Windjammers Race has been held more or less annually since 1928. Past races have featured wild rides and, as recently as last year, whale rammings and all sorts of other fun. This year was rather tame in comparison but, even so, there was plenty of carnage. For example, five minutes into the race, Byron Mayo's Santana 35 Excalibur broke her rig for no apparent reason. The Mayo men cleaned up the mess, rented a car ("We got a flat on the way down, too. It just wasn't our day!“ lamented Mayo) and claim to have been “first to finish at the Santa Cruz YC bar." Other casualties of war included Escape, an Express 37, that was T-boned at the start by the SC 50 Octavia. Then there was Ticket, Bob Jensen's 45-foot cruising ketch, which somehow ended up on the beach in front of the Crow's Nest Restaurant near the entrance to the Santa Cruz Harbor. To add insult to injury, the town of Santa Cruz supposedly tried to fine Jensen — who earlier this summer won the Thunderbird Worlds in his other boat, Neji — for littering the beach. The boat was finally pulled off after two weeks — whether or not it was totalled page 140

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North Bay Series The final two races of the ten-race North Bay Series were hosted by Vallejo YC on the wet weekend of September 16-17. Maybe it was the weather, or maybe it was the usual attrition near the end of any series, but the turnout for the light air races was less than stellar. "Still, it was a really good series," said our North Bay contact, Bill Sweitzer, who claimed he was "lucky" to win Division A overall. This was the second year the series has been run. Originally a members only deal between the three North Bay yacht clubs (Vallejo, Martinez and Benicia), the series is now open to anyone who can beg, borrow or steal a boat Next year's series will once again involve six weekends of racing beginning in April and ending in September.

SUNDAY (11.5 miles): DIV. A — 1) Rubaiyat, Newport 30, Mk. II, John Arisman, VYC; 2) Invictus, C&C 40, John Webb, BenYC. (8 boats); DIV. B — 1) Sleeper; 2) Risky Business, Santana 22, Tom Rolf, VYC. (2 boats). DIV. D — no starters. OVERALL (best 6 out of 10 races): DIV. A — 1) X TA C, 8.25 points; 2) Invictus, 9.25; 3) Rubaiyat 15.5. (12 boats); DIV. B — 1) Sleeper, 4.5 points; 2) North Mist, Catalina 30, Jim Aton, BenYC, 9.25; 3) Hallelujah Trail, 22; DIV. D — 1) Serendipity, 10 points; 2) Miki, Columbia 26T, Nathan Wheeler, MYC, 10.25. (5 boats)

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'Prime Time' gets off to a somewhat late (but safe) barging start at the beginning of this year's Windjammers Race to Santa Cruz. remains to be seen. Another boat, Tom Huseby's Olson 29 Inside Straight, was apparently demolished on the way home on the rocks off Ano Nuevo, though everyone was rescued. "Rumors are flying on that one," said Bob Simpkins, head of the elite (50 members at a time, all by invitation) Windjammers Yacht Club. We never did track down Huseby, but it sounds like a Labor Day Weekend he'd rather forget

IOR — 1) Merlin, Lee 67, Donn Campion; 2) Leading Edge, Wylie 34, Joe Starritt; 3) Allure, SC

Grandin. (15 boats) PHRF IV (129-144) — 1) Alert, Wylie 36, Mike Lingsch; 2) Hot Flash, J/30, George Kokalis; 3) Yoko, Olson 91 IS, Gary Clymer. (14 boats) PHRF V (147 & up) — 1) PDJ-1, Cal 29, J.H. Brooks; 2) Fantasy, Cal 29, Doug & Bob Clark; 3) El Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Jocelyn Nash. (27 boats)

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50, Chuck Jacobson. (4 boats) PHRFI (0-72) — 1) One Eyed Jack, Express 37, Jim Svetich; 2) Chasch Mer, SC 50, Randy Parker; 3) Momingstar, Express 37, Larry Doane. (21 boats) PHRF II (73-108) — 1) Jackrabbit, Islander 40, Dave Liggett; 2) Equanimity, J/35, Randy Paul; 3) Player, Capri 30, John Rizzi. (22 boats) PHRF III (111 -126) — 1) Wildflower, Santana 35, Art Mowry; 2) Swell Dancer, Santana 35, Jim Graham; 3) Tinsley Light, Santana 35, Hank

Bummer in the summer: 'Ticket (left) and 1ExcalibuP were but two of the casualties in this year's light air Jam Session. SATURDAY (9.5 miles): DIV. A — 1) X TA C, Olson 29, Bill Sweitzer, VYC; 2) Cole Train, Yahama 33, Doug Cole, VYC. (9 boats); DIV. B — 1) Sleeper, O'Day 27, Gary Cicerello, VYC; 2) Hallelujah Trail, Catalina 30, Mike Irvine, VYC. (2 boats); DIV. D (non¬ spinnaker) — 1) Serendipity, Hunter 30, John Trimmer, MYC. (1 boat)

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the Volvo Regatta, 1st in the Catalina Race, 3rd in the recent Windjammers) on August 24-27, sailing his hot Momingstar to a narrow one and a half point victory over Ted Hall's Frequent Flyer in the Express 37 Nationals. Doane never won a race — unlike Hall and

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his tactician George Pedrick, who won two — but his 2,3,2,2,7,5 finishes were consistent enough (after throwing out the seventh) to win the title. “Larry did a super job," said Momingstar relief helmsman and Express 37 designer Carl Schumacher. "I think his success proves that the owner-river rule in this class works: it's allowed the owners to really leam to sail their own boats, but isn't so rigid that the pros get bored." Certainly, no one found the St Francis YC-hosted Nationals boring. A variety of venues (Iwo Cityfronters, two Berkeley Circle races, a modified Lightship Race and a long "Big Boat Series" course) and “typically August" Conditions kept everyone happily involved. Two-time ('86, '87) national champion Pazzo Express, sailed by Bill Ormond with “Tactical Ted" Wilson calling tactics, jumped off to an early lead, but ultimately faded to fourth after losing a man overboard when a lifeline broke in the last race. The turning point in the regatta was the windy day on the Circle, where Momingstar was the only boat to put together two good races in the varsity conditions. How rough was it? William Stauch's First Class, which won the YRA season under Chris Corlett, crashed hard enough to air out her keel and

Larry Do arte, seen here in the '87 NewportCabo Race, recently won the Express 37 Nationals in his 1Momingstar'. fling two crewmembers overboard in what witnesses were calling the most spectacular knockdown of the season. Corlett, serving as

tactician on Jim Svetich's One Eyed Jack for the Nationals, pulled out of the race to help his friends on the flattened First Class. Actually, it wasn't the Jack's day either — earlier, at the start, they'd rammed the committee boat ("Nothing that a 720 and $6,000 couldn't cure," joked crewmember Billy "Swizzle Stick" Brandt) ( Momingstar’s victory was a popular one. Doane, one of the real gentlemen in the Express 37 class, attributed it to "an excellent crew, Carl Schumacher's tactics^ the new sails that Tim Parsons made us, and a bit of good luck." He added, “We had upwind speed to bum, which makes a lot of differnece in this class." Larry's crew for the winning effort included the aforementioned duo, Carlos Badell, Colin Case, Mark Miltenberger, Bill Weber, William Weber, Billy Erkelens, Phil Kaiko, Mark Rudiger, Jeff Gething, Ben Costello, Alex Parr and Paul Phillips. 1) Momingstar, Larry Doane, 21 points; 2) Frequent Flyer, Ted Hall, 22.5; 3) Ringmaster, Leigh Brite, 23.75; 4) Pazzo Express, Bill Ormond, 28.75; 5) One Eyed Jack, Jim Svetich, 31.75; 6) Flamingo, Rod Sievers, 32; 7) Re-Quest, Glenn Isaacson, 33.75; 8) Spindrift V, Larry Wright, 37; 9) Blitz, George Neill, 44; 10) Free Spirit, Neil Ross, 60. (12 boats)

Midwinter Races Summer ended officially on the weekend of September 23-24, when the autumnal equinox occurred in conjunction with the end of the YRA sailing schedule. All groups — ODCA, HDA, IMS, IMRDA, WBRA and ODCA — ended their season that weekend. FYI, call YRA (771-9500) ASAP if you need to ID any or all of these acronyms. (Someday, we'll have to explain all this nautical mumbo jumbo. There's just so much of it: SFBSA, SBRA, WRA, USYRU, IYRU, BMAX, IOR, LOA, ITC, ORC, DNF, PMS, etc. But we digress.) Fear not, the "official" end of the sailing season merely signals the beginning of another, more casual round of racing — the midwinters. Here are the dates of the major midwinter races — lack of time and space prohibit us from going into more detail about each event at this time. To find out more about a particular series, call either the number listed, the YRA office or your local sailmaker. Heck, if it's early in the month, you can even call us. Next issue, we'll move these dates to the Calendar section. If your club's series has

been overlooked, please let us know so that we may include it PFW (pray for wind). BERKELEY YC — "Chowder Races". 11/25, 12/30, 1/27, 2/24, 3/31. Paul Kamen, 540-6324. BERKELEY & METROPOLITAN YC — 11/11-12, 12/9-10, 1/13-14, 2/10-11. MYCO, 536-7450. CORINTHIAN YC — 1/20-21 and 2/1718. CYC, 435-4771. ENCINAL YC — "Jack Frost Series". 11/18, 12/16, 1/20, 2/17, 3/17 (no April race this year). Shirley Temming, 521-0966. GOLDEN GATE YC — "Manny V. Fagundes Seaweed Soup Perpetual Series". 11/5, 12/2, 1/6, 2/3, and 3/3 make-up. (Note: all races except the first one are now on Saturday.) Tom Martin, 826-6516. SANTA CRUZ YC — 11/18, 12/16 and TBA. SCYC, (408) 425-0690. SAUSAUTO CC — 11/4, 12/2, 1/6, 2/3, 3/3. Robert Kowolik, 331-8964. SAUSAUTO YC — 11/11-12, 1/13-14, 2/10-11. Peter Gibson, 331-2277. STOCKTON SC — 10/28, 11/4, 11/18, 12/16. Pat Brown, (209) 838-3285. page 142

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Carl & Mark Ondry, SeqYC. (8 boats) IMS — 1) National Biscuit, Schumacher 35, Colin Case, SFYC; 2) Wave Runner, Luffe 48, Lon Price, RYC; 3) Wavetrain, Olson 91 IS, Rick Caskey, BYC. (9 boats) PHRO — 1) Blitz, Express 37, George Neill, RYC; 2) Rocinante, Beneteau 42, Alex Malaccorto, IYC. (2 boats)

Half Moon Bay Race action: 'Petard (left) and 'Wave Runner* on port; ’Wildfire' on starboard. Look for an ocean wrap-up next month.

Ong Triangle “If all ocean races were this pleasant, we wouldn't have any Bay races," claimed MORA Commodore and Minister of Propaganda John Dukat of this year's gorgeous Jim Ong Ocean Triangle. Unfortunately, only a handful of boats were on hand for the Golden Gate YC hosted September 9 dash out into the Gulf of the Farallones — 19 to be exact Two groups, MORA and IMS, sailed the “standard" Ong Triangle, a 43.3 mile course beginning with a long beat to Duxbury, followed by a reach to the Lightship and then down to the Southern Approach Buoy, then to the Lightship and a spinnaker run home. The more macho PHRO group, all two of them, opted for the new “varsit/1 Ong Triangle, a 62.2 miler which used a buoy off Pillar Point (instead of the missing Montara Buoy) as its southern turning mark. A highlight of this otherwise uneventful ocean romp was exiting the Golden Gate with the 32-strong powerboat fleet in the Race to Preserve the Historic Ships, which page 143

were using the Bonita Point Buoy as a turning mark. "They were moving\ It was also pretty noisy and distracting," said Lon Price, whose Luffe 48 Wave Runner finished first in fleet (after 6 hours and 8 minutes) and corrected out second in the IMS section. The final ocean race of the season was the Half Moon Bay Race on September 2324. Results of that weekend, and overall ocean standings for the '89 season, will appear in the next issue.

MORA — 1) Current Asset, Islander 30, John Bowen, RYC; 2) Friday, Express 27, John Uebenberg, RYC; 3) Bloom County, Mancebo 31,

Soling PCCs Nineteen boats participated in this year's Soling Pacific Coast Championship, including entries from as far away as Houston, Seattle, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles. Conditions for what was intended to be a six-race series on September 15-17 ranged from sunny and clear with 18-20 knots breezes on Friday to wet, miserable and windless (and eventually blustery) on Saturday. Sunday's pair of races were sailed under cloudy skies in 12-14 knots of wind. Highlights of Sunday's action included longtime Soling sailor Mark Murray's suc¬ cessful port tack start (unusual in this league). As the race progressed, Murray — who was driving — somehow managed to get thrown overboard during a jibe, giving away what would certainly have been a good finish. Another memorable feature of Sunday's racing was sharing the Southampton Shoals race course with the Big Boat Series , participants. In particular, Blondie, sailing on starboard tack, passed 50 feet to leeward of the weather mark as the Soling fleet rounded itl There were many white knuckles and nervous insurance agents over that Despite the varied conditions, Seattlite

A grey day on the Bay during the Soling PCCs.

Jim Medley — a member of the USYRU Rules Committee — won four of the five races. He actually won five out of six races,

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v but had one race thrown out of the regatta due to a race committee error (they didn't properly inform him that he was over early at the start). Except for that one glitch, race chairman Lee Able and his crew from San Francisco YC did a fantastic job under the most unpredictable wind conditions. Second place went to a young up-andcomer from Southern California, Doug McClean. Third went to Fred Soward, here on impulse from Houston; fourth went to Southern Californian Greg Pearce; and" fifth went to perennial favorite Gil Smith of Santa Cruz. So much for local knowledge... Murray, despite his dip in the Bay, was the top local boat this year, placing seventh. Andy Carson of Santa Cruz won the '89 California Cup. The Cup, held since last year by Greg Pearce, is awarded to the boat with the best overall performance in various races throughout the four Soling regions: San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Southern California and Clear Lake. — kevin reilly 1) Jim Medley, 3 points; 2) Doug McClean, 7.75; 3) Fred Soward, 11; 4) Greg Pearce, 16; 5) Gil Smith, 16; 6) Ian Wareham, 19; 7) Mark Murray, 27; 8) Andy Carson, 29; 9) Jim Bitter, 33; 10) Bob Baldino, 34; 11) Bill Mailing, 38; 12) Ken Grayson, 46; 13) Kevin Reilly, 49; 14) Brian Keane, 54; 15) Bret Allen, 58; 16) Dave Hatfield, 60; 17) Lloyd Benson, 64; 18) Dan Afflerbach, 74; 19) Dave Harcourt, 76. (19 boats)

Jazz Cup By all accounts, South Beach and Benicia Yacht Clubs' inaugural Jazz Cup was a smashing success! The wind on September 2 was a little light for the 51 starters, but a flood tide managed to carry the fleet past Treasure Island and ultimately up to the finish line at Benicia. Things got off to a smooth start with 10-12 knots of breeze providing plenty of power to fight the current during the short windward leg from the northwestern comer of Tl to YRA mark #7. From there, it was simply a matter of keeping the spinnaker full while staying in as much current as possible — a real milk run for most boats. Or so the fleet thought A gigantic hole near Southampton swallowed most of the leader, who twirled around waiting for the Division D and E boats to catch up. As the Race Committee motored by, the folks on Annalise and Scoop seemed more concerned about what was for lunch than about the little boats creeping up behind them. Rumor has it one of the late starters saw the hole

and did an "end-around," leaving Angel Island to starboard and charging down Raccoon Strait A crew member on Invictus, a C&C 40, said that the boat was about half their size, but it was too far in front to identify! By the time the Jazz Cup fleet arrived at the Brothers, the wind had filled in at a steady 6-10 knots, and the battle for first to finish began to develop. Hotlicks (a Hobie 33), Fever (Baltic 35) and Bloom County (Mancebo 31) all had a shot At the wire, it was Hotlicks in first, a performance that earned skipper John Walker a weekend at the Union Hotel in Benicia for his efforts. Because of the way the race shaped up, the battle for first overall on corrected time was fought amongst the smaller boats. When Sam Neustadt brought his J/24 Dark Star in ahead of the Express 27s, it looked as if he would win the Jazz Cup Perpetual and the weekend for two at the St Francis (no, not the yacht club). However, it was Paul and Henri Larose, sailing their Cal 25 Allegria, who won the race by nearly five minutes on corrected time. In contrast with the first place awards, another battle was yet to be fought To encourage small boats to enter the race, the Jazz Cup Committee established the Austin Henke Perseverance and Tenacity Award. This year, that distinction went to Gordie Nash, who was last to finish in his lilliputian Fairhaven, a 19-foot replica of an 1880 Vineyard Sound boat that he made himself. However, by virtue of his 275 PHRF handicap, Nash corrected out to 40th overall — and has a mixed case of charonnay and cabernet enjoy with his crew. Saturday evening found the Benicia YC in full party mode. The rest of the Labor Day weekend was unique among races — everyone had a chance to relax and listen to the Fifth Annual Benicia Jazz Festival. It seemed like a perfect way to cap off the summer's racing. At the bar on Sunday, one could hear the Jazz Cup being compared with the Vallejo Race. “Next year you'll have to fight entries offP remarked race participant Bob Neal. — keith & devonee moore DIV. A (PHRF 0-110) — 1) Bloom County, Mancebo 31, Mark Ondry, SeqYC; 2) Hotlicks, Hobie 33, John Walker, StkYC; 3) Zephyros, Olson 30, Dave Oliver, EYC. (7 boats) DIV. B (111-150) — 1) Scoop, Wylie 34, Don Young, EYC; 2) Fever, Baltic 35, Doug Inouye, SYC;

The raft-ups during the Catalina 34 Nationals were almost as much fun as the racing.

3) Max Headroom, Express 27, Mike Duvall, BenYC. (15 boats) DIV. C (151-170) — 1) Dark Star, J/24, Sam Neustadt, NoYC; 2) Showtime, Olson 25, Shirley Temming/Ed Milano, EYC; 3) XX, Merit 25, Garrett Smith, BYC. (10 boats) DIV. D (171-199) — 1) Summer, Cal 2-27, Paul Shinoff, RYC; 2) Octavia, Ranger 26, Dick Leaske, IYC; 3) Windflower, Santana 30, Don McCown, BYC. (12 boats) DIV. E (over 200) — 1) Allegria, Cal 25, Paul & Henri Larose, PAYC; 2) Abenteuer, Triton, Karl Peterson, AndCYC; 3) Getaway, Pearson Renegade, William Rumford, SYC. (7 boats)

50 Footer Finale The sixth and final regatta of the high rolling International 50-Foot Yacht Associ¬ ation's 1989 world tour took place in light air off Newport, R.I. in early September. Windquest, steered by John Bertrand with an “overkill" afterguard that included Dave Hulse, Larry Leonard and Terry Nielson, put together an impressive series. “We finally stopped shooting ourselves in the foot," said Hulse. Windquest won in a runaway, taking four of the seven races. Meanwhile, her Farr 50 sisterships won the other three races: one each to Carat VII, the Japanese Will and the English Jamarella. The regatta left little doubt as to which designer owns the 50-footer league at the moment Second place in the Newport series went page 144

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Infinity, N/M, John Thomson, NY, 12.75; 4) Champosa V, N/M, Mark Morita, Tokyo, 17; 5) Abracadabra, N/M, Andrews/Lemak, Alabama, 18.75; 6) Renegade, Frers, Ken Meade, Michigan, 36; 7) Fujimo, Frers, Jerry Schostak, Michigan, 39; 8) Blizzard, Humphreys, Ernest Juer, England,39: 9) Gem, N/M, Bill Ziegler, Connecticut, 42; 10) Spring¬ bok, Vallecelli, David Rosow, Connecticut, 48; 11) Natisslma, George Uznis, Michigan, 56; 12) Merrythought, Frers, Jack King, Virginia, 62. Catalina 34 Nationals John SulliVan of Loomis, California, sailed his Wianno to a narrow victory in the threerace inaugural Catalina 34 National Cham¬ pionship on August 26-27. With a 1,3,1 record, the blue-hulled boat nipped out Dick Barck's Galatea II, which put together a 4,1,2 series, in the final minutes of the last race. Sullivan attributed his victory equally to new "light air, deck sweeper" sails purchased just prior to the race and to "being in the right place" during a series of wind shifts in Saturday's first race. Sixteen boats participated in the Coyote YC hosted event Competitors from as far away as Long Beach, Seattle and Long Island Sound were treated to the full gamut of Bay conditions: Saturday's two races were shifty, light air affairs, followed by a more typical 1.5-20 knot wind finale on Sunday. In response to the “cruising orientation" of many of the over 60 Catalina 34 owners in the Bay Area, the racing was restricted to amateurs (e.g., no sailmakers, brokers, riggers,

to Ryouji Oda's Will; third to Alan Cray's Jamarella (which was sold to a Hong Kong businessman immediately afterwards and renamed Foo); fourth was Champosa V; and fifth was Carat VII, which had mathematically locked up the World Cup at the last regatta in Muskegon, Michigan. At the finish of the last race, Carat's crew all went below, leaving Swedish owner Wider Forss on deck alone to drive across the finish line. Forss savored the moment, saying later, "It's something that only happens to you once in your life." Then, his fun-loving crew dragged him, kicking and shouting, to the end of the dock and un¬ ceremoniously tossed him in. Ah, tradition. Afterwards, 14 boats were loaded on the 645-foot freighter Regina Oldendorff for the trip to Yokohama (the first regatta on the '90 dreuit is in Japan during the first week of November). The freighter dodged the evil Hugo (if Regina had sunk, where would IOR be now?) and is currently making tracks for the Land of the Rising Sun. Boats to watch for in that series, which Champosa owner Mark Morita is hosting to the tune of five million bucks, include all the afore¬ mentioned Farr boats, as well as Heaven Can Wait (a new Australian Farr 50), Bengal V (a new Japanese Farr 50), Andelsbanken (a Danish Jeppesen 51) and Container (a German Judel/Vrolijk design which many thought was the fastest 50-footer at the Admiral's Cup).

All lands of boats sailed in the inaugural Golden Gate Open on Sept 23. Story and results in the next issue.

1989 World Cup Final Standings — 1) Carat VII, Farr, Wlctor Forss, London, 9.25 points; 2) Windquest, Farr, Richard DeVos, Michigan, 12.75; 3)

etc.) and sailed without spinnakers. Special consideration was also given to those sailing with fixed props and reduced headsails.

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Awards in this "cruising division" went to Thom Zalinski's Searcher in first place, followed by “Bo" Nanna, a Seattlite who borrowed Foto-Finish from Tom Wentling for the Nationals. In addition to the racing, over 25 Catalina 34s rafted at the Coyote Point YC dock for dinner and post-race discussions. The featured speaker was Billy Peterson (formerly with North Sails and now with Catalina Yachts), who gave a practical and informative talk on sail trim and roller-furling headsails. Herb Schneider, commodore of the Catalina 34 national fleet, spoke on national objectives and future championship regattas. — dick barck 1) Wianno, John Sullivan, Richmond YC, 4.5 points; 2) Galatea II, Dick Barck, Coyote Point YC, 6.75; 3) Wind Dragon, Dave Davis, Sequoia YC, 11; 4) True Colors, Dave Boring, Corinthian YC, 12; 5) Starfire, Bob Flaherty, Ballena Bay YC, 16; 6) Searcher, Thom Zalinsky, Belmont, CA, 18; 7) Caliban (Foto-Finish), Bo Nanna, Seattle, WA, 23; 8) Goolara, John Billmeyer, Oakland YC, 25; 9) (tie) Serenity, Herb Schneider, Trumbull, CT and Yorkshire Rose, Chris Ward, CPYC, 31. (16 boats)

Race Notes My three sons: Richmond YC's Ray Nelson and his sons Larry, Doug and Fred •spent Labor Day Weekend up in Seattle winning the 1989 Catalina 27 Internationals. They borrowed Albatross from local sailor Eric

Lamer (who was also the fifth member of their crew) rather than bring their '88 YRA season winner Freyja up the road. "It was pretty exciting," said Nelson. “We only won by 3/4 of a point, and in fact only led the fleet once for 10 seconds — when we

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nipped a boat right at the finish line — during the entire five race regatta!" Fifteen boats participated in the light air event Another RYC Catalina 27 sailor, Ed Durbin (Catalyst) won the Silver Fleet, completing a sweep for Bay Area sailors. Santa Cruz YC hosted their annual Ladies Day Race on September 9. "No casualties were incurred on the race course," writes SCYC regatta chairman Mark Dini, "although the bar was a different story." Susie Snyder sailed the SOB 30 Pacific High to victory over a small fleet The next day, September 10, the club held their Jack and Jill Race, which had 18 PHRF participants and 15 “pesky" Moore 24s. "In the pa$t, divorce attorneys come down to the yacht club after this event," claims Dini. 'This year, they went away empty-handed, as everyone had a great time." Kabaia, an Olson 30 sailed by Jay and Linda Bennett, took the PHRF division; Dennis Bassano and Mary Vaughn sailed their “antique" Moore 24 Summertime (hull number one) to victory in the Moore 24 division. Longobarda, Italian Gianni Varasi's red hot new Farr maxi boat, proved that her victory in Palma was no fluke by winning the Sardinia Maxi Series in early September. John Bertrand skippered Longobarda — which we figure is Italian surfing lingo for “long board" — to victory in the 9-boat fleet Second went to II Moro di Venezia, with Paul Cayard behind the wheel. The hot new Drumbeat didn't sail — owner Alan Bond, whose vast empire is rumored to be crumbling, sent her back to Australia while he sorts out his financial difficulties. According to Commodore Tompkins, who sailed the Palma series on Boomerang until she broke her mast, “Longobarda has clearly outdesigned all the other maxis, and the owners are all grumbling about it They're finally getting burned out on spending so much money to stay competitive and, on top of that, having to pay some rockstar to sail their boat Something's got to change." Meanwhile, as we go to press, the third leg of the Maxi Mediterranean Summer Tour is underway in sunny Saint Tropez. Tough duty, that maxi circuit A winning combination: live reggae music, grilled chicken, plenty of Myers's Rum, sun, steady 20 knot breezes and boardsailing. That was the scene at Crissy Field in early September during the festive Myers's Rum Cup, a new national production boardsailing championship. After an intense week of course and slalom races, the big winners were New Englander Nevin Sayre in the Men's Division and Oregonian Rhonda SmithSanchez in the Women's Division. Both used

Mistral sailboards for the event Cat fights: Chula Vista YC, not exactly an internationally recognized yachting power (yet), has plunked down a $500 filing fee and officially announced that it would challenge for the International Catamaran Challenge Trophy (better known as the little America's Cup) in January, 1991. The event will be sailed in Melbourne, Australia in “C“ Class catamarans (two-man 25-footers). Gino Morrelli, designer of the 1988 Stars & Stripes, will design the new boat Thunder and lightning blasted through the Bay Area on the morning of September 16, signalling the beginning of — what else? — the Lightning Pacific Coast Champion¬ ship. Richmond YC hosted the five-race weekend series, one which dates back to 1954 and has been won by the likes of Lowell North and Carl Eichenlaub. Fourteen boats participated in the regatta (six from the Bay Area, five from San Diego, two from Portland and one from Seattle). The winner was a local boat, Tim Barnes' new-to-him Blitzen. Sailing with Bames, a Diablo SC member who is currently leading the Lightning class in SBRA, were Mike Kelley and Steve DiAngelo. Scott Finkboner's San Diego-based Play It By Ear II was second; Blue, sailed by Bruce Deitz of Seattle, was third. Whitbread Race update: as we go to press, the Whitbread fleet was over half way through the 6,281 mile race from South¬ ampton, England to Punta Del Este, Uruguay, with Steinlager II firmly in the lead. Behind them, in order, was Merit, Fisher & Paykel, and Rothmans. The Russian boat, Fazisi, is apparently stinking up the course. We'd tell you more, but it's all likely to change before the finish, which is projected to be on or around October 9 at this rate. After the fleet rests up and parties down, they'll take off on October 28 on the second and longest leg of the 33,000 mile adventure, the 7,650 mile race to Fremantle. If you want to know more — and don't have any compunctions about racking up your phone bill — clip n' save the following Whitbread Race taped information numbers: positions (898121541), scuttlebutt (898121542), press office (705291076) and fax (898500653). The numbers are in England, so dial 01144 first When your phone bill comes, don't blame us.

Twelve multihulls competed in the Half Moon Bay YC-hosted regional qualifier for the After Cup on August 26-27. Winning the five race handicap series was a Hobie 16 sailed by Pat Porter and crew Laura Robertson of Reno, Nevada. Second was Wayne Mooney-ham and Jim Sajdak (Hobie 18, San Jose); third was Peter Schullz and Julia Bursell (Prindle 18, Sacramento). Pbrter and Robertson will represent Area G in the finals of the Alter Cup, held at the end of September in Detroit, Michigan. Winner of the inaugural Easom Founder's Trophy Regatta, an Etchells 22 regatta on August 26-27 honoring Hank Easom, was Craig Healy, who sailed with the dynamic duo of Russ Silvestri and Scott Inveen. They beat a star-studded 21-boat fleet in the San Francisco YC-hosted moderate air series. Second went to 1988 Yachtsman of the Year John Kostecki (with Bob "Buddha" Billingham and “JimBob" Barton crewing); third was Don Jesberg (Rob Anderson, Steve Jesberg); fourth was Dennis Surtees (Ken Keefe, Steve Jeppeson); fifth was Bill Barton (Bobby "Rock" Fodor, Eric Baumhoff). The regatta namesake dropped to seventh in the series after doing a 720 on the last beat of the last race, prompting Hank to suggest that the fleet rename the trophy “The Easom Flounders Trophy." The 1989 Adams Cup, emblematic of the U.S. Women's Sailing Championship, was won by Jody Swanson of Buffalo, NY. The . light air ten-race, round-robin series was sailed in Lightnings in Milwaukee, Wis., on August 28-30. Richmond YC's Stephanie King Wondolleck, sailing with Melinda Groen and Sara Makielski, came in eighth in the 10boat series. Nineteen J/24s competed in the Saint Francis YC-hosted J/24 Labor Day Weekend Regatta on — you guessed itl — Labor Day Weekend. Winner of the five race, one throwout series was Chris Moeller's whimsically named Pobody's Nerfect. Second went to Mike Lahorgue's Bohica; third was Donald Nazzal's Jay Walker. A family affair, by George: Richmond YC's Bob and Marina George have a new J/35 called Kiri, which is named after a New Zealand opera singer. Bob, a fine skipper in his own right, should have no trouble recruiting crew. All four of his children are excellent sailors: Billy (who is on a roll with John Kostecki lately), Danny (presently in Corpus Christi), Dennis (fresh from sailing on Bravura in the Admiral's Cup) and Laura (who will undoubtedly bring along her talented husband, Mike Herlihy). "We're looking forward to sailing against the Trask 'dynasty1!" says Billy. page 146

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Nepenthe — Folkes 39 Tom Scott Last Season In Mexico (Menlo Park) It's been nearly a year since I quit "serving civilly" (aka feeding at the public trough) to go sailing. It has been ,a wonderful experience, and I have no regrets about having made the break. Sure there have been some frustrations and discouraging moments, but those are inherent in having “an adventure". It's the wonderful people I've met along the way, however, that have made this voyage so special. I left Gig Harbor in late August of ’88 and harbor hopped until I arrived at Cabo in late November. For the next 45 days I cruised mainland Mexico. In mid-February I started a 29-day passage to Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas. After sailing the Society Islands, I went to Suvarov, Pago Pago,

Tom Scott says: “If anyone is looking for free advice, go the way the wind blows.* American Samoa and arrived most recently at Apia, Western Samoa. After nearly a year of sailing, I can

honestly say the most uncomfortable passages — without a doubt — were off the coast of Oregon and Northern California. All other passages have been a snip by comparison, mostly in rather light winds. The most difficult times for me have been the short and coastal passages; this because of the dangers of the coastline, shipping traffic, the difficulties of getting into a sleeping pattern and the fatigue of getting accustomed to the boat's movement By the time I'd manage to adjust, I'd arrive at the next port Several folks, especially in Mexico where almost all the passages were short ones, complained of being seasick for entire one or two-day passages. I suspect they would have adjusted better to life at sea had they taken longer hops. Luckily, I've only had to do a few, relatively short, windward passages. All the others have been off the wind. If anyone is looking for free advice (worth every penny), I say plan your routes to go the way the wind blows. There were some rather unhappy cruisers in the Marquesas who had made their landfall at Nuku Hiva rather than at Hiva Oa. Almost all the islands are to windward from Nuku Hiva, with 15 to 20 knot easterly winds kicking up a nasty chop and making life uncomfortable. From Hiva Oa, in contrast, all the islands except Fatu Hiva are off the wind. Thoughts on Mexico: I spent November thru New Years in Cabo San Lucas. Being there for so long, I got to know quite a few of the Class of '88'89. By the time I left, over 250 boats had passed through. The vast majority were just down for the season. Of the rest, about two-thirds were bound for the Caribbean and one-third for the South Pacific A few intrepid souls, like George and Ellen on Wind Dancer, were headed for South America before sailing across the Pacific Mornings in Cabo began with the cruisers net on VHF 22. Karen and Gil of Papi's Deli (cruiser's headquarters in Cabo) use the net to welcome newly arrived yachts, bid fair winds to departing ones, and include time slots for medical emergencies, buying, selling and trading, information needed, general announcements

knowledge of how to get thing? done locally, there is almost nothing that can't be fixed or purchased in Cabo. The footloose community of cruisers was quite a pleasant surprise for me. It was the kind of situation one hopes for but rarely finds in American towns. When I arrived in Cabo, several folks stopped by my boat to say “welcome", to tell me about check-in procedures, location of services, etc. These folks not only provided a social base, but possessed expertise in almost every field you can imagine. There were doctors, mechanics, electronic technicians, pilots, policemen, plumbers, dentists and even a mortician. And these people were consistently helpful. A call on the morning VHF would usually bring forth so many responses that it took longer to sort out the options than to fix the problem. In particular, I remember returning to the boat one afternoon to see four or five dinghies streaking toward one of the sailboats. A little girl had been hit on the head by a wind generator propeller and page 148

With reports this month from 'Nepenthe' on last season in Mexico; 'Born Free' in Radio Bay; 'Yahoo' trailer sailing Desolation Sound; 'Martha Rose' in Baja; 'Counterpoint in Mooloolaba; 'Woodwind to New England by mistake; 'Topaz1 crossing the Indian Ocean; Hawaiian Eye; and the usual cruise notes.

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received a nasty would. Her father had put out a call for help on the radio, and the response had been immediate. Within 20 minutes the girl had been given first-aid and was taken to the hospital. She recovered fully and was back aboard in a couple of day playing on the opposite end of the boat There were so many examples of cruisers coming to each other's aid that you could take comfort in knowing that help was available if you should ever need it. The cruising community tends to keep track of one another. Much of it is by ham radio, although a lot is simply by word of mouth. When a boat arrives in a port, it is common to ask if they have seen such and such a boat at a previous port Throughout my trip I have been able to keep track of friends this way, even though we wouldn't see each other for weeks or months. Some boats, like Watercolor II, with Rich, Polly and Kacey Cox, I bumped into frequently in Mexico, the Marquesas and the Society Islands. Meeting again is always an excuse for a party — and partying is one of the things cruisers do best! Ham radio is also a means for keeping page 149

Zihuatanejo has managed to take change in stride and retain its unique charm. in touch with home. Both Doran Cushing of Panache and Ernie of DX passed messages to and from my mother. Even down here in the South Pacific it probably wouldn't take long to get a message to me from home. Too bad I don't have a ham radio myself. My mother got to know quite a few of the cruisers when she flew down to visit me in Cabo. I think she ended up feeling a little better about her son's crazy scheme after seeing the mutual support offered within the cruisers' community. Just after New Years, Nepenthe and I sailed for the Mexican mainland where we called at several ports before arriving at Zihuatanejo in early February. The Mexican coastal villages have changed substantially in recent years. From Mazatlan to Acapulco, the government intends to turn the coast into a kind of Riviera with many fine hotels and tourist facilities. From what I could see they are being quite successful. The small towns have changed dramatically and are now much more tourist oriented.

I'm never quite sure how to evaluate this. One the one hand I miss all the little unassuming places I visited years ago. But on the other hand, folks look somewhat better off though still poor by most standards — and many town have new clinics, schools, roads, etc. Some complain that too much money winds up in the hands of the wealthy, but what else is new? Still, the Mexican coast was as pretty and charming as ever. Especially lovely was Zihuatanejo, which has managed to take change in stride and retain much of its unique charm. Z-town was a good introduction to cruising for my friend Francine, who came down for two all-tooshort weeks. She got to meet quite a few ladies who initially had not been to enthusiastic about cruising, but who had changed their minds. Too, the pot-lucks on the beach, the dinghy raft-up happy hours, and the snorkeling had a beneficial influence on her attitude. She intends to join me this winter in New Zealand. In Mid-February, John Milan joined me for the nearly 3,000-mile crossing to the Marquesas. One of the most poignant moments of the entire trip occurred as we left Zihuatanejo Bay. I got on the VHF to announce our departure to the cruising boat fleet, and as I listened, boat after boat came back to wish us fair winds and safe , passage. I have thought of that moment often with much nostalgia. It expressed most eloquently the finest characteristics of the cruising community: care and concern, optimism, and a wonderful fellowship. — tom 8/15/89 Born Free — Westsail 32 Ed Birkholz (73), Marilyn Cox Bora Bora to Hilo (Eureka) "Mr. G", the Frenchman who owns the Bora Bora YC, makes sailors' stays very pleasant He provided 14 of us yachties " with free moorings buoys — one with a water hose — while it blew a good one. 'You're not leaving for Hawaii with the wind from the northeast, are you?" "Mr. G." asked as we were about to depart If we had waited for the wind to change direction, we'd probably still be there. It blew from the northeast all the way to Hilo — and is probably still blowing from the northeast You still can't see Bora Bora, can you?" Marilyn asked the first morning out

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The wind had been light and I didn't want to disappoint her, so I stood in the companionway until a distant squall obscured the island. “No," I finally said. We carefully listened to weather reports all the way to the Equator. There was nothing to be reported except for fog north of latitude 40°. By the time we reached 10°N 147°W, we figured we had it made. We figured wrong. Over WWV we heard that tropical depression 4E was at 10°N 128°W and headed our way. Every time we made a degree north, so would 4E. It finally caught up with us about 300 miles out of Hilo, but we couldn't make a 180° turn to escape because tropical depression 5E was right on its tail. And it was being closely followed by hurricane Delilah l So we hoisted the storm trysail and rolled up the jib to the same size. 4E first hit us with 40 knot winds, then moderated. Soon we ran off to the west because the wind started coming from the north. Suddenly the wind quit Then it did

Radio Bay was just the snug little harbor 'Born Free' had been looking for. a 180° aboutface, at which time it left us for good. But no sooner had we resumed course for Hilo than the autopilot got soaked and packed up. I had a new one for a spare, and put it on. It wasn't performing so well,

so I went down to have coffee and read the directions. As soon as I was out of sight, the arm that attaches to the tiller unscrewed itself and jumped over the sidel So we had to tie the tiller off from then on. We made Hilo two days before Delilah. For all her publicity and dire warnings, she passed close to the south end of the Big Island without doing much more than knocking a few mangos out of the trees. After 2500 miles and 23 days, Radio Bay was just the snug little ^harbor we'd been hoping to find. For just $5 a day you can anchor out or tie to the quay, with hot showers and everything else you need nearby. Customs is friendly and the harbormaster is helpful — don't miss it! We love Hilo, rain and all. Ten days later Foxy flew home and now I face 2500 solo miles before I reach my homeport of Eureka. I sent both the autopilots back with her for repair. The new one is supposedly repaired. They say the old one was irreparable, so I paid $50 air freight for nothing. Oh well. RS. More later about the 35-mile long gill nets. If they continue to be used, it's good-bye fish! — “73 years young* ed 8/30/89 Yahoo! — Venture 23 Dennis, Cheryl, Ken McDowell Trailer Sailing Desolation Sound (San Jose) Forty-seven hours after leaving San Jose with our Venture 23 in tow, my wife, Cheryl, my 18-year old son, Ken, and I arrived in Lund, British Columbia, which happened to be in the middle of its centennial celebration. Making use of the fine two-lane cement ramp with government docks for 75 boats, we put Yahoo! in the water and waited for the rest of Venture Fleet #4's contingent to arrive. There would be six boats in our group, ranging in size from an O'Day 222 to a Catalina 25. Monday we sailed to Grace Harbor for the beginning of our two week cruise to Desolation Sound. For anyone who hasn't been to Desolation Sound, the beauty of the area is spectacular. From the snow-capped mountains that rise out of the water, to the green forest and the bald eagles seen everywhere, it's not at all like San Jose. I can't imagine a more awe-inspiring place to sail. It's possible to anchor by yourself in

hundreds of small coves or drop the hook with as many as 300 other boats in the most popular anchorage, Squirrel Cove. The area of Desolation Sound was more compact than we'd expected, and none of the popular anchorages were more than four hours apart Although there are no roads on most of the islands, you are rarely more than 10 miles from the nearest gas stations and grocery store — most of which have showers, ice and water. Our fleet of six boats never had trouble finding a secure anchorage at the end of the day, and all of them featured great views. You do, however, have to watch your anchoring depths, as the tide has a range of 15 feet Although the area is known for its light air, we managed to sail about 50% of the time. But as most of the wind is in the channels betvyeen islands, you spend most of your sailing time beating or running. The area is well-protected, and you can safely sail for hundreds of miles in boats as small as a Venture 17 or West Wight Potter — as page 150

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Chatterbox Falls at Princess Louisa Inlet — the most beautiful of them all. members of our group did. For others that might be headed this way, the following were some of our favorite anchorages: Theodosia Inlet — A beautiful inlet, with logging camp, that is so green you can't imagine. Tenados Bay — This one features a quarter-mile hike to a warm lake. The anchorage between Otter Island and Bold Head — This spot features an anchorage with cliffs that are great for diving. Roscoe Bay — Another great anchorage with a swimming lake just a quarter mile inland. Squirrel Cove — Yes, it's crowded, but there's a tidal lagoon rapids you can ride with you're dinghy. There's also a little shack on shore that sells terrific homemade bread. Vbn Donop Inlet — Another spot with page 151

great tidal lagoon rapids for your dinghy. Teadarne Arm Falls — Anchor nearby and take your morning shower under the falls. No water shortage here. Gorge Harbor — This is where eagles swoop 200 feet down out of the treetops to pick salmon heads off the dock at Gorge Harbor Resort After pulling Yahoo! out at Lund, we trailered 50 miles south to the town of Egmont, where we re-launched in preparation for our sail to Princess Louisa Inlet. Just outside of Egmont there is a hiking trail to Skookumchunk Narrows, perhaps the most fearsome tidal rapid on the west coast We just happened to catch it at peak flow, which was over 15 knots! It was awesome, to say the least We left Egmont at 0530 the next morning, hoping to cover the 26 miles to Malibu Rapids, the entrance to Princess Louisa Inlet, before the tidal outfall in the afternoon. Blessed with 10 to 15 knot winds for a run up all three reaches, we arrived in plenty of time for noon's slack

water. The scenery is breathtaking the first time you enter Princess Louisa Inlet The only way I can describe it is to say it's like entering Yosemite with water covering the valley floor, with 70 additional waterfalls, and maybe 30 boats instead of 5,000 cars. It's a nice change. Waterfalls pour down off the walls and into the water everywhere. Chatterbox Falls, which sits at the end of the four-mile inlet, is the main attraction. There is a government dock or you can anchor out Having explored the inlet for two days, we beat our way back to Egmont It seems the wind always blows up these reaches in the summer; we took nine gallons of gas but used only two. Of all beautiful scenery on the trip, Princess Louisa Inlet topped anything else. If you go north, don't miss itl A few notes: Our normal anchoring technique consisted of setting a bow anchor and then tying a stem line to shore — this because the water is fairly deep dose to shore. There were mosquitos at some of the anchorages, notably Lund, Grace Harbor and Prideaux Haven. We weren't prepared for them because we'd never experienced them in the Gulf or San Juan Islands. The weather in July and August was ,very pleasant We did have rain showers five or six times in the three-week period, but mostly in the evenings. It never rained enough to interfere with our plans. To get to Lund, there are two ferry crossings you must make north of Vancouver. Each ferry takes about an hour, and there is a two-hour wait between

Salmon: cold and clammy, nonetheless one of the charms of the Pacific Northwest. ferries. The ferries carry many cars, buses, and trucks. If you miss one, you'll surely catch the next We spent $150 Canadian to take our van and 27-ft trailer up and back. If anyone has questions about trailersailing Desolation Sound, Princess Louisa Inlet, the San Juan or Gulf Islands, La Paz, or the Channel Islands, feel free to

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contact me. We have trailer sailed all of these areas within the last three years. — dennis 9/8/89

Martha Rose — Motorsailor Dean, Kopi, and Fritz Carmine Baja California (Tiburon) The cruiser's life here in Baja is still warm and pleasantly behind time. It wasn't until the end of August that we finally got ourselves a copy of the April Latitude. We've just completed a two-month trip up the east coast of Baja, from La Paz to Bahia de Los Angeles and back to Puerto Escondido. It was a very pleasant trip with smooth seas and pleasant sailing breezes. Fishing in the northern gulf is good to spectacular, with 50-inch dorado jumping out of the water after flying fish. Even those who “never catch anything* were getting tired of fresh fish for dinner every night On our way south we anchored at Isla Coronado for the Second Annual Carrera de Cangrejos (crab races), which consisted of two days of crab racing, fishing contest and potluck dinners. It was a wonderful party with about 40 boats in the anchorage and a great low-key atmosphere. We have only good things to report about the unavoidable bureaucratic part of cruising. Check-in procedures — always easy in Santa Rosalia — have been greatly simplified here in Puerto Escondido, and our Port Captain is being extremely helpful, even putting a weather report on the radio. As old Baja hands know, you leave weather predictions behind when you depart San Diego, so this will be much appreciated if it continues. All the Mexican people we have met on this trip have been extremely helpful, and we still haven't met a single 'Pancho Villa'. We were very interested to read in the April Latitude that the Islander 33 Atria had recently sailed to Hawaii and back. The Atria was our first boat and we sailed her from San Francisco to Mexico, the Marquesas, Hawaii and back home in 1973-75. It was a wonderful trip, with almost all reaching and running, and stops in Paradise to get married and pregnant along the way. We sold Atria after the birth of our son Fritz and bought the 40-ft Laurent Giles wooden cruiser Venetia in San Diego. The next six years were spent cruising up to British Columbia. This was another good

From Alaska to here at San Juanico, Carmines have enjoyed 'Martha Rose'.

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trip, with many fascinating adventures and friends in the backwaters of the Inside Passage. We grew tired, however, of trying to paint in the rain and eventually sold Venetia and bought the fiberglass motorsailor Martha Rose. We then sailed Martha Rose to Alaska where we wintered over in the tiny fishing village of Meyer's Chuck, population 35. We had often wondered how far north we would enjoy cruising; latitude 57° proved to be our limit We spent several years travelling down the coast and now find ourselves in Baja for the second year. The decision on which way to point the boat when we next reach the open sea is proving, as always, a difficult one. We may end up next in Texas or Seattle — who knows? More importantly, who cares? If Larry Larson of the Atria or any of the many friends we have lost track of over our years of wandering would like to hear from us, please drop a note to Martha Rose, c/o 100 Jamaica St, Tiburon CA 94920. We'd love to hear from everyone! — dean, kopi & fritz 8/24/89

Counterpoint — Cal 35 John & Mary Vetromile Mooloolaba, Australia (Sausalito) You asked, in the March issue, if barracuda is considered a ciguatera threat in this part of the world. The short answer is

Yes', and if I had to do it over, I'd throw that barracuda back and keep fishing for albacore. All the books from Charlie's Charts through Dr. Cohen's Healthy Sailor Book to Grant's Guides to Fishes published by the Queensland Department of Harbours and Marine tell us not to eat barracuda. But buying a book is not enough; I wish I'd read them. We flew back to the United States in March, and on April 11, John had open heart surgery to replace his mitral valve with a pig valve. Watching the heart surgery team work was like seeing a miracle in slow motion. They had John ready to return to Counterpoint in time to start scraping and painting her bottom in just six weeks! We had to remain in the States right after the surgery because John was on medication. We took the opportunity to take a trip to Seattle that we had won. It's funny how it happened. While at Malololeilei, Fiji, we received a mailing from the Sausalito Cruising Club with raffle tickets inside. So we sent off a check and the stubs. When we received our next pile of mail, we were surprised to learn we had won the prize 1 So remember, it's smart to support your yacht club. Under our August return to Australia, we put aside our charts of the Indian Ocean while we modified the boat for our new radar. Our reading materials became guides to the Great Barrier Reef and Queensland Tide Tables. Robert and Lisa Hodierne on Yankee Lady say that the Solomons is the best place ever, so we plan page 152

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to get a cruising permit from the Australian Customs as soon as we get the bottom painted, then head up the inside of the Great Barrier Reef. An Aussie who just sailed down from Cairns was here discussing anchorages yesterday, and he says the locals will point out the places where a crocodile has marked off its territory. “What does that mean?” we asked. "It means you stay away from there," he said. RS. We recently received some mail from Bay Area cruisers Joe and Pam Bass of Sea Bass. They tell us that Africa should not be missedl — mary 9/28/89 Woodwind — 34-ft Venus Gaff Ketch Jan Hein, Bruce & Kess Smith To New England By Mistake (Gig Harbor, Washington) Nearly 10 months and 10,000 miles have passed since we left our homeport of Gig Harbor, Washington. Our plans to winter in Mexico somehow changed and by the Fourth of July we found ourselves and our gaff-ketch pulling into the Housatonic River on the Fourth of July. For those who don't know, that's in Connecticut Kess, our son, was 18 months old when we began our trip, and he has been the highlight of our year. He was our own personal ambassador, bringing smiles to the faces of all the Immigration and Customs officials — and usually speeding up the paperwork. Certainly there was extra work involved with having a small child onboard, page 153

but it was far outweighed by the pleasure Kess brought us, and by being able to see everything through his eyes. Even the months of hand-washing cloth diapers became an easy routine. To anyone who thinks they want to go cruising when the kids get older, we say: “go now". Our Venus design gaff ketch performed beautifully and put to rest the notion that "gaffers don't go to windward". Her first major test was on a 17-day passage from Acapulco to Costa Rica, 150 miles offshore from the Gulf of Tehuantepec Although we were warned against taking that route, we were glad for the Tehauntepec winds after all the calms of the Pacific. After that gulf the next area to worry about the was zone of the Papagayos. Sure enough, as we neared Lake Nicaragua the wind picked up to 40 knots and we figured it had to be a “papaya-guava" for sure. It last for four days, and somewhere during that time I quit worrying about our stout little craft and concentrated my fears on information from the coast pilot that suggested that another storm might follow the one we were in. Luckily it didn't happen that way and we sailed in Bahia Ballenas at the mouth of the Gulf of Nicoya to begin putting back together what the storm had undone. We later heard that we had been in the worst norte to hit Central America in five years! Lucky us not to have missed it! Costa Rica was wonderful both for its lush coastline and friendly people. We spent a week in Puntarenas anchored near Pacific Yacht Services, who provided nearly everything a cruiser might want, especially information. A two-hour bus trip to San Jose allowed us to get our Panamanian visas at no charge. The mountain climate was a welcome relief from the heat we encountered since March and April are the driest months. We spent only two weeks total in Costa Rica as we wanted to transit the Canal before the elections in Panama; it's a decision we are thankful we made. It took a week of light winds and the most motoring we'd done in months to get to Panama, especially trying to beat the strong currents coming into the Gulf of Panama. We went straight to the Balboa YC to begin the choreography for our transit It's a simple affair once it's all done, but arranging line-handlers, admeasurement, a transit date, etc, can be a bit overwhelming for the first trip through.

We were more than surprised when our passports were taken as we cleared in at the local Immigration post We were instructed to pick them up the next day at the main office several miles away. We arrived before they opened, not wanting to be without passports during the long Easter holiday. We were told we had to pay $10 each for visas, the same as the ones we already had. Because we questioned the ‘policy1, we had to talk to the jefe, whose office was full of arm-in-arm photos of himself and Noriega. Upon seeing those, we said nothing more but were given our clearance, no charge. Only American passports were being taken at the time; when we talked to others weeks later, the ‘policy1 had been dropped. Next we went on to the San Bias Islands, a place where time has all but stopped, a place where we spent the best part of our entire year. We began our two week stay at Chichime Island where we

Little Kess Smith, just 18 months old, was the highlight of the trip.

were warmly greeted by the amiable Kuna Indians. It was an unforgettable sight to see entire families sailing about in their kayukas,

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which are dugout canoes that could sink ships. Molas were sold everywhere, the people being anxious for dollars now that they are being withheld from their country. Once again we had to leave too soon, but we planned to cross the Caribbean, the path of most resistance, and hurricane season was approaching. Twenty-four days later we arrived in St Martin. We had attempted to visit Aruba, but were literally hit by a wall of current near Santa Marta, Colombia, which sent us north to beat up the coast of the Dominican Republic The highlight of the passage was when the Coast Guard came to visit us 40 miles off Puerto Rico. After a 20minute radio exchange they decided not to board us, but asked if there was anything we needed. Our quick reply of, "Yes, fresh fruit," brought them out with a bag of apples and oranges, which they tossed over on a heaving line. Nothing since has tasted so good. As they left we thought of other things we should have asked for, like fresh Spaml We sailed around St Martin and St Barts in company with Bruce's brother, John Smith, on his gaffer, Mermaid. When we anchored among the boats of Le Transat in St Barts, we laughed at how our craft were real dinosaurs next to those state-of-the-art multihulls. The islands have changed a great deal in our 10-year absence, but the natural beauty is still very apparent True, too, of our next stop in Bermuda, where we enjoyed the protected beauty of the reefs and island and the proper — but friendly — people. Bermuda is another pricey place, so plan on visiting with a full larder. — jan 9/9/89 Topaz - C&C 38 Bob Peterson & Fay Ainsworth Indian Ocean Crossing (San Francisco & Seattle) [Editor's note: This is a continuation of a Changes that began in the October issue, and covers the time period from December of 1988 to May of 1989. Topaz was recently sighted in an Athens, Greece marina (see photo) sporting a hard dodger, something rarely found on C&C designs.] We left Phuket, Thailand for our Indian Ocean crossing on January 3, just after the northeast monsoon winds filled. We had a fast seven-day, 1060-mile crossing to Galle, Sri Lanka. Due to the unstable political situation between the Singhalese and Tamil

Closepin Point, St. Barts — a great place for a couple of old gaffers to meet factions in what was formerly known as Ceylon, we were prepared to bypass the country and head directly for Oman, another 1900 miles to the northwest But as we approached the coast, we talked with our friends aboard Dike over the VHF, and they convinced us that Sri Lanka was “OK for yachts". So into the 'Kingdom of Windsor1 we sailed. After clearing, we went ashore and met the famous Don Windsor, a regal politician who commands everyone with a flick of his fingers or a touch of the telephone — all while seated on his veranda. Windsor convinced us that a trip inland was “perfectly safe", and recommended a driver by the name of Mohans. So off we went with a couple from Arakaba to tour southern Sri Lanka. We saw elephants in the Kala Game Reserve, and then drove into the mountainous interior with its terraced tea plantations, waterfalls, lush vegetation and fog. Signs of the revolution were evident only along the coast, and our driver stayed away from dangerous areas. We saw snake charmers in village markets, fed baby elephants at the 'orphanage1, and enjoyed lunch at the famous British Hill Club in Nurayalla. Colombo, the capital, was dirty, dusty and uninspiring, but the coastal drive

back to Galle was exciting as we dodged cows, donkey carts and masses of people moving along the narrow roads. A week later we set off for an entirely different kind of country; Oman, the oil-rich sultanate in the Arabian Sea. Few tourists . are allowed to visit Oman, but for some reason private yachts are welcome. Mina Raysut is a big, beautiful protected harbor with clear water and playful dolphins. Since muslims do not eat fish, the fishing was incredibly good. Anchored in a protected naval base, we were issued daily passes to visit Selalah, seven kilometers away. Even though all the police cars are Mercedes, we learned that true wealth is measured in camels, hundreds of which freely roam the desert along the paved highway. Camels have the right-of-way over cars, and cause many traffic jams because they like to stop in the middle of the road. As rare western visitors, we were treated royally in Selalah. Every time we came to town the curious locals would vie to give us rides, invite us for meals or to sightsee. Everybody in Oman is muslim, and they all wear long flowing robes and gold jewelry — and speak excellent English! While all western visitors fascinate them, they especially love blonde, western women with unveiled faces, bare arms and naked ankles — all x-rated temptations in this part of the Middle East where wives are purchased, sight unseen, with camels and page 154

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gold. Bob was offered a bunch of camels in exchange for mel Women here are never allowed outside the walls of their homes unless well chaperoned and covered by long robes, veils and even leather and eye/nose masks adorned with gold. Five days and 780 miles of sailing through the Gulf of Aden, we arrived at Djibouti, which thanks to the continuing French influence, is the only 'civilized1 port in the area. It was indeed a bit of Paris, ! with similar prices, superb food and wines — a rare treat in the muslim dominated Middle East We unpacked our bicycles to explore the delightful blend of European and African culture. There were a few Ethiopian and Sudanese refugees begging in the streets, but almost everyone seemed happy. The markets offered everything: food, clothing, livestock, skins, baskets and live snakes to name a few. We had to be very discreet if not completely secretive taking photographs, as suspicious tribespeople hated the sight of cameras. The American Embassy rolled out the welcome mat and invited us, as the crew of the only U.S. yacht in the harbor, to attend their winter Independence Day celebration. The small gathering consisted of 500 VIPs, including a KGB-type who wouldn't allow photos to be taken of a certain Russian official and his escort for the evening. Bob got food poisoning from the hors d'oeuvres; so much for our tax dollars at workl page 155

While in Djibouti we rented a car with Sausalitans Bud and Diana Gilson of Diana, and drove into the desert through miles of barren brown hills covered with black rocks. Outside of Djibouti the mountain people live in round, hide-covered huts surrounded by rock walls, goats and camels. We visited Lake Asayl, which is 400 feet below sea level and bordered by two-foot thick salt crystals. After six hours of driving, we knew we had ‘seen1 Djibouti. Since the French import everything — including the culture — we knew it would be a long time before we'd see some of the luxuries again. Late in February we entered the Straits of Bab el Mandeb CGate of Sorrow1), that narrow entrance to the dreaded Red Sea, where the winds always seem to blow contrary to yachties' needs. Having perfect wind for our approach, we kept on going. Later these southerly winds increased from 35 to 50 knots, but since this would make it a five-day downwind sail to Port Sudan, we didn't think of stopping. This also eliminated any fear of problems along the coast of war-torn Ethiopia. A large and somewhat antiquated commerical harbor one-third of the way up the Red Sea, at least Port Sudan's navigation aids were working as we had to make a middle-of-the-night approach with a broken radar. Clearing in took just 20 minutes. Clearing out took 5V$ hours and required several trips across the commerical port and downtown. Even downtown Port Sudan has seen better days. Nonetheless, the market was terrific with excellent cheap produce and fly-covered meat No flour was available, since it all comes from Egypt via the black market and was rationed. Many yachties avoided checking into Port Sudan by anchoring off the abandoned city of Suakin, 20 miles to the south. In antiquity coral blocks had been used to create a resort/villa on this island. It was eerie to walk along the crumbling walls, „ through the empty rooms and down the shadow-filled streets. On March 7 we left Port Sudan in light northwesterly winds to begin our anchorage¬ hopping days up the Red Sea. Our first marsa (behind the coral reef) anchorage was Khor el Marob, a 2-mile long narrow bay about 100 meters wide. We literally put the bow into the sand and dropped the anchor in six feet of waterl We marveled at the sight; Topaz resting on crystal clear water full of colorful coral and fish, with the /

intense desert in the background. The mountains in the distance ranged in color from light brown to deep purple; the sky was azure. We continued to meet nice people on our way up to Egypt Some fishermen traded us lobster for cans of beef stew and offered us water. Another official at an isolated military outpost also brought us water on several occasions. We, along with Bob Ely from Seattle aboard Migrator, tied up at one of the most ugly places you could imagine; the phosphate plant at Hamrawein. But even the armed guards who watched over us were nice. Three-quarters of the way up the 1200-mile long Red Sea we put in a Hurghada, our first Egyptian port of entry and our return to 'civilization1. We anchored off the Sheraton Hotel and hired a car and driver to Luxor, three hours inland. The valley of the Nile was lush and green. The scenes were straight from Biblical times, with adobe houses and heavily laden donkeys struggling along in caravans. We toured the Valley of the Kings, the tombs including those of Tutankhamen, Ramses and Seti. There were so many to explore that once we left the easily accessible

Bob and Fay, photographed at Tioman Island on Malaysia's east coast

tombs it was easy to imagine how the grave robbers and early archaeologists must have felt One of the most memorable experiences was the 'Hollywood-like' sound and light show at Karnak Temple and our orchestrated 90-minute full moon walk

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S through the ruins. The shadows seems to come alive as well-scripted voices shared their secrets. When we returned to Topaz the northerlies were raging at 30 to 40 knots, so we anchored behind Shaker Island to prepare to run through the Straits of Gubal, the narrow entrance to the Gulf of Suez. We watched the barometer and waited. In the Red Sea the barometer seems to work backwards. When barometric pressure climbs, you can expect high winds. When it drops significantly, you are guaranteed calms or light southerlies. Waiting for better weather, we inched our way forward — all of 20 miles in four days. Four other yachts, two charter boats and several local fishing boats waited with us for another four days at Bluff Point, hoping for a change in the wind. The 'entertainment during that four days was provided by 16 muslim fishermen. Five times a day they climbed to the upper deck, located Mecca, and prayed. It was humorous to watch the 16 upraised rumps bobbing and — as their boat swung — turning to keep aligned with Mecca. Their wailing chants drowned out the howling wind and we hoped they included a request for better weather in their prayers. Finally the wind dropped to 20 knots — which seems like a light summer breeze — and we headed north in what eventually became calms. This season over 60 yachts made the northbound trek up the Red Sea and 85% engaged the 'Prince of the Red Sea' as their agent to expedite the Suez Canal transit His fees were $110 per yacht, plus $10 extra per person. This seemed quite reasonable in comparison to the rumored $750,000 for loaded tankers. We contacted the 'Prince' on VHF 16 two hours before we reached Suez in order to avoid being harassed by his competitors, who drive their boats like bumper cars while trying to hustle business. Safely inside the anchorage adjacent to the Port Suez YC (an empty building with eight baksheesh (bribe) seeking guards, we relaxed, our Red Sea adventure almost over. Two days later we boarded a bus for Cairo to see the Sphinx and Pyramids at Giza, where all the famous ancient desert monuments that we remember from our history classes are located. High school teachers don't tell you they are bordered by housing developments, golf courses, a

cemetery and a garbage dump. Fortunately, these blessings of modem life were somewhat hidden behind sand dunes. We only got to see them because our camel driver wanted to include these wonders as he tried to sell us his special 'long1 tour. We set up our own tour by renting Arabian horses at 0530 for a dawn ride 17 kilometers from Giza to the pyramid at Sakkara and back. The five-hour desert ride was fabulous, but ohl did we suffer the next day. We spent five days exploring the labyrinth that is Cairo. The bazaars were colorful and crowded; the streets winding, narrow and aromatic. Often there was so much Sahara dust and rubble that it was difficult to tell which buildings were being demolished and which were being built Traffic was snarled and the buses crowded, but then we discovered the new and uncrowded subway. We did lots of walking and met lots of friendly people. Flies pestered us as did the occasional outstretched hand requesting baksheesh for services real and imagined. One scam was never to change: two porters wanted 50 cents U.S. each for a small, unwanted service. So I tore a dollar bill in half and split it between them. They loved the strategy, smiled, waved and happily went away. In Cairo, one learns to cope. Returning to Topaz was great, even after staying in the wonderful Victoria Hotel with its huge bathtub and unlimited hot water. Our Suez Canal transit was scheduled to take two days, with an overnight stop at Bitter Lake. Our mandatory pilots steered most of the way along the rather monotonous "ditch". On a sailboat, eight hours of motoring in a straight line gets boring; fortunately we passed some interesting commerical traffic heading south. Since the muslims were celebrating their month of Ramaden (fasting from sunrise to sunset), we didn't have to feed our pilots. But the second pilot required several naps, an unusual request Then he began asking for his 'present three hours before his services ended. Bob played the nice guy and I was mean. "Now present now," I kept repeating, "and if any tug touches us, no present for you." I had his $10 tip in a sealed envelope and refused to give it to him until he jumped aboard the pilot boat Our strategy worked as we were untouched. Later, however, we were

With summer's end, fewer crusiers coming through Honolulu and the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor.

harassed by an unidentified boat as we started to exit Port Said. We just ignored it until they turned back and started chasing Migrator. Finally, as the sun set, we entered the Med after two months cruising the incomparable Red Sea. We checked out to Larnaca, Cyprus, but sailed instead to Tel Aviv, Israel ("Miami on the Med"). As we crossed the 'border1 between Egypt and Israel, we were approached by an Israeli gunboat with two heavy-calibre deck-mounted machine guns manned by very serious looking young soldiers in full uniform. We answered their questions on the VHF and were welcomed to Israel. The Navy tracked us into the marina at Tel Aviv, where we received a warm welcome. We tied Topaz to a dock with electricity and running, high pressure water for the first time in almost a year. Our sails were filthy, dust-covered and stiff page 156

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as plywood. Salt crystals lined the toe rail. The sheets were so stiff it was impossible to trim the sail. Battlescared by the Red Sea, Topaz was ready for her freshwater bath. We rode our bicycles all over Tel Aviv, explored the old town of Jaffa, and spent money. Tel Aviv is not cheap; a tuna sandwich, for example, costs $22 U.S.I The fresh produce markets were reasonably priced, so we only splurged on ice cream. Palm Sunday we visited historic old Jerusalem and saw the crowds at the Wailing Wall. It would have been easy to spend weeks exploring the cradle of Christianity, but as always, we had to keep moving. So after a luxurious week in the marina, it was time to head north to Cyprus, an easy overnight sail. So here were are in Lamaca Marina, working on boat projects and sorting through a two-foot stack of mail. We plan to spend the summer cruising the Med, which we're told is much different than the passage-making we've been doing. We're page 157

told you only need to sail four hours a day, tie up to the quay or marina, and walk ten feet to the nearest cafe. We're ready for the civilized life! — bob & fay 7/1/89 Hawaiian Eye Carol Post Waterfront Postal Center (Honolulu) Now that summer is over, fewer folks are taking off on long passages and arriving, from distant ports. We know that Howard Kucera arrived safely in San Francisco with his Freedom 32, Club Penguin. It was a no problem sail. Neil O'Donnell and a crew of three left Hawaii for Long Beach aboard Te Hoa, his Irwin 37 ketch. Twelve days into the trip they discovered a fuel leak and decided to turn back to Hawaii. Neil is regrouping now and looking for crew again. James Underwood reported a rough trip when he singlehanded his 30-ft sloop

Evora up from Tahiti. He's now enroute to San Francisco. Christopher Robinson reports he had a varied passage from Hawaii to Sitka aboard his 37-ft British yacht On the negative side, the weather was bad as a series of depressions came through with gale force winds. Worse still, it was so foggy and overcast that a running fix a day was the best he could do. Robinson didn't see land until he was three miles from the Sitka Harbor entrance. Then there were boat problems: the bail on the boom broke, the mainsail split a seam, there was fuel blockage in the engine, the anchor broke loose, the Loran worked intermittently and the SatNav failed. Other than that, things were fine. Lesrodasan and Foreigner, two yachts he kept in contact with, ran into the drift nets that are massacring ocean life. There were good parts to Rising Star's passage, too. The weather just off Hawaii was great, the passage was made in 18 days, the strong winds were from aft, and good navigation got them in Sitka Harbor without a tack. Repairs at sea proved effective, too. The boom was jury-rigged, the mainsail rip was sewed, the anchor was re-secured, and the engine was coaxed into running once again after it was bled umpteen times and the fuel system tom , apart. Robinson's two crew turned out to be great, and they had a fun sail from Sitka through Glacier Bay to Juneau once they arrived in the 51st state. Joined by a replacement crew of friends, the new crew of Rising Star cruised down the spectacular Inland Passage and saw pods of whales, bears, eagles, seals, glaciers, otters and 80° weather. Robinson reports that his boat is now safe and in good hands at Vancouver Island "where there is plenty of good cheap space and no noise or dirt The people are great, the scenery wonderful and plenty of home brewed beer available. — carol post 9/15/89 Cruise Notes: Good news for those headed to Cabo San Lucas this winter! Gil of Papi's Deli says that the work on the Inner Harbor Marina is so far behind schedule that it looks at though yachties will be able to anchor in there again free this year — at least on a limited basis. In years past, the Pbrt Captain — a reasonable guy — would

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let the number of boats build up to about one hundred, then he'd throw everybody out Slowly, boats would creep back in until the number reached 100 again, then everybody would be thrown out again. Sup¬ posedly it's an unusual form of Inner Harbor pollution control. When we went to press last month, hurricane Kiko was just about to hit Baja Sur with 115 knot winds. In more good news, she came ashore and dissipated at an unpopulated area between Cabo and La Paz. There were no ill effects in La Raz. Cabo got lots of wind and 13 inches of rain, the combination of which knocked out 16 power stations in Southern Baja, leaving them without power or water. While metal towers became pretzels in outlying areas, and big surf pounded the beaches, there was no lasting damage or heavy surge in the Inner Harbor. Both Gil and Karen are getting anxious for early November when the first arrivals in Latitude's Some Like It Hot California to Mexico Cruiser's Rally will be arriving. As always, Gil and Karen will enter each boat on the rally list — there were nearly 400 last year — and then welcome the First Mate to Cabo with a free ice cream cone. About one captain in ten will win a free black and pink neon Some Like It Hot rally T-shirt from Latitude 38. Those who don't win a shirt can purchase one from Papi's. And don't anybody forget the Cabo Christmas Regatta in late December. With the full support of the Mayor and Port Captain, they'll be dinghy fishing tournaments, a “Holy Frijolel" chili cooking contest, volleyball games, caroling, gift-giving to the poor kids of Cabo, and lots of free prizes from the merchants of Cabo. Volunteers are needed to assist running the low-key affair, so contact Gil and Karen through the net when you arrive. Those headed to Cabo this winter might bump into former San Francisco Bay sailors Bill and Heather Clute aboard the Tayana 52, 22 Windward, which was their old address in Belvedere. The former owners of the Ericson 39, Chiquita; Tartan Ten,. D/no; Peterson 41, High Noon; and Peterson 48, Annabelle Lee; have been living aboard in Ventura recently and have purchased insurance as far as Panama. Which way they head from Noriega-land is up for grabs. Also headed south are Jed and Anne Gardner, who started their cruise in 1987 with New Zealand snow on the decks of their South Pacific 42, Aotea. Designed by Bob Perry, the boat features the distinctive

The Gardners, up from New Zealand, are headed for Mexico, Panama, the Caribbean and Barcelona.

"linguini strut" upon which radar, antennas and other goodies are mounted. It also has a wing keel, which Jed, who put in 30 years as a professor at UCLA, says you can't tell from a regular keel. Well, almost The wing tends to catch on kelp, but it's better for sitting atop coral heads. The Gardners sailed from Christchurch to Auckland, Tonga, Samoa, Palmyra (their favorite), Hawaii, Ventura, Mexico and up the Sea of Cortez (which they loved), back to San Diego, up the central coast (they found San Simeon to their liking) to San Francisco. After a few more weeks in San Francisco, they plan to sail back to Mexico, through the Panama Canal and to the Caribbean. Ultimately their plan is to meet up with Dick and B.J. Deaver on the Farr 55, Outta Here, at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Pacific Marine Supply in San Diego is offering three cruising seminars this fall for those headed south. October 5 is Survival at Sea; October 19 is Provisioning; November 2 is Radio Communications. The seminars are two hours at night and require prior registration. Call (619) 223-7194. Talk about your awful ideas! According to the New Zealand Herald (sent to us by Robin Lambert of Los Angeles), Tonga and Iran are discussing setting up a crude oil depot on Nuafou'ou, Tonga's northernmost island. No, this is not a joke. The island's lagoon would be pumped dry, covered with a thick bed of concrete, and then storage tanks built Iranian crude would be stored on the island, also known as Tin Can Island, for distribution by tanker to New Zealand,

South America and countries of the Pacific Rim. King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga says Tin Can Island would make a great storage depot because it has good deep¬ water access for super tankers. He neglected to mention that Tin Can was the sight of a violent earthquake in 1946. Can't you just see it now: tropical jihad! To the best of our knowledge, only two Northern California yachts will be competing, which may or may not be the correct word, in this year's Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. The ARC, which exploded to life three years ago with a fleet of over 200 boats, starts in the Grand Canary Islands on November 25, and follows the path of Columbus 2700 miles across the Atlantic to Barbados. An excellent crossing time is 15 days; the hope is that all competitors finish in time for Christmas in Barbados. The two Northern California boats entered in what's expected to be another 200-boat fleet are Jim and Diana Green Jessie's Nalu IV and Jim Hill's Spellbound. The Jessie's Nalu is a wood hull Lapworth 48 they departed San Francisco aboard four years ago. They've since sailed most of the way around the world, with a stop in Australia for the 1987 America's Cup. Their reports have appeared in these pages numerous times. Hill's Farr 55 was built in New Zealand and has yet to taste home waters. Hill and Jessie, former small boat and IOR racers, have relatively light boats that should do well under spinnaker in the trades. In fact, we can visualize both of them now, smacking their lips at the prospect of carrying the chute 2,700 miles in ideal conditions. On September 23 the Coast Guard was looking around for a boat to come to the rescue of the Southern California-based Catalina 38, The Capt & The Kid. The boat had broken her rudder 90 miles to the southwest of Cabo San Lucas, and was wallowing around in 15 foot seas. The Coast Guard had found a boat that would rescue the crew — the owner was not aboard — but couldn't find anyone willing to tow the boat into port We're a little tardy with this news, but Michael Beattie of Santa Cruz completed his Gulf IntraCoastal Waterway journey aboard the Flicka 20, Cio Go San. Now temporarily relocated in Tampa, Beattie writes: "Alter the trials and tribulations of my trip down the waterway from Corpus Christi, I definitely recommend that part of the Gulf only to those that enjoy roughing it" page 158

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MOORE24. Superbly kept, customfeatures. Fast

CAPR114 (like Lido but fixed keel) with trailer,

ERICSON 23. 6 hp Johnson, porta-potti, new

outboard bracket, sails. $950. (415) 872-3804.

battery, stereo, bottom painted 8/89. Great first

beyond belief. Complete extensive cruise & race

boat. Sleeps 4. No blisters. $4,200. Pete (415)

sail inventory. Custom graphics with unique deck

866-8683 after 6 pm.

layout Custom new trailer with easy on & off

9-FT LIVINGSTON double hull skiff. Excellent ZODIAC with newer 8 hp Suzuki motor. Trade for

$3.00 for postage and handling for individual issues requested.

loading features. A fantastic value at $11,500.

condition. $500. (415) 454-3336.

smaller o/b and inflatable or sell for $950. Call

J-24 in immaculate condition. 2 full sets sails (8),

Dave w: (415) 332-5311 or h: (415) 332-7236.

one set new. New bottom paint, lots of new gear.

24 FEET AND UNDER

15- FT WEST WIGHT POTTER, 1981, #1144.

Please rush!! (415) 862-2972 or 462-8552.

Perfect to cruise or race an active fleet on the Bay.

SANTANA 22. New motor. Coyote Pt. Berth.

$10,500.(415)659-1653.

Motivated seller. $2,950. No reasonable offer refused. (415) 365-7834.

Fully equipped. 2 hp Mariner, oars. Incredibly RANGER 22. Loaded with sails: 4 jibs, 3 spinna¬

versatile trailer/cruiser but too small for my grow¬ OFFSHORE MOORE 1984. Cabin top SC 24-ft.

kers. 4.5 hp Johnson o/b, trailer, compass, KM,

RANGER 22. Very nice boat Original owner.

Loran, radar, detector, KM, trailer, lots of sails.

stereo cassette, lots of extras. Great Bay or lake

110% genoa, 3/4 oz spinnaker, 4 hp Seagull o/b,

FLYINGDUTCHMAN. Allwood, race ready, trailer,

$1,600 or take over payments of $265/mo. Call

boat Dry docked in Richmond. Have new baby -

DS, compass, stereo, cass., Trailrite trailer.

cover, 2 mains, 5 jibs, Z-Spar mast, 2 booms, 2

(408)338-3418.

must sell. $6,000 or b/o. (415) 934-2061.

Berthed Stockton Sailing Club. $3,250 or b/o.

rudder, balsa core with carbon fiber, white hull,

CAL 20. Needs TLC. Vallejo berth. $2,000/offer.

FREEDOM 21. The Mercedes of the small boat

varnished mahogany deck - gorgeous. $2,500.

Must sell. Barbara (408) 492-5122.

world. Quality construction and high performance

ing family. $2,500, b/o or trade. (415) 644-1988.

(209)476-0288.

trapeze harnesses, hull and blades faired, CB &

24-FTNIGHTENGALE. Great sail inventory, good

enhance the characteristics of this sleek little

Bay boat. Desperate to sell - Best offer. Days:

CAPE DORY, TYPHOON, Carl Alberg designed

boat. She’s so easy to get away from the docks

283-1166, nights: 254-7914.2-150% genoas, 1-

452-3381. Fully

pocket cruiser. Clean, good Baysailer. VHF, an¬

and wrap up when you return that lunch hour

95% self-tending jib on an whisker pole. Spinna¬

equipped and rigged Pelican with trailer, foam

chor, life jackets, 4 sails, Mercuiy 7.5 hp o/b,

sailing is a reality. She can be yours for only

ker & pole.

flotation, sails, more! Excellent condition and ready

more. Sleeps 4. Two axle trailer. $5,000. (408)

$12,000 or about $185 per mo. Call for David at

to sail. Owner moving out of the area and must

258-5598.

(707) 745-6000 days or (707) 746-6120 eves.

MOORE 24,1980. Good condition, freshwater

days or (415) 373-0190 eves.

PEARSON 23, ELECTRA, Carl Alberg designed

23-FT STAR RACER. Needs work. North sails,

Trailrite trailer. $8,500, must sell. (408) 623-2532.

pocket cruiser. Clean, good Bay sailer. Compass,

wood boom, mast, hull. Has winches, sails, hard¬

CAPR113 CYCLONE, similar to Laser. Very good

VHF, anchor, life jackets, 3 sails, pulpit, lifelines,

ware, trailer. $750. (209) 298-4046.

condition. No trailer. $500. Boat is located in San

new 6 hp Evinrude o/b, more. Sleeps 4. $4,000.

Rafael. (707) 938-5745.

(408)258-2868.

EXCELLENT

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boat. Full set racing sails including 3 mylar jibs,

sell. Asking $1,700. MarkTriska (415) 463-6421

20-FT FL1CKA. $18,000. Custom interior (dinette). Strong singlehanding rig. Three Larsen sails. KM,

HOLDER 12 by Hobie Cat. 12-ft hand-laid-up-

DS, o/b, VHF, Autohelm, full cover. Moss Landing

fiberglass monohull. Only used once. Member¬

slip. Blisters. (408) 633-5760.

LASER. Good condition. New sail, sheet, blocks.

24-FT WOODEN SLOOP. Great Bay boat. De¬

ship in Holder Class Assoc. Includes EZ Loader

Complete. $700. (707) 552-7554 leave msg.

cent sails, no engine. Full keel, copper fastened

trailer. $1,500. Call (707) 963-7026, eves.

CORONADO 15-FT, 1969 with trailer. Both have current registration. North Sail sails. Boat and

on oak frames. Strong and pretty little sloop. Un¬ 16- FT S.F. BAY GREAT PELICAN. 8-ft beam.

furnished below decks - you build in whatever ac¬

CATALINA22,1980. Clean, swing keel, pop-top,

sails in good condition. $1,700. Call Greg (707)

Incredible boat has sailed to Hawaii. Complete

commodations you want Asking $3,000. David 6-

galley, porta-potti, club jib, reef points, storm jib,

526-2346.

with 6 hp o/b motor and trailer in excellent condi¬

9 pm 848-2518, Berkeley.

ground tackle, stove, cockpit cushions, 5 hp Mariner o/b, TraiIrite trailer with extendable tongue

S2 6.8,22-FT. Flush deck, 2 coats bottom paint 9/

RANGER 23,1972. Evinrude 7.5 hp, KM, com¬

and brakes. Fresh water only. $5,500. Call (209)

88. Trailer, radio, head, 15 gal water storage.

INFLAT ABLE high quality 12-ft Perelli. Hard wood

pass, anchor, fenders, rigged for racing, new

823-0879.

Listed at 3050 lbs., Sausalito berth. $9,000. Call

floor boards and keel, stiffeners, 20 hp Johnson,

sails. $6,999. (707) 644-6021.

tion. All for only $3,500. (916) 776-1094.

(415) 332-8784.

oars, jackets, paddles. $1,560. (408) 996-2045.

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CORONADO 23. Electric start 10 hp o/b, EZ Loader trailer, stove, porta-potti. New wood trim and paint. $4,000. (415) 366-6361. 18-FT, 1953 HOLSINGOR JOLLEN. Double ender. Danish fir on oak. Teak decks, mahogany cabin/cockpit Sleeps 2. New s/s rig, sails, keel bolts. Refastened. 2 anchors, 100-ft anchor line, chain, 5.5 hp Seagull. Just hauled. $3,200. (415) 655-6719. RANGER 23, “BANJO", 1977. Crisp & clean. Hauled May '89.1 trkadial, 2 mains, 3 jibs, KM, compass, battery, bow stem, pulpits, lifelines. 388-5116. RANGER 22. 2 mains, 5 jibs, spinnaker, 6 hp Johnson o/b. Many extras! Richmond berth. $3,250. (415) 663-1500 eves. MERCURY 18-FT classic racing, day sailing sloop. #20. Manufactured 1938, restored to very good/ original condition. Trailer. $3,200. (209) 723-6941 days or (209) 722-5239 nights. YANKEE DOLPHIN 24-FT. Beautiful. Like-new sails incl spanker. Bow/stem pulpits, 6 hp Johnson, DS & KM, Sea Hawk VHF, dinette, stove, head. Sacrifice $8,900. (916) 428-2478 eves/wknds. CAL 20. City berth. Lots of sails. $3,000. Needs more love than ocean racer can give. Jim D: (415) 397-5391 or E: (415) 661-5239. J-24,1979. Four sails, spinnaker gear. New Nis¬ san 5 hp o/b. Very well maintained, presently in charter in Redwood City. $9,800 or offer. Call (415)474-1225. RANGER 23. Great Bay boat, sturdy & reliable, New sails, o/b, VHF, lifelines. Ready to race or cruise. Sausaiito berth. $9,000. Call eves: (415) 454-7316. 20-FT CLASSIC CAR ANITA SLOOP. Mahogany on oak, 2700 lb displacement built 1958. Nearly new Sutter sails w/covers, rebuilt cockpit bronze winches, cabin needs some work. Wonderful Bay boat and good sailer. Berthed in Sausaiito. $1,800. Call Joe 457-0153. CM21 CREALOCK designed swing keel trailer sailboat. New: self-tending jib, rigging, porta-potti, Signet SL-80 KM/DS, Plastimo compass. Good: o/b, VHF, main, working jib, trailer. Made in 1971, looks 5 years old. Sleeps 3. $3,000 or b/o. (408) 353-1877 Norm. 22-FT FALMOUTH CUTTER. LOA 30-ft. Lyle Hess. Max-mini world cruiser. Spinnaker, diesel, propane, AP, furling, head, VHF, RDF, depth, knot Danforth, CQR. Excellent condition. $32,500. (714) 682-4941.

LEISURE 17 English F/G cabin sloop. Four berths. Ideal pocket cruiser for Bay, Delta, lakes. Very stable, twin keels (550 lbs). Three sails, lines led aft, OBM, AP, VHF, galley, potti, cushions, an¬ chors, trailer, new tires, bearings. $3,500. (408) 927-0236. CAL 20. Excellent condition. Hull #1732.1985 6 hp Johnson Sailmaster with alternator. North main and class jib. New North 150 genoa and 90 jib. New lights. Fully equipped bridge. Hydrodynamically shaped rudder. Never raced in the Bay. $3,600. Alameda berth. Mike (415) 347-6752. O’DAY 22,1980. Like new inside and out Sleeps 4, galley, head. New bottom paint, rigging, KM, DS, compass, o/b. T railer included. 3 sails: 110% and 150% jibs & main. $7,500. Must see! (408) 238-4515 leave msg. RANGER 23,1976. Very dean. Race rigged. Main, dass lapper, spinnaker (North), 90% jib, 155% genoa VHF, DS, KM, 6 hp Johnson, much more. Hauled 3/89, no blisters. Custom trailer. $10,500/trade for down on 30-34 ft R/C. Call (408) 265-2494. 19-FT O’DAY MARINER. Fixed keel model with trailer. Perfectforthe Bay, Delta or Baja $1,200 or b/o. (707) 829-2494. RANGER23,1974. Bristol condition, 1/89 survey, no blisters. Autohelm, Horizon VHFand DS, Santa Cruz tabemade mast, Optimus sea swing stove, 1/89 Copperlux bottom paint. $6,900. Call (415) 851-7804. CAL20.Trailer, 6 hp Evinrude motor, mainsail, jib & genoa Radng bridge, porta-potti, whisker pole, solar power electric, custom cushions & curtains. Clean, freshwater sailed. $4,250. Joe Hill (916) 823-6867. RANGER 22,1979. Mull design, fast. Exc. cond. 6 bags ind spinnaker gear, headfoil, trailer, lifting bridle, like new o/b motor, all interior/exterior cushions, porta-potti. Boat in Long Beach on trailer. Delivery possible. $3,950. (213) 438-3685. SANTANA 22. Gary Mull design for S.F. Bay. Race rigged w/spinriaker and new mylar jib. YFIA season champ '85, midwinter ’88. Strong dass org. w/race and cruise activities makes for high resale value and lots of fun. Reduced to $4,500 or b/o. Call Karen at 865-4351 or 696-5303. BRISTOL 20-FT. 1960’s built, veiy solid Alberg design. Fun keel sloop. Large cockpit, great for Bay. new rigging, functioning sails, rebuilt 5 hp o/ b. $1,800. Call 824-9290 before 7:30 and after 5. CLASSIC ZEPHYR #30. Newrigging, paint, sails. Great trailer. Fast & fun to sail. $700 or b/o. (707) 829-2494.

CAL 20. Hull #70. One of the cleanest on the Bay. Excellent condition. Recent bottom fairing job/ new keel bolts. New deck hardware. 5 sails. Many extras included: o/b, toilet, cockpit cushions, EZ Loader trailer. $3,900/offer. Mark (415) 355-3577. FJ 14-FT VAN DUSSELDORP, Honduras ma¬ hogany, well maintained, beautiful boat. Sails, trailer, cover. $1,400. Venture 17. sails, trailer, sound cond. $1,600. Petaluma (707) 762-6649.

25 TO 31 FEET GOLDEN GATE. Lease my dassic 25-ft woody (the newest one in this active Bay Area one design fleet) for midwinter radng or cruising. Available immediately at a reasonable rate. Sausaiito berth. Call 383-0232.

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J-29. Race ready. 10 sails, 8 hp Evinrude o/b, actively raced and cruised on the Bay. Join a great fleet. Great deal, low or no money down. $32,000. Call Andy 641-8323.

CATALINA 27,1975. Mint condition. Atomic 4 engine, sleeps 5. All standard equipment plus many extras. Berthed at Brisbane. Mustsell. Asking $12,000 or b/o. Call Dick at (415) 297-4131.

25-FT PEARSON F/G SLOOP. Excellent boat, bristol condition. All new interior trim, cabinetry, electricals, etc. Improved deck gear, rigging, etc. Too many extras to list. Spadous interior. Handles heavy wind with ease, points high. Tomales Bay berth. $7,500 or b/o. (415) 663-1704.

LANCER 30 MKII, 1978. Completely equipped, ready to cruise. Great condition, four sails, Yanmar dsl, wheel, Autohelm, VHF, KM, DS, stereo, h/c pressure water, new rigging, all teak interior. $22,000. Call Pam (415) 839-1803 days or (415) 866-0949 eves.

CATALINA 27,1977. Roller furling, cabin & stem dodgers, Navico AutoTiller, 10 hp o/b, 2 bat, DS, KM, VHF, stereo, new varnish, propane stove, dinette. Sleeps 6. Excellent condition. $14,500. (408)923-2406.

ERICSON INDEPENDENCE 31-FT CUTTER. Furling, new drifter, new windlass, Bruce, CQR, new hi-test chain, new dodger, new SalNav, new VHF, masthead strobe, Yanmar, dinghy w/Tohatus. At Escondido, Mexico. $45,000 firm. (916) 791-7679. P.O. Box 2448, Roseville, CA 95746.

HUNTER 30 SLOOP, 1979. New diesel, wheel, furl, shower, h/c pressure water, new canvas, cushions, Delta awning, sleeps 6. VHF, Loran, Alpine stereo AM/FM cassette. All CG equipment Beautiful teak interior/teak holly sole. Complete galley. Bristol. $28,000. (415) 494-2730. 27- FT BALBOA 1980. Trailer, Chrysler o/b, KM, DS, VHF, 3 sails, dean boat. Boat is in Baja. Mexico near Loreta. $13,000. (916) 389-2413 or (916)367-4484. YANKEE 26-FT. S&S luxury design sloop, beau¬ tifully fitted, lovingly maintained. Ideal Bay and Delta cruiser, sleeps 4. Full galley, stereo, marine head, i/b dsl, s/s radio, fathometer, 3 headsails. $14,500. Berthed in Richmond Marina Call (415) 548-7629 or 457-7448.STONEHORSE BY EDEY & DUFF, 1978. Cutter rig, excellent condition. Berth Sausaiito. $18,000 or trade for powerboat. (415) 431-6083. 25- FT SAMAURI. French built, 1972. 3 sails, VHF, DF, KM, F/G hull, 6 hp Evinrude long shaft, 2 tanks, Alameda berth. $5,900. (408) 258-1467 eves/wknd or (408) 727-0500 x215 days.

CATALINA 25,1981. Excellent condition. Full keel, 10 hp Chrysler o/b, electric start, DS, 3 sails and much more. Affordable Bay and Delta cruiser. New bottom paint and epoxy. Must sell, $11,000. Call Steve (408) 335-2918 eves. THUNDERBIRD 26-FT. Good condition. 7 sails, head, stove, sink, freshwater tank, 20 hp o/b motor, s/s rigging, battery, electrical system. Berthed Richmond Yacht Harbor. $3,500 or b/o. Phone J.P. work: 234-4554 or home: 235-0559. OLSON 30. Orig. owner vessel launched 1981 (Hull #66). Sail inventory ind 85/100/130/2-155%, /75 & 1.2 oz spinnakers/main. Johnson 4 hp o/b, VHF, KM, RDF, compass, ground tackle & all covers. Exceptionally clean. Asking $17,500. Call (415)523-4485. RANGER 26. 7 sails including spinnaker and gear, VHF, KM, DS, compass, 2-spd winches, 10 hp o/b, new cushions and sail covers. Proven racer, comfortable cruiser. $10,900. (916) 6841723.

CATALINA 27,1977. Exc. cond. Almost all new main, jib, VHF & Honda 10 hp o/b, tabemade mast, stereo, etc. $16,000 invested, however two heart attacks forces saleto best offerover$12,000. Call (415) 655-9469.

BALBOA 27 with trailer. Excellent condition. Die¬ sel engine, Martec prop, 2250w generator, microwave oven, TV, AM/FM/CM stereo, Loran, RDF, VHF, DS, KM, Autohelm, EPIRB, auto bilge pump, RFjib, RF genoa, reefing main w/cover, spinnaker w/pole, dodger, bimini, propane BBQ, full galley, new interior, teak trim, three anchors w/chain/ rode, first aid kit boarding ladder, 30A power cord, life cushions/vests, flare gun kit, handheld com¬ pass, 9-ft dinghy w/3.5 hp o/b and much more. Ready for serious cruising. $19,900. Call (916) 988-2951.

26- FT THUNDERBIRD SLOOP. Well loved & loaded w/equipment. 4 bags sails. Spruce mast. Sleeps 4. Great racer/cruiser. Ready to deal. Peter (415) 327-1569 eves.

MERIT25,1983 with 5 bags of sails and complete spinnaker gear, VHF, compass, o/b, knot, log, 2 spd winches and much more. Excellent condition. $14,750or b/o. Call 800-888-3007, ask for George.

28- FT KETCH DORY DESIGN. Good condition. New sails, motor, ground tackle. Sleeps 2, small galley. Easy to trailer, 711" beam. Afloat in Morro Bay with Mooring. $9,750/offer. Call Greg (805) 772-2001.

OLSON 25-FT. Fast, roomy with trailer, full set of 7 sails, 4.5 hp o/b, electronics, deluxe interior, full race package. Join a great fleet. Eager. $17,000. (408)448-5181.

DUTCH MAID 30. Wooden sloop. 25 hp VolvoPenta, main, storm jib, small spinnaker, VHF, DS, endosed head, and more. $2,500 firm. Call (707) 552-8389.

30’x24'x9'6''x4'ANGLEMAN wooden gaff sloop. Mahogany on oak, teak decks & cabin. Heavily built in Holland, Albin dsl, 50 gal fuel, 50 gal water, separate head, galley, Loran, AP, VHF, RDF, DS, KM, $23,500. (408) 281-1805.

PEARSON TRITON 28.6. Alberg design. Full keel, Atomic 4 engine, 4 sails, main, genoa, jib, spinnaker, new 2 burner alcohol stove, head, new Riche compass, VHF, AM/FM cassette stereo, sleeps 4. Solid liveaboard cruiser. Sausaiito berth. $8,000 or b/o. (707) 5844132.

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ISLANDER BAHAMA 30,1981. Mint condition, Volvo dst, pedestal steering w/Datamarine gauges. Lewmar self-tailing winches, h/c pressure water, shower, new dodger, VHF & AM/FM cass., 3 sails,new epoxy bottom. Many nice extras and Delta berth. $31,950 w/trailer. (209) 745-9272. CAL 29. New rigging. Jibs: 95,110,130 and 150 mylar. New spinnaker. 2 mains, Loran, RDF, VHF, KM, log, depth, wind speed and direction. Atomic 4.2 Autohelms, Avon 4-man raft, custom cover. All good condition. $24,000. Call (415) 892-9798. 30-FT PEARSON SLOOP, 1978. Easy, great sailing with beautiful interior. New bottom paint on recent haulout 9/89. Atomic 4 engine works su¬ perb. 110% and 150% jib. DF, VHF, wheel, singlehand, extra storage space, shore power and phone. Low maintenance. Fred Blick 3310715 or 955-9400. NORDIC FOLKBOAT, 25-FT. Beautiful condi¬ tion. A classic wooden boat. Elegant brightwork, new deck, rails, hardware and paint, very good sails. One of the fleets best. Perfect SF Bay racing and cruising boat. Great price: $7,500. (415) 331-5263. CAL 29 - STEAL THIS BOAT. Injury forces sale. Fully equipped, Loran, VHF, depth, 155,150,125, working jib, mylar staysail, 2 spinnakers, etc, low hours on Atomic 4. Ready to go. $10,000 or b/o. (415) 752-7986 or 4314666.-• CORONADO 27, F/G, 1972. Good condition. Dry and comfortable weekender. 2jibs,9.9hpHonda o/b, compass, VHF, DF, head, stove, sink, shoal draft keel. Sleeps 5. $10,500. (415) 726-2815. 26-FT REINELL Sleeps 6. New interior, head, extra large cockpit, galley, 6'3’ standing headroom, i/bdsl, self-bailer, main & genoasails, shoal draft keel. Needs some paint. EZ Loader tandem trailer with brakes. $7,500. (209) 298-4046. ETCHELLS 22. Ready to race. Winning history, latest sails, trailer, many extras. $10,900 cash or owner will finance with $3,950 down & 200/mo. Call (415) 548-4159 or (415) 547-0685. NOR SEA 27-FT. Aft cabin cruiser. New 2 GM 20 Yanmar, shore power, trailerable & in good condi¬ tion. Berthed at Bodega Bay (Spud Point E10). $37,000. Call 6 p.m.-8 p.m. only (707) 865-2739. OLSON 30 and trailer for sale at Tahoe, and nobody has ever seen it! Got all the go fast stuff! Should be $20,000 - Asking $16,500. Call (916) 542-2340 eves. CAL 2-27, 1978. Fully equipped popular Bay boat. Sleeps 5, complete galley and head. VHF, DS, KM, stereo. Rve sails incl spinnaker. Roller furling. Atomic 4. Strong racer and comfortable family cruiser in excellent condition. Must sell. $19,900. (415) 932-2361 or (707) 422-7003.

26-FT CLASSIC MARIEHOLM Inf! Folkboat, 1975. F/G, jib, genoa, spinnaker, new 8 hp Evinrude o/b, new sail cover, dodger, Sausalito berth. Must sell, leaving the country. $9,000 or b/o. Gary (415)653-7713. MONTGOMERY 15. The Cadillacof pocket cruis¬ ers. Keel sloopsleeps two. Boat and trailer in mint condition. Ready to sail - Many extras. 1988 Evinrude 4 hp long shaft o/b, literally 2 hours running time. Asking $4,500. (415) 854-6140 before OcL 11. COLUMBIA 30-FT SLOOP. Atomic 4, alcohol stove, shorepower, 6-ft hdrm, sleeps 6,3 jibs. 10/ 87 survey $22,000. Since, new lifelines, propeller, thru-hulls valves, holding tank, two coats bottom paint, head, dock lines, VHF, compass. $17,500 or offer. (916)441-7401. CASCADE 29. Great buy. Strong F/G hand lay¬ up. 2-spd winches, 2 jibs, main, 2 radios, sleeps 5. Diesel engine, Harken Traveler. $9,950. John (415) 969-5112 or (408) 257-7873. OLSON 30.7.5 Johnson. Race equipped, fast. Main, blade, 130, and 105 used only during one light race season. KM, wind indicator, 1981. $19,950. Texan Yacht (713) 334-6555. CATALINA 30. Factory extended-rig model, dsl, good condition throughout Sail Inv: 110%, new main, 80% and 150%, Barient jib, spinnaker & halyard winches, VHF, pressure water, Sausalito slip. $22,500. Call Tom 441-4455 days or 3886154 eves. 25-FT F/G NORDIC FOLKBOAT. Hull-New. In building cradle. Cabin and cockpit sole, wood bulkheads and laminated deck beams installed. Dark blue hull with white bootstripe. Great project Make offer as is - $ or trade. (415) 522-2705. ERICSON 26,1968. Excellent shape. VHF, CB, KM, DS, compass, spreader lights. Newly re¬ wired. 15 hp electric start o/b, 3 batteries, dinghy, galley, new blocks & running rigging, anchor w/ chain 200+ line. Pete’s Harbor berth. $8,900 or b/ o. Bill (415) 876-0917 days; (415) 795-7921 eves. COLUMBIA 30,197Z Magnificent, strong, cruis¬ ing sloop. Beautiful lines, large cabin. Well equipped, self-contained head, Atomic 4, roller furling jib and much more. Survey 6/89, bristol condition. $19,970. (415) 795-6043. PEARSON 30,1977. Original owner, ideal for cruising, includes raft, sleeps 4, Atomic 4 engine. Must sell - Price lowered to $15,000 or b/o. (415) 547-4177. 25-FT SLOOP, GOLDEN GATE #7, built 1931. Substantively restored and very actively sailed. (No major work requiredl) $1,000 or b/o. Also 9-ft Metzeler inflatable, hard-transom w/2 hp Seagull, $500 or b/o. 5 hp longshaft Silver Seagull o/b, $100 or b/o. 652-5036.

CAL 2-29,1975. Diesel, wheel, roller furling, 3 jibs, dodger, Loran, VHF, AP, refrig, pressure water, 2 anchors, RDF, microwave, etc. Below book at $19,800, this sturdy, comfortable boat also sails fast Active owner's assoc, and one design fleet. (916) 756-1264. 27-FT SOLING with trailer. New jib. Some new running rigging. $2,500/offers. (415) 661-9231.

CAPE DORY 25,1979. Fullkeel, brass portholes, teak cabin, o/b, DF, VHF, Very dean. $14,000. (415)620-2830/461-0510. CLASSIC WOODEN BOAT. 26-ft Cheoy Lee Padfic Clipper, 1962. Varnished hull, new Yan¬ mar dsl. Full keel, main, jib, genoa, spinnaker, radio, dinghy, Sausalito berth. Excellent condi¬ tion, looks gorgeous, a very stable sailboat a must sell $11,000 or b/o. (415) 364-8350.

PACIFICSEACRAFT DANA, 1985. Superb qual¬ ity 27-ft(ind bowsprit) cruiser. Roller furling, genoa, shower, CNG stove, oven, single handler’s pack¬ age, teakeverywhere. $74,000 if new, $56,000for this meticulously maintained one owner yacht. 974-0690 wk or 331-9252 hm. Peter.

RANGER 26,1973 MULL In excellent condition. Harken roller furl, VHF, 2 extra jibs, 2 spinnakers, dark blue hull, Mercury 10 hp o/b, no blisters, freshwater, Optimus stove, tiller, compass, KM. A steal at $8,900. (707) 838-2785.

PETERSON 30,1974 racing sloop. World 1/2 ton champion "North Star. 11-ft beam, fin keel cold molded mahogany hull. Sound, needs cosmetic work, much racing gear, 8 hp gas i/b. Sacrifice $7,500. (415) 697-5880 John.

CORONADO 30. Well maintained, sleeps 6, h/c pressure water, refridge/ice box, shore power, kerosene stove/oven, 3 jibs, main, spinnaker, VHF, depth, KM, compass, new dodger & covers, cockpit cushions, 1981 Yanmardsl.$19,000.(415) 865-6223.

CAL 2-29,1975. Excellent fully equipped dsl i/b, wheel steering, VHF, KM, fathometer, RDF, natu¬ ral gas stove/oven, teak interior, 4 winches, spin¬ naker, 150% and working jib, pressure water, ground tackle, anchors, fenders, etc. Great all purpose boat $21,900. (415) 527-0888. MODIFIED H-28. Double planked mahogany. Great condition. New full boat cover. May '89 haulout -'hull & topsides. Sausalito berth. $25,000. 331-7814. SOUNG 27-FT Olympic Class Yacht Radng condition. Lots of sails & trailer. $5,800. Days: (707) 545-4810 or nights: (415) 456-3306, Jerry. 30-FT HERRESHOFF KETCH (MOD H-28). Full keel cruiser. Great condition. Dodger, Loran, ground tackle, new engine, rigging, etc. Go any¬ where. Days: 984-6175, Hm: 331-8509. CATALINA 27,1980.7 sails. 85%, 110%, 120% mylar, 150%, 2 mains, 3/4 oz spinnaker, knot, depth, VHF, stereo, Universal dsl, much extra rigging. Excellent condition. New bottom+3 gals bottom paint. $16,900. (415) 634-1988. CRUISING FOLKBOAT, 27-FT. Teak decks, cockpit grates, boom crutch, Plexiglas bubble over hatch, new mast, stainless stem rail, pulpit, stanchions and lifelines, mainsail has slides. Pier Three, Oyster Pi Marina. $4,000. Any reasonable offer. Call days: 468-8151 or eves: 873-6010.

SAILBOAT • OLSON 25 with 30-ft berth in San Frandsco city front Top condition, seldom sailed. 9 hp o/b, 2 spinnakers, 2 jibs. $21,500.9294)789. PEARSON 28-FT, 1986. Boat in excellent condi¬ tion, professionally maintained. Fully equipped: dual batteries/charger, dodger, stereo, SatNav, AWI, WS, KS/log, DS, Yanmar dsl, wheel steer¬ ing, indudes all gear, Sausalito berth. Take over assumable loan @ $593/month. 331-8366. OLSON 25. Built Santa Cruz. Trailer, o/b, great sails, extras. $16,500. (209) 4644144 eves. ERICSON 30. Really is excellent! Roller furler, VHF, depth, knot log, propane stove, 4 sails w/ spinnaker, Imron paint bow roller, new covers inI out, 3 bilge pumps, rebuilt Atomic4. Loaded! First $17,750 takes. (415) 757-9514. 26-FT INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT. Excellent condition. 9.9 electric start Evinrude, VHF, DS, KL, plus extras. Epoxied bottom. Upwind Berkeley berth. $11,000.(916)9664228. ERICSON 27,1978. Atomic 4. Sails include 150, 110, 90, main, spinnaker and all gear. Depth, VHF, knot/log, windspeed & direction, Ritche ped compass and wheel steering. Covers for all wood and equipment Boat is in excellent condition. $2,100. (916) 6524567.

EXPRESS27,1984, hull#69. Excellent condition. VHF, KM, Plath compass, 1988 Evinrude 4 hp o/ b, 2 mains, 2 spinnakers, 6 jibs, several extras, trailer. $22,500. (415) 388-6531.

J-29. Excellent condition. Racing and practice sails. Almost new 8 hp Evinrude o/b motor. Pro¬ fessionally maintained. Tune up your skills during the mid-winters and be ready for next season. Excellent fleet. Make an offer. Ready to sell. Call (415) 328-2408.

J-29,1985. Well maintained, excellent shape and looks great w/custom paint Race equipped, very fast 7 North sails, masthead, 9 hp Johnson o/b, Signet wind instruments, 2 compasses, VHF/stereo, CG equipped. $33,000. Call Bob Ramsey wk: (801) 272-1900 or hm: 272-4528.

OLSON 25,1989. Winner 3rd TransTahoe. Built by Ericson,10yearwarranty.North race package. Deluxe interior, Micron bottom, new PHRF165. On trailer, $18,500. (916) 891-8736.

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CORONADO 25,1969. Excellent condition. 15 hp o/b, electric start, 6 sails, spinnaker, 6 winches, rigged for singlehanding, LPU mast VHF, stereo, Gimballed stove, custom curtains, cockpit cush¬ ions, elect water, carpets, etc., etc. $6,500. (707) 557-4238, after 5 p.m. SCAMPI 30. Swedish built 1/2 ton ocean racer with fully finished cruising/liveaboard interior. Stronger construction than almost any other 30-ft. Excellent condition, ready to sail. Good equip¬ ment 11 sails, dsl engine. San Francisco Yacht Harbor berth available. $27,500. Doug or Dolores (415)931-4384. CORONADO 30. In great condition, customized for comfort and convenience. Dodger, wheel, Palmer 4 cyl i/b, VHF, stereo, sleeps 6, recently painted and surveyed. Great Bay sailor. $25,000 or b/o. (415) 763-9960. CORONADO 25. Must sell. Brand new Pineapple Sails, never been used. Heavy duty rigging, 6.5 hp Evinrude engine, custom chart table and other extras. Hasn't been sailed since hauled, painted, polished 4 years ago. Great condition, just dirty. $5,000.(415)531-9229. BABA 30,1980 CUTTER. AP, refrigeration, dsl heater, dodger, 7 bags North sails and much more. Bristol condition and ready to cruise. $65,000.(415)655-2735. NONSUCH 26. Perfect condition, loaded. Spe¬ cially equipped for heavy Bay and Coastal sailing. Indudes Loran, RDF, EPIRB, AP, etc. Fast, luxu¬ rious and super easy to single-hand. Call (707) 554-8725. CAPR! 25 (BY CATALINA), 1981. Clean and fast Gauges, 5 bags, porta-potti, full spinnaker gear. Boat has been used very little. Can be seen at Pier 39, slip A1.9.9 outboard. Must sell now. $6,000 firm. 928-9148. SUN 27. Robert Perry design. Like new. Com¬ plete yard overhaul (hull, rigging, motor) Sept. 1989. Main, working jib, 150 gen., spinnaker, Yanmar dsl, sleeps 5, head and galley, VHF, deplh. Asking $18,000. (415) 472-0163. ALBIN 28,1982. Built in Sweden and a sweet boat Diesel, berthed at Metropolitan Yacht Club, Oakland. $25,500.547-4447. CATAUNA27,1976. Tall rig. Excellent condition. Great Bay/Delta boat with: dub jib, Atomic4, VHF, DS, KM, AM/FM stereo, stove with oven and n more. Must sell! Any reasonable offer under $11,500, will consider financing. (415) 945-8393. EXPRESS 27. 1986 and 1988 National Cham¬ pion. 1988 North Hi-Tech Kevlar radng sails plus cruising set Totally tricked-out rig, new oversized 2-spd winches, new 4 hp Evinrude o/b, trailer, commissioned 1986. $23,950. Call 421 -1070.

TARTAN 30,1975. A well kept & solid boat 3 headsails plus spinnaker. Freshwater boat new epoxy bottom. A great Bay/Coastal racer/cruiser, sleeps 6 comfortably. $26,500. Call Chuck, wkdys (916) 447-7600 or (916) 782-5714 eves/wknds.

PACIFIC SEACRAFT, ORION 27,1982 Cutter Wheel steering, 6 sails, dodger, biminl, boom gallows, radar, Loran, AP, windvane, VHF, ground tackle etc. (916)481-3199.

ERICSON 26 w/Coyote Pt. berth. Great Bay & Delta boat. VHF, DS, Loran & much more. $5,395. Price includes haulout & new bottom paint (707) 829-2494.

CAL 2-29,1977. Modem 29-ft sailboat with a large cockpit Yanmar dsl, wheel steering, Hood roller furling, North sails, new thruhulls. Indudes San Francisco Yacht Harbor Slip #369. $25,000 or b/o. Call Bob Louden (408) 741-1100.

CAL 29. New paint, epoxy bottom. New Ballenger boom, Martec prop. Equipped for offshore (emerg rudder, spare tiller, reinforced cabin, oversize rigging). Spin., good sails, Atomic, VHF, DS, propane stove, head, shower. Have other boat, must self! $13,500 or b/o. (408) 374-9087.

YAMAHA 25 MKII, 1977. Exc. cond. Yanmar, 5 bags, wind inst., ground tackle, safety gear, VHF, Loran, depth, small galley. Premium quality pocket cruiser or daysailer. Built for severe conditions around Japan. Boat in Long Beach. $12,950. (213)438-3685.

THUNDERBIRD. $6,500/offer buys race-ready 26-ft one design sloop. Aluminum mast, 2-spd Barients, Harken blocks, 6 hp o/b, KM, VHF, spinnaker & pole, full boat cover, lots more. Active radng/partying fleet (415) 636-0607, leave msg.

VEGA 27. Full keel Swedish pocket cruiser. Great Bay boat in all weather conditions. Extra sails. Inboard engine. Fully equipped and ready to sail. Just add crew. End of season sale! $14,500. All offers considered! (415) 965-0167 after Oct 16th.

CATALINA 25,1982. Fixed keel. Good condition. 3sails, 7.5 Evinrude, VHF, stove and more. $8,900. (707) 431 -2189. Trailer also available.

30-FT ETCH ELLS 22 #436. Ready to race - Fast. Excellent condition. Indudes 2 suites of sail and trailer. $7,500 or b/o. Call (415) 772-7091 work or (415) 254-9797 eves.

28-FT LARGE ENGUSH F/G SLOOP. Tough Atlantic vet Bargain - 2 boat owner. Needs TLC. Only $9,500. Brokers ok. Hurry, at this price it wont last Jim 886-7345 hm or 886-2100 wk.

CHRYSLER 26,1979. Swing keel, wheel steer¬ ing. 12 hp o/b with i/b controls. EZ Loader trailer. Custom interior, sleeps 6. Shore power, KM, DS, log, VHF, 4 sails, 2 anchors, head, galley, $15,000. Paul (916) 351-1975.

COLUMBIA 26 MKII. Very clean. New sails and forestay. 7 hp Evinrude. Rigged and equipped for singlehanding. Great Bay boat! Call Ken (415) 2284903 or Rufe (415) 689-2114.

BOMBAY31-FT CUPPER, 1978 F/G sloop. Orig owner, Yanmar dsl, wheel, VHF, pressure water, 3 sails, sleeps 5,6’1* hdrm, 3'9" draft Loaded for cruising, possible liveaboard. Shown in San Ra¬ fael berth. $32,000 o.w.c. (707) 935-3593.

OLSON 30,1979. Seven sails. New 7 1/2 hp Mercury. This boat is ready. For sailing fun with everything down to the stereo with inside & out¬ side speakers! The boat comes with a Trailrite trailer and youroff forthe Bay, Tahoe, Mexico... For additional info., call eves: (408) 479-9861 or (408) 476-2039. $16,000 or your b/o.

30-FT CHEOY LEE BERMUDA KETCH. Beauti¬ ful dassic cruiser just refurbished throughout. Fiberglass hull and teak decks. Fully equipped and appointed, with fireplace, Gimballed stove with oven, refrigerator, new upholstery. Atomic 4 engine just tuned. Good sail inventory. $25,000. (408)779-9200.

LASER 28,1985. Bruce Fan designed, not a Lancer. 7 sails including spinnaker and gear, Signet 1000/2000, Loran, AP, trailer w/lifting sling, i/b dsl, folding prop, dual Suunto compasses, VHF and more. Adjustable mortgage forces sale. $27,000. (415) 383-7786.

CAL 25,1969. Very good condition, many extras. DS, new KM, VHF and compass. Bottom job May 1989.2mains, 150%genoa, 100% jib, spinnaker. 1987 Honda 7.5 with orwithout trailer. $8,000 with trailer, or b/o. Eves: (916) 756-2331.

H-28 MODIFIED. LOA 30-ft Professional custom built, highest quality material, solid Honduras mahogany cabin sides, caps, teak deck, yellow cedar, Honduras mahogany interior, Cherry cabin sole, new Sterling paint on hull, cabin top, Interlux 2000 epoxy bottom. Fully rigged. Call for spec sheet $67,500 or b/o. (206) 282-8461.

BODEGA 30. Full keel F/G sloop. 3 sails, keelstepped mast, 2 cyl Volvo dsl, sleeps 6, VHF, KM, DS, stereo, Shipmate stove/oven, heater. Upwind Coyote PL berth. $19,750 for quick sale. (415) 344-3495 eves.

TARTAN 30-FT, 1974. Must sell. Excl condition. Extras, extras, extras. Boat used in Tartan's 1974 ads! $23,500 or b/o. Call Tod at 967-6301 wk or 948-9722 hm.

PEARSON 30-FT, 1977. 3 jibs, VHF, KM, DM, wheel, dodger, shore power, alcohol stove, hold¬ ing tank, water tank, sleeps 6. Hauled, bottom painted and surveyed Aug '89. Good condition. Berthed Oakland. $19,500. John (415) 797-3458.

26-FT COLUMBIA MARK II. Was redesigned to sail around the world. Special rigging, 2 jibs, stepped 30-ft mast, many extras, overhauled 6 hp Johnson. Must see to appreciate. Make offer or a 1/2 partnership possible. (415) 892-2369.

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OLSON30. “Navstarl, 1981,#129. JohnKostecki campaigned successfully. 11 sails. Sausalito. $22,000. Call (415) 948-8251. BALBOA 26. Swing keel sloop by Lyle Hess. Very well built. Comfortable, roomy interior. Comes w/ Tandem trailer, 9.9 hp Evinrude, bow & stem pulpits, lifelines, head, galley, 3 sails & misc gear. Featured in Latitude 38.. $6,500. (415) 925-1904. CATALINA 30,1976. Great Bay cruiser, week¬ end liveaboard. VHF, depth, wind speed/direc¬ tion, KM, Electrosan. Just hauled, bottom painted. Yanmar dsl rebuilt AC and 12V refrigerators, teak interior, 2 anchors, more. South Beach berth. $16,500. (415) 593-6545. CAL 2-29,1975. Excellent condition. Sleeps 6. Six sails w/spinnaker and drifter. Full instrumenta¬ tion, new covers, dsl, wheel steering, head, hp water, stove, shower, RDF, VHF, depth, KM, compass, many extras. $22,400. (408) 395-2077.

32 TO 39 FEET 39-FREYA, 1979. Exceptionally seaworthy F/G cruising sloop. Complete refit for cruising in 1989. New windvane, SatNav, dodger, Nilsson anchor windlass, rigging, electrical system, bilge pumps, interior cushions, etc. Completely rebuilt dsl. Cruise ready. $82,500. (213) 830-9666.

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OH SHIT! I forgot about the balloon payment due on new boat. Must sell! Columbia 26 MKII. VHF, AM/FM, DS, sleeps 5,2 burner stove, head. New everything - Rigging, keel, interior, lifelines, bot¬ tom. Over $4,500 invested in improvements/addi¬ tions. For God's sake, make offer! Alan w: (415) 659-9409 or h: (415) 623-8999.-

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MEXIC0READYC0R0NAD025,1989.Trailrite trailer, 6-ft hdrm, new interior, 2 large double bunks, dinghy, 2 motors, 5 sails, propane BBQ and stove, 2 anchors, Tillermaster, VHF, RDF, video sonar, stereo. $6,500. Box 1735, Clear Lake Oaks, CA 95423.

OLSON 25,1986. Deluxe interior for racing or cruising. Fully equipped with VHF, knot, full sail inventory plus, and 5 hp o/b. One of the best one designs on the Bay. $18,000 or b/o. (415) 5911336, leave msg.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27,1965. A well main¬ tained sloop with teak decks and trim throughout With Autohelm, many sails, new cushions, new 9 hp Yanmar, entertain your dosest friends aboard this beautiful, dassic yacht. $21,900. Call Jim today (916) 369-6664.

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BUCCANEER 27. Volvo dsl, 40 gal pressure water, shower, 4 sails, roller furling jib, full boat cover, extras. Great liveaboard. $7,500 or b/o. (408) 996-2045 or (415) 336-1074.

NEW 32-FT DREADNAUGHT Tahiti Ketch hull with ballast. Hush deck with interior roughed in. New 22 hp Saab dsl engine with variable pitch propeller and shaft installed. New dsl Dickinson stove. More extras. $20,000 or b/o. Days: (805) 772-2473 or eves; (805) 995-2364. APHRODITE 101 ■ 33-FT. Great singlehander ‘Stormrider' built by Bianca Yacht in Denmark. Former H&J season champion & 2nd place for 1988 season in J Division - HDA. New North main. Called “one of the prettiest boats in the Bay". Features beautiful Danish workmanship, mahog¬ any interior. Yanmardsl, 1 owner, sink, stove, sips 5. Fabulous cruiser for Bay. Self-tacking jib makes going up city front a breeze. $27,950. Call 8:304:00 M-Fri (415) 944-8600, ask for Greg Warner. HUNTER 37,1984 CUTTER. Swift & graceful sailing to weather. Cruise or liveaboard. Immacu¬ lately maintained. Separate cabins, sleeps 7, h/c water, shower, AM/FM tape stereo, stove/oven, Headfoil, oversized self-tailing winches, VHF, Datamarine, WS, WD, depth, Yanmar 30, Sausalito berth. Best offer. (415) 435-2924. SANTANA 35 “'American Eagle'. At South Beach Harbor with gorgeous new rig, she is fast and comfortable and has all the gearto race or cruise. $49,950. Call Tom at 326-2600. UNUSED FAIR WEATHER MARINER 39. Robed Peny cutter. Built with 10,000 man-hours of Tai¬ wan craftsmanship, best USA equipment, Mer¬ cedes dsl. Sells new for $155,000. Must sell Priced low $100,000's. I'll pay your sales tax. Coyote Pt slip included. (415) 6364302. YAMAHA 33,1979-80 Sloop racer/cruiser. 12 hp Yanmar dsl w/Monterey slip-Use as waterfront condo. Lots of sails/electronics/AP/cruising gear. $35,000 or b/o. (408) 375-2002/partner possible.ISLANDER FREEPORT 36, 1983. Layout B. Excellent condition. Spacious, teak interior, 50 hp Pathfinder dsl, roller furl. $75,000 firm. Call (415) 849-9678 eves. MULL 38 ‘Foxfire'. Excellent condition. Loaded with race and cruising equipment, North sails, good electronics, VW Rabbit dsl engine, refrigera¬ tion, CNG stove, AP. A Transpac vet winner of most Southern Calif, race events. Asking $72,000 or b/o. (805) 644-5878. HUNTER 33. ‘Cherubinil. Very clean, unique. Low use, launched '86. Diesel w/20 orig. hrs. Birdseye maple/Bobinga interior, microwave, re¬ frig, ham, inflatable, etc. Free permanent slip in liveaboard harbor. $35,000. Info, packet: P.O. Box 620, Moss Landing, CA 95039.ISLANDER FREEPORT 36. Exc. cond. Loaded cruiser. Perkins dsl, roller furling, spinnaker, Al¬ pine stereo, AP, fridge, Loran, Combi wind inst., gen., new batteries (4), upholstery, custom inte¬ rior (mahogany), dodger, canopy, dinghy/ob, ex¬ tras. $79,000 or b/o. Will deliver. (213) 379-8902.

32-FT KETTENBURG SLOOP. Bay racer with sails and small kicker motor. Accepting offers. (707)553-8750. 38-FT HANS CHRISTIAN. Well equipped. AP, Loran C, refrigeration, ail chain row. Great livea¬ board. (415) 758-1736. 32-FT ERICSON, 1977. Perfect Bay sailer. De¬ pendable, comfortable, fast and forgiving. Bristol condition. Six (6) months free berth Emery Cove Marina Call (415) 831-3802. 36-FT HUNTER. Fully equipped: Loran C, wind machine, Awlgrip exterior (painted by Nelson's 1988), dsl, Martec feathering 3 blade prop, Doyle Stack Pack main (1987), new interior cushion upholstery, electric windlass, 2 anchors & much more. Outgrew elderly owners. $44,750. Herb 523-1940.

MOODY 34-FT SLOOP, 1984. Sell or trade for smaller boat. Lloyd’s register. Excellent condition. Greatliveaboard. Aft cabin,spaciousteak interior, large storage areas, hot water, dsl, VHF, speed/ log, compass, cruising chute, roller furling. $68,000. Hans, days: (415) 962-8800. RANGER 33. $29,500. Berthed Alameda 6 sails, spinnaker, 3 new '87. Self-tailing winches, roller furling headfoil, hydraulic backstay, folding prop, wheel steering, VHF, RDF, knot/log, wind speed/ direction, depth, hot/cold water, shower, oven. Excellent condition. Call (408) 372-2352 or (408) 375-6165. WESTSAIL 32. Hull #37.6 sails, rebuilt MD2B dsl - F/W cooling, factory interior, propane stove, refer makes ice! Clean bilges, upgrades. Sausalito liveaboard slip possible. $55,000. Owner fi¬ nancing with $30,000 down possible. Call days: 924-2101 or eves: 332-6747.

32-FT WESTSAIL Hull #727. Custom built in 1976 by a professional boatbuilder. Excellent condition. Volvo MD17,380 hours. 5 bags of sails, 4 anchors, VHF, Loran, RDF, AP, Aries windvane (brand new), 305-ft 5/16 high tensile anchor chain, lots of extra gear. Ready for cruising. Invested $90,000, asking $59,500 or trade for real estate. Call for full inventory and photos. D: (805) 5835470, E: (805) 526-9526

HANS CHRISTIAN 38T. Well appointed custom liveaboard/cruiser. Cutter, F/G double ender w/ handcrafted teak accents & interior. Recent haul, furling jib, full covers, Barients, Loran, Combi, RDF, VHF: New cushions, refrigeration, h/c pres¬ sure, new water heater. $85,000. Call eves: (415) 331-7863.

CLIPPER MARINE 32-FT. Center cockpit, aft cabin, ketch rigged, new dsl. We did liveaboard 5 yrs. Pete’s Harbor. $11,500 or b/o. Call Suzi (707) 459-6257.

HANS CHRISTIAN 38 MKII, 1981. Fridge, AP, Combi, 2,45# CQRs, electric windlass, VHF, MagnavoxSatNav, upgraded Lewmar winches, 2 alternators, 1.8KW generator, cruising spinnaker, 10'2" dinghy w/Suzuki 8, etc., etc. Cruise readyL (415) 3524916 for appt.

CATALINA 36 SLOOP. Great relational cruiser, perfect liveaboard, well maintained. 3 separate cabins, sleeps 7, beautiful all teak inte¬ rior. 3/4 oz spinnaker, 2 headsails, easy starting 3 cyl Atomic dsl w/low hours, DC refrigerator, water heater, shower, LP stove/oven, stereo, VHF, KM, DS, RDF, tall rig, self-tailing winches, cockpit rigged, good ground tackle, epoxy sealed bottom. $55,000 or b/o. Call Ralf at 435-5550.

32-FT STEEL SLOOP CRUISER. Quite roomy for liveaboard, dsl engine, auto battery charger, Isolator, Loran, bottom recently sandblasted and painted, club foot jib, 2 mains, 2 booms, genoa & storm jib. 3 anchors, Sportboat inflatable dinghy with 81/2 hp Evinrude. $15,500 or b/o. Call (415) 243-0224.

UNION 36,1986. Cutter rig. Signet instruments, VHF, Loran, stereo, burglar alarm, battery charger, Perkins dsl. Boat has been used very little & is in better than new cond. $72,000. (209) 386-0275.TARTAN 34. Classic Sparkman & Stephens design in exc. cond. 1977 in freshwater till 1983. Beautiful teak interior w/enough exterior teak to make her classy without a lot of work. Has dsl wheel/dodger/5 bags/2 anchors/depth/knot/VH F/ EPIRB/ refer/microwave/stereo/TV,/4-man Zodiac w/2 hp o/b/complete safety package, etc. Located in a beautiful San Diego, Mission Bay, resort hotel marine/Or will deliver. $37,000. (619) 2244304. 36-FT CUSTOM PERRY DESIGN, "Dichotomy'. Lived aboard and singlehanded cruised for 3 years. Extensive equipment list including windvane, rod rigging, spinnaker gear, refrigera¬ tion, full electronics. Beautiful teak interior - Must see to believe) Come to open house on boat 10/ 22.(415)5314879.

ERICSON 35,1975. "Windswept". Sloop rigged for cruising, racing or liveaboard. 13 winches, Atomic 4, Martec prop, 7 sails including 2 spinna¬ kers, dbl headfoil, 4 batteries, stove/oven, microwave, h/c water, refrigeration, adjustable back¬ stay, cockpit cushions, new bottom paint, readier. Boat in outstanding condition. Roomy and great boat on the Bay. $39,950 or b/o. Call or leave msg (415)474-7759. CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE36. Luders design, F/G hull. Good liveaboard/cruiser or Bay boat Perkins dsl, new refrigeration system, new rigging (stays, halyards,lifelines),new upholstery,full boat cover, dinghy w/oars, sailing rig. $38,000 or b/o. Moving, need to sell. Call Karen at8654351 or 696-5303. ISLANDER32. In Manzanillo, Mexico. Completely rebuilt in 1988. SSB, SatNav, new mast R10 Avon w/8 hp Mariner, Autohelm 3000, windvane, propane,refrig,6sails,ample grown tackle,dodger, etc. Best offer. (213) 494-2533. CABO RICO 38. Teak deck, roller furling, VHF, Ham radio, SatNav, RDF, Loran, windcharger, 4 alarms. Equipped for world cruising. Boat show condition. $89,000 firm. Contact Al for equipment list 1416-264-3322or Box0852,Miami, FL33233. CAL 33. Exceptional Bay boat Many upgrades including Volvo dsl. 15 sails, one of William Lapworth's best designs. ‘Wavelength'has won season championships both Bay and ocean and cruised Mexico and the Delta comfortably. Please call John Demeter (415) 939-3299. SANTA CRUZ 33 FOR A SC27II Trade or sell Santa Cruz 33 part complete kit for little sister SC27 or $12,950. Hull, custom deck, keel mold, winches, genoa track, cars, deckgear, etc. Trailer & tow van available. Moving to NZ Jan '90. Must sell! Other trades considered. (916) 969-7245.

35-FT MAGELLAN GRANDS BANKS SLOOP w/GasHouse Cove slip. Large main/separate aft cabin. Sound condition! Dsl, wheel, VHF, DS, AP, lots of sails. Good liveaboard/cruiser/Bay sailer. Best offer! 982-0175.

NEW ZEALAND 36, "California Kiwi". Custom NZ 36-ft ULDB (7k lbs) race/cruiser 1986,90% fresh water sailed (Tahoe). Impressive race rec¬ ord! Fast 18+K offshore! Loaded quality race gear + sails. Huge & comfy cruise interior. $75,000. Trailerable! 3 axle trailer and tow van available. Moving to NZ Jan '90. (916) 969-7245.

ERICSON 35-FT. Exc. condition liveaboard with new Loran, shower, refrig, new head, pressurized hot water heater, CNG stove, quarter berth, desk, S.S.B. radios, wheel, rebuilt 30 hp engine, new exhaust, roller reefing, canvas, cushions, large cockpit. Pier 39. $29,000. Phone Dave at (415) 391-9780.

ISLANDER 37,1974. Excellent cruising boat Sleeps five. Diesel, Monitor windvane, Autohelm, refrigeration, h/c pressure water, SatNav, radar, windlass, dodger, 7 sails incl spinnaker, SSB, liferaft & much more. Difficult to find a more complete cruising boat $45,000. (415) 331-8840, Terry.

ISLANDER 32,1977. Sleeps 6 with beautiful all teak interior. Very well maintained with 90,110, 150 jibs. Performs well. Easy starting Volvo dsl. Must sell! Only $33,000. (415) 469-9852. Best value afloat! Won't last long. Will also take on partners.

ISLANDER 32. Rare 1977 model. Spacious oak interior includes pressure water, new LNG stove/ oven, stereo, etc. Great sailing/cruising with furl¬ ing jib, new Sutter main, WP, WS, KM, DS, VHF. Reliable Volvo dsl, wheel steering. Many other extras. Extremely well-maintained including blis¬ ter-free epoxy bottom, mast painted/overhauled last year, new carpet, new varnish, much more, $37,500.(408)446-5297.

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TRAVELLER 32. Ready for Mexico. Repowered with Yanmar, Avon R310 8 hp o/b, ElectraSan. 35 lb CQR, 210-ft high tensile chain, 22 Bruce 100 meter octaplate, 22 Danforth 50 meter octaplate, SL555 windlass, AP, cold machine, 3 banks 550 amp hr storm jib & tri-sail. $47,000. Phone (408) 423-4604. 33-FT CUSTOM STEEL CUTTER, 1983 Merritt Walter designed dbl ender. Tanbark sails, 32 hp dsl, Perfect for liveaboard or extended cruise. Extensive equipment list Bristol condition. Take on supplies and leave tomorrow. $64,000. Ken days: 644-0146 or eves: 521-0658. 36-FT ANGLEMAN SEAWITCH. 36’xl 3’6"x6". "Grand Turk" is exceptionally well built, strong, sound & beautiful. Diesel, depth, VHF, knot/speed, stereo, refrig, propane, custom sails, awnings, dinghy on davits. Good ground tackle. 150 fuel, 265 water. Can be trucked. (813) 866-6750. WESTSAIL 32,1979 factory complete. Job and other interests are keeping me from giving her the TLC she deserves. Serious seller! Will consider trade for daysailer. (415) 869-4126. IRWIN 34,1983. Just returned from Acapulco. Excellent condition, clean, loaded. Trade or sell. $50,000. (415) 769-8546. OYSTER LIGHTWAVE 395. Built 8/87. Schmacher designed English craftsmanship-IMS inte¬ rior, 61/2 berths, CNG stove, end. head, 9 sails; Shore/Hood. Blocks & Gatehouse electronics. Serious seller can arrange delivery. Henry Fretz, Rd. #2, Roch Hall, MD 21661 (301) 778-4339. FANTASIA 35-FT,1979 CUTTER. Excellent livea¬ board and/or cruising boat for a couple. Very roomy, 7-ft hdrm, 215 gal water, 115 gal dsl. Was $65,000, price will reduce till sold. Offers. (408) 227-0409. MARINER 32,1972. Built in Japan. Excellent condition. Perkins 408,40 hp ketch rig with Tan¬ bark sails, propane stove, dodger, recent survey, awning, cockpit cushions, Adler-Barbour refrig, windvane, Autohelm 3000, windlass, dinghy with o/b, VHF, new instruments. $33,500. (415) 5211315 leave msg. HANS CHRISTIAN 38 MKil. Excellent condition in/out Marble tables, brass trim. Superb livea¬ board and/or cruiser. New dodger, electric wind¬ lass, Loran C, VHF, AM/FM/cassette, Aries windvane, refrigerator, oven/stove, Chesapeake dsl heater, solar panel, Ledra-San, dinghy+o/b, 50 hp VW dsl and much more. Hauled yearly and meticulously maintained. Recently married and moving. $89,000 or b/o. (415) 564-7508. WESTSAIL 32 CUTTER. Custom extra deluxe construction. Ready for Mexico or liveaboard. 6 page equipment list. The Westsail is the bestbuilt, safest cruising boat available. This one has redundancy built-in throughout Best offer over $50,000.(408)377-4815.

DREADNAUGHT 32. Serious cruiser. FIG hull, VHF, Loran, Volvo dsl-very low hours, new epoxy bottom job, 8-ft dinghy with sail. $35,000 Call (415)849-9733.

37-FT RANGER. Stiff ocean racer/cruiser. Well equipped NCG/teak interior, Volvo dsl. $42,500. (415) 785-2288.

C&C 38. "Alliance". Excellent condition. Transpac veteran. Many extras available ind SatNav, Lo¬ ran, SSB. Currently in self-supporting charter program in Sausalito which can go with sale. Owner leaving U.S. Must sell. $55,000 or b/o. (415)382-8976.

LANDFALL 39-FT CUTTER. Looking for a com¬ fortable roomy liveaboard? Lots of storage space, inside steering, h/c pressure water, teak interior, bright and sunny. 60 hp Isuzu engine. Well main¬ tained, perfect for cruising and serious sailing. $70,000. Eves: (408) 988-8432 or Days: (415) 659-9128.

37-FT O’DAY center cockpit. 3 separate cabins. 2 full heads. Full dodger. Ready for cruising/liveaboard. Coast Guard documented. $47,000. Call (707)226-9491. CORONADO35,1972. Great liveaboard, aft cabin sloop. Dsl, DS, KM/log, VHF, 4 Hood sails, extra fuel, watertanks. Stereo, microwave, 1988 survey $38,000. Must sell. $27,500, make offer. (707) 747-1740. CHINOOK, CASCADE 34, diesel sloop. Oldie but goodie. Heavy glass hull, never had a blister. A sound boat slowing baking in the Delta sun. Someone with ambitious plans & $20,000 cash should pick up this sleeper. Call (916) 626-5477 collect. OLSON 34,1989. Love boat, but divorce court says sell. Plastic still on berths (6). Smartpak, Loran, VHF, spinn gear, wheel, hot/cold pressure water, oven, etc. $75,000 list, will sell for$60,000. (916)891-8736. 37-FT RANGER, 1973. Beautiful racer/cruiser. 15 sails, 13 winches, roller fuller, dsl, wheel, full electronics including Loran, teak interior. Con¬ sider small boat as partial trade. $35,000 or b/o. (719)495-4672. TARTAN 37sloop, well maintained. Performance cruiser/liveaboard. 5 sails, 2 spinnakers. New electric windlass, refrigeration, stove, upholstery, Autohelm 4000. Dodger, dsl heater, windvane, Westerbeke 40, VHF, Loran, stereo, DS, h/cwater, self-tailing winches. Much more. Veteran TransPac. $74,500. (415) 236-5839. CATALINA 38,1983. Excellent condition, well maintained, well outfitted, 3jibs (110,130,150) 3/ 4 oz. spinnaker, roller furling dual purpose headfoil, VHF, Signet 2000 KM, dsl, self-tailing winches, pedestal steering. $45,000. (415) 969-3488. 9.6. COLUMBIA. Strong Bay sailer & cruiser. Wheel, new dsl, Interlux bottom. Instruments & AP, h/c pressure water, stove, oven, heater. Triradial 150,100, dbl reef main. 7 winches, 2 selftailers. New job forces sale. $29,000 or b/o. (415) 522-1953. EXPRESS 37,1988. ‘Primordial Sloop", North sails, Harken roller, Signet Smart Pak. Immacu¬ late. $125,000.851-7065.

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ISLANDER 36. In excellent condition with large equipment list. Completely refitted three years ago, with new bottom paint this year. Many extras, several new sails, riggedfor racing orcruisingwith internal halyards, all lines led aft. $45,000/firm. Interested buyers only. (916) 677-3688. 32-FT CHALLENGER SLOOP. Loaded! Veteran of Pacific/Atlantic/Caribbean. Well maintained, ready to cruise. Five sails, refrigeration, electronic and windlass AP's, SatNav, ham radio, Yanmar dsl, Avon dinghy. Norseman fittings, oversized rigging, air conditioner. Only $39,500, fully equipped Cruising gear also available. Marv (415) 852-4317 or 793-4435 eves.37-FT CREALOCK, 1982. One of the cleanest, well equipped, ready to cruise Crealocks around. Has custom interior, extensive list of gear. $95,000. Call eves 6-10 p.m. (415) 793-5141.35-FT UNFURNISHED YORKTOWN CUTTER. New dsl, many improvements - 85% finished. Must call for details. $32,000 or best offer. (916) 776-1094. WESTSAIL 32,1976. Very solid flush deck. Un¬ finished. Needs mast & engine. Great liveaboard, great potential. Lots of gear, new set of sails. $11,000. Call 824-9290 before 7:30 or after 5:00.

40 TO 50 FEET 50-FT FORCE 50 PILOTHOUSE KETCH. Well maintained and equipped. Ready for comfortable liveaboard or extended cruise. $120,000. (619) 574-0695 or 295-3705. NEWPORT 41-FT, 1979. C&C designed sloop FI G spinnaker. 130 & 150 jib, new main 1987, Universal dsl. $55,500.0: (916) 9884)214 or H: (916) 638-3915. GULFSTAR CUSTOM 40, Hood design, 1978. “Athena". Fast, elegant bluewater sloop. Custom teak interior. Teak toe rail and cockpit combing. Rod rigging, Perkins dsl, AP, Loran, VHF, etc. Beautifully maintained. Santa Cruz. $78,900. By owner. (408) 462-2236. TRANSPAC 49,1981. Offshore proven, ketch rigged, center cockpit cruising sailboat. 120 hp dsl, all roller furling, 10 sails and lengthy equip¬ ment list including radar, AF, SatNav, etc. 4 cabin design. $178,000. (916)587-8641 ;(415)769-8087. 42-FT COLVIN GAZELLE HULL Complete welded and ready for paint interior and deck hardware. Comes with Q.D. Isuzu dsl engine, transmission, ballast, masts, portholes, prop, shaft, rudder and much more. Contact Gary $15,000 or b/o. (408) 372-1882. PERRY 47, center cockpit cutter, 2 staterooms with heads & showers, 6 hanging lockers, 300 gals pressurized hot/cold water, refrigeration, pantry, tiled counters, wood-buming and propane stoves, 200 gal dsl, self-tailing winches, F/G din¬ ghy. $115,000. (415) 875-9345;(408) 370-7164.

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MORGAN 32. Fully outfitted for offshore cruising, many upgrades. Excellent liveaboard. 8 sails, dsl, wheel, Aries, Avon raft and dinghy, propane stove/ oven, frdg/frzr, anchor windlass and much more. Documented. Hauled 7/89. Beautiful boat but I must sell. Kevin (415) 532-6736.

35-FT CORONADO, 1974. Diesel, center cockpit, flush deck design w/large aft cabin & private shower/head. Great liveaboard, more liveable space than most 40-footers. Sails well & well maintained. $35,000 firm, some finandng consid¬ ered. (415) 769-8087.-

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37-FT O’DAY, 1980MODEL Excellent condition. Bought another so must sell this dean, fast, good looking cruiser. 2 heads, furling, AP, Lectra-San, davits, fridge, full instrumentation, dodger, cockpit endosure- Couldmakesuperliveaboard.Morel $41,500. Berkeley slip. (209) 962-5571.

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FANTASIA 35-FT, 1976 center cockpit cutter, offshore cruiser. New alum mast dodger, Edson steering. Press hot water, VHF, windvane, roomy teak interior, stove, dink, 40 hp dsl. Great livea¬ board. $65,000. (707) 462-1719; (415) 234-8248.

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BENETEAU FIRST 32. Fast offshore cruiser. 7 sails incl. spinnaker, dodger, 25 hp dsl. LPG stove & cabin heater. Loran, VHF, AP, WS, WD, speedlog, DS, stereo. MOB pole. 2 new 80ah batteries, charger. NewMicron bottom. Exc. cond. $49,000 (415)826-5804.

DIVORCE SALE • ISLANDER 36. If I don't sell this boat, my wife will divorce me -1 cant afford that! 1976 Islander36. Best rigged 36 on the Bay. Perkins dsl, on-demand water, full sail inventory, new stove and refrigerator. Many other improve¬ ments. This boat is loaded and dean. First $49,875 steals it (415) 232-8750.

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HANS CHRISTIAN 43 KETCH. Bristol condition features: Autohelm, windvane, AP, radar, direc¬ tion finder, three anchors (one all chain), Kohler generator, refrigeration, five sails. Ready to cruise or liveaboard. $126,500. (707) 557-3473. 44-FT BEAUTIFUL RHODES Tobermory’. Well maintained, planks mahogany hull, teak decks, new varnish, sun covers, recent dsl, SatNav, ham, Loran, Aries. 9 sails, some new. Complete cruise ready, charts, inflatable, located in La Paz, Baja Can deliver. $50,000. (415) 474-1782. LORD NELSON 41 CUTTER, 1985. Ultimate liveaboard cruiser fully equipped. All top gear. B&G electronics. Shipmate SatNav, Monitor vane, solar system, Avon liferaft, 5 sails, dinghy. Can be delivered anywhere. Full equipment list upon request. Call (808) 9414880. 40- FT PERFORMANCE CRUISING SLOOP. John Lidgard Yachts Ltd., Auckland, New Zeal¬ and, 1982. Cedar/Kevlar/S-glass (WEST), 6 oz F/ G sWn, New Hulse rig and LPU topsides 1985-86. New non-skid deck and Micron bottom 9/89. Beautiful wood interior. Sleeps 6, dinette, galley, nav station. SSB, VHF, Loran, stereo, AP, B&G 190.17 sails. New long battened North Kevlar mainsail. Yanmar dsl. Complete safety gear incl EPIRB & 8 man liferaft certified 9/89. Superb New Zealand craftsmenship & quality throughout. $63,000. (415) 421-0174 or 820-1552. ISLANDER FREEPORT 41-FT. Center cockpit, large aft cabin ketch, 6 cyl, 105 hp dsl, 200 gal water, 200 gal dsl, 7 sails, great liveaboard/world cruiser. Lots of extras. A steal at $89,000. Call 927-1305. MARINER 40. Completely redone mahogany beauty. 85 hp Perkins, shower, stove, windlass, etc. $41,000 or b/0.331-2806 or 331-9189. CHEOY LEE 40 MID-SHIP KETCH. Luders de¬ sign, 1977. Beautiful and spacious. Perkins 50 hp dsl. Perfect for cruising or liveaboard. 2 heads, 2 showers, 2 refrigerators, microwave, stereo, full galley, BBQ, teak interior and decks, dinghy on davits. Price reduced to $79,000. (415) 331 -5509. 41- FT RHODES BOUNTY, 1960 SLOOP. Heavy hand-laid F/G. Fast, excellent sailing boat Easily singlehanded. Well equipped So. Pacific/Mexico vet Immaculate condition. Manufacturers person boat. A classic bluewater yachL $52,000. Don (415) 8244971.

50-FT FERRO KETCH w/Lloyd’s certificate. Built So. Africa, 1980. Excellent finish, charming spa¬ cious interior. Dsl, generator, radar, Loran, Sat¬ Nav, AP, SSB, refrig. Completely equipped, ready for ocean voyaging. Insured, financeable. $77,000/ offers. Call Bemie at (813) 327-1288. FREEPORT 41. This boat is for the seriously cruise minded only. New 70 hp dsl, 190 gal water, 195 gal fuel, full electronics, hot water shower, liferaft, EPIRB and much more. Winter special price $87,000. (408) 252-7391. PERRY 47. Cutter with center cockpit, Two large staterooms, two heads with showers, and a work shop. 200 gals dsl/300 gals water. Great livea¬ board or cruiser. $115,000 or b/o. Kevin (415) 875-9345 or Diane (408) 370-7164.

43-FT WESTSAIL Just completed 8+ year cir¬ cumnavigation. Proven open water veteran. Gor¬ geous all exotic wood interior. Full electronics, Perkins4-236, extensive spares and inventory of substantial cruising gear. Outstanding cruising and liveaboard yacht. 668-6167. CORONADO 41,1974. Nicest on West Coast. Large aft stateroom with huge bed. Two heads, shower, Large galley, teak interior. Diesel engine, radar, AP, electric windlass, rollerfurling headsail. Fully outfitted and ready to cruise or liveaboard. $64,000. (805) 983-2248. J-40,1986. “Boat of the Year". Well equipped for race or cruise. Low eng. hrs. Custom mast. Mint condition. Many extras. $160,000. Days: (805) 486-8333 or Eves: (805) 985-2740.

51 FEET AND OVER BANKRUPTCY FORCES SALE 57-ft LOA stripplank mahogany ketch built in '84.14-ft beam, 6 1/2-ft draw. Large salon, 2 heads, U-shaped gal¬ ley. Sips 6-8.90 hp dsl eng, Loran C, 5 bags work¬ ing sails & much more. $42,500. (503) 761-2933.

42- FT CLIPPER KETCH by Cheoy Lee. 3 cabin Luders designed to Lloyd’s specs. Glass hull, teak decks and cabin. Diesel, propane stove, oven, refrigeration, h/c pressure water, new sails, inte¬ rior canvas, VHF, fatho, windlass, stereo, more. Impeccable condition. $89,500. (45) 851-0495.

62-FT STEEL KETCH. Fully equipped cruising/ liveaboard. All electronics, comfort features. Beautifully finished, spacious. Sips 8/4 separate staterooms/2 heads w/bathtub. Sailed Hawaii/ So. Pacific. Asking $170,000, all offers consid¬ ered. (415) 331 -7427. Info pkg, will considertrade.

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WINDWARD 34,1951. Phil Rhodes designed racing/cruising sloop. Sound hull. $10,000 or b/o. (415)728-5934.

SEARUNNER 37-FTTRI. So. Pacificvet She'sa very well mannered lady looking for a new master. Call or write: Mel Phillippi, 2635 Cascade Trail, Bremerton, WA 98310, (206) 373-0566 eves.—

POWER & HOUSEBOATS 51-FTCATAMARANCRUISER.1971.Twin Volvo outdrives. 6.5 generator, full size refrigerator, microwave, freezer, dbl sink, full tub w/shower, lots of storage. Sips 8, DS, VHF, Syn. Nice livea¬ board. Possible trade. $47,500. (707) 226-5947. 24-FT FIBER FORM, 1973. $4,500 or b/o. 350 V8, v-berth, head, canvas top & full cover+extras. Hull/engine good. Some work required. Deborah Lockey. (415) 924-8013. 56-FT HOUDAY MANSION, 76 HOUSEBOAT. Twin 318 C.l. Chryslers, 7.5KW gen., hauled recently, excellent condition. Cruises 16 knots. Perfect liveaboard with washer/dryer, cable TV, phone, microwave, trash compactor, central vac & more. $89,000, cash ortrade. (415) 634-7157.

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45-FT KETCH HULL Needs masts & rigging. Equipped with galley, head, dsl engine. Teak & mahogany interior. $22,000/offer. Phone msg. (415) 282-3504 Jay.

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MULTIHULLS ISLANDER FREEPORT 41. Factory kit-boat in orig cradle. Exterior teak trim, windows, sole, fuel/ water tanks, through-hulls, hull/deck joint all completed. Chain plates, s/s cable, masts, plus more included. Asking $27,000. For inventory and more info, call (415) 524-2861.

55-FT STEEL SAILBOAT, 1988. W. German design, fast, nice. OM 352 141 hp Mercedes, generator, refrigeration/freezer, roller furling, full battened mainsail tall rig, big winches, radar, heating and more. $185,000.364-3632.

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58-FT LOA STEEL CRUISING KETCH. Large fuel & water capacity. Full compliment of electron¬ ics. Very comfortable, 2 yrs old. Full size galley, 2 heads, full shower & wet bar. Approx 200 hrs on engine. Heavily constructed foam throughout inside. Heavy davits, 14-ft inflatable, 8-ft dinghy. Lots of spare equipment. $137,500, will accept trade. (415) 832-4329.

28-FT CROWTHER TRI SLOOP, 1979. Fast and fun coastal cruiser. Lots of gear with mooring in Morro Bay. $5,000 cash ortrade for van. Call Paul (805)467-3053. SEARUNNER 37. Santa Cruz Harbor. Atomic 4. $42,0C0, 408) 476-9423 or 459-2637. 40-FT WHARRAM “NARAT CATAMARAN, 1984. Professionally built, equipped for world cruise. Maiden voyage 1987from Scotland to San Francisco via Hawaii. Too many extras to list Full inventory, layout plan, survey report & photos available to interested party. $45,000. (415) 647SI 36. EMERGENCY FORCES SALE Searunner37-ft. $30,000. (916)927-1173. 35-FT LODESTAR TRIMARAN. Cruise vet, fin keel, 5 sails, 15 hp Evinrude in well, AP, VHF, RDF, new instruments, (2) 25# CQR and more. Price reduced to $25,000. (415) 522-8285. 42-FT TRIMARAN PIVER "Victress’. Ketch rigged, dsl, LectraSan, head, Norcold 12v fridge. Set up as liveaboard with convenient end-tie slip. $15,000.(415)872-3804. SAILING HEAVEN HOBIE 18. Carumba sail, trailer, huge cat box, full cat cover, incredible cat condition. $3,500. Call eves for more information at (415) 493-5625. 31-FT PIVER “/VMffiIE"TRIMARAN. Veteran of So. Pacific, Alaska, Mexico. Just hauled, com¬ pletely reblt/refinished & ready to go again) Al¬ most new Volvo i/b. Excellent sail inventory, full awning, alum mast w/steps. Very warm & comfort¬ able interior. Outstanding buy w/great berth in Sausalito. $12,750. (415) 925-1904.

CATALINA 30,1987.1/2 partner wanted for pro¬ fessionally maintained boat Berkeley berth. Selffurling jib, pedestal steering, large dsl, LPG stove, hot pressure water, depth gauge, KM, radio tele¬ phone. Superb Bay boat. Asking $18,900. Call 376-8992 or 451-6000. FOR SALE: 1/3 INTEREST in an infrequently used Santana 22. Berthed in Emeryville City Marina $1,000 or b/o. Andrew 528-3068. SHARE INTEREST in 1985 36-ft Island Gypsy (Grand Banks type) trawler. Twin dsl, Sausalito berth. $15,000 + yearly fee, about $250/mo. ind fuel/upkeep etc. All amenities/equip. Great great fish/whale watch, fun boat. Nice partners. Call 444-0666 days. SAN JUAN 21. 1/2 partnership. Cuddy cabin sleeps 2. VHF, DF, compass, new 8 hp Johnson, porta-potti, stereo, 2 anchors, emergency gear, raft Excellent condition. Fast and safe. $1,800. (415) 382-8511. HUNTER 37.1.4 share avail for responsible per¬ son. Well equipped. Radar, dodger, dsl, AP, roller furling, dinghy with 8 hp motor, shower. Great way to own & have fun on Bay. $2,400 buys 1 /4 share. $300/mo inclds., slip/boat payment. Tiburon berth. Bruce wk: 543-8666 or hm: 435-5626. SAN JUAN 34.1/2 partnership. Sausalito berth. New sails, recent bottom & hull paint Full elec¬ tronics. Sleeps 6. Great for Bay/Coastal cruising. Could be a liveaboard. $390/mo plus low down or trade. Must sell! (415) 566-7375 eves. C&C 37,1/2 or 1/3 rental partnership, no equity interest. Sausalito based, cruise equipped, de¬ tails negotiable. Paul 924-9213.

SAIL THE SEA OF CORTEZ $1,750 Oct. thru May - $1,500 June & Sept. - $1,000 July & Aug. 41-ft Morgan outisland ketch. Sleeps 7.3 cabins, 2 heads. Fully equipped. Can be crewed and/or provisioned. The Moore's (707) 765-1960

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HUNTER 27.1/3 partnership. No down and ac¬ quire 1/3 equity in well maintained cruiser in charter. Your monthly payment would be $135 (approx), includes principal/interest, moorage & insurance. Charter income will offset $135 pay¬ ment by 30-45%. even though “Windsong" is in charter, she is still available for the owners use & enjoyment. "Wingsong* can be seen at Cass' Marina in Sausalito or call (408) 354-3857. Only responsible and financially secure individuals will be considered.

RESPECTABLE COUPLE, mid 20's, seek pas¬ sage to India or Southeast Asia, preferably in October or November. Contact John (brother) at (415) 642-7635 days or (415) 465-3348 eves. BOAT MAINTENANCE, crew, employment wanted. S.F. area preferred. French male stu¬ dent, non-smoker, fluent French/English, conver¬ sant in Spanish. Professional exp: Capt motor boat, scuba instructor, crew member (Med., Carib, Red Sea) on private yacht, charter. References avail upon request. Vincent (415) 355-0492.

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CREW WANTED-SO. PACIFIC. Lv.:La Paz Jan '90 - Arv: Brisbane Nov '90. Return May-Oct '91. One way ok. Experienced sailors, heterosexual male, no drugs only. Respond: R.G. Reid, 932 W. Main St, #26, Grass Valley, CA 95945.

PT/52-FT MOTOR YACHT, 1987. Twin Cummins dsls VT555 turbos, 8KW Onan generator, Loran, radar, AP, color sonar, VHF radios, washer/dryer, color TV, 3 staterooms, two station. Absolutely pristine. Value $335,000. Will exchange for Bay Area property. 837-9633 or 837-4425.

CREW WANTED: Retired owner needs male crew for occasional Bay Area weekday daysail¬ ing. 36-ft heavy wood sloop, berthed Alameda Estuary. Some experience required. No smoking, liquor or drugs. 521-7663.

NEW BABY AND WE NEED MORE ROOM! Family of 4 wants to trade 31-ft steel, equipped bluewatercruisingsloopand/or28-ft fully equipped 1981 motorhome for45-ft (or up) cruising sailboat. No wood/ferro. (707) 875-2540.

IWANTTO CREW. 41 yr old single male wanting to crew. Anywhere or any length of time. Have passports. Experience is limited but hard worker and eager to learn. Reliable and trustworthy. Will share expenses. Ready to sail now - six month or longerl Call or write: Perry Gentry, P.O. Box 2784, Arnold, CA 95223, (209) 795-4292.

CREW I WANT TO CREW. 31 yr old single male looking to crew on sailboat to So. Pacific, Hawaii or Mexico (very flexible). Experience is limited but hard working and willing learner. Non-smoker, good cook, honest and educated. Will share expenses. Ready to sail by end of October - up to six months. Call or write: Tim Carlton, 311 Hunt¬ ington Dr., Augusta, GA 30909 - Ph # (404) 8689676.

HEALTHY, PETITE, ENERGETIC FEMALE, age 41, desires coastal cruising and Mexico. 10 years cruising and racing experience on Bay and Delta (2 South Towers). Non-smoker. Available by Nov. 1st Ask for Linda (209) 467-7067. SALTY, SLIGHTLY RUSTY and somewhat weath¬ ered by attractive So. Pacific veteran skipper lookingforfemaleplaymate/companion/soulmate to help take 40-ft Concordia yawl from Miami to West Coast via Virgins, Martinique, Panama and Hawaii. Skipper is 40, a non-smoker/drinker into honesty, quality, sharing, communication and personal growth with a good sense of humor. If you’re 25-40, physically fit, attractive, financially and emotionally stable and perhaps tired of the 85 grind and could handle 9 mos. (or more) of sailing, adventure, windsurfing, scuba diving and sunning your buns in the tropics, drop a recent photo in the mail and tell my why we should have coffee/lunch and discuss the reality of sailing off into the sunset. Rik, 221SW 153th #147, Seattle, WA 98166.-

HAVE FOULIES & BIKINI, will travel. Single, active, trim, n/s, attractivefemale, early 40'swants to crew on boat leaving mid-1990. Open for rela¬ tionship but not criteria for finding cruising partner(s). P.O. Box 1055, Alameda, CA 94501. SAILING COUPLE, him 34/her 27, non-smokers, seeking crew position on boat bound for So. Pacific. Lots of bluewater exp. incl. Galapagos, Polynesia, Tonga, Rji, Vanuatu, Australia, Indo¬ nesia. Can handle navigation, sails, deck, mainte¬ nance, cooking and cleaning. Write to: Jonathan & Janelle Paley, P.O. Box 110, San Simeon, CA 93452 or leave msg at (805) 927-3088. CREW POSITION WANTED; 46 yr old male, boat owner, liveaboard, looking to crew on Mexico bound boat. Available for two to six weeks, any¬ time after Oct. 20th. Flexible schedule. Healthy, educated, amusing and reliable. Jann 331-3071.

BERTHS/SLIPS EXCELLENT LOCATION! 50-ft berth for rent Emery Cove Marina, Emeryville, CA. $225/mo. Call (415) 462-6179.

LIVELY, 50 YR OLD SAILOR, would like to share time with lady who owns sailboat. Will handle all expenses, sailing, dancing, dining, “life'? Call Mike at (408) 238-9844.

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ST. FRANCIS YACHT BASIN 41 -ft slip available for long term lease. Top S.F. location! Foot of Marina Bfvd & Divisadero. Owners world cruising. City rates+taxes. Call Al (415) 346-1541 & leave msg. 36-FT PIER 39 SLIPS FOR SALE (2). Great location on C-Dock. 51 yr lease. Lots of amenities. Must sell. $15,900 upwind or $14,900 downwind. (707) 938-5745.

MISCELLANEOUS AROUND THE WORLD SAIL 26 typed pages of point to point distances, with notations and sup¬ porting map quadrant blow-ups. Panama, Carib., W. Africa, Med., Suez, Horn, India, Malay, Cele¬ bes, Pacific, Home. Advantages. $20. Ross, 20 Bowles PL, Oakland, CA 94610. SAILING TO MEDITERREAN via Canal, An¬ tigua, Bermuda and Azores. Returning via Canarys, Barbados, Grenada If you can give me any information on the do's and don't en route and in Med. it would be appreciated. Thanks! Lenny Barad, collect (714) 240-9939. BEACH FRONT STUDIO- PT. RICHMOND. Bay to Golden Gate Bridge view. Large studio w/ separate kitchen w/seating area Lots of windows & fireplace. Keep your dinghy or windsurfer on the beach. $800 w/utilities. Anne 475-0755 days or 232-6482 eves. References, non-smoker. TRIMBLE 10X GPS-LORAN. Extended GPS, digital Loran. Recent factory update, $5,250. Bruce anchor, 22 lb, $150. Call (408) 395-9305. PATHFINDER SELF-STEERING VANE Never used. Horizontal axis. Paid $750, sell for $150. Genoa with 20-ft luff, used very little, $50. Call James 893-7018. ARIES VANE FOR SALE. $500. Call 898-7422. EPIRB class B, $150.200-ft o 5/8" nylon line, $90. Tiny stoim jib, $125. Z-Spar Captain's varnish gal., $30.6 hp Johnson w/tank, $30. Dock wheels, $30. 7-ft Kayak paddle, $30. Deck vent, $20. Masthead Tricolor, $40. Boating books. (415) 641-4421. TRAILER. Trail-Rite. Excellent condition. Set-up for J-24 but will fit any keel boat of that size. $800 or b/o. 6 hp Johnson motor w/tank, just serviced. $350.(408)761-0782. NOTICE TO HAMS MARINERS in So. Pacific. Friends and family awaiting word from Dr. Peter Gorham who sailed alone South from Hono Aug '89. Last contact was Sept 15 from a ship that crossed his path in the Doldrums South of Johnston Atoll. If you have any information, please contact: John Gorham, Box 159, Mill Valley, CA 94941 or call (415) 381-0912.

USED GEAR WHISKER POLE 160 to 286 in., dia31/2 in. with piston fittings, pin lock, $175. Call (415) 339-1858. SEXTANT AND COMPUTER. Davis MK25 sex¬ tant, newcondition w/extramirrors & fittings, $100. Texas Instr. 58 C. handheld computer w/navigation program, all manuals/books, cases, charger intact, $100. (303) 882-2116 eves or P.O. Box 2, Dolores, CO 81323.

HONDA 10 HP LONGSHAFT with less than 2 hours. It's too big for my Olson! $1,400. Call James at (408) 736-7750. ISUZU DIESEL ENGINE 4 cyl, 55 hp w/Borg Warner trans. Perfect running cond. 14 hrs on complete overhaul. In boat now for easy demo. Will delivery in castored crate anywhere in Califor¬ nia! $2,400. Eves: (916) 427-6189. SATNAV: MAGNAVOX MX 4102. Like new con¬ dition with antenna, $1,350. Installation if desired, add $75.453-4255.

3 BLADE PROP 24X16 LH. Complete with 1 3/ 8"x51/2* ss shaft, stuffing box and stem bearing. $300 or n/o. 25-ft Marinco telephone cord set, new, $30. (415) 233-9059, leave msg. HONDA EX650. Engine driven AC/DC alternator in waterproof deck box. Excellent condition. $480. Call (415) 837-9424.

OUTBOARD MOTOR, 1981. Johnson 4.5 hp, longshafL Integral fuel tank. Freshwater used. Like new, $250. (415) 838-7009, Jeff. LORAN & WINCHES: Loran • Micrologic #5500, new, complete, $475. Winches: Barient #10,5" underdeck shaft, new, $475. Call eves: 454-0717.

SANTANA 22. New main and 120% class tapper. By North, all goodies were added when these racing sails were constructed. (415) 947-1970. 18 HP ISM heavy duty diesel w/2:1 paragon gear. Runs excellent less than 100 hours. Can see at Tom Halls in Sausalito or call Mark 331-0104.

3KW DIESEL GENERATOR, $1,300. Adler-Barbour cold machine, $300. CNG tank, $125. Steams roller furling headstay 49.5-ft., $350. Professional mariner alternator controller, $75. Professional mariner battery indicator, $75.332-1435. 2-DAHON FOLDING BICYCLES, $150 ea. Ex¬ cellent condition. 725 oz tanbark main & jib. Main has 3 reef points - Will fit 26 to 28-ft boat. Both for $400. Call 331-1610 after 4:30.

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SEAGOLD WL-SB DESAUNATOR. The best manual watermaker produced: stainless steel pump, 1.5 gal per hour rate. Like new, with prefil¬ ter, spare membrane and parts kit, more. Cost $2,900. Sacrifice for $1,000. (415) 865-4306.

CRUISING GEAR WANTED for a43 footer: Hard dinghy (8-ft), sextant, Merlin calculator, anchors, chain (3/8"), refrigeration, SSB, storm sails, awn¬ ing, inverter, etc. Call and tell me what you have. Eves: Bruce (415) 5214805.

ATOMIC 4. Late model, runs good, service man¬ ual, hand crank gas fume sniffer. $500. (415) 235-3436.

OUTFITTING FORTHESSSTRANSPAC. Need Monitor windvane, 6-man liferaft (canister), SatNav, metal sextant, 35 lb CQR/Bruce. (408) 4251166.

OLD HELM WHEELS, blocks, lamps, cleats, nautical artwork Various prices. Also buy & trade items! Call Jim at 527-6640. COMPLETE ROLLER FURLING MAIN UNIT, ind. sail, boom section, blocks, etc. Luff 47, foot 16', $500 the lot John/Bruce (415) 769-8087 or (415) 523-7474.

UVEABOARD AS ALTERNATIVE: Too busy to use your boaL relocating or unsuccessful in sell¬ ing? Consider renting your boat Yacht care pro¬ fessional woman, 39, currently living in Sausalito Yacht Harbor, seeking sailboat in same harbor, or Pelican. References. 332-9002. CNG TANK, Force 10 type heater, drifter and 110% sails for 36-ft boat Call Jack days: (415) 791-8616 or eves: (415) 582-1519.

NON-PROFIT WOMEN BOAT OWNERS AND SAILORS. For information about Bay Area Women at the Helm, a lesbian boating dub open to all women, call 5343730. Check us out.-

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RACING EXPERIENCE & COMMITMENT to crew Etchells 22 & prepare for world championship in Bay Area. Call 5484159 days or 547-0685 eves. I AM BUILDING A 40-FT SAILBOAT on a tight budget. Any contributions - Lumber, hardware, paint, nails, etc. would be appredated. Will pick up. Call (415) 4654993, ask for Men/ or leave msg on the machine. Thanks!

EARN 14% INTEREST. Socially responsible maritime education projed needs seed money. $40,000 unsecuredat14%and20,000to100,000 to 10-12% secured by school vessel. 10 year notes, 5 year payback likely. $5,000 minimum investment Box 1202, Ocddental, CA 95465.

PARTNER WANTED. Sport fishing charter busi¬ ness in Mexico. New resort area opening up on Padfic skie, offering excellent opportunity for charter business. No cash required, must have good credit rating. All ground work has been completed. (415) 877-8275.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES CLUB NAUTIQUE, San Frandsco Bay's premier charter dub, needs licensed, experienced sailing and power instructors to teach our comprehen¬ sive program in Alameda and Sausalito. Call Gus Conklin at (415) 8654700 or send resume to 1150 Ballena Blvd., Suite 161, Alameda, CA 94501. BAY RIGGERS needs receptionist/bookkeeper. Excellent phone skills, computer, bookkeeping and light typing required. 332-5757. WOODWORKER/SHIPWRIGHT NEEDED. Parttime to start. Call Andrew Kurtz Yacht Construc¬ tion 332-7551. STEMTOSTERNMARINESERVICES is looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team of boatwrights. It’s a full time envy level position. Experience preferred (will train). Transportation a must. Startimmediately. Call Mike orTenri at (415) 368-2872, Redwood City. STANFORD UNIVERSITY is seeking very expe¬ rienced volunteer skippers & mates to staff it’s recreational keel boat (34 to 80-ft) weekend sails. Enthusiasts contact: Joe Petrucd at 723-7970.

WEST MARINE PRODUCTS has cashier and stock positions open. Call Kristen or Rann in the Sausalito store at 332-0202.

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY CLASSIC - 33-FT INTL ONE DESIGN sloop. Mahogany planked. Built in Norway, 1961. Full keel. Race/daysail/cruise, finely crafted rigging and Sitka spares spars. $9,500. (415) 581-7971 eves. CLASSIC -13-FT lapstrake round-bottom Reinell skiff. Built in Marysville, Washington many years ago. Fastened with copper nails. Oak ribs and keel. Beam is 54'. Rows and tows well. $400. (415) 581-7971, eves. 38T HANS CHRISTIAN, 1977. Excellent condi¬ tion. New Hood sails (full batten main, Star Cruiser roller jib and staysil plus all original sails). LC-90 Loran, custom dodger, Zodiak & much more. Must sell $8,500. (209) 8624990. ALBERG 30 (CUSTOM). Terrific boat forthe Bay. F/G. Excellent condition. New electronics, new Imron topsides, new interior, 9 sails, rebuilt f85) Greymarine engine 25 hp, hauled annually. Ma¬ rina Village YH. Asking $26,000. (415) 8654845. ARIES 32-FT SLOOP. Best boat for Bay sailing. Great cruising. Dbl ender. Sturdy but fast Dis¬ placement 15,000 lbs. Excellent condition. New battery etc. Cloth covers for britework. Priced for quick sale at $36,000. Call (209) 383-5999. The Too Late to Classify section Is Included on a space available basis.

ADVERTISER'S INDEX Gorman, Bill, Yacht Sales.179

Allstate Insuronce-Gogna.95 Allstate Insurance-Quan.159 Alpha Marine Systems.24 Al's Marine Supply.41 American Battery.95 Anchorage Brokerage & Consultants.8 Arena Yacht Sales.43 Armchair Sailor, The.59 Bailiwick.63 Ballena Bay Yacht Brokers.180 Ballena Isle Marina.58 Ballenger Spars.66 Balmar.67 Bay Academy, The.73 Bay Bridge Yachts.178 Bay Riggers, Inc.25 Baytronics...159 BC Navigation Center.41,45 Bellhaven Marine.172 Bellingham Chart Printers.48 Benicia Marina .24 Beowolf Publishing .37 Berkeley Marina.60 Bitter End Yacht Cub.134 Boater's Friend.41,161 Boettcher & Murray.34 Boy Scouts- Old Baldy Council.60 Boy Scouts- San Francisco.66 Boy Scouts — Stanford.113 Brisbane Marina.54 Bruno's Island.48 Cable Moore/Famet Marine.159 Cal-Coast.14

Cal-Marine Electronics.63 California Custom Canvas.59 Calif. Maritime Academy Found 159 Capital Workshop Insurance.61 Chico Sailing Center.35 Chula Vista Marina.113 City Yachts..7 Club Nautique.55 Colomb Insurance.71 Continental Marine.66 Corsair Marine.21 Crawford Nautical School.71 Cruising Seas Delivery.159 Cruising World Yachts.10,11 Cryer & Sons, William T.160 D'Anna Sailing Co.2 DHR Lamps.41 Dickerson, R.E. Insurance.178 Downwind Designs.159 Downwind Marine.36 Doyle Sails.38 Dutch's Marine.49 Eagle Yacht Sales...19 Edgewaler Yacht Sales.176

Grand Marina.9 Hamilton Engine Sales.57 Hands For Hire.36 Hard Sails USA.66 Harken.184 Hart Systems.160 Haynes Sails.160 Helmut's Marine.160 Helms Yacht Sales.21 Hewelfs Marine.178 Hogin Sails.65 Hood Sailmakers.44 Index.129 J-Boals.18 Johnson-Hicks.26 Jones, Hugh, Yacht Sales.16 Kane Marine.58 Kappas Marina.37 Kelly-McCall.73 Kensington Yacht.20 Lane Charter & Leasing.134 Landfall Marine.41,171 Larsen Sails.183 Leading Edge Sails.58 Lee Sails.70 Long & Assoc.73 Marina Park. 15

Monterey Bay Fiberglass.52 Moorings, The.135,137 Nelson's Marine.178 Nor Cal Yachts.17 North Sails.26,147 North South Charters.136 Nova Marine.134 Nau-T-Kol.160 O'Neills Yacht Center.68 Offshore Sailing School.136 Oyster Cove Marina.72 Oyster Point Marina.70 Outboard Motor Shop, The.52 Owl Harbor.160 Pace Edwards Co.129 Pacific Coast Canvas.48 Pacific Marine Exchange.54 Pacific Marine Supply.13 Pacific Yacht Imports.50 Parker, Kent, Surveyor.72 Parker, Kermit, Yocht Sales.174 Passage Yachts.4,5 PBJ Dory Co.95 Pelafoam.95 Peninsula Marine Services.51 Peninsula Marine Supply.41 Pineapple Sails.3 Pioneer & Co.32,33 Proper-Tighe Marine.48 Proper Yachting Imports.113

San Leandro Marine Center.47 Sausalito Yacht Sales.173 Scanmar Marine Products.161 Scan Marine Equipment.161 Schoonmaker Point Marina.39 Seattle Select.129 Ships Chandlery, The.41 Shore Sails.73 Sika Flex...64 . Sobstod.6 South Beach Harbor.12 Spinnaker Sailing.74 Spinnaker Shop, The.74 Stanford University.34,173 Star Marine Electronics.16 Starbuck Canvas.73 . Stockdale Marine & Nav Ctr.172 Stone Boat Yard.40 Summit Marine...172 Sunroad Resort Marina...38 Sunset Yachts.28,29 Superior Yacht Sales.178 Sutter Sails.52 Svendsen's Boat Works.46 Tedrick-Higbee.72 Thomson, Charles Yachts Ltd.56 Tideline.72 Tradewind Instruments Ltd.23 Tradewinds Sailing Ctr.62 Tuff Luff.64 UK Sails.109

Edinger.159 Emery Cove Marina.32 Energy Depot.26 Farallone Yachts Sales.19 Feeney Wire Rope & Rigging.38

Marin Sports & Fitness.70 Marin Yacht Sales.182

Foolproof Marine.136 Fortman Marina.160 Frank's Fishermans Supply.41 Fraser Yachts.175

Marion Sailmakers.35 Maritime Electronics.30 Maritime Store, The.70 Marks-Clork Insurance.177

Richmond Marina Bay.64 Richmond Yacht Service.60

Game-A- Lot.129 Gianola & Sons.49 Glen Cove Yacht Sales.176

Marlinspike Jewelry.36 Martinez Marine.72 McGinnis Insurance.95

S. F. Bay Boat Brokers.175 S.F. Boat Works...74

Whitediff Homes.15 World Yocht Center.31

Metal Magic.38 Milano Yachts.181

Sail Exchange.159 Sailing Quarterly.27

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Golden State Diesel.172 Golden State Intetnational.175

Marina Palmira.60 Marina Village.42 Mariner Boat Yard.22

Pryde, Neil, Sails.54 Railmakers.54 Rex Yacht Sales.176 Richmond Boat Works.53

Rogers Electronic Service.74 Ruby For Charter.134

Sailomat.129

United Yachting Ventures.174 U.S. Yacht Bureau.72 Vallejo Marine.41 Vision Yachts.178 Voyager Marine.64 West Marine.75 Westwind Precision Details.67 Westwood Sails.15 Whale Point Marine Supply.41,69

Yacht'Flash'.177 Yegen Marine.18

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Spacious trailer cruiser, sleeps 6, sails greatl Pop-top, bow & stem pulpits, life¬ lines, s/s swim ladder, one-year bottom paint, enclosed head, space saver gal¬ ley w/fold down table. Only $10,950.

SEA SPRITE 23

This classy looking boat is a Carl Alberg design with a full keel and traditional cabin. It reminds me of the early days of sail, yet has an efficient f/g hull for low maintenance. And this beauty is only 12 yrs oldl The i/b motor will makes her a great little cruising boat. Come to our show room to see this classic beauty. A real steal at only $6,800.

CATALINA 25

Dinette model with alcohol stove, swing keel, lOhp outboard with generator, depthsounder, compass, knotmeter, main, storm jib, 150% genoa. Two from 10 000

$ ,

BALBOA 26

"FLAT BROKE"

Sail the Bay, Delta and Coast in these great performing, well built boats designed by Lyle Hess. These boats have galley, dinette, private head, and almost 6' of headroom. The versatile features make them great weekenders, sleeping five. Two available, from $8,750 with trailer.

You will not be flat broke after purchas¬ ing this fine '67 CAL 28 since the asking price isonly $9,950. Well-equipped with a full complement of sails and an Atomic 4 gas i/b. Actually, we have 2 to choose from, call for appointment to see these.

FOLKS 39 CUTTER standard layout.$79,900. Send for list, other new & used steel ynthts.

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32. 1984. Maintained to the highest standard. Bay and coastal cruiser. Asking $54,900.

46' STEEL CUTTER, by DeVries of Holland, 1962. Maintained meticulously.

26' 27 30' 30’ 30’ 32' 33' 36' 42' 42' 42’ 44' 46' 48' 35’ 351 42' 42' 47 53’

SELECTED BROKERAGE CONTESSA 26. CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27 CAL 3-30. CAPE DORY 30. OLSON 30. ARIES 32. PEARSON 10 METER_ ISLANDER 36. GARDEN PORPOISE. PEARSON 424. WESTS AIL 43. CHEOY LEE 44. STEEL CUTTER. SWAN 48. POWER SPECIALS CHEOY LEE TRAWLER. CHRIS CRAFT CATALINA SILHOUETTE. GRAND BANKS. STEPHENS. HATTERAS 53

GRAND BANKS 42. 1984 — the yacht for a lifetime of enjoyment. Equipped for the ocean. $195,000.

COMPACT CRUISING, INBOARD DSL . ..$22,000 DIESEL_ -$21,000 1974, EXCELLENT BAY, NICE SHAPE . -$24,900 1983, DIESEL, WHEEL, CUTTER. -$54,000 1981_ .$22,000 1975 AND 1981; DIESEL.FROM $39,000 1974, CRUISE OR RACE. $39,000 DIESEL, POPULAR BAY SAILOR $45,000/OFFERS FINE WOOD CONSTRUCTION $125,000 AN OUTSTANDING CRUISING YACHT $105,000 1975, OCEAN READY_ $114,000 1979; PERKINS DIESEL_ $119,000 DEVRIES OF HOLLAND_ $129,000 1972, SPARKMAN & STEPHENS DESIGN $180,000

High quality — delightful!

TRAWLER, 1979, DIESEL_$49,500/OFFERS 1980-$85,000 BY KROGEN, 1987, TWIN VOLVO_INQUIRE 1984-$195,000 1961, TWIN DIESEL, STYLISH_$139,500 FLYBRIDGE M/Y, TWIN GM 8V71_$286,000

MARINER 36, 1979, Garden ketch, Perkins dsl, easily handled.

35* CHEOY LEE TRAWLER, 1979. Great lay¬ out, needs cleanup. Try $38,000.

100 BAY STREET SAUSALITO, CA 94965

(415) 332-5000

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The Stanford University Sailing Program is seeking motor yachts and sailing vessels for its instructional, recreational and competitive programs. The DONATION of your boat is TAX DEDUCTIBLE. While most boats can be used by our sailors, others will be sold to help finance these educational offerings. All donations will be handled in a timely and effective fashion. You will be surprised how attractive donating your boat to Stanford can be. *

For More Information Please Contact: Joe Petrucci, (415) 723-7970 Marine Development Office 375 Santa Teresa, Standford University Stanford, California 94305

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KERMIT PARKER YACHT BROKERAGE

San Diego. CA

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92101

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557 Francisco Boulevard

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San Rafael. California 94901

See The New Kelly/Peterson 46 Arriving Sept. T5lhH

(415) 456-1860 SELECTED BROKERAGE 23' BEAR 23. HULL ff3.6.500 24 C&C.9.990 25 CORONADO .6,000 25' FRISCO FLYER .8.200 25 PAINE CAROL. 18.000 25 CAL .8.000 26' PEARSON .8.000 26' S 2 w/trailer.21,000 27' VEGA.14.950 27 CATALINA 27.12.500 27' CAL 27.1 1,950 27 CHEOY LEE Offshore .24.500 27 CORONADO .9.500 27 SUN, Perry design . 14.975 28' NEWPORT.12.400 28 STOUTFELLA.3.900 32' MARINER .Offers 28' HERRESHOFF . ..2 from 10.000 28 BARNEY NICHOLS .6.500 29 CAI.26,000 29' CASCADE .14.000 29 COLUMBIA S&S design .17,500 29' CAL 2 29 .26,000 30 WM GARDEN dbl endr .... 29.000 30 ERICSON . 17.900 30 ERICSON .OFFERS 30 GULF ISLAND .29.950 30 ISLANDER BAHAMA.OFFERS 30 KNARR .12.500 30' PACIFIC. 10.400 30' SP1DSGATTER .35,000 32 CHEOY LEE M/S.55.000 32' WESTSAIL .56.000 35' BREWER.,.55,000 35' JASON.54,950 36' CASCADE .29.900 36' ISLANDER FREEPORT ...89.500 36 LANCER.49,000 37 GARDEN KTCH Teak.67,500 38 DOWNEASTER .59.950 39' FREYA.79.000 40 CAULKINS .65,000 41' NEWPORT.59.950 42' WESTSAIL . 114,900 43' CHEOY LEE M/S. 148.000 44 RHODES SLOOP .55.000 45 GARDEN PORPOISE .80,000 45' LANCER P/S . 125.000 46 GARDEN KETCH .89.500 60 "JONATHt\N SH IFT". 120,000 62' CUTTER CLOVER'. 150.000 72' STEEL KETCH . 195,000 POWER 20' SKIPJACK .9.000 21 BAYLINER . 10.000 24 BEACHCRAFT.16,500 24' FIBERFORM .4.500 26 SWEDISH CRUISER.22.000 28' OWENS . 11.500 34 BAYLINER .39,000 35' TRAWLER .55,000 36' CHRIS CRAFT.34.500 38' SPORTFISHER.59.900 42 WELLCRAFT .94.500 57 CHRIS CRAFT.169.000 Brokerage Slips Available

37 FISHER MOTORSAILER Bristol - Must see. $115,000

54 KROGEN TRAWLER. Top grade electronics. World cruise capabilities. Bristol condition. S495.000

36’ ISLANDER, 1978. Immaculate... this has to be one of the best 36’s on the Bay; great liveaboard interior, anodized mast, lots of cunvas, never raced, Perkins 4-108 and too many extras to list. Must see! $57,500.

Call For An Appointment To View Current listings And Brokerage Specials

★ CRUISER'S OCTOBER SPECIALS *

DUTCH CANAL BARGE. Diesel power, steel hull Great liveaboard. $64.900

■STROMA OF MEY". 41' Freeman Ketch. Beautiful. Recently sailed from England. Great cruising boat. $55,500.

41' CT Full cruise equip. Ready to go. $84,900

SAIL $439,000 83' FORMOSA, '85, ketch. 57' ALUMINUM ketch,'80..$120,000 55' BIEDEBACH PH, '77..$ 94,500 52' CHEOY LEE,'81, twin engine.__$340,000 50' GULFSTAR, '79, cruise equipt..$149,000 50' GULfSTAR, 11..$147,000 48' CAL, '70..$ 78,000 47' PERKY,'47, loaded..$125,000 47' mcintosh,'88..$345,000 47' VAGABOND, '74..$109,000 46' KELLY/PETERSON, NEW..$245,000 46' KELLY/PETERSON,'84..$177,000 46' KELLY/PETERSON,'83..$205,000 45' SWIFTSURE, '78, ciuiser..$98,000 44' KELLY/PETERSON, 78..$110,000 44' KELLY/PETERSON.3 from..$ 90,000 44' NORSEMAN, '85..$235,000 44' KELLY/PETERSON. .CALL 43' TASWELi. .CALL 43' VANGUARD 1300,'84, steel ..$139,000 43' WESTSAIL, 76, cutter..$174,000 43' WESTSAIL,'81, cutter..$ 75,000 42‘ BALTIC, '85..$185,000 42' HALLBERG RASSY..$190,000 42' WESTSAIL, 76, ketch..$125,000 40' NORSEMAN, '87..$175,000 40' PANDA, '82..$134,900 40' VAUANT '80, loaded! Gen/air..$125,000 40' CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE..$ 72,500 40' OLSON • Great Soil lnventoiy2 from.... S 97,000 40' SANTA CRUZ..$109,000 40' NORSEMAN, '87, beautiful..$175,000 38 DOWNEAST, 77..$ 79,900 38' DOWNEAST, 78..$ 79,500 38' ENDEAVOR.2 from..$ 69,500 38' FRERS, NEW. .INQUIRE 37' CREALOCK, 78'..$ 72,500 37' ENDEAVOUR, 78..$ 49,500 37' EXPRESS, race ready/liveaboard...$115,000

37' 37' 365 36' 36' 35' 34' 34' 33' 33' 32' 32' 30'

TARTAN.2 from.....$ 72,000 TAYANA 'R7 ...$128,000 PEARSON, 78. ...$ 55,000 ERICSON, generator, loaded.....$ 89,900 HALBERG RASMUS, 73. ...$ 45,000 MARINER, 78.....$ 69,000 FUJI, 74. ...$ 57,500 PEARSON, '84. ...$ 59,000 AIAJUELA, 78. ...$ 59,500 CAPE DORY,'81. ...$ 69,000 VANCOUVER, '86, loaded..OFFERS CAM WESTSAILS. NEWPORT, 79, partner okay. ...$ 35,500

POWER —GRAND BANKS 50' GRAND BANKS, 77, mohogony. ...$280,000 50' GRAND BANKS, 71, mohogony. ...$215,000 49' GRAND RANKS _.$360,000 42' GRAND BANKS,'85,1135 $245 000 42' GRAND BANKS '83 T120 $239 000 42' GRAND BANKS/79J120 EU40PA . ...S19T000 42' GRAND BANKS, '69, T120. ...$ 90,000 42' GRAND BANKS, '68, T120, mahogany $ 94,000 42' GRAND BANKS, '68,1120, mohogony $ 82,000 42' GRAND BANKS, '69, T120, mahogany $ 70,000 36' GRAND BANKS '86 325 cht $135000 36' GRAND BANKS, 77’3130 J.D. ...$ 98,000 36' GRAND BANKS, '67, T120, mohogony $ 79,000 32' GRAND BANKS, wood. 2 from. ...$ 43,000 POWER 60' HATTERAS, '81, DCMY. ...$695,000 53' $220 000 50' OCEAN ALEXANDER,'87.....$265,000 50' HATTERAS, '80, Conv.... $500 000 49' ALASKAN-Beautiful. ...$175’000 48' CAMARGUE, '88, loaded Coll 43' HATTERAS '80 DCMY $199 950 42' KROGEN SILHOUTTE, '87..... $185^000 36' SEA RAY EXPRESS, Mop.....$ 99,000 36' SEA RAY t-top, loaded.....$ 90,000

This is just a few of our many listings - Call us to discuss your needs.

★ BROKERAGE SPECIALS ★

42' UNIFLITE Twin diesel. Like new, SI 98.000

38' YAWL Full cruise equip. Just returned from Hawaii $39,000

SAIL

POWER

37' ELITE Reduced by $20K.Only $ 65,000 37' RANGER.Only$ 44,000 32' VANCOUVER, '86, loaded.$ 75,000

57' MOTOR YACHT,'82. 48' CAMARGUE, '88 Yochtfish. 38' V-MASTER SKI, '78, w/trailer

.CALL .$310,000 .5 7,500

GREAT DEALS ON TRAILERABLE LISTINGS — CALL FOR DETAILS Dealers for Kelly/Peterson, Trims, Endeavour and Hallberg Rassy.

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60' ALUMINUM KETCH PRINCESS IRENE

Own your own tall shipl Three masted 100' topsail schooner. Oak construction by old world Danish craftsmen in 1942. Sleeps 17. A grand goonywhere Lady. Yacht interior. Asking $675,000

60' of aluminum beauty. An unusual ketch designed to be hand-led by two anywhere in the world, and in full comfort. Incredible equipment. If you are a serious voyager, this is a must see. Asking $440,000

39' UDGARD. CommodoreTomkhs says "for the money, ihebest boat of »te size on the Bay." A gorgeous 39' cdU moided, strong and fast redng/cruising sloop. Asklwg $19,000.

THREE MORE SPECIALS MacGregor 65'

Bank Repo-$115,000

Sabre 34* Sloop, dean & ready So go

Asking $79,000

Crate* Yawl 55'xl 7T, fireplace, PH Asking $79,500

44' UVEABQARD tOUHTT. The ultimate 44' fiveaboord

35* CUSTOM SWEDISH SUXN>. Looks Idee a Swan, budt 1984.

ketch. Five sleepsing areas iod. great cabin aft. Two heads and showers. Center cockpit Bristol condition. An extremely spacious and comfortable cruiser asking only $116,000.

Diesel, beautiful interior, teak decks. Very high quality, lead ballast, fin keel, last and cocnfortabie. lust reduced far quick sale $69,000.

ATTENTION BUYERS & SELLERS Fraser Yachts is a unique brokerage in that we maintain five offices spaning the entire Pacific Coast and Florida. If you are a Buyer, we know what is available and where the bargains ore located. We're selling sailboats! If you are a Seller, list with us far maximum exposure. We also cooperate with over 100 other top yacht brokers nationwide. Whether you are looking far a yacht, or selling, coverage is the key. Let us handle your needs professionally. Call us today.

59’ MASTER MARINER

World Cruising Cutter. Six figure upgrade. Sleeps 9, Cat diesel. An unusually spacious, capable vessel priced to sell fast at $150,000.

UNDY LINDQUIST KEONIWARINNER DAVE SHELDON

SAN FRANCISCO BAY BOAT BROKERS Sausalito, CA (415} 332-9794

YACHT

BOAT

Santana 1969.$5,000.00 Cal .....--—.1967.6,900.00 Ariel ..1964.10,500.00 Cheoy Lae Frisco Flyer.1967.13,500.00 Columbia 26 MKII.1974.11,200.00 North Sea 27.1978.32,500.00 Vega sloop._._1972.22,000.00 Cal 28 13,000.00 Cal %500.00

SALES

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CRUISERS/LIVEABOARDS 60'HERRESHOFF: Great charter boatl '84 . .. $200,000

24'SAN JUAN: Great day sailor; reduced! — $ 7,150

46'CAL 246: Sloop; Motivated seller; '69_Offers

22'VENTURE: Sloop; Great starter boat_$ 1,995

44'CSY: Cutter; World charter vet; 78-$130,000

19’REBEL: Sloop; Great 2nd boat_$ 1,495

44'CSY: Cotter; Caribbean charter vet; 77-$ 95,000 43'CSTM NX: Yawl; Great ours* boat; '64,owc $ 66,000

RACE BOATS 82'FRERS: Maxi; 'Oniine VIIP, '86_ 1,200,000

42'BREWER: Cutter; Anxious seBerll '87 — ..$149,500

42'CHEOY LEE: Sloop; Fast! New sails; ‘82_ $150,000

42'MERMA1D CC: Cutter; So Pacific vet; '83 _ $ 96,000

36’ISLANDER: 6 to choose from_$35,000

41'ISLANDER FREEPORT: Immocuiatell 76 $ 94,500 4rM0RGANCSTM: All the comfort;,'84. ..$125,000

33'CAL: -Wavelength: soils; 74-$ 33,000

40* VAUANT: Cutter; Loaded; '80_$110,000

16'HOBIE CAT; Ready to wind 76-$ 1,995

39'ERICSON: Very anxious seller; 71-$ 44,000

14'HOBIE CAT: All original; '77_$ 1,295

OOO. OO

33'TARTAN: Bristol; ready to race; 79_$ 23,500

35'FUJI Ketch; Outstanding boat; 75 .___ .. $ 63,000

14*HOBIE CAT: Race ready; *78-$ 1,495

34'HANS CHRISTIAN; Ctlr; Uveaboard; '80 . $ 82,500

MOTORSAILERS

32'ALLIED SEAW1NDII: Sloop; '80-$ 44,500

fisher-fisher-fisher-fisher-fisher-fisher-fisher

26'S-2: Outstanding, a 10+; '84_$ 22,500

46'FISHER PH; Heidi; Loaded; '77_$220,000

DAYSAILORS

37*FISHER PH:Ketch;Loaded,dean; 75_ ..$ 95,000

30'CORONADO: An excepted buy; ‘80 _. ..$ 22,000

37* FISHER PH: Ketch; One-of-a-kind- $150,000

28'COLUMBIA: Exceptional! Anxious! 77 _ _ $ 18,500

30'FISHER PH: Ketch_OFFERS

28' PEARSON: Anxious! Must seB fast; '67—$ 13,500

CLASSIC WOOD

27'GULF: New everything; '80-$ 17,500

44‘BRIGATINE Bristol-doc for chartedl'61

26'CHEOY LEE FRISCO FLYER. Wew! '89 .. $ 31,500

38'ATKINS: Cutter; A rare beauty;'55-$ 33,000

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69,500.00 Raflkl Cutter, ..80,000.00 Bristol 38 Sit tv.-40,000.00 Morgan 382 Sloop Z3 ............61,000.00 Freya Wfrm — 79,500.00 _ .2 availably , ,4 .- 78,. '80 -,__ Cheoy Lee Midshipman Ketch „— .1975.79,500.00 "Sea Tiger" Ketch. 1972. .72,000.00 King's Legend Cruiser...1985. ...89,500.00 Pearson 424 Ketch..1980. . 112,000.00 Lancer M/S.mSM.1983., .159,500.00 ScheelSloop.VStff..1966.18,500.00 Gaff-head Cutter "STOlRNOWAY".1926.24,000.00 Cheoy Lee "Lion" Sloop.1956.38,000.00 "SPRA Y" Yawl.1980.60,000.00 Motorized Houseboat.1967.18,500.00 Bayliner.1987.29,500.00 Baltzer "Down Easter".1948.18,000.00 Falriane.i960.5,500.00 Chris Craft Constellation.1966.169,000.00 "THERE IS NOTHING-ABSOLUTELY NOTHINGHALF SO MUCH WORTH DOING AS SIMPLY MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS."

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32-FT WESTS AIL CUSTOM CUTTER

721 STEEL KETCH HARTOG DESIGN COMMISSIONED J1985 SO. PAC. VET; IDEAL FOR CHARTER W/FOUR SEPARATE CABINS, LONG LIST OF GEAR. ANXIOUS OWNER. ASKING $170,000/OFFERS.

35' SANTANA

38" CATALINA

'80; VOLVO DSL, LOADED W/EQUIPMENT/ GEAR INCLUDING LORAN & 2 SPINNAKERS. ACTIVE RACING FLEET; GREAT PERFORMANCE IN COMFORT. TRY $39,500.

1983 DIESEL AUXIUARY, BEAUTIFUL TEAK INTERIOR, MANY EXTRAS INCLUDING HOOD FURLING & SPINNAKER. ASKING $47,000.

Just placed on the market by loving owners. Beauti¬ fully maintained with lots of fine upgrades. Large 35hp Volvo diesel. Call Lee... $54,500

SAIL 23' 24' 27 27 27 27 29* 30’ 32' 32V 51.5

CORONADO — Two to choose from....$5,000 LAFWORTH '60. Classic Plastic, fust Reduced!! Owner Anxious DUFOUR1974. French built, Fantastkjue!.....$14,900 HUNTER 1984. American built, Beaautiful! ....... $26,000 NEWPORTS—Two to choose from $70/500 $34,500 NOR’SEA 1977 ,...$35,000 GULF 1985. Two station steering CATALINA 1983, wheel or tiller - your choice:.. $34,000 COLUMBIA 1975 WESTSAIL1971. Veteran cruiser, just load and go!..$55,000 CALVIN CUSTOM 1986. Steel $150,000.1

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391FREYA CUTTER RIG, DIESEL AUXILIARY, LOADED WITH QUALITY CRUISE GEAR, INCLUDING MAGNAVOX SATNAV, AP, WINDVANE, DODGER, SOLAR & WIND GENERATOR. THE EQUIPMENT LIST GOES ON AND ON. SHE IS A WELL BUILT POWERFUL OCEAN GOING VESSEL ASKING $75,000/OFFERS.

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41' ENGLISH BUILT CUTTER. IROKO/LARCH/OAK, MASTER MARINER TRANSATLANTIC VET, UP TO SURVEY, TRANSFERRED OWNER WANTS HER SOLD. AT OUR DOCKS. TRY $21,500.

1980 45'LANCER MOTORSAILER

1989 53' CHEOY LEE PILOTHOUSE MOTORSAILER

Twin Perkins 4-236 dsls. Pristine condition. Hauled February 1989.

AT REX DOCKS

Call A1 Levenson $114,900

ALSO: 1988 43' CHEOY LEE M/S Call John Baier. Reduced to $229,000

1982 42'COOPER PILOTHOUSE MOTORSAILER (2) double berth staterooms + a tub/shower. Light & roomy. Immaculate!

Call Peter Sheppard Asking $119,000

36' MORGAN SLCN^^^*| An '88 blister removal job, rebuilt diesel, 1 large sail inventory & price reduction make 1 this boat (which sleeps she) a great value.

Call Pete Fromhagen Reduced to $35,000

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If you plan serious ocean cruising, do it with style and iafety.

HANS ATIC H

FAST, LUXURIOUS CRUISER-RACER Sailed only on Lake Michigan and profes¬ sionally maintained, this 1986 C&C 44 is in mint condition. Lavishly equipped with every¬ thing from autopilot to aft cabin, she is a com¬ fortable, easily handled cruising yacht. With her extensive racing inventory, including fast sails and Harken adjustable genoa blocks, she is a consistent winner at her rating of PHRF 63. Very complete equipment list includes Trimble loran, refrigeration, Max Prop, Harken roller furling. Price reduced to $150,000.

Call 414-284-3494 Or write: FLASH!

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De Vries Lentsch, Holland 1962, Steel and Teak Dimension: 45'6" x 12'6" x 7" Engine: Perkins 645, 600 hours Condition: Excellent and beautiful Priced to sell: $125,000. Location: Sausalito Yacht Harbor Berth 455, Pier 450

“There is no safer material than steel, if the vessel has been built right and if the vessel has been maintained right: THE “HANSEAHC” is such a vessel!” Call Peter Schultz at any time for further information: (415) 456-2003 home ,(415) 331-3858 bus. A

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The HANSEATIC is a beautifully maintained vessel. She is a fine sailor and an ideal cruising boat for the discriminating individual who appreciates European quality.

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1978 ERICSON 34T Brand new Yanmar diesel engine; Epoxied bot¬ tom In 1989; Autohelm 3000; Cybernet 3000 ste¬ reo; self-tailing primaries. Easy, comfortable, fast and priced for quick saiel Exactly what buying a sailboat Is al about today. Asking $37,500.

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1988 HUNTER'S LEGEND 451

AFT CABIN NORSEMAN 447

Today's sculptured look In a very stylish easy-tosall yacht. Abundently equipped and well main¬ tained from the turbo'ed diesel to the windlass. If you're seriously considering a larger boat this year, don't miss this one. Asking $139,500.

Regarded as one of the finest production cruising boats In the world. Ta Shing and Norseman mean ■quality'. This is an outstanding example of how proper care and equipment can enhance the value of a used sailboat. Asking $225,000. Call for the equipment list.

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1969 COLUMBIA 36'

1978 & 1979 PERRY 47'S

One of the nicest 20 year old boats on the Bay. Diesel, Loran, wind Instruments, Honda genrator, LPU topsides, dodger, +++++. Don't miss this onel

One Litton built (ketch), one Mariner built (cut¬ ter). Both In great condition. Both just returned from cruising and are equipped to go again.

Asking $39,500.

From $120,000.

1977 BRISTOL CHANNEL CTR 28' A custom finished Sam Morse boat whose reputation for boat building Is almost legendary. This Lyle Hess design features autopilot, SatNav, seven sails, dodger, plus much more. Asking $52,000.

SELLING YOUR BOAT??? WE DON'T MAKE EXCUSES FOR THE CONDITION OF 1983 CHB 35' AFT CAB TRAWLER If the wife said If s time to cruise the Bay and Delta in “real" comfort, then it’s time for you to look at aft cabin trawlers and this one should be on the top of the list. If s loaded. Asking $59,900.

BAY & COASTAL CRUISER

51* ALEUTIAN $195,000 it»«'*>:; • 37' O'DAY..... .«;»«♦*'if .52,500 • 37' HUNTER... .49,000 • 36' HUNTER 2 frm .44,750 • 34' ERICSON (T)... .37,500 35.000 32' MARINER ........ 49,000 • 32* ELITE ...... 29,900 30' RANGER »;•*•«**••*«•I 30' ISLANDER BAHAMA 29,900 .22.900 • 30' HUNTER .... ,20,000 • 30' CAPE DORY KTCH .. 27XG0 29' ERICSON. 22,950 • 29' CAL. 22,950 • 28' ISLANDER >•»••••..

THE BOATS WE REPRESENT. 1984 SEA RAY AFT CABIN 36'

IF YOURS QUALIFIES ... CALL US! WE CAN HELP

BAY & COASTAL CRUISERS, Cont'd

UVEABOARD/CRUISERS, Cont'd

• 28' COLUMBIA 8.3. 23,500 • 37' RAFIKI 59,000 * 27 CS..... ...23,500 * 36 COLUMBIA...... 39,500 * 27' CONTEST........24,950 36' PEARSON365............I....55,000 »36' ISLANDER,3frm ..............*33,950 UVEABOARD/CRUISERS • 35' NIGARA MK!...75,900 * 47’ PERRY, 2 frm..$120,000 • 32' ISLANDER 30.000 • 46' SEA STAR 46/PH .......135.000 * 31' CAPE DORY....59.500 * 45'HUNTER.139,500 28' BRISTOL CHANNEL CTTR ...52.000 45' JEANNEAU.175X00 • 44' NORSEMAN 447 . 225.000 POWERBOATS • 43* YOUNG SUN...109,500 57' CHRIS CRAFT...$169,(XX) 41' C&C*.... ...67,500 56* PILOT HOUSE SEDAN.129X100 •40’ CHALLENGER,..,......69,000 49’ ALBIN ....I........... 335X00 • 38* ERICSON, 3 frm. 79.000 48' PACEMAKER .... 115X00

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If you missed It at the boat show, now is the time to see It. This late model could be a special buy. In very nice condition, and very affordable. You could spend more and get less. Asking $109,000.

POWER BOATS. Confd

* 44' GULFSTAR. *43 HATTERAS *42' TROJAN ... 41’ PT... * 38' BAYLINER.... * 36’SEA RAY... *35' CHB ......................... * 35’CHRIS CRAFT.. 34' HUNTER SEDAN ...... *32' EAGLE PH ............... * 32' BAYLINER. 31’ CHRIS CRAFT .......... 27* BOSTON WHALER ..

168X00 179,950 ..69,500 ..94500 ,.95.000 109X00 ..59.990 ..81X00 ..19,500 .63X00 .40.995 .49X00 ..60,750

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CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 50

PASSPORT 47

CATALINA 38

1969. This professionally maintained cruiser's in excellent condition— ready to go. Loaded; SatNav, SSB, AP, DF, Fax... $129,500.

1985. This cruise ready beauty is better than new. Below market at $220,000,

1982. This proven cruiser/racer is priced to take your family sailing this fall. Asking $55,900

CATALINA 27'

BABA 30

COLUMBIA 5.5 METER

1977. Dodger, 3 sails, km. Tiller Pilot 1600, shore power, VHF, ds, Chrysler i/b, propane stove, solar vent Great family boat. $14,900.

1983. Motivated owner — wants offers! Below market at $54,500.

This well-known Bay racer "Idalia H" is reluctantly being sold by original owner, tons of equipment. $5,000.

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SOME LIKE IT HOT! CRUISER S RALLY

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YOUR CRUISING HEADQUARTERS Cruising Consultants for Coastal and Offshore Vessels COASTAL CRUISERS Contessa...22,500 Ranger.24,950 Cal.16,500 Cal 2-29.22,500 Cal 2-30.22,000 Carter.32,000 Ericson 2 Frm.22,500

* * * *

32' 32' 35' 35 36' * 36' 36'

Fuji.39,500 Elite.49,500 Bristol 2 Fr.59,000 Coronado .39,000 Islander.57,500 Islander C/C.75,000 Cascade.29,900

C& C33

OFFSHORE CRUISERS 27' 30' 30* 32' 33' 34' 35' 35' 35' 37'

Orion. ... Fisher. ... C/L Bermuda Kt.. ... Rival. ... Steel Cutter. ... Peterson. ... Garden Ketch. ... Rasmus. ... Niagara. ... Ranger. ...

53,500 43,000 19,200 53,000 64,000 39,500 29,500 47,500 79,500 42,000

* 39' * 40' *41' 41' 44’ 46' 47' * 49' 62'

Cal 2 From..49,500 Valiant 2 Frm .......110,000 Cheoy Lee ..70,000 islander Free..94,500 Lafitte....140,000 Morgan Ketch .... . OFFERS Perry Cntr Ckpt.....130,000 Transpac MK II......189,000 Stl Hartog Kt. ..195,000

Cruising comfort takes the fast lane. Space and speed the perfect combination. Typical C&C quality combined with graceful lines. A real special boat. $64,500

CLASSIC CRUISERS * 30' Atkins Ctr.35,000

53' Edson Schock.165,000 60' Pilot Ctr.95,000

c&c 24' C&C 3 From...10,500 25' C&C 25.12,500 27' C&C 27.Best offer

PRICE Queen mance ics, full

REDUCTION 1979 CAL 39 PRICE REDUCTION of the Cal fleet this vessel is a perfect example of perfor¬ and comfort. New sails in 87, Perkins diesel good electron¬ spinnaker gear with chute, and all saftey gear. $66,000

30' C&C.34,900 33' C&C.64,500 40' C&C.99,500

PERFORMANCE CRUISERS * 25' Kirby. .9,500 35' Custom Alum. ....59,000 ♦ 30' Wilderness. .... 22,500 * 36' Pearson. ....44,500 ♦ 30i P/J 1/2 Ton. .... 28,950 37' Ranger. ....47,000 3V Peterson 1/2T.... .... 33,500 36' Peterson. ....62,500 * 33' Peterson. .... 37,950 38' Soderberg. ....55,000 * 34' Dash 34. .... 38,500 SAN FRANCISCO BAY CRUISERS * * * * * * *

23' 23' 24' 25' 25' 25' 25'

33’ Steel Cutter

"Gypsy Rover Design"

Designed by Merritt Walter she is the ideal small cruiser. She has been cruised extensively and equipped to be easily handled by two. Many an¬ chors, life raft, vane, diesel, etc. $64,000

Ercson. .6,500 25' Catalina. ....14,900 Ranger. .9,500 * 27' Lancer Pwr Sail. ....27,000 Bristol. .... 10,000 * 27' Ericson. ....21,000 Cat. .6,500 * 27' Catalina. ....26,500 Yamaha. .... 16,500 * 27' Catalina O/B. ....10,000 U.S. 25. .... 10,500 27' Sun 27. ....17,000 Cape Dory. .... 12,500 * 28' Cal. ....12,500 29' Ericson. ....25,700

POWER BOATS *

26' Trojan. .9,500 30' Chris CraftExp. . .... 24,950 32' Owens. .... 22,500

41' Chris Commdr.... ..136,500 45' Bluewater. ..110,000 46' Grand Banks. ..335,000

CONTESSA 26 Full keel, high aspect ratio masthead rig and fine entry provide excellent windward performance. Coastal or offshore she is a fine sailor. With many Atlantic crossings, this design is the ideal pocket cruiser $22,500

Quality Listings for boats 35' and up are needed to satisfy our customers for cruising boats

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1986 PT 42 SEDAN

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. Ask in a $120.000 $105,000.

With only 350 hours on twin 225 hp Ford Lehman dsls this highly customized yacht is complete from radar to air conditioning. Owners queen forward guest double to port.

34' PEARSON

PT 52

1984 diesel sloop. Wheel, sleeps six, new dodger, new epoxy bottom, very clean. Asking $68,000.

Motoryacht. With Twin 300 Cummins, generator.2-3-4 state rooms, two heads, two showers, delivered San Francisco

Asking $195,000.

S299.500.

31' BOMBAY 1979 PILOTHOUSE SLOOP. Diesel powered, sleeps four with indise outside steering for those who like to stay dry. Asking $35,000.

52' Del EVER ~ Flush Deck Trawler. The true world traveler. Built of steel and powered by Cummins - holds 3.000 gal fuel. 1.000 gal water! She's ready if you are - if you're not. we have other Bay and Delta types for you. Asking $225,000.

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